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Some of the most powerful
and influential words ever heard
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were spoken here on
the northwestern shore of
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the Sea of Galilee in
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Israel. Only a few people heard
those words that day 2000 years
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ago but since then billions of
people have been influenced by
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them. Today we're going to look
at just four of those words;
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four words that changed the
world. And they can change your
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life too by bringing you
inner peace and happiness.
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The great English poet,
Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote the
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Charge of the Light Brigade
about a famous English charge in
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Russia during the Crimean
War in the mid-19th century.
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It starts like this: Half a
league, half a league, Half a
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league onward All in the valley
of Death Rode the six hundred.
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Forward the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns! he said.
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Into the valley of Death Rode
the six hundred. You can almost
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feel the hoof beats can't you?
It was a useless charge. They
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were slaughtered almost to a man
The Crimean War has been called
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the first modern war
because modern style weapons and
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explosives were first used
on a large scale. In its day the
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Crimean War was unparalleled in
it's number of casualties which
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horrified all of Europe. On the
Russian side was a young soldier
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who in the calm moments would
sit and he would write amid the
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horror and death. His name was
Leo Tolstoy and he was honestly
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acclaimed as the world's
greatest writer of novels. What
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he witnessed in that war changed
his life forever. What most
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people don't know is that Leo
Tolstoy went on to become one
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of the world's greatest
peacemakers. We're going to
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look at his life
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in the context of what Jesus
taught. I'm here by the Sea of
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Galilee where Jesus gave us the
Beatitudes. The center of Jesus'
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teaching about the kingdom of
God is the Sermon on the Mount.
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Now the Sermon on the Mount is a
summary of how Christians should
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live before God and also
in relation to other people.
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It contains some of Jesus' best
known teaching and instruction
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for living. So if we really want
to know what it means to be a
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follower of Jesus and to live as
a citizen of the kingdom of God
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then we must understand Christ's
teaching in the Beatitudes. But
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the Beatitudes aren't
just spiritual principles for
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Christians. They are arguably
the body of principles that has
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been most influential in shaping
Western civilization as we know
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know it today. The word
beatitude is an old fashioned,
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religious sounding word that not
many people will recognize today
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It refers to being blissfully
happy. This is a happiness that
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belongs only to God and it
can come only from God. In other
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words when in your life you have
the qualities Jesus described in
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the Beatitudes you will share in
the joy of heaven here on earth.
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It's the only way to truly
live. If you're after lasting
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happiness and inner peace here
it is. So Jesus sat on a hill
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so the crowd could hear him and
he taught the people the most
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radical and influential set of
principles for living that this
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world has ever heard. Much of
what Jesus taught here is about
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personal relationships and how
people behave toward one another
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And among the Beatitudes he said
this in Matthew chapter five
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and verse nine:
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There they are, just four words,
but they changed the world.
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Here's the full text:
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Like each of the Beatitudes
there is the great truth hidden
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in this radical contradiction
and this great truth can be seen
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played out in the life of Leo
Tolstoy. Many people have heard
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the name Leo Tolstoy probably in
connection with his huge novel
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War and Peace. It's probably the
best known novel in the world
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that's never been read by most
people because it's whapping
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1125 pages long. Leo Tolstoy
is in fact regarded as one of
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the greatest authors of all time
But what most people don't know
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is that he was one of the most
influential peacemakers of all
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time. In fact, he was nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize three
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between 1901 and 1910. His not
being awarded the prize is one
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of the greatest controversies
in the history of the Nobel
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Prize. Let's look at
his story and find out why.
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His actual name in Russian was
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy.
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That's because during the reign
of the Czars he was born to an
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aristocratic family in 1828
near Tula in Russia. Tolstoy
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experienced repeated loss as
a child. His mother died when he
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was two and his father died when
he was just nine. Then his aunt
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became his legal guardian
but she too died. So Tolstoy was
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raised by another aunt. Tolstoy
was a voracious reader but a
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poor student. When he
reached university his teachers
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described him as both unwilling
and unable to learn. This was
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probably because his
aristocratic upbringing had led
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him into a debauched lifestyle
which included being heavily
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addicted excessive gambling and
immoral living. Even from his
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adolescence he didn't have much
time for study and eventually
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he left university without a
degree. Tolstoy returned to his
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family estate where he had a go
at farming trying lead the surfs
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as they were farmers in their
work. His aim was to be the
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perfect farmer. However, the
attractions of the big city drew
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him with their brothels and
gambling. So he actually spent
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most of his time away from the
farm. Tolstoy was going nowhere
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fast. One day Tolstoy's older
brother Nikolai came to visit
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him on the farm. Nikolai was
in the army and was on military
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leave. Nikolai saw Tolstoy's
huge mounting debts and the
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downward spiral of his life. So
he convinced him to go with him
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and join the army and that's
exactly what Leo did in 1851
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serving first in the Caucus
region of southern Russia.
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Tolstoy proudly wore his
military uniform and many photos
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were taken. Army was nothing
like his previous life of
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privilege and leisure. It was
a hard and nomadic life in which
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he was exposed to the brutality
of war. (Cannons sounding off)
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Tolstoy was transferred to
Ukraine in 1853 where he fought
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in the Crimean War as an
artillery officer. He was there
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during the 11 month long
siege of Sevastopol and at the
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disastrous battle of Ternea.
During this war Tolstoy was
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recognized for his courage
and promoted to lieutenant. The
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Crimean War was first
large scale use of many modern
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military technologies which
resulted in a massive loss of
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life which shocked Russia
and the Ottoman Empire. And the
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scandalous incompetence of
the generals contributed to the
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wholesale slaughter of the
soldiers on every side. It was
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during private periods of
this time in the army that
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Tolstoy really
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started writing. He started
writing an autobiographical
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trilogy. It began with the story
called Childhood in which he
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described his fondest childhood
memories. This became his first
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published work in 1852. During
the Crimean War he composed his
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sequel Boyhood. These stories
were eagerly snapped up by
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publishers and won great acclaim
from the public. But during his
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time in the army he also started
thinking deeply about the
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contradictions and horrors
of war. This was reflected in a
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three part series called
Sevastopol Tales which he wrote
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in the middle of the Crimean
War Tolstoy's experiences in the
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military had a profound impact
on him. It shaped his thinking
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for the rest of his life. He was
appalled at the loss of life in
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warfare and he ended up leaving
the army soon after the end of
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the Crimean War. Upon his return
to Russia from the army Tolstoy
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found himself greatly in demand
for his writing. However, that
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same year one of his brothers
died of tuberculosis. Five years
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later the same disease claimed
the life of his other brother
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with whom he had served in
the army. This was too much for
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Tolstoy and he fell back
into his old ways of debauchery.
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Although his writing was in
high demand he undermined his
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opportunities with his corrupt
lifestyle. To try to escape the
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downward spiral of his
addictions Tolstoy set off on
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the first of two trips
to Western Europe in 1857.
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However, Tolstoy
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was still in the grip of
his addiction to gambling and so
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penniless he had to return to
Russia only to return to Western
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Europe again a few year later.
His trips to Western Europe
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along with his wartime
experiences were to shape
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Tolstoy's philosophy and
pacifist view. In France Tolstoy
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met with and was influenced
by leading European thinkers.
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He also witnessed a
public execution in Paris that
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traumatized him and he came to
view governments as corrupt and
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not worthy of trust. After his
second trip to Western Europe
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Tolstoy returned to Russia fired
up with enthusiasm to make a
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difference in society. He
had started to accumulate wealth
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through his writing again
so founded 13 schools for the
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children of serfs who
had recently been freed.
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The majority of the people of
Russia at that time were serfs
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which meant that they were
virtually just slaves who worked
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the land for the wealthy elite.
Tolstoy's schools were a radical
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experiment in democracy. But
they didn't last long. They were
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continually harassed and soon
shut down by the secret police
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of the Russian Czar. Still they
were the forerunners of many
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later education programs around
the world. In 1862 Tolstoy
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married a doctor's daughter
names Sophia Andreyev. Sophia
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became a great support to
Tolstoy bringing order and
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structure to his life with
her administrative and financial
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abilities. They had 13 children
together of whom eight survived
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childhood. That same year his
marriage seemed to have given
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Tolstoy the space to begin
writing what many believe to be
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the greatest novel, War and
Peace and later Anna Karenina.
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As a result of the success of
these two great novels Tolstoy
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started to accumulate wealth
again. He also had time to
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reflect on the disreputable
life that he had led until then
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and he went through a great
moral and spiritual crisis. As
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he considered his life he became
depressed and he struggled with
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the question of the meaning
of life. Until then Tolstoy had
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only nominally been a Christian.
But he went first to the Russian
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Orthodox church for answers.
He found nothing to satisfy him
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there and he came to the view
that all organized religion was
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corrupt. So Tolstoy started
studying the Bible for himself
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and focused more and more on
the teachings of Jesus. What he
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found there, and in particular
in the Sermon on the Mount,
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transformed his life. Tolstoy
came to understand the teachings
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of Jesus in the Sermon on the
Mount in a literal and radical
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way. In the Sermon on the Mount
Jesus teaches the values of the
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kingdom of God and Tolstoy
believed that the reign of God
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is the only source of authority
to which Christians were
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ultimately answerable. Tolstoy
rejected the idea that human
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governments have ultimate
authority over human beings.
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In fact, he saw the state
as violent and deceitful. Human
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governments were ruled by
hierarchical and authoritarian
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structures but Tolstoy believed
that human relationships should
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be governed only by the values
that Jesus taught including
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servant leadership and universal
compassion. Tolstoy believed
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that a follower of Christ
could find lasting happiness by
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striving to follow the great
commandment of loving God above
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all and your neighbor as
yourself rather than looking
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outward to the church or to the
state for guidance. Because of
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this Tolstoy completely rejected
war and violence in all its
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forms and became a
radical pacifist. He wrote:
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Tolstoy's ideas on nonviolent
resistance were to have a
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profound impact on key 20th
century thinkers such as Martin
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Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi.
In fact, a young Gandhi wrote
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Tolstoy a letter asking for his
advice on what to do about the
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injustices of the British in
England. In a letter he sent to
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Gandhi Tolstoy argued that it
was only through the principle
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of love that the Indian people
would be able to be free from
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colonial British rule. Gandhi
then read Tolstoy's book The
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Kingdom of God is with you which
also helped convince him to
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avoid violence and take up
non violent resistance. In his
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autobiography Gandhi
acknowledged his debt to Tolstoy
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calling him:
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Gandhi even named his second
ashram in South Africa Tolstoy
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Colony. Something else that
Gandhi and Tolstoy had in common
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was that they both espoused the
benefits of vegetarianism. As a
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Count Tolstoy was a high ranking
nobleman however because he
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he took the Sermon on the Mount
very seriously he also came to
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believe that he should choose
the path of poverty. He saw
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denial of self as the path
to true spiritual nobility.
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For Tolstoy these weren't
just ideas. He took the part of
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poverty very seriously adopting
the dress of the Russian peasant
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and living as they lived.
Because of his unconventional
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spiritual beliefs Tolstoy
encountered many difficulties.
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He was thrown out by the Russian
Orthodox Church, he was under
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surveillance by the Russian
secret police but worst of all
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his views of his lifestyle
became a huge issue for his wife
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especially when he told her that
he wanted to give away all his
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money. His wife, perhaps
naturally objected strongly. We
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can understand Sophia Tolstoy.
After all she had never signed
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up for this. Eventually, Tolstoy
agreed to a compromise with his
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wife. He agreed to grant her all
the copyrights and the royalties
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to all his writing before 1881.
However, this didn't fix his
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marital relationship which
in their later years had been
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described as one of
the unhappiest marriage
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relationships in the history of
literature. Tolstoy struggled to
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reconcile his faith with the
realities of what had become a
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highly toxic marriage as his
wife became more and more bitter
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and resentful of his radical
views and attitudes. Although
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Tolstoy came to reject organized
religion he never abandoned
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Jesus Christ and his teachings.
However, it was during these
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last 30 years of his life that
Tolstoy established himself as a
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global moral leader whose
influence stretched around the
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world and even to this day. On
November the 19th 1910 Tolstoy
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finally mustered up the courage
to try to escape from his
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fractured marriage and he
secretly boarded a train heading
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south. He died the next day
of pneumonia. Tolstoy spent his
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last day preaching love
and nonviolence to his fellow
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passengers on the train. At his
funeral thousands of peasants
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lined the streets. We all love
peace, we all love it when
there's no conflict and
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strife but that's not what
the Bible means when it uses the
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word peace. In the Bible peace
isn't a passive word, it's an
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active word. It doesn't only
mean the absence of something
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but the existence of something.
In the Bible peace means the
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presence of satisfying and
perfect relationships that bring
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about contentment, joy and well
being. That's what Jesus means
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when he says:
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There are people who choose
not to intervene for the sake of
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peace and so they let situations
and relationships deteriorate
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and break down. All for the sake
of keeping the peace. But that's
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not what Jesus called us to do
at all. Remember that his idea
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of peace is active and not
passive. In this Beatitude Jesus
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doesn't say blessed are the
peace lovers. He says blessed
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are the peacemakers. We are
called to create peace before we
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can enjoy it. Those who
make peace are even happier than
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those who enjoy it. Now the
Hebrew word for peace is Shalom.
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Now Shalom means well-being
at its very best and highest.
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So we can
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look at that and conclude that
the happiest people are those
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who do anything to increase the
well-being and welfare of others
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in the world and that would be
a correct understanding. However
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the word Shalom also
fundamentally means having right
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relationships. When you have
right relationships they bring
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you peace. Now there are
basically three kinds of right
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relationships that are important
The first one is that we must be
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in a right relationship with
ourselves. There are people who
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hate themselves and they have
never learned to have a healthy
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self-concept. And then there
are people who are so full of
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themselves that they can be
obnoxious at best and downright
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dangerous at worst. But there is
a sense in which as even Jesus
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told us, we are to love
ourselves and the only way to
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make sure that this is a healthy
love is to be able to see
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yourself as God sees you. So
first of all, to have peace you
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must have a right relationship
with yourself. The second right
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relationship you must cultivate
is with your fellow human beings
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We live in a world with all
kinds of prejudices and barriers
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between people. Often they are
visible but the most dangerous
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ones are the invisible ones that
we take for granted and when you
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live in line with these
prejudices you will always be
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not only unhappy but unsafe.
Only the love of God can heal
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these wounds. True unity and
peace in this world can only be
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found through the power of the
love of Jesus Christ. So when
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you work for the good of others
you will find supreme happiness.
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When you cultivate loving
relationships with others you
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will also find supreme happiness
The third and most important
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right relationship that you must
have is a right relationship
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with God. When you are in a
right relationship with God then
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this peace will flow into your
life and it will heal the wrong
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relationships you may have
with yourself and bring peace to
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your relationships with others.
The Bible tells us how we can
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have this right relationship of
peace with God. It says this in
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Romans chapter
five and verse one:
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The beginning of all
peace is the forgiveness and
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the justification that we
receive through Jesus Christ.
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This means that because of what
he has done at the cross our
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sins are forgiven when we
believe and trust in him. And
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the cross helps us to how much
God loves not only us but the
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whole world and the price that
he paid for peace. Just before
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Jesus was arrested to be
crucified he said this to his
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disciples in John
chapter 14 and verse 27:
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This has been called the last
will and testament of Jesus.
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And it consisted of peace.
Who has ever been bequeathed a
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wonderful inheritance and not
accepted it? If you would like
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If you've enjoyed our journey
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promised to those who are peace
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together. Until then may you
find peace in your family, in
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your community and in our world
and most importantly in your
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heart. Let's pray.
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Dear heavenly Father, we thank
you because you sent your Son
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Jesus into the world to be
the Prince of Peace. Through him
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we discover how to live in
relationships of peace with
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ourselves, with our community
and most of all with you. Father
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teach us to be peacemakers and
to share our hope with others.
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In Jesus' name, we pray, Amen.
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