The Blessed Life: Mourners
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“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Introduction
Introduction
Blessed, makarios (μακάριος) — blessed, not happy
to regard someone as happy or fortunate in view of favorable circumstances
The Beatitudes—in one sense—is a list of paradoxical qualities that are part of the kingdom of God. Meaning, they should be in believers as well.
In English, mourning and grieving are two different concepts: grief is what we feel; mourning is the outward expression of grief.
In NT Greek, they are intertwined:
Dictionary of Biblical Languages with Semantic Domains: Greek (New Testament) (4291 πενθέω)
πενθέω - be sad, grieve over, lament, weep for
When we see the word mourn here, it reflects both an inward and an outward quality. It is both the feeling within, and the expression or “letting out”
Two opposing ideas in the passage:
Two opposing ideas in the passage:
Mourning
Mourning
What mourning is Jesus referring to?
What mourning is Jesus referring to?
bereavement, sin, understanding of one’s spiritual position
think eschatologically—being with Christ in heaven will be the ultimate comfort for the people of God who have suffered in this life
Comfort
Comfort
“to call to”
A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament παρα-καλέω
to console, to encourage and strengthen by consolation, to comfort,
The consolation we receive as the people of God comes from the voice of God himself: He speaks words of comfort and strength, both now and later
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