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<div class="SSN_title">"IMPOSSIBILITY OF TAKING BEATITUDES AND PUTTING THEM INTO PRACTICE"</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. IDEA OF PEACEMAKER SHOCK TO JEWS - MILITARY.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Why so hard to maintain peace in world.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Why did league of nations fail?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Problems deeper than social, economic, etc. Sin.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Trouble within the heart.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. No advantage to manipulate surface.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. Out of the heart proceeds evil thoughts, murders.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Are you surprised at wars or rumors of war.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Great need of world today peacemakers.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. What is peacemaker?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Not easy going.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Not peace at any price.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Not just avoids trouble but actively seeks to produce peace.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. This involves new nature.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. Before one can be a peacemaker, he must be entirely delivered from self, from self interest and self concern. You must not be sensitive, you must not be touchy. You must not be on defensive.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. The peacemaker does not look at things in terms to how they may effect self.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. He has looked at self and seen the wretchedness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. I deserve nothing, I have no rights.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Do you hate your natural self?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. "He that loveth his life shall lose it."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. "O wretched man."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">F. New view of self and of others.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Does not ask, "Why do they act like that?"</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. They are acting that way because God is not governing.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">G. Putting into practice:</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Learn not to speak, control our tongues.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. View situation in light of gospel.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Go out of your way to make peace.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. Diffuse peace wherever we are, lovable, selfless.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">H. Christ's example:</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Did not claim His rights.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Humbled himself.</div>
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