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<div class="SSN_title">"BLESSED ARE THE MEEK"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Opposed to natural thinking - "world conquest, possession given to the meek." World thinks in terms of strength, power, aggressiveness. Christian an enigma to the world. Great shock to Jews - thinking of kingdom in terms of military and material. Contrast to much thinking in Christian church. Fighting sin, communism, world, by organization. Nature of denominations to exalt individuals.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. RELATION TO OTHER BEATITUDES.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Logical sequence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Progressive sequence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. More searching and more humbling.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. First asks me to see myself in presence of God, His light.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The second is my immediate response to such vision.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. I am ready to say, "O wretched man that I am."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. Am I ready to hear others say it?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Up till now it has been confined to God and me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Now my relation to others, my reactions to what they do to me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHO IS THIS MEEK PERSON, WHAT IS HE LIKE?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Old Testament examples:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Abraham - attitude towards Lot's choice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Moses - esteemed reproach of Christ, greater riches.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. David - attitude toward Saul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Jeremiah - non conformist, not cooperative.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. New Testament examples:</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Paul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Christ, "For I am meek and lowly of heart."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. <a onClick="return mV('Phl',2,1);">Phil. 2</a>, "Let this mind be in you."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT IS MEEKNESS?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Not a natural quality.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. All Christians are meant to be meek, regardless of their natural dispositions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. David, Moses, Paul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Does not mean indolence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Not weakness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Meekness compatible with great strength.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Martyrs.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Meekness is my attitude towards others in light of the truth I know about me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. A man cannot be meek who is not first poor in spirit and mourning.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Not desiring to assert self, ashamed of self.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Does not make demands for himself, position, status.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Is not sensitive about himself. Not on constant defensive.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. One of greatest curses as result of fall, sensitivity about self.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Knowing you are nothing and claiming no rights, no one can harm you. You do not fear falling.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Amazed at grace of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Expressed in mildness - Jesus. No spirit of retaliation - "reviled, reviled not again."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. If you are guilty and take it well, what reward?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. We leave everything in God's hands - life, future, rights.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. RESULT - "THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. They already possess the earth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They are satisfied "as having nothing yet possessing all things." "All things are yours."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Future sense. Coming kingdom.</div>
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