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<div class="SSN_title">"BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: When you think that blessed means "happy" this seems like complete contradiction.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. CONTRAST BETWEEN CHRISTIAN AND NON-CHRISTIAN.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. How unlike the things the world admires.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Poor in spirit."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "They that mourn."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Mourning to be avoided and shunned.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The things they seek.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. World seeks happiness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Christian seeks righteousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. PROBLEMS WITH THIS BEATITUDE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Affected piety.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Equated sadness with righteousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Dark colors, long faces.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Spirituality questioned if you smiled, all doubts removed if you laughed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Backlash of affected joviality.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Look how happy we are.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Some cases a giddiness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. JESUS AS EXAMPLE, "MAN OF SORROW."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Wept at tomb of Lazarus.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Wept over Jerusalem.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Didn't weep because Lazarus dead.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Blindness and unbelief of followers.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. Wept for blindness and missed opportunities.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. BLESSED ARE THEY THAT MOURN - (3 INTERPRETATIONS).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. They that go through bitter sorrow.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Those who sorrow and mourn over the conditions of the world.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Those who mourn over their own sinful state.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. This is the most accurate of the three.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Follows are poor in spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Seeing my sin, failure, weakness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. When I look at the cross, I see what sin can do.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">V. "THEY SHALL BE COMFORTED."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Godly sorrow leadeth to repentance."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Sorrowing over my sin, confession and forgiveness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Comforted by cleansing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Those who mourn over world conditions comforted by hope of world to come.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. What hope has the man who does not trust in Christ?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. True comfort never comes from perceiving your own wretchedness, but from perceiving Christ.</div>
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