{"id":12679,"date":"2022-01-24T11:45:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/?p=12679"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:45:29","slug":"phil-44-how-can-we-rejoice-always-when-jesus-said-blessed-are-those-who-mourn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/phil-44-how-can-we-rejoice-always-when-jesus-said-blessed-are-those-who-mourn\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil 4:4 &#8211; How can we rejoice always when Jesus said \u201cblessed are those who mourn\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong> Paul commands us here to \u201cRejoice in the Lord always,\u201d but Jesus insisted that \u201cBlessed are those who mourn\u201d (Matt. 5:4).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong> Properly understood, these are not mutually exclusive. Mourning is the condition and rejoicing is the result of a proper relation to God. It is those who humble themselves whom God lifts up (cf. James 4:10). So it is those who mourn in their spirit who will be able to rejoice in their Lord. True sorrow for sin is the antecedent of the consequent joy of salvation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: Paul commands us here to \u201cRejoice in the Lord always,\u201d but Jesus insisted that \u201cBlessed are those who mourn\u201d (Matt. 5:4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22,3,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible-errors","category-bible-proof","category-bible-teaching","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pathway2truth.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}