Part 4 - The Sermon on the Mount Part 4
Pure: Gk 2513. katharos, kath-ar-os. This has a root meaning of being free from mixture.
This is essentially to do with motives, it has to do with the reason we do things or act a certain way.
Notice the difference.
Philippians 4:8 uses the word pure but it is a different Greek Word
1342. dikaios, dik'-ah-yos; from G1349; equitable (in character or act); by impl. innocent, holy (absol. or rel.):--just, meet, right (-eous).
Water and wine may be mixed together and still be pure as in Phil 4:8 but it can?t be Pure as in Mat 5:8
It
is important to see the difference: If our heart is pure at the core
all that proceeds from our heart will be pure as in Phil 4:8
This Old Testament use of the word pure has the same meaning as Mat 5:8
The meaning of the word heart is a difficult word to describe. It has to do with our inner desires and motives it incorporates the soul or the activities of Mind Emotion and Will as well as Conscience. It is the inner motivating source of our lives.
One of the clearest revelations of a person is evident by how that person speaks.
This purity of heart goes to the very core of who we are. Actions proceed from motives not the other way around.
If our motives are pure we will see God
This brings us back to who God is, what He is composed of. Two things describe the essence of God
God is light
God is light His substance, there is no darkness (Mixture) in Him.
God is Love
The Lord has allowed me a number of times to visit heaven
On one occasion I met my mother who had died a few years previous to this. I was walking through the most fabulous park I had ever seen, when this person came up to me whom I knew to be my mother. The change in her was the most dramatic thing I had ever seen. She seemed to have a body of light, she emanated light, and she looked so young and perfect in every way, but the thing that stood out the most was the love she emanated. She spoke to me about my calling and a number of others things.
On another occasion the Lord appeared to me while I was in San Jose in California, He just walked through the wall into my hotel room and sat on the end of the bed and talked to me for about 25 minutes about changes that were about to occur in the church, and why these changes were necessary, He told me the house of Saul was coming to an end and the House of David was about to come into manifestation, He spoke to me about the restoration of David's Tabernacle which would release a new move of God across the whole world.
The thing that has stood out in all the visitations I have had is the two things, Light and Love.
I have heard it said if Jesus were to visit you, you would die. I don?t know where that comes from, but the Lord is quite able to turn down His Glory in order to visit you.
I have known the Lord visit a person in such a way the person did not know it was the Lord.
As we become more and more perfected in Love we emanate more light.
Purity of heart: Has to do with our innermost motivations, when our motivations become that of real love our heart becomes pure.
This is a Process: We must pray and ask the Lord to establish us in love, which is the bond of perfection
We
must chose to act in love at all times, as we do this that love pouring
through us begins to purify our hearts and fill us with light.
Ask the Lord to fill you with His love and choose to manifest it at all times.
This is the road to perfection
If you do this
Blessed are the pure in heart: For they shall see God
This word SEE God has a number of meanings
The prime meaning is to literally see God. The Greek word is as follows.
3700. optanomai, op-tan'-om-ahee; a (mid.) prol. form of the prim. (mid.) optomai, op'-tom-ahee, which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alt. of G3708; to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from G991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from G1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while G2300, and still more emphatically its intens. G2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and G4648 a watching from a distance):--appear, look, see, shew self.
We Christians have a bad habit which is. When we don't understand something in the scripture, we spiritualize it, or say it's just a metaphor. We have to stop doing that. This locks us out from experiencing truth.
Jesus said; If you have seen me you have seen the Father. How many of you believe that you can see Jesus. The realm of spirit is accessible to you. You have been seated in heavenly places.
Jesus wants to walk with you as the Lord walked with Adam in Eden.
Only very occasionally does the Lord enter your realm. We have to enter His realm
Paul said this to Timothy:
Jesus wants to become your friend and walk with you in fellowship.
How do you become friends with an invisible spirit?
You have to learn to enter His realm the realm of spirit. Scientist?s today talk about a parallel universe; that is we occupy the same space with another world. This is true of the spirit realm it exists alongside in the same space as the physical realm.
We have to enter His ream. As you pray worship you enter His gates into His presence where you can see hear and walk with the lord.
The purer your heart the clearer your vision of His world becomes.
Love will cause you to live in the ream of the Lord.
Purity of heart has to do with motive, and the root of that motive is love.
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
You will see God in everything as the cherubim said;
God Bless you
James N Johnson © 2005
| Matthew 5:8 | Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. |
This is essentially to do with motives, it has to do with the reason we do things or act a certain way.
Notice the difference.
Philippians 4:8 uses the word pure but it is a different Greek Word
1342. dikaios, dik'-ah-yos; from G1349; equitable (in character or act); by impl. innocent, holy (absol. or rel.):--just, meet, right (-eous).
Water and wine may be mixed together and still be pure as in Phil 4:8 but it can?t be Pure as in Mat 5:8
| Philippians 4:8 | Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. |
| Matthew 5:8 | Is Purity at its essence or core, it deals with the root from which can spring purity as in Phil 4:8. |
| Proverbs 22:11 | He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. |
The meaning of the word heart is a difficult word to describe. It has to do with our inner desires and motives it incorporates the soul or the activities of Mind Emotion and Will as well as Conscience. It is the inner motivating source of our lives.
| Matthew 6:21 | For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. |
| 15:8 | This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. |
| 12:34 | O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. |
| 12:35 | A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things. |
This purity of heart goes to the very core of who we are. Actions proceed from motives not the other way around.
If our motives are pure we will see God
This brings us back to who God is, what He is composed of. Two things describe the essence of God
God is light
| 1 John 1:5 | This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. |
God is Love
| 1 John 4:16 | And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. |
On one occasion I met my mother who had died a few years previous to this. I was walking through the most fabulous park I had ever seen, when this person came up to me whom I knew to be my mother. The change in her was the most dramatic thing I had ever seen. She seemed to have a body of light, she emanated light, and she looked so young and perfect in every way, but the thing that stood out the most was the love she emanated. She spoke to me about my calling and a number of others things.
On another occasion the Lord appeared to me while I was in San Jose in California, He just walked through the wall into my hotel room and sat on the end of the bed and talked to me for about 25 minutes about changes that were about to occur in the church, and why these changes were necessary, He told me the house of Saul was coming to an end and the House of David was about to come into manifestation, He spoke to me about the restoration of David's Tabernacle which would release a new move of God across the whole world.
The thing that has stood out in all the visitations I have had is the two things, Light and Love.
I have heard it said if Jesus were to visit you, you would die. I don?t know where that comes from, but the Lord is quite able to turn down His Glory in order to visit you.
I have known the Lord visit a person in such a way the person did not know it was the Lord.
As we become more and more perfected in Love we emanate more light.
Purity of heart: Has to do with our innermost motivations, when our motivations become that of real love our heart becomes pure.
This is a Process: We must pray and ask the Lord to establish us in love, which is the bond of perfection
| 1 John 4:16 | And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him. |
Ask the Lord to fill you with His love and choose to manifest it at all times.
This is the road to perfection
| John 15:12 | This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. |
| 13 | Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends |
| 14 | .Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. (love each other) |
| John 15:15 | Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. |
| Proverbs 22:11 | He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend. |
This word SEE God has a number of meanings
The prime meaning is to literally see God. The Greek word is as follows.
3700. optanomai, op-tan'-om-ahee; a (mid.) prol. form of the prim. (mid.) optomai, op'-tom-ahee, which is used for it in certain tenses; and both as alt. of G3708; to gaze (i.e. with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable; and thus differing from G991, which denotes simply voluntary observation; and from G1492, which expresses merely mechanical, passive or casual vision; while G2300, and still more emphatically its intens. G2334, signifies an earnest but more continued inspection; and G4648 a watching from a distance):--appear, look, see, shew self.
We Christians have a bad habit which is. When we don't understand something in the scripture, we spiritualize it, or say it's just a metaphor. We have to stop doing that. This locks us out from experiencing truth.
Jesus said; If you have seen me you have seen the Father. How many of you believe that you can see Jesus. The realm of spirit is accessible to you. You have been seated in heavenly places.
Jesus wants to walk with you as the Lord walked with Adam in Eden.
Only very occasionally does the Lord enter your realm. We have to enter His realm
Paul said this to Timothy:
| 2 Timothy 4:22 | The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. |
How do you become friends with an invisible spirit?
You have to learn to enter His realm the realm of spirit. Scientist?s today talk about a parallel universe; that is we occupy the same space with another world. This is true of the spirit realm it exists alongside in the same space as the physical realm.
We have to enter His ream. As you pray worship you enter His gates into His presence where you can see hear and walk with the lord.
The purer your heart the clearer your vision of His world becomes.
Love will cause you to live in the ream of the Lord.
| 1 John 2:8 | Again, a new commandment I write unto you, which thing is true in him and in you: because the darkness is past, and the true light now shineth. |
| 9 | He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. |
| 10 | He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. |
| 1 John 4:7 | Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God |
| 8 | He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. |
Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God.
You will see God in everything as the cherubim said;
| Isaiah 6:3 | The whole earth is full of the glory of God. |
James N Johnson © 2005
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