Sins, Morn Over Your
FDOUB – April 9, 2009
James 4:9 Be afflicted and mourn and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, joy to heaviness
We should really mourn, be sorrowful for our own sins and the sins of the world.
1 Cor 5:2 You are puffed up over this sin, you have not rather mourned
Matt 26:75 Peter wept bitterly after denying Jesus three times
2 Sam 24:10, 17David’s heart condemned him after numbering the people. Said I have sinned greatly
1 Chr 21:16-17 David and elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces. David said he’d sinned
1 Kings 21:25-29 Ahab evil, but when heard indictment, sackcloth and fasted, mourned. Punishment delayed
Job 40:1-5 Job said he was vile for his lack of understanding about how great God is
(1 John 1:8-10 We are to confess our sins, if we say we have no sin we are liars)
Psa 32:1-5 Kept silent and suffered. Acknowledged iniquity of my sin.
Psa 38:18 For I will declare my iniquity; I will be in anguish over my sin
Psa 51:1-4 David asked to be washed clean, admitted he had done evil
Psa 73:21-22 My heart was grieved, vexed in my mind. I was foolish and ignorant
Ecc 7:2-5 Better to go to the house of mourning than to feast. Better to hear the rebuke of the wise
Isa 6:5 I am a man of unclean lips, I swell in the midst of a people of unclean lips
Isa 22:11-14 Judah rejected God and He called for a day or mourning, but instead they had a feast
Jer 36:23-24 When king heard words Jeremiah had written, he did not tear garments, were not afraid
Dan 9:8, 15 To us belongs shame of face because we have sinned against You
Joel 1:13-15 God calls for priest, Israel to lament, wail, sackcloth, fast, for the Day of the Lord is coming
Jonah 3:6-9 King of Nineveh laid aside robe, sackcloth and ashes. Proclaimed a fast
Morn for sins of world, not just our own
Ezra 9:1-7 Ezra is mortified over the interracial marriages of Jews
Neh 9:1-4 Israel assembled with fasting in sackcloth, dust on their heads. Separated from foreigners
Psa 106:6 We have sinned with our fathers. We have done wickedly
Psa 119:136 Rivers of water run down from my eyes, because men do not keep Your law
2 Cor 12:21 Paul said he would be grieved if Corinthians did not give up their sinful ways
Israel will mourn sins at Day of the Lord, beginning of Millennium
Eze 7:16 Those who survive will escape to mountains, all of them mourning for their iniquity
Jer 3:21, 25 Israel weeps and offers supplications for they have perverted their way, forgotten God
Jer 14:7, 20 We acknowledge our wickedness, for we have sinned against you
Jer 31:9, 18-20 Israel will return from captivity with weeping and with supplications
Zech 12:10-14 God give Israel understanding and they will mourn because they realize they killed Jesus
Luke 18:13 Publican would not raise his eyes, but smote his breast, asking mercy because he a sinner
2 Cor 7:9-11 Godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation
Matt 5:4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted (Luke 6:21)
The only way to true happiness, everlasting happiness, is to mourn over our sin, ours and the sins of this world.