Blessed Are Those Who Mourn | Kyle Warren

Matthew 5:4 ESV

4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."

The Beatitudes are about God's work and our participation.

God doesn't promise life without pain; He promises His presence with the pain.

God meets you in your mourning with hope.

2 Types of Mourning

1. Sorrow from Temporary Sadness

John 11:35 ESV

35 Jesus wept.

Revelation 21:3-4 ESV

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. 4 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.”

2 Types of Mourning

2. Sorrow Over Sin

Luke 19:41-44 ESV

41 And when he drew near and saw the city, he wept over it, 42 saying, “Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For the days will come upon you, when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side 44 and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time of your visitation.”

2 Corinthians 7:9-10 ESV

9 As it is, I rejoice, not because you were grieved, but because you were grieved into repenting. For you felt a godly grief, so that you suffered no loss through us. 10 For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.

2 Corinthians 7:13a ESV

13 Therefore we are comforted.

"All sunshine makes a desert."

Additional References:

• James 1:2-3
• Isaiah 53:3
• Luke 7:36-38
• Philippians 3:18
• Psalm 51:17