Pure in Heart
Matthew 5:8 – Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
The heart is like a mirror. If the heart is pure, God will been seen through the heart. Know that as a bright and shining resemblance or image may be seen plainly in a clear and pure looking glass, even so does the face (as it were) of the everlasting God, shine forth, and clearly appear in a pure heart.
This is why many people just like the Pharisees, that appear pure outwardly but impure inwardly can’t and don’t see God. Christ through this verse was telling the Jews and other the importance of inward cleanness and cleanliness and not just outwardly. The Jewish have a principal part in their religion that consisted in outward washings and cleansings and that on this ground they expect to see God, to enjoy eternal glory.
Christ here shows that a purification of the heart, from all vile affections and desires, is essentially requisite in order to enter into the kingdom of God. He whose soul is not delivered from all sin, through the blood of the covenant, can have no Scriptural hope of ever being with God.
Let’s call on God that through His Holy Spirit and His Word, our hearts will be pure. Shalom!
Matthew 5:8 – Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
The heart is like a mirror. If the heart is pure, God will been seen through the heart. Know that as a bright and shining resemblance or image may be seen plainly in a clear and pure looking glass, even so does the face (as it were) of the everlasting God, shine forth, and clearly appear in a pure heart.
This is why many people just like the Pharisees, that appear pure outwardly but impure inwardly can’t and don’t see God. Christ through this verse was telling the Jews and other the importance of inward cleanness and cleanliness and not just outwardly. The Jewish have a principal part in their religion that consisted in outward washings and cleansings and that on this ground they expect to see God, to enjoy eternal glory.
Christ here shows that a purification of the heart, from all vile affections and desires, is essentially requisite in order to enter into the kingdom of God. He whose soul is not delivered from all sin, through the blood of the covenant, can have no Scriptural hope of ever being with God.
Let’s call on God that through His Holy Spirit and His Word, our hearts will be pure. Shalom!
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