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Hello and welcome to the
Middletown Baptist Church Podcast,

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where we are proclaiming the
truth to the world.

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In this podcast series, we're
going to be looking into biblical

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words that have great
significance to our faith.

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The name of this series is
called the Word of the Week, where

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once a week we will dive
deeper into these words that we are

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familiar with in scripture.

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So come along with me, let's
study the Word of the week.

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Pastor Josh here.

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The word of the Week is meek.

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The last few sessions we've
been talking about the character

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traits of God.

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We've been talking about his
non communicable attributes, meaning

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attributes that only he holds.

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We talked about omnipresence,
omnipotence, all of those different

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things, omniscience, things
that only God holds in his perfect

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nature.

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But we do know that God holds
certain attributes that as Christians,

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we can emulate in our lives,
that we can be transformed into,

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not perfectly like him in his
holiness, but certainly to the degree

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of growth in the
sanctification process.

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And so one of the things that
we're going to be talking about today

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is the character trait of meekness.

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Jesus says in Matthew, chapter
11, verse 29, take my yoke upon you

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and learn of me.

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And so the challenge is as a
believer and as a disciple is to

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learn about the truth of
Jesus, not just about what he says,

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but how he lives.

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He says, learn of me.

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And that's really the
definition of a disciple is a learner,

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someone who can learn from
somebody else.

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And so as disciples of Christ,
we learn from Him.

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And he says, learn of Me, for
I am meek.

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There's our Word and lowly in
heart, and ye shall find rest unto

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your souls.

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And so the Lord tells us right
here in this passage that we are

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to learn about his meekness.

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Now, what is meekness?

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We have to understand that
definition before we can understand

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how we can live that out in
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Meekness does not mean weakness.

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Sometimes it's equated with
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So meek is not weak.

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Literally, it means to be
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Really you could wrap it up in humility.

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It's also related to the idea
of self control, allowing the Spirit

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to control us.

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Some scholars have called it
this strength under control.

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We know that God is all powerful.

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We know that Jesus as God is
all powerful, but yet he was completely

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meek.

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And so meekness does not mean weakness.

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So as a Christian, what does
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It means that we do have the
power of God in our lives.

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We do have the strength and
the confidence of the power of God

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in our life, but yet we have
the control and we have the humility

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to be able to harness that and
use it for the goodness of God.

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Matthew chapter 5 tells us
something very interesting.

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This is Jesus speaking to the
folks there on the Sermon on the

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Mount, some of the most well
known preaching ever, if not the

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most well known preaching ever.

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And In Matthew chapter 5,
verse 5, he says, Blessed are the

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meek.

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Blessed are the meek, for they
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So what the Lord is telling us
is that meekness is a character trait

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of those that follow him.

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He is meek.

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And we as Christians who are
striving to be Christ like should

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be meek as well.

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And so in that transformative
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Christ, we are called to be meek.

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And so when we understand the
definition of meekness, what we can

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see sometimes is actually
meekness is considered by the world

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to be a flaw, to be a weak element.

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But what we can see in
Scripture is that it's the complete

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opposite.

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And so we know that it means
to have gentleness of spirit humility.

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And we even know that in the
book of James, James chapter one,

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that we are to receive with
meekness the engrafted word which

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is able to save our souls.

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And so the Bible says, not
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in our lives with others
around us, but also we are to receive

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the word of God with meekness.

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Instead of receiving the Word
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in selfishness, we receive the
Word with humility.

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We receive the word with
meekness later on in the book of

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James.

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James 3:13 says, who is a wise
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you?

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So who's wise among you, let
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his works with meekness of wisdom.

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And so the Bible tells us here
that a wise man is a man who lives

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his life.

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That word conversation in the
King James is just the way that you

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live your life.

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So a wise man is someone who
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works of meekness.

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And so we understand that as
Christians, meekness is humility

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towards God and towards his
Word and towards others.

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It's having the right or the
obligation of power that we have

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as Christians.

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Let me say it this way.

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We have the ability of power,
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And so we have the power to do
something to somebody, but we refrain

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from that out of love.

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And so Paul encouraged us to
have meekness.

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We even see that In Ephesians
chapter 4, Paul says that we are

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called to walk worthy.

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Verse one, verse two.

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He says, with all lowliness
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for bearing one another in love.

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And so to love another person
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So yes, we have the gift of
God's power in our life that we can

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use, but we also have the
challenge and the ability to fulfill

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that challenge of meekness in
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So we are to love others and
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This is perfectly seen in the
humility of Christ and in his humble

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nature described in
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Jesus came as a servant.

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I would encourage you to read
through that passage in the book

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of Philippians, Philippians
chapter 2.

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It describes to us that we are
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Christ had.

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What was his mind?

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To put others before himself,
to obey the Father, to humbly submit

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to the job that the Lord gave
him, and that was to come and give

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his life for all of those who
are broken in sin and giving us hope

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and giving us salvation.

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So Jesus did that because of
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And so his meekness was
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And so, you know, a lot of
times we see certain character traits

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that we are called to have in
our life as Christians, and we glorify

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those.

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So, for example, courage,
strength, boldness, all of these

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things that are considered in
our society to be a great thing.

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But one of the things that we
don't usually highlight as an attractive

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attribute of God is His meekness.

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But the Bible tells us that
that meekness is directly tied to

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understanding the love of God
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Christ.

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And so if we are to love God
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sent his only Son.

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And so we love him with meekness.

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We receive His Word with meekness.

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We don't receive the preaching
of the Word of God with pride and

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hard heartedness, though we
receive it with an open heart, a

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tender heart, being ready to
be convicted by God, being ready

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to change for what he has
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And so we see that meekness is
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Meekness is tied to humility.

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Meekness is tied to selflessness.

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And that's all what God has
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And so if we are to love
others because we're called to love

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others, remember the first and
greatest commandment is to love God

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with everything our heart,
soul, mind and strength.

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But a close second after that
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And so we are to love our neighbor.

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There's no way to get around that.

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So the Bible says, as we love
our neighbor, we love them in the

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way that God tells us to love
them, because sometimes we want to

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love on our own terms.

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But to love my neighbor, as we
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2, is to love them with
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And we even know that we're to
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And so we might say, okay, it
makes sense that we need to have

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meekness with other Christians.

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But when it comes to someone
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even be questioning us, we
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we need to be harsh with them.

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Well, first Peter, chapter
three, verse 15 tells us that we

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are to share the gospel with meekness.

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First Peter 3, 15, it says
this, but sanctify the Lord God in

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your hearts and be ready
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man that asketh you a reason
of the hope that is in you with meekness

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and fear.

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And so the Bible tells us here
that we are to be living our lives

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as Christians differently so
that people notice us and notice

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that we have a different type
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And when we have that
different type of hope, people will

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say, hey, why do you have that hope?

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Why are you different?

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Why are you content?

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Why are you joyful?

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Why are you forgiving?

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Well, we say we give our
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and respect.

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What's our answer?

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Well, I'm just a good person.

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No, the reason why we can have
hope is because of our relationship

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with Jesus Christ, what He has
done for us and how we trust in him

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for that work.

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So the reason why we are
different as Christians is not because

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we just are good people.

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The reason why we are
different is because we have Christ

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living within us.

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We have the spirit of God
directing our lives, and we are dying

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to our flesh daily.

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And so that's the hope that's
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The hope that's within the
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And so therefore we share
Christ with.

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What does it say there?

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Meekness and fear.

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Not fear in the concept of I'm
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That word fear has that
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So we respect people enough to
treat them with meekness, to be gentle

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with them, to be controlled in
our answers, to not answer in anger

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or answer in our flesh or
answer in our emotions, but to answer

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in the truth of God and the
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So therefore, yes, we are to
treat God with that love and meekness

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in how we receive his word.

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We are to treat other
Christians around us with meekness

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and gentleness and respect.

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But we do also see that we are
to respond to people around us that

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are unsaved, asking for the
hope that's within us as we share

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the Gospel with meekness and
fear, with gentleness and respect.

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And so meekness should be a
defining character trait of a Christian.

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If you see a Christian, one of
the marks of a Christian should be

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meekness.

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It might be something that's
growing later on, right?

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It might be something that
doesn't happen right away for some

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folks.

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And certainly it's a character
trait that is not necessarily anywhere

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close to being a natural thing
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But we even see that in
Galatians, chapter five, when the

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fruit of the Spirit is listed.

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And these are the character
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of a believer that has the
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We see meekness listed, right?

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So, but the fruit of the
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chapter 5, verse 22 and 23.

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But the fruit of the Spirit is
love, joy, peace, long suffering,

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gentleness, goodness, faith.

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And then verse 23, there it
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Against such there is no law.

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And so we even see that
meekness is listed here in the fruit

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of the Spirit.

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And so we can rightly say
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trait of a Christian.

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And it should be a character
trait that is growing as the Spirit

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guides our life.

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And so God says, yes, blessed
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Jesus preaches meekness, humility.

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God gives grace to the humble.

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God resists the proud, but
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God gives grace to the meek.

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Blessed are the meek.

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Why?

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Because those are the ones
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Jesus says In Matthew, chapter
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end with this.

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He says, learn of me, be my disciple.

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Learn about meekness.

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And don't just make it a head thing.

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Don't just make it a head
knowledge, but make it heart knowledge.

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Apply it, right?

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Remember back in the book of
James, we already mentioned it.

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It's the man who is wise who
lives out meekness in his life.

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So the wisdom is the
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And so therefore we can know
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We can have the definition, we
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us.

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But the true challenge is to
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Meekness, gentleness, control,
and being able to say, lord, I can

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die to my flesh so that I can
be more like you on a daily basis.

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And so the challenge here is
to be more and more and more meek

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as we go about this
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As we go about our spiritual
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in our own strength, our own wisdom.

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It is the power of God that
gives us this meekness.

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And so as we go through this
study, we're going to look at various

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character traits that we as
Christians should pursue in our spiritual

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growth process.

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But I will say that I think a
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of meekness.

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Because if we look at Christ
as our greatest teacher, he perfectly,

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perfectly lived out a life of meekness.

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And so therefore, it should be
something that we're striving to

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understand, we're striving to
grow in, and we're striving to apply

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in our lives to the best of
our ability in the power of God.

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And so ask the Lord to give
you meekness.

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Today, read about passages of
scripture that define meekness, that

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explain meekness.

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But truly the only way that
we're able to understand this meekness

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and use it as a tool in our
life for the love of God and for

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the love of others is by
asking God to give us the strength

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to do so and then yielding to
him in that process.

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Not always easy, but needed
for Christians to understand the

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truth of God and for
Christians to live out that gospel

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witness with meekness.

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So thank you again for
listening today.

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We will be back next week with
another character trait of God that

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we will study and that we will
desire to grow in in our lives.

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Well, God bless you.

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We will talk to you next week.

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See you soon.

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Hey, I really appreciate that
you listened to the Word of the Week

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If you have any questions
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you can contact me directly at
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stay tuned for future Word of
the Week episodes where we dive deeper

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into words that impact our
life according to scripture.

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Thank you so much.

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God bless.

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We'll talk to you soon.