Grief is ubiquitous and universal. Everyone who loves will experience loss. Even Jesus, God Himself, grieved and expressed great sorrow. On this day, 9/11, we as a nation and many around the world sorrow and weep in remembrance of 15 years ago. Jesus promised comfort to those who mourn. What did He mean? How can we know His comfort?

1. “Blessed are they that Mourn”
2nd in a series of studies on the
Sermon on the Mount

3. Characteristics of the Citizens
of the Kingdom (Mt. 5)
Qualifications for Entering
the Kingdom (Mt. 6)
Exhortation to Enter
the Kingdom (Mt. 7)
TRUE RIGHTEOUSNESS
TRUE WORSHIP
TRUE JUDGMENT

4. The Attitude The Anticipation
Poor in Spirit Theirs is the kingdom of heaven
Mourn They shall be comforted
Meek They shall inherit the earth
Hunger for Righteousness They shall be filled
Merciful They shall obtain mercy
Pure in Heart They shall see God
Peacemakers They shall be called the sons of God
Persecuted for Righteousness Theirs is the kingdom of God

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1 And seeing the multitudes, He went up on
a mountain, and when He was seated His
disciples came to Him. 2 Then He opened
His mouth and taught them, saying:

6. 3 “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs
is the kingdom of heaven.”
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4 “Blessed are those who mourn, for they
shall be comforted.”

8. Poor in Spirit
Mourn
Meek
Hunger for Righteousness
Merciful
Pure in Heart
Peacemakers
Persecuted for Righteousness
Christian Maturity

9. Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified
with Christ; it is no
longer I who live, but
Christ lives in me;
and the life which I
now live in the flesh I
live by faith in the
Son of God, who
loved me and gave
Himself for me.

10. I acknowledge that without Him
I can do nothing!
(John 15:5)
Step1

11. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is my Lord and
believe in my heart God has raise Him from the dead!
(Romans 10:9-10)
Step2
GOD is

12. I can do all things through Christ who strengths me!
(Philippians 4:13)
Step2

13. “Woe is me for I am undone!”
(Isaiah 6:5)
“In me…dwells no good thing...
Oh, wretched man that I am…”
(Romans 7:18, 24)
Step3

14. Hebrew: ‫י‬ ֵ‫ר‬ְ‫שׁ‬ַ‫א‬ (ʾašrê) = “deeply happy or
blessed”
Greek: µακάριοι (makarios) = root – “great”
“happy, blissful, fortunate”

15. Greek: πενθέω
James 4:9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let
your laughter be turned to mourning and your
joy to gloom.
(pentheo) = wail (the most intensive
of the 9 Greek verbs used in the NT)

16. Genesis 2:16–17 And the LORD God
commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree
of the garden you may freely eat; 17 but of
the tree of the knowledge of good and evil
you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat
of it you shall surely die.”
Grief is the loss of someone or something
loved.

17. Genesis 23:2 Abraham mourns for Sarah
Grief is universal.
Genesis 37:34, 35 Jacob mourns for Joseph
Genesis 50:3-10 Egyptians mourn for Jacob
Deuteronomy 34:8 Israel mourns for Joseph
2 Samuel 1 David mourns for Saul & Jonathan
Numbers 14:39 Israel mourns at Kadesh-Barnea

18. Jesus mourned.
John 11:35–36 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews
said, “See how He loved him!”

19. Jesus mourned.
Luke 19:41–44 Now as He drew near, He
saw the city and wept over it, 42 saying, “If
you had known, even you, especially in this
your day, the things that make for your
peace! But now they are hidden from your
eyes.
Psalm 119:136 Rivers of water run down
from my eyes, because men do not keep
Your law.

20. 2 Corinthians 7:10 For godly sorrow produces
repentance leading to salvation, not to be
regretted; but the sorrow of the world
produces death.
salvation
death

21. 2 Corinthians 7:11 For observe this very thing,
that you sorrowed in a godly manner: What
diligence it produced in you, what clearing of
yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what
vehement desire, what zeal, what vindication! In
all things you proved yourselves to be clear in this
matter.

23. 1 Corinthians 5:1–2 It is actually
reported that there is sexual
immorality among you, and such
sexual immorality as is not even
named among the Gentiles—that a
man has his father’s wife! 2 And you
are puffed up, and have not rather
mourned, that he who has done this
deed might be taken away from among
you.

24. Matthew 27:3–5 Then Judas, His betrayer, seeing
that He had been condemned, was remorseful
and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the
chief priests and elders, 4 saying, “I have sinned
by betraying innocent blood.” And they said,
“What is that to us? You see to it!” 5 Then he
threw down the pieces of silver in the temple and
departed, and went and hanged himself.

25. John 21:15–17 Jesus said to Simon Peter,
“Simon, son of Jonah, do you love Me more
than these?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You
know that I love You.” He said to him, “Feed
My lambs.” 16 He said to him again a second
time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you love
Me?” He said to Him, “Yes, Lord; You know
that I love You.” He said to him, “Tend My
sheep.”

26. John 21:15–17
17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son
of Jonah, do you love Me?”
Peter was grieved because He said to him the
third time, “Do you love Me?” And he said to
Him, “Lord, You know all things; You know that
I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.

27. • The saddest thing in life is not a sorrowing
heart, but a heart that is incapable of grief
over sin, for it is without grace. Without
poverty of spirit no one enters the kingdom
of God. Likewise, without its emotional
counterpart—grief over sin—no one receives
the comfort of forgiveness and salvation.
• Mourning is not optional.

28. The first of Martin
Luther’s 95 Theses:
“When our Lord and
Master Jesus Christ
said, 'Repent’ (Mt.
4:17), He willed the
entire life of
believers to be one
of repentance.”

29. ”
Hebrew: (Mĕnaḥēm)
Greek: (paraclete)

30. “That night when I … sat alone
at my car, my own sin—not just
dirty politics, but the hatred and
evil so deep within me—was
thrust before my eyes, forcefully
and painfully. For the first time
in my life, I felt unclean, and
worst of all, I could not escape.
In those moments of clarity I
found myself driven irresistibly
into the arms of the living God.” Charles Colson
Colson, Who Speaks for God? p. 138.

31. Revelation 21:4
God will wipe away every tear . . .

32. Revelation 21:4

33. Revelation 21:5
Then He who sat on the throne said,
“Behold, I make all things new.”

34. Isaiah 61:1–2 The Spirit of the Lord GOD
is upon Me, because the LORD has
anointed Me to preach good tidings to
the poor; He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the
captives, and the opening of the prison to
those who are bound; 2 to proclaim the
acceptable year of the LORD, and the day
of vengeance of our God; to comfort all
who mourn,

35. Isaiah 40:1–3 “Comfort, yes, comfort My
people!” Says your God. 2 “Speak
comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,
that her warfare is ended, that her
iniquity is pardoned; For she has received
from the LORD’s hand double for all her
sins.” 3 The voice of one crying in the
wilderness: “Prepare the way of the
LORD; make straight in the desert a
highway for our God.”

37. “I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way,
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne’er a word said she,
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me!”
I Walked A Mile

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