Now when Jesus saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, 2 and he began to teach them.
He said:
3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
4 Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
5 Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
It’s hard to be meek when factions rise up within a church. We get wrapped up in factions.
FACTIONS - When there is a pile-up of disgruntled people who build up a case that becomes a driving fantasy. Driven by the “What If?”
Factions live their lives on something that has not happened. It takes great skill to deal with factions, this is why we have Therapists! Sometimes we can’t get resolution, just accept it.
Anger is secondary to a Hurt. Body is so hyped that it FEELS helpless, resentment, fear and anxiety. This is Paranoia.
When there is trauma, the body becomes hypersensitive – Your body wants OUT of this! You move from prudence to paranoia.
People will try to FOG you: Fear, Obligation, and Guilt. You can’t drive forward when your windshield is fogged up! If I can get you to feel one of these three feelings, I can control and manipulate you.
Ex: Small children and parents
Students and substitute teachers
Elderly parents and adult children
Politicians and the public
To avoid being manipulated, practice DeFogging – Clarity is kindness. “Now it’s clear. Now I’m free.”
Clarity assigns responsibility so you can forgive.
If you can’t forgive, you’re stuck.
The goal is clarity – Learn to accept real expectations. Live with it. Sometimes you get validation, sometimes not.
Every feeling has a THOUGHT attached to it: “My right to be treated right is violated.”
This leads to Hostility and Harshness - the Law of the Jungle.
MEEKNESS is the opposite of Harshness.
Gentle and kind is not natural. But it allows God’s supernatural work into your soul.
Philippians 2
Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
5 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:
6 Who, being in very nature[a] God,
did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
7 rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
8 And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
by becoming obedient to death—
even death on a cross!
9 Therefore God exalted him to the highest place
and gave him the name that is above every name,
10 that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow,
in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”[c] Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky 16 as you hold firmly to the word of life. And then I will be able to boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor in vain. 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service coming from your faith, I am glad and rejoice with all of you. 18 So you too should be glad and rejoice with me.
Jesus became MEEK rather than HOSTILE.
You have to give up your right to be treated right.
Rights are things you can’t control because you can’t control the other person.
REPLACE your right to be treated right with God’s Promises!
This leads to God’s power in your life – resurrection of good things out of factions.
Don’t fight for your natural rights and watch God bless through His supernatural economy.
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
