The Beatitudes - Mourn Part 2 - Home Church Ministry
Channel: Home Church Ministry
Date: 2014-07-05

Ft. Pastor Jessie Martinez Click Here To VIsit My Website: http://www.homechurchministry.com/

Notes:
You have preachers like Robert Shuller who preach positive thinking.
This is humanism; we are to teach ourselves not to have any negativity in our lives.
Have we read the Bible, blessed are the poor in spirit.

Poor in Spirit is the opposite from what Shuller teaches.
Yes we are somebody, we are the children of God, we are to be lifted up, but not to the point we think we’re higher than others.

I learned from my Lord, who is “The Shepherd”, and has made us little shepherds, to point out the lion who is trying to destroy the sheep.

4 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.
This kind of mourning is not when someone faces great sorrow, or failure like when someone dies or you’re going through a divorce, this kind of mourning has a time limit, and it varies.

Some of us have a hard time letting someone go, this kind of mourning the Lord understands, but it’s not what he wants us to stay in.

When a person grieves so hard and so long over the loss of a loved one that he cannot function normally, his grief becomes sinful and is unable to be used by God.

The Psalmist says in;
Ps 42:5 Why am I discouraged? Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God!
I will praise him again my Savior.

This is not the kind of mourning we’re talking about here.

Verse 4 follows verse 3 which makes clear that to be a born again Christian we must be “poor in spirit” we are totally spiritually bankrupt.

We come empty-handed to the Lord, and that is the only way we can come to him.
Rom 7:18 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing”

Once you become poor in spirit, mourning follows.
Because you realize you have been sinning against the one who loves you.

David says in Ps 51:4 “Against thee, thee only, have I sinned”

2 Cor 7:10 For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of (meaning no regret) but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

Godly sorrow or mourning leads to true repentance, only those who sincerely desire to belong to him can have.
Worldly sorrow has no repentance, and that leads to spiritual death.

Job said a lot of stuff about the Lord that he didn’t understand, and in;
Job 42:5-6
5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
6 Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.

This is how he felt when he saw the Lord.

The mourning we’re going to see, is one that stays with us until?
But it’s not a continuous one, because when we repent of the sin, we’re free until it happens again.

It should devastate us, because we now know who we’re sinning against.

Out of all the different kinds of mourning there is, this is the one that is most severe.

I like to use the scriptures to explain the scriptures.
Luke 7:36-43, 47-50
36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,
38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.
39 Now when the Pharisee which had bidden him saw it, he spake within himself, saying, This man, if he were a prophet, would have known who and what manner of woman this is that toucheth him: for she is a sinner.

Now the Pharisees lived in big expense homes, they were rich and powerful.
This woman knew that she was going to be very unwanted, but she didn’t care, because she needed the Lord’s forgiveness, “she was poor in spirit”.

She couldn’t even face Jesus, she stood behind him?
She washed and kissed his feet?

Jesus wouldn’t ask us to do anything unless he’s been through it himself.
He left heaven to come down to live in this filthy earth we live in.
And then when he got here he was despised and rejected, but he still humble himself to be our savior.

She mourn because of the state of sin she was in.
She took her having sin in life very serious?

How far our willing to go?
This women look like a fool in front of these people, are we willing to go this far, to look like a fool in front of people?

The Pharisee said within himself, If this man were a prophet, he would know what kind of women was touching him.

These Pharisee the most religious of men should have known that a prophet speaks only when the Lord leads him to, they didn’t know everything.

See how these religious leaders think, we have men here today that believe 

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