Sermon: “Mourning & Comfort”

Matthew 5:1-2, 4
Rev. Mike Werkheiser

Outline:

  1. Grieving over one’s sin. (Romans 7:21-24)
  2. Weeping over the city. (Luke 19:41-42)
  3. Lamenting under the banner of heaven. (Psalm 30:11-12)

Quotes:

Those who do not weep, do not see. —Victor Hugo

Godly sorrow goes deep, like a vein which bleeds inwardly. The heart bleeds for sin: “they were pricked in their heart” (Act 2:37). As the heart bears a chief part in sinning, so it must in sorrowing. —Thomas Watson

Work in me more profound and abiding repentance;
Give me the fullness of godly grief, that trembles and fears, yet ever trust and loves, which is ever powerful, and ever confident;
Grant through the tears of repentance I may see more clearly the brightness and glories of the saving cross. —Arthur Bennett

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o’er wrought heart and bids it break. —William Shakespeare

In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory. —J.R.R. Tolkien

Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. —Dylan Thomas