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Wednesday, July
16, 2008
A Pure Heart
Matthew 21:12-14 And Jesus went into the
temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple,
and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold
doves, (13) And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the
house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (14) And the blind
and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them. (KJV)
When you see the term ‘temple of God’ you
should now be thinking about yourself; replacing the thoughts and ideas of
buildings and religious organizations with the fact that you are the temple
God now occupies and wishes to work in and through. Once our Lord came into
your life and basically turned your way of thinking upside down, what was
once a house occupied with carnal thinking is now a communication center, a
house of prayer between God and you, the believer. God sent His word and healed us so that
we could be delivered from our destructions, letting His truth provide the
freedom and way of escape. Now that the healing has taken place, including
as we see in verse 14 bringing sight to the blind, it is vital that we
allow the Lord to have His way so that we can continue to keep His house in
order.
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in
heart: for they shall see God. (KJV)
Blessed are, not was or going to be, but
right now this day blessed are those that are pure in heart, not losing
sight of the victory we have in Christ but continuing in the faith hearing
the message delivered by Christ and no longer walking according to the
carnal senses. Without a vision the people perish. Without a pure heart
being motivated by a love for God you will not be able to see God and His
plan of salvation He has for you personally; but rather like with the
blind, you will end up following what others are telling you. The Lord has
removed the impurities in your life; things that were unhealthy to your
walk have been cast out, like with cataract surgery, it improves the
vision. It is up to you to hear the pure word of God for yourself; no
longer relying on second hand versions or in many cases perversions, but
exercising your spiritual senses like a water filter to keep yourself
healthy. If you drew a glass of water and it was dirty and tainted, let
alone the fact that it smelled awful, you wouldn’t drink it would you? Thus
the reason why we have these senses, our physical ones to keep our carnal
bodies healthy, and spiritual senses
to keep the spiritual one healthy and in order. Are you as diligent with
your spiritual senses as you are with the physical? Knowing that the
spiritual is so much greater than the physical do you honestly give more
attention to the outward man or the inward one? How good is your vision
today; is there division, blurriness, and double vision caused by being
double minded and unstable?
Philippians 4:8 Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things
are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there
be any praise, think on these things. (KJV)
Thayer’s definition for ‘pure’:
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hagnos-
1) exciting reverence, venerable, sacred
2) pure
a) pure from
carnality, chaste, modest
b) pure from
every fault, immaculate
c) clean
I found this definition for pure rather
interesting; part ‘a’ referring to the fact that it is free from carnality.
Our Lord is very specific in the book of John to point out that it is the
Spirit that gives life, the flesh profits nothing; the words our Lord
speaks are Spirit and they are life, free from any impurities or additives
of mankind. Just as mankind has polluted its waters over the years which
has resulted in unhealthy often times unseen small impurities, mankind has
tainted and added their own versions to the word of God to fit their own
fallen lifestyles rather than rising up and walking in the realm of the
Spirit. But many times also it is just a matter of lazy complacent
Christians who are described as the blind followers of the blind, whose
spiritual senses are dull and what could be referred to as stupid to the
things of their eternal life. Are you able today to confidently, boldly
know that you are walking the path of life our Lord intended for you, or
are you blindly following the leading of others because your eyes have
gotten heavy and you are sleepwalking?
Matthew 13:13-16 Therefore speak I to
them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not,
neither do they understand. (14) And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of
Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand;
and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: (15) For this people's
heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes
they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and
hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be
converted, and I should heal them. (16) But blessed are your eyes, for they
see: and your ears, for they hear. (KJV)
How is one able to see, but yet not see,
how does that work? Have you ever heard the term turning a deaf ear, or how
about looking the other way? Many read the scriptures but don’t see the
spiritual meaning of them; they can hear what is being said but not know
the meaning of it.
Thayer’s definition for ‘gross’:
3975
pachuno-
1) to make thick, to make fat, to fatten
2) metaphorically, to make stupid (to
render the soul dull or callous)
Talk about grossing someone out! It is
people who profess to know God but have closed their eyes and ears to the
truth, that being their spiritual ones. People that should know the truth
and grow stronger in the Lord and the power of His might are blindly walking
around like a bunch of drunks in the middle of the night. He that has ears
to hear, let them hear; blessed are your eyes because you have allowed the
Lord to open the eyes of your understanding so that you could walk in the
realm of the Spirit and do those things that are pleasing in His sight,
which by the way His sight is spiritual, looking to the inward. Have you
got your ears on good buddy, that is how one is asked when being called for
on a CB radio; and only those that have their eyes and ears open to the
spiritual realm will be able to see God and the meaning of His word, while
all others will be in a ditch spinning their wheels.
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