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Discovery 3:
You Can Experience Purity.
Purity ~ An Idea Whose
Time Has Come
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
The Beatitudes are not things
hoped for but things that are
real – right now.
(The Message)
You're blessed when you get your inside world
— your mind and heart — put right. Then you
can see God in the outside world.
1. The Bible tells us that a pure
heart is within reach.
Only those with a pure heart may stand
in His holy place!
Psalm 24:3-4
Who may ascend the hill of the LORD?
Who may stand in his holy place?
He who has clean hands and a pure heart,
David prayed for a pure heart.
Psalm 51:10
Create in me a pure heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
The goal of the gospel is a pure heart.
1 Timothy 1:5
The goal of this command is love, which
comes from a pure heart and a good
conscience and a sincere faith.
You may call on the Lord out of a pure
heart.
2 Timothy 2:22
Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue
righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with
those who call on the Lord
out of a pure heart.
Peter speaks of those
who have a pure heart.
1 Peter 1:22
Now that you have purified yourselves by
obeying the truth so that you have sincere love
for your brothers, love one another deeply,
from the heart.
2. So what is a pure heart?
The Message
The whole point of what we're urging is simply
love ~ love uncontaminated by self-interest
and counterfeit faith, a life open to God.
Here’s the essence of sin – a life
centered on selfish interests; a
life turned in on self.
James calls believers who live
with mixed selfish motives and
desires – double-minded.
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.
Jesus is our example of a man
who lived with a single purpose
– a pure heart.
Philippians 2:1-8 (The Message)
Don't push
your way to the front; don't
sweet-talk your way to the top.
Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead.
Don't be obsessed with getting your own
advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to
lend a helping hand. Think of yourselves the
way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had
equal status with God but didn't think so much
of Himself that He had to cling to the
advantages of that status no
matter what. Not at all.
When the time came, He set aside the
privileges of deity and took on the status of a
slave, became human! Having become human,
He stayed human.
It was an incredibly humbling process. He
didn't claim special privileges. Instead, He
lived a selfless, obedient life and then died
a selfless, obedient death — and
the worst kind of death at that:
a crucifixion.
Psalm 51:7-12
Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;
wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me
hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have
crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and
blot out all my iniquity.
Psalm 51:7-12
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew
a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from
your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to
me the joy of your salvation and
grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Matthew 5:8
Jesus said,
“Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God.”