“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)
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