Blessed are those who mourn
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What do I want them to know? Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted. We are to mourn over our sin, personal effects of sin, and the effects of sin on the world (death and destruction).
Why? For people to be comforted
What do I want them to do? mourn
Why? They will be comforted
ME/WE
When was the last time you mourned?
Some of you are saying in your head this is not right, you should not start the sermon this week rehashing the wound I had from the BROWNS LAST SUNDAY
In all seriousness though....when was the last time you mourned and I know some of you did mourn last SUNDAY, it was a tough lost for our team....
When was the last time you mourned?
For some of us in this room especially if we are a woman, this is a good thing, good TRUTH....when you hear this question you hear this question you say, “This morning, or yesterday, or this week.” ....for a lot of other woman who do not fit into that grouping mourning is not something you have often as a part of your life....and for men in the room we are really not good at mourning….many men hate it…to the point that on average a male in AMERICA sheds two tears a month.
WHY DON’T WE MOURN IN SPECIFICALLY IN AMERICAN?
We are taught mourning/crying = weakness…you don’t want to be weak, do you?”
What are boys taught a young age? “Men don’t cry” “Real men don’t cry”
THIS ALL FUEL BY LIES AND PRIDE…We are told to be stoic and strong and that nothing should HURT US...
2. We don’t like the feeling of mourning so we move onto something else to distract us.
Move on to watch TV, go on our phones, go shopping, go to an ADDICTION.
BUT WHAT IS SO FASCINATING WHEN YOU LOOK AT SCRIPTURE.
Ecc 3:1
English Standard Version Chapter 3
For everything there is a season, and la time for every matter under heaven:
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
Jesus, what is said about Jesus? The One we are following?
He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
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WHY?
We will get to that in a minute that there are 3 things we can see in scripture where mourning is a good thing.
You also see Jesus when He is preaching His first sermon, the Sermon on the Mount about the kingdom of God. The SECOND THING HE SAYS IS?
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
HUH!?! Happy are those who Mourn for they will be comforted....this is not how it is supposed to go....if you are mourning you are to be happy....how can Jesus say this, especially to the people who he was preaching to who had a lot of mourning....they were mourning over the oppression they faced from Rome, they were mourning because God had not sent them a prophet in 400 years, they were mourning because of the injustices in the world.
GOD
Why are those who are mourn to be blessed, happy and comforted?
What about us what are we to mourn over?
Are we to mourn over not getting our way?
Are we to mourn over it not being 85 and sunny?
NO, IT IS PROBABLY GOOD THAT I DIDN’T GET MY WAY and I live in Cleveland, I cannot expect it to be 85 and sunny in January.
What are we are to mourn over?
There are three things through scripture that we see people mourn over, that are good to mourn over that bring comfort
MOURN OVER OUR SIN
This is connect to the first beatitude…
Who is this for?
This is for people who are far from God and for those people who do those bad things not for those in the church of follow Jesus, right?
NO
Let us put a warning out there, because some of us can quickly downplay or dismiss this like Pharisees and say, “Yep, God that is what those sinners, and those who do those bad sins are to do…not me who follows God....
And yet what’s so fascinating is those who walk with God closest, walk in the DUST OF RABBI JESUS ARE those who mourn the most over their sin.
Let’s look at the APOSTLE PAUL who wrote 13 books of the Bible and is the catalyst that GOD USED TO PLANT CHURCHES ALL OVER EUROPE AND BECAUSE PREACH THE GOOD NEWS TO YOUR GREAT, GREAT, GREAT GRANDPARENTS YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN THE LORD.
Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
Paul was in touch with the REALITY THAT HE FELL SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD.
Let’s look at the prophet Isaiah when He meets God face to face in the throne room
And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!”
When Isaiah sees the glory of God the goodness of God, He sees He falls so short of God’s standard, God’s righteousness and Holiness.
WHEN IS THE LAST TIME YOU WENT TO GOD MOURNING OVER YOUR SIN.
Woe to me I have not treated my spouse as I should
Woe to me that I have been prideful and arrogant
Woe to me that I have hatred and jealously in my heart
Why don’t we mourn (or believe it is good to mourn over sing ? Why don’t we mourn over sin like PAUL, DAVID, ISAIAH, PETER, and other people of the Bible or who we know. …
1. PRIDE (we think we are not that bad or fallen (we compare ourselves to other people)
2. FEAR WE ARE AFRIAD IF PEOPLE KNEW WHAT WE DID THEY WOULD THINK LESS OF US....and they might
All other kingdoms of this world, government kingdom, work kingdom, school kingdoms; if you consistently SIN against them, “what happens”....you are out of the kingdom....SEE YOU
BUT WHAT ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD?
Is it like the world that if you confess your sin, your repeated sin, and ask for forgiveness is God going to kick you?
NO, why…because of Jesus....we deserved to be kicked out
BUT
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
the entrance into IS NOT YOUR RESUME, YOUR RESUME GIVES YOU DEATH, AND WHAT GETS YOU IN IS YOU MOURNING AND CONFESSING YOUR RESUME STINK, YOU CANNOT LIVE UP TO GOD’S STANDARD the kingdom is Jesus and mourning over and confessing our sins.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AN UPSIDE DOWN KINGDOM
Jesus does not condemn you mourn/confess over your SIN, He saves, forgives, and comforts.
IN THE KINGDOM OF GOD, MOURNING OVER OUR SIN IS THE ENTRANCE INTO THE KINGDOM
(GOD FORGIVE ME I HAVE SINNED AND FALLEN SHORT, I NEED YOU TO SAVE ME) AND WHAT KEEPS US WALKING IN THE WAYS OF THE KINGDOM IS MOURNING OVER OUR SIN.
We don’t ever arrive and say I am good at mourning and confess, because we never stop sinning.
You see this come further to life in a story of a woman who is way lost in sin and Jesus says her sins are many.
One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee’s house and reclined at table.
And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment,
and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment.
Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.”
And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.”
“A certain moneylender had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
Simon answered, “The one, I suppose, for whom he cancelled the larger debt.” And he said to him, “You have judged rightly.”
Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.
You gave me no kiss, but from the time I came in she has not ceased to kiss my feet.
You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with ointment.
Therefore I tell you, her sins, which are many, are forgiven—for she loved much. But he who is forgiven little, loves little.”
And he said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
Then those who were at table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”
And he said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
Do you see what’s going to on here? Jesus says to the Pharisees the religious leaders…This sinner, this woman, gets she needs God, she is lost without God.
you Pharisees don’t get it....you think you can earn the kingdom of God, or earn you way in....all fall short… you PRIDE gets in the way.
What GOT PEOPLE and THE NATION OF ISRAEL and the PHARISEES IN TROUBLE
Are those who said I AM GOOD ENOUGH, PRIDE
HOW’S YOUR MOURNING OVER SIN GOING?
BE ENCOURAGE, COME TO JESUS HAS AN UPSIDE DOWN KINGDOM....THOSE WHO MOURN OVER THEIR SIN WILL BE COMFORTED BY FORGIVENESS....THE BURDEN YOU HAVE WILL BE LIFTED.
Some of us are not being blessed or comforted because we are not mourning.
Our pride is getting in the way or our fear of what will happened if people found out?
HOW DO I ADD MOURNING TO MY LIFE?
By having CONFESSION APART OF OUR LIVES, apart of our relationship with God.
This happens when we do not come to the Word of God or God to get only information and instruction, but we do some inspection and confession.
For example, we can read “you shall not lie”
Ex 20:16
“You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
We can move onto too quickly say I got it and do no inspection of letter the LORD inspect us to see if we have lied....and then we confess the lies.
2. MOURN OVER HOW SOMEONE ELSE SIN HAS HURT YOU
This one took me a long time to understand and realize and was almost the end of PETE as you know, and I mean that.
This is not accepted very well in our culture....we are today to MOVE on and not MOURN....
SUCK IT UP
For most of my younger life I received a lot verbal abuse by numerous people, people close to me.
People told me I was stupid, dumb, undatable, too short of anything, not good enough.
So at age 12 I said I am no longer going to mourn anymore or cry anymore. I am going make my heart impenetrable....YOu are not going to hurt me any more....you are not going to hurt me anymore....I am going to overcome this and you are not going to stop me.
It was not going to stop me.
WHAT I LEARNED IS WHEN YOU HARDEN YOUR HEART…make a wall…it not only seeks to prevent things coming in…it prevent things from coming out....BUT EVENTUALLY WHAT HAPPENS OVER TIME IS THE WALL/THE DAM in your heart breaks open and it all comes out....and it breaks you and that is good because I was already broken and
YOUR HEART IS NOT SUPPOSE TO BE THIS WAY…but good news
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.
THIS IS GOOD NEWS…THOSE WHO COME TO GOD MOURNING OVER A BROKEN HEART....HE HEALS THERE WOUNDS.
This is what God did to me....HE HEALED ME and said keep coming to me.
Anytime I am hurt I can go to the Lord and the Lord will heal me..
This person hurt me, mourn over it....it is not weakness to mourn it is strength, strong people mourn.
God
Those who sow in tears shall reap with shouts of joy!
He who goes out weeping, bearing the seed for sowing, shall come home with shouts of joy, bringing his sheaves with him.
Some of us have faced great effects by someone sinning against and maybe no in the world knows, maybe you are trying to keep from God, like I did (maybe because you feel ashamed or afraid what if they found out this happened to me....or what if they found out my dad did ____ or my friend did ____) .....GOD SAYS COME TO HIM WITH YOUR, BROKEN and MOURNFUL HEART....and He will heal you…
This is where some of you are today..
you have dad wounds (they were not there in your life)
you have mother wounds
you have friendship wounds
you have x-husband or x-wife wounds.
God says comes to me God heals the broken hearted.
Oh what peace we often forfeit
Oh what needless pain we bear
We should never be discouraged when we
Take it to the Lord in prayer
3. MOURN OVER THE EFFECTS OF SIN IN THE WORLD
What are the effects of sin in the world?
DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
Romans 8:22
For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
Creation is groaning because things are not as they should be…sin has tainted everything.
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind:
WE are to mourn as Jesus did when he saw things not as they should be…what are some of the things we can be mourning over? The destructive sins?
What are some of the destructive things and death we are to mourn over?.....We are too mourn over it we are not to have an attitude well one day I will be with Jesus so whatever happens here happens here....as long as it does not personally effect me.
3 things
Injustices
Racism
Sexism
Economic injustice
We should be mourning as God is mourning.
Mourn when our government does things that are against God…Mourn when our government puts policies in place that bring destruction…Things like LGBTQ, Pro-Abortion, and policies that hurt the poor and oppressed.
Mourn when over how sin has divided
How divided our country is right now.
How far from God our country has become.
WE CANNOT JUST MOURN OVER IT WE NEED TO BE MOVED BY IT…TO DO GOOD
learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression; bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow’s cause.
Turn our mourning to prayer
Move from mourning to action…speak up, stand up
MOURN over DEATH....we were not created to die....that was not God’s plan
COVID....COVID IS THE EFFECT OF SIN
But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.
THIS IS GOOD NEWS....WE WILL SEE OUR BROTHER OR SISTER IN CHRIST AGAIN…BECAUSE OF JESUS
WE WILL BE COMFORTED
Not only that we can be comforted because God through Jesus is defeated but also is going to make all things new and right....one day there will be no more destruction, no more death, no more decay
He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”
The beauty of the kingdom of God is that one day there will be no more mourning.
US
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.