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The Beatitudes are progressive; they start off with salvation and end with being persecuted for your salvation.

blessed - happy, fortunate, jubilant, when God confers or extends His blessings toward us

inherit - to obtain or to obtain the possessions of your inheritance

Meekness is a humble attitude that expresses itself in the patient endurance of offenses. It can also be defined as gentleness. It implies mercy and self-restraint, humility of spirit to be free from arrogance and pride.

“Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.” –Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

AREAS WHERE PRIDE WILL TRY TO RISE UP IN OUR LIVES:
• Pride of position - Matthew 23:6
• Pride of ability - 2 Chronicles 26:15-16
• Pride of achievement - Daniel 4:22-23
• Pride of wealth - 1 Timothy 6:17
• Pride of possessions - Matthew 6:19-21
• Pride of knowledge - Isaiah 47:10
• Pride of learning - 1 Corinthians 8:1-2
• Pride of spiritual attainment - Luke 22:24-26
• Pride of Self-Righteousness - Romans 10:3

Meekness is to be or to remain teachable, not only to God’s Word but in life overall (to leaders, to mentors).

“Humility is nothing but the disappearance of self in the vision that God is all.” –Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

James 1:21 says, “receive with meekness the engrafted (or implanted) word.”

A must in the Kingdom that Jesus is bringing is meekness of heart—to remain teachable, pliable, and correctable.

“Only the meek―those who have perfected humility―shall find their way into the Kingdom of God.” –Andrew Murray, The Beauty of Holiness

blessed - happy, fortunate, jubilant, when God confers or extends His blessings toward us

Mercy is God’s desire to treat you better than you deserve.

Mercy is deliverance from judgement; it's not being punished for what we deserve.