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The Mount Sinai of the New Testament

The Mount Sinai of the New Testament. The Beatitudes (Part 2a). “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5). “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for thy shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6). Humble and Meek. Humble and Meek?.

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The Mount Sinai of the New Testament

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  1. The Mount Sinai of the New Testament

  2. The Beatitudes (Part 2a) • “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth” (Matthew 5:5). • “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness for thy shall be filled” (Matthew 5:6).

  3. Humble and Meek

  4. Humble and Meek?

  5. “Meek” from the Greek: praus (prau<V), meaning “mild,” or“gentle.”

  6. “The Greeks value this virtue highly so long as there is compensating strength. Thus rulers should be gentle with their own people and stern with others. Laws should be severe but judges should show leniency.” (The Theological Word Book of the New Testament Abridged -Little Kittle)

  7. Miriam and Aaron complained against Moses

  8. Moses forsook worldly honor

  9. If meekness and love are not a part of our character, we are not the disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, and our whole experience is feeble and uncertain.|(The Signs of the Times, August 22, 1895)

  10. Meekness is a fruit of the Spirit, and an evidence that we are branches of the living God. The abiding presence of meekness is an unmistakable evidence that we are branches of the True Vine, and are bearing much fruit. It is an evidence that we are by faith beholding the King in his beauty and becoming changed into his likeness. Where meekness exists, the natural tendencies are under the control of the Holy Spirit. Meekness is not a species of cowardice. It is the spirit which Christ manifested when suffering injury, when enduring insult and abuse.(The Signs of the Times, August 22, 1895)

  11. To be meek is not to surrender our rights; but it is the preservation of self-control under provocation to give way to anger or to the spirit of retaliation. Meekness will not allow passion to take the lines.(The Signs of the Times, August 22, 1895)

  12. Throughout the Beatitudes there is an advancing line of Christian experience. Those who have felt their need of Christ, those who have mourned because of sin and have sat with Christ in the school of affliction, will learn meekness from the divine Teacher. (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, pp. 13, 14)

  13. The Christian’s Weapon

  14. Every sinner is naturally a Pharisee. We have a desire to justify ourselves by the works of the Law.

  15. Naaman, at first rebelled against the humbling terms announced by God’s servant.

  16. To be meek is not to surrender our rights; but it is the preservation of self-control under provocation to give way to anger or to the spirit of retaliation. Meekness will not allow passion to take the lines. (The Signs of the Times, August 22, 1895)

  17. Through the action of Paul and Silas the name of God was magnified and the authorities were humbled. It was necessary that the honor of God should be vindicated at this time.(The Signs of the Times, August 22, 1895)

  18. “If a man continually blusters, a big stick will not save him from trouble; and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.”

  19. The meek “shall inherit the earth.” It was through the desire for self-exaltation that sin entered into the world, and our first parents lost the dominion over this fair earth, their kingdom. It is through self-abnegation that Christ redeems what was lost. And He says we are to overcome as He did. Revelation 3:21. Through humility and self-surrender we may become heirs with Him when “the meek shall inherit the earth.” Psalm 37:11.

  20. The earth promised to the meek will not be like this, darkened with the shadow of death and the curse. “We, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.” “There shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and His servants shall serve Him.” 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 22:3.

  21. There is no disappointment, no sorrow, no sin, no one who shall say, I am sick; there are no burial trains, no mourning, no death, no partings, no broken hearts; but Jesus is there, peace is there. There “they shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for He that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall He guide them.” Isaiah 49:10. (Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, pp. 17, 18)

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