It's Time To Laugh Again-Part 3 "Meek"

Review: Poor in Spirit (Need God MORE than anything)

Mourn (Over our spiritual condition/Over the world-harvest)

Meek-humble, gentle, proper appreciation of their position, mild in cause...

Meekness is not weakness, for both Moses and Jesus were meek men (Num. 12:3; Matt. 11:29). This word translated “meek” was used by the Greeks to describe a horse that had been broken. It refers to power under control.

“whose strength is in their gentleness.”

5:5. Here Jesus cites Scripture (Ps 37:9, 11). Not those who try to bring in the kingdom politically or militarily but those who humbly wait on God will “inherit the earth.” The Hebrew of the psalm could mean “inherit the land” in a narrower sense (Ps 25:13), but in Jesus’ day Jewish people expected God’s people to reign over all the earth, as some other Old Testament passages suggest.

Meekness is the opposite of being out of control. It is not weakness, but supreme self-control empowered by the Spirit (cf. Gal. 5:23) John Jr MacArthur,

Inherit the land....the children of Israel were poor...They had to rely on God as their source. To inherit land was ultimate!

REWARD- "Inherit the land...."

Inward- "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ"