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  (SERMON CLIP) FINDING TRUE HAPPINESS BY BEING POOR AND MOURNING
  by Anton Bosch
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Summary: This sermon delves into the pursuit of true happiness and
blessedness according to the teachings of Jesus, emphasizing a deep joy
that transcends worldly pleasures. Jesus presents a different
perspective on happiness, focusing on qualities like being poor in
spirit and mourning, which may challenge our conventional notions of joy
and fulfillment.

Topics: "True Happiness", "Spiritual Fulfillment"
Scripture References: Matthew 5:3, Matthew 5:4, Matthew 5:6, Matthew 5:11, Matthew 5:16, Matthew 5:44, Matthew 5:48

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This sermon delves into the pursuit of true happiness and blessedness
according to the teachings of Jesus, emphasizing a deep joy that
transcends worldly pleasures. Jesus presents a different perspective on
happiness, focusing on qualities like being poor in spirit and mourning,
which may challenge our conventional notions of joy and fulfillment.

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CONTENT
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Now the question is, how do we pursue happiness? How do we find
happiness? And what is happiness? What is it to be blessed? And when he
says blessed here, he's not meaning it in a financial sense. He is
meaning that the blessing of God is on that individual making him happy,
making him joyful. And obviously this is not the kind of happiness that
you get when you have some kind of worldly entertainment or some kind of
worldly pleasure.

This is something which is far more deep and far more real than the
worldly kind of happiness that we experience. This is a deep joy that
comes. And he doesn't say that we will have these things, but we have,
blessed is he, now, present, continuous, tense.

So we are happy. If we can find these things, there's the key to
happiness. Everybody is trying to sell a book on how to find true
happiness.

Everybody has their own ideas as to how to find happiness. But here is
the Lord Jesus' answers as to how to find true fulfillment, how to find
true blessedness, how to find true happiness. The problem is that we
don't like his formula.

We don't like what he has to say. Because he says, he begins by saying,
blessed are the poor in spirit. He goes on to speak about those who
mourn.

He goes on to speak about all sorts of things which we don't like to
speak about, that we certainly don't like to think about, and we most
definitely don't like to feel any of these things.

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Video: https://sermonindex2.b-cdn.net/2dqWjPluonQ.mp4
Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/anton-bosch/sermon-clip-finding-true-happiness-by-being-poor-and-mourning/
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