Worship Call 0685 the Meekness Gauge

Worship Call 0685 The sermon on the mount

Friday July 8,2022

The meekness Gauge

There is one thing that I have not brought up in the connection to the sermon on the mount.

The Sermon on the mount is God’s word to man. Yes, Jesus was a preacher, a proclaimer. The word of God is in the heart of Christ and his life itself was the sermon. I cannot think that Jesus spoke any wasted words and when it came to a sermon such as a sermon on the mount. He did not have to go to His study and figure out how to best deliver any sermon.

I on the other hand do spend much time pouring over that which I am going to preach.

Jesus was ready from eternity past to deliver the message and his message is God breathed with no help from any man.

I said this for this reason. I was much entertained by the series, “The Chosen.” So entertained that I gave the first season some artistic liberties, that I shouldn’t have. I even referred the series to friends and family. in the first season I did not question much.

I have heard even that churches are having its members watch it for Sunday school classes and such to prepare for lessons.

My problem is that I was looking for entertainment and was not so interested in the truth.

Second season drops the bomb though. The build up of season two was the sermon on the mount. And there was more than one scene where the character who played Jesus is pacing back and forth agonizing over the content of what he was going to preach with Matthew dictating. The character even asks Matthew’s opinion from time to time.

The Season’s climax was a built stage, curtains opening to the crowd, and this Character stands before an audience to give the message.

Let this be known,

Matthew nor no man was a cowriter to God’s very own words which is God breathed. What Dallas Jenkins who is the producer of the Chosen did, was seeking to rob Jesus of his deity which is pure evil and false teaching.

Jenkins goes on to believe that The Jesus of the Christians is the same Jesus as the Mormons. Yes, the same Mormons who reject the trinity and reject the virgin birth and gives Jesus an honorary God status.

This is a quote from Dallas Jenkins.

“So I can honestly say, it’s been one of the top three most fascinating and beautiful things about this project – it’s been my growing brother and sisterhood with people of the LDS community that I never would’ve known otherwise and I learned so much about your faith tradition and realizing, gosh, for all the stuff that maybe we don’t see eye to eye on…that all happened, that’s all based on stuff that happened after Jesus was here. The stories of Jesus we do agree on, and we love the same Jesus. That’s not something you often hear…sometimes it’s like, oh they believe in a different Jesus than we do. No, it’s the same, I mean I’ll sink or swim on that statement. I know that’s controversial and I don’t mind getting criticized at all for the show, and I don’t mind being called a blasphemer, I don’t like it when my friends are. I made it very clear that if I go down, I’m going down protecting my friends and my brothers and sisters and so I don’t deny we have a lot of theological differences but we love the same Jesus.”

Jenkins is a universalist that seems to think that all religions are the same and should make strives to be brought together in unity.

Know this in the last days there will not only be a one world government but a one world religion. And that religion will be evil to the corps.

In the end the false prophet will be cast into the lake of fire with the anti-Christ.

Do your research on what the Mormons believe and ask yourself if it is the same Jesus.

And until then, I myself repent for having sought entertainment in of God’s word over truth.

Concerning the last days Jesus warns us

Matthew 10:16 (NASB95) — 16 “Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be shrewd as serpents and innocent as doves.

Our topic is the Meek which will inherit the earth.

The Sermon on the mount which we are studying comes from the complete and infinite knowledge of God. Not a Jewish Tax collector.

The Knowledge of God exceeds the boundaries of time and transcends from eternity past to eternity future. Jesus, who is undiminished deity, knows every tomorrow and week and year on until the end of time and on into eternity as one coherent thought. God’s tomorrow is as perspicuous as today and the days gone by.

So as the preacher is sitting down on this mount and teaching, he teaches not only on good authority but on perfect knowledge of the past present and future.

Think we ought to lend and ear?

The qualities that we find in the sermon on the mount are not those things that we aspire to be. They are what the believer grows into when we have two things in place

1. The word of God

2. The filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit

Leave out either one of these out then one will never come to know the happiness that Jesus is promising, nor the rewards linked to the spiritual life.

When the priorities of the spiritual life are in place, and I will emphasize only two.

Again, they are

1. The word of God

2. The filling ministry of God the Holy Spirit

Then there is a transformation that takes place within the believer’s life over time. That believer begins to leave behind the old things, the old man, and begins to take on the image of the Christ. from his life through the power of the holy Spirit will come rivers of living water.

One’s happiness is not based upon current conditions but on the future reality of the Kingdom to come.

So it is that the beatitudes are a gauge of where any particular child of God is in his or her Spiritual life.

Matthew 5:5 (NASB95) — 5 “Blessed are the gentle, for they shall inherit the earth.

We must ask individually in the privacy of our own souls

“Do I, as a Christ follower, reflect the image of Christ, in all that I say, think and do?”

Meekness is one of those Character traits

Matthew 11:29 (NASB95) — 29 “Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.

Matthew 21:5 (NASB95) — 5 “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold your King is coming to you, Gentle, and mounted on a donkey, Even on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’ ”

Peter tells us to be

1 Peter 3:4 (NASB95) — 4 but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God.

This gentleness spoken of the Lord and the quality which Peter writes about is a fruit that comes from the branches which is connected to the vine.

Galatians 5:22–23 (NASB95) — 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

The branch does not concern itself with the fruit, it concerns itself with the vine.

The Believer need not worry about the fruit. The fruit will come, and it is that the Lord will make room for His ministry in His own time. it is the branch, the one in Christ, that concerns itself with the vine which is Christ. To be nurtured and cared for spiritually and in due time there will be the fruit that will include a gentle spirit.

There is so much of what gentleness is and what gentleness is not.

We can ask the question can one be brave and courageous and yet be meek and humble.

Did Jesus set aside gentleness when he turned over the tables in temple and with a whip drove the money changers out?

When we read about Stephen in the book of Acts. Who cannot see the gentleness in the life of this saint? But we see a Warrior who stands in boldness before the Sanhedrin declaring the truth of God’s word.

Gentleness means that we do not have to answer every person injury or insult to our own personal character. And there are times when we need not pursue our own personal liberties. It is not thinking more of ourselves than we ought.

Gentleness does not however negate the necessity of standing boldly for the truth. To stand against the attack against the word of God as it is today. While maintaining Christ like gentleness we stand against that which seeks to rob our young of their souls. We make a stand and a bold statement against the lies that seek to discredit God’s word.

If it means answering a Call to politics to stand for these things, Go for it.

If it means standing up in a school auditorium as a concern parent and demanding that the children will be taught truth, then parents do so and do it boldly with the same spirit that Jesus did when he cast out the money changers.

No, meekness does not mean weakness. Stand for truth by giving the answer to the hope that is found in you.

Make a stand for righteousness and speak out against injustices where you called to do so.

But in every case rember

Romans 12:2–5 (NASB95) — 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect. 3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.