Beatitudes - Those Who Mourn

In this message from our Beatitudes series, Pastor Ben Mueller addresses one of Jesus’ most surprising promises: “Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted” (Matthew 5:4). Speaking honestly about grief, loss, and mourning, Ben explores how Jesus does not rush past pain, but meets it with promise.Drawing from Matthew 5, Luke 4, and Isaiah 61, this sermon shows how Jesus inaugurates a cosmic “Year of Jubilee,” where God brings comfort to the grieving and hope beyond death itself. Through the promise of resurrection, Jesus reframes mourning, not as the end of the story, but as a place where God is uniquely near.This message invites us to slow down, name our grief, mourn with one another, and trust that in God’s Kingdom, sorrow does not have the final word.