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I. VIEW GOD AS A PEACEMAKER.

1. He is a Lover of peace.

2. He is a Maker of peace.

II. DELINEATE CHRISTIANS AS PEACEMAKERS.

1. They love peace.

2. They make peace.

3. They promote peace.

III. THEIR BLESSEDNESS.

1. They are pronounced God's children.

2. They have the inward happiness of self-approval.

3. They look forward to being rewarded by God.

(J. G. Horton.)

I. Before they can become true peacemakers and be entitled to this beatitude, they must seek and obtain inward peace for themselves (Ephesians 2:13-17).

II. It then becomes their duty to promote peace and restore it where lacking — between man and God, and man and man — in the Church, in the community, in the world at large.

III. The means to be employed. To obtain peace for ourselves and lead others to its possession, we must use the means of grace. To reconcile man to man, we must set an example of peace (Romans 12:18).

IV. Then we shall be blessed.

1. In the enjoyment of peace (John 14:27; James 3:18).

2. In being known as the children of God, etc.

(L. O. Thompson.)

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KJV: Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

WEB: Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.