Blessed are the Pure in Heart
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A Pure Heart is Required to See God.
A Pure Heart is Required to See God.
What does it means to be pure?
Unsoiled, not mixed with impurity. Not two-faced (hypocritical).
Cleansed from all sin.
O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent? Who shall dwell on your holy hill? He who walks blamelessly and does what is right and speaks truth in his heart; who does not slander with his tongue and does no evil to his neighbor, nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.
Ps 15
Ps 24:
The heart deals with our total personality. Who we are.
God is concerned more about the heart than the external purity.
Sin cannot clean up sin! It must be washed from the outside.
A Pure Heart is Regenerated by the Spirit of God.
A Pure Heart is Regenerated by the Spirit of God.
We need cleansing at the core of our being!
This is accomplished by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ and the regeneration of the Holy Spirit.
he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
A pure heart gives us confidence before God, because of Christ’s work.
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
A Pure Heart is Renewed by the Word of God.
A Pure Heart is Renewed by the Word of God.
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
A Pure Heart is Renewed by the Word of God.
A Pure Heart is Renewed by the Word of God.
The ongoing work of renewal (sanctification) is accomplished by the Word of God.
Jesus said that we are cleansed by His Word.
Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you.
For those that have been born again, we need only the daily cleansing that comes from being in fellowship with God.
Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.”
John 13:
We are encouraged to confess our faults and pursue Christ in fellowship with other believers.
James 5:16-
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit.
So flee youthful passions and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.
A Pure Heart is Rewarded by the Presence of God.
A Pure Heart is Rewarded by the Presence of God.
To have a pure heart means that “we have an undivided love which regards God as our highest good, and which is concerned (primarily) with loving God.” - D. Martin Lloyd Jones
We see God at work in our world, and we have the promise of seeing Him in his glory.
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth. “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me. Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Father, I desire that they also, whom you have given me, may be with me where I am, to see my glory that you have given me because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Do you desire a heart that is unmixed? Do you desire to see God in his glory? Is He your highest good? Have you known the joy of redemption through Christ?