Pure Hearts See Clearly

How many of you who wear glasses, hate going outside in the cold? Why? Because you come back in, and they are all frosted up. And you cannot see. Which is in annoying thing, about wearing glasses. Is when you cannot see because of frost, dirt, smudges and things on it. You need to see, but it is hard when there is stuff on the lense.

Sin is the same way. Sin will blind your sight. Sin will cause you to be spiritually blind. Do you live in sin? Are you just trying to live out in the world, and say you love God.

Here we are in the Sermon on the Mount and going through the Beatitudes, and we’ve talked about being humble in spirit, mourning over sin, being meek, seeking after righteousness and being mercifull. Our next beatitude is about those who have a pure heart. This purity is about more than just immorality. It is about having a heart that loves God and want to please Him. He is saying this in a Jewish culture. Purity is talking about the devotion to God. Notice it say heart, so it talking about the inner man.

Are you pure in heart? Or do you put on a show, and have your heart wicked?

Matthew 15:18–20 “But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.”

He is talking about the Pharisees here, and one can look clean, but inside are not.

When the inside is clean, so will the outside. Matthew 23:25–26 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.”

Why should we have a pure heart? So we can see God!

Jesus says something very similar to Hebrews 12:14 “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:” That those who live holy and pure shall see God. Now Exodus says that no man shall see God, Hebrews and Colossians says that God is invisible. So how can you see God? Those who live holy shall see God, they shall be close. Sin ruins fellowship. When you sin you break fellowship with God.

Psalm 24:3–4 “Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who shall stand in his holy place? He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; Who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, Nor sworn deceitfully.”

When we live in sin, we cannot expect to have the right fellowship with God.

People who are lost are blind to their condition. 2 Corinthians 4:4 “In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.” They are also blind to God’s holiness.

Lost people are separated from God because their hearts are blind. Ephesians 4:17–18 “This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:” When we live in sin, we live like the old man.

Think about this, in order for us to go to heaven, we have to be holy. God cannot be contaminated with sin. So we cannot go to heaven and have the fellowship there without having our sin paid for. But because of the Lord Jesus sacrificing on the cross, we can go to heaven. The same thing on this life, we can grieve and quench the Holy Spirit by our sin. While we cannot ever lose our salvation we can

One who lives in sin cannot see God at work. They cannot see God’s character, they cannot see God,

Since God has saved us and we are able to have fellowship with Him. So we need to live holy in order to maintain the relationship.

Do you live in sin?