Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
---Matthew 5:8
Chinese dictionary interpretation
pure heart qīngxīn
( 1 ) Peaceful mood, no worries, pure mind and few desires
( 2 ) Remove distracting thoughts, make your mood calm and peaceful, have a pure heart, and the moon is white and pure.
( 3 ) also means having a pure heart and always being a pure person.
1. The effects of life come from the heart
You must guard your heart more than anything else (or translation: you must guard your heart earnestly), because the results of your life come from your heart. (Proverbs 4:23)
1 monk : Be pure of heart and have few desires, eat fast and recite the Buddha's name, imitate Sakyamuni and cultivate the body - become a Buddha immediately, and "walk" to see the Living Buddha is pious.
2 Taoist priests: Go up the mountain to practice Taoism and become an immortal.
3 nun: Seeing through the mortal world, he cut off his hair, became a nun, married and returned to Buddhism.
4 They were deceived by (serpents), and they thought the right way was .
→→There is a path that seems right to a man, but in the end it becomes the path of death. (Proverbs 14:12)
→→Be careful, lest your hearts be deceived and you stray from the right path to serve and worship other gods. (Deuteronomy 11:16)
2. The human heart is deceitful and extremely evil.
1 People’s hearts are extremely evil
The human heart is deceitful above all things and extremely evil. Who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
2 The heart is deceitful
For from within, that is, from the heart of man, proceed evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, envy, slander, pride, and arrogance. All these evils come from within and can pollute people. ” (Mark 7:21-23)
3 Lost conscience
Therefore I say, and I say this in the Lord, no longer walk in the futility of the Gentiles. Their minds are darkened and alienated from the life God has given them, because of their ignorance and the hardness of their hearts. Having lost their conscience, they indulge in lust and practice all kinds of filthiness. (Ephesians 4:17-19)
ask: What is a pure in heart person?
answer: Detailed explanation below
Bible interpretation
Psalm 73:1 God is indeed kind to the pure in heart in Israel!
2 Timothy 2:22 Flee youthful lusts and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who pray to the Lord out of a pure heart.
3. Clean conscience
ask: How to cleanse your conscience?
answer: Detailed explanation below
(1) Clean first
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and gentle, full of mercy, bearing good fruits, without partiality or hypocrisy. (James 3:17)
(2)The unblemished blood of Christ cleanses your hearts
How much more, how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, cleanse your hearts from dead works so that you may serve the living God? (Hebrews 9:14)
(3) Once your conscience has been cleansed, you no longer feel guilty.
If not, wouldn’t the sacrifices have stopped long ago? Because the worshipers’ consciences have been cleansed and they no longer feel guilty. (Hebrews 10:2)
(4) Put an end to sins, eliminate sins, atone for sins, and introduce eternal righteousness →→You are “eternally justified” and have eternal life! Do you understand?
“Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and Anoint the Holy One (Daniel 9:24).
4. Take the mind of Christ as your heart
ask: How to have the mind of Christ?
answer: Detailed explanation below
(1) Received the seal of the promised Holy Spirit
In Him you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, when you also believed in Christ when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation. (Ephesians 1:13)
(2) The Spirit of God lives in your hearts, and you are not carnal
If the Spirit of God dwells in you, you are no longer of the flesh but of the Spirit. If anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Christ. If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the soul is alive because of righteousness. (Romans 8:9-10)
(3) The Holy Spirit and our hearts testify that we are children of God
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God. You did not receive the spirit of bondage to remain in fear; you received the spirit of adoption, in which we cry, “Abba, Father!” The Holy Spirit bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God; (Romans Chapter 8 verses 14-16)
(4)Have the mind of Christ as your heart
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in human likeness; and being found in human form, He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. (Philippians 2:5-8)
(5) Take up your cross and follow Jesus
Then he called the crowd and his disciples to them and said to them, "If anyone wants to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his soul (or translated: soul; the same below) You will lose your life; but whoever loses his life for my sake and the sake of the gospel will save it (Mark 8:34-35).
(6) Preach the gospel of the kingdom of heaven
Jesus traveled through every city and every village, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every disease and disease. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were wretched and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. So he said to his disciples, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore, ask the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest." (Matthew 9:35-38)
(7) We suffer with him, and we will be glorified with him
If they are children, then they are heirs, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ. If we suffer with Him, we will also be glorified with Him. (Romans 8:17)
5. They will see God
(1) Simon Peter said: "You are the Son of the living God"!
Jesus said to him, "Who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered him, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon bar Jonah! For this is not Flesh has revealed it to you, but my Father in heaven has revealed it (Matthew 16:15-17).
Note: The Jews, including “Judas,” saw Jesus as the Son of Man, but did not see Jesus as the Son of God. Judas followed Jesus for three years without seeing God.
(2) John has seen it with his own eyes and touched it by novices
Concerning the original word of life from the beginning, this is what we have heard, seen, seen with our own eyes, and touched with our hands. (This life has been revealed, and we have seen it, and now we testify that we pass on to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was revealed to us.) (1 John 1:1-2)
(3) Appeared to five hundred brothers at one time
What I also delivered to you was: first, that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, and that he was buried; and that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and was shown to Cephas, Then it was shown to the twelve apostles; later it was shown to more than five hundred brothers at one time, most of whom are still there today, but some have fallen asleep. Then it was revealed to James, and then to all the apostles, and finally to me, as one who had not yet been born. (1 Corinthians 15:3-8)
(4) Seeing God’s creation through the work of creation
What can be known about God is revealed in their hearts, because God has revealed it to them. Since the creation of the world, God's eternal power and divine nature have been clearly known. Although invisible, they can be understood through the things created, leaving man without excuse. (Romans 1:19-20)
(5) Seeing God through visions and dreams
‘In the last days, says God, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy; your young men will see visions; your old men will dream dreams. (Acts 2:17)
(6) When Christ appears, we appear with Him in glory
When Christ, who is our life, appears, you also will appear with him in glory. (Colossians 3:4)
(7)We will see his true form
Dear brothers, we are children of God now, and what we will be in the future has not yet been revealed; but we know that when the Lord appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him as He is. (1 John 3:2)
Therefore, the Lord Jesus said: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." Amen
Hymn: The Lord is the way. The truth. The life
Gospel transcript!
From: Brothers and sisters of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ!
2022.07.06
