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Week of October 5, 2025

This Week’s Worship Set:

Take You At Your Word
Lord I Need You
The Air I Breathe
Peace Be Still
New Wine

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Corona Friends Church

The Gift Hidden In Grief | Upside Down Kingdom Series | Part 3

October 5, 2025

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Matthew 5:4,

The Gift Hidden In Grief | Upside Down Kingdom Series | Part 3

October 5, 2025 / Matthew Dietz / Matthew 5:4 / Corona Friends Church

The Gift Hidden In Grief
Overview: Grief feels like weakness, but in God’s Kingdom it becomes the very doorway to blessing. Jesus promises that those who mourn will not be abandoned but met with His comfort.

The Main Idea:

Jesus says being blessed looks more like “I’m desperate enough to admit my need, and broken enough to let God in.”
Read Matthew 5:3-4.

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Don’t Fake It, Feel It

Jesus says the blessing doesn’t come when you it; it comes when you it.
Comfort isn’t the of pain, it’s the of God in it.
Read Matthew 5:4 again.

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The Hidden Gift in Grief

Bring your mourning into the open, because that’s the very place where God’s can meet you.
- Isaiah 53:3 – Jesus is “a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief.”
The very place where you feel most is often the place where God is most .
Mourning is parakaleo – to come and .

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Mourning is Courage

Either you mourn your pain Jesus, or your pain will make you mourn later Him.
- Lamentations 3:22-23 – “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
Jesus carried the ultimate so that we could receive the ultimate .
- Revelation 21 – “He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death, mourning, crying, or pain.”

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Action Steps & Conclusion

Don’t hide grief → bring it to Jesus
Don’t numb grief → lean into God’s comfort.
Don’t rush grief → let community walk with you.

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