The Beatitudes - Pure in Heart Part 6 - Home Church Ministry
Channel: Home Church Ministry
Date: 2014-06-29

Ft. Pastor Jessie Martinez Click Here To VIsit My Website: http://www.homechurchministry.com/

Notes:

Who is going to see God?
It plainly says it here, those that are pure in heart.
This should be the number 1 goal in our lives.  Is to see God.
The beatitudes are actions that are going to happen when we are truly born again.

John 3:1-6
1 There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
Nicodemus in his religion was equal to a Cardinal in some religions; he was up there, 

There are 3 religions in Jewish nation, Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees, Nicodemus was a Pharisees which was the most religious, they lived on the word of God (Old Testament),

They started to have great sin, and in between the Old Testament was completed until the New Testament started which was about 400 yrs, when the Lord was quiet.  

During that time the Jews started making their own laws and rules, the same as today, taking scriptures and just pulling them apart to mean something else that would benefit them (traditions),
2 The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
In vs 2, you would think Jesus would be please with Nicodemus, for calling him a teacher from God, and that God sent him, but he was not please with that, because Nicodemus hadn’t recognize him as Lord, just like Peter in Matt 17:4-5 Peter put Moses, and Elias in with Jesus, and God answer and said, “hear ye him”.  

So Jesus saw that Nicodemus was not yet there, and Jesus said that you’re not even going to see the Kingdom of God.  Eph 2:1 “Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins.”  

Nicodemus was a slave to his religion, one reason I say that is because he had to go by night, to see a man that his religion was trying to get rid of,
3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
Nicodemus knew what Jesus was saying, when he said “can I enter a second time into my mother’s womb; he knew he was talking about the water sack.
5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
Jesus told Nicodemus he was lost, so if that was true then, don’t you think it would be true today, preacher in high places are lost, since the Lord said that there would be wolves among us,

We begin to see him with our new spiritual eyes, and live by the beatitudes we have no problem saying to God:
Ps 139:23-24
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Job 42:5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Just like it says in Ex chapter 33 when it says that Moses saw God face to face.
This is how we see God, when we have a pure heart.

Ps 24:3-4
3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. 
Who is going to see God? 
The one with clean hands referring to:
Ezek 3:18 When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; and thou givest him not warning, nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life; the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Acts 20:26 Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.
And the ones with a pure heart, which we’re learning about now.
  
God will show you were your heart is.
Heb 4:12-13
12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

It is to show that we cannot escape the notice of God; that all insincerity, unbelief, hypocrisy, will be noticed by him.
And since our hearts are perfectly open before him, we should be sincere

Your thoughts and intents from the heart are seen by God. 

The word will turn the inside of a sinner out, and let him see all that is in his heart. 

The Lord knows our hearts better than we do.
 
Do we act like Christian only when we are around them, and then act like the lost when we are with them?

Intent of the Heart is it to glorify him?

13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with 
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