{"id":645,"date":"2020-08-08T11:46:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T11:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/?p=645"},"modified":"2020-08-15T08:41:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T08:41:06","slug":"finding-purity-of-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/finding-purity-of-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Purity of Heart…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"\u201cWho shall ascend to the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to vanity (\u05dc\u05d0\u05be\u05e0\u05b8\u05e9\u05c2\u05b8\u05d0 \u05dc\u05b7\u05e9\u05bc\u05c1\u05b8\u05d5\u05b0\u05d0) and who does not swear deceitfully\u201d (Psalm 24:3-4). Yeshua expounded: \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God\u2019\u201d (Matt. 5:8). The Greek word translated \u201cpure\u201d is katharos<\/em> (\u03ba\u03b1\u03b8\u03b1\u03c1\u1f79\u03c2), sometimes used describe the cleansing of a wound (catharsis), or to describe the unalloyed quality of a substance revealed through refining fire (the corresponding Hebrew word for the \u201cpure of heart\u201d (\u05d1\u05bc\u05b7\u05e8\u05be\u05dc\u05b5\u05d1\u05b8\u05d1), used in Psalm 24:4, comes from a root (\u05d1\u05bc\u05b8\u05e8\u05b7\u05e8) that likewise means to purify by fire). Metaphorically, then, purity of heart refers to separation from the profane – singleness of vision, wholeheartedness, passion, and focused desire for the sacred. As the Beatitudes reveal (Matt. 5:3-8), only those who are impoverished in spirit, who mourn over themselves and hunger for God\u2019s mercy, are refined by their struggle to see God (the Greek text implies these will see God now \u2013 with inward vision \u2013 and in the world to come). Because the pure in heart use ayin tovah<\/em>, the good eye, they walk \u201cin the light, as He is in the light\u201d (Matt. 6:22). When we are undivided in heart, the Spirit imparts to us a hidden wisdom (1 Cor. 2:6-7) and we are able to discern hidden realities that others do not see (1 Cor. 2:14). As we center our affections on Yeshua, we become unified, made whole, and healed of our inner fragmentation. We see the Lord both in this world, through his effects, and then panim el panim<\/em> (\u05e4\u05bc\u05b8\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd \u05d0\u05b6\u05dc\u05be\u05e4\u05bc\u05b8\u05e0\u05b4\u05d9\u05dd), \u201cface to face,\u201d in the world to come. Our hope purifies us for that coming great day of full disclosure (1 John 3:2-3; Heb. 12:14).<\/p>\n

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The heart is a miracle, an \u201cengine\u201d that distributes life, and the heartbeat is a great mystery, inexplicably pulsing with energy, contracting the muscles, pumping blood.. The pulse of the heart, then, is the \u201ccenter of the center\u201d of a person\u2019s physical life… If we are impure of heart, we will be inwardly divided, unfocused, fragmented, filled with destabilizing anxiety, envy, anger, and so on. More tragically, because we seek to escape ourselves, we will be devoid of a true center, without a focal point or abiding purpose, and therefore we will be lost to ourselves, wandering and without rest….<\/p>\n

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\u201cWho shall ascend to the hill of the LORD? or who shall stand in his holy place? The one who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to vanity (\u05dc\u05d0\u05be\u05e0\u05b8\u05e9\u05c2\u05b8\u05d0 \u05dc\u05b7\u05e9\u05bc\u05c1\u05b8\u05d5\u05b0\u05d0) and who does not swear deceitfully\u201d (Psalm 24:3-4). Yeshua expounded: \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-dvar"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hebrew4christians.com\/training\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}