Blessed are the pure in heart.

Matthew 5:8

What is the meaning of 'Blessed are the pure in heart'?

In the Gospel according to Matthew, Jesus teaches his disciples 'The

Beatitudes, Blessed are the pure in heart, for they
verán a Dios” (Mat. 5: 8). Ser bendecido es un estado de bienestar o felicidad
in the relationship with God. The pure in heart are happy because their sin
they have been forgiven and granted access to God the Father.
In our culture, the word 'blessed' often refers to receiving wealth,
material goods or immeasurable fame. But in the kingdom of God, 'to be
"blessed" refers to our satisfaction in God and the joy of our
salvation. King David demonstrates this truth by understanding the weight of the
sin and ask for a renewed delight in the salvation of God: Read
comments on the following text
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me
A clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. Do not cast me away.
remove your presence from me, and do not take away your Holy Spirit. Restore to me the joy of
your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit." -Psalm 51: 8-12.
David accepts that when his sins are hidden from the face of God, joy
and joy is found amidst the brokenness. He has made the
connection that a pure heart and spirit restore joy. If we have
putting our faith in the gospel, then our sins are covered
through the blood of Jesus and our lives are hidden in Christ (Colossians
Ephesians 1:7.
Who are the pure of heart?
Through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, to all sinners who
they place their faith only in Christ are granted a pure heart. Those who have
called and redeemed by God, who "love the Lord your God with all your
heart and with all your soul and with all your mind” (Matthew 22:37) are the ones that
they have a pure heart.
Throughout the Gospels, Jesus repeatedly calls us to a life of
purity, a life without sin or contamination. Many believe that sin is
an external behavior or an action taken, but Jesus teaches that the
sin is what comes from the heart. Our sin is revealed through
our thoughts, attitudes, words, and actions.

The pure in heart "will be clothed, therefore, as chosen of God, holy and
beloved, of compassionate heart, of kindness, humility, meekness and
patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another,
forgiving one another; as the Lord forgave you” (Colossians 3:12-
13).

How can we become pure of heart?

We cannot become pure in heart by our own efforts. It is only through a
act of the grace of God, (Ezekiel 36:26) that He cleanses us and purifies us
in Jesus through the power of the Holy Spirit. By the grace of God,
we recognize that we are sinners in need of a savior, we distance ourselves from
a life of impurity and we commit ourselves to walk in purity and holiness
(aligned with the will and the Word of God). In Psalm 24: 3-4, David
write:
Who will ascend the hill of the LORD? Who can stand in his holy place?
holy? The one with clean hands and a pure heart, the one who does not lift his soul to the
lie and do not swear with deceit.

The word 'CLEAN' is translated from the Greek word katharos which means
free of impurity, without fraud, genuine, real. This word was used in ancient times.
of Jesus to refer to

1) To pure, transparent water that could be drunk;

2) To pure gold, free of impurities;
To people without debts to society or to the authorities;
4) To purebred or genuine horses, without mixing;
 5) To a pure and virgin woman, who had kept herself until marriage;
the pure milk that was not mixed with water.

Thus, when Jesus says 'blessed are the pure in heart', he refers to
the disciples whose motives are sincere, pure, transparent like water
clean

Diaphanous as crystal, transparent as light.

When Jesus selected his first disciples, he met Philip and

with Nathanael. The Lord Jesus recognized in Nathanael a true disciple.
Let's look at this passage in John 1:47

Felipe found Natanael and said to him: We have found the one of whom it was written
Moses in the law, as well as the prophets: to Jesus, the son of Joseph, of Nazareth.
Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."
And he saw. When Jesus saw Nathanael approaching him, he said of him: Behold a
true Israelite, in whom there is no deceit.

Jesus recognized in Nathaniel a man without deceit, sincere, pure in his

aspirations to find God.

The question now is: What does Jesus say about you, what does Jesus say about me?

The pure in heart are those disciples:

Whose actions are without malice

2) They show mercy without taking advantage of others;
3) That do not do things to harm another person; 4) whose actions are
sincere, without hypocrisy;
4) That when they approach God, they do so with
Sincerity;
5) That when they speak with their neighbor they are transparent, without deception; 7)
whose motives are genuine, they are not two-faced.

The Heart of Judas, for example, was not genuine:

He concealed greed, betrayal, hypocrisy. Jesus was not unaware of the condition of the
heart of Judas, just as it does not ignore that of our heart.

Who may ascend the hill of the Lord? Who may stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not trust in an idol or swear by a false god.

Who will ascend the hill of the Lord? And who will stand in his holy place? The
clean of hands and pure of heart; the one who has not lifted his soul to things
You will not be judged with deception.
Can you raise your hands to the Lord and say: everything I have, my
car, my house, the clothes I wear, have I obtained them cleanly? Can
to affirm that everything he owns was achieved with clean hands, without deception, without
lies or frauds? Take some time to reflect and respond to this
question.

Who are then the disciples of a clean heart? Those who think and
they do things without malice and without hypocrisy.

The Lord is seriously interested in cleaning your heart daily of its

disciples. Our heart must always be clean, be transparent and
pure.

An example can be when David was anointed 1 Samuel 16:7

The other word from the verse Matthew 5:8 that we are going to study is 'Heart'
which is translated from the Greek word kardía, whose definition is the organ
principal in the physical life of human beings. But when the Bible speaks
from the heart, it does so symbolically: it refers to the deepest part of being
human where moral (or immoral) thoughts settle, where
find everything that has to do with spiritual life (good or bad)
where the rational and emotional elements of our life are found.

Jesus emphasizes that the disciples must have a clean heart,

because he observes the deepest and most intimate of our thoughts. The being
man certainly sees what is outside, but the Lord sees the heart. At some point, one
Certain scribes and Pharisees approached Jesus and said to him: Why do your

Do the disciples break the tradition of the elders? Because they do not wash their...
hands when they eat bread.

And Jesus answers them in Matthew 15:19-20, let's read it

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, the

adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
These things contaminate man; but eating with hands
Without washing, it does not contaminate man.

What we truly are is in the heart; what you see in me is just a

facade, but God sees our inner being. What you think, what you say, what
what you feel, what you do, reveals what is in your heart. When you are alone and
nobody sees you, What do you see on television? Remember: God is not blind. He can
being seen by your wife, your children, your mom or your dad, but God is.
seeing. Always.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked;
Who will know him?

Have you ever wondered how many thoughts of the heart we have been
led astray by twisted paths? The heart is not only deceiving (more than all
things), but also perverse, which translates to fragile or brittle.
This means that there are circumstances that break the heart, after which
we harbor evil thoughts and desires: homicides, robberies,
revenge. By nature, the heart is like this.

That is why the Bible says: above all else, guard your heart.

The True Disciple must guard their heart from greed, resentment,
envy, of everything that could harm it.

We should not trust anything in our heart.

Proverbs 28:26. He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, but he who
he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Our hearts were made to have a single loyalty, and that one
loyalty is only for Christ. If we find deception, hypocrisy in ourselves,
double standards, our heart is not pure. The facade behind which we
we hide in social media, in our community or in our
Professions can deceive some, but God is not influenced by falsehood.
that we appease.
God knows when we sit down and when we rise up. He can perceive our
thoughts and know our words before they reach our
tongue. There is no place we can flee from His presence (Psalm
139: 1-7).
How do we demonstrate that we are pure of heart?
We demonstrate that we are pure of heart by being transparent before God and others.
other things about our sin. God already knows all the sins that
we have or we will commit, but those who desire a pure heart will have it
they will confess, turning away from their unfaithfulness and resting in His grace.

When we begin to be honest with God and with others, there can be
repercussions, but the grace that is functional will free us from the slavery of
deception will tie our hearts to the mercy and goodness of God. To live
a transparent life of fidelity eliminates fear and shame, and offers
a sweet joy even if we face the consequences.

Loving God faithfully exemplifies our purity of heart and seems

discard all other idols. We cannot be divided in our
devotion to God, but we must remain steadfast in our faith in Him.
We become pure of heart by getting rid of all other ties and
let us submit only to Christ.
We love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, strength, and
mind recognizing that everything we have is a gift from Him. We use
nuestro tiempo, talentos y tesoros para glorificar a Dios, y humildemente
We submit our lives to Him.

By doing this, obedience to His commandments grows as we love.

to others because He loved us first (1 John 4:19). However, in
Ultimately, we cannot grow in purity if we do not know the word of
God. James 1:22-24 says:
Do not simply listen to the word and thus deceive yourselves.
Do what it says. Anyone who hears the word but does not do what it says
it's like someone looking at their face in a mirror and, after looking at themselves...
same, he leaves and immediately forgets how it is.
To love God, we must know Him, and to know Him, we must listen to Him.
Word and do what it says. That is why it is so important to study and obey the
Word of God with diligence. If we want to have a pure heart, we must
start at the foot of the cross, putting our faith in the Savior and following
Blessed are the pure in heart, for
"they will see God" is a biblical truth that should motivate us to this.

They Will See God

Only those whose hearts are clean and sincere will see God if the eye is good all their life.
it will be full of light (Matthew 6:22-23) many Christians suffer from spiritual misguidance due to
try to keep one eye fixed on heavenly Canaan and the other eye on the temporary pleasures of sin
Hebrews 11:25 and the pots of meat from Egypt (Exodus 16:3) our only security is in
live according to the principles and put God first in our lives Who is today see the
things of this world are desirable and whose attention is fixed on the glittering trinkets of the
the land that Satan shows them never considers it of greater value to obey God. And if
we want to see God we must keep the window of the soul clean. Jesus declared that those who
only the pure in heart will see God this refers to the present life and the future
Sin is like the earth in the eyes, it clouds the vision and distorts the panorama we can
to achieve a Communion with God only when our hearts have been
cleansed from all sin (1 John 1:7) read commentary

How can we see God?

The expression 'they will see God' can be understood in 3 ways.
1-God is now acting through communion in the Word and the Spirit.
work in your life) (Philippians 1:6)
They will see God in the person of Jesus when he returns (1 John 3:2)
Gr. Parrhesia, originally, "freedom to speak", therefore, "boldness" (see com. Act 4:13).
This word appears 31 times in the NT, of which John uses it 13 times.
Describe the one who has lived in Christ consistently and does not fear meeting him in his
arrival. Those who live this life with their Lord will welcome him when he comes (cf. Isa
The repentant sinners will greet it not with the boldness of self-confidence, but
with the quiet assurance that they are children of God.

Juan emphasizes again what he means, repeating it in a negative form (cf. 1Jn 1:5-
6; 1Jn 1:8; 1Jn 2:4; 1Jn 2:27; etc.); and in doing so presents the attitude of those who have not
ready to meet their Lord. They will feel full of shame when facing
Those whom they have despised and rejected will be ashamed of the way in which
trataron al Redentor y por su propia vida de pecado. Comprenderán que únicamente ellos son
guilty of having lost eternal life (cf. Com. Rev 6:15-17). But those who remain in
Christ can anticipate with joy the coming of the Redeemer.

They will see God in Eternity

Revelation 22:3;5

They will see His face. No unglorified human could see God face to face and live (Exo
33:20-23), but the residents of heaven can see the face of God without suffering harm because
now they are saints like Him (cf. John 1:18; 1 Timothy 6:16; 1 John 3:20). His name. They are the possession
God's people (see the note on Rev 3:12).

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace.

Literally "pursue peace". The author leaves aside the personal problems of the individual Christian.
and deals with the relationships of the Christian with his neighbors. As for the admonition to follow
"peace," see Rom 12:18; 1Pe 3:11; cf. Psa 34:14.

Santdad.

Only those with a pure heart can hope to see God (see comment, Mat 5:8).
You will see the Lord.

At:Javier Deleg Inutile