Blessed are the Pure in Heart. For they
Shall See God
By Nick Bibile
Matthew 6:8
This is one of the
greatest sayings found anywhere in the Bibile. There are many who would desire
to see God. Even the unbelievers would say, show me you’re God then I will
believe. Many would say I don’t see God. Moses had this earnest desire to see
God when he said, And he
said, “Please, show me Your glory.” (Exodus
33:18) God replied to Moses but He said, “You cannot see My face; for no man shall see
Me, and live.” (Exod 33:20). But Jesus said here in the
Beatitudes, ‘Blessed are the Pure in Heart. For they shall see God.’
Why is it that man cannot see God? God is infinitely holy,
righteous, and pure. Man is unholy, unrighteous and un pure. God is Spirit, man
is carnal.
Then why did Jesus say, the pure in heart can see God?
Unlike any other religion, Christianity centers on man’s heart. If you look at
the Beatitudes how wonderfully arranged by God, first three is centered on our
condition, our sinfulness as we have ruined our life, the first three exposes
our need. Poor in spirit understanding we are bankrupt spiritually, mourning
because of our sinfulness; meek is the result of understanding what had
happened that we have ruined our life. Then comes a change, ‘Blessed are those
who hunger and thirst after righteousness. Once we have understood the need,
then we hunger and thirst for righteousness. Then the result is that we are
satisfied, we are merciful, pure in heart, and we become peace makers.
Now Jesus did not say, ‘Blessed are the intellectual for
they shall see God.’ Nor did he say, Blessed are the rich for they shall see
God, nor Blessed are the famous and popular for they shall see God. Also he did
not say, ‘Blessed are the good and the religious for they shall see God. No,
why? Because Christianity centers on the heart of man not on the external, God
looks at the heart of man, not the outward. Other religions looks at the
outward, the external righteousness, like the Pharisees they look religious
outwardly but Jesus looked at the inside and said, they are clean outside but
inside is like a dead man’s bones.
Spurgeon
said, “Formalism, too,
will never see God, for formalism always looks to the shell and never gets to
the kernel. Formalism licks the bone, but never gets to the marrow. It heaps to
itself ceremonies, mostly of its own invention”
Some people think they see God as they are baptized,
they taken Holy Communion, they go to church, and they have a Bible in their
home. They think because of these outward religious performances they can see
God. However Christianity goes beyond, it goes deeper in to the very heart.
Why is it that Christianity centers on the heart? It is the
center of our personality. Many are deceived thinking it is the seat of our
affections as we think the heart is our emotions it is beyond our emotions. The
heart has to do with the total of man; it includes the mind, the will and your
emotions. In Christianity the gospel begins with the heart. The natural man is
lost, dead in sin because the heart is impure; it is only that God can give a
new heart.
Out of our heart comes everything as it is our personality,
Jesus said:
Mt
The
world says, man is ruined because of our environment. If the environment is bad
you will have a bad personality, if the environment is good you will have a
good personality. This is what is being taught in schools today. This is wrong,
why? In the beginning man was in a perfect environment, he was in paradise, yet
he fell. Yes, my beloved, it is not the education and the intellect, if this is
true why is it that today we are finding out the most educated and most
intellectual people fall into deep trouble because of sin. The problem is the
center, the heart. The Bible is the only book that exposes our true character
as Jeremiah said:
9 “The
heart is deceitful
above all things, And
desperately wicked; (Jer
17:9)
But ‘Blessed’ are the pure in heart. Blessed is that we are
exceedingly happy, supreme happiness comes when our heart are pure. What is the
meaning of pure?
Ps 86:11
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy
name.
Hypocrites have a
double heart
Psalm 12:2 They
speak idly everyone with his neighbor; with flattering
lips and a
double heart they speak.
A heart for God and a heart for sin. 'Their heart is divided’ (Hosea
10: 2).
Man has
a divided heart, one part wants to know God and the other part wants to serve
ourselves.
Romans
Who is the only person who had a pure heart? Jesus Christ.
He had no sin; his entire life was spotless, perfect and pure. He had an undivided
love to God, undivided obedience, undivided will. He fulfilled the greatest
commandments which we have broken.
Thou shall love the Lord with all your heart, your soul and
with your mind, and then love your neighbor as you love yourself.
Jesus had a pure heart, he was no hypocrite, and his heart
was in singleness to God, not divided. This purity means he was holy. Purity
and holiness has the same meaning that is why the Bible says without holiness
no one will see God.
Hebrews
'Be ye holy for I am
holy’ (1 Peter
Oh, my friends the only way we can see God is to have a
pure undivided holy heart. We cannot attain this by our own effort of works, no
as Paul said Rom 7: 24 O
wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I
thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!
When you realize you are unholy, un pure, living a life of
a hypocrite, a double standard life, knowing you are showing one side of
behavior to the church and another side of behavior to the world, living like
an unbeliever for six days of your life and on Sunday you become like a saint,
this is hypocrisy. But if you fall at the feet of Jesus, he will deliver you
from the wrath of God that is going to come. Our evil hearts need to be broken
through repentance of our sins.
The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart, and
saves such as have a contrite spirit. (PS 34:18)
Yes, fall at the
hands of Jesus, then all your hypocrisy, your wickedness, your sinfulness is
charged to Jesus Christ, then Jesus will charge his holiness and his purity to
you. Thank be to God through Jesus Christ. We become pure in heart by believing
and trusting in our Savior. He will give us a new heart.
Ezk
2Co
How do you know if you have a sincere pure heart? The
inward change will bring a true outward behavior.
Sincere Christian
serves God with the 'whole heart’ (Psalm 119:2).
2 Blessed are those
who keep His testimonies, Who seek Him with the whole heart!
When you seek God with a whole heart, you will hate sin,
you will love God. You will grow in your sanctification in the fear of the Lord
'Let us cleanse
ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in
the fear of God’. (2 Corinthians 7: 1).
How
can the pure in heart see God?
Jesus
said:
John
John
John 14:8 Philip
said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
9 Jesus
said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me,
Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us
the Father’?
Beloved,
if you are born again of the spirit of God, one day you are going to see Jesus.
Jo 3:2
beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall
be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall
see him as he is.
Jesus
is the glory of God. He is God in flesh that dwelt among men. He is our Word, the Word of God that changes
our evil heart, breaks our heart and gives a new heart, a heart that will
worship God in spirit and truth. A heart will serve God wholeheartedly.
The pure in heart may see God, and do see him;-not
with the natural eye, and far from us be such a carnal idea as that, but with
their inner spiritual eye they see the great God who is Spirit, and they have,
spiritual but very real communion with the Most High. And one day the pure in
heart, the true born again Christians will see God.
Revelation 21:1 Now
I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth
had passed away. Also there was no more sea. 2 Then
I, John, saw the holy city, New Jerusalem,
coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. 3 And
I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, “Behold, the tabernacle of God is with
men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself
will be with them and
be their God.