Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,
Mat 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Today's lesson from the Greatest Teacher to ever live-
Blessed are the PURE in HEART.
The pure in heart shall see GOD.
Jesus said this--
Mat 23:25 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.
Mat 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Mat 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Having a pure heart, being inwardly beautiful, inwardly clean.
Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites- OUTWARDLY they appeared RIGHTEOUS to others, but HE knew their inward parts, He knew their hearts.
Do you know people who appear outwardly righteous? We all do, don't we? We know of those we'd like to be more like and wish we could behave and live like they are. We are told that we shall know others by their works, and yet even then we are sometimes fooled by the works aren't we? This means really that sometimes it is blatantly obvious what a person's works are revealing. Yet other times things aren't quite on the up and up. I may see the good works of a man and he could be very corrupt, his works good only for his own gain. I may see the works of an evil man and this at least reveals little hypocrisy, right? The man who chooses to blatantly steal, lie, be contentious isn't hiding his evil deeds. When we hide our evil ways choosing to be evil secretly it's that much harder to ever be Christ's. We get so used to hiding our inward evil that it becomes very easy to simply ignore that it's very evil at all.
Blessed are the pure in heart.
Truly those whose hearts are opened to our Savior and made clean by HIM will see GOD.
Remember this--
Psa_51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
We need God to create a CLEAN heart in us.
We need to choose to allow our God to clean our hearts. We need to desire this cleansing, this spirit renewal.
Pure hearts.
Psa 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
Psa 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Psa 24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
1Ti_1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned
2Ti_2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1Pe_1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently
Please Lord, it is ONLY through You and Your righteousness that we can be made clean, that you can give us the pure heart that we need.
We want to have pure hearts! We need hearts cleaned by Your cleansing love! We desire to have UNFEIGNED love of others.
Help us to CHOOSE to be loving as we choose to be wholly YOURS.
Bless us LORD, only in YOU are our hearts make us pure!
Mat 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Today's lesson from the Greatest Teacher to ever live-
Blessed are the PURE in HEART.
The pure in heart shall see GOD.
Jesus said this--
Mat 23:25 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.
Mat 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Mat 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Mat 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Having a pure heart, being inwardly beautiful, inwardly clean.
Jesus said to the scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites- OUTWARDLY they appeared RIGHTEOUS to others, but HE knew their inward parts, He knew their hearts.
Do you know people who appear outwardly righteous? We all do, don't we? We know of those we'd like to be more like and wish we could behave and live like they are. We are told that we shall know others by their works, and yet even then we are sometimes fooled by the works aren't we? This means really that sometimes it is blatantly obvious what a person's works are revealing. Yet other times things aren't quite on the up and up. I may see the good works of a man and he could be very corrupt, his works good only for his own gain. I may see the works of an evil man and this at least reveals little hypocrisy, right? The man who chooses to blatantly steal, lie, be contentious isn't hiding his evil deeds. When we hide our evil ways choosing to be evil secretly it's that much harder to ever be Christ's. We get so used to hiding our inward evil that it becomes very easy to simply ignore that it's very evil at all.
Blessed are the pure in heart.
Truly those whose hearts are opened to our Savior and made clean by HIM will see GOD.
Remember this--
Psa_51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
We need God to create a CLEAN heart in us.
We need to choose to allow our God to clean our hearts. We need to desire this cleansing, this spirit renewal.
Pure hearts.
Psa 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place?
Psa 24:4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
Psa 24:5 He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
1Ti_1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned
2Ti_2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
1Pe_1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently
Please Lord, it is ONLY through You and Your righteousness that we can be made clean, that you can give us the pure heart that we need.
We want to have pure hearts! We need hearts cleaned by Your cleansing love! We desire to have UNFEIGNED love of others.
Help us to CHOOSE to be loving as we choose to be wholly YOURS.
Bless us LORD, only in YOU are our hearts make us pure!
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