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Peacemakers are the children of the Most High.

I. By eternal generation: so Christ is the natural Son of His Father (Psalm 2:7).

II. By creation: so the angels are sons of God (Job 1:6; Job 38:7). When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.

III. By participation of dignity: so kings and rulers are said to be children of the High God (Psalm 8:2, 6).

IV. By visible profession: so God hath many children. Hypocrites forge a title of sonship (Genesis 6:2).

V. By real sanctification: so the faithful are particularly and eminently the children of God.

(Thomas Watson.)Let us carry ourselves as becomes the children of God.

I. In obedience.

(1)  Obey God out of love;

(2)  readily;

(3)  every command of His.

II. In humility. Look in the glass of God s Word, and see therein our sinful spots.

III. In speech.

1. Grace must be the salt that seasons our words.

2. Sobriety must govern our actions. Error is a spiritual intoxication.

IV. In fidelity. Faithful in all things.

V. In sedulity. We must labour in a calling: God will bless our diligence, not our laziness.

VI. In magnanimity.

1. Must do nothing sordidly.

2. Must not fear the faces of men, but be brave-spirited as Nehemiah.

VII. In sanctity. Holiness is a diadem of beauty. In this let us endeavour to imitate our heavenly Father.

VIII. In cheerfulness. Why do the children of God walk so pensively? Are they not heirs of heaven?

IX. Let us carry ourselves as the children of God in holy longings and expectations. Children are still longing to be at home. There is bread enough in our Father's house. Oh, how we should ever be longing for home!

(Thomas Watson.)There is a fulness of meaning in the term as it stands in the Scripture, which includes both the effort; to make peace, and the disposition of the mind towards it.

I. A man may be officially or otherwise employed in composing a difference that exists between two families or two individuals, without possessing the spirit and disposition of peace which the word includes.

(1) No one can be the peacemaker of the text without; he(2) possesses a peaceable and conciliatory disposition.

II. The duty combines the attempt to reconcile men to God, through the peace-speaking blood of the cross, with the effort to heal the breach of friendship which has been made among individuals.

(1) This of all labours the most noble and Divine.

(2) We overlook the most essential part of making peace if we confine our endeavours to the composing of differences among men, while we(3) pass by multitudes around us who are "contending with their Maker."

(J. E. Good.)

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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.