We Need To Keep A Pure Heart!

‘We Need To Keep A Pure Heart!’

     a)  MT 15:7-8 “You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: ‘This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me…”

When people only honour God with their mouths it is a tragedy! It means that their hearts are far from God. That is hypocrisy. If our hearts are far from God, then what comes out of our mouths towards God has no meaning.

When hypocrisy comes into the Church, we can be sure that there will be no Holy Spirit anointing.

     b)  MT 5:8  “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”

Here is a very clear Promise for those people who have pure hearts. To be sure, they will see God. I am sure that they are looking forward to meeting Him and seeing Him.

     c)  I will give you a new heart, and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. Ezekiel 36:26-27

God’s Promise is to give His People a new heart and a new spirit. He will take away our heart of stone and give us a heart of flesh. This all takes place as He gives us the Holy Spirit.

There are three clear Promises from God here:

1-     God will give us a new heart and a new spirit if we are His People.

2-     God will take away the heart of stone if we have one.

3-     God will put His Spirit within us, making us careful to obey Him.

 d)   Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure (1 John 3;2-3). 

If we have the Eternal Hope in our heart, it keeps us pure.

We can have confidence and Faith now because we are God’s Children.