Happy – Week 2 – Mourning - April 14, 2024 – Pastor Mo Huggins
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4
Four ways mourning will produce happiness:
Mourning helps you
“But the tax collector, standing a far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast saying, God, be merciful to me, a sinner!” Luke 18:13
“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.” 2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV
Mourning is a God given opportunity for
- “ Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the gall! My soul continually remembers it and is bowed down within me. But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. “The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in him.” Lamentations 3:19-24 esv
Mourning produces
“From the depths of despair, O Lord, I call for your help. Hear my cry, O Lord. Pay attention to my prayer. Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive? But you offer forgiveness, that we might learn to fear you.” Psalms 130:1-4 NLT
True lament is an act of Godly
“For godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation without regret, whereas worldly grief produces death.” 2 Corinthians 7:10 ESV
God’s promise of
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring good news to the poor…. to comfort all who mourn” Isaiah 61:1-2 ESV
The comfort of the Holy Spirit is for the
“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.” Revelation 21:4-5 ESV