Blessed are the Pure in Heart
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Introduction:
Introduction:
Context Reminders about the Sermon on the Mount:
Body:
Body:
What is the heart?
The Heart is the seat of the will
Not only the seat of the emotions
The Heart is wicked
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”
The Heart is deceived
The heart is not only wicked, but it’s prone to leading us astray. It’s deceitful.
The heart is dead
Ezekiel 36:26 “And I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.”
Ephesians 4:17–18 “Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.”
Ephesians 2:1–3 “And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.”
The Heart is the Source of Our Problem
Matthew 15:18–19 “But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this defiles a person. For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.”
Matthew 12:33–34 ““Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad, for the tree is known by its fruit. You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”
What Does it Mean to Have a Pure Heart?
A Pure Heart Must Be a Renewed Heart
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
To have an undivided heart
Conclusion:
Conclusion:
