The Intangilbe Organ Only God can Change

Objective: My objective today is to ask the question does my actions match my intentions. I want each believer to leave hear today asking themselves has my heart truly been set a straight.

Diagnosis: We live in a world of good deeds and gossip. Everything that we do is now broadcast for the world to see. Even the church has to take a camera crew into the community just to show off and show out. Our hearts are wicked and our intentions are ill-willed, in which I will help not because you need it, but because it makes me feel important. We have lost the true meaning to what it really means to show compassion or when we do act we are moved by obligation and not love:

Society: If God’s word doesn’t ring true. Before we start this morning I want us to take a quick look at 2 Timothy 3:2 (For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,). When I was younger, I always interrupted this verse wrong, and when it said lovers of themselves I automatically thought it had everything to do with homosexuality. Shallow thinking, but never knowing it was much worst. These verse has more to do with Idolatry, and when we think about idol’s they have one thing in common, in which in most cases they are highly sought after, but they don’t have any nutritional value in which they can’t do nothing for you. However, in the case of humans Paul is really saying these type of people can’t do anything for God because their hearts are focused on the things of this world and not on the things of God. When we get into our text, picking up from where Pastor left off we are beginning to understand that the beatitudes, are designed so that man can serve God and not become lovers of yourself. If social media has proven anything, it has proven it will be used as a vessel for God’s wrath, because every time you go onto social media, people stay recording themselves doing Good deeds.

Sermon:

This verse Matthew 5:8 “(Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God).

is the only beatitude that you can’t fake. Because this beatitude is the thing that God looks at, in which how you experience him. So this beatitude is not only link to your experience with God, but it also applies to that of satisfaction, in which case are worthy enough to even stand in God’s presence. Before we dive into this text there are three words that you need to write down the first is (horao) (who-ral), and it means to see or experience, the next word is (katharos) pure, and it means to be unstained or upright having good intentions, and lastly (Kardia), and it means mind, intention, or thoughts and feelings. This verse like all verses has one interpretation, but it can be applied two ways. The first way:

James 4:3 (You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions).

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However, the 2nd way to look at this is by applying it to the process of sanctification. Paul says in Romans 12:2 (Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect). The word for mind is (nous), and it means to reason in thought. Since the word mind is so broad in the bible, it holds weight, in which it can be applied in various way one in which it harnesses the heart, so if the mind is changing in a Christian then so is the heart. The second way this these verse is applied : Is literal, in which only pure hearted people will actually see God , meaning that they were worthy enough to stand in his kingdom .

Psalms 24:4 (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). To have a clean heart and clean hands can only be done by God through sanctification, one must be sanctified to even enter into proper worship with God. Hebrews 12:14 (Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord). One of the greatest examples of this is found in John 1: 43-51. (The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Follow me.” Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Law and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.” Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!” Nathanael said to him, “How do you know me?” Jesus answered him, “Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” Nathanael answered him, “Rabbi, you are the Son of God! You are the King of Israel!” Jesus answered him, “Because I said to you, ‘I saw you under the fig tree,’ do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” And he said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”) Basically because of the pureness i see in you, you will experience more of me . These passage is amazing because Christ knew what Nathanael was thinking, Christ didn’t just bring up the illustration of Jacob’s ladder for nothing. Remember this men were Old testament scholars, and for what ever reason that day Nat was thinking of this event, that is why he posed the statement as he did. Jacob who was full of guile only had a dream in which he saw the Angels ascending and descending and he also saw God. This dream was the effectual call for Jacob. Jacob’s life was forever changed after this. Nathan who had no guile got to experience God live in the flesh, in which his life was also forever changed. Jesus put a play on the words because he said Son of God

What does it prove: it proves that God calls us effectually in our wicked state before sanctification, before our pure hearts. However, once called if we want to experience God and see him then one must continue to come to God with the mind of Christ.

One of the biggest misconception is that we die for our sins, but in all reality we die because of what is in our hearts. Our word says God searches the heart; Looking at Jeremiah 17: 9-10 in a commentary by John Owen he states “ “There is in you,” he says, “a fallacious and a wicked heart: hence is the confidence, which inebriates you; for ye think that your deceits cannot be discovered.” Then in astonishment he asks, Who can search it? but the answer immediately follows, I—I Jehovah; that is, “It belongs to one to search the heart and the reins, and so nothing can escape me.”1 The meaning then is, that when men try to deceive God, they gain nothing, for God knows how to take the wise in their own craftiness, and to discover all their guile and deceits. Then he adds for what end is this done, That I may render to every one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his works.

John Calvin and John Owen, Commentaries on the Prophet Jeremiah and the Lamentations, vol. 2 (Bellingham, WA: Logos Bible Software, 2010), 355–356.