GENTLENESS TOWARDS OTHERS

a. Luke 10:30-35– In these verses we see a contrast. WE have the priest and the Levite, men set apart for service in God’s Kingdom, passing by on the other side refusing to humble themselves to minister to the injured Jew’s needs. Then we see the Samaritan, despised by the Jews, having compassion on the wounded Jew, gently placing him o his donkey and taking hi to a place where he could be cared for.
b. 1 Thessalonians 2:7– Here we find a picture of Paul’s ministry to the Thessalonians. He says, “But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.”
c. James 3:17– In this verse Paul is telling us how true wisdom will manifest itself, in opposition to strife and envy. True wisdom is “first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits…” Someone has said “Nothing is so strong s gentleness nothing so gentle as strength.”

 

GENTLENESS IN RESPECT

1 Peter 3:13-16– We are to be ready to give an answer to all men with gentleness and respect. Our boast can never be what we have done for Christ, but rather magnify Him in all our testimonies.

 

TEACHING IN GENTLENESS

The quality that is essential in teaching is gentleness.
a. 2 Timothy 2:24-25– “And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness.”
b. Titus 3:2– “to speak evil of no one, to avoid quarreling, to be gentle, and to show perfect courtesy toward all people.”

 

RECEIVE WITH GENTLENESS

James 1:21– We are to humbly and meekly receive the Word of God.

 

GENTLENESS’ RESULTS

2 Samuel 22:36– The gentleness of God will make us great. The New International Version reads “You (God) stoop down to make me great.” This great, majestic, wonderful god stoops down to make us great. How can we do any less but give Him our all.