Title: The pure in heart / Matthew 5:8
Contents ***Anecdote of Dr. Bernard, founder of heart transplant surgery***
Among the methods of treating human diseases, there are various methods such as the use of chemical drugs, physical physical therapy, and surgical treatment by surgery. However, the most developed and popular in recent years is organ transplant surgery.
Change your kidneys, change your lungs, change your heart.
One of the most difficult surgeries is a heart transplant. The first successful heart transplant was Dr. Bernard. A man who has done great things.
However, his family was not very successful, and he was separated from a wretched man like Socrates' wife. When he broke up with his wife, people said
It is said that [a person who can transplant a human heart may not be able to transplant a human heart].
### The human heart is not transplantable###
The human heart cannot be medically transplanted.
The human mind cannot be modified by scientific methods.
A person's mind cannot be changed in a moral way.
World-renowned educator Pestalozzi said, [Education cannot make a true human being].
It cannot be changed in a political way. Fifty years after the establishment of the government, many politicians and political systems have been tested, but people's minds have not been purified.
No human can change a person's mind in any way. (Kim Sam-hwan)
I pray in the name of the Lord that you will become saints who accomplish the great work of God by thinking through the text on how to change people's hearts during this time by changing our own hearts, the hearts of our families, and the hearts of our neighbors.
Main subject
When Jesus spoke of the eight blessings, he placed emphasis on the heart, not on the head, toward the virises and scribes at the time who emphasized religious outward rituals and knowledge. It is to look at the center of faith.
So, you are talking about the [mind] rather than the outward form.
In particular, in the 6th blessing, “the pure in heart” is different from the [poor in spirit], focusing on the outward appearance of faith and rebuking the hypocrisy of the Pharisees, who are internally rotten and whitewashed. .
What is your mind?
1. What is the heart?
1) Original meaning of Greek ( ) cardia
①Physically, the central organ of the body
② Metaphorically, the center of emotion and thought (Hokma)
2) Hebrew , revav, rev
① Center
②Inclusion of G.J.
3) Definition of Lloyd Jones
① The heart means the center of the personality.
Not merely a seat of emotion and emotion, the mind is the center of a person's existence and personality.
The mind is the fountain from which everything else flows. The mind includes the intellect, the will, and the emotions.
② The mind is the whole person.
It refers to the whole human personality.
*** The mind means the seat, center, and interior of a person's thoughts, intentions, and emotions.
It means [the center of life].
2. What is [the pure in heart]?
1) Greek Katharus
① A word that can be used when dirty clothes are washed cleanly.
② It also refers to grains from which the chaff has been completely removed by winnowing.
③ It means pure milk or wine from which impurities have been removed.
④Sometimes it refers to an army with only well-trained elite soldiers. (Kim Sam-hwan)
*** It means saneness (精選) and purity (純粹).
2) It means physical, religious, and moral cleanliness or purity without filth or shame, without uncleanness. (Junghyuk Song, Precept)
Psalm 24:3 Who will come up on the mountain of the LORD, and who will stand in his holy place?
Psalm 24:4 Clean hands, pure heart, not settling in vain,
He who does not swear falsely
3) It appears in two ways.
① Those who are pure in heart are those who have a new heart by being born again.
Colossians 3:10 having put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of him who created him.
Ezekiel 36:26 And I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you.
I will remove the hard heart from your flesh and give you a soft heart.
② A person who is pure in heart means a person who has changed morally by being born again.
Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my Spirit within you, that you may walk in my statutes.
ye shall keep my ordinances and do them.
**Those who are pure in heart, free from uncleanness and confused emotions, transformed by Christ,
A Christian with sincerity and a pure heart, with [[Godly Simplicity]]. (Arthur Pink)
Those who resemble Jesus Christ, who live for the glory of God, who long for God, love Him, and want to serve Him.
3. What is the meaning of [to see God]?
Seeing God is the greatest blessing that a person can enjoy with the glory of [Shekinah].
However, it does not mean to see God mysteriously today.
Because we cannot see God with the naked eye.
Currently, no one is able to interpret these words correctly.
1) linguistic understanding
① The Greek word horao
It means [to see through experience] [to see in reality], not simply to see.
② Hebrew yada
It means [to know] [to know by experience].
2) You cannot see God with the naked eye.
1 Timothy 6:16 He alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen and cannot see.
① To see God means death.
Exodus 33:20 And he said to them, "You shall not see my face, for no one will see me and live."
②Moses also saw the back of God.
Exodus 33:22 When my glory passes, I will put you in the cleft of the rock, and I will cover you with my hands until I pass by.
Exodus 33:23 I will withhold my hand, and you will see my back and not my face.
③ Even Elijah did not see the face of God.
1 Kings 19:12 And after the earthquake there was fire, but the LORD was not in the fire.
After the fire there is a small sound
1 Kings 19:13 When Elijah heard it, he covered his face with his cloak and went out and stood at the entrance of the cave, and a voice came to him and said to him, Elijah, why are you here?
3) Meaning of seeing God
Psalm 17:15 I will see Your face in righteousness; I will be satisfied with Your image when I awake.
a. Temporal meaning - fellowship with God and experience.
[Luther]
“I have never heard the voice of the Lord, and I have never seen the Lord with the naked eye.
But I am satisfied. through the Bible every day
for seeing him and hearing his words."
1 John 4:12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God abides in us and his love is made perfect in us.
B. Meeting in the eternal heaven.
1 Corinthians 13:12 Now we see in a mirror dimly, but then we will see face and face, and now I know in part, then I will know fully, as the Lord knew me.
B. The secret to a clean heart
1. We must be washed with the blood of Jesus Christ.
1) Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us.
1 John 1:7 ... the blood of his Son Jesus will cleanse us from all sin.
[ Hymn 184 , to wash away my sins ]
Verse 1) There is only the blood of Jesus that washes away my sins, and there is only the blood of Jesus that regenerates me.
The blood of Jesus is shed, so it is precious and precious. There is only the blood of Jesus.
Verse 2) There is only the blood of Jesus that can purify me, and the blood of Jesus is the only evidence for apologizing.
The shed blood of Jesus makes me white. It is precious and precious. There is only the blood of Jesus.
2) Only in Jesus Christ can we be renewed.
2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2. You should wash your feet daily.
John 13:10 Jesus said to them, "He who has already bathed has no need to wash except his feet...
1) Continuous repentance of sins
You must find and confess your sins, and live a life of purity every day.
1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
2) Prayer
Psalm 51:2 Wash away my iniquity and cleanse me
Psalm 119:133 Establish my steps in your word, and let no iniquity have dominion over me.
3) The Word must be close.
Psalm 119:149 According to your lovingkindness, hear my voice; according to your statutes, O LORD.
save me
***1 Timothy 4:5 for sanctification by the word of God and prayer.
4) We must throw away the things that pollute our heart and do not quench our grace.
**You must throw away books, entertainment, and old habits that pollute your heart.
Ephesians 4:22 Put off the old self, which is corrupt according to the lusts of deceit,
**You must put more effort into doing good.
Ephesians 4:29 Let no unclean word come out of your mouth, but for edification, speak good words as they serve you, so that they may give grace to those who hear them.
The cleansing of the heart consists in washing away our sins with the blood of Jesus Christ, reflecting on ourselves in the mirror of the Word every day, striving for prayer, throwing away corrupting old habits, and striving for good deeds. I pray in the name of the Lord that you will work harder and become clean.
conclusion
Only the blood of Jesus can change your attitude and change your heart.
I pray in the name of the Lord that you will become saints who meet God with a pure heart through the blood of Jesus.