The vast majority of people have this perception that meekness is being a doormat where you let

everybody walk all over you. Meekness is being indecisive, timid, helpless. A meekness is

being fearful or spineless. And please forgive me, I'm going to use the vernacular,

somebody who's a wimp. But in reality, biblical meekness has nothing to do with this wrong

perception, has nothing to do with it. The best definition of this biblical word meek goes something like this. It is having power, but it's under control.

Now, we have been looking at the superstructure, which we call the beatitudes. Jesus did not call them that. We called them the beatitudes. This is the

superstructure that is built step upon step upon a step. And these stepping stairs, we saw the very

first one, is being broken on the inside. The Bible talks about poor in spirit, which means I am declaring bankruptcy. God, I can do

nothing without you. God, I'm helpless without you. God, I can never save myself. God, you're the

only power I need and I have. God, come into my life. That is the beginning. And that's the

beginning of what we call a person becoming a Christian believer.

But it doesn't stop there.

It keeps on going.

It is not just an event or experience in life, and then you forgot all about it.

No.

It continues, that brokenness continues into the attitude of mourning.

And that continuous mourning over the condition

that we're in and we find ourselves in, the shortcomings and the failures, it comes into

developing meekness, power under strength. Blessed are the meek, blessed are those who have their power under

happy, fortunate, macarius in the Greek are those who have their power under control, for they

will inherit everything. That's really when they say the earth, everything.

In Matthew 5, 5, 5, one verse, the word that Jesus uses was very familiar to the people who are

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