The Beattitudes - Matthew 5:4

Matthew 5: 4 ----> Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Word Study:

• Blessed : makarioi ---->

- ultimate spiritual well-being, prosperity and distinctive joy of those who share in the salvation of the Kingdom of God.

- Joy and satisfaction in God's favor and salvation regardless of their outward conditions.

Blessed is not the same as happy. Happy à hap (favorable circumstances), so a happy person is a person who has a good luck. Blessed person has his satisfaction not from favorable circumstances but from having the right attitudes. So, our happiness is not determined by what’s happening around me, but by what’s happening in me.

• Mourn : hoi penthountes ----> sorrow for one's sins and the sins of others, to cut or to strike the bosom or beat the breast as an outward sign of inward grief

Mourn is sorrow because convicted of sins, not because of get caught or get the consequences of sin. Just like the tax collector in Luke 18:13 =

“And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!”

• Comfort : parakaleo ----> to call to one's side, call for, summon, to address, speak to, (call to, call upon), which may be done in the way of exhortation, entreaty, comfort, instruction, etc.

Jesus is our comforter and nothing that we experience that He does not understand. He promises that He will comfort us.

What do we learn?

When we commit sins and the Spirit of God convicts us, we need to mourn for doing such sins and ask for God’s repentance. We need to humble ourselves and admit our sins. We need to ask Jesus to overcome sins day by day because only by His grace we can overcome sins.