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"’Happy are the pure in heart’ ...for they will see God.’”
Matthew 5:8 (Step 4, Step5)
"Really this is the key beatitude.
Somebody might say, "Well if this is the key one why doesn't it come first? Why do we have all these preliminary
beatitudes starting there in verse 3?" Because this is sort of the pinnacle. This is sort of the centerpiece.
This is the main jewel and you work your way to it. You start out, as you notice in verse 3, with poor in spirit, recognizing
your spiritual bankruptcy. And then you mourn over your condition. And then you are gentle, or better translated
meek and humble because of that condition. And then you are hungering and thirsting for righteousness. And then
you are granted mercy so that you can become pure in heart which is to then have received the righteousness that God requires."
John MacArthur Copyright
1998 Grace to You. All rights reserved. Used by permission
The Only Way to Happiness: Be Pure in Heart | Matthew 5:8
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"’Happy are the pure in
heart’ ...for they will see God.’” Matthew 5:8 (Step 4, Step5)
“The heart is what
you are, in the secrecy of your thought and feeling, when nobody knows but God. And what you are at the invisible root matters
as much to God as what your are at the visible branch. ‘Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the
heart’”
“A pure heart is a heart that has nothing to do with falsehood.
It is painstakingly truthful and free from deceitfulness. Deceit is what you do when you will two things, not one thing. You
will to do one thing and you will that people think you are doing another. You will to feel one thing and you will that people
think you are feeling another. That is impurity of heart. Purity of heart is to will one thing, namely, to ‘seek the
face of the Lord’”
Blessed
Are the Pure in Heart
Matthew 5:8
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By John
Piper. February 2, 1986 © Desiring God. Website: desiringGod.org
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