Sermon Cloud

After you realize and acknowledge your hopeless sinfulness, you mourn this loss just like you grieve at the loss of a loved one. The Jewish audience related to mourning since physical suffering and death was way too common. For Jesus to apply this experience to sin was new to his audience. The promise is that you will be comforted—the word "comforted" meaning to call to one’s side. God, through the Holy Spirit, is "called to your side" as your mourn your sinful condition.