How can we best respond to conflict in order to bring true peace? We see this with Nehemiah and how he responded to the conflict in Israel. Because there can be no true peace where there is sin, often the peacemaker will need to confront people in sin, so that there can be true peace. How do godly leaders resolve conflict? How do we become the peacemakers that we have been called to be? Many people think being a peacemaker means never “ruffling feathers” or causing conflict however, this is not true. In describing those who are part of the kingdom of heaven, he said that they would be known for working for peace and resolving discord. However, in the midst of this world of discord, Christ said this: “Blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called sons of God” (Matthew 5:9). In fact, Paul taught that the acts of the flesh are hatred, discord, fits of rage, and factions (Gal 5:20). The world has known no years without war. From this relationship, we have conflict in our homes, in our friendships, and in our work relationships. She would seek to control the husband, and the husband would rule her by force. In the Hebrew the word “desire” has to do with control or seeking to master something (cf. The woman would desire her husband and the husband would rule over her (Gen 3:16). But also God prophesied that sin would have a terrible effect on the relationship of the man and the woman. The blame game began when sin entered into the world. He said, “The woman you put here with me-she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate it” (Gen 3:12). After Adam sinned, he blamed God and his wife. Some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and our vineyards belong to others…Ĭonflict is a result of the fall. Although we are of the same flesh and blood as our countrymen and though our sons are as good as theirs, yet we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.” Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our homes to get grain during the famine.” Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards. Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their Jewish brothers.
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