The Commandments Make Our Heart Pure
The pure in heart have Christ’s Gospel. That is their doctrine.
Mat 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
To be pure is to be clean; the Greek or Hebrew words are translated as either word in the Scriptures. Cleanliness is godliness
2Co 7:1 Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
What makes us clean or pure is not in doubt. It is the Word, it is the Commandments.
Joh 15:3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you.
The Commandments, the Gospel, is what makes us clean; it is what washes us when our eyes are opened to see them.
Mat 8:2 And, behold, there came a leper and worshipped him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Mat 8:3 And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
The Lord’s people are cleansed, made pure by the work of the Commandments that we hold dear.
1Pe 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
God is Spirit, and His Word is the Living Commandments, which are likened unto a river of pure water that brings eternal life and holiness. The language of God is pure.
Rev 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
Pro 30:5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.
Zep 3:9 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.
It is through blood, symbolizing dying to the flesh that is submitting to the Commandments that we are purified. This is how the gold in our temple is made pure by the many trials and tribulations we endure.
Heb 9:22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
Heb 9:23 It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.
Psa 12:6 The words of the LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
The pure in heart is what God wants, as that ensures the outside is also clean. Feigning godliness, we all first despise the Commandments in our hearts until the Lord has mercy upon us and grants a change of heart.
Mat 23:25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
Mat 23:26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Only the Lord, who is the Living Commandments, makes us clean on the inside, and that works its way to the outside.
Mar 1:40 And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
Mar 1:41 And Jesus, moved with compassion, put forth his hand, and touched him, and saith unto him, I will; be thou clean.
If our hearts are pure, meaning we esteem and desire to obey the Lord in all things, we have received the Gospel. We henceforth only need to wash our feet. This refers to cleaning up our deeds and actions, bringing them in line with the faith of Christ that lives within us.
Joh 13:10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.
When we strive to obey the Commandments, we are being saved from our sins and the Lord is purifying us, making us holy, a special people set apart for His purposes.
1Ti 1:5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
The pure of heart are indeed blessed of God as He continually rewards those who seek His ways with more overcoming, and our hearts are changed.
Eze 11:19 And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:
Eze 11:20 That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
It is the Lord, the Commandments, that remake our hearts and it is done by the hand of God, through the power of the Living Word. No flesh is involved.
Col 2:11 In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:
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