Cultivating a Pure(r) Heart
Channel: Two Book Church
Date: 2014-03-10

Pastor John Van Sloten continues our sermon series on The Beatitudes and will focus on these words of Jesus, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God." Matthew 5:8, NIV

"Purity of heart is the very antithesis of the cynicism of worldly wisdom. Where cynicism see through all that it beautiful and good and simple, to find murkiness within, purity of heart sees through ugliness and sin and pain and failure to find God within." 
Writer Simon Tugwell

"The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?" 
The prophet Jeremiah 17:9 NIV 

'"No" is the most powerful tool for attaining purity of heart.'
Eugene Peterson (paraphrased)

"I pray that your hearts will be flooded with light so that you can understand." 
Ephesians 1:18, NIV 

"Your eyes are too pure to look on evil..." 
The prophet Habakkuk referring to God in Hab 1:13 

"In God there is no darkness at all..." 
1 John 1:5, NIV

"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from your presence and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and sustain me with a willing spirit."
Psalm 51:10-12, NIV

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