What does it mean to have a pure heart?

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Sherril

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What does it mean to be pure of heart?......what does the bible say about this being pure of heart?
[HR][/HR]To be pure of heart...God has done a mighty work in me and through me to be pure of heart, to see things as with the eyes of Jesus and having the mind of Christ...He has transformed me through His word and His Spirit...
[HR][/HR]Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.....
[HR][/HR]love in Christ Sherril...:rolleyes:
 

Adstar

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To love what is good..
To hate what is evil..
To love and trust God..
To love our fellow human beings..
To have the right Spirit..
 

Hizikyah

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I would say that it is a heart that is not in oppisition to the ways of the Most High, and that does not seek the ways outside of His path.

Psalms 24:3-6, “Who does go up into the mountain of יהוה? And who does stand in His set-apart place? He who has innocent hands and a clean heart, Who did not bring his life to naught, And did not swear deceivingly. He receives a blessing from יהוה, And righteousness from the Strength of his salvation. This is the generation of those who seek Him; Ya‛aqoḇ, who seek Your face. Selah.”

Psalm 51:10, “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”

Ezekiel 11:19-21, “And I shall give them one heart, and put a new spirit within you. And I shall take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh, so that they walk in My laws, and guard My right-rulings, and shall do them. And they shall be My people and I shall be their Strength. But to those whose hearts walk after the heart of their disgusting matters and their abominations, I shall recompense their deeds on their own heads,” declares the Master יהוה.”

I want to point out that the words that are in italics* are ADDED, thus changing the meaning of the passage:

Ephesians 2:15-16, (NKJV), "having abolished in His flesh the enmity,*that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity. "

Not only does the next verse tell us what was abolished, but when you remove the ADDED words the meaning changes.

Ephesians 2:15-16, "Abolishing the enmity Law, the Commandments, and the Ordinances, through His own flesh, in order to create in Himself one new man from the two; making peace, That would reconcile both in one body to YHWH through the sacrifice--having killed the enmity through Himself."

Strong's Concordance, “enmity” is word #G2189 echthra: enmity, hostility, Original Word: ἔχθρα, ας, ἡ, Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine, Transliteration: echthra, Phonetic Spelling: (ekh'-thrah), Short Definition: enmity, hostility, Definition: enmity, hostility, alienation.

Thayer's (New Testament Greek-English Lexicon) Feminine of G2190; hostility; by implication a reason for opposition:—enmity, hatred.

The opposition to YHWH's Law abolished, not the Law it's self.
So if we were to remove the added words in italics , we would have;

Ephesians 2:15-16, "Abolishing the enmity (the opposition to the) Law, the Commandments, and the Ordinances, through His own flesh, in order to create in Himself one new man from the two; making peace, That would reconcile both in one body to YHWH through the sacrifice--having killed the enmity through Himself."

Galatians 5:22-25, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, righteousness, Faith, Meekness, temperance, such things are not against any Law. And those who are the Messiah's have sacrificed the flesh, with its passions and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

 

Hizikyah

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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Proverbs 16:2, “All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes, but YHWH weighs the spirit.”[/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Psalm 119:9, “How can a young man keep his way pure? By guarding it according to your word.”[/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Proverbs 20:11, “Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.”
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[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Proverbs 21:8, “The way of the guilty is crooked, but the conduct of the pure is upright.”[/FONT]



[FONT=Times New Roman, serif]Matthew 5:8, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see Yah.”[/FONT]
 

Desertsrose

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Hi Sheril,

From got questions dot org.

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God” (
Matthew 5:8). Jesus spoke this during His famous Sermon the Mount. So what did He mean by “pure in heart?”

The Greek word for “pure” in Matthew 5:8 is katharos. It means to be “clean, blameless, unstained from guilt.” Interestingly, the word can refer specifically to that which is purified by fire or by pruning. John the Baptist told people that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit and fire (Matthew 3:11). Malachi speaks of the Messiah as being like a “refiner’s fire” (Malachi 3:2). Jesus refers to believers as being the branches and to Himself as being the vine (John 15:1-17). For a vine to produce fruit, it must be pruned. Those who are truly “pure,” then, are those who have been declared innocent because of the work of Jesus and who are being sanctified by His refining fire and His pruning.

The Greek word for “heart” in Matthew 5:8 is kardeeah. This can be applied to the physical heart. But it also refers to the spiritual center of life. It is where thoughts, desires, sense of purpose, will, understanding, and character reside. So, to be pure in heart means to be blameless in who we actually are.

Being pure in heart involves having a singleness of heart toward God. A pure heart has no hypocrisy, no guile, no hidden motives. The pure heart is marked by transparency and an uncompromising desire to please God in all things. It is more than an external purity of behavior; it is an internal purity of soul.

The only way we can be truly pure in heart is to give our lives to Jesus and ask Him to do the cleansing work. Psalm 51:10 says, “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” God is the one who makes our hearts pure – by the sacrifice of His Son and through His sanctifying work in our lives (see also 1 John 3:1-3).
 
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Sherril

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How beautiful to have a pure heart before our God..........love in Christ Sherril...:rolleyes:
 
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What does it mean to be pure of heart?......what does the bible say about this being pure of heart?
[HR][/HR]To be pure of heart...God has done a mighty work in me and through me to be pure of heart, to see things as with the eyes of Jesus and having the mind of Christ...He has transformed me through His word and His Spirit...
[HR][/HR]Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.....
[HR][/HR]love in Christ Sherril...:rolleyes:
A clean heart with an enlivened spirit (Psalm 51:10), where the filth of sin has been purged and cleansed (Psalm 51:2), the foreskin of uncleanness circumcised away and the stiff neck of rebellion made relaxed and obedient (Deuteronomy 10:16), the insensitive and disobedient heart of stone converted to an obedient and sensitive heart of flesh (Ezekiel 26:36).