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Rick Warren - How God Blesses Broken Hearts (Part 1)

May 3, 2026 | 27:29

Rick Warren - How God Blesses Broken Hearts (Part 1)
Pastor Rick shares biblical truth and practical tools for living the full life God desires for everyone.
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Rick Warren | Rick Warren - How God Blesses Broken Hearts (Part 1) | May 3, 2026
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  • Pastor rick warren: if you're taking out your message notes,
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  • This weekend we return to our series that i'm calling, "the
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  • Keys to a blessed life," and we're looking at the eight
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  • Beatitudes of jesus as we go through the sermon on the mount
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  • Verse by verse.
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  • Now, the fact of life is that life is tough.
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  • Everybody agree with that?
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  • It's not easy.
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  • Life is tough.
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  • Life is hard.
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  • Life is difficult.
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  • Since adam's sin, the world was broken and everything on the
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  • Planet is broken.
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  • Nothing works perfectly.
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  • I've said this many times.
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  • Your body doesn't work perfectly.
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  • The weather doesn't work perfectly.
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  • We've been having fires all this week.
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  • The economy doesn't work perfectly, no relationship works
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  • Perfectly, your marriage doesn't work perfectly, and life is full
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  • Of losses.
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  • We have defeats and we have disappointments.
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  • This is not heaven.
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  • That's why we pray, "thy will be done on earth as it is in
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  • Heaven," 'cause in heaven, there are no defeats, there are
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  • No disappointments.
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  • But on earth, nothing works perfectly all the time.
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  • So we have trials and tribulations, we have sorrow and
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  • We have suffering, we have problems and pressures.
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  • We have, as i said, defeats and disappointments.
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  • Now, how do you rise above the inevitable losses in your life?
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  • How do you rise above them?
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  • Well, today we come to the second beatitude.
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  • It's matthew chapter 5, verse 4, and jesus says this: "god
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  • Blesses those who mourn, for they will be comforted."
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  • Now, in the eight ways to be blessed by god, the second way,
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  • This seems so ludicrous when you think about it, so un-normal, so
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  • Irrational, when he says, "the way to be blessed is to mourn."
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  • What in the world does he mean by that?
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  • In other words, the way to be happy is to be sad?
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  • That just seems like a great reversal.
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  • What does he mean by this?
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  • God blesses those who mourn.
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  • Well, that's what we're gonna look at this weekend, on how to
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  • Handle the losses of life and how god blesses a broken heart.
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  • Now, i don't know what you're going through right now.
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  • I hope you're going through a relatively easy time, but you
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  • May not.
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  • Some of you came to service this weekend all churning inside.
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  • You've got conflicts, you've got chaos.
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  • You've got a bad health report, you just got laid off.
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  • You've had a fight with your boyfriend, girlfriend,
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  • Husband, wife.
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  • There are--the money isn't there where you need it, and
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  • You're under tension.
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  • And many people watching online right now, there are things
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  • You've had a loss in your life or you've had a death in your
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  • Life or if you had something that has caused you to
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  • Have grief.
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  • Now, this last year, as you know, i've gone through a
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  • Year-long journey with grief since matthew died.
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  • And i've learned a lot.
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  • I've learned a lot about grief that i didn't even know a
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  • Year ago.
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  • And what i wanna do this weekend is just kind of summarize a few
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  • Of those ideas.
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  • I think someday i'll probably write a book on it 'cause i've
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  • Learned so much about it.
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  • But i wanna just give you a few things on how to be blessed in a
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  • Broken world.
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  • Now, let me give you a couple of things.
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  • Write these down.
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  • Here's just a couple of insights before we actually get into it.
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  • One of them is this: god doesn't expect me to be happy all
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  • The time.
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  • That's just a fact of life.
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  • God doesn't expect you to be happy all the time.
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  • There's this myth that christians, if you're a
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  • Believer, if you know jesus, you should be always smiling, always
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  • Happy, always cheerful, skipping the hills and picking flowers
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  • And talking about peace and love.
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  • In fact, the bible says in ecclesiastes 3:4: "there's a
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  • Time for everything.
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  • There's a time for everything, and there's a season for every
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  • Activity under heaven."
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  • In other words, life is a series of opposites.
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  • "there's a time to weep, there's a time to laugh.
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  • There's a time to mourn, and there's a time to dance."
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  • And so, the bible says that sometimes weeping is
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  • Appropriate, sometimes mourning is appropriate, sometimes
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  • Grieving is appropriate, because the fact is, the world is filled
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  • With a lot of sadness.
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  • All you have to do is read the paper and read about little
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  • Girls getting kidnapped and fires and murders and wars and
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  • All kinds of things.
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  • There's a lot of pain on this planet.
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  • And sometimes the only appropriate, logical response to
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  • Life is grief.
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  • God doesn't expect you to simply grin and bear it, to stuff your
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  • Emotions, and to smile in the middle
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  • Of all of the storms of life.
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  • No, in fact, the bible says, "blessed are those who mourn."
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  • God blesses you when you grieve.
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  • Why? why does he do that?
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  • Well, we're gonna look at that.
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  • Now, a lot of people think that grief is only for funerals.
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  • Like, you know, if you lose a loved one, then you grieve.
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  • But the fact is, there are a lot of losses in life.
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  • There are thousands of losses.
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  • You can lose your health, you can lose your job, you can lose
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  • Your money, you can lose your reputation, you can lose your
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  • Energy, you can lose a dream.
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  • There are thousands of different losses in life, and god says,
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  • The only appropriate response to the losses of life is not to
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  • Fake it, but to face it
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  • And not to go around grinning, but to actually grieve.
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  • There's a time for every activity under heaven.
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  • I actually went through a study this week of what the bible says
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  • We're supposed to mourn and grieve.
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  • And i'm not gonna get into that, that would be two or three
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  • Sermons, but the bible says i'm to mourn my losses, which is
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  • Things--bad things that happen to me.
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  • And the bible says i'm to mourn my disappointments, which are
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  • Good things that didn't happen to me.
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  • Did you hear that?
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  • Good things that didn't happen to you, that's a reason
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  • To mourn.
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  • The bible says i'm to mourn my sins, that i'm to grieve over
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  • My sins.
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  • The bible says i'm to grieve and mourn over the suffering in the
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  • World, and not be, you know, blasé about it.
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  • The bible says i'm actually to grieve for my friends who don't
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  • Know jesus, who are spiritually lost.
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  • And there are a lot of things the bible tells us to grieve
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  • Over, but god doesn't expect you to be happy all the time.
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  • Second thing, write this down, is that grief is essential to
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  • My health.
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  • Grief is essential to my health.
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  • It's essential to my emotional health, to my spiritual health,
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  • To my physical health, and to my mental health.
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  • In fact, if you never grieve about anything, if you're never
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  • Sad about anything, it means one of three things: a, you're out
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  • Of touch with reality 'cause there's a lot of things to be
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  • Sad about in this world.
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  • Or b, you are out of touch with your own emotions and you're
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  • Living in denial.
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  • Or c, you don't love, because when you love and you see sad
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  • Things, that makes you grieve.
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  • Now, grief is a painful emotion, but it's a healthy emotion, and
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  • It's a helpful emotion.
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  • And it is god's gift.
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  • It's the tool that god gives us to get through the transitions
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  • Of life.
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  • I've told you this before.
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  • There is no growth in your life without change.
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  • You can't grow without change.
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  • There is no change without loss, because you lose some of the old
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  • For the new.
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  • There is no loss without pain, and there is no pain
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  • Without grief.
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  • To go through life without grieving would be like a mother
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  • Who says, "i wanna have a baby without going through the pain
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  • Of labor."
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  • It ain't gonna happen.
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  • It isn't gonna happen.
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  • Now, there are two unhealthy reactions to the losses of life.
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  • One is repression and the other is suppression.
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  • Repression is when i conscious-- unconsciously try to block a
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  • Painful thought out of my mind.
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  • That's repression.
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  • I unconsciously try to block a pain, painful thought, out of
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  • My mind.
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  • Suppression is when i consciously try to block a pain:
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  • "i'm not gonna think about that, i'm not gonna think about that,
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  • I'm not gonna think about--" when i consciously try to block
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  • A painful thought out of my mind.
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  • Both of these are denials.
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  • When you go through a tough time, when your heart is
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  • Hurting, when your heart is breaking, god doesn't want you
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  • To suppress it.
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  • God doesn't want you to repress it.
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  • God wants you to express it to friends and confess it to him.
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  • And when you do that, you're on the road to healing.
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  • Now, i want you to write this down.
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  • If i don't let it out, i will act it out.
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  • If i don't let it out in healthy ways, i'm gonna act it out in
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  • Unhealthy ways.
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  • Some of you were hurt many years ago growing up.
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  • Maybe your parents divorced, maybe you were abused, maybe you
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  • Were hurt by something somebody said about you, and it hurt
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  • Very, very deeply.
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  • But as a child, you didn't know how to grieve healthy.
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  • You didn't know how to grieve good, so you just pushed it down
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  • And you stuffed it down, and you've never grieved over
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  • That hurt.
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  • Well, you need to go back and grieve over it, why?
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  • Because if you don't grieve the losses of life, you get stuck at
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  • That stage.
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  • Let me say that again.
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  • This is one of the most important things you're ever
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  • Gonna learn.
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  • When you don't grieve, when you don't go through grief, and a
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  • Pain--when pain happens in your life, and you don't let it--you
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  • Don't feel it, you push it down, you get stuck emotionally at
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  • That stage and you spend the rest of your life reacting to
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  • Something that happened a long time ago and you're taking it
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  • Out on the people around you now, and that's not fair.
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  • It's unhealthy to stuff it.
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  • You've heard me say this before, when i swallow my grief, my
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  • Stomach keeps score.
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  • If i don't talk it out, i take it out on my own body or on
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  • Other people.
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  • And if i don't let it out in healthy ways, then i'm gonna act
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  • It out in unhealthy ways.
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  • And when you swallow negative emotions, your body gets sick.
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  • I've said many times, it's not just what you eat, it's what
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  • Eats you that makes you sick.
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  • David talked about this in psalms.
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  • Notice on your outline, david says in psalm 32, verse 3: "when
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  • I kept things to myself, i felt weak deep inside me, and i
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  • Moaned all the day long."
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  • Now, circle the word "moan."
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  • When you go through a loss in life, you lose a job, you lose a
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  • Friend, you lose a deal, you lose something in your life that
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  • You were hoping would happen or something you had and you lost
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  • It, you lose a marriage, you can either mourn or you can moan.
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  • Moaning is negative, mourning is positive.
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  • Moaning is having a pity party.
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  • Mourning is calling out to god in your grief and in your pain.
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  • Psalm 39, verse 2, david says, "i was silent, and i held my
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  • Peace to no avail, and my distress only grew worse."
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  • If you don't grieve the losses in your life, if you're too
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  • Busy, and you just have to stuff it, "i can't think about it."
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  • You try to do the clint eastwood, you know, strong,
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  • Silent type, or just grin and bear it, and you press on, and
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  • You don't even stop to mourn a loved one's death.
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  • If you don't do that, then what happens is, he says, "my
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  • Distress only grew worse."
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  • So what am i saying?
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  • The things that happen to you, around you, the bad things that
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  • Happen to you, they're not your choice.
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  • But grief is a choice.
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  • And it's a healthy choice.
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  • And when you choose to let it out, you have to choose to allow
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  • Yourself to feel the sad emotions.
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  • You say, "well, i don't like feeling sad."
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  • No, you don't, but not everything that's helpful
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  • Feels good.
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  • Not everything that's healthy feels good.
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  • If you don't mourn the losses of life, you get stuck at
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  • That stage.
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  • Pastor rick: hi, everybody.
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  • This is pastor rick.
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  • However," paul writes, "the best part is that my faith in god has
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  • Of god through christ jesus."
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  • Paul, without a doubt, i will hold your hand as you journey
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  • With jesus.
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  • There is no greater decision that you could have made than
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  • Believing and receiving jesus christ.
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  • So, congratulations, you're my brother in christ, and i wanna
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  • It's an exciting journey.
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  • Pastor rick: now, this weekend, what i want us to look at is how
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  • God blesses broken hearts, because the second beatitude,
  • 00:15:37.453 --> 00:15:41.557
  • Jesus says this: "god blesses those who mourn."
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  • Now, i want god to bless your life.
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  • I want god to bless your life in spite of all the bad things that
  • 00:15:49.832 --> 00:15:52.868
  • Have happened, and in spite of all the bad things that are
  • 00:15:52.868 --> 00:15:55.137
  • Gonna happen.
  • 00:15:55.137 --> 00:15:57.339
  • And in order for god to bless your life, jesus says, "blessed
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  • Are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."
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  • How does god comfort me when i grieve?
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  • I'm an authority on this one.
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  • After this last year, i can speak from experience on how
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  • God comforts.
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  • And as i've looked back over my life in the last year, i see six
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  • Ways that god blesses a broken heart.
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  • Since matthew died, i have cried every single day since he died.
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  • That's not a sign of weakness, that's a sign of love.
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  • Deep love cares.
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  • Deep love is strong.
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  • So how do you get through?
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  • You don't get over it.
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  • A lot of people think, "well, i'm
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  • Just gonna get over this grief."
  • 00:16:45.120 --> 00:16:46.455
  • No, you're not gonna get over it.
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  • If it's serious, if you're married for a certain number of
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  • Years and then you divorce, you don't get over it, you get
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  • Through it.
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  • If you have a loved one, a husband, a wife, who dies, you
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  • Don't get over that, you get through it.
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  • Now, you can't go over grief, you can't go under grief, you
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  • Can't go around grief.
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  • You gotta go through the grief.
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  • And if you're scared to express emotion and you refuse to go
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  • Through it, that, as i said, that's where you get stuck.
  • 00:17:12.614 --> 00:17:17.219
  • But how do i get unstuck?
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  • You let god help you.
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  • Let god comfort you.
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  • "blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."
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  • And how does god comfort us?
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  • Six ways. write these down.
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  • Number one, the first way god blesses a broken heart is god
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  • Draws us close to himself.
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  • He draws us in close to himself.
  • 00:17:37.439 --> 00:17:41.076
  • Look at these verses, psalm 34, verse 18: "the lord is close to
  • 00:17:41.076 --> 00:17:47.883
  • The brokenhearted, and he saves those whose spirits have
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  • Been crushed."
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  • When you are grieving, you often feel like god's a million miles
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  • Away, but he's not a million miles away.
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  • He's never been any closer.
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  • What you feel and what's real are not the same thing.
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  • Not everything you feel is real, and not everything that's real
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  • Do you feel.
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  • The bible says: "god is close to the brokenhearted."
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  • He's paying attention.
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  • He's not aloof, he's not distant.
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  • Hebrews 13:5: "i will never leave you," circle that.
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  • "never," that means even in your worst pain.
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  • It means even in your most embarrassing disgrace.
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  • It means even in your most massive failure, even in the
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  • Thing you're most ashamed of in your life.
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  • "i will never leave you, and i will never abandon you."
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  • And 2 corinthians 6:10 says this: "our hearts ache, but at
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  • The same time we have the joy of the lord."
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  • What does that mean?
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  • That's the difference jesus makes.
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  • If you don't have jesus in your life, then god isn't close to
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  • You at that moment, and you're on your own.
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  • You don't have any other resources.
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  • You're there to handle the pain by yourself.
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  • God never intended for you to handle the pain by yourself.
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  • First, the bible says god draws us close to himself, and then
  • 00:19:08.630 --> 00:19:11.733
  • Here's the second thing, write this down.
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  • God grieves with us. god grieves with us.
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  • Now, the reason you have the ability to grieve is because you
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  • Were made in god's image.
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  • You're not an animal.
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  • Animals--a flea doesn't grieve and a cow doesn't grieve and
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  • Birds don't grieve and snails and whales don't grieve,
  • 00:19:34.489 --> 00:19:39.394
  • But human beings grieve, why?
  • 00:19:39.394 --> 00:19:41.663
  • Because we're made in the image of god.
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  • The only reason you have any emotion at all is because god is
  • 00:19:43.865 --> 00:19:47.069
  • An emotional god.
  • 00:19:47.069 --> 00:19:49.104
  • The bible tells us that god grieves.
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  • The bible tells us that god weeps.
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  • When he sees inhumanity on earth, he weeps.
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  • When god sees a sin, he weeps.
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  • When god sees wars destroying people, when god sees this
  • 00:19:59.715 --> 00:20:03.151
  • Planet being destroyed, god weeps, god grieves.
  • 00:20:03.151 --> 00:20:06.722
  • And we're made in god's image, and the bible
  • 00:20:06.722 --> 00:20:08.757
  • Says, "god weeps with us."
  • 00:20:08.757 --> 00:20:10.225
  • In other words, he's--god is a suffering god and god is a
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  • Sympathetic god.
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  • He's not aloof, he's not apathetic.
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  • He's standing--not standing on the sidelines, he suffers
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  • With us.
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  • Look at this verse up here on the screen.
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  • Isaiah 53, verse 3 says this: "jesus was a man of sorrows."
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  • Have you ever seen that verse?
  • 00:20:29.611 --> 00:20:31.113
  • "jesus," it's out of isaiah, it's prophecy, "was a man of
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  • Sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief.
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  • He knew suffering firsthand."
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  • So, when you come to jesus, it's not like jesus goes, "i have no
  • 00:20:40.355 --> 00:20:43.859
  • Idea what you're talking about."
  • 00:20:43.859 --> 00:20:46.595
  • When your heart is breaking and you're in pain, it's not like
  • 00:20:46.595 --> 00:20:48.964
  • Jesus is going, "i don't understand it, i don't get that.
  • 00:20:48.964 --> 00:20:51.133
  • Just buck up and put on a happy face."
  • 00:20:51.133 --> 00:20:54.670
  • No, jesus was a man of sorrows.
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  • He was acquainted with grief.
  • 00:20:57.005 --> 00:20:59.241
  • Let me just give you one example.
  • 00:20:59.241 --> 00:21:00.842
  • There on your outline, when his friend lazarus died, the bible
  • 00:21:00.842 --> 00:21:04.746
  • Says in john 11: "when jesus saw lazarus' sister sobbing, and he
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  • Saw how all those with--all those with were--he was--were
  • 00:21:10.652 --> 00:21:16.992
  • Crying also, his heart was touched, and he was
  • 00:21:16.992 --> 00:21:21.596
  • Deeply moved.
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  • Then jesus started crying.
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  • 'see how much he loved
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  • Lazarus!' they said."
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  • Circle the word "love."
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  • The more you love, the more you're gonna understand grief.
  • 00:21:32.341 --> 00:21:37.379
  • And it says, "jesus started crying."
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  • You know, the shortest verse in the bible is john 11:35.
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  • It's two words: "jesus wept," john 11:35.
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  • That's your memory verse for the week, okay?
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  • Everybody can do that.
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  • Say it, john 11:35, and what did it say?
  • 00:21:51.259 --> 00:21:55.163
  • "jesus wept."
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  • And where is that?
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  • John 11:35.
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  • That's the shortest verse in the bible.
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  • You just memorized a bible verse.
  • 00:22:01.269 --> 00:22:03.305
  • It's only two words.
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  • "jesus wept," but what does it say?
  • 00:22:05.006 --> 00:22:06.975
  • It says we have a suffering god.
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  • We have a god who sympathizes, who understands, who knows us.
  • 00:22:08.910 --> 00:22:13.582
  • And the bible says jesus started crying.
  • 00:22:13.582 --> 00:22:17.719
  • Now, let me just say to the guys: guys, we're not very good
  • 00:22:17.719 --> 00:22:20.889
  • At grief.
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  • It's not a macho thing.
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  • We don't like negative feelings.
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  • Men don't like to feel negative.
  • 00:22:26.261 --> 00:22:29.464
  • They don't like bad things.
  • 00:22:29.464 --> 00:22:30.799
  • They don't--certainly don't like sorrow.
  • 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:33.368
  • And we're taught, growing up, you know, in fact, parents, you
  • 00:22:33.368 --> 00:22:39.608
  • Need to stop teaching your kids to stuff their emotions.
  • 00:22:39.608 --> 00:22:43.311
  • 'cause one of the first things parents do, "stop your crying,
  • 00:22:43.311 --> 00:22:45.814
  • Stop your crying, stop your crying."
  • 00:22:45.814 --> 00:22:47.749
  • Really?
  • 00:22:47.749 --> 00:22:49.117
  • You--is that what you really want?
  • 00:22:49.117 --> 00:22:50.452
  • You wanna teach people to stuff their emotions?
  • 00:22:50.452 --> 00:22:53.522
  • The bible says, "jesus started crying."
  • 00:22:53.522 --> 00:22:57.392
  • Sadness is not weakness.
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  • Jesus was the strongest man who ever lived.
  • 00:22:59.494 --> 00:23:04.232
  • A showing--for a man to show emotion is not a sign of
  • 00:23:04.232 --> 00:23:07.235
  • Weakness, it's actually a sign of strength.
  • 00:23:07.235 --> 00:23:09.538
  • Weak men are scared of their emotions.
  • 00:23:09.538 --> 00:23:14.009
  • Weak men are afraid of tears.
  • 00:23:14.009 --> 00:23:17.212
  • It freaks them out.
  • 00:23:17.212 --> 00:23:18.613
  • They go nutty. why?
  • 00:23:18.613 --> 00:23:19.948
  • 'cause it scares them.
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  • When you're a strong man, you're not afraid of emotion.
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  • You're not afraid to show it.
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  • You're not even afraid to cry.
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  • Jesus was the strongest man who ever lived, so never be
  • 00:23:32.327 --> 00:23:35.297
  • Embarrassed, never be embarrassed by tears.
  • 00:23:35.297 --> 00:23:39.067
  • In fact, the bible says jesus was sent to comfort us.
  • 00:23:39.067 --> 00:23:41.636
  • Look at this, isaiah 61, verse 2 and 3.
  • 00:23:41.636 --> 00:23:45.874
  • The bible says: "he has sent me," jesus, "to comfort
  • 00:23:45.874 --> 00:23:49.544
  • All who mourn, to give those who mourn in zion joy and
  • 00:23:49.544 --> 00:23:54.349
  • Gladness instead of grief, and a song of praise
  • 00:23:54.349 --> 00:23:59.988
  • Instead of sorrow."
  • 00:23:59.988 --> 00:24:02.290
  • So, the first two ways that god blesses a broken heart is he
  • 00:24:02.290 --> 00:24:06.528
  • Draws us close to himself.
  • 00:24:06.528 --> 00:24:07.896
  • He says, "i'm gonna be with you.
  • 00:24:07.896 --> 00:24:09.231
  • You're not gonna go through this on your own."
  • 00:24:09.231 --> 00:24:10.899
  • And number two, "i'm gonna feel it with you."
  • 00:24:10.899 --> 00:24:13.568
  • The pain you feel in that separation, god feels it.
  • 00:24:13.568 --> 00:24:18.106
  • The pain you feel in that loneliness, god feels it.
  • 00:24:18.106 --> 00:24:21.776
  • The pain you feel in that rejection, god feels it.
  • 00:24:21.776 --> 00:24:25.547
  • The pain you feel in that embarrassment, that disgrace,
  • 00:24:25.547 --> 00:24:29.351
  • God feels it.
  • 00:24:29.351 --> 00:24:30.819
  • He is with you and he is feeling it with you.
  • 00:24:30.819 --> 00:24:35.290
  • Now, there's a third thing that god does in blessing our broken
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  • Hearts, and that is this: god gives us a church family
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  • For support.
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  • God never meant for you to go through life on your own.
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  • And god says, i didn't intend for you to go through grief.
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  • You know, the old statement that when you share a joy, it's
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  • Doubled, and when you share a sorrow, it's halved.
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  • When you carry it all yourself, you're carrying a load that god
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  • Never intended for you to have.
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  • When something bad happens to you, and you say, "i'm not gonna
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  • Tell anybody about this, i'm gonna keep it a secret, i'm
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  • Gonna keep it to myself," you have just broken one of the
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  • Principles of god's word.
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  • God says we're meant to grieve in community.
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  • Look at this verse, romans 12:5, 10, and 15, three verses in
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  • Romans chapter 12.
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  • "in christ we who are many form one body, and each member
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  • Belongs to all the others.
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  • Be devoted to each other like a loving family.
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  • Rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn."
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  • Now, these are commands, and if you call yourself a follower of
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  • Christ, they're commanded for you.
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  • "in christ, we form one body, that's the church.
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  • The church is the family of god, and it's the body of christ.
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  • And the bible says we belong to each other.
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  • We're brothers and sisters in god's family.
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  • We're part of the body of christ.
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  • And then it says we are to be devoted to each other, like a
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  • Loving family, and how do we-- how are we devoted?
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  • We sympathize with each other.
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  • When you have a victory, i shouldn't be jealous.
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  • I should celebrate your success.
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  • And when you have a defeat, i shouldn't gloat over that.
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  • I should mourn with those who mourn.
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  • Now, i'm not gonna go into this 'cause you've heard me talk
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  • About it 1000 times, but you need a small group.
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  • If you don't have a small group, you have no safety net when the
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  • Rogue winds come.
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  • I would not be standing before you today if it weren't for my
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  • Small group.
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  • My small group, the one i've been in 11 years, walked me
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  • Through this last year when my son took his life.
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  • My small group was there in the darkest days of my life.
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  • They were there just being the ministry of presence.
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  • They didn't have to say anything, they didn't have to
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  • Give me advice, they just showed up.
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  • ♪♪♪
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