Lesson 10: Purity: Key to the King’s Chambers

The Gospel
of Matthew

Chapter 5

Purity: Key to the King’s Chambers

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:8

The pure in heart have a joy to which lust is a complete stranger. Pure means, unalloyed or unadulterated. We see only what we are able to see. And if we train ourselves by an open heart of undivided loyalty to gaze on the Lord, we shall one day be able to appreciate the supreme vision of the unutterable beautiful one in all His glory. Michael Green

Purity births vision. The cleaner your heart is the more of God you see. It is simple logic that a dirty windscreen mars your vision while a washed one provides clear sight. If what you focus on most is strife, anger, bitterness, wrongdoing and demons, then we can deduce that your heart is not clean. You have a dark heart.

Every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Matthew 7:17-18

Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or else make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit. ³⁴ Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. ³⁵ a good man out of the good treasure of his heart] brings forth good things, and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth
evil things. Matthew 12:34, 35

The Lord is the one speaking here and He clear states that your speech is a good indicator of your heart condition. What you say good or bad, is what your heart is singing.

Do not fool yourself! If the greater sum of what you say tends towards the negative, then you have a negative heart. If you speak good things most of the time, then your heart is good. This is the teaching of Jesus. If a man or woman works miracles, signs and wonders yet speaks negative things, that person has a bad heart. A very good indicator of how close a person is to the Kingdom of God is what comes out of their mouth not the miracles they perform.

Listen closely to what people say and you can easily place them…using this indicator of Jesus.

To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. Titus 1:15

Some may ask the question, how can I have a pure heart?

The answer lies not in determination or will power alone but in the power of the Word. David asked the same question;

How can a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed according to your word. ¹⁰ with my whole heart I have sought you; Oh, let me not wander from your commandments! ¹¹ Your word I have hidden in my heart that I might not sin against you. Ps 119:9-11

Having a cleaned out heart is not a human task but a divine act. We need to bring our cars to the car-wash and then the car is washed. The car cannot wash itself but it can be driven there. We have to drive our hearts to God’s purifying presence and allow Him to do the rest through the power of His word.

Let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Heb 10:22

² Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. ⁷Cleanse me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. ¹⁰Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Ps 51:2,7, 10.