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<div class="SSN_title">"BLESSED ARE THE PURE IN HEART"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. WHAT IS MEANT BY "PURE IN HEART"?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Greek word "Katharos."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Clean - hands that had been washed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Wheat that had been winnowed - chaff removed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Greek root to purge or cleanse.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The heart is the center of ones being.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The heart considered the throne of the spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. As the mind the throne of the soul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Difference between head belief and heart belief.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The Pharisees were concerned about the outward purgings (found fault with disciples).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. "Keep thy heart with all diligence."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. "The heart is deceitful and desperately wicked..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Jesus not talking about natural state of heart.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The heart needs cleansing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. David prayed, "Create within me a clean heart."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. We have the difficulty of the renewed spirit in the unrenewed body.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Paul said, "To will is present with me, but how to perform that which is good I find not."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE POSITION OF THE BEATITUDES.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This is in association with "Blessed are they that mourn."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. What are they mourning about?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The impurity of their heart.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Those who are pure in heart are those who have mourned over impurity.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. THIS BEATITUDE EMPHASIZES THE NECESSITY OF GOD'S WORK OF CLEANSING OUR LIVES.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We may cleanse our bodies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. We might after a fashion cleanse our minds.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Only God can cleanse our hearts.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. There is no way I can make myself pure in heart.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. THE LORD PUTS THE EMPHASIS IN THE HEART.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Pharisees were emphasizing the actions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Men often emphasize the intellect.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">V. THEY SHALL SEE GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. You see God today where other men are blind.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. In a sunset.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. In all life forms.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. In the events of history.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. In the daily happenings of your life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In the future we shall see Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Now we see through the dark glass."</div>
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