Pete McKenzie 0:01
He lets go of his anger as fast as he can. It’s not that you don’t ever get angry. But if you’re make you let go of it, you don’t hold on to it. That was one of the things I like to appreciate about my mom, my mom had a temper, and boy could she get after us when I was growing up.
But she never held on to it. She got over it real quickly. And she didn’t keep reminding us of what we just done.
She was make
he will not settle into a fixed hatred or lasting resentment. You know, you got guys that hurt you 10 years ago, and you still hadn’t forgiven them, you still hadn’t let them go. They’ve never asked you for forgiveness.
He will not settled into a fixed hatred and lasting resentment but is ready to receive anyone who desires to make peace.
And he felt i’d betrayed him and I’d done a lot of things. It wasn’t appreciating how he had been good to me.
And so I tried this seek reconciliation, and he wouldn’t have any part of it. And that’s not make a mate guy when someone wants to come and make things right. He’s eager to do it.
Magnus has always joined with humility,
So you don’t need a list of these things. You just naturally are these sayings when you’re abiding in Christ. He says, If you abide in Me and my word abides in you, this is the kind of person you will be. You’ll be meek. And all the things we’re describing of meekness. That’s what will start coming out of you. That’s what will define your personality. That’s where how you’ll start responding and thinking.
Jesus wouldn’t give that any oxygen at all. He didn’t I never talked about that he ministered to Roman soldiers. Matter of fact, there was one Roman soldier who said he hadn’t seen faith and all of Israel like this Roman soldier had. And that was when he had a servant that was dying. And he came to Jesus and said, I have a servant who’s dying. And Jesus says, I’ll go, he says, you don’t have to go. He said, you just say the word. He says, I understand how authority works. I say to this man, come and he comes, I say that man, go and he goes, all you have to do is say the word because you have authority, and he’ll be healed. And when the Roman soldier got home, he found that that that very minute that he was talking to Jesus, that servant was healed. So he ministered to serve. And he told the Roman soldiers to obey your officers. He told the Jews obey those and Peter actually did this. But he got it from Jesus, obviously, you slaves be submissive to your masters, not only those who are good and reasonable, but also those who are unreasonable and unkind. For this finds favor with God.
If you bear up under unjust suffering, with a sweetheart attitude, And so Jesus was there to turn upside down the fair Sacco government. But he didn’t have anything to do with the net was a religious government in the church, it was just so whacked out. But he had nothing to say to the Roman government. And even when he was tried and beaten in question, and palette finally said, not palette but the Roman Yeah, I guess it was palette. Anyway he said I find no fault with this man. So it’s you always respond peaceably under the government if you can, I’m not saying there’s not a time when you can’t. I’m just saying you really have to be led by God. And when that time is, and you have to choose your battles carefully. He is likely to have greater peace in his home and family than other angry, ill conditioned man. He has many friends, and few enemies, and his friends are generally of the best, and his enemies are of the worst sort of men. If such a man who has been good and kind to all should happen to suffer crosses and losses in the world, he will be sure to find more pity and caring and relief in his adversity than other men do. In other words, if you’ve been good and kind and generous to others, and then you get cut losses and crosses in your life, they’re more likely to be kind and generous and helpful to you. When you’re suffering.
Whatever portion the McMahon has of the good things of life, be at greater small. He enjoys it with a quiet, contented mind and God’s blessing. The make man has no interest in glorifying in himself or being proud of himself. He does not hold on to his right to himself. He doesn’t need to always talk about himself. He’s not always caught up in his own self interest. It’s not always on the defensive. That becomes a real problem in marriage. And in any kind of relational desktop that you have. Because if you’re always being defensive, and that’s one of the things that kills communication in relationships, someone wants to come to you with a problem. And you’re always defensive, you’re always pushing back, you’re always explaining and vindicating yourself. So they walk away thinking, I’ll never be able to communicate, happens in marriages all the time.
Whenever a wife or a husband will not own their stuff. And even if they are not guilty of what they’re being confronted with, they listen to it. And they, if they could just respond in a way to say, I remember Susan sitting down with me one time, she pulled her chair up alongside my TV chair, and I cut the TV off, because I learned that better do that when she pulls her chair up next to next to my chair. She says I need to talk.
Because you humbled yourself and you are make and you didn’t defend yourself or even go on the offensive and talk about what they do and accuse him of things that they’ve done to hurt them. So it may get had a need to do that. He’s secure in himself in that regard.
The greatest curse in life because of the fall is this insidious. Sidious preoccupation with ourselves defending ourselves, explaining ourselves, honoring ourselves.
Talking about ourselves. The man of God is finished with all that. He’s no longer a slave to how people treat him or what they think of him. He no longer has to protect himself or pity himself, vindicate himself, explain himself, feel sorry for himself, watch out for his own self interests, he doesn’t have to do that anymore. He’s free. That’s a truth that sets him free. To be make means that you think that you think little of yourself, but that you don’t think of you’re not that you think little of yourself, but you don’t think of yourself at all. He’s given up his rights, and knows that he deserves nothing. He has come to know that no one can harm him. Paul Runyan said, He that is down need to fear no fall. So when you’ve humbled yourself, and you’ve emptied yourself of all that pride, and all that self preservation and self realization, and all the other self stuff, you don’t have to worry about falling because you’re as low as you can get. He’s amazed that men and God can think of him as well as they do. He must of necessity be mild. And that is defined as gentle in nature or behavior, not sharp or spicy or bitter. Jesus, if you recall, said, Take my yoke upon you and learn from me. for I am gentle, and humble. I think that’s the only self description we ever have of him.
He just described himself as gentle and humble of heart.
Now in that Interstate, once he’s the first he said, Take my yoke, yoke together with me yoke is something that you are tied to they put the oxen together. And if you had one oxen going one way and one oxen going the other way, you got a problem, if they’re in a yoke, but the oxygens need to go in the same direction. That’s why they’re yoked together. And Jesus says, yoke yourself together with me. Now, don’t be afraid of doing that because I’m gentle and humble of heart.
Guys are not like that guy with one talent that said, I knew you’re a hard taskmaster who gathered, where do you have not sown and report you have not scattered? And so I buried my talent.
That’s truth and grace. He will tell you about hell, he will tell you about damnation. He’ll tell you about living a life so you can avoid that. But at the same time, he’s gentle and humble of heart. When he does it, he doesn’t wish any should perish.
He soft and soothing, tender and quiet but firm when he needs to be the most approachable person in the world has ever seen is the making lowly Jesus. He has a complete absence of the spirit of retaliation or getting even. He lets things go. He didn’t he leaves it in God’s hands to rectify that person. It’s not up to him to do that. He’s patient and long suffering, especially when suffering unjustly.
Well what happens to the man who’s like this? Well, he’s going to inherit the earth. See, there’s great reward in being obedient and following Christ. Having spirit heart and attitude that shaped in his spirit, heart and attitude. of deciding that you’re going to be that meek person but to be make you have to have come to the poor and spirit. If you haven’t come to poor in spirit you have no hope of being make.
mourned over your sin, and been crushed because of it. You have no hope of living this meek and humble life. Because you’re always going to be full of yourself. You didn’t find yourself poor in spirit because you’re not poor in spirit. You
You’re strong and yourself in spirit. You won’t lay that down, you won’t die to yourself. And you won’t crucify with the crucified with Christ, as Paul said. So it’s a progression to get to this place. If you find yourself, having a hard time being humble and meek, and gentle, and all the things we’re reading here, go back to square one, how you doing and being poor and severe. I doing it realizing that grace, it’s all of grace, that you have nothing to offer God. And God has everything to offer you are go back to square two blesses those who mourn. And get those two things right. And then you’ll start seeing all these sayings about meekness and humility become real in your life. And you know, why would you want them to be real in your life, will also you can have the abundant life that he came to give. You don’t have to be angry and bitter and defensive and offensive. You can be at peace. You can be gentle and mild, you don’t have to hold on to resentments, and bitterness and unforgiving spirits. He wants to set you free, I came to two might have life and this is a life he came to give this make life this humble life. I came that you might have life and have it abundantly, not just a little bit, I want you to enjoy it all to the brim, overflowing, pressed down, shaken together. And that’s what he came to give us. But if we’re not going to humble ourselves, if we’re not going to see ourselves as poor in spirit and mourn and be broken over our sin, then we can’t have it. It will not be ours. And you’ve basically said I don’t want it. I want me. That’s what lust is. I love me, I want you. This man enjoys good things in life that other men can enjoy. He’s inheriting the earth. This is the great reward of bearing the fruit of the Spirit. He’s this man is always satisfied and content, having nothing and yet possessing all things. I know how to abound and how to be a based and I can do all things in Christ who strengthens me. First Corinthians three says so then let no one boast in man. For all things belong to you whether Paul or Apollos are safest, or the world or life or death or things present are things to come, all things belong to you, and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God. All things are yours if you’re truly Christian, you have already inherited the earth. But the humble will inherit the earth. So this is a serious matter if we claim to be Christian, we have no excuse for not being make. Let me say that again. This is a serious matter. If you claim to be a Christian, you have no excuse for not being meek. Well, that’s just not me, Pete, I have more fired up personality or that have been you need the power. It’s under control then. It’s not about personality. It’s about the fruit of the spirit being born in our lives. One man wrote this wrote this, and I’ve used it in several different contexts. But I think it fits perfectly for Blessed are the meek and he said when you’re forgotten or neglected, or purposely said it not, and you smile inwardly glorying in the insult or the oversight. That’s what it means to be make. When you’re good is evil spoken off. When your wishes are crossed, your tastes offended, your advice disregarded. your opinions ridiculed, and you take it all in patient loving silence. That’s what it means to be make. When you’re content with any food, any clothing, any climate, any society, in any solitude and interruption. That’s what it means to be make. I think the key word there was content.
When you can bear with any discord or annoyance, any irregularity and punctuality of which you’re not the cause. That’s what it means to be make. When you can stand face to face with folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility contradiction of centers, persecution, and endure it all the way Jesus intuited, that what it means to be make when you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, not to record your good works, nor seek after commendation. When you can truly love to be unknown. That’s what it means to be make in Jesus. Christ was the epitome of that. He had all the power in the world and he kept it under control. He could have called 10,000 angels, but he didn’t. He could have taken up for himself explained himself, but he never did. And when they slapped him around and ridiculed him and beat him to a pop, when he was reviled he Reval not and when he suffered, he had heard no threats. But it just kept in trusting himself to him, his father who judges all men, equally, who brings justice. He could wait on it, he didn’t have to have it right now. And so that’s a higher bar, amen. It goes against everything in our human nature. It goes against everything in our sense of manliness and macho. It doesn’t work in the gangs in East LA, I can tell you that right now. From what I’ve heard about that, but that’s what Jesus called us to be and do and is so different, it makes me and want it. When you have it, others want it, they see it in you. They’ll might call you, sissy and a wimp to begin with. But when you stand your ground, and you hold on to the humility and meekness that we’re talking about here, it’s very evangelistic guys married, and they all end up respecting it. Because they want it themselves and they know they don’t have it. So, Lord, we thank you for giving us this whole understanding of what it means to be meek and gentle, and humble. And, Lord, we just have to confess that apart from you, we have no hope. We can’t do it. We can’t be these kind of person. But that’s why you brought us to a place of being poor in spirit. That’s why you brought us to this place of mourning in brokenness, so that you could make us meek, and mild and gentle, and humble, loving others away, you loved keeping power under control, being a blessing, experiencing the and inheriting the earth, experiencing the abundant life that you came to give us to the max. So Lord, we just finished this sermon today saying help us, we believe help us in our unbelief. We need help to do this. We need to abide in you. We need to be in the word we need to be in prayer. We need to be in the fellowship of other men who are chasing after you. And you’ve given us that privilege right here right now in this place. And we give you all the glory and gratefulness in Jesus name And all God’s men said give him Heaven, guys.
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