Pure Faith: A Bible Discussion Podcast
Pure Faith: A Bible Discussion Podcast
Matthew 5:1-10...Part 10 - The Art of Creating Peace: A Dive into the Beatitudes
Ever tried to find peace in the midst of summer heat and family chaos? Laugh along with us as we share stories about Mitchell's boys, their love for peanut butter, and their first exciting trip to the fair. We also reveal our secret weapon against summer heat - homemade milkshakes, and how we tackle the unexpected challenges life throws at us - like golfer's elbow.
Peacemaking. It's not just about resolving conflicts, it's about creating an atmosphere of tranquility and mercy, both within ourselves and around us. Join us as we explore what being a peacemaker in our daily life, including our new job, means. It's a journey that brings us closer to understanding the Beatitudes in a fresh, applicable way.
What does it mean to live pure-hearted? Wonder no more. This episode will take you back through the seventh Beatitude, focusing on living with a pure heart - a life that puts Christ first and filled with His presence. We'll also delve back into the concept of macarios, a state of ultimate joy, as well as taking a brief look at the Beatitudes as a whole. This is no easy feat, but as we explore the Beatitudes, we'll guide you towards a life marked by peace, joy, and righteousness. So join us, get comfortable, and let's navigate the path to a peaceful and pure-hearted life together.
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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Pure Faith podcast, a podcast where we discuss all things Bible.
Speaker 2:That's old.
Speaker 1:I know I do it every time now because I don't want to look at this, but I have to look at it.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome.
Speaker 1:Hello and welcome.
Speaker 2:I'm Mitchell.
Speaker 1:I'm.
Speaker 2:Michelle. Welcome, like and subscribe.
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Speaker 2:We ask you that, but we do it at the beginning.
Speaker 1:So do you want to go ahead and do this?
Speaker 2:Might as well.
Speaker 1:Okay, hello and welcome to the Pure Faith podcast. I am Michelle.
Speaker 2:I'm Mitchell.
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Speaker 1:Subscribe to our YouTube channel this and don't forget to hit the notification icon to be notified when new episodes are released. The heat is getting to us. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2:I may have had ice cream.
Speaker 1:How did you ice cream?
Speaker 2:I may, went to the gas station.
Speaker 1:I was going to say tell me you did not drive like to Fort Loramy or yeah, crazy like that. Okay, I'm glad you're from ice cream.
Speaker 2:I made milkshakes at home.
Speaker 1:Yeah, pretty good, aren't they? You know what else you can make instead of a milkshake. Two milkshakes, a protein shake.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That's what we make at our house, so protein shakes.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Mm Milkshakes are good, though Did you make some for the boys too?
Speaker 2:Mm, hmm.
Speaker 1:What flavor ice cream did you use?
Speaker 2:Chocolate chip.
Speaker 1:Ooh.
Speaker 2:That's a bit, with a little peanut butter in it.
Speaker 1:Oh no, I'm not a peanut butter fan At all.
Speaker 2:We are very lucky because all of our boys love peanut butter. Uh huh, we don't have any peanut allergies.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, let me tell you Like I think they eat it right out of the container, don't?
Speaker 2:they, they do, they take a spoon.
Speaker 1:I thought I saw that once when I was there.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I was like mm.
Speaker 2:Sometimes we do that as a dessert, like things.
Speaker 1:Spoonful is a peanut butter.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And Zeke still only weighs 30 pounds.
Speaker 2:Mm, he's a twig. He is a twig.
Speaker 1:But on Sunday after church, after Eli peed all over his shirt, which is a long shory, he came running out without a shirt on. I'm like there is nothing to you. He has gotten so thin. Of course you know growing, you know they get taller, they get thinner. What have you and I say that in Ephraim it has, I think, more rules than any of your kids had.
Speaker 2:And the sad part is Ephraim is average For you, no, as far as the doctor scales.
Speaker 1:No, no, he's not.
Speaker 2:No, he's average.
Speaker 1:No, he's not.
Speaker 2:He's actually maybe a little bit below average in one of them Then all of it went up.
Speaker 1:All of the averages went up. No way he's average.
Speaker 2:He's average Zika was always like 90, some percent top for height, but like low, low, low.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, he's a tiny little thing Wait Um.
Speaker 2:Eli was, I think, kind of low on both. I think he was average for height and low for my weight.
Speaker 1:I just wonder which one of your kids is going to have pages height.
Speaker 2:I don't know, probably Eli, probably Eli, oh my gosh so funny.
Speaker 1:They're too cute.
Speaker 2:Well, most of the time, there was WrestleMania at our house last night.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, I just let him go. Oh, so you weren't involved.
Speaker 2:No, I sat there and the couch watched.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 2:I only yelled at him whenever feet were getting close to faces.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:I was like no kicking.
Speaker 1:I mean, you can punch, just don't kick each other.
Speaker 2:They were taking each other and throwing each other into the couch.
Speaker 1:Were they giggling?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, well then.
Speaker 2:Stop, it wasn't a fight. Fight, it was just like wrestling.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 2:I let him go.
Speaker 1:They had a busy week this week too, didn't they go to the fair?
Speaker 2:Went to the fair. Went to the fair Tuesday and Zika showed Um, so yeah, it was a good day.
Speaker 1:It was a good day. I hope our family did well. I never made it over there we were.
Speaker 2:I think, jenna got.
Speaker 1:She got Grand Champion and something. Grand Champion yeah, but I don't know, like overall, don't they have like a like? I'm assuming that they didn't get it, but I thought there was like an overall, like, like on Wednesday, like Grants. I didn't hear.
Speaker 2:I didn't hear what happened last night. Yeah, we'll see there's different categories too.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So there's the 4-H side and there's the open show side.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we, I think we got messages that Jenna did very well and it was her birthday on Monday when she showed and she did very well in her categories and her 4-H show and Ethan did pretty good but he didn't get Grand Champ or anything, and then I think that they did well on Tuesday as well. But I don't know. But, like I said, I don't know how they did it. The heat itself, I don't know how they did it, but it sounds like it was a good year. It wasn't bad.
Speaker 1:Tuesday it was cool in the morning, and that's when it was at 9 o'clock, wasn't it like early?
Speaker 2:Well, I think it didn't show to like 12, 30. Yeah, something like that, but still wasn't bad.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay, anyways.
Speaker 1:Have you ever heard of golfers, although I don't know You've heard of tennis elbow.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I don't play tennis or golf, but I've been battling golfers elbow for months.
Speaker 2:What is golfers elbow?
Speaker 1:It's on the inside of your elbow and it's on the outside. I got tennis elbow. This may not surprise you. I got tennis elbow. I believe it was after Olivia was born. I don't think it was Daniel. I was playing diapers, always having to hold their leg up when changing a diaper. I ended up getting tennis elbow because you're constantly battling, I guess, changing a diaper. So that's on the outside of your elbow. The inside of your elbow is golfers elbow. I've never swung a golf club in my life. I don't think so. Now, yeah, so now I have that and I've been battling it, I don't know since, like March, all golf season. Okay, yeah, so let's get out there to the links. So you know what you do like. You know how you come to watch this podcast on YouTube. You go to YouTube to see how to fix golfers elbow. So I've been doing that. Self healing without ibuprofen and alcohol. Wait, can I even say that?
Speaker 1:You can swear whatever you want to say I don't care. I don't know if I can really do that, but so yeah, so there's that.
Speaker 2:That's interesting.
Speaker 1:Isn't it interesting? Yeah, so it's painful, especially when it's in the same position for a very long time when you try to move it. So if you see me, I don't move my arm constantly. You're gonna hit me, there's no fly here tonight, so there is it just doesn't buzz their face. I need those flies. So alright, Just wanna give you a little information on me.
Speaker 2:I can sleep better now.
Speaker 1:I actually. You probably will lose sleep. You'll be worried about me.
Speaker 2:Oh, yeah, that too.
Speaker 1:Or not.
Speaker 2:Not, it'll be a little bit of both, so I'm probably just going to sleep normal.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh. Thanks, you got nothing. All right, what do we have for a Bible study tonight?
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 1:You don't know Okay.
Speaker 2:We should just do an episode where we don't do a Bible study, we just talk. Anybody watch that?
Speaker 1:Well, they'd watch it because they wouldn't know it was coming, and at the end we'd be like, thank you for joining us for another episode. They'd be like, what Got you? Good, they didn't talk anything, bible, oh, but we did. Everything's Bible, everything's Bible.
Speaker 2:All right, I guess we'll get started, so we're continuing in the Beatitudes.
Speaker 1:Mitchell gave me notes tonight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there was also notes from Steve those last weeks. Oh, good I told you I printed them. They're still my printer, so I printed the new ones. I'm like I just give her both.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so nice. Where are we starting yet? Okay, let's roll with it.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:All right Beatitudes.
Speaker 2:Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. So this is Matthew five, nine, by the way.
Speaker 1:Peace makers.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:What does it mean to be a peacemaker? I don't know what does it mean. I'm asking you to your note. So, like most of these bad attitudes, it's not what you would think it would be.
Speaker 2:Well, it is, but there's also a deeper meaning.
Speaker 1:A deeper meaning, okay.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I guess I need to get like into this. I'm not really ready to get into this yet, but okay, it's hard but it's also part of it's with your new job. It's like I'm not in this as much.
Speaker 1:Whenever I get here.
Speaker 2:I gotta like get into the mindset Anyways.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:So, yes, to be a peacemaker. You have the surface understanding, which is what you would think of Somebody who is a peacemaker. So it would be somebody who makes peace by defusing heated arguments, reconciling and estranged relationships, smoothing out tense situations Now, I can't read and then somebody who would seek out and make peace with enemies, and so on and so forth. So it's like anything what you would think a peacemaker would be. That is exactly what a peacemaker is. But there's also a deeper understanding of being a peacemaker and this goes in line with the idea of joy, of mercy and of pure of heart. So all of those are states of being.
Speaker 2:Which I didn't mention this last week whenever we're talking about pure of heart but pure of heart is actually a state of being as well. We talked about mercy being a state of being.
Speaker 2:Living in that state of mercy. Well, living in a state of pure of heart is also a thing. That's what pure of heart is, and in order for that to make sense of how that is a state of being. So, if you remember, pure of heart is somebody who you know. We live in this world and we have this metaphorical heart that contains basically who we are. It contains all of our likes, our dislikes, our desires, our wants, everything that makes us who we are. Well, when you're in this world, there's a bunch of worldly things that fill up who you are, make you who you are, but whenever you accept Christ, whenever you accept the Holy Spirit to dwell within you.
Speaker 2:Well, to be pure of heart, you need to put that Holy Spirit first. You put Jesus first. Now you can still have, like we said last week, all those other things, Only if it is something that would pull you away from Christ or something that would be deemed as as evil or or deemed as something that would be considered an idol. I mean those kind of things you need to cut out of your life. But if it's something that is your hobbies or spending time with family, you can still do all those things, Even, like we said last week, pursuing a promotion at work or climbing the corporate ladder. You can do that. But to be pure of heart, living in the state of being pure of heart, means you put Christ first and in the forefront and you fill yourself with Christ and then you do everything else while being full of Christ. So that's what it means to be living in the state of being pure of heart. So we talked about the state of mercy whenever we recovered, plus it or the mercy we did.
Speaker 2:Well. This is the same concept being living in a state of peace, and this is technically. This is where I want to go my tangent. This isn't in my notes, so this is where I'm showing you're mad at me.
Speaker 1:I'm not going to get mad.
Speaker 2:You do you because technically this is the seventh beatitude. Well, nobody can really argue with that. But, like we said in the whole preview of this setting this all up, there is belief that there are technically seven beatitudes and the eighth one, which we'll talk about next week, which is the final one, that's actually a summarizing statement or a final statement that kind of takes all the seven beatitudes and kind of puts them together, because that one is blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake, so that one kind of takes all of them, put them together again. We'll talk about that next week, so I don't want to go too deep into that this week.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:But this would technically be the last of the seven beatitudes and I've also said in this massive series on the beatitudes somewhere In one of the episodes. This is this is part 10, I think Probably. So somewhere in part one, three, nine. One of those is I said something along the lines. Now I don't even remember what I said, I kind of talk myself right out of it. What did I say? I said a lot of words.
Speaker 1:I said a lot of words.
Speaker 2:But yeah, I lost where I was going, so come back to you, or it just wasn't necessary for you to say it. Probably so anyways. So what I said, found it. Found it, just had to get myself back in there hurry up or you're looking again the first four yeah of the.
Speaker 2:Beatitudes were. They're more about Developing your relationship with the Lord. And then these next three, which would be the mercy full implicit or the mercy full blizzard of pure heart, and now this one blizzard of the peacemakers. These three are are about how kind of like, how you live your life, how we live our life and that's why these are kind of like states of being mm-hmm that's because they are something that we can live in and there are really good guidelines for how we should live our lives right.
Speaker 1:You strive to do it like if you know it, then you strive to Do it so to be better.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah. So like I gave that sentence before which Michelle thought it was crazy, I did think it was crazy, wait which one because I think all your words are crazy. Shots fired, boo boo so we're old. Blessed are the pure and hard meek mourners.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm hungry and thirst for righteousness. Yes so that's actually for so. Blessed are the pure, or blessed are the poor in spirit poor in spirit. Meek meek mourners mourners which are technically about yep who hunger and thirst for righteousness. So those four are the four that are the guidelines for how to develop your relationship with the Lord mm-hmm but what's at the beginning of all those blessed are blessed are which is Macarius.
Speaker 2:What does Macarius mean? Macarius means to be in a state of happy, which, again, we, whenever we think of happy in today's society, we think of the feeling of happy, we don't think of the state of being happy. So we kind of look at it more as enjoy, you know, being in a state of joy. Mm-hmm so that's where the state of joy is coming in it. That's coming from that Macarius. So if you are able to live any of these bad attitudes, you have that state of joy right.
Speaker 2:So that's where that's coming from. And then you also have the state of mercy, which comes from our second sentence. Blessed are the Mercyful, blessed are. Don't look at me like that.
Speaker 1:I didn't even remember them.
Speaker 2:Let's it are the mercyful blessed are the pure of heart peacemakers mm-hmm which those three are the, the next three mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Of how we should have our lives. And then it ends with the final concluding statement, which is who are persecuted for righteousness is sake. So that's how this all kind of works. So, bringing it back to peace. Well again, how do we live in the state of peace? How do we be peacemakers? Well, obviously, it's just like the surface definition. You know, if you're in a situation where you need to make peace with somebody else, or you're in a situation where You're kind of in the middle of it, you can be that peacemaker for others. I mean, that's what we are called to do, but this isn't saying that we need to go and put ourselves in situations that have nothing to do with us right and we have no ground to stand on and try to Make peace for other people.
Speaker 2:Now, if you know somebody in that situation and they ask you to come and intercede or whatever, then yes, you can do that, as long as you're doing it in a kind and loving manner. You can go and be a peacemaker for others. That's perfectly fine, but don't force yourself into other situations, because that's gonna cause more Stress than it is.
Speaker 1:My suggestion would be if someone asked for you to do that. Just reflect on it and pray about it first, because then you'll be guided to help rather than to just put yourself in somebody else's situation. You know you'll. You'll know what to do.
Speaker 2:But then to live in the state of peace that involves, kind of like what it sounds like is Just this calm, just this Peace that you have in your life. So when something bad does happen and you can think of any scenario, you want something. Whether it be for some reason, somebody you love is Killed in some way, shape or form, or or died from cancer or heart attack or whatever. You can go a completely different situation.
Speaker 1:You know, I can tell you, even like a, we had a scenario at work where somebody, you know they Took the integrity of one of my co-workers and tried to run it through the mud and you know she was very upset about it.
Speaker 1:But what I had told her is that you know she needed to find her peace and all of it, that she knows that that's not who she is. Pray about it and that good will come out of all of it, and and it works. And then I tell her that that's when you, you praise Jesus, thank you for you know, helping me through this and guided me through this and answering my prayers and knowing that you know I am, I'm, I give all of myself to you and look for you to give me guidance back, and all of this. So, even though a storm can hit you, you can, you can work through it. So even I mean it's you look for peace when you lose a loved one, absolutely, but you look for peace in any storm that that can hit you and when someone hits hits you personally Also. That's a big storm for some people.
Speaker 1:Yeah it really is. So I mean you can take in lots of different ways.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so However you look at it, then, like using Michelle's situation or scenario that she just mentioned for for that person To be living in a state of peace whenever you find out about this person is attacking your personal character, for there's seemingly no reason, which.
Speaker 1:I'm in situation to right. I know you have.
Speaker 2:Yes, that that's gonna make you angry, you know to, to Maybe make you lose your, your faith a little bit right. But you, when you're living in a state of peace, you need to be able to have that calm, to not lose your religion over it, to just have a good, calm demeanor.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I know I've worked with certain people and they've flat out told me that they like working with me because, no matter what kind of stressful situation we find ourselves in, I'd have a calm demeanor, whatever, or roll with it.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:I put a lot of trust in God. I'm like, yeah, believe me.
Speaker 1:I have been doing the same thing, but you know, again it's because I found my peace, but way before I wouldn't be so calm about things. But anymore it's like God will guide me through it.
Speaker 2:I won't lie, there's been time. Something came up. I'm like I do not want to deal with this and people are making a big deal about whatever this is. I'm like you know what, I don't even worry about it. And like an hour later they'll reach out to me again. I'm like, oh, it's good, don't worry about it. I'm like we're too careful because I didn't do anything. I didn't do nothing, like I don't want to deal with it. I'm not going to deal with it. Give it to the Lord.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:It's all for you. Yes, it's happening more times than I would like to admit, and I think because I'm lazy and I'm not worried.
Speaker 1:you give praise, you give praise. Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Jesus. I'm going to have too much peace in my life? I don't think so. Anyways, I don't even know where we're at. We're all good for time.
Speaker 1:We got like five minutes so what are we doing here?
Speaker 2:So, again, this is almost kind of like a summarizing video, kind of not really. But at the beginning of the study on the Beatitudes I did mention that this list of Beatitudes, it isn't something that necessarily has to be followed perfectly, because this is a list of attributes, a list of Christian core values that are meant to be guidelines for how we live our lives. Like we said, the first four are guidelines about how to develop a better and deeper relationship with the Lord. The next three, or the last three, are about ways of living our lives the way you know, three different ways of living that help us to be good, calm Christians.
Speaker 2:But the thing is, if you actually look at this and you actually go through all the Beatitudes, then they all work hand in hand. And if you are poor in spirit and we kind of talk about this whenever we're going through those it's kind of hard to be poor in spirit and not be meek and not mourn for the Lord and not do hunger and thirst for righteousness. So they all kind of work hand in hand. But these are more guidelines. We are going to fall short, Because humans, we are fallible. We are going to fall short. We're never going to reach the mark perfectly every time.
Speaker 1:Right. We will never live like as pure as Jesus did. We will try to walk next to Him and do our best to walk with Him, but we will fall short.
Speaker 2:Yes, we are not gods, we are just humans.
Speaker 2:But they are still guidelines, they are still something to strive for, it's still something to reach for.
Speaker 2:That's why they are core values, and why I call them core values is because it is something that we should be striving for every day in our lives as ways of living our lives, though, no matter what situation we find ourselves good, bad, ugly, it doesn't matter we have these core values as Christians that we can lean on to help us to get through those situations.
Speaker 2:So, even though we may fall short and we may forget these bad attitudes, that's why Jesus came and died on the cross for us, that's why Jesus went to the tomb, that's why he rose, that's why he was resurrected, that's why we have a path through Jesus to get back to a good relationship with the Lord, so we can get back into these bad attitudes and recenter ourselves on these bad attitudes and just become just be good Christians. Yes, so even when we do get off the path, we can get back on the path through Jesus. So then, the second statement they shall be called sons of God. So to be called sons of somebody or something means that you share similar characteristics with whatever you are a son of and I notice this saying sons, but sons of daughters. Just the way the Bible works. They use the masculine for everything.
Speaker 2:So we see this, or an example of this is whenever Jesus refers to James and John as the sons of thunder. But there's no real reason given to why Jesus calls James and John sons of thunder. It's more just kind of mentioned in passing. But we know that it has to be because there are some sort of similar characteristics between James and John and thunder. So we actually see this reference for the sons of thunder in Mark 3.17. Again, there's no explicit reason given for this. But what is thunder? Where does thunder come from? Thunder is the byproduct of lightning, which comes first. So there is something that happens initially the lightning which is followed by the thunder.
Speaker 2:Depending on how far away you are from that lightning is a delay in that thunder. Or if you're far enough away, you won't even hear the thunder at all, even though you may see the lightning. And this may sound weird, but Whenever we look at Luke 9, 51 through 56, this tells us which. I'm not going to read it, but I'm just going to give the story. So this is the story of Jesus and the disciples going to a Samaritan town, and the Samaritans are like you don't want you here, you're not welcome here, get out, go down the road. Well, james and John, go to Jesus and go. What would you like us to call down fire from heaven to destroy this town and everybody who lives in it? And well, obviously Jesus is like no, but notice the lightning is the Samaritans rejecting Jesus? Now James and John are the thunder that are coming in and want to be loud, be destructive. Thunder isn't really destructive, but this big, boisterous.
Speaker 1:They want to be heard.
Speaker 2:They want to be heard. So that's one scenario of it. But what we're getting at is the fact that, being called sons of thunder, they share similar characteristics to thunder. Well, being called sons of God means that we have similar characteristics to God, which Inobody's probably been there in a while. But we do have a website called PureFaithLivingcom where we talk about the communicable and incomunical attributes of God.
Speaker 1:Yep, we sure do.
Speaker 2:So we do share andto make that make sense, communical attributes. Communicable is a community. They are attributes shared between God and us. We all have similar attributes and characteristics together. The incomunicable, which are non-community, are the ones that only God has. I'm gonna share it, I'm gonna present. I'm gonna present those types of things. Yeah, if you want to learn more about that, then Read those articles. Do we do any podcasts on those?
Speaker 1:No Wait, do we read them?
Speaker 2:We want to read those.
Speaker 1:I don't know. Yeah, it's been like a year ago. Yeah, but do you remember that?
Speaker 2:No, Um, so yeah, okay, it's about all I got.
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Speaker 2:Have a blessed day everybody. Thank you.