The Beatitudes – Pt 7 Pure In Heart
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Mat 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. (KJV)
If none of us is righteous in ourselves, who then of us is pure in heart? God is holy. There is no darkness in Him so only the pure in heart can stand in His presence.
2Ti 2:22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
When you first experience Passover in your life, your heart overflows with love for Jesus, your Savior and it seems like you will never sin again. Then time passes and you find that your heart still has a wicked life of its own. At Pentecost you receive an earnst of the spirit and suddenly it’s God and You working His will in the Earth. It’s heady stuff until you find that your heart still loves the things of this life. Once again you are frustrated because you desire a pure heart but are powerless to acquire it on your own. It’s only as we walk into the full work of Tabernacles and receive our redeemed body that we will finally be able to stand before God with a truly pure heart. That is why Jesus included this verse in this marvelous passage on the coming Kingdom of God. The mature sons of God will be uncorruptable and pure in heart. That is why they will see God for He will make them to go in and out as kings and priests of His household. How marvelous is that?
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It occurs to me that this post might not make sense to someone who has never been taught much about the feasts of Israel. The growth of a believer and actually the church itself are mirrored in the feasts. At Passover, a lamb was slain and the blood put on the doorposts of the house which saved the people when the death angel passed through the camp in Egypt. We know that Jesus is the lamb slain from the foundation of the world and Passover equates to our salvation experience.
Pentecost deals with the infilling of the Holy Spirit. It’s NT expression was when the Holy Spirit fell in the upper room (Acts 2). In Ephesians 1:13,14 Paul said that what they received was a pledge of the fullness to come. Thus perfection would not come until the manifestation of the third and final feast of Tabernacles.
Obviously, this is a very quick explanation. If you want to study it in depth, please contact me.