Docile, submissive, mild, timid soft, lowly, plain, passive, wishy-washy and spineless.

Power under control.

He didn’t fight back.

He didn’t answer his critics.

He didn’t get angry.

He didn’t seek revenge.

He didn’t argue or try to explain his actions.

He didn’t complain about his unfair treatment.

He prays for his persecutor!

1. Look to Jesus

“Jesus calls us to His rest, and meekness is his method. The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort. The rest Christ offers is the rest of meekness, the blessed relief that comes when we accept ourselves for what we are and cease to pretend”

– A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

1. Look to Jesus

2. Receive and Believe the Word of God

1. Look to Jesus

2. Receive and Believe the Word of God

3. Live by the Spirit of God

Meekness is not merely the absence of pride and arrogance, so much as it is the fullness of the presence of God, where pride and arrogance cannot abide.

1. Look to Jesus

2. Receive and Believe the Word of God

3. Live by the Spirit of God

4. Put up with people we don’t want to put up with.

"The godless may boast and throw their weight around, yet real possession eludes their grasp. The meek, on the other hand, although they may be deprived and denied by men, yet because they know what it is to live and reign with Christ, can enjoy and even possess the earth, which belongs to Christ. Then on the day of regeneration there will be a new heaven and new earth for them to inherit."

- John Stott