Join us as Pastor David gives a study on what Biblical sorrow really means.   Matthew 5:4 

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Hillside O’Malley SDA Church

The Beatitudes

David Shin

Blessed are the Poor in Spirit

Blessed Are They that Mourn

Blessed are the Meek

Blessed are Those Who Hunger for Righteousness

Blessed Are the Merciful

Blessed are the Pure in Heart

Blessed are the Peacemakers

Blessed Are the Persecuted

Happy Sabbath, this beautiful day in Alaska.

Father in heaven, we thank you for this Sabbath that we can come apart from the cares of this life.

We thank you for who you are, God of love, long-suffering, full of compassion and tender mercy.

It's because of this reality that we come to you this morning in worship, in awe, in wonder as to your character.

We pray that You would bless us now as we pause a few moments to reflect on the kingdom of heaven and the principles found in Your holy Word.

May the Holy Spirit inspire and instruct in Jesus' name.

I invite you to open your Bibles to Matthew chapter 5.

If you have not already, we are continuing in our series of messages from the greatest sermon ever preached, the Sermon on the Mount.

And last week we began the first blessed in the Beatitudes.

Just a review from last Sabbath, there are 9 blessings when Jesus began the Sermon on the Mount, and as you can imagine, in the mind of the first century disciple or the first century Jew, people by this time had an inkling that this may be the long-looked fourth Messiah.

They had a presupposition in regards to the Messiah.

They believed that the Messiah would come and drive out the Romans.

They believed that the Messiah was going to come and be a political deliverer.

And so this is kind of the inaugural address of the Messiah.

And as Jesus began the Sermon on the Mount, very likely in the minds of the people of the first century as they listened to this, they did not understand what Jesus was saying.

I would go on to say that most likely, they were quite puzzled by the words that Jesus was saying here at the Sermon on the Mount, because if he was coming as a deliverer from the Romans, he would have started out by saying something like, blessed are the powerful, blessed are those who have ambition, blessed are the elite.

That would have been real red meat for a congregation of the first-century Jew.

But Jesus begins his sermon by saying, blessed are the poor in spirit.

By this time they're wondering, and then he goes on and says, blessed are those who mourn, blessed are the meek.

So this is a very interesting sermon and as we said last Sabbath The sermon on the mount begins with blessed are the poor in spirit.

This is not talking about economic poverty This is talking about those that realize their spiritual wretchedness their spiritual Bankruptcy And then he goes on and says, blessed are those who mourn.

As we begin our discussion of blessed are those who mourn, just a reflection from thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, this can have 3 different applications.

The first 1, all of us at some point in our lives go through trials.

Sometimes we go through something that shakes us to the very core of who we are.

And I hang on to this promise because it says, blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.

It says shall be comforted, meaning that no matter what you may be going through in life, Jesus promises to be with you through the storm.

Also, this is also a reference in the future tense that there is going to come an ultimate day when we will be delivered, will be ultimately comforted in the future when Jesus comes again the second time.

The second application of mourning is a mourning of sympathy when our hearts are broken by the things that break the heart of God.

When we see someone that is suffering, going through loss, and we experience emotional mourning because of sympathy and empathy for what they're going through.

Today I'd like to highlight what I believe is the first application of what Jesus meant when He said, blessed are those who mourn.

And I want to read this quote from Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, page 10.

The mourning here brought to view is a true heart sorrow for sin.

The mourning brought here to view is a true heart sorrow for sin.

Jesus did not say an intellectual knowledge.

This is a word, mourn, or the word mourn indicates an emotional response to a spiritual condition.

I think that all of us at some point in our lives have been given an apology that we just had a hard time accepting.

Am I the only 1 that's gone through that?

The intonation gives it away, or there's something about the expression when someone says that they're sorry and their facial expression or the sly smile or the micro expression just gives us an indication that this Apology is not an emotional 1 it is half-hearted and It really leaves us in a state of unsettledness And I would say that there's many times that we've been apologized to or we've given an apology and it has been a heartfelt 1 when you could see that this really comes from an emotional response, a connection.

What Jesus is describing here is that there must be a genuine emotional remorse for what our sins have done.

The first beatitude is an intellectual epiphany of our spiritual condition.

The next 1 is a genuine emotional remorse for what our sins have done in hurting somebody else.

When I accepted Jesus as my Savior and Lord, I praised God for the nature of the gospel because I came to Him and there were no preconditions.

I knelt down after a canvassing program in the hills of Pennsylvania, and it was a beautiful moment.

Said, David, you wanna accept Jesus as your Savior?

I knelt down, I prayed the sinner's prayer, and my name was written in the Lamb's Book of Life." Justified, saved, according to the gospel.

There's a process, a growing in grace that takes place.

I remember I was having my morning devotions, and as I was praying and spending time in Scripture, the Holy Spirit – it's amazing how this happens – the Holy Spirit started to bring back to my mind instances where I had hurt people.

I had accepted Jesus and the Lord began to bring back to my mind individuals that I had hurt, words that I had spoken.

And prior to this experience, that situation had not even bothered me before.

But suddenly there was a sensitivity that came over me, an awareness, and I want to tell you that I genuinely felt an emotional remorse for the things that I had done.

It was not just an intellectual ascent, but it was an Emotional response with the recognition that I had hurt certain people Along the way and that emotional response became so Overwhelming that I started to write letters To these individuals it was just I Came to that point.

I wrote these letters to people that I had not seen for years and I would apologize and ask for their forgiveness If I were was able to visit with them in person I would seek out these individuals and say you know I am so sorry for hurting you Please forgive me Now I want to tell you that this emotional response was not fear driven It was not because I feared the judgment of God.

It came from within a recognition of the magnitude and the hurt of my sins and what it had done to Jesus and what it had done to other people.

In the gospel, there is not only an intellectual rewiring that takes place, but there is an emotional reformatting.

I believe that we have become calloused to sin.

My parents, being good Asian Parents they guided me and Coached me or I should say strongly encouraged me to take up a musical instrument And mine was the cello.

I quit, so don't get any bright ideas, all right?

And they would offer me donuts and all types of snacks to practice the cello.

And I remember when I began, my fingers were so tender, being a young youth, 8, 9 years of age, and I'd get a half-size or quarter-size cello, I forgot what it was, and I would play it, and after a few minutes, I would look at my fingers, and they were almost bleeding.

They were indented and purple, and it just became very difficult, painful to play and practice the cello.

But my teacher told me keep on doing it and so I kept on doing it and over time, I started to develop a callus.

And it came to the place after months, and I would say years, of continually doing the same thing that it did not bother me anymore.

We have become, just from being exposed to sin so much, we have become jaded to the true nature of sin.

That there isn't even an emotional response.

You know, certain things should bother us emotionally.

When we see something, there should be an emotional response Just like when we touch something that is hot and there is a pain reaction telling us that something is wrong Emotionally speaking when we see certain things in the world or when we do something that is wrong.

There should be emotional pain If we don't have that, something is wrong.

So when we come to Jesus, we come jaded, we come desensitized, we come calloused.

But Jesus says, look, I'm going to start building a sensitivity so that you are bothered by the things that you should be bothered by.

And then we start to see and be sensitive to the things that we have done.

I read in a book, finished it last summer, in which they described a group of researchers that had been commissioned by Procter and Gamble, billion dollar company, multi-billions.

And they had come up with a new product that they were going to launch.

No doubt some of you may have it in your house.

It's a chemical compound that actually, according to this book, absorbs odors.

So they were trying to figure out how to market this and test it out, so they paid these researchers to go out into the community and try to figure out how people can develop the habit of using Febreze on a regular basis, thereby making this product sell very well.

And so they came to this house, this lady had 9 cats, and she was not doing a good job of taking care of the litter box.

So as they came up to the door, they noticed that from the outside, they could even smell the odor that was emanating from this house.

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The Beatitudes

Blessed Are They that Mourn

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