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A. W. Pink covers some of the most familiar terrain in the New Testament. Christ’s Sermon on the Mount is well-known and beloved by believers and non-believers alike, and varying interpretations abound. Pink examines each beatitude in turn, drawing out its message for both believers and non-believers.

Now it is obvious that it is not every species of mourning that is here referred to. There is a “sorrow of the world [that] worketh death” (2 Cor. 7:10). The mourning for which Christ promises comfort must be restricted to that which is spiritual. The mourning that is blessed is the result of a realization of God’s holiness and goodness that issues in a sense of the depravity of our natures and the enormous guilt of our conduct. The mourning for which Christ promises Divine comfort is a sorrowing
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