(Clip) Finding True Happiness by Being Poor and Mourning

Now the question is, how do we pursue happiness? How do we find happiness? And what is happiness? What is it to be blessed? And when he says blessed here, he's not meaning it in a financial sense. He is meaning that the blessing of God is on that individual making him happy, making him joyful. And obviously this is not the kind of happiness that you get when you have some kind of worldly entertainment or some kind of worldly pleasure. This is something which is far more deep and far more real than the worldly kind of happiness that we experience. This is a deep joy that comes. And he doesn't say that we will have these things, but we have, blessed is he, now, present, continuous, tense. So we are happy. If we can find these things, there's the key to happiness. Everybody is trying to sell a book on how to find true happiness. Everybody has their own ideas as to how to find happiness. But here is the Lord Jesus' answers as to how to find true fulfillment, how to find true blessedness, how to find true happiness. The problem is that we don't like his formula. We don't like what he has to say. Because he says, he begins by saying, blessed are the poor in spirit. He goes on to speak about those who mourn. He goes on to speak about all sorts of things which we don't like to speak about, that we certainly don't like to think about, and we most definitely don't like to feel any of these things.