Transcript "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." (Matthew 5:8)

The Heart of Man
"Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they shall see God." (Matthew 5:8)
1
The Heart of Man
Because of this statement of Jesus, Christian discipleship is often
called "the religion of the pure in heart."
2
The Heart of Man
But what is the heart that must be pure and how does God
operate on and change the heart to make it pure?
3
The Heart of Man
What does the Bible teach?
4
The Heart of Man
"A good man out of the good treasure of
his heart brings forth good things, and an
evil man out of the evil treasure brings
forth evil things." (Matthew 12:35)
5
The Heart of Man
"But those things which proceed out of
the mouth come from the heart, and they
defile a man...."
6
The Heart of Man
"For out of the heart proceed evil
thoughts, murders, adulteries,
fornications, thefts, false witness,
blasphemies." (Matthew15:18-19)
7
The Heart Is Intellectual
Intellectual
8
The Heart Is Intellectual
But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said,
"Why do you think evil in your hearts?"
(Matthew 9:4)
9
The Heart Is Intellectual
But immediately, when Jesus perceived
in His spirit that they reasoned thus
within themselves, He said to them, "Why
do you reason about these things in your
hearts?" (Mark 2:8)
10
The Heart Is Intellectual
"'For the hearts of this people have
grown dull. Their ears are hard of
hearing, And their eyes they have closed,
Lest they should see with their eyes and
hear with their ears,
11
The Heart Is Intellectual
"'Lest they should understand with their
hearts and turn, So that I should heal
them.'" (Matthew13:15)
12
The Heart Is Emotional
Emotional
Intellectual
13
The Heart Is Emotional
"'You shall not hate your brother in your
heart. You shall surely rebuke your
neighbor, and not bear sin because of
him.'" (Leviticus 19:17)
14
The Heart Is Emotional
Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer
to God for Israel is that they may be
saved. (Romans 10:1)
15
The Heart Is Emotional
Since you have purified your souls in
obeying the truth through the Spirit in
sincere love of the brethren, love one
another fervently with a pure heart. (1 Peter
1:22)
16
The Heart Is Emotional
But also for this very reason, giving all
diligence, add to your faith virtue, to virtue
knowledge,
17
The Heart Is Emotional
to knowledge self-control, to self-control
perseverance, to perseverance godliness, to
godliness brotherly kindness, and to
brotherly kindness love. (2 Peter 1:5-7)
18
The Heart Is Ethical
Emotional
Ethical
Intellectual
19
The Heart Is Ethical
For if our heart condemns us, God is
greater than our heart, and knows all
things. Beloved, if our heart does not
condemn us, we have confidence toward
God. (1 John 3:20-21)
20
The Heart Is Ethical
For as many as have sinned without law
will also perish without law, and as many
as have sinned in the law will be judged by
the law
21
The Heart Is Ethical
(for not the hearers of the law are just in
the sight of God, but the doers of the law
will be justified; for when Gentiles, who
do not have the law, by nature do the
things in the law,
22
The Heart Is Ethical
these, although not having the law, are a
law to themselves, who show the work of
the law written in their hearts, their
conscience also bearing witness, and
between themselves their thoughts
accusing or else excusing them)
23
The Heart Is Ethical
in the day when God will judge the secrets
of men by Jesus Christ, according to my
gospel. (Romans 2:12-16)
24
The Heart Is Volitional
Emotional
Ethical
Intellectual
Volitional
25
The Heart Is Volitional
For the word of God is living and
powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the division
of soul and spirit, and of joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts
and intents of the heart. (Hebrews 4:12)
26
The Heart Is Volitional
So let each one give as he purposes in his
heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God
loves a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:7)
27
The Heart Is Volitional
But God be thanked that though you
were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from
the heart that form of doctrine to which
you were delivered. (Romans 6:17)
28
The Heart of Man
Emotional
Ethical
Intellectual
Volitional
29
God Changes the Heart
Emotionally
Ethically
Intellectually
Volitionally
30
God Changes the Heart
We will look at how God operates on and changes the heart in
the next lesson.
31