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We are taking a look at the secrets to happiness and true success.

-Self Help industry is a 12 billion dollar a year industry by itself.

You add in drugs, alcohol, technology, all the material possessions that we buy and the pharmaceutical industry.

and you have a number that no one can calculate, only gues in it wiould be in the 100s of billions if not trillions.

But it took a poor galilean carpenter from Nazereth to tell us where true success is really found.

Where a truly Blessed life comes from.

And you wont find this is any self help book, no motvational speech.

But there may be a reason that Jesus is worshiped by billions of people two thousand years later, the man from Heaven knows what he is taling about

Blessed are the Broken

Today we are going to look at when you find a blessing in brokeness.

Let me ask you a question have you ever been to the place where you feel like you are absolutely broken.

Have you ever been to that dark place where it seems like all hope is lost, that there is nonthing that could ever bring joy and hope to your life?

Jesus began bythis sermon by sharing deep truths about te keys to the Kingdom. he started off with spritiual bankruptsy, Until we get to the place where we see that we are absoluted in debt to God Almighty we will never truly lay a hold of heavenly riches.

Yes we can play the game, we may get by with talent and charisma, but we will never have supernatural power that comes through the Spirit of God until we see our need for jesus Chrsit and His death upon the cross.

But the second key to the Kingdom Jesus says blessed are those who mourn for they shall be comforted....

There is a promise here that you can lay hold of child of God.

And that is when you are ran through the ringer, you are not alone.

That there is purpose behind your brokenness.

That all things will work together for good to those who love God and are called according to his purpose.

Now the promise is not rebellious that when they mourn they will be comforted.

No the promises of God are only applied to those that have entered into a covenant with the Almighty, hence the first Be attitude bleseed are the poor in Spirit for their is the Kingdom of God.

The word that is used here for the word mourn is the a word that speaks of the deepest kind of human sorrow and brokeness.

The kind that humanly speaking there is no sort of remeduy or fix.

No amount of human ingenuity can solve this type of pain.

No amount of worldy councel can bring comfort to this wounded soul.

But there is one that can comfort at the deepest level possible.

2 Different types of wounds that the Human Psche can take.

First is the wound of sin-

This wound is is caused by our sin or maybe someone else’s sin combination of the two.

Now sin brings utter destruction to the human soul.

It festers with [pride and causes the heart to become callous.

And when a child of God sins and it is un-confessed sin.

it begins to take a toll on you emotionally.

It wioll take a toll on your physically.

Studies tell us that over 85% of all Er visits are induced by stress.

It called Psychosymatic illness.

And Jesus said blessed are those that mourn.

Now alll man-made religions have a pseudo solution to sin.

You have the works based religons by which you try to make up for sin by doing good.

The problem is that God is recording all of our works, whether good or evil and there is a day of judgment coming.

Or two man made religions attempt to just absolve you from feelings of guilt all together.

This is the case in most Eastern religions.

Through Transubstantiation Meditation.

But listen Gods word tells us that without the shedding of blood there is no remission for sins.

I have good news if this describes you this morning.

You have things in your past that you just can’t get past, There is blood available to you. the blood of Christ, and there is no stain to deep, there is no sin to horrible that that blood of the sinless lamb of God cannot lift.

His blood is the best disinfectant to filthy, festered wounds.

And Blessed are them that morn for they will be comforted.

2. Wound of Sorrow.

Now unlike the sin of guilt the wound of sorrow is not a dirty wound.

It is a clean wound.

It is a wound that is not caused by sin, but caused by loss.

And for this wound God’s word speaks of the oil of gladness.

Time will not heal the dirty wound of sin, but time and the oil of gladness that is applied by the Holy sirit will cause this wound to heal properly.

Now this mornign whatever category you fall into I have good news.

I wnat to tell you about the God that heals and heals completely.

This morning we will be looking at the Old Testament in Ezekiel 37..

The Valley of Dry Bones

Now Ezekiel the prophet is God’s man, and so he is carried by the Spirit of God into a very strange place.

God brings him into a valley.

And in that valley there has been a tremendous battle.

And many people have been slain in that particular battle.

The battle had taken place a long time ago, because now there is nothing but bones strewn in the valley.

It is a valley of dry bones.

And Ezekiel looks at these bones.

Perhaps over here there is a skull that is lying in a crushed helmet, and over here is a bony hand still gripping a rusty sword, but the bones have been picked clean by the birds of the air.

They have been washed by the rain; they have been bleached by the sun; and now they are baked, and they are very dry, scattered all over that valley.

Now Ezekiel the prophet is God’s man, and so he is carried by the Spirit of God into a very strange place.

God brings him into a valley.

And in that valley there has been a tremendous battle.

And many people have been slain in that particular battle.

The battle had taken place a long time ago, because now there is nothing but bones strewn in the valley.

It is a valley of dry bones.

And Ezekiel looks at these bones.

Perhaps over here there is a skull that is lying in a crushed helmet, and over here is a bony hand still gripping a rusty sword, but the bones have been picked clean by the birds of the air.

They have been washed by the rain; they have been bleached by the sun; and now they are baked, and they are very dry, scattered all over that valley.

God asked Ezekiel a very important but from our human perspective a very absurd question can these bones live?

Now before we get to caught up the interpretation of this passage is to the House of Israel.

It was a prophecy that in the last days God would gather His people from all over the world and bring them back into the Land of Israel.

He would call them from the four winds of the earth.

Now this prophecy was made about 2600 years ago and we have witnessed the regathering of the Jewish nation from every corner of the earth.

Keep in Mind that from

The Roman army led by Titus conquered Jerusalem and destroyed the Second Temple at 70 CE.

Jewish people were then exiled and dispersed to the Diaspora.

In 132, Bar Kokhba organized a revolt against Roman rule, but was killed in a battle in Bethar in Judean Hills.

Subsequently, the Romans decimated the Jewish community, renamed Jerusalem as Aelia Capitolina and Judea as Palaestina to obliterate Jewish identification with the Land of Israel (the word Palestine, and the Arabic word Filastin originate from this Latin name).

And for the next 1900 years it was easy to scoff at the Bible because everything prophetically revolves around the Jew and a land, the Land of Israel, but something supernatural took place in 1948 on the heels of WW2.

After Hitler was defeated, the nation of Israel became a Sovereign nation after being exiled to the nations of the Worldfo the lat 1. 900 years.

A. Dead Bones

God Gives life to the Lost

B. Dry Bones

They were very dry.” (Ezekiel 37:2) They were dry bones.

That is, there is no meat and no marrow.

They had been out there for a long time.

Not even any moisture in these bones.

If you wanted to raise a corpse, at least you’d like to have one that had some meat on the bones, wouldn’t you?

But here are just bones.

I mean no marrow or meat on the inside.

They are very dry.

It depicted hopelessness