Well, this morning, having dwelt upon Matthew chapter five in the Beatitudes, verse eight, blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God for a couple of weeks. We move on this morning, and we're on the next of the Beatitudes. We're getting towards the end, aren't we here? But in verse nine, blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. title of the sermon is, Peacemaking a High Calling. Peacemaking a High Calling. Because here it is in scripture, it's commended to us, we read actually also in James chapter three, the same said there, that here God puts a very high premium on whatever it means, and we're gonna come to that aren't we in a moment, to be peacemakers. What we've been doing is tracing through these Beatitudes the kind of attitudes of heart, the kind of inner inclinations that should characterize those who are children of God, what they should be within themselves. This now, peacemaking, brings us to the action. It's very much now the action. And that's really where the emphasis has to lie, doesn't it? That if your heart's not right, if those things about the inner attitudes are not finely tuned and are being sanctified, then the actions won't be good actions. Maybe a lot of action, but it won't necessarily be good action. There'll be something missing in it. The action flows from the kind of work that God is doing within the heart, within those who are poor in spirit, who mourn over what they are, who are meek. Again, in James 3, there was meekness, the wisdom of meekness, it said. And so we are looking then at how actions following from pure hearts, purified hearts, hearts in the process of being purified will look. And within what is spoken of here, peacemaking, there is our high calling as Christians, if we're Christians this morning, our high calling to make a difference. We are called, actually, to make a difference. We may not be able, by reason of who we are, the gifts we have, the opportunities we have, to make a huge difference, but we can make some difference, a little difference, amongst the people we might know, our families, neighbours, friends, work colleagues, wherever it might be. And that difference, well, you can tie that up with us being salt and light. We'll come to that again in a moment. Verse 13 of Matthew chapter five, where we find the Beatitudes, you are the salt of the earth. Ah, we're to make a difference. We are to arrest its decline. We are to hinder that sort of downward progression, which I'm afraid naturally is what happens to cultures when they separate themselves from the truth of God. There's decline. And we are called to, in whatever small way, in whatever small contribution that we can make, to arrest that decline, to put something better in its place, and introduce something fresh, something different, something that will purify, as we've been thinking in the last couple of weeks, coming from a pure heart. So the results of us being poor in spirit, having the same merciful attitude as God himself has towards people, or that purity of heart that we've been thinking about. It will be that we have a new take on who we are, who we should be, who we need to be. We'll have a different perspective on what we are here to do. what our relationship with the wider world is to be, what our duties are, what our obligations are, and how we should actually carry those out. So my first heading, our impact on the world. That's what we're talking about here, our impact on the world. Well, there are some brief, short, concise descriptions of where our attitude to the world should be, what we are looking to be toward the world. We all have different callings and we all have different gifts and different ways in which we bring these things to pass, but stay in Matthew 5 and with that whole theme of the salt of the earth. Well, here is a calling. This is part of who we're to be. Just reading from verse 13 and onwards. You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled on the foot by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden, nor do we light a lamp, put it under a basket, but on a lampstand that it gives light to all who are in the house. Yet your light so shined before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." Well, that is in effect saying, take the Beatitudes and live them out in the world. Take what already we've been told that we need to be and in the process of being, and then take that out into the world. If you're a merciful person, you're pure in heart, if you're meek, then that's going to be salt. That's going to make a difference, because that goes against, and James 3 talked about that sort of earthly wisdom, sensual wisdom, which causes envy and bitterness and conflict. we'll be the opposite of that. We'll be bringing good things to our society. We'll be light to them, like the city on a hill that cannot be hidden. You look out on a dark night here and you can see Ripley on the hill over there and other places of prominence and Milton Top and a few lights over that way there. Places on a hill, can't miss them. Christians. There's to be something very, very visible about us and even us without us saying a word. Not that we have to, all of us there, be gifted evangelists. Most of us are not. Most of us are very tremulous and fearful about evangelism. But there's to be something about who we are, even before we've said anything, that is like that sitting on a hill. There's something visible. There's something different. And the Lord speaks here, doesn't he, about the absurdity. having a lamp, lights, or if you can imagine the city on a hill and getting a big blanket and sort of covering it over so nobody can see it, or a lamp that's meant to give light to everywhere and direction and show better things and you put a, hide it under a basket. Massive search, you wouldn't do that, no. and we're meant actually, the Beatitudes are doing their work within us, we are light and we are conveying something and that there is therefore a visibility which it is right for us to seek that we might there represent and glorify God. So, the Beatitudes, the attitudes of the Beatitudes, what they are teaching us to be, what they're holding before us are the aims that we're to be progressing towards, mean that we will have a different attitude to the world, and the world might actually notice that. Or, and here, very evident, easy to comprehend, a commission that we have, a duty, responsibility to the world, Matthew 28, The Great Commission, just reading from verse 16. Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee, to the mountain which Jesus had appointed for them. When they saw him, they worshipped him, but some doubted. And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. Amen. Well, there's an obligation to all the world that they should know the gospel. that they should understand their obligation and their duty before God, that they are called upon to repent by baptism to show that they are looking to be cleansed and washed, that they're reliant upon Christ for that. We're to teach them that, that they're not in a good place and they need to find a better place, that they're not in the eyes of God, neat, sorted and all fine, but the opposite and that they need to come away from their sins and that's the duty upon the church. Some people are more gifted and comfortable in doing that out on the streets, others not so, but we pray for it and we long to see that commission fulfilled in the world. And then more directly, in a way, we're peacemakers there, and we'll come to this again in a moment also, in terms of gospel preaching and gospel outreach. But there are also other commands that we receive that are all connected with peace. So Romans chapter 12, and there in verse 18, if it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peaceably with all men. there's something as much as depends on us well some people react negatively you just can't get through to them and you have to sigh and let them get on with it there that we sought to be as kind and winsome as possible and if still there it doesn't negative negative negative we have to just leave that one with the Lord but there it is and as much as it depends on us live peaceably with all men Hebrews and in chapter 12, it speaks to that matter again there. I'm turning to verse 14. Pursue peace with all people and holiness that which no one will see the Lord. Pursue peace. We look there to bring the positive attitudes of who we are with the Beatitudes working within our hearts and to seek to represent that to others and bring our understanding and the lessons we've learned to bear upon relationships that we have. And what's the result of that? Well, there's the promise. They shall be called sons of God. They shall be called sons of God. by the world at large? Well, dream on on that. They might not thank us at all for being sultan-like, they may not thank us at all for bringing the gospel, and our efforts to pursue peace with them may fail in as much as they just don't want to know. But God will call us sons of God. And that's not just a sort of title we'll have, but that's something he'll communicate to the very depth of our soul. That's where we'll know that God is calling us that. That that behavior, that approach, that obligation we feel to the world to bring peace to it in its manifold sense, God will own us as his people. God will show to us his favour and we will have much comfort in that. So there will be a sense of us belonging to him, a sense of his approval of those kinds of actions and that will fall upon us. What does it not mean? Because in fact a lot of people would offer themselves to be peacemakers in the world and think that they have the kind of philosophical mindset and the set of values and ideas that are just what this world needs. Well, I wonder. Some people present themselves. I don't want to overgeneralize, but just for the sake of some brevity there, social justice warriors. We're going to right all historic wrongs and we're going to deal with different groups of people that have historically perhaps there created injustice. Undoubtedly, races have caused injustice to each other. Undoubtedly, different people have created a lot of injustice toward others. And there are things that need to be done to ensure that that doesn't happen further. Destructive behaviors. And yet, within that, one looks at the people offering the remedy, and one wonders at their anger, and one wonders at their self-righteousness, and the way in which that they are pursuing that. And far from actually bringing peace, they often seem to be bringing more division, and creating more difficulty between different races, or male, female, or whoever else it might be. And so we said, well, not that. We might understand that there's some worthy aim somewhere buried within. But the means and the ideas that go with that are going far too far. And some who seem to be there trying to help in some way, and yet actually their thinking would completely undermine family life and would destroy the things where actually the Bible says are very, very precious. others want to make an impact on the world by being big churches, say, to build a big church. There's a mountain of literature, isn't there, on how to build a big church. Well, look at the church here in my 22 years and say, well, maybe I should have read more of those books there. Well, I wonder. Because so much of what they're saying is just impress the world. Have the best band, have the best sound, have impressive jokes and anecdotes and such things as that. Well, there we are. I don't know how my anecdotes go down anywhere there. But anyway, reading all the wrong books, I think I must be. That doesn't seem really to be what the Bible is speaking about. Because then one has to wonder, Bad behavior of some of those who are pastors and church leaders and the rest of it there makes you wonder, what is this? Is this for the glory of God or was it actually for the glory of man? All we think our impact on the world might be if we can't quite have big churches, we'll have busy churches, that we'll just be activists and doing this and doing that and always, always doing. Again, it's our doing. is not consistent with what we read about the character and the nature of the Christian man, the woman, the kind of attitudes within. And then busyness can actually be a substitute for real effectiveness and real fruitfulness out in the world. So a few things there, our impact on the world, what it perhaps is and what it perhaps isn't. But there we are. We're wanting to make a difference. And we're wanting to be, yes, peacemakers. We want the glory of God advanced, or how we want it advanced. Do you not grieve? I know I do, at the things that politicians say. lectures that they're giving to the church about what kinds of marriages we should be willing to admit, what kinds of relationships we should be willing to approve of. And we grieve, we grieve that we've reached that place and more grief that certain sections of the church actually comply with those kinds of ideas and are well on the way and are kind of celebrating it and wagging the finger at perhaps people like us, that we say, no, the Bible can't countenance those things. We can't countenance those things. And so we look at a world that we want to make a difference in, but very often resolutely does not want to have a difference made to it. And our high calling, summed up here as peacemaking, is to be conducted, at the moment in our culture, against the backdrop of considerable opposition. My second heading then, the gospel of peace. The gospel of peace. Peacemakers, yes, surely because we have the gospel of peace. Not just in our lips, it's in our hearts actually. That's where we believe, that's where we confess with our mouth Jesus as Lord and we believe in our hearts that God raised him from the dead. Something happened to you, something happened to me when to just use the phrase we're using with the young people, we met the Lord Jesus, something changed. And we were changed, changed on the inside in a fundamental way. Sometimes that fundamental change has to battle to be heard above the sinful nature and our own infirmities and our difficulties and against the backdrop of the opposition in the world. The fact is still this, that we would say, yes, we're sinners saved by grace. We have been so, so affected because we learnt that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. And here we are, and we're still getting over that knowledge, that revelation that was so fundamental, so revolutionary. And it came to us in that gospel, It told us that we needed to repent, it sure did. It told us that there was a day of judgement and it caused us to tremble. But it showed us there was a Saviour whose love had made all the difference to our state, and that He'd come even before we'd even known His name, thousands of years ago, and done everything, everything that was necessary for us to have, yes, peace with God. God no longer has a frown towards us, no longer do we live under his cloud of disapproval, but now our sins are pardoned on account of Christ's blood, and we are free, and we are at peace with God, and we can pray to him, and we can speak of him, and we can sing to him, and we feel very comfortable because always, always, always we know we didn't deserve this, We didn't deserve to be able to do this. We didn't deserve to have this change of heart, this change of mind. It was God, and he did it out of great love. And that is something we will carry with us to eternity and into eternity. We'll never recover from the fact that God so loved you and me, if you're a Christian this morning, and did all that he did through his son for you and me. Not just so it'd last for a day or just be here on a Sunday evaporated by Monday but so it should last forever and forever and that we should ever survey the wondrous cross and marvel at it. So there is us. We found mercy and so we reflect that mercy to others. We found peace with God and therefore our longing for other people is that they should find peace too. and within us and now written into our more sanctified DNA, the people that we now are at heart somewhere, is a desire that other people should hear that message, understand that message, believe in that message, because in that message, in that gospel of peace, is the very answer to the soul's deepest needs of finding the favour of God. We may not be gifted evangelists. We may not be the people who are called to be out on the streets or wherever else to be there. We may not be those who are going to stand and comfortably kind of declare these things, but we want to see it happen, and we want mightily to see it happen, and we pray that it should happen. There's the apostle Paul describing his calling, 2 Corinthians, and chapter 5 and verses 18, and following. He says, now, all things are of God who has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation. That is, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us. We implore you, on Christ's behalf, be reconciled to God. For he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in him. Reconciliation. bringing together people that are not at peace, and bringing peace, a word, a message that is the very source of that peace. And of course it is our enmity against God that is at the root of that, and that we're outside of God's favour, we're at odds with God, and God as a holy and a just God is at odds with us. And here through Christ, through the Lord Jesus, there is reconciliation. that the peace can be brought to pass. What, sir, was causing difficulty, our sin? Well, that now is atoned for through Him, and there can now be a whole new relationship that fallen people can have with a holy God, can appear before Him, worship Him, and praise Him, declare their hope and their joy in Him, and without their conscience screaming at them, liar. No, that's the peace that we find in him and of which Paul here describes himself as having this word of reconciliation, this ministry of reconciliation, going as an ambassador, pleading with people, be reconciled to God. Find that peace, that peace that we have found. We've been reconciled to him, we have peace with him and you can have it as well. Find him, seek him with all your hearts and that's why he pleads. where preachers at their best plead, this is too good, too valuable, too important, this is eternity, this is hinging on this. Your response, whether you hear it, well, if you hear it today, hear it, be reconciled to God, come to Christ, trust in him for everlasting life, know that you can find peace with him, and then all the troubles and griefs that we bring with us, God can begin to unpick those griefs and begin to work in those parts of our life where we've had disappointment, where we brought trouble on ourselves, where we've found difficulty, where difficulty has found its way to us, and God can bring help and God can bring healing. So we have there this basic message, this which is imprinted in our DNA, we want that word preached, we want that to be announced, we want all the world, all people to know that they can have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. So Bible texts outside, open air preaching in Belpris in a week or so's time, preaching here, preaching everywhere, the internet taking the preaching beyond this postcode to, well, the countries that do tune in, whether to the sermons or lectures that we've had over the years. Well, it is to the ends of the earth. And then beyond that, we're looking to be good friends to people, aren't we? Good friends to people, our children, to our grandchildren, to those we work alongside, those we meet in the day-to-day round of things. Forth in thy name, O Lord, we go. And where we go to, the places that bring us in contact with people. And we care for those people. We care that they're alienated from the life of God. We care that they are without hope in the world. And we're praying. We want to make a difference here. We want to make a difference. We want them to hear the gospel. And so it's always good to have a leaflet that you can give, something you can leave them with after maybe you've had a conversation with them, sure. But actually who we are, we always want to go out into that world ready and primed. in the right attitude, that when we meet with people, we're able to convey something different, salt, light, be able to bring to their attention that the character that we are is actually different from the world, or it should be, that there is something else, something other about us because of the hope that we have. Maybe they'll inquire of us, that you're different. Maybe they'll ask of us, how so? How come in this world of chaos and all the confusion that you seem to be on a different path? You seem to have a different set of things that are important to you. How come? And we're always looking, therefore, to be those who go out into the world and are unique and are exercising that purity of heart. That what comes out of our mouth, and there's James 3, what comes out of our mouth will be will be good words, wise words, good reactions, and sometimes no words at all are the best words that we can ever say in a situation. That we are in that process of being able to use who we are in our leisure, in all the time, wherever we go, whoever we're mixing with, that we will leave them with a good impression. that will leave them with a right impression that we are people who love pure things and good things and who step away from impure things and things that we're not happy with and do it in a way that might invite inquiry and careful asking after us. So have we a testimony to give? If somebody were to ask us, would we know what to say? Could we explain how we came to find the Lord? Could we say something about the difference that he's made? Not only when first we knew him, but today. Is he making a difference to you and to me today? Is he working anything in you and in me that we could then talk about? So the gospel of peace. We want to be those who are peacemakers, in a broken world that's at war with God. And whether by explicit gospel work and testimony, or simply by the people that we are, commending Christ by our attitudes and our words, we would have Him to be visible, not ourselves visible, not us to have some fruitless prominence. I sigh at times that churches that have got such prominence, yet just don't use that prominence for the glory of God. They have nothing to say, nothing to communicate, nothing that's going to, if you will, create a little bit of tension, a little bit of thought, because what we stand for is not what the world is standing for. That's our high calling. And the wonder of it is that in that, it restores marriages. Finding Christ restores marriages. It brings sanity and clarity in how you use your money. It gives power and strength to conquer addictions and to work against those things that battle against our souls. Now my final heading, people at peace. Yes, because there is to be that peace in us. We've already been reaching that point and anticipating where we've now reached. So we read a moment back, didn't we, in Psalm 131. Just turning again to remind ourselves of what it was saying there in those verses. Lord, my heart is not haughty, nor my eyes lofty, neither do I concern myself with great matters, nor with things too profound for me. Surely, I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me." There's a peace at the very heart of the Psalmist, David, on that occasion. And he's at peace, and he says that there are big things up there, lofty things, great matters. I tell you this, there's some great matters of theology which caused people a lot of lack of peace, and where we have to accommodate ourselves to knowing that there's more in God than we'll ever know, about his sovereignty, about election, about predestination, more than we'll ever know, but that we can find peace and be comfortable with a God who is that, but is also one who invites all to come to him. We wean ourselves, we calm ourselves, we quiet our souls, Big questions, we leave them to God. And we are calmer within, unable to answer, not angrily, not sort of combatively, not in a way there that is just going to be a little bit over the top. There's heavenly light. James chapter three, again, we keep referring to that. So much wisdom indeed, isn't there, in this book of wisdom. Well, there he contrasts, doesn't he? A life without peace, a life where what's going on in the heart and the depths of the being is going to create not peace, but this opposite in the world. Let me read again, James 3, verses 13 to the end of that chapter. He asked the question, we can ask ourselves, who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy, and self-seeking in your hearts do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self-seeking exists, confusion and every evil thing are there. But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. That says a lot there. And you'll notice words that overlap very much with the Beatitudes. We're talking about mercy and there's purity in verse 17. Yes, those heart attitudes. For where they are, where they are exercising their influence and holding sway over our soul, then it's not going to be bitter envy and self-seeking. not going to be boasting, not going to be lying. There's going to be something much, much better than that. Those kinds of attitudes create wars, dissension, discord. If we're going with a lot of that in our hearts, well, we're going to just create tension wherever we go. But that wisdom that is from above, God's wisdom, beatitude wisdom, well, that is going to generate something else. We're going to actually sow In peace we're going to bring fruits of righteousness in the world because we ourselves are mastered by God, there is a peace within us, we are quieted, we are calm in the very heart of our soul and we bring that into all of our dealings with the world. 1 Peter chapter 2, tells us of a war that goes on in the heart of man, 1 Peter 2, verse 11. Beloved, I beg you as sojourners and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul. Abstain from them, they're happening, they're there. And we're pouring spirit and we recognize it, we confess it, that's happening. But as we are exercised by God's spirit within us, as the word of God is dwelling in us more and more deeply, then there are differences. And the war, we begin to have some victories. And those things which used to have the power to affect us greatly are subdued, not quite so powerful. They can go away, but they're not quite so powerful. They don't kind of rush in and just seize us and, oh, we're gone, we lost. We said something, we've done something, and it's, oh, we've done it again. We're mastered. Like James would talk about bridling the tongue. Yes, that. We're mastered. And those wars that are going on in the heart, will they overspill and they create more wars, distinction, difficulties for other people. So the more that we are ruled by the peace of Christ, the more that the gospel of peace is what is influencing us in the core of our being, then the better that we will come across. We won't be angry people, angry people are not the people that are gonna make much peace out there. They may have words of peace, dear, they don't make much peace. because of the attitude. Sadly, some open-air preachers aren't there in that vein that they, oh dear, they come across so angrily. And they may have words of peace, but the anger that's going into those words of peace rather contradicts the words of peace. So they're not anger, not being contentious people, like a good dispute, that sort of thing. Well, that's not what's looked for here. Or people, and often this is a problem, isn't it, of unfulfilled hopes, unfulfilled hopes and dreams and desires and those eat away within the core of our being and something else comes out. Therefore, we're looking to try to be something more than God intends us to be. And we're not ourselves. We're trying to be something else. We're trying to live up to that unfulfilled hope, but it doesn't work. It doesn't work. We're not at peace. There's not a peace reigning within our hearts. Perhaps we're feeling overlooked and forgotten and and that can channel itself into anger and a bit of a chip on our shoulder kind of approach to things, which is not going to endear us to people. Or if we're so, so fearful and we're not secure in our standing before the Lord, we haven't quite, quite believed it, that we're reconciled to him, that his favour rests upon us, then that comes through and we appear sort of only half convinced about the very thing ourselves. We only appear sort of half persuaded as we speak to others. We are persuaded somewhere, but fear comes in and it just sort of detracts from the people that we are. Of course, we're proud people. then we won't even bother thinking about it in the first place. Too busy thinking about ourselves, too busy wondering, how am I coming across? How do I look like this? Is this coming across well? And we're not looking at the other person, because peacemakers are always looking at the other person, aren't they? Looking at what they need, what they need to hear, what they need to see, what is helpful, what is going to be edifying for them. Proud people, too busy looking in on themselves. So friends, peacemakers, our high calling, we want to see peace. We want to see it in the world. We want to see it between Ukraine, Russia. We want to see it in a host of other countries. We want to see peace in marriages, peace in the workplace, peace between neighbours. We bridle against everything that disturbs that, wrecks that peace, bad ideas, bad behaviours. abusing various things and the violence and theft, self-destruction, cruelty that it brings, and sadness that it leaves, and division that it creates. No, we want to be at peace with people. And the more that we're at peace in the very heart of our being, the more we'll come across as a people of peace. We'll be more credible as people of peace. So if we have been the source of difficulty to others, then we look to put it right. We pursue peace with all people. If it's a word we've said that was out of place, then we'll apologise for it. We'll look to put that right and we'll then check ourselves and watch that it doesn't happen again. We'll humble ourselves in that way and then we'll look at our own soul and with God's help, we'll manage that anger or that jealousy or that envy or whatever it is that was eating away at us and something came out that wasn't helpful there. We'll learn not to say so much and maybe to be more cheerful instead we'll learn from our past mistakes. And we'll also do this, that if others have wronged us and harmed us, if others have been the cause of a breakdown of peace, that we'll be ready to receive their apology. And we'll be ready to receive them when they perhaps humble themselves before us and say that they were sorry, that we won't then impose a load of conditions and require this and that to be done, that we'll be generous. we anyway. We'll be poor in spirit and willing to hear that and not feel as if we depended upon that apology for our whole life and togetherness. But if it comes, when it comes, we'll be Happy to receive it and extend friendship to those who convey it to us, not to blanket out, not to demand too much and bring resentments and angers back or rehearse again old wounds and old troubles. And sure, we have to judge. Was it a sincere apology? Well, time will tell. People can say it, but do they change? If they're the cause of harm, have they learned from their mistakes? And sadly, sometimes people don't. I can be quite sort of effusive and apologize there, but actually they haven't changed. And they're still the same hotheaded people or whatever. And we need to just be wise about that. But the more that God is at work in you and at me, bringing his peace to bear upon us and convincing us of the absolute wonder of salvation in Christ, the more that sanctification, bringing us into conformity with Christ, that is happening in us. Well then friends, we have hope for ourselves that that high calling of peacemaking, we may just get a little bit nearer to what that means and just be a little bit more fruitful in being that and doing that in this fallen world, that we, If we're at peace, sanctification, bringing peace, that we will create peace. And around us, there'll be an environment of peace. How it is some people, you're walking on eggshells, aren't you? You kind of, oh, they're going to get upset or get offended so easily there. It won't be so much like that. And people will feel a little more helped and relaxed and at peace themselves in our presence. Yes, because we're at peace and creating those environments of peace others, Christians, non-Christians, and through which perhaps we can then speak about the very things we want to speak more comfortably and more easily. Friends, that is our high calling.