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The Joy of Sorrow

Matthew 5:4

Pastor Joel Sutton, Series: The Great Reversal

Sunday, January 27, 2008

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Different Types of Mourning

Invalid Mourning

 

Legitimate Mourning

 

Godly Mourning:


   Sorrow over the right things of God.


   Sorrow over our own sin.

 

Mourning over our sin is necessary for salvation.

 

When we mourn over the right things of God, God comes to live with us.


Take Home Idea: A broken heart over the right things of God brings the joy of Christ in His comfort.

 
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A Thought From God's Word:
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. [Philippians 3:10-14]