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c. He obeys the truth through the working of the Holy Spirit.
“Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto un-
feigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently”
(1 Pt.1:22).
d. He keeps his hands clean.
“He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity,
nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from
the God of his salvation” (Ps.24:4-5).
e. He seeks to be without spot and blameless.
“Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be
found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless” (2 Pt.3:14).
2. A person’s very best behavior is seldom (if ever) free from some mixture of self. It is questionable if a sinful crea-
ture can ever act perfectly—perfectly free from mixed motives. As the Bible says, “there is none that doeth good, no, not
one” (Ro.3:12). The believer is to constantly search his heart and cleanse it of impure motives. Motives involving self are in-
sidious and deceptive.
a. Is a person employed primarily for self, or to serve Christ and to earn enough to help others who have a need
(Col.3:24; Eph.4:28)?
b. Is a person ministering to help the needful, or to have a sense of self-satisfaction (cp. Mt.5:7)?
c. Is a person worshipping to honor God, or to satisfy a feeling of obligation?
d. Is a person praying daily to fellowship with God, or to gain comfortable feelings that he pleases God
through praying?
Impure motives enter the believer’s heart so quietly, so deceptively. The believer is too often unaware of their presence.
He needs to pray often: “Create in me a clean heart, O God” (Ps.51:10)!
3. The “pure in heart” minister in two very practical areas:
• They visit the fatherless.
• They visit widows in their affliction.
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless
and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world” (Jas.1:27).
DEEPER STUDY # 8
(5:8) Pure in Heart: there are two wonderful promises made to the “pure in heart.” The pure in heart “shall see God”
(Mt.5:8).
1. Presently, the pure in heart shall see God by faith, “through a glass, darkly” (1 Cor.13:12). Just imagine! The “pure
in heart” endure in the faith “as already seeing Him who is invisible” (Heb.11:27).
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Cor.13:12).
“By faith he [Moses] forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing
him who is invisible” (Heb.11:27).
2. Eternally, the pure in heart shall see God face to face. They shall see Him as He is and behold “His face in righ-
teousness.”
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am known” (1 Cor.13:12).
“Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know
that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is” (1 Jn.3:2).
“As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy
likeness” (Ps.17:15).
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(5:9) Peacemakers: to bring men together; to make peace between men and God; to solve disputes and erase divisions;
to reconcile differences and eliminate strife; to silence tongues and build right relationships.
1. Who is the peacemaker?
a. The person who strives to make peace with God (Ro.5:1; Eph.2:14-17). He conquers the inner struggle,
settles the inner tension, handles the inner pressure. He takes the struggle within his heart between good
and evil, and strives for the good and conquers the bad.
“Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus
Christ” (Ro.5:1).
“For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of
partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of command-
ments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making
peace; and that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the
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