MEEKNESS IS NOT WEAKNESS

HEBREWS 2:6-18
SEVEN POINTS TO CONSIDER

1. MEEKNESS—GETTING OFF YOUR HIGH

HORSE, WHILE SUBJECTING YOURSELF
TO GOD’S PLAYING FIELD.
(HEBREWS 2:6, 7).

 GOD NEEDS SERVANTS—NOT

SUPERSTARS

 LUKE 22: 25, 26 & TITUS 2:14

 MEEKNESS IS TO HAVE
COMPASSION…
MEEKNESS—TO HAVE COMPASSION—
IT’S NOT TO EXHIBIT FASHION.
 MEEKNESS—IS ABOUT CARRYING OUR
CROSS—IT’S NOT US WEARING A
CRUCIFIX.
 MEEKNESS—IS LIVING A HOLY LIFE—
IT’S NOT ABOUT IMMITATING
HOLLYWOOD.
 MEEKNESS—IS ABOUT HAVING
SUBSTANCE—NOT CHASING THE
LATEST STYLES.
 MEEKNESS—ABOUT SERVING OTHERS—
IT’S NOT WAITING FOR OTHERS TO
SERVE US!
 MEEKNESS—IS THANKING GOD FOR THE
TRIALS WE HAVE….AND FOR THE
TRIALS WE DON’T HAVE.
 WHY?

 HEBREWS 2:9
But we see Jesus, who was made a little
lower than the angels for the suffering of
death, crowned with glory and honour;
that he by the grace of God should taste
death for every man.
2. MEEKNESS IS PAINFULNESS:
IT’S CRUCIFYING “KING SELF”
 JESUS DID NOT SIMPLY DIE ON THE
CROSS. HE DIED A CROSS-KIND-OF-
DEATH (HEBREWS 2:10 & JOHN 13:16).
 IT WAS NOT FITTING THAT HE SHOULD
DIE OUR DEATH—BUT HE ACCEPTED TO
BE CRUCIFIED, ANYHOW.
 IT WAS NOT FITTING THAT HE SHOULD
DIE OUR DEATH—BUT HE SUBJECTED
HIMSELF TO BE MADE LOWER THAN
THE ANGELS, ANYHOW.
 JESUS GAVE UP WHAT HE HAD TO GAIN
AND HELD UNTO WHAT WE HAD TO
LOSE, ANYHOW.
WHO CONTROLS OUR SLEEPING
GIANT?

 SELF LAYS DORMANT—BUT IT’S NEVER

DEAD.

 SOMEONE RUBS US THE WRONG WAY,

AND OUR SLEEPING GIANT RAISES UGLY
HEAD ONCE AGAIN.

 SELF IS MANKIND’S ACHILLES’ HEEL!

 HAVEN’T WE ALL BEEN THERE?
3. MEEKNESS RECOGNIZES ITS
WEAKNESS—FACING TRIALS

 WHY DOES THE MAJORITY OF OUR

YOUNG PEOPLE SEEMED TO BE MORE
INCLINED TO WORLDLY THINGS, THAN
THEY WOULD TO HEAVENLY THINGS?

 JOHN 16:33
These things I have spoken unto you,
that in me ye might have peace. In the
world ye shall have tribulation: but be of
good cheer; I have overcome the world.
 MEEKNESS IS LIKE A KETTLE–
WHISTLING ITS HIGHEST NOTE AT
BOILING POINT!

 THE ISRAELITES WENT THROUGH THE

RED SEA.

 CHRISTIANS MUST GO THROUGH

TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS.

 N:B: PSALMS CHAPTERS 73-75 MAKES US

WONDER…IS IT WORTH IT?

 WHY IS THE WICKED PROSPERING—

WHILST CHRISTIANS ARE SUFFERING?
 LET’S RECAP…

1. WE MUST GET OFF OUR HIGH HORSE.

2. GOD IS LOOKING FOR SERVANTS NOT

SUPERTARS.

3. IS IT HAPPENSTANCE OR HAVOCK?
INSTEAD OF HAPPINESS—ITS PAIN AND
SUFFERING (ACTS 14:22).
 GOD WANTS US IN THE CRUCIBLE!
4. MEEKNESS IS BEHOLDING CHRIST
—NOT THE CONFERENCE! JOHN
19:26, 27 & HEBREWS 12:2

HEBREWS 2:10
CAPTAIN=LEADER=ORIGINATOR=JESUS
 JESUS BECOMES OUR LEADER
THROUGH SUFFERING.

 REVELATION 4:10, 11
The four and twenty elders fall down
before him that sat on the throne, and
worship him that liveth for ever and
ever, and cast their crowns before the
throne, saying,…
Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive
glory and honour and power: for thou
hast created all things, and for thy
pleasure they are and were created.
 5. MEEKNESS DESTROYS THE
DEVILS DEVICES

HEBREWS 2:14

 THE OPPOSITE OF THAT STATEMENT IS

ALSO TRUE!
 OUR WEAKNESSES KEEP THE DEVILS
DEVICES ALIVE!
 ARE WE HAVING A HARD TIME TURNING
OUR TROUBLES INTO TRIUMPHS?
 ARE WE TIPPING GOD WHERE WE
SHOULD BE TITHING HIM?
 JOB 1:6 & ZECHARIAH 3:1
6. MEEKNESS TURNS HURDLES
INTO HOPE—THERE’S HOPE
BEYOND THE HEARSE
 HEBREWS 2:18 & 2 CORINTHIANS 12:10

 PAUL USED HIS MEEKNESS TO TURN

OBSTACLES INTO OPPORTUNITIES
(ACTS 13).

 ARE WE STRUGGLING WITH OUR

DELILAHS?

 DOES OUR LIFE HAVE ANY ZIP?

HEBREWS 2:15, 17
7. MEEKNESS IS FORGIVING &
FORGETTING PAST/PRESENT SIN

 YESTERDAY IS HISTORY—TOMORROW
IS A MYSTERY—TODAY IS A GIFT—
THAT’S WHY IT’S CALLED THE
PRESENT!

 1 SAMUEL 15:23 [WITCHCRAFT=SPELL]

 MATTHEW 6:14, 15 & HEBREWS 2:17

 FORGIVENESS IS LIKE TRAMPLING

UPON A SCENTED FLOWER, WHICH AS A
RESULT, CAUSING IT TO RELEASE ITS
SWEET PERFUME.
HE WAS MEEK—BUT HE WAS NOT WEAK!

 THEY STRIPPED JESUS

 THEY PLATTED A CROWN OF THORNS UPON HIS HEAD
 THEY SPAT IN HIS FACE
 THEY SMOTE HIM ON THE HEAD
 THEY MOCKED HIM
 AND FINALLY—THEY CRUCIFIED HIM