...expounded unto him the way of God
more perfectly. Acts 18:26 The
Sermon on the Mount Compared to Paul's Epistles Part
II Matthew
5:5,6
5: Blessed
are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. According to the Risen Saviour through Paul,
the way of God more perfectly still talks of meekness.
Christ and meekness
Meek - mild of temper; soft; gentle; not easily
provoked or irritated; yielding; 2. humble, in an evangelical sense; submissive
to the divine will; not proud, self-sufficient; not peevish and apt to
complain of divine dispensations.
Christ Himself says, Matthew
11:29 - Take my yoke upon you, and learn
of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your
souls.”
However, Christ wasn't always meek according to today's
meekness definition!
Easily imposed on; submissive. quiet, and ready
to do what other people say. evidencing little spirit or courage; overly
submissive or compliant; "compliant and anxious to suit his opinions of
those of others";
Matthew 3:7 -
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism,
he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee
from the wrath to come?
Matthew 12:34 -
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for
out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.
Matthew 23:33 - Ye
serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
John 2:14-16 -
And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the
changers of money sitting: And when he had made a scourge of small cords,
he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured
out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables; And said unto them that
sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house an house
of merchandise.
And yet, the Risen Saviour, through Paul, still does
continue the importance of meekness!
Galatians 6:1 -
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore
such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also
be tempted.
Ephesians 4:2 - With
all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another
in love;
Colossians 3:12 - Put
on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies,
kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
I Timothy 6:11 - But
thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness,
godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
II Timothy 2:25 -
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure
will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
Titus 3:2 - To
speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness
unto all men.
But with that meekness also comes boldness, confidence,
assurance, etc. even making firm decisions towards others!
I Corinthians 4:21 - What
will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod, or in love, and in the spirit
of meekness?
II Corinthians 10:1,2 -
Now I Paul myself beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ,
who in presence am base among you, but being absent am bold toward you:
But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence,
wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked
according to the flesh.
Gentleness
Galatians 5:22 -
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith,
Boldness / Confidence
II Corinthians 7:4 - Great
is my boldness of speech toward you, great is my glorying of you: I am
filled with comfort, I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation.
Ephesians 3:12 - In
whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.
Philippians 1:20 - According
to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed,
but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified
in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.
I Timothy 3:13 -
For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves
a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.
Contention
I Thessalonians 2:2 - But
even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated,
as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the
gospel of God with much contention.
Dissension and disputation
Acts 15:2 - When
therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with
them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them,
should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.
Meekness is not the rolling over - turning the other
cheek, smiling ear to ear, being positive in all things, hiding in the
bushes, head down with mouth shut concept of modern 'Christianity.' etc.
Depart
Despise
Destroy
Prayer
Tears
Grace
Truth
Mercy
Longsuffering
Patience
Reprove
Rebuke
Get away
(Avoid; withdraw from such; not strive; neither
give heed; purge; reject; be not partakers; mark; note them; have no company;
not to company with; put away from among yourselves; cast off; have no
fellowship)
Deliver them unto Satan ...
Meekness? How about Silence / Quiet / Peace
I Timothy 2:2 - For
kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and
peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
Paul does tell the women of today to quiet down!
I Timothy 2:11 -
Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection.
I Timothy 2:12 - But
I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but
to be in silence.
And it isn't easy - we all have to study to be quiet!
I Thessalonians 4:11 - And
that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with
your own hands, as we commanded you;
Their business is not anyone else's!
Even within a mixed-miserable-marriage of madness
- peace can be expected!
I Corinthians 7:15 - But
if the unbelieving depart, let him depart. A brother or a sister is not
under bondage in such cases: but God hath called us to peace.
6:
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they
shall be filled.
Do you?
Romans 3:11 - There
is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.!
Rom:6:20:For
when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.
Do you now?
Rom:6:18:Being
then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
Whose righteousness?
Rom:10:3: For
they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish
their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness
of God.
Phil:3:9: And
be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law,
but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which
is of God by faith:
Filled? How?
II Timothy 3:16 -
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Romans 4:5 - But
to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly,
his faith is counted for righteousness.
Romans 3:22 -
Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all
and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:
Romans 9:30 -
What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness,
have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
Do we love the appearing of our KJB?
II Timothy 4:8 -
Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the
Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only,
but unto all them also that love his appearing.
Not only doing, but being made
II Corinthians 5:21 - For
he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made
the righteousness of God in him.
End of the law for righteousness
Romans 10:4 - For
Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.
Being taught wrong by the wrong ones!
II Corinthians 11:15 - Therefore
it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers
of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works.
Acts 13:10 - And
said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil,
thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right
ways of the Lord?
Sermon
notes from King James Bible Church of Touchet, WA Pastor
- Mike Paulson www.scatteredchristians.org The
entire King James Bible is written FOR us, but it is not all written TO
us!
We
learn from the "For" and we try to apply the 'TO!"