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A Pure Heart
Whats inside .....
Are our long-term plans and goals any different than the rest of the world?
Illustration - recently same manufactures of cereal started putting less in boxes weight but keep the box the same.
The fine print said the correct oz but the box was the same size as went larger amounts were inside.
People felt deceived and taken
What do we desire the most?
What are we living for?
What inside ......
That is the most significant question of the Christian life, of any life.
That is the question this beatitude we are studying in answers in the most explicit terms.
Stop portraying your self to be one thing when the real you is something else.
What is the heart?
One definition of the heart is that it is the organ that DISTINGUISHES the LIVING from the DEAD.
How do you experience more of the life of God in your heart?
Wouldn’t it be great if God could give us preventative medicine to help our “heart” or the center of our personal life; our thinking, will, and emotions?
Is their anything we can take that will prevent sin from building up in our heart?
Is there something we can take that will keep the center or focus of our personal life, the spring of all our desires, motives, and moral choices - indeed, of all our behavioral trends healthy and right before God?
I. To Be Pure is to Purge
The Greek word for “pure” in is katharos.
Pure means to be “clean, blameless, unstained from guilt.”
Interestingly, the word can refer specifically to that which is purified by fire or by pruning.
John the Baptist told people that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire ().
Malachi speaks of the Messiah as being like a “refiner’s fire” ().
Jesus refers to believers as being the branches and to Himself as being the vine ().
For a vine to produce fruit, it must be pruned.
Those who are truly “pure,” then, are those who have been declared innocent because of the work of Jesus and who are being sanctified by His refining fire and His pruning.
john 15.1-1
Department of Agriculture
Fruit trees are different from your average shade trees in that they need to be pruned every year to improve fruit quality.
Pruning fruit trees is a necessary chore that improves sunlight penetration and increase air movement through the tree.
Pruning also develops the structure of the tree so that it can support the crop load.
The first step is to remove any diseased or damaged branches.
Diseased limbs can be a source of disease for the upcoming season so it is important to remove and destroy these branches.
What is God trying to prune from your life?
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To be Pure is from the Inside Out
Matt
This beatude Jesus says he want a pure heart not just outside but inside.
This beatude Jesus says he want a pure heart not just outside but inside.
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God” ().
That’s it!
That’s the goal of the Christian life!
What we need today are real genuine Christians.
This is the most central and the most significant of all the beatitudes mentioned in this fifth chapter of Matthew.
You cannot be poor in spirit without having a pure heart.
You cannot mourn for the things that displease God without having a pure heart.
You cannot be meek, you cannot hunger and thirst for righteousness, you cannot be merciful, you cannot be a peacemaker or be prepared to stand persecution for the name of Christ without having a pure heart.
Actually, this is one of the most central principles of the Christian life that we see in the whole Bible.
The heart of the matter is the matter of the heart.
They really believe what they say and are not putting on a show.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
The first thing we learn from this beatitude is that Jesus is concerned with our heart.
It is not enough to clean up our act on the outside.
The aim of Jesus Christ is not to reform the manners of society, but to change the hearts of sinners like you and me.
III.
To be Pure is Not Natural
The heart defines our purity
The heart need to be purified
matt 12
The human heart, in its natural condition, is evil, treacherous and deceitful.
In other words, the Fall has affected us at the deepest level; our mind, emotions and desires have been tainted by sin—and we are blind to just how pervasive the problem is.
says, “The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure.
Who can understand it?”
In other words, the Fall has affected us at the deepest level; our mind, emotions and desires have been tainted by sin—and we are blind to just how pervasive the problem is.
The heart is what you are, in the secrecy of your thought and feeling, when nobody knows but God.
What comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart . . .
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.
These are what defile a man” ().
So the heart is utterly crucial to Jesus.
So the heart is utterly crucial to Jesus.
What we are in the deep, private recesses of our lives is what he cares about most.
Jesus did not come into the world simply because we have some bad habits that need to be broken.
He came into the world because we have such dirty hearts that need to be purified.
What we are in the deep, private recesses of our lives is what he cares about most.
Look at you self in a mirror and talk to God about who you are
Jesus did not come into the world simply because we have some bad habits that need to be broken.
He came into the world because we have such dirty hearts that need to be purified.
We may not understand our own hearts, but God does.
He “knows the secrets of the heart”
john
Illustration - passport , name address, SS # , background picture and finger print ....
It identifies who I am ....
It is me
You heart is who you are
God and only God can change your heart
It comes out ......,
So let’s ask briefly in the moments we have,
What is it to see God?What is it to be pure in heart?And, how are these two things bound together?
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What is it to see God?
I would mention three things.
TO BE ADMITTED TO HIS PRESENCE
First, to see God means to be admitted to his presence.
After the plague of darkness on Egypt, Pharaoh exploded to Moses with these words:
“Get away from me; take heed to yourself; never see my face again; for in the day you see my face you shall die.”
Moses said, “As you say!
I will not see your face again.”
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When a king says, “You will never see my face again,” he means, “I will never grant you admission again into my presence.”
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