Title Sunday Faith Training (5/27)-Jesus' Happiness Theory (2)
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Title: Jesus' Happiness Theory (2)
Text: Matthew 5:4
Date: 2012. 5. 27. Sunday Day Worship
"Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted."
Are poverty and sorrow happiness? / The Beatitudes are the most famous of Jesus' sermons. But it is difficult to understand. One writer said: "It's as if Jesus crawled into the show window of life and changed all the price tags. All the price tags were reversed." Because he said that happiness is what looks unhappy in the eyes of the world. Specifically, he spoke of 'poverty and sorrow' as happiness. Are poverty and sorrow happiness? It is never understood in terms of worldly values. Also, it is difficult for believers in reliefism to understand the happiness Jesus spoke of.
★ said the Dutch Reformed theologian Riedelboss. “It is better not to view the poor in spirit and those who mourn as different kinds of people, and not to understand the blessings promised to them as different. The poor in spirit and those who mourn are of the same class. Also, the hallways they will receive are no different. I just looked at it from a different angle. Today, let's take some time to think about the second happiness that Jesus spoke of.
1. Who is truly happy?
Jesus said that "those who mourn" are happy (Matthew 5:4). Mourning (Greek-pendeo) means "to mourn, to lament, to cry." What should we mourn? “It is the sorrow over the injustice that separates man from God,” Hochma said. That is, sorrow for sin. Sadness in itself cannot be a blessing. But if you mourn for a sin, that sorrow is a blessing.
★ So, what is a sin? Sin is 'Hamartia' in Greek. The meaning of the original word is 'to escape the target'. Looking at the Bible verses that mention other sins, I want to examine what the most fundamental sin is. “Alas, a sinful nation, a people broken in transgression, a seed of evil, children of corruption in their ways; they have forsaken the LORD, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, and have turned away from them” (Isaiah 1:4) “The house of Israel and the house of Judah have grievously rebelled against me, saith the LORD” (Jeremiah 5:11). What is sin? It means severing our relationship with God and living far away from God. In dealing with the problem of sin, relationship is more important than morality. It is sin that destroys our relationship with God. The result of the destruction of relationships is the corruption of morality. John Calvin said: “Man does not become a sinner by sinning, but because he is a sinner.” Leaving God is the most fundamental sin, and anyone who lives apart from God is a sinner regardless of their morality.
Then, what should we mourn for and what should we repent of? We must repent of the sins of the past years of living without God. We must mourn the years we have lived apart from God. We must find and grieve for ourselves as we are now in Christ, but living in ignorance of God's sovereignty.
The moment we believed in Jesus, God forgave our sins and made us His children. However, even if we become children of God, the law of sin (sin nature) that exists within us does not disappear. We must hate sin, mourn, and fight against it until the day we die. Martin Luther said. “Our whole life is a series of repentance and repentance.” Therefore, we must learn humility throughout our lives and depend on the grace of the Lord.
2. What blessings do those who mourn receive?
Jesus promised His comfort to those who mourn. "Comfort" (Greek-para kaleo) is a compound word of "to the side" (para) and "call" (kaleo). This is not a simple consolation, that is, emotional consolation. The comfort Jesus promised is 1) freedom from sin, 2) restoration of relationship with God, and 3) eternal inheritance in heaven. As Liddelboss argued, the heaven for the poor and the comfort for those who mourn are no other blessings.
★ In conclusion, let's learn how to mourn! Please meditate on the cross of Jesus with a cool reason. Of course, it must be based on the Bible. Next, I want you to study sin. Sin is a departure from God's sovereignty, and furthermore, it refers to living as the master of one's own life.