MEEKNESS IS NOT WEAKNESS

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MEEKNESS IS NOT WEAKNESS

• HEBREWS 26-18

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SEVEN POINTS TO CONSIDER

• MEEKNESSGETTING OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE, WHILE
  SUBJECTING YOURSELF TO GODS PLAYING FIELD.
• (HEBREWS 26, 7).
• GOD NEEDS SERVANTSNOT SUPERSTARS
• LUKE 22 25, 26 TITUS 214

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MEEKNESS IS TO HAVE COMPASSION

• MEEKNESSTO HAVE COMPASSIONITS NOT TO EXHIBIT
  FASHION.
• MEEKNESSIS ABOUT CARRYING OUR CROSSITS NOT US
  WEARING A CRUCIFIX.
• MEEKNESSIS LIVING A HOLY LIFEITS NOT ABOUT
  IMMITATING HOLLYWOOD.
• MEEKNESSIS ABOUT HAVING SUBSTANCENOT CHASING
  THE LATEST STYLES.
• MEEKNESSABOUT SERVING OTHERSITS NOT WAITING
  FOR OTHERS TO SERVE US!
• MEEKNESSIS THANKING GOD FOR THE TRIALS WE
  HAVE.AND FOR THE TRIALS WE DONT HAVE.

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WHY?

• HEBREWS 29
• But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower
  than the angels for the suffering of death,
  crowned with glory and honour that he by the
  grace of God should taste death for every man.

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2. MEEKNESS IS PAINFULNESS ITS CRUCIFYING KING
SELF

• JESUS DID NOT SIMPLY DIE ON THE CROSS. HE DIED A
  CROSS-KIND-OF-DEATH (HEBREWS 210 JOHN 1316).
• IT WAS NOT FITTING THAT HE SHOULD DIE OUR
  DEATHBUT HE ACCEPTED TO BE CRUCIFIED, ANYHOW.
• IT WAS NOT FITTING THAT HE SHOULD DIE OUR
  DEATHBUT HE SUBJECTED HIMSELF TO BE MADE LOWER
  THAN THE ANGELS, ANYHOW.
• JESUS GAVE UP WHAT HE HAD TO GAIN AND HELD UNTO
  WHAT WE HAD TO LOSE, ANYHOW.

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WHO CONTROLS OUR SLEEPING GIANT?

• SELF LAYS DORMANTBUT ITS NEVER DEAD.
• SOMEONE RUBS US THE WRONG WAY, AND OUR SLEEPING
  GIANT RAISES UGLY HEAD ONCE AGAIN.
• SELF IS MANKINDS ACHILLES HEEL!
• HAVENT WE ALL BEEN THERE?

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3. MEEKNESS RECOGNIZES ITS WEAKNESSFACING TRIALS

• WHY DOES THE MAJORITY OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE SEEMED
  TO BE MORE INCLINED TO WORLDLY THINGS, THAN THEY
  WOULD TO HEAVENLY THINGS?
• JOHN 1633
• These things I have spoken unto you, that in me
  ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have
  tribulation but be of good cheer I have
  overcome the world.

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MEEKNESS IS LIKE A KETTLE WHISTLING ITS HIGHEST
NOTE AT BOILING POINT!

• THE ISRAELITES WENT THROUGH THE RED SEA.
• CHRISTIANS MUST GO THROUGH TRIALS AND
  TRIBULATIONS.
• NB PSALMS CHAPTERS 73-75 MAKES US WONDERIS IT
  WORTH IT?
• WHY IS THE WICKED PROSPERINGWHILST CHRISTIANS
  ARE SUFFERING?

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LETS RECAP

• WE MUST GET OFF OUR HIGH HORSE.
• GOD IS LOOKING FOR SERVANTS NOT SUPERTARS.
• IS IT HAPPENSTANCE OR HAVOCK? INSTEAD OF
  HAPPINESSITS PAIN AND SUFFERING (ACTS 1422).
• GOD WANTS US IN THE CRUCIBLE!

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4. MEEKNESS IS BEHOLDING CHRISTNOT THE
CONFERENCE! JOHN 1926, 27 HEBREWS 122

• HEBREWS 210
• CAPTAINLEADERORIGINATORJESUS
• JESUS BECOMES OUR LEADER THROUGH SUFFERING.
• REVELATION 410, 11
• The four and twenty elders fall down before him
  that sat on the throne, and worship him that
  liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns
  before the throne, saying,

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• Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and
  honour and power for thou hast created all
  things, and for thy pleasure they are and were
  created.

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5. MEEKNESS DESTROYS THE DEVILS DEVICES

• HEBREWS 214
• THE OPPOSITE OF THAT STATEMENT IS ALSO TRUE!
• OUR WEAKNESSES KEEP THE DEVILS DEVICES ALIVE!
• ARE WE HAVING A HARD TIME TURNING OUR TROUBLES
  INTO TRIUMPHS?
• ARE WE TIPPING GOD WHERE WE SHOULD BE TITHING
  HIM?
• JOB 16 ZECHARIAH 31

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6. MEEKNESS TURNS HURDLES INTO HOPETHERES HOPE
BEYOND THE HEARSE

• HEBREWS 218 2 CORINTHIANS 1210
• PAUL USED HIS MEEKNESS TO TURN OBSTACLES INTO
  OPPORTUNITIES (ACTS 13).
• ARE WE STRUGGLING WITH OUR DELILAHS?
• DOES OUR LIFE HAVE ANY ZIP?
• HEBREWS 215, 17

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7. MEEKNESS IS FORGIVING FORGETTING
PAST/PRESENT SIN

• YESTERDAY IS HISTORYTOMORROW IS A MYSTERYTODAY
  IS A GIFTTHATS WHY ITS CALLED THE PRESENT!
• 1 SAMUEL 1523 WITCHCRAFTSPELL
• MATTHEW 614, 15 HEBREWS 217
• FORGIVENESS IS LIKE TRAMPLING UPON A SCENTED
  FLOWER, WHICH AS A RESULT, CAUSING IT TO RELEASE
  ITS SWEET PERFUME.

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HE WAS MEEKBUT HE WAS NOT WEAK!

• THEY STRIPPED JESUS
• THEY PLATTED A CROWN OF THORNS UPON HIS HEAD
• THEY SPAT IN HIS FACE
• THEY SMOTE HIM ON THE HEAD
• THEY MOCKED HIM
• AND FINALLYTHEY CRUCIFIED HIM