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PART THREE OF

THE BEATITUDES:

“BLESSED ARE

,

“…A MAN FOR THEY SHALL “…I HAVE
OF SORROWS BE COMFORTED” GREAT SORROW

AND Matt. 5:4 AND
ACQUAINTED CONTINUAL GRIEF
WITH GRIEF…”
IN MY HEART…”
Isaiah 53:3
Romans 9:2

Our focus is on the Beatitudes of Matthew Chapter Five. In our last newsletter we examined what it
means to be “poor in spirit” as followers of Jesus Christ. This month’s newsletter seeks to shed light on
God’s unique mark upon His people as “those who mourn.” Being “poor in spirit” is not the result of
suffering PHYSICAL poverty, and neither is the attribute of “those who mourn” describing the result of
PHYSICAL mourning that takes place at the departure of those whom we love.

All of mankind NOT Rather,
experience this THIS we want to examine
kind of “mourning.” KIND OF a form of mourning
However, when MOURNING (“grief and sorrow”)
considering mourning
as a Beatitude, we are … of heart that is to
not speaking of the grief uniquely govern
or sorrow at the the lives of God’s
departure of those whom people as they cultivate
we love, for this kind of agony of heart for
mourning is experienced
by both believer and the wasted
unbeliever alike. lifestyle

of the living, both
believer and

unbeliever alike.

Look carefully at the two examples above of the mourning (“sorrow and grief”) that marked the lives of
Jesus and the apostle Paul. This is the ongoing attitude of “mourning” God is looking for among His
people that will make the believer very different than the unregenerated people of the world.