Pure In Heart-Stuff of Life

Pure in Heart - The Stuff of Life
Matthew 5

Matthew 23:25-26 Jesus did not come to change the manners of society, but the mind of sinners.

Matthew 5:27-28
Matthew 15:18-19, 12:33-34

The heart to the Hebrews and Jews was the center of the innermost emotions and feelings.

The Problem of the Human Heart Jeremiah 17:9-10
Deceived / Deceitful
Disease – “beyond cure”
Diagnosis – v. 10
Doctor – v. 14

The Pursuit of the Heart
Legalism
Modernism
Activism
Escapism

The Pure Heart
What does is mean?
Catharsis:
a)To make pure by cleansing;
b)Unmixed, not having double allegiance, singlemindness
Right Motives

Purity is not simply the absence of corruption in our lives, it is also the presence of God.

The Promise to a pure heart “see God”
Here and Now
Hereafter