1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,200 Good morning, how are we this morning doing? 2 00:00:04,200 --> 00:00:06,600 All right. It's really nice. 3 00:00:06,600 --> 00:00:14,200 When the snow melts that fast right with him. 4 00:00:14,200 --> 00:00:16,100 At my name is Rashad, one of the pastor's here. 5 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:20,700 And I get the awesome privilege to teach you from God's word 6 00:00:20,700 --> 00:00:25,300 this morning, from the words of Jesus here in Matthew 5. 7 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:27,800 And as we start, I'll just pray for us. 8 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:30,600 Lord, thank you for your word that it's alive. 9 00:00:30,600 --> 00:00:36,100 That it's active, and that you're here and we Pray for your 10 00:00:36,100 --> 00:00:42,100 kingdom to come to Boston as it is in heaven, in our lives, as 11 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:45,400 it is, in heaven, and your church, as it is in heaven. 12 00:00:46,700 --> 00:00:51,600 God help us to see where you're working, where you're at, help 13 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:55,700 us to just release our burdens and our carries that we come 14 00:00:55,700 --> 00:01:00,300 into this place with and hear from you and learn from you and 15 00:01:00,300 --> 00:01:04,900 be receptive to what you want to do within us and through Us in 16 00:01:04,900 --> 00:01:07,600 Jesus name. And amen. 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:15,200 I'm excited to continue this series but so today obviously 18 00:01:15,200 --> 00:01:17,700 your heard the text we're going to talk about a word that we 19 00:01:17,708 --> 00:01:20,400 don't really use much in our culture. 20 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:24,600 Like a really cool rapper. Use this word in his name but to 21 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:30,000 June but it's a horror that we just don't use much in our 22 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:34,300 culture and that word is is Meek and Jesus. 23 00:01:34,700 --> 00:01:36,800 This is Jesus. First sermon. 24 00:01:36,800 --> 00:01:41,800 He's speaking to the masses and he tells the crowd blessed. 25 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:48,700 Happy fortunate, are the meek. And if you don't know what 26 00:01:48,700 --> 00:01:53,100 meekness means, here's one definition meekness is a humble 27 00:01:53,100 --> 00:01:58,500 attitude that expresses itself in the patient endurance of 28 00:01:58,500 --> 00:02:01,600 offenses. Ain't nobody getting excited 29 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:05,100 about that one, right? Meekness is a humble attitude 30 00:02:05,100 --> 00:02:10,300 that expresses itself in the patient endurance of offenses. 31 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:13,600 So say, I don't know if I want that. 32 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,100 Up until this point in human history and the history of the 33 00:02:19,100 --> 00:02:24,000 people of God, their greatest leader that that govern, the 34 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:26,700 people of God was Moses. Moses who? 35 00:02:29,500 --> 00:02:33,300 Stepped up to pharaoh, who walked through the Red Sea who 36 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:37,300 delivered the law. And here's what it said about 37 00:02:37,300 --> 00:02:41,600 the greatest leader Moses and numbers 12:3 says, now the man 38 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:45,400 Moses was very Meek. More than all the people who 39 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:50,200 were on the face of the Earth. A lot of people want to be great 40 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:57,500 like Moses but not like Moses. There's no one that says, hey I 41 00:02:57,500 --> 00:03:00,900 don't want to be great or I don't want to be the be great 42 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:03,200 like that person, but actually don't want to go through the 43 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,000 process that they did to get there. 44 00:03:05,900 --> 00:03:09,200 I don't want to actually carry the burden in the way in the 45 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:11,500 manner in which they do it to get there. 46 00:03:12,300 --> 00:03:15,500 Could you imagine applying for the job instead? 47 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:19,400 Tell me why you have the job, because I'm Meek because I'm 48 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:22,200 clothed and meekness. Right? 49 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:24,000 We put that in the cover. Letter me. 50 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,600 Come Meek meekness. This is my top virtue. 51 00:03:27,600 --> 00:03:30,800 And this right? Like I read a couple letters to 52 00:03:30,800 --> 00:03:32,500 and they started saying unflappable. 53 00:03:32,600 --> 00:03:34,300 I'm like yeah you're interesting. 54 00:03:35,500 --> 00:03:42,300 You're getting a call back. Greatness in our culture, in our 55 00:03:42,300 --> 00:03:46,000 world is striving to reach the top. 56 00:03:46,900 --> 00:03:51,300 It's and sometimes by any means necessary to get to the top. 57 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:55,600 And for the most part, our society rewards that kind of 58 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:59,600 hustle, our society rewards, that kind of grit, ariix Society 59 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:02,500 rewards, that kind of ambition. Are you with me? 60 00:04:03,100 --> 00:04:07,900 Yeah, and so when Jesus says blessed are the meek he saying, 61 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:13,000 You're in good company. If you walk in meekness and he's 62 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:16,899 referring back to Moses urine, you're in good company. 63 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:23,000 Because I if I refer to you as meek, Because the kingdom that 64 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:26,200 I'm bringing the kingdom that's coming because about the inside 65 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:31,300 out the kingdom that I'm talking about is the bottom is the top 66 00:04:31,400 --> 00:04:35,400 started from the bottom. Now we here, look, so I'm sorry, 67 00:04:35,400 --> 00:04:40,000 I got this, couldn't resist it, here's what Auntie right sissy 68 00:04:40,300 --> 00:04:41,700 now I can activate a good out your head. 69 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:43,200 Here's what NT Wright says here in here. 70 00:04:43,200 --> 00:04:46,300 I said he'll get out of your head when God wants to sort out 71 00:04:46,300 --> 00:04:49,100 the world as the Beatitudes and The Sermon on the Mount makes 72 00:04:49,100 --> 00:04:50,600 clear. He does. 73 00:04:50,800 --> 00:04:56,100 The send in the tanks, he sends in the meek, the broken, the 74 00:04:56,100 --> 00:04:59,900 Justice hungry, the peacemakers, the pure-hearted, and so on. 75 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:06,800 God's plan to change the world. God's plan to reorient and 76 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:09,700 remake the world is not with military power. 77 00:05:09,700 --> 00:05:17,700 But with the meek, Jesus is saying it's not the 12 who 78 00:05:17,700 --> 00:05:21,300 strive and fight and step on one another to get what they want to 79 00:05:21,300 --> 00:05:22,800 parade. Their Good Deeds. 80 00:05:23,100 --> 00:05:26,700 Who go Tit for Tat and take two eyes for one. 81 00:05:26,700 --> 00:05:29,500 Tooth who use their power and authority to get power and 82 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:31,600 authority. They have no place in My 83 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:35,300 Kingdom. Actually, what Jesus is saying 84 00:05:35,300 --> 00:05:39,500 is the way that you make your way to the top and this world is 85 00:05:39,500 --> 00:05:44,700 not impressive to God. In fact, the attic the 86 00:05:44,700 --> 00:05:48,000 attributes of this world that take you backwards and 87 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:50,700 downwards. That's actually the posture in 88 00:05:50,700 --> 00:05:52,900 the place in which you enter Jesus his kingdom. 89 00:05:55,900 --> 00:05:58,700 The Jesus, his kingdom is a different economy than our 90 00:05:58,700 --> 00:06:01,800 world. This this is hard to grasp 91 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:05,100 because we've been taught our whole life to claw in the fight 92 00:06:05,100 --> 00:06:08,900 and work your way to be seen to be known to work yourself up an 93 00:06:08,900 --> 00:06:11,800 org chart or whatever it is that this is what we've been taught 94 00:06:11,800 --> 00:06:16,400 in Jesus like actually downward down and left. 95 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:19,800 That's actually the way up into my kingdom. 96 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,800 Blessed are the meek. You've heard the quote To the 97 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:30,200 victor go the spoils. Have you ever has everyone heard 98 00:06:30,200 --> 00:06:32,000 that quote To the victor goes the spoils. 99 00:06:32,000 --> 00:06:35,800 In other words, when we triumph over what we're fighting for, 100 00:06:35,800 --> 00:06:39,700 who were fighting with, and we went to the victor goes the 101 00:06:39,700 --> 00:06:45,500 spoils. In our world, and even 102 00:06:45,500 --> 00:06:48,800 unfortunately, in a lot of religious circles that well as 103 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:50,900 well. We've engaged in the wrong 104 00:06:50,900 --> 00:06:54,000 battle. We think our competition is one 105 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 another. I got to beat you to the train. 106 00:06:57,000 --> 00:06:59,300 Stop, got to beat you to the donut line. 107 00:06:59,300 --> 00:07:02,300 I got to beat you here, I got it, I got to do better than you 108 00:07:02,300 --> 00:07:05,800 on my performance reviews. Like we think the battle is with 109 00:07:05,800 --> 00:07:09,400 one another and beating other humans to the punch to lift 110 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:14,600 ourselves up. But the real battle is not with 111 00:07:14,600 --> 00:07:17,600 other people. It's within ourselves, not 112 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:19,700 thinking of ourselves more highly than we ought. 113 00:07:20,300 --> 00:07:23,800 Because God's kingdom is about lifting up others. 114 00:07:24,800 --> 00:07:27,800 God's kingdom is about propping up, others by lowering ourselves 115 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:32,600 and lifting up the other C.s. Lewis says that. 116 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:35,800 It's not that we think less of ourselves but we think of 117 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:45,600 ourselves less Jesus is saying the meek are blessed and the way 118 00:07:45,600 --> 00:07:49,000 of meekness is the path to Greatness. 119 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:54,800 The way of humility is the path to Greatness. 120 00:07:56,500 --> 00:07:58,800 See Minnie. And here's, here's where I think 121 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:02,100 we might get tripped up. Many of us either people that 122 00:08:02,100 --> 00:08:07,800 read to find meekness as docile and weak and spineless. 123 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:11,400 And here's why that's problematic because that 124 00:08:11,400 --> 00:08:14,300 interpretation leads you to think that meekness is the path 125 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:19,500 to abuse. and now want to say that meekness is not the path to 126 00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:21,600 abuse and have a problem with that because there's been a lot 127 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:27,300 of abuse of authority on passages like this spiritually, 128 00:08:27,900 --> 00:08:33,000 emotionally economically, physically Meekness is not about 129 00:08:33,000 --> 00:08:39,400 a lack of dignity. Andrew Murray says this in his 130 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:41,900 book, on the journey towards Holiness. 131 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:45,900 He says many men sometimes speak as if humility and meekness 132 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:48,700 would Rob us of what is noble and bold. 133 00:08:48,700 --> 00:08:53,600 And man, like a woman. Like oh, that all would believe 134 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:56,500 that this is the nobility of the Kingdom of Heaven. 135 00:08:56,700 --> 00:08:59,300 That this is the Royal spirit that the king of Heaven, 136 00:08:59,300 --> 00:09:02,900 displayed, that. This is God, like to Humble 137 00:09:02,900 --> 00:09:09,800 oneself to become the servant of all He says humility is the 138 00:09:09,808 --> 00:09:12,000 nobility of the Kingdom of Heaven. 139 00:09:13,500 --> 00:09:15,100 You want to know what his kingdom is like. 140 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:16,900 Going to know what? Greatness in, God's kingdom. 141 00:09:16,900 --> 00:09:23,400 Like meekness. Humility, lowering yourselves. 142 00:09:24,400 --> 00:09:27,600 It's a god. Like it's, it's what God is like 143 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:31,600 and what he's called us to embody and live in the world. 144 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:36,200 Philippians 2. The beginning of Philippians 2 145 00:09:36,200 --> 00:09:39,400 is telling us the church how to interact with one another and 146 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:40,800 how not to think too highly of ourselves. 147 00:09:40,800 --> 00:09:42,800 And how we got to serve one another then it goes on this as 148 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:46,100 this in your relationships with one another have the same 149 00:09:46,100 --> 00:09:51,300 mindset as Christ, Jesus who being in the very nature, a God 150 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:54,400 who being in very nature, God did not consider equality with 151 00:09:54,400 --> 00:09:56,900 God, something to be used to his own advantage. 152 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,800 Rather he made himself Nothing by taking the very nature of a 153 00:10:01,800 --> 00:10:04,400 servant being made in human likeness. 154 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:09,600 It being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and 155 00:10:09,600 --> 00:10:13,000 becoming obedient to death even death on a cross. 156 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:19,200 He's saying you want to look at the kind of person that God 157 00:10:19,200 --> 00:10:21,300 wants you to become. Look at the kind of person that 158 00:10:21,300 --> 00:10:24,600 God was. He humbled himself. 159 00:10:25,700 --> 00:10:30,800 We often like to give Jesus the attributes that we like. 160 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:34,700 So that we can do, we want? Of course. 161 00:10:34,700 --> 00:10:37,100 Jesus was a patriot, of course. Jesus was this gorgeous? 162 00:10:37,100 --> 00:10:39,200 Was that? So I can be that, so I can act 163 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:40,700 the way of course. Jesus was ambitious, of course 164 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:47,100 Jesus had nice clothes, right? Because we want, I'm sure you 165 00:10:47,100 --> 00:10:48,100 did. That's okay. 166 00:10:48,100 --> 00:10:49,200 I mean, come on. That's okay. 167 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:52,600 Well, but like we like to give Jesus the kind of attributes 168 00:10:52,600 --> 00:10:55,700 that that we value as a community, that we value as a 169 00:10:55,708 --> 00:10:58,900 nation, that we value as a people right in. 170 00:10:58,900 --> 00:11:03,200 So we want to live into that like I want that into my life 171 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,700 and so I had tribe, you attribute those values to Jesus 172 00:11:05,800 --> 00:11:08,600 but we Philippians of Jesus humbled himself. 173 00:11:11,700 --> 00:11:16,800 The meek person is not self-willed is not a Meek person 174 00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:20,900 is not continually concerned with self their own ways ideas 175 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:24,800 and wishes. Everyone's to my Jews. 176 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:26,700 Would teach something, they have Siege teacher. 177 00:11:26,700 --> 00:11:31,100 That's a hard teaching this is a hard teaching because I wake up 178 00:11:31,100 --> 00:11:34,800 and I think about myself, What is Rashad going to wear today? 179 00:11:34,800 --> 00:11:35,700 I don't speak it. A third person. 180 00:11:35,700 --> 00:11:39,000 Sometimes what is Rashad gonna eat today right here? 181 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:41,500 Thinking about you think about yourself. 182 00:11:44,100 --> 00:11:49,600 The meek are not those who are stuck on our right to be right. 183 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:54,800 Come on, couples. Come on somebody. 184 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,200 I know I'm right on this one, but you still lost. 185 00:12:00,500 --> 00:12:02,200 All right, couples remember that United. 186 00:12:02,600 --> 00:12:04,500 Don't get stuck on your right to be, right. 187 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,400 The meek is willing to put listen to this themself in 188 00:12:08,400 --> 00:12:12,700 second place. Submit themselves to achieve, 189 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:18,800 what is good for others? I think many of us like the idea 190 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:23,900 of meekness, but for other people, I like the idea of me 191 00:12:23,900 --> 00:12:26,600 cuz I like when your Meek I like when your Meek I like when your 192 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:30,200 Meek but when I actually got calls me to what that's actually 193 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:36,600 really challenging. I was in a church part of a 194 00:12:36,608 --> 00:12:40,600 church that practiced Holy Week and one week, we did as called 195 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:42,500 Maundy Thursday. And they're like, we're going to 196 00:12:42,508 --> 00:12:44,600 do foot wash. I was like, I like the preach 197 00:12:44,600 --> 00:12:46,900 about fish washing but I actually don't want to wash it 198 00:12:46,900 --> 00:12:48,300 on one's feet. I definitely don't want them to 199 00:12:48,300 --> 00:12:53,400 wash my feet. And you, you think about your 200 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:56,500 read about and Gomez beautiful. That Jesus was wash his feet 201 00:12:56,700 --> 00:12:59,000 until someone does something for you. 202 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:03,200 Can you receive it? Because actually, very humbling. 203 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:08,000 Because we're used to, if you're used to being in positions of 204 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,000 power and positions of autonomy and position that you're able to 205 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,000 take care of yourself. It's hard to be dependent on 206 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:17,200 someone else to do something for you to be vulnerable. 207 00:13:21,100 --> 00:13:26,800 It's hard sometimes to see why or how meekness can work to our 208 00:13:26,808 --> 00:13:29,300 advantage. And so why does God placed such 209 00:13:29,300 --> 00:13:31,300 a high value on meekness and humility. 210 00:13:31,300 --> 00:13:33,600 Why? Because that's the way the 211 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,900 kingdom works his way into the world. 212 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:38,300 That's the way the kingdom works. 213 00:13:38,300 --> 00:13:43,400 His way into our heart. Perfect timing. 214 00:13:44,500 --> 00:13:47,200 This is this is how the kingdom works. 215 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:51,000 That Jesus, humbles himself, that Jesus, lowers himself at 216 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,800 Jesus washes, our feet that Jesus. 217 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:57,500 Let's women that I have diseases touch him. 218 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:01,100 That Jesus hangs out with the leper and touches their eyes 219 00:14:01,100 --> 00:14:03,300 that he humbles himself in the Kingdom. 220 00:14:03,300 --> 00:14:05,500 Begins to work its way into people's heart because they got, 221 00:14:05,500 --> 00:14:08,300 I've never interacted with God like this. 222 00:14:09,300 --> 00:14:11,400 I didn't know, God was even like this. 223 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:16,100 Jesus came to humbly serve. He became human, he humbled 224 00:14:16,100 --> 00:14:19,600 himself, he became a servant. Matthew 20:28, says just as a 225 00:14:19,608 --> 00:14:23,800 son of man, did not come to be served, but to serve and give 226 00:14:23,800 --> 00:14:30,200 his life as a ransom for many. Meekness is the opposite of 227 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:32,200 self-interest in self-assertiveness. 228 00:14:35,400 --> 00:14:39,200 Meekness is the opposite of being self-willed. 229 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,700 It's the opposite of being uncooperative. 230 00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:43,900 Stubborn stiff, neck difficulties in. 231 00:14:43,900 --> 00:14:50,700 Meekness is not like that. The meek or malleable the meek 232 00:14:50,800 --> 00:14:55,600 are open. The meek are responsive to God. 233 00:14:57,100 --> 00:15:02,100 God wants to redirect our clenched fist. 234 00:15:04,100 --> 00:15:08,200 Now break them to redirect them to say, I could go Tit for Tat 235 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:10,700 with this person in and meekness, and humility that God 236 00:15:10,700 --> 00:15:11,900 works in our hearts, begin to go. 237 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:14,800 I'm actually going to use this to serve this person. 238 00:15:17,000 --> 00:15:18,900 I'm angry, I have the rights to be angry. 239 00:15:18,900 --> 00:15:22,000 I have the rights to fight back, but I'm gonna turn my weapons 240 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:25,400 into plowshares and be instrument of Peace because of 241 00:15:25,400 --> 00:15:29,000 the humility of what Christ has done for me shed abroad in my 242 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:34,900 heart. God works in. 243 00:15:34,900 --> 00:15:39,200 As he redirects our openness to, his will being done in our lives 244 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,800 to his will being done in other people's lives. 245 00:15:44,300 --> 00:15:46,200 When you hear me because I don't want you to hear like that. 246 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:49,500 You can't have confidence. Right? 247 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:52,400 You might think God just don't have confidence just be like a 248 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:53,900 jellyfish, right? Know you can. 249 00:15:55,700 --> 00:16:01,500 I don't know if that means, it's not that you can't have 250 00:16:01,500 --> 00:16:04,100 confidence, but that your confidence is rooted in God, 251 00:16:04,100 --> 00:16:08,100 that your confidence and your posture and your heart is rooted 252 00:16:08,100 --> 00:16:10,900 in the goodness and the faithfulness of God, it other 253 00:16:10,900 --> 00:16:14,200 dependents for what God wants to do in you. 254 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:20,200 And in the world, Jesus said in Matthew 11:29, he says this take 255 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:25,700 my yoke upon you and learn of me for I am meek and lowly. 256 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:29,600 Lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls already 257 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:31,500 King James. I know it's a little the year 258 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:34,900 like what's up with the yeast? This is this town's been the 259 00:16:34,900 --> 00:16:36,400 King James. I like it in the King James. 260 00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,100 All right. Some people believe, that's the 261 00:16:38,100 --> 00:16:40,200 only Bible you can hear from God from but we're not that. 262 00:16:40,300 --> 00:16:42,500 Anyways, that's not our. That's not where we're at today. 263 00:16:42,500 --> 00:16:49,800 Um, Hey Houston, take take my yoke upon you and learn of me. 264 00:16:49,800 --> 00:16:55,500 I am meek and lowly in heart. Jesus, here's what he knows. 265 00:16:55,500 --> 00:16:58,900 He knows that the world's economy is that the display of 266 00:16:58,900 --> 00:17:02,800 strength and dominance pride and power are the way to worldly 267 00:17:02,800 --> 00:17:05,400 success. But also the way to fatigue 268 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:11,500 disintegration and emptiness Aw Tozer says this to men and 269 00:17:11,500 --> 00:17:13,900 women. Everywhere Jesus says come unto 270 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:16,400 me and I will give you rest the rest. 271 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:20,400 He offers its the rest of meekness the Blessed relief, 272 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:23,300 which comes when we accept ourselves for what we are. 273 00:17:23,500 --> 00:17:33,900 And cease to pretend Jesus says, learn from me. we've all been 274 00:17:33,900 --> 00:17:36,900 discipled in one way or the another, in our world, through 275 00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:41,200 our families, through culture and Jesus saying learn from me, 276 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:46,700 Have this mindset. I'm Meek and I'm humbled and I'm 277 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:53,300 gentle, and I'm lowly Jesus. Says, learn from him so you can 278 00:17:53,300 --> 00:17:58,500 become like him. Matthew Henry says, it's the 279 00:17:58,500 --> 00:18:01,900 meek are happy the Mika, those who quietly submit to God, who 280 00:18:01,900 --> 00:18:05,200 bear? Who can bear insults? 281 00:18:06,100 --> 00:18:11,800 Are silent or return, a soft answer, who in their patients. 282 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:15,600 Keep possession of their own Souls when they can scarcely, 283 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,400 keep possession of anything else. 284 00:18:17,800 --> 00:18:22,400 These Meek ones are happy even in this world meekness promotes 285 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:29,700 Health, comfort and safety. Even in this world, These are 286 00:18:29,700 --> 00:18:36,000 these are these are hard teachings. because when you've 287 00:18:36,000 --> 00:18:41,600 been insulted, when you've been disrespected it's We've been 288 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:44,900 taught to, don't start it, but finish it. 289 00:18:47,000 --> 00:18:50,400 And he said those who could return a soft answer, those are 290 00:18:50,400 --> 00:18:54,500 the meek. Imagine a world where everyone's 291 00:18:54,500 --> 00:18:58,400 concern was the well-being of others, regardless of their 292 00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:01,600 stature, race gender, economic place in society. 293 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,500 Imagine a world like that. That's the world that uses 294 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:07,300 trying to paint for us and the Beatitudes. 295 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:12,200 St. Francis Desales says this, the 296 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,900 highest degree of meekness consistent, seeing serving 297 00:19:15,900 --> 00:19:21,000 honoring and treating amiably on occasion, those who are not to 298 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:26,100 our taste, and show ourselves, and show themselves unfriendly, 299 00:19:26,100 --> 00:19:28,100 ungrateful and Troublesome to us. 300 00:19:30,200 --> 00:19:37,200 He says like we should serve see honor and treat, kindly people 301 00:19:37,200 --> 00:19:42,200 that are difficult. People that are he's, he said 302 00:19:42,200 --> 00:19:45,500 not to our taste people that are troublesome. 303 00:19:49,700 --> 00:19:51,600 The question that came to me when I when I'm when I'm doing 304 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:54,000 when I'm reading this because I'm not just like trying to give 305 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:57,300 you a Bible study but what's going on in my own heart, what 306 00:19:57,300 --> 00:19:59,700 am I thinking God, what is this? Do inside me? 307 00:19:59,700 --> 00:20:03,000 And my first question was honestly does meekness work 308 00:20:05,300 --> 00:20:08,900 Because I know I know how the world is know how people are. 309 00:20:08,900 --> 00:20:13,200 I know how Human family as I know, how does meekness work. 310 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:16,400 And I think at the heart, I'm concerned about my own life and 311 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:20,000 livelihood because to live that way is costly. 312 00:20:20,600 --> 00:20:25,600 And I've had many moments in my life words, people close to me 313 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:28,800 people, not so close to me that have turned their backs on me 314 00:20:29,200 --> 00:20:32,900 that have run me and my family name through the mud that I've 315 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:37,000 sought to destroy me publicly that have Early accusing me of 316 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,800 wrongdoing who wanted me fired from jobs and spent many nights 317 00:20:42,800 --> 00:20:46,600 in solitary moments, where I said God, it's, it's not worth 318 00:20:46,600 --> 00:20:50,000 it. Or God. 319 00:20:50,500 --> 00:20:54,300 That's it. I'm a fight back or God. 320 00:20:54,300 --> 00:20:56,800 This is this is costing me way too much. 321 00:20:59,900 --> 00:21:04,500 And what I heard through this passages, learn for me. 322 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:08,800 Man, God is this too hard, man? You know what people are saying 323 00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,100 about me? You know, my own family has said 324 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:14,400 about me and my family. Do you know what they posted 325 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:17,000 about me? Do you know that they're taking 326 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,300 people from the church because they spread this lie? 327 00:21:19,300 --> 00:21:21,600 Do you know how hard that is? You know, painful that is 328 00:21:21,600 --> 00:21:27,600 learned for me. And that passage in Philippians, 329 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:30,900 doesn't end the right there, where Jesus humbled himself and 330 00:21:30,900 --> 00:21:33,600 dies, it continues. And in verse 9, it says 331 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:36,500 therefore God exalted him to the highest place. 332 00:21:37,700 --> 00:21:39,800 And gave him a name. That is above every name that at 333 00:21:39,800 --> 00:21:42,500 the name of Jesus, every knee should bow in heaven and on 334 00:21:42,500 --> 00:21:45,100 Earth and under the Earth. And every tongue acknowledge 335 00:21:45,100 --> 00:21:51,900 Jesus is Lord to the glory of God, the Father God, exalts the 336 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:55,600 humble. God, exalts. 337 00:21:55,800 --> 00:22:04,400 The meek. in his timing and in his strength, And our confidence 338 00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,600 is not in the fact of what we experience in our life because 339 00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,100 we're living a Meek life. Our confidence is that Jesus, 340 00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:14,600 humbled himself was buried but was resurrected so that we might 341 00:22:14,600 --> 00:22:17,600 have life. And so that's what we anchor, 342 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:20,900 our confidence in, because our feelings will will deceive us, 343 00:22:20,900 --> 00:22:22,800 will have us all over. The place, will have us fighting 344 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,800 back and speaking up and pinching back. 345 00:22:28,300 --> 00:22:32,400 Meet miss the way that Jesus calls us to live might not bring 346 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,300 us the most popularity among our peers and may not ascended to 347 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:38,900 the top of the depth chart or the org chart, but it didn't for 348 00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:45,100 Jesus either. Ew Tobar says, this Jesus calls 349 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:48,500 us to his arrest and meekness is his method. 350 00:22:49,100 --> 00:22:51,900 The meek man, care is not at all, who was greater than he 351 00:22:52,300 --> 00:22:54,000 for. He has long ago, decided that 352 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,600 the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. 353 00:22:59,700 --> 00:23:03,000 God can only exalt those who are bowed down. 354 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:12,300 God, can exalt you, if you don't humble yourself, God, can exalt 355 00:23:12,300 --> 00:23:17,100 you, if you don't live in a place that's for other people. 356 00:23:17,100 --> 00:23:20,100 If your life is purely about yourself and exalting yourself, 357 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:27,200 God can exalt you So yes, meekness does work but only in 358 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:30,900 God's economy. So when I questioned God, does 359 00:23:30,900 --> 00:23:33,000 this meekness stuff work? Because I'm looking at how the 360 00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:34,900 world works. It is not getting me anywhere in 361 00:23:34,908 --> 00:23:37,900 the world, but God is saying, man, your meekness is getting 362 00:23:37,900 --> 00:23:41,600 you a place in My Kingdom, your meekness is bringing the kingdom 363 00:23:41,600 --> 00:23:44,100 into your life and into the life of those around you. 364 00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:47,300 Regardless, if you feel that it's moving, you up this ladder 365 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:52,100 or a crease in your social capital, anybody with me, okay. 366 00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:58,100 It's when we Puritan when we have appeared to loss to lose 367 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:01,700 it, all that we find out that we've been given all things. 368 00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:04,900 Think about this crowd that Jesus is talking to the poor in 369 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:08,600 spirit the morning, the humbled, not just spiritually. 370 00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:11,900 But in circumstances that life, These are people that are on the 371 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:15,900 bottom of the social totem. Pole, in Jesus says this for, 372 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:20,300 they will inherit the earth. In other words, when you feel as 373 00:24:20,300 --> 00:24:23,600 though you have nothing, everything is coming to you. 374 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,700 You haven't inherited. He's telling you have an 375 00:24:27,708 --> 00:24:32,900 inheritance in God. Really hear that. 376 00:24:32,900 --> 00:24:38,200 There's an inheritance in God, that if you've been bypassed 377 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,400 stepped over, if you've been stepped on overlooked, you have 378 00:24:41,400 --> 00:24:47,400 an inheritance in God, God has something for you, that's 379 00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,100 greater than all that you've trying to achieve here in this 380 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:54,300 life. to inherit means, it has to receive something of 381 00:24:54,300 --> 00:25:00,300 considerable value, which has not been earned And then Jesus 382 00:25:00,300 --> 00:25:04,500 saying you that are living this life of meekness and humility of 383 00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:09,900 lifting others up playing second, fiddle for the benefit 384 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:14,100 of others, know this, that there's something of Great Value 385 00:25:14,100 --> 00:25:16,400 that you haven't earned that's coming your way. 386 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:23,200 Jesus, when he's saying what he's saying here in Matthew 5:5, 387 00:25:23,300 --> 00:25:28,200 he's echoing Psalm 37 that says, but the meek will inherit the 388 00:25:28,200 --> 00:25:31,900 land and enjoy peace and prosperity. 389 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:38,100 Jesus is letting us know that God will take care of us. 390 00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:45,200 And we're called to put our trust and up in obedience in him 391 00:25:45,500 --> 00:25:51,600 regardless of the cost. But the meek one commentator 392 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:55,100 says shall possess the land and Delight themselves in abundant 393 00:25:55,100 --> 00:25:57,700 Prosperity. The land David referred to as 394 00:25:57,700 --> 00:26:01,200 Palestine but Jesus Promised greater possession blessed are 395 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:04,800 the meek for they shall inherit the earth, the meek then have 396 00:26:04,800 --> 00:26:09,000 access to God's constant protection and boundless love. 397 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,100 Those who have felt like they've been left with nothing or 398 00:26:15,100 --> 00:26:17,200 getting more than they ever expected. 399 00:26:18,300 --> 00:26:22,300 In our world, the strong, the powerful, the proud, they gained 400 00:26:22,700 --> 00:26:26,000 the world in Jesus Kingdom. The meek, the gentle the lowly 401 00:26:26,000 --> 00:26:28,300 in heart, inherit a world to come. 402 00:26:28,300 --> 00:26:33,500 That God is renewing. You with me? 403 00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:35,900 Alright, almost there. All right. 404 00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:43,200 One writer says this, he says blessed are the considerate and 405 00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:47,900 tender blessed are all you who are Humane and harmless because 406 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:51,700 everything the Conquering hordes have stolen everything that the 407 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:55,900 self-indulgent masses have squabbled over will slip from 408 00:26:55,900 --> 00:27:00,100 their hands and be given to you. If I was in a church like a man, 409 00:27:00,100 --> 00:27:02,900 they've you say Amen. Praise our God With the Enemy 410 00:27:02,900 --> 00:27:04,400 stove and he's laid up for the righteous. 411 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,300 Come on. That one. 412 00:27:05,900 --> 00:27:08,000 You guys don't want no inheritance from the Lord. 413 00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:09,600 Okay? Okay. 414 00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:14,200 All right. God is saying, man, everything 415 00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,800 that you've given up for me, everything that you've laid down 416 00:27:16,800 --> 00:27:19,300 for me that God has in store for you something. 417 00:27:19,300 --> 00:27:21,800 Great. It's a problem. 418 00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,300 When all the writers read the stuff about God and he isn't 419 00:27:25,300 --> 00:27:27,200 here. They struggle they struggle with 420 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,900 the evil people. People and the corrupt system 421 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:32,400 seeming the prosper in their day and their time. 422 00:27:32,900 --> 00:27:35,700 And God is saying he won't always be like this. 423 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,200 Don't give up living the way in which I've called you to live 424 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,400 because of what you see, because understand I'm bringing 425 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,800 something imperishable into the world. 426 00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,600 That's going to change the course of human history and I've 427 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,100 already done so by bringing my son into this world. 428 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,200 And so what I'm saying is have his mindset live like him. 429 00:27:54,300 --> 00:27:56,200 Don't get. So fixing what everyone else is 430 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:59,900 doing because I have a plan and it's Taking place within you 431 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,400 within your church to be the people of God, be the people who 432 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,500 lower themselves and say, I want to prop you up, because it's not 433 00:28:06,500 --> 00:28:09,000 about me because I want to see God's Kingdom. 434 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:15,100 Come not my kingdom come. To the victor, goes the spoils. 435 00:28:17,700 --> 00:28:21,200 Jesus Took on sin and death in the grave. 436 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:27,100 He said that we might have life to the full, And the Victory. 437 00:28:27,300 --> 00:28:30,400 And the battle was over sin death and the grave. 438 00:28:30,400 --> 00:28:35,500 And he overcame it, and it Isaiah talked about Jesus and 439 00:28:35,500 --> 00:28:37,500 Isaiah 53. And last passage, I'm going to 440 00:28:37,500 --> 00:28:39,600 read. This is about Jesus is 441 00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,000 therefore, I will give him a portion among the great and he 442 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,200 will divide the spoils with the strong because he poured out his 443 00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:51,300 life unto death and was numbered with the transgressors for, he 444 00:28:51,300 --> 00:28:56,000 bore the sin of many and made intercession for the trance 445 00:28:56,000 --> 00:29:03,800 aggressors. In Jesus's Day land was taken 446 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,300 from conquering it. The Kings would use people to 447 00:29:07,300 --> 00:29:11,200 spill their blood for the land for his benefit. 448 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:16,100 And what Jesus is saying here is that Jesus comes as the king in 449 00:29:16,100 --> 00:29:19,800 his kingdom. And he lays down his life, he 450 00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:23,800 inherits the Earth from God and he shares it with his people. 451 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,600 You see that's what my kingdoms, like. 452 00:29:29,700 --> 00:29:32,900 Humility is the way of the Kingdom. 453 00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:38,400 This is what your king is, like, this is what your God is, like, 454 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,600 have the same mindset, and you, and you will inherit the earth. 455 00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,200 Amen. Let me pray for us.