Mourning is an indescribable ache to the heart. Mourning is a great time to learn God's compassion because He hurts when we hurt; God's faithfulness because He will never leave us; God's comfort because He yearns to comfort us.

1. Blessed
are
those who
mourn,
for they
will be
comforted

2. We must understand the word “Mourn.”
• Strongest word for mourning
in the Greek language.

3. We must understand the word “Mourn.”
• Indescribable ache to the heart.
• Jacob’s grief – Genesis 37:34
“Then Jacob tore his clothes, put on sackcloth and
mourned for his son many days.”

4. God’s people who mourn in this way
are blessed because…
1) We truly understand God’s compassion.
 God hurts when we hurt.
 Ex. 3:7—8

5. Exodus 3:7-8..The Lord said, “I have indeed
seen the misery of my people in Egypt. I have
heard them crying out because of their slave

6. Exodus 3:7-8.. driver, and I am concerned
about their suffering. So I have come down
to rescue them from the hand of the
Egyptians…

7. God’s people who mourn in this way
are blessed because…
1) We truly understand God’s compassion.
 God hurts when we hurt.
 Ex. 3:7—8  John 11: 33 - 35

8. John 11:33-35 -When Jesus saw her weeping, and
the Jews who had come along with her
also weeping, he was deeply moved in
spirit and
troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied. Jesus wept.

9. God’s people who mourn in this way
are blessed because…
1) We truly understand God’s compassion.
2) We truly understand God’s faithfulness.
 God will never leave us.
 Rom. 8:35—39

10. Romans 8:35-39 - Who shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine
or nakedness or danger or sword?
As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

11. Romans 8:35-39 - No, in all these things we are more than
conquerors through him who loved us. For I am
convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor
demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any
powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all
creation, will be able to separate us from the love
of God that is in
Christ Jesus
our Lord.

12. God’s people who mourn in this way
are blessed because…
1) We truly understand God’s compassion.
2) We truly understand God’s faithfulness.
 God will never leave us.
 Rom. 8:35—39  Hebrews 13:5

13. Hebrews 13:5…God has said,
“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you.”

14. God’s people who mourn in this way
are blessed because…
1) We truly understand God’s compassion.
2) We truly understand God’s faithfulness.
 2 Cor. 1:3—5
3) We truly understand God’s comfort.
 God yearns to comfort us.

15. 2 Cor. 1:3-5 - Praise be to the God and
Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of compassion and the God of all
comfort, who comforts us in all our
troubles, so that we can comfort those in

16. 2 Cor. 1:3-5 - any trouble with the
comfort we ourselves have received
from God. For just as the sufferings of
Christ flow over into our lives, so also
through Christ our comfort overflows.

17. God’s people who mourn in this way
are blessed because…
1) We truly understand God’s compassion.
2) We truly understand God’s faithfulness.
 2 Cor. 1:3—5
3) We truly understand God’s comfort.
 God yearns to comfort us.
 Isaiah 66:13

18. Isaiah
66:13
As a
mother
comforts
her child,
so will I
comfort
you.

19. God’s people who mourn in this way
are blessed because…
1) We truly understand God’s compassion.
2) We truly understand God’s faithfulness.
 2 Cor. 1:3—5
3) We truly understand God’s comfort.
 God yearns to comfort us.
 Isaiah 66:13

21. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will come to know
the Comfort of God.