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'Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be satisfied.' Sermon on the mount.

I have attended church all my life. No one sermon stayed in my mind for a long time as a sermon from Mark Young on John 3. It was within a year when I started attending Stonerbriar. I have heard the word 'born again' but never knew the meaning till then. Same must have been the effect of 'sermon on the mount' on Matthew. Sermon was given around 30 to 33 AD and Matthew wrote it around 50 to 60 AD. Christ must have given illustrations for every point. There must have been a great vocal variety and everything needed in public speaking. It is truly a sermon of all sermons.

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There are those people who will take offense for every word you speak. They want to be the boss all the time. they feel they have inherited the world for the little success they have seen. If they have some of those charismatic gifts, their nuisance is uncontrollable.

Then there are those who are meek. Whatever you tell, they are never offended. These meek people will never take the rights to respond back for a harm that was done to them. A perfect example is Christ.

Application:
We all have a choice, we can be devil-like to fight with everyone or meek lamb like Christ. You may think whom am i talking about. I am talking about the Moron that lives in me. Everyday I feel bad for the rights I took to get even with people. I always wish I should not have done that. Blessed are the meek, they will inherit the earth.

2. We need to struggle to know righteousness. It fact we need to hunger and thirst for righteousness to know little bit of it. Human as a nature is a very bad fellow. There is nothing good in him. but would love to show he is very righteous. this reminds me of all police officers and people of influence in governments in India. they are very corrupt. but they will put a show as if they are very honest people. Police officer wife/son will always say their husband/father are very honest people, unlike all other police people. when I hear them say that, i only think of myself. I love to show myself as very pious but my heart is full of deceit.

Fallen men pursuit of all other things in this world will not be satisfied but only a pursuit of righteousness will be satisfied.

Application :
The Lord says, 'Wise people should not boast that they are wise. Powerful people should not boast that they are powerful. Rich people should not boast that they are rich. If people want to boast, they should boast about this: They should boast that they understand and know me. They should boast that they know and understand that I, the Lord, act out of faithfulness, fairness, and justice in the earth and that I desire people to do these things' says the Lord.

A true disciple - a meek fallen man/woman who thirst and hunger for righteousness.

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Shanthi(wife) tells me all the time to discipline nathan(son) who is just 3 years old. when asked a rich man how he has time for all, he said he disciplines himself. my father was called a disciplinarian when he was a principle of a college.

does shanthi wants nathan to follow all that she says? or she has rules in place that nathan should follow. Is it the rules that nathan should follow or the person(shanthi).

when you follow a person you are called a disciple. but none of my father's students are called disciples. nathan even if he follows all that shanthi says, he will never be called a disciple of shanthi.

the rich man gives the answer. he follows no human. But he follows his missions. he has set rules to achive those missions and he follows it. somebody reminds him all the time that he has to follow those rules. he is a disciple of that person whom he and we can not describes to perfection. well you may say, his mind is magically tuned to do it. if it is, why not for all.

the question is - disciple follow a person or rules. if rules, who reminds you to do it?. will any follow a master who himself not followed those rules.