Blessed are the Pure in Heart

Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.

Luke 8:9 - 14 9 Then Jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else: 10 “Two men went to the Temple to pray. One was a Pharisee, and the other was a despised tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer[a]: ‘I thank you, God, that I am not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers. I’m certainly not like that tax collector! 12 I fast twice a week, and I give you a tenth of my income.’

What is purity of heart?
1. Heart that is undivided
2. Heart that is made clean

Undivided: When their heart is single whole and undivided.

Matthew 6:22: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light..

The light of the body eye single focused on one direction. Wholeness and Health. Idea of going after one thing.

Restatement: Purity of Heart. To will one thing. Lord I’m going to take my heart (Myself, Others, Money, Career) and I’m going to pursue you. Blessed is the person that will’s one thing. To make to Joy to the Lord.

The opposite of a pure heart would be a divided heart.

1 Kings 18: 21 - Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal “The Lord of the Earth” is God, follow him.”

James 4:8 - Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Philippians 3: 12-14 - 12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

Teach me you way, O lord, That i may walk in your truth, unite my heart to fear your name. Psalm 86:11

Blessing of a clean heart.

1 John 1:9. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”

Titus 3:4-5 4 But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit,

Matthew 1:21
21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus,[a] because he will save his people from their sins.

1 John 1:9
Could do it. ask him to do it for you. Twisted mind and divided heart. Wash me cleanse me. Through Jesus Christ our lord and savior. Amen.

2 Corinthians. let us cleanse ourselves. - We are acting that’s the lang

1 Peter 1:22 - Having purified your souls by you obedience to the truth.

1 John 3:3 Everyone that has this hope purifies himself. actively engaged

Now What…

Things we can do.

1. Believe.
   James 1:6-7 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord.
2. Confess:
   John 1: 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
3. Study and Pursue Obedience:
   Ephesians 5:26.25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing[a] her by the washing with water through the word
4. Worship:
   2 Corinthians 3:18 18 And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate[a] the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
5. Ask:
   Psalm 51:10 Create in me a pure heart, O God,and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
6. Persevere
   Micah 7:8 Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
7. Anticipate:
   1 John 3:1-3 1See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears,[a] we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. 3 All who have this hope in him purify themselves, just as he is pure.