joy cm in e mourning
260206 ps peter lui joy cm in e mourning
- blessed should nt b mourning
- mourn
- pentheo (greek)
- strongest term 4 human sorrow
- devastation of mourning death of loved one
- gen 37:34
- 1 chr 21:16-17
3 kind of mourning
1) natural mourning
2) sinful mourning (gen 4:13-14)
3) spiritual mourning
- 2 cor 7:10
- godly sorrow bring repentance
- rom 2:4
- kindness lead to repentance
continuing posture of mourning
- ps 38:18
- ps 51:3
- my sin is alway before me, thus need to continued mourning
- isa 6:5
- we live among sinner
- rom 7:15,18,19,24
- spotlight by e holy spirit on sin.
True cause for mourning
1) mournin for sin
- we should cry for mourning. Mourning is christ centre
- joel 2:13
- confessions need to b brutal honest w ourselves
2) mournin for e condition of e church
- god call us to mourner but nt moulder
- 2 cor 2:4,12:21
- paul wrote w anger
- grief n mourn share e same greek word
- sick at e heart for church in
ephesus acts 20:19,31
- heart broken over backslider in philippi (phi 3:18)
3) mournin becoz satan on e loose
- 1 jn 5:19
- jn 11:33
- jesus was fury w satan work
- passion in prayer
Mourn for real cause
- nt 4 misery sins bring but becoz sin greatly dishonour god
- deut 9:18
- ps 119:136 (mourn on behalf of god)
2 things move godly to mourn
- dishonour it bring on god
- perdition it bring on sinner
Mournin experience as christian
- jn 16:33 ( you will have trouble)
- mt 5:10 ( bless r THOSE who persecuted)
- begin w poor in spirit (THOSE)
- medium ( YOU)
- end w persecuted (THOSE)
- mt 5:11-12
7 sources of biblical comfort
1) god is all comfort (2 cor 1:3)
2) jesus (jn 10:10, 15:13-15, 12:49, 1 jn 2:1-2)
3) holy spirit (acts 9:31,jn 14:16-17)
4) word of god
5) preachin of god
6) fellowship of christian
7) certainty of jesus comin
Final comfort
- isa 35:10
- rev 21:3-4
