Blessed are The Meek, for They Shall Inherit the Earth.

“Blessed are the Meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”

 February 25,2018

 

The meaning of meekness was ___________ or _________

 

meekness: the ________________ between a hot headed temper that was rooted in anger, and a spineless indifference to the injustice that occurred in the world.

 

used of the man who did not give ______, _______ answers to others -- one who did not demand his _______________!

 

It was the word that was used of an animal that had once been wild, but now was ________ and _______.

  

 a “soothing _______________ that brought healing to the body”.

 

Brokenness focuses on _______________________

 

Meekness focuses on ________________________

 

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Meekness is a gentleness and a mildness, and a subdued character, but it is not _______________. 

 

IT IS POWER UNDER _________________...

 

it is a byproduct of self-emptying... of self-humiliation, of brokenness before God.

 

As with so many of the virtues of the Christian life, meekness is a word of ________________.

 

This is not a natural reaction, it is supernatural...therefore it is not surprising that meekness is a part of the _______________.

 

The result of meekness:

 

first, they are “blessed”...that word Makarios... it is the experience of a  deep abiding, true joy... based on an eternal ___________________________!!!!

 

Second, “The meek shall inherit the earth”...

The word that is used her in the Greek means “to receive an _________________”....

Because we belong to Christ, our place in the kingdom is as _____________ as His.

Inherit is a future tense verb... we’re going to be there as a part of the kingdom... we are going to reign with Christ! (I Cor. 3:21-23)