Matthew 5.8 [Blessed are the Pure in Heart...]

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Matthew 5.8
'Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.'

Just as being lowly/meek/humble is 'poor in spirit and mourning in action', so the pure in heart flows out of all the beatitudes thus far...

A good way to look at the beatitudes is to look at the promise first, and then the condition...
You shall see God [or the only way to see God] is if you are pure in heart...this is what it means to be blessed.

This is a good way to understand all the beatitudes

Blessed are the poor in Spirit
Blessed are those who mourn
Blessed are the lowly
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness
Blessed are the merciful

We need to remember that it is first and foremost the work of Yahweh in us which causes the condition in the first place...

[Psalm 24]

Pure: clean, blameless, unstained from guilt
Chaste
Unmixed [do not be conformed to the world, but be renewed in the mind]

Heart: the inner man, the center of the man, the whole of who a person is

These are all included in

Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand

Yahweh requires Purity, as we can see here in this beatitude

Be perfect as your Father who is in heaven is perfect

Be ye holy, just as Yahweh is holy

Purify your hands, you sinners

Humble yourself in the sight of The Lord, and He will lift you up

Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me [Psalm 51.10]

Who are the pure in heart?
How does one get a pure/clean heart?
[see Ezekiel 36; Acts 11]
How can one cry out to have a pure heart [to hunger and thirst for righteousness]?
Those who have a pure heart alone shall see Yahweh
[Once again seeing only two groups of people]

The Problem:

The problem is 2-fold:

First, Yahweh is too holy to look upon iniquity

Second, the whole of mankind is fallen and alienated from Yahweh

As we are told in Genesis 6.5:
'...Every single intent of every thought of the heart is only evil continually in the sight of Yahweh...'

Jeremiah
'The heart of deceitful above all else, and is desperately sick; who can understand it? Only Yahweh judges the heart'

The Law of Yahweh is given..
The Law is the perfect and righteous requirements of Yahweh in which we are to act in, meaning that mankind is supposed to obey...
But as we are told in Scripture, there is no Law unto life, and thus the Law is supposed to show us our iniquity and drive us to The Lord Christ Jesus...

As we have been discussing thus far in the beatitudes, this is internal, not external...
Our actions cannot and will not save us. It is not our belief or faith that save us...
It is God who saves us through The Lord Christ Jesus...
It is God who instills faith in us which causes us to believe...
Nothing that we do can save us, which is what we considered in how we are poor in spirit in and of ourselves...

...For they shall see God

Only those who are pure in heart can see God, can be in the presence of God

Positionally we need to be perfect and holy in the sight of Yahweh, yet in and of ourselves, we [the whole of mankind] are guilty in the sight/presence of Yahweh, and thus cannot be in the presence of Yahweh

There needs to be a singleness of heart toward Yahweh [from Got Questions]. This is actually the summation of the Law:
'You shall love The Lord your God with all your heart, and will all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.'

The question is posed in Job:
'How can man be right with Yahweh?'

This ties in with the question that we have been asking:
'Where is our focus...who is our focus on?'

What needs to happen:
The Gospel needs to be proclaimed...

We love cause Yahweh first loved us

Ezekiel 36
Yahweh acts for His namesake, not for our sake...
Yahweh removes the dead heart of stone, and replaces it with an heart of flesh...
Yahweh sprinkles us with water and removes our idols...
Yahweh places His Spirit within us in order that we might be careful to observe His ordinances and to walk in His statutes...

Ephesians 1
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Christ Jesus who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus...

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