Those Who Mourn Are Happy
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Gateway Church
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🗓️ 23 February 2008
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we're in a series, and I called it happiness redefine. |
| 0:05.0 | It's a redefinition of happiness for us because the world has defined it. |
| 0:10.1 | But actually, it is the original definition of happiness because it comes from Jesus. |
| 0:15.0 | And it's called the Beatitudes. |
| 0:17.0 | And the Beatitudes, the word means to remind you, blissful or happy. |
| 0:22.0 | So the word blessed also means happy. It is the Greek word |
| 0:26.1 | Macarius. It means happy. So let me read you. This is the second, the attitude. |
| 0:31.5 | It's the third message in our series. |
| 0:33.0 | Matthew 5 verse 4 says, |
| 0:35.0 | Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. |
| 0:40.0 | Blessed are those who mourn. |
| 0:42.0 | Now remember the word bless means happy so the title of the message |
| 0:46.1 | is those who mourn are happy. Now all of the beatitudes are paradoxical. |
| 0:53.8 | They seem opposite to us, but I have to admit this one seems the most opposite. |
| 1:01.6 | Happy are those who mourn. |
| 1:04.0 | Okay, let me say it another way. |
| 1:06.0 | I actually started to name the message this. |
| 1:08.0 | Let's say it this way. |
| 1:10.0 | Happy are the sad. |
| 1:15.0 | It doesn't make sense, right? |
| 1:17.0 | It's like saying rich are the poor. |
| 1:20.0 | Young or the old. |
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