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Steven J Wallace
The Fruit of the Spirit
Additions of Scriptures and other edits:
Jack Wheeler – Clovis Ca
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“Fruit”
is singular.
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
“GENTLENESS”
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Galatians 5:22-23
• But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, kindness,
goodness, faithfulness, GENTLENESS,
self-control. Against such there is no
law.
“Meekness” (KJV)
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Blessed are the Meek
• “Blessed are the MEEK, For they shall
inherit the earth” (Matt. 5:5)
NOT
“Blessed are the WEAK,
For they shall inherit the earth.
NOT
“Blessed are the STRONG,
For they can hold their own on the earth.”
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Defining
“Gentleness/Meekness”
• Greek:
gentleness, mildness, meekness
“. . . is founded upon this idea, [of thinking little of
your self,] and goes beyond it. It is the attitude of
mind and behavior which, arising from humility,
disposes one to receive with gentleness and
meekness whatever may come”
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Defining
“Gentleness/Meekness”
• “Meekness is patience in the reception of
injuries. It is neither meanness, nor a
surrender of our rights, nor cowardice; but it
is the opposite of sudden anger, of malice, of
long-harboured vengeance. . .
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Defining
“Gentleness/Meekness”
(Barnes Notes)
Meekness produces peace. It is proof of true
greatness of soul. It comes from a heart too great to
be moved by little insults. It looks upon those who
offer them with pity. He that is constantly ruffled,
that suffers every little insult or injury to throw him
off his guard, and to raise a storm of passion within,
is at the mercy of every mortal that chooses to
disturb him. He is like the troubled sea that cannot
rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.”
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Meekness & Lowliness
• “Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am
meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto
your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light” (Matthew 11:29- 30)
I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that
ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are
called, with all lowliness and meekness, with
longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;
endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the
bond of peace.” (Ephesians 4:1-3)
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Meekness Requires Humility
• It is obvious if we have an inflated
assessment of self, we are not “spiritual”
and will not be “gentle/meek”
• Romans 12:3
For I say, through the grace given unto me, to
every man that is among you, not to think of
himself more highly than he ought to think;
but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt
to every man the measure of faith.
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Meekness Requires Humility
• 1 Peter 5:6
Humble yourselves therefore under the
mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in
due time:
• Galatians 6:1
Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye
which are spiritual, restore such an one in the
spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest
thou also be tempted.
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Meekness
• MEEKNESS DOESN’T FORBID:
ANGER
FIRMNESS
INITIATIVE
MEEKNESS REGULATES SUCH!
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Meekness Requires Humility MOSES
• Number 12:3
• Now the man Moses was very meek,
above all the men which were upon the
face of the earth.”
– Yet he required the Levites
to take their sword to their
disobedient brethren where
3000 died (Ex. 32:25-28)
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Meekness Requires Humility PAUL
– 1 Corinthians 4:21
What will ye? shall I come unto you with a rod,
or in love, and in the spirit of meekness?
– two essentials in preaching
– meekness doesn’t forbid one the use of a rod
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Meekness Requires Humility PAUL
• 2 Corinthians 13:2
I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were
present, the second time; and being absent now
I write to them which heretofore have sinned,
and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not
spare:
• 2 Corinthians 13:10
Therefore I write these things being absent, lest
being present I should use sharpness,
according to the power which the Lord hath given
me to edification, and not to destruction.
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Meekness Requires Humility JESUS
• Jesus was meek
• Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I
am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find
rest unto your souls.
Yet….
John 2:15
And when he had made a scourge of small cords,
he drove them all out of the temple, and the
sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers'
money, and overthrew the tables;
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Meekness Requires Humility JESUS
– Yet . . .He openly challenged and
destroyed the religious error of the day
– Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of
heaven against men: for ye neither go in
yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are
entering to go in.
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Meekness Requires Humility JESUS
• Our Lord’s Meekness allowed Him to do all
these things without sin.
1 Peter 2:21-23
21 For to this you were called, because Christ
also suffered for us, leaving us an example,
that you should follow His steps: 22 "Who
committed no sin, Nor was deceit found in His
mouth";23 who, when He was reviled, did not
revile in return; when He suffered, He did not
threaten, but committed Himself to Him who
judges righteously;
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A MEEK PERSON
• Doesn’t excuse sin/doctrinal infractions
• Doesn’t get carried away by personal
success
• Can sense and feel the wrong directed
towards him by man
– Forebears and endures such
– Doesn’t seek revenge for personal wrongs
– May pity the broken and defective character
of those who resist him
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A MEEK PERSON
• 2 Timothy 2:24-25
24 And the servant of the Lord must not strive;
but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
25 In meekness instructing those that oppose
themselves; if God peradventure will give them
repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
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ARE WE A MEEK PERSON ?
• Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the
earth.
• They shall receive blessing now – on earth
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ARE WE A MEEK PERSON ?
• But WHAT Blessing?
• What Blessing Now?
• Blessing of being a Christian
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ARE WE A MEEK PERSON ?
• Ephesians 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus
Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
• Romans 8:1
There is therefore now no condemnation to them
which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit.
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ARE WE A MEEK PERSON ?
• Romans 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace through the
redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
• 1 Corinthians 15:22
For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all
be made alive.
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ARE WE A MEEK PERSON ?
•SO
Are you in Christ?
Galatians 3:27
For as many of you as have been baptized
into Christ have put on Christ.
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ARE WE A MEEK PERSON ?
• Have You Been Baptized Into Christ ?
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ARE WE A MEEK PERSON ?
IF NOT
WHY NOT
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