Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
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… Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. We'll stop there. Let's review what we already discovered together. First of all, happy are the humble. Happy are the humble. Blessed are the poor in spirit. To be poor in spirit means you see yourself as you really are, spiritually destitute, a sinner in need of a Savior. Number two, happy people are unhappy people, if you will. Blessed are they that mourn, verse four, for they shall be comforted. Contextually, what this means is I see my sinful condition. I'm sorry for the way that I am. I'm sorry for the things I've said and things that I've done, and I mourn over it. …
… Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. We'll stop there. Let's review what we already discovered together. First of all, happy are the humble. Happy are the humble. Blessed are the poor in spirit. To be poor in spirit means you see yourself as you really are, spiritually destitute, A sinner in need of a savior. Number two, happy people are unhappy people, if you will. Blessed are they that mourn, verse four, for they shall be comforted. Contextually what this means is I see my sinful condition. I'm sorry for the way that I am. I'm sorry for the things I've said and things that I've done and I mourn over it. …
Blessed are those who are continually hungering and thirsting after righteousness, for they shall be filled. Coming up today on A New Beginning, Pastor Greg Laurie points out that the road to real happiness and fulfillment is the one where there's real growth and maturity in the Lord. I think every Christian should look at themselves and say, I'm not content with where I'm at spiritually. There's more to change in my life. I need to become more like Jesus. When the lost are found This is the day for a new beginning Amazing grace how sweet the sound Can you hear all the angels are singing This is the day, the day when life begins Visitors to the Holy Land are often able to visit the hillside where it's thought Jesus indeed delivered the Sermon on the Mount. It's right on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. It's inspiring to imagine Jesus talking with His disciples and the others gathered there. Pastor Greg Laurie has been there many times. …
… for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. Point number one. God wants you to be blessed and happy. God wants you to be blessed and happy. There was a blessing that the priests were to pronounce over the people of Israel. And they would say, the Lord bless you. The Lord keep you and make his face shine upon you and be gracious unto you. The Lord turn his face towards you and give you peace. God wants to bless you. Let me take it a step further. God loves to bless you. Sometimes we think God is stingy. He's holding back his blessings. …
… for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. So there are the first Beatitudes. And it's interesting that the word blessing is used again and again. You know, people use these words, even people who are not believers, they'll talk about blessings. Well, only the believer can genuinely experience blessing. I think sometimes we use the word bless to get rid of someone. and someone's talking too long, we say, great seeing you, God bless you. And it says, go away now, right? But here's point number one. God wants you to be blessed and happy. God wants you to be blessed and happy. …
… Grief is good. Jesus said, blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. If you let your mourning, your grief, turn you to God, it's a good thing. Moaning is not. What's moaning? It's when you're griping, and you're whining, and you're complaining to God all the time, Lord, I don't have work, I don't have money, I don't, I don't. And God's saying, are you planting any seeds? Or are you just going to complain? What are you waiting on? You're not waiting on me. You can pray all you want. You need to go plant some seeds. Whatever you need more of, you need to give away. Let's bow our heads. I want you to pray this prayer in your heart. Dear God, I have learned some new things about how the universe operates today. I realize that everything starts as a seed. It may be a word. It may be a seed of money. It may be a seed of energy, a seed of reputation, a seed of wisdom. …
… Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the judgmental. Oh, no, that's not in there. Sorry, that's not it. It's actually blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Today, I'm going to preach from the Word of God with the help of His Spirit. From this title, allow joy to reintroduce himself. Allow joy to reintroduce himself. If we walked these Los Angeles streets and we started asking different people who taught the most important message on joy in human history, we would get all types of answers. …
… like those listening that day you've been told that happiness is impossible for those caught in a storm of grief and Jesus says happy are those who mourn for they will be comforted even in our Christian culture sometimes we have misled people with emotional ideas that are empty like faith over feelings faith it till you make it just because it looks good on a bumper sticker doesn't mean it's true or scriptural. No, what Jesus is saying, when he says the words, blessed are those who mourn, he's reinforcing the reality that we will mourn, that you have permission to feel what you feel. Now, you don't have permission to stay in what you feel, but you have permission to bring the work of the gospel even into the dark emotions of your life, and you'll realize that the gospel even works there. that because of the love and the grace and the goodness and the joy that Jesus offers, you don't have to fake a Christian smile. You can actually go find one because you realize that even beneath the depths of your sorrow and despair, there's something even deeper. It's the joy of the Lord and it's your strength and comfort. …
… and our blessedness as well. So again, if you'll turn to Matthew chapter 5, verses 3 through 12, and in the sermon, I've entitled the sermon, The Pursuit of Happiness. And you, of course, recognize that phrase. we're going to celebrate the document that comes from this summer, July 4th, the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. And you remember that one phrase. Most people don't remember the 27 statements to King George of the things we were unhappy with. What we remember is that preamble. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are, join me, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So the pursuit of happiness. So what is happiness exactly? And how do we pursue it? And what we're going to find is that Jesus offers us a very different path to happiness and really defines it differently than what we find in the world. So the word happy in Greek is actually in Latin is beatus. And this is where we get the name beatitude from. Beatus is the Latin word for happy or fortunate or blessed. …
… And what does Jesus say? He says, blessed are the meek, blessed are those who mourn. Now, I think sometimes we hear that word blessed and we think, oh, consecrated, we set apart. We don't know what it is to be blessed. It means to be set apart. It means to be consecrated. When Jesus actually says this word, it's the Greek word is makarios, which doesn't mean blessed. It doesn't mean set apart. It actually legitimately, it simply means happy. So Jesus is saying, no, actually happy, not just set apart, but you're genuinely happy. when? When you've spotted the counterfeits and you no longer spend real currency on counterfeit happiness. And the four counterfeits are what? The four counterfeits of happiness are wealth, power, pleasure, and fame. Because all those four things, wealth, power, pleasure, fame, they all promise to make us happy. Wealth promises this, you'll be happy if you have enough. power promises you'll be happy if you're in control pleasure promises you'll be happy if you can minimize pain and maximize feeling good and fame is you'll be happy if everyone knows you and here's the problem here's the problem with the counterfeit happiness is they actually all do that they all do make us happy the problem with counterfeit happiness is they actually work i mean honestly let's be honest get some money get happy. …
… Most of these promises are stated in the future tense. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. These promises are in the future to emphasize that they'll be fully fulfilled one day. They will. But they're not meant to exclude real fulfillment today. Those who mourn don't have to wait until glory to experience real comfort in Jesus. Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, they don't have to starve until they get to heaven. They're waiting for the fullness of that promise to be fulfilled. But God's already fulfilling his promises to his children even now. I'm going to focus on one of those promises, verse 8. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. God, you shall and you do, I'm going to argue. You shall see him one day face to face, but you're already seeing him now. …
Thank you to have a seat. So after this, after this, something will be different. After this, something will have changed. After this Mass, there is something that will never go back. By the end of this Mass, there is something that will never be the same. Right after this. even thinking about that after this after this life you know when it comes to after the afterlife when it comes to life after death there are so many questions and one of the questions people ask you know kids ask this all the time but some adults ask this they ask the question um will my will my pet be in heaven which is a good question i mean you love your pet you want to know if your pet will be in heaven and i think smart people wise people good people will say something along the lines of, well, if you need your pet to be happy in heaven, then you'll have your pet in heaven, which is a great answer. It's just such a good answer. And it's a good answer because the person offering the answer knows the truth. The truth is you won't need your pet to be happy in heaven. That here's the reality of that. But someone says, well, yeah, but like, will there be golf in heaven? Will my spouse be in heaven? Will my family be in heaven? Will my friends be in Who else will be in heaven? …
… He probably was walking up to Mount Moriah weeping. his son weeping but going that's why the bible says blessed are those who mourn blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted you cannot walk in the fullness of god without willing without being willing to mourn and think about when do you mourn you mourn when something has to die part of this journey part of this journey of walking with the lord is being willing to let something die if God tells you to. He gets up there, he's willing to let that thing die. He gets up there and God says, I'm just kidding. I just want to see if you would, because I'm not a taker, I'm a giver. I'm a multiplier, but I needed to see if you would withhold from me anything. Man, I feel this. This is, when you start talking about being powerful in God for real, can I just talk to you straight up right now? Like getting to a place where you have unlimited access to what God's doing, unlimited access to revelation, unlimited access to power, unlimited trust from God, is the people that he knows will not keep back anything from him. …
sometimes God's love is him providing for you and sometimes God's love is him comforting you if you look at the beginning of Matthew 5 it says blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted sometimes the love of God is comforting you blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled sometimes God's love is him filling you up and so the question is never, does God love me? The question is, God, how am I experiencing your love in this season? Oh, man, when Peter, Jesus tells Peter that Satan has asked for him, to me, love is like, if Satan asks about me, you don't know me. You know what I'm saying, Jesus? Like, but that's not what he says. He says, I've prayed for you that your faith wouldn't fail you. So, sometimes love is saving you, but sometimes love is preparing you before you walk into the storm. Sometimes love stops the storm. Sometimes love tells you to be steady in the storm because the storm can't cease. And I want you to know that this is what I have come to believe about God, that God does not allow us to go through loss or separation or pain that he cannot in some way restore. And this goes back to that definition of restoration. Sometimes it's not getting the things back, right? Restoration is my soul being restored, my spirit being restored. God doesn't allow things to happen to me where His presence, His spirit, and His love can't restore me. So, …
… planted by the rich so god wants you to be happy in the beatitudes in matthew chapter 5 or 6 where jesus is teaching he says blessed blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth blessed are those who are persecuted that word blessed a synonym for it is happy and happiness is spiritual contentment but joy is better than that happiness is based on circumstantial pleasure merriment hilarity exuberance excitement or something that that causes one to feel hopeful or to be in high spirits this is rick rayner in his book sparkling gems from the greek it is a great book matter of fact for those of you that want to grow in your faith because he breaks down certain words in the bible what they mean in the original Greek and it's a word or words for every day of the year 365 days you get a Greek word and you understand the deep spiritual meaning of that Greek word and I highly recommend sparkling gems in the Greek to all of you that want to grow in your faith this year but this is what he says happiness is based on circumstance these fleeting emotions of happiness although very pleasurable at the moment usually go just as quickly as they come and then he continues later on he says but joy is unaffected by outward circumstances in fact it usually thrives best when times are tough are y'all catching me? …
… yeah yeah happy all the way through the the beatitudes that word blessed is the man or the blessed is the woman blessed are the meek and blessed are the poor and blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted that word blessed originally means spiritual happiness so the Lord wants you to be happy but I need you to understand that joy is a little bit different than happiness for those note takers who want to take some copious notes happiness is based on circumstantial pleasure, merriment, hilarity, exuberance, excitement, or something that causes one to feel hopeful or to be in high spirits. Don't miss that. Happiness is determined by what's happening. And then it goes on to say these fleeting emotions of happiness, although very pleasurable at the moment usually go just as quickly as they come. Happiness determined by circumstances. You need external stimuli to experience happiness. Something has to happen that triggers your happiness. But joy. Rick Reiner in his book Sparkling Gems from the Greek says but joy is unaffected by outward circumstances. …
… here's a second one blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted watch this one this speaks to your capacity to love when I first read this and I only need about 10 more minutes so y'all just ride with me we good? we ain't going nowhere? ah ah ah ah ah when I first read this one I was confused because this one speaks more or less to paradoxical this is contradictory happy are those who mourn fortunate are those who mourn oh the bliss of those who mourn and then Amy J. Levine in her book Sermon on the Mount helped me out she said the reason why people are blessed and happy who mourn is because at least they have something to mourn Thank you. She said That the only way you have a heart That can mourn Is that you have had a heart That has known love What a gift What a blessing To have been loved What a blessing that you have known love deep enough that when the person dies, you are left with love that has nowhere to go, which is why we call it grief. …
… preaching one word today you'll see in a minute i'm preaching one word and either you grab it or you don't but it's one word i'm gonna read a lot but i'm preaching one word today matthew chapter five verse one through twelve listen at the beatitudes these supreme blessings matthew chapter five verse one through twelve new revised standard version reads like this when jesus saw the crowds he went up to the mountain and after he sat down his disciples came to him then he began to speak and taught them saying read it with me verse three blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted blessed are the meek for they will inherit the earth blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness but they will be filled blessed are the merciful but they will receive mercy blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God blessed are the peacemakers for they will be called children of God blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account rejoice and be glad for your reward is great in heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were message bible let's read let's read let's read message bible message bible message bible here we go let's read one two three read when jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds he climbed …