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6. Blessings for those who are pure in heart Matthew 5:8
The most important part of the human body is the heart. The mind is the headquarters of the personality.
1. The Bible says that the source of life is the heart (Prov. 4:20-23).
1) Satan is trying to build his kingdom in the human heart.
2) Jesus has a plan to build heaven in the human mind.
3) Depending on who controls the mind, it can be either hell or heaven.
4) Spiritual existence is a battle of who conquers the heart.
5) Therefore, it says to guard your heart rather than guarding your city. (Proverbs 4: )
6) To live a healthy life spiritually, physically and mentally, you must keep your mind well.
7) First, the serpent of Satan infiltrated the family of Adam, the ancestor of humankind, and attacked Eve's heart.
(1) Had doubts about God in Eve's heart and attacked.
(2) As a result of not keeping that heart, they were defeated by Satan.
(3) Therefore, faith in the heart leads to righteousness. (Rom 10:9-10)
(4) Satan's goal is to destroy heaven by making the heart doubt God.
(5) The archangel Lucifer's first sin was doubt about God.
(6) God is trying to do it alone. I also wanted to become God. It was the first time that this heart was planted in Adam and Eve.
(7) Therefore, God has ordained faith in the heart as righteousness.
Without faith it is impossible to please God (Hebrews 11:6)
He promised that nothing is impossible to those who believe. (Mark 9:23)
(8) Satan took away the faith in Cain's heart and planted envy and jealousy in Cain's heart.
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(9) Satan takes away faith from the human heart and fills the heart with all bad things. People like this are said to be rich in heart.
Greed, covetousness, lust for worldly things, lust for fame and love, lust for power, lust, lust of the flesh, lust of the eyes, lust of the pride of life, envy, jealousy, a false mind, complaint, dissatisfaction, those whose hearts are filled with these things possess the kingdom of heaven Can not.
(10) A rich man whose heart is filled with these things can never go to heaven.
If the owners of this kind of heart want to go to heaven, they must clean their hearts.
1. You must accurately diagnose your state of mind.
1) The first thing a doctor does to treat the sick is diagnosis.
(1) Where is the problem? What is it? Where did the cause come from?
(2) Accurate diagnosis is the most important for treatment.
(3) If a doctor misdiagnoses a sick person, he does not cure the disease but makes it worse and kills him.
2) Examination method
(1) Questionnaire, percussion, instrument use (stethoscope, X-ray, CT scan, MRI scan)
(2) Diagnose the cause of the disease by various methods such as blood test and biopsy
(3) Comprehensive checkup is required, regular checkup is required)
3) Areas that cannot be diagnosed or treated no matter how advanced modern medicine is
it is the human mind. Psychology and psychoanalysis have no way of knowing the human psyche. You can know the heat inside the water, but you cannot know the human heart.
4) Because the human mind is invisible and immaterial, humans cannot touch it.
(1) Even if the doctor dissects it, it cannot be seen
(2) It cannot be seen with any x-ray, CT, MRI, or microscope.
(Jeremiah 17:9) -The heart is deceitful above all things and is desperately corrupt. Who can know this?
(3) However, no one can deny that there is a heart.
5) Only God (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) can accurately see the human heart.
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(1) Before God, the heart of man is revealed plainly. There is nothing to hide.
(1Sa 16:7) -My eyesight is not like man's; people look at the outward appearance, but I, the Lord, look at the heart.
(1 Kings 8:39) - You alone know the heart of life.
(1 Chronicles 28:9) - The Lord searches all hearts and knows all thoughts.
(Jeremiah 11:20) -O LORD Almighty, who examines the hearts of men.
(Jer 17:10) -I, the LORD, search the heart (Jer 20:12)
(Acts 1:24) - Lord, who knows the heart
(2) Jesus saw the hearts of the scribes and Pharisees who were hypocrites.
(Matthew 23:27) -Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! They are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead people's bones and all sorts of filth.
(Genesis 6:5) -The LORD knew that man's wickedness was abundant in the world and that every inclination of his heart's thoughts was only evil always.
(Romans 1:18-28) -
(Rom 1:29-31) - Full of all unrighteousness, filthiness, greed, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice, gossipers, slanderers, haters of God, reproaches arrogant, arrogant, boastful, plotting evil, disobeying parents, foolish, apostate, heartless, ruthless
A) He diagnosed the state of mind of unbelievers like this.
(Tim 1:15) - To those who are pure, all things are pure, but to those who are unclean and unbelieving nothing is pure, but their hearts and consciences are defiled.
(3) The reason the human heart became so dirty was because of sin.
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A) You must know the seriousness of the sin right away.
More than 600,000 species of animals live on Earth. Among them, humans are the only animals that know sin. Only human beings have court laws, and there are prisons
b) There are 17 nouns of sin in the Bible.
Typical ones - lawlessness, unrighteousness, discord, unbelief, ungodliness, default, disobedience, etc.
The word “sin” is recorded 791 times, 508 times in the Old Testament and 283 times in the New Testament.
c) Divided into three major categories:
① Crimes of substitute relations
Age of Law - Failure to keep the commandments, statutes, and laws (Exodus 21:23-25)
Age of the Gospel -The sin of not repenting and not believing in Jesus (Rom 8:24, 16:9)
② Interpersonal crime
Ethical sins-social customs, breaking traditions, condemning society
Legal crime - crime of criminal act, subject to physical punishment
(prison, fine, death penalty)
③ Sins related to oneself
Sins of conscience -sins against the nature of God's creation
Moral Sin - the sin of failing to do one's duty as a human being
The pain of the heart comes, and the envy of the surroundings comes.
d) What is the essence of sin?
① Are murder, adultery, theft, etc. a sin? These are the results of sin.
② The essence of sin is disbelief in God.(Mark16:16;John 16:9)
③ It appears as disobedience
④ The cause is the devil's delusion. (Genesis 3:1-7)
⑤ Therefore, God has ordained faith as righteousness.
(Rom 3:22,28, 4;5, 9:30-32)
⑥ Therefore, everything that is not done in faith is sin. (Romans 14:23)
⑦ It is a sin not to believe the Word of God in your heart.
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Even if you have lust in your heart, it becomes a sin of adultery.
Hating one's brother in one's heart is also the sin of murder.
Everything that comes out of the heart comes to mind, and when thoughts come to mind, words come into words, and when words come to words, they become actions.
2. How can we purify our hearts?
1) The human mind is completely corrupt and beyond repair.
2) The human mind cannot be renewed; it must be born anew.
(2 Corinthians 5:17) -Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
3) He creates new things cleanly through faith.
(Acts 15:9) - He made no distinction between them and us, purifying their hearts by faith.
4) You must be born anew by the Holy Spirit.
(Ezekiel 36:26-27)
I will put a new spirit within you and give you a new heart; I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
5) You must put on the new man.
(Ephesians 4:22-24)
Put off your old self, which is used up according to the lusts of temptation, and be renewed in your spirit, and put on the new self, which was created according to God in righteousness and holiness of truth.
6) A new heart is only possible through a new covenant.
① The old covenant cannot have a new heart.
② A new heart is possible only through a new covenant.
③ You cannot overcome the nature of sin without having a new heart.
(Jeremiah 31:31-34) -
(Luke 22:20) -In the same way he took the cup after supper, saying, "This cup is the new covenant in my blood, which is poured out for you.
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7) Asking an unrenewed person not to sin
① It is the same as giving it to the lower limb and saying that it should not be soiled again.
It is impossible unless the nature of the becoming is changed.
② We humans do not solve the problem of will to abide by the law.
It is absolutely impossible unless you receive a new heart.
③ Let's listen to David's confession after he sinned!
(Psalm 51:10) -Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
8) The new covenant enables us to be born again through the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
① It is possible by regenerating our dead spirits with water and the Spirit.
② The new Holy Spirit is sent to our hearts so that we can overcome sin.
3. Reasons for God's deep interest in the human heart
1) To make our hearts become heaven
① It is because of the desire to be present in people's hearts and dwell together.
② It is because of the motive of God's true love for human beings.
③ Because of God's covenant.
2) Because he wants to bless us humans.
(1) What are the blessings humans seek and the blessings God wants to bestow?
① Blessings that humans seek
Blessings of Asians, especially those expected by Koreans
The meaning of the blessed person who sees the substance
② Blessings that God wants to give.
The Blessing of Seeing God
(2) People in the Old Testament couldn't see God even though they wanted to see it.
① It was because sinful people would die when they saw God.
(Exodus 33:20) -He also said, "You will not see my face, because no one will see me and live.“
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(3) New Testament saints received the blessing of seeing God.
① It is because the status of a sinner has changed to a righteous person.
② It is because he became a righteous man who was justified by faith.
③ This is the privilege of the people of the new covenant.
④ The God we can see is Jesus Christ.
⑤ He is the source of blessing.
(4) The Jews, whose spiritual eyes were covered with the veil of the law, did not recognize God even though God appeared before their eyes. that's the curse
(John 1:1-2) -
(John 1:14) -
(Philippians 2:6-8) -
(5) Philip did not see that Jesus was God even though he ate, drank, and lived with Jesus for three years.
(John 14:7-11) -
(Isa 9:6) -
(6) Jesus came as the God who does not die even when sinful people see and touch him.
① That Jesus is God, the source of blessing, who has the right to bring about life and death.
② All treasures are hidden in Jesus Christ.
③ He has eternal life, the kingdom of heaven, the forgiveness of sins, and the right to inherit within him.
everything is included (Colossians 1:13-23)
(7) Now that God is in our spirit, and our body has become a temple.
(John 14:16-21,26) -
(1 Corinthians 3:9) -
(1 Corinthians 6:9) -
(8) What is the cause of not seeing God within us?
① Because they do not keep the new commandment of the Lord (John 14:21)
② Because they do not walk in the light. (1 John 2:8-11)
③ Because I love the world. (1 John 2:15-17)
Conclusion - How long must the tragedy of not seeing the God who is enshrined inside go on? What is the cause?
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