“Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.” Matthew 5:8

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. This principle says that resemblance to God is a prerequisite for fellowship with God. We cannot really see God unless we become like Him. Purity of heart asks: What do I think about when I slip my mind into neutral?

Paul says: “Whatever things are pure and just and of pure reproach and of good reputation, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8. This describes people who are pure in heart.

1 John 3:3 And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.

If the kingdom is then, but it is already now, then I must live now the way I will live then. To fail to do so is a contradiction of what the kingdom means. These Beatitudes deal with character, “the attitudes that ought to be.”

The phrase pure in heart has to do more with “unity” or “singleness of heart or mind.” It means, blessed is that which is unmixed. Blessed are those who do not have divided hearts,
do not have double hearts.

We cannot hold the world with one hand and Jesus Christ with the other.

David was “a man after God’s own heart.” Acts 13:22 God evaluated him by his heart.

Yes, David sinned. He sinned horribly, and failed God. He may have had a sinful heart, but he always had a single heart. David was not a hypocrite, and when he sinned, it quickly broke his heart as well as God’s heart. When confronted with his wrongdoing, David never offered an alibi—he offered a confession.

David said, “Against You only have I sinned, and done this evil in Your sight: that You might be justified when you speak and clear when You judge.” Psalms 51:4

Our Heart

The heart is the core of the individual. Reference to the heart is talking about the seat of our emotions. It’s talking about our master control center. It is the part of us that dictates our character, directs our will, and dominates the affections.

Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23 If you are going to be pure, you must be pure in heart before you can be pure any other way.

We Are Born With A Heart Problem

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked… Jeremiah 17:9

The biblical word here literally means “incurably sick.” All the spiritual exercise and all of the spiritual diet in the world will not cure the disease of our heart.

Jesus gave a list of sins and said that all these things come from within and defile the man. Mark 7:20– 23 All sins are residual and potential in every human heart. Everything that you see wrong in the world today has originated in the heart of men.

The Diagnosis of The Heart

“I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins.” Jeremiah 17:10

Remember, your heart is the master control center, the reins. God allows circumstances to come into your life, and God sees how you react to those circumstances. If your actions do not prove what you are, then your reactions prove what you are.

A Heart Transplant

Jeremiah 17:14 Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for you are my praise.

When we trust Christ and ask for forgiveness He then saves us and gives us a new heart. We cannot be pure in heart without a new heart.

The Transplant Process in The Beatitudes

First, you see yourself as a bankrupt sinner: the poor in spirit. Second, you are broken over that: the mourners. Third, you yield yourself to Him: the meek; you submit to His will. Fourth, you have a hunger for God, those who hunger and thirst after Righteousness, which is Jesus Himself. You have a hunger and a thirst for the Lord Jesus Christ. Fifth, He gives you mercy, which you are now able to show mercy to others. Sixth, God does a work in your heart. He gives you a new heart, a pure heart. It’s a work of God. Only Jesus can give you a brand-new heart! It all begins and ends with Him.

The Pure in Heart See God

When our heart is right we will see God! We will see Him in circumstances, in nature, in the face of a grandchild, and in the Scriptures. God will become a bright, living reality to us.

Hebrews 11:27 By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.

Luke 11:34 The light of the body is the eye: therefore when your eye is single, your whole body also is full of light; but when your eye is evil, your body also is full of darkness.

The pure in heart have a one thing focus—to live for the Lord Jesus who gave them a new heart.