The King’s Mandate: The Sermon on the Mount-A Heart that God Can Use

Sermon Series: The Life of Christ: From Creation to the Cradle to the Cross to the Crown

Sermon Title: The King’s Mandate: The Sermon on the Mount-A Heart that God Can Use

Sermon Text: Matthew 5:8

Sermon Date: August 21, 2016

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

 

I. The Definition OF A Pure In Heart

 

Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it spring the issues of life

3  Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord?

And who shall stand in his holy place?

4  He who has clean hands and a pure heart,

       who does not lift up his soul to what is false

and does not swear deceitfully. Psalm 24: 3-4

 

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:8

 

 

II.  The Defilement of the Heart

 

Jeremiah 17:9-10. It is a classic verse on the heart and notice 3 things Jeremiah tells us about the heart.

 A. It Is Diseased

B. It Is Deceitful

C. Diagnosis of the Heart

 

 III. The Deployment of a New Heart- 

A.  It is a heart that God touches

 B.  It is a heart that God turns towards Him

C.  Which makes it a heart that is tender towards Him

 

IV.  The Delight of a Pure Heart

A. To Be Admitted to His Presence

B. To Be Awestruck by His Glory

C. To Be Comforted by His Grace—Psalm 27: 7-9