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Jan 27, 2019

The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

Passage: Matthew 5:5

Speaker: Ben Seneker

Series: Sermon on the Mount

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: beauty, belief, humility, meekness, strength

Meekness is not a popular character trait. It seems to imply weakness and insecurity. In reality, meekness can only come from a place of strength and security. To be meek is 1) to realize our place of dependency and 2) to be humbly reliant upon the Lord’s gift of Grace. To be meek requires us to be strong enough to bend and secure enough to admit our need. When we come to Jesus in our meekness, we find that he became meek on our behalf, even when faced with death (Isaiah 53:7 and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent) so that, in his death, he can grant us the impenetrable strength and security that can only come from a resurrected God.

Order of Worship

Prelude: Music Special - Open

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 95:1-7 ESV

READING: James 3:13,17-18 ESV

MUSIC:

  • I Need You
  • 10,000 Reasons (Bless the Lord)
  • Counting Every Blessing
  • Amazing Grace
  • Band: Lead Guitar & Vocals - Tim Allmond, Vocals - Genell Allmond, Keyboard - Larry

PRAYER: Humility In Service

LEADER: O Mighty God, we humble ourselves for opportunities neglected, and words ill-advised.

ALL: We repent of our folly, inconsiderate ways, and paths of unbelief

LEADER: Fill us with an over-flowing ocean of compassion, Bury our sins in the cleansing blood of Jesus.  The reign of love our motive and the law of love our rule.

ALL: O God of all grace, make us more thankful, more humble and work in us a deep sense of our depravity; Your ongoing mercy and rescue.

LEADER: That faith may adhere us to Jesus. His Spirit drawing and leading; making known the riches found in His finished work.  

ALL: Lord Jesus, give us repentance unto life.  

MESSAGE: The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth

CENTRAL TEXT: Matthew 5:5

5 “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

RESPONSE: 1 Peter 5:6-7 ESV

LEADER: 6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

ALL: 7 casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

BENEDICTION: Romans 8:31-32 ESV

LEADER: 31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES:

  • James 4:10
  • Psalm 37:11
  • Isaiah 29:19
  • Isaiah 53:6
  • Hebrews 4:14
  • Numbers 12:1-4
  • Psalm 37:5-11
  • Isaiah 40:28-31
  • Matthew 11:28-29
  • Galatians 6:1-2

MEDIA:

1.27.19 Album

DISCUSSIONS QUESTIONS:

  1. What comes to mind when you hear the term “meek”?  Is this a characteristic you consider to be positive, or negative?  Weak, or strong? What might be the opposite of meek?
  2. Have you ever received an inheritance?  Were you aware of that inheritance before you actually received it?  And if so, how did that promise of an inheritance impact your demeanor, mood, outlook, etc in the time between the promise and the time of actually receiving the inheritance?  Read Ephesians 1:13-14 and 2 Corinthians 1:21-22. What is Paul’s purpose in making these statements? How do these future promises impact the present?
  3. Notice the order of these first three Beatitudes (“those who are poor in spirit … those who mourn … those who are meek”).  How is Jesus building upon each Beatitude? Why is the order so important?
  4. The gospel promises a future inheritance of eternal life in Christ.  How is this promised future beginning to manifest itself in your present life?  
    1. What role does the Holy Spirit play in this?  
  5. How might the Parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) be an important warning against treasuring the inheritance more than a relationship with the Father?  What are some practical ways to guard against this temptation?

QUOTES:

  • "Mind you, there are thousands of clever men who would give anything for the chance to come in and take over from me, but I don't want that sort of person. I don't want a grown-up person at all. A grown-up won't listen to me; he won't learn. He will try to do things his own way and not mine. So I have to have a child. I want a good sensible loving child, one to whom I can tell all my most precious sweet-making secrets – while I am still alive."  ~Willy Wonka, from Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • “I like thinking of the Christian hope - with this Beatitude - as a hope embracing a renewed heaven and earth rather than just (as we usually hear) ‘heaven’.” ~ Frederick Bruner
  • “You can’t buy meekness. You can’t work it up. You can’t just decide to be meek. The order of the beatitudes instructs us that the meek are, first, poor in spirit. They see themselves as poor sinners who have nothing, can do nothing, and are nothing. That sense of spiritual poverty produces mourning over sin, and that mourning produces meekness.” ~David Murray

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