Bishop Wooden Preaches // The Pure of Heart

allow me to begin by talking about what has been described as the life long quest of man lifelong quest of man is to see God a man even the mighty Moses wanted to see God in Exodus chapter 33 verse 18 and verse 20 you see a conversation that took place between Moses and his creator Moses said to the Lord in verse 18 of Exodus 33 I beseech thee show me thy glory show me your wait show me your majesty show me that the Hebrew word is Kevon show me your glory that is show me your face God's response to Moses in verse 20 it says and he God said thou canst not see my face for there shall no man see me and live is that amazing and if you at your leisure study the conversation it's amazing the wonderful things that God did promise Moses that it was show him he promised that he would show Moses he says I'll allow my compassion to pass before you and verse 19 he says I'll show you my goodness I'll proclaim my name before you I'll let you see my graciousness and I was shown mercy upon whom I was shown mercy four major things he says but my face you can't see that because if you see my face you'll die and and the Lord didn't say that to protect his eminent E but the Lord said this because he knew that no matter how awesome human beings are cuz you gotta remember he made us he knows that there are certain sites that a human being that man in his fallen nature cannot bear to look upon and live that that there is something that if a human being sees it would cause that human being to drop dead in there something the mortician has a trained eye you don't want to take a person who doesn't have the trained eye of a mortician and take them into a mortuary and allow them to see with an untrained eye what a mortician does to a decease to a dead body the first responders have to have a trained eye they can go to a and act the scene of an accident and see the human body all but torn apart and remove that person from the car and deal with all of the things that we who have the untrained eye have never seen and then go and have lunch and sleep and rest well after a certain period of time because they have a trained praise the Lord no human being has a trained to look upon the creator of the universe in fact we're told that the only way we'll be able to see him as he is and it not kill us is after we've been changed then the Bible says we shall be like him for we shall see him as he eateth so the Lord wasn't trying to hide he was having mercy on Moses he said but I tell you what I will do out I'll put you in the cleft of the rock and I'll put my hand before you as I walk past you and you can see my back but if you look at my face you won't be able to live what a mighty God William darling in his book the invisible God said this concerning this subject if you have studied philosophy you will notice that most philosophers are hesitant to deny the necessity for the existence of the infinite most philosophers knows that there is that there is a almighty all-knowing everlasting unlimited infinite being and most scientists are ready to concede that man is finite humans are limited so man can't be God because we have too many limitations this is why no human being should leave God for another human being for no matter how wonderful a human being may be there's still a human being and human beings have limits he can be the most handsome coolest brother ever sister girl but don't leave Jesus for because he's a handsome cool brother he's not a God so therefore therefore he is limited in what he can do amen and how far he will go and no matter how wonderful his appearance may be don't get too carried away about it because he won't keep it no one does the grass the Bible says declare that all flesh is grass and the grass withereth and the flower fadeth and I write about that amen amen so but our God remains the same same thing with the sisters she may be the prettiest woman in the world but she's a woman she has limitations on this both the scientists and the philosophers in most cases agree if man were the creator of his own universe he would continue to have and manifest at least some of his original creative powers but man has never been able to create anything man has never been able to create something from nothing at our best man is good at manipulating raw materials already in existence we didn't reach into nothing and come up with the material to make the cellphone we need to reach out into nothing and come up with the materials necessary to create a computer to make the computer medical breakthroughs aren't breakthroughs that come from chemicals and things and substances a substance that man reached into nothing and created but man use the raw materials that they'll create the Creator put in the earth long ago to figure out how to make that asthma medicine that medicine to treat high blood pressure so forth and so on thank God for the technology of man but man is only good at manipulating the raw materials that God put in the earth in the first place to see God has been the ultimate aim of all true philosophy it is the ultimate hope of all science you know to seek a man wants to be equal with God you see the never-ending battle of humans trying to outdo and outwit the Creator and it will remain the ultimate desire of all nations but God cannot be found this way anywhere in the wide realms of nature in the great and wonderful world which we see and touch science proclaims that no God can be found on the pathway she has explored and their right she can't find God using scientific methods science have implored the telescope and she has surveyed the heavens and scientists have looked at the Sun and looked at the Stars and they've looked as far as giant telescopes can look into outer space and yet they haven't found God on the other hand the scientists have implored the microscope and looked at all of the miniature astonishing life-forms that all of the bacterias and things that you would that you can pick up in your hand there is there is more bacterium and things in the dirt that you can pick up with your hand that man hadn't forgot what to do with then we figured out what to come up with uses of and yet in the microscope we still can't find God are you with me no matter how close we examine these things scientists have said God is not there amen he is not in the stars of the sky he is not in the grains of sand he is not in the flowers jammed with Dew nor in the marvelous processes of life which formed the basis of our own physical being he is far beyond he is far away praise the Lord than those things and so when we look far away we say that he's not there when we look close up we say that he cannot be found and yet in this sixth beatitude jesus promised us something that the microscope nor the telescope can deliver he promises something that no human philosophy can deliver that no man-made doctrine can deliver jesus promised us the ability to see God isn't that something what a promise for the claim finite man has been provided a way to see the infinite almighty creator of the universe the creator of infinity the creator of time the creator of eternity and everything else God has provided a way for limited human beings to see him Paul says this about our Great God in Acts of the Apostles chapter 17 while speaking to the Athenians on Mars Hill Paul says in verse 24 god that have made the world's and all things therein seeing that he is Lord of Heaven and Earth and dwelleth not in temples made with hands neither is worshipped with man's hands although he needed I mean as though he needed anything see the false gods have to be carried from one place to the other they have to be washed they have to be repainted when the jewels fall out of the statues that the jewels have to be put put back all kinds of maintenance crews have to be in place to keep the false gods shiny and pristine and yet our God needs none of these things do you not know at first they call the Christians atheists because the Christian God was not a God who could be depicted by some statue Christians did not go to as the world of people did that the heathens as they worship asked repulse the there's the snake god and god of medicine and they they they worshipped Zeus and all these other gods asked her off and all of the gods who had statues the Caesars the the pantheon of gods are wrong well the Christian God was not a God that had a statue that you could wear you could bow at his feet so then they called us atheist because there was no statue that needed maintenance my god I'm glad that we serve a God who doesn't need us to have us to bathe him hallelujah I'm glad that we serve a God whose diamonds don't have to be put back into the eye sockets of the statue that because they fell out due to the corrosion of the weather is that something we serve the true and living God who needs nothing as though he needed anything seeing look at this instead of us giving maintenance to him Paul says seeing he giveth to all life and breath and all things he gives to us and have made of us one blood praise the Lord there is no master race God made of us he made us from one blood all nations of men for to dwell on the face of the earth and have determined the times before appointed that is he has determined how long they will exist and look at this the bounds of their habitation boundaries praise the Lord God determined even those things that they should seek the Lord the human race given the bounds of their habitation that all people should seek the Lord if haply they might feel after him and look at this look at how fair God is you know he said what about these countries what they've never heard of the Lord look at this that and find him though he be not far from every one of us the Lord has presented himself to everybody but one way or another God has if man will just seek after him man can find him look at this for in him we live and move and have our being as certain also of your own poets have said for we are his offspring what a mighty God we he made everything he made the earth and everything in it a man John said this on the subject of seeing God he said in John 1 and 18 no man have seen God at any time the only begotten Son which is in the bosom of the Father he hath declared him no man have seen God the Father at any time also in 1st John chapter 4 verse 12 the eighth law says no man have seen God at any time first Timothy chapter 6 verse 16 says who only speaking of God hath immortality dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto whom no man have seen nor can see to whom be honor and power everlasting amen the fact that God cannot be seen by our physical eyes is not a recent discovery jesus said this about God the Father hear me well he said John chapter 5 verse 24 God speaking of God in his truest essence in his basic existence in his most fundamental existence God is a spirit God is a spirit that you can't see him it is explained he is a spirit now I'm not speaking of a vision of God or a manifestation of God or even God incarnate which was Jesus Christ but God in His basic essence is invisible to the human eye and no matter how the scientists and the philosophers no matter how powerful they build their microscopes and their telescopes and all of their discovers they will never be able to find God through these things he cannot be seen by the human eye the Bible long ago declared what scientist is now finding out that it cannot discover those things that are known only through revelation until that unless God decides to reveal himself man cannot find him the Bible nowhere intimates that a mere scientific such search for God is suitable or likely to succeed and you know when these people fail you know what they declare they try there is no God since we can't find him he doesn't exist since our instruments can't detect them well that that means he's not detectable no it means you can't detect it that's all it means it means that finite man there are things that are beyond our finite our limited abilities it's easy for us to write off as a human race that which we cannot explain and that which we cannot attain to don't let anybody fool you our God is real are you with me today I'll I'll preach in just a few minutes but but you but he has to reveal himself job said this about God job justified he bought his testimony and he said all that I knew where I might find him you remember that job chapter 23 job said all that I could find him in that powerful that I might come even to his seat he said if I could find it I would go to his throne this is Jo 23 and verse 3 the eighth verse says says this job says whole I go forward but he is not there and backwards but I cannot perceive him on the left hand where Duff he worked on the left hand I cannot behold him I can't see him he hided himself on the right hand I cannot see him but he know the way that I take when he have tried me I shall come forth as gold job said even though I can't find him he knows me and when I am trying to upsell I'll come forth as pure gold but but when God got ready he revealed himself to Joe but make no mistake about it job didn't see God as he is for job saw the father in his splendor as he is job would have dropped dead concerning seeing God that was a conversation between Rabbi Joshua and the Roman Emperor Trajan and Trajan toll rabbi Joshua he says your God being sarcastic your God is everywhere I'd like to see him the rabbi responded by saying no mortal eye can behold his glory he says but I tell you what the rabbi being filled with wisdom let us go and view one of his ambassador I can't show you him but I'll show you one of his ambassadors the Emperor agreed so the Emperor and the rabbi went out into the court at noonday and the rabbi said look up at the Sun and just gaze at the Sun the Empress said I can't days in the Sun because the light of the Sun dazzles me it's too much to bright the rabbi said now you want to see him but you can't bear to look at one of his create his creatures if you can't look at his creatures you know you're not able to look at him what a mighty God we serve yet having said all of this this sixth beatitude the safe beatitude is very clear that a certain group of people decided not everybody not a not a group of people distinguished by race or gender praise the Lord but they are distinguished Amen they they're distinguished I can't say race gender or religion hey oh oh oh you have sex with no religion and who you have sex with distinguishes because there's a certain group of people who are promised that they can see God and these group of people are pure of heart and your religion has something to do with whether or not you can get your heart fuel and your sex life have something to do with whether or not your heart is pure I can't get in heaven here I must be preaching to a bunch of freezing Lord all right now then listen to this jesus said blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God word heart there the Greek word is Cordia it gives us the English kardea a cardiac when you have a heart attack use it's a cardiac arrest heart problems of problems with the cardia use here metaphorically to represent the inner person ha in a person's metaphorical is it's the deceit of motives our attitude the seat of personality a thinking process the wheel blessed are the pure of heart the Bible says in proverbs 4 and 23 keep them high listen to this with all diligence for out of it are the issues of life our thoughts our motives the things that occupy our mind comes from our heart and it is important for every believer to guard their heart to keep it pure praise the Lord this is why we have to be careful I asked you our choices in entertainment careful answer our choices in the company that we keep the people we associate with the music that we listen to the messages that we allow to be forced and reinforced in our spirits the things that we allow to uh to get through our I game you got to be careful to keep your heart because out of your heart throw the issues of life you can't live a clean life constantly feeding your heart dirt a man can claim to have a pure heart given to pornography for pornography will mess up your mind the images stay there they stay there and then and that speaks to your heart praise the Lord I hate hip-hop music with a perfect hatred and not hatred is not just the beat I can't say rhythm because most of it is rhythm unless it is strength of it is the drum we black folk are a people of the drum they understand the role that the beat the repetitiveness plays on your subconscious that repetitive beat gets through it gets through the the the walls in the mind the game boom you see people sometimes driving in cars the whole cost shaking I don't some wait other day I could hear my radio looked over it as a brother boom woo I'm like man you're gonna go death but I said I'm not gonna say that too much road rage out now you know you know you speak to your personality pull out a gun and shoot you what did you say turn that radio die alright so but but but listen it's the message oh the constant dropping of the f-bombs the reinforced messenger hate law-enforcement hate the police shoot this person shoot that person calling our girls bees and calling our women it all just messages feel with misogyny and degrading messages and you can't tell me that you can listen to that stuff Oh and over and over and over and it not affect you some people fall asleep listen that stuff now you have no filter you have you you don't even you don't even resist because you are your resistors you are in REM sleep and Satan has a open door an open door with no filter to just deposit trash in your spirit and you wonder why little Johnny is so mad what happened to have daughter this is not the girl we gave birth to now she's she talks back she's this she's that her attitude is that of resistance it's it's in what's being fed to them there's reality television which is not reality it's not reality it's not reality they have a sprit it's not reality and they are they're always pushing the wrong stuff just to make us read and make you angry and put a chip on your shoulder set you up for a wonderful perfectly fitted next thing you know you go from being whatever your name is two three four five six seven why did he come from what was fair what was bad what was fan what was fair to you praise Allah you fast I'm struggling with living holy okay I'm just struggling um I'm single and I'm struggling okay well uh before we go to the deep things and cast out demons endeavor imagine this what do you watch on television what are your favorite shows praise Allah what kind of music are you listening to what are the lyrics feel with are you are you listening too soon and very soon or love won't let me wait what are you listening to it has it has an effect on your heart thank you Jesus the heart we what we want to make sure our young people have a reinforced with messages parents don't fuss all the time love them and reinforce them with messages that makes them feel good about who they are talk to that little boy like he's a boy there's no gender neutral talk to no boy talk to that boy like he's a boy we talked a little girl that she's a girl a man you encourage boyishness in the little rascal and sometimes sometimes you you got to just understand when you now you got to keep discipline I'm a disciplinarian but there are times when you got to understand that what you're seeing is just boyish behavior and you don't want to break your spirit y'all turn that mic off huh yeah that microphone is hot I hope y'all been saying Amen because if you had been if you hadn't they taped you hey man I sure hope you and ruined the broadcast it's good but anyways a little girl you know dress up like a girl target target got it wrong trying to have a gender-neutral section and oh and then ladies anytime they go gender-neutral you know who suffers you know what fashion suffers the fashion for women because they take all the pretty colors away take all the tainted Nissa way next thing you know that you are dressed in drag drag drag drag drag drag you're just drab and ugly you drab causes because it's gender neutral god I've given you license women to be beautiful and dainty and colorful and all those things that make a woman special but what meets the woman special is not what makes the man special Ray's look it's just just the opposite for the problem you don't hit what I'm saying be careful what you feed your heart when I finish preaching up in the South being on my way out the door I stopped to a young man I saw him early on my way in the Holy Spirit said talk to him before you meet and I on my way out the door just preached I'm on my way back to change those being rocket we got the goal we're going back to Raleigh praise the Lord we got to get us a couple miles of sleep get up and catch the flight and I got to go but I've walked up to that young man and I said brother you the guys on the outside aren't you he said yes sir I said listen don't let nobody make your sister don't anybody turn you out you a man you be a man you stand your ground that's a man I wasn't on the microphone I was on the mic you don't know him so and I reached out to shake his hand and let me tell you what blessed me when I grabbed his hand oh this this young boy he's full of strength hmm I was impressed with the resistance of his handshake see men talk by shaking it man don't give each other a fish oh look all respect is lost all respect is lost because you know we do we have big conversations right there that's right big conversation just right that uh uh heater told me so many wonderful things about it that's right and what any among the things whether or not I should even respect that's right well the Nadi's worthy of a conversation say man I got to get back to the text but uh when I finish talking with the young man even the ladies who will stand around they begin to say man talk to him Bishop and his daddy came up to me after service and he said that was my son you was talking to I said we're good but let me tell you what I told him he was of age so I would had he been a little boy wouldn't him but he's grown man I told him what I what I shared and his dad thanked me he thanked me see it's it's what we feed people it's what we reinforce what we reinforce some culture some professor some clown other day what's that was at one of the universities was telling black kids that that math and science and numbers are racist now the best was being told to black students but Asian students and an Indian students and foreign students who are coming into the country to get an education they are being told the glory of numbers the glory of math the glory of science the glory of these things so they did feel with it and make ease and all the good grades in these things we think is racist so that far let me do it right though he was set up straight so then both students graduate the business community looks for workers one man ends up which one do you think ends up with the corporate job making all the money versus the other with a college degree asking you at McDonald do you want me to supersize that enough after you order a number three I like at number three with cheese would you like for me to supersize that that means you missed it yeah the wrong things were fair to you and now when I preach this stuff you know so people get mad but I'd rather tell you the truth I'd rather tell you the truth I will to tell you the truth and I won't tell you young people and learn something you know go to school go to school but don't just go to school major is something that you know that can pay it way you want to have a worthwhile degree oh there go Wooden again that their goal wooden dagger would you're right because I love the people of God and nothing helps people like the truth but all that getting get and understand all right let me let me let me close this up because you don't like my preaching today but keep your heart with all diligence for out of it Souls the issues of life proverbs says for as a man think his proverbs 23:7 a a man thinketh in his heart so is he regardless to what he feints regardless excuse me to what he says is how he thinks this is why I preach the way to do to quit you to help foster a certain mindset a certain mindset because you are your thoughts you are how you think you are your mindset and if you have the mindset of a loser you're going to lose you will figure out a way to mess it up oh you'll be right at the finish line you are gonna do just step off the line and you'll stop and wait 40 minutes for everybody to catch up with you and let them beat you think of the people who've just messed up good things in their life just messed up good family good job good career good money good everything's good but if you had after a while that loser says something must be wrong something's got to be wrong why cuz it's going so good losses meant I got there it won't say it I got to mess this up I've got to somehow find a way to sabotage my life and you know what they do they mess it up get all the way to the NFL and can't stop smoking man 1 whoa smoking dope at the compound combine nothing they don't talk before you get there we're gonna test you said don't that's the testing door you're right around the corner got me I mean you're bound and determined to mess it up copra said now we want you to hide won't you come time come on time do this do that once you look at Sun got away and all for a minute you do it but then here you go I got to be me I'm Who I am I don't care what nerdy folks say I got to do it my way next thing you know you don't have a job I shouldn't say it but wouldn't it have been good during the summer months to see the NFL players in the communities trying to do something about all this stuff they've been protesting about you'll take a knee why didn't you get off your knees during the off-season and come on out in the community praise the Lord and and help out and do some things no you know what we follow for today we fall for symbolism over substance we like stop that look like there's something Oh regardless the weather there's something to it or not oh I got to go I got to go I listen I get caught in this so it is the will of God it is the will of God to foster be careful how we think our heart I did with our thoughts and I wheel and our motives the inner person and he says better not a pure of heart pure pure of heart come from a Greek word that give us the English word catharsis the basic meaning is to make clean to make clean from dirt from filth and from contamination catharsis of the term in psychology and counseling for the cleansing of the mind and the emotions one of the reasons why they let you talk is that they feel that as you talk it out you cleanse yourself of these things it's related to a Latin word that gives us the word chase it is the will of God to chase them to clean up aha clean up our minds it's like metal of being refined and getting all the purities taken it is the will of God for our hearts to be pure when apply to the heart the idea is that of pure motives single mindedness undivided devotion spiritual integrity and true righteousness I said it again when apply to the heart the idea is that up serving God and living life with pure motives single-mindedness huh I'm not a Christian with an Islamic flair I don't mix a little Buddha with my Jesus I don't mix a little connect these are wolf stuff and all these crazy things I'm not a five percenter a one percenter or I'm a Christian I have a single-minded pursuit of the God of the Bible I believe that the Bible is God's only written infallible Word it is God's laughs laughs to mankind I view it there is no book on equal par with the Bible when the Bible looks right and the bible looks left the bible sees nobody because nothing is equal to the Word of God and thank God for living in a country where the Constitution still allows us the freedom to serve the God of the Bible with all of our heart and soul ah praise Allah David said to the Lord creating me some 51 at you a clean heart and renew a right spirit within me and I want you to know purity heart is beyond sincerity of heart because there are people who are sincere but brother Sawyer there sincerely wrong the imine is sincere the the people who calls 911 they kill themselves right they had to be sincere to get on a plane and fly the plane into a building knowing that they were going to get killed they were sincere but they were sincerely wrong it takes more than just being sincere you've got to be holy you've got to be right are you with me oh man cannot serve God properly without a few heart even when you do good things if you do good things with impure motives you're still not pure of heart I like what Thomas Watson said Thomas Watson said Morton morality can drown a man as fast as a vice a vessel may sink whether it is filled with gold or with dung either way the weight can sink the vessel some of us are moral but with self-righteous and no we don't drink we don't fornicate we'll cause we don't dip and we don't chew but we're filled with jealousy in this strife with we're Church goals but we're unforgiving yes sir you couldn't you couldn't catch us at a whole house if we were dead but we were we are as mean as a rattlesnake let me tell you everybody need to ask God to purify their hearts let's let's get ready to leave him rocky but when you deal with man standard of purity one man said a good man looks down on the person that is not as good as himself and then that person looks down on someone who seems to be a little less than himself and then that person looks down on someone less good than himself eventually you get down to the most rotten person in society the worst person on earth and that last person the worst person is disbanded by which all persons are judged so we feel feel cleaner then the most rotten among us we feel like we're all right because after all I'm living better than that person I feel that I'm doing good because I'm not as immoral as this individual that's man standard of purity but God's standard of purity is different from man we find God's standard in the same Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5 and 48 God says be you therefore be therefore perfect even as your father which is in heaven is perfect God's standard for purity is God himself so with the standard being as high as it is we don't have time to be looking at someone else we've got to spend time working on ourselves we got to pray every day creating meal God clean heart and renew a right spirit in me oh I'm glad that I'm not at the club I'm glad that I'm not at the crack house I'm glad that I'm not at the whorehouse oh those are low standards I still need to be the person that the Lord would have me to be and when I look at myself I have to admit I see brother Johnson that I still need to work a little harder I need to work on me a little bit more because I want to understand who God is I want to see him can I get a witness Psalms 24 speaks of pure hands clean hands and a pure heart Isaiah 59 once and fall says the Lord's hand is not shortened that he can't save neither is his ear heavy that he can hear but your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have caused him to hide his face from him if you haven't seen God move lately it's not that the Lord of going out of business it's not that God is no more evil it's not that the God of the Bible is not strong perhaps we need to take a look at ourselves perhaps we need to examine our old hearts and say Lord take out everything that's not right because I want to be who and what should happen me to be there are two basic kinds of religions in the world there's the religion of human achievement and there's the religion of divine accomplishment all religions other than biblical Christianity falls in the first category there are religions of human achievement but when you become a Christian it's not what we've done it's what Jesus did it's the religion of divine accomplishment for God sent his son into the world to die for your sins and mine and to make us now let me preach us a few more minutes and I'll be done good God Almighty biblical Christianity teaches us to lean on Jesus and in the Bible there are six times of purity Puritan number one is prime or purity that's the purity that exists only in God God is just your and in him there's no impurity at all and then that was created purity that was the earth and the universe before the fall and then there is such a thing as positional purity that's the purity that we get the moment we get saved the smell of liquor can still be on a breath the stench of sin and still be on us but the moment you get saying you are professionally made feel there's imputed purity parkways purity to the new nature of the believer once you get saved all of a sudden you begin to wanna be pure and then there is the fifth one is practical purity this is the hands-on beauty it requires supreme effort the Bible says in 2nd Corinthians 7 in 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 and the six purity is ultimate purity heavenly purity Paul says then shall we see him as he is but let me talk about this practical beauty because that's the purity that Jesus is preaching about that practical purity is purity that causes us to work on ourselves it's the purity that causes us to take a good look at ourselves see you're not saying amen it causes us just to see those areas while we need to come up God have saved us the Lord of satis free but there are still things that we need to work on hallelujah we are not saying just for the future heavenly purity but we are saved for the present earthly purity and when we work on ourselves living right here on this earth it makes us a witness for the Lord God never demands that which has not provided a way for us to do we can be practically pure we must first realize that we can live it without Jesus Christ so we got the cloud and say lord help me we must stay in God's Word saints of God if you want to be pure read your Bible read the word keep it before you every night and every day we need to be filled and now the Holy Ghost if you haven't been filled you need to seek the Lord and say God filled me with the Holy Ghost the Holy Spirit operating only inside and the fourth thing is we need to say Amen and it will keep yeah I was a handsome folk who would get excited about the prospect oh I'll kill the Vice goes away right I'll do that Craven goes away we got to play somebody lift your hand and wave them on accent wasn't next year how's your prayer life how's your prayer life how much time do you spend in prayer with God most Christians don't wait five minutes a day where we're losing out the devil is gaining ground because we won't play but you got to brave you have to discipline yourself turn the television off leave the cell phone in another room take the whole phone after off the hook and get on your face and cry out to the Lord and then once you prayed and you don't know what else to say just lay there just say that just listen just spend some quiet time with God I'll tell you something when you begin to pray you find that your strength comes when you become a prayer warrior you find that God gives you power to overcome the enemy it changes you don't you mean but changes your appetite where not only give your power to the - right when you would - wrong when it gives you the desire to do what is right you can pray you pray yourself out of one category into another category yeah yeah [Music] and if we play and we let the Lord your foul heart guess what now we qualify now we qualify to see God somebody live behavior till and thank you we qualified to see God what does it mean here Jesus says blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God it literally means they will discern the true and living God through the son Jesus Christ see let me tell you what it doesn't mean it doesn't it's not talking about seeing God in the day of judgment because everybody it's gonna see God whether you want to or not the wicked the liar the devil oh I'm gonna see God and they're going to be judged and condemned and thrown in the lake of fire all ladders are gonna stand before God whistles people of other religions those who deny accept Jesus everybody it's gonna see God but what Jesus the Beatitudes deal with for his sake here on this earth we need to know who God is which God what God we need to be confident in our knowledge of God how can we be confident in our knowledge of God we're confident in our knowledge of God as we see God the Father not as he is but we will someday but why only sir we see him through the person of Jesus Christ the Hebrew writer says that Christ is the Express image of God if you want to see what God look what God thinks what gods positions are all matters whether they are political entertainment you name it marital whatever you know what you do you study Jesus Christ for Jesus Christ says the Bible say this about Christ in the beginning what's the word and the word was with god and the word Jesus Christ was God Bible says just John chapter one viruses and the Word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us that isn't he that is an eternal interdependence between God the Father and God the Son Jesus says I am look at this I am the way the truth and the life no man cometh to the Father but by me he says if you had known me praise the Lord you should have known my father also and from henceforth you know him and have seen him he says to the disciples because you've seen me you've seen me it's anybody who tell you Jesus Christ is just a good man they try to put Jesus Christ categories you never got Jesus and then that was Mohammed and that was oh no no no no no no no no Jesus stands alone Jesus stands alone he stands alone yeah he doesn't he doesn't belong in the conversation with Socrates Aristotle and you man philosophers Jesus is God in the flesh he is the exact image of God Jesus said to Philip have I been so long with you yet thou has not known me Philip he that have seen me have seen my father also so how do you say show us the father if you've seen me all you need to know about the father is what you need to know about me and he says ah and my father John 10 in 3001 well what what is the point what what's the point of this if we're gonna know Jesus know him want to go deepen our knowledge of him understand him understand his writings understand his teachings understand what it really meant understand the significance of his life death and resurrection one of the requirements for understanding this to a mall to a smaller certainty understanding it so that when you go through the challenges of life you don't get thrown we got to find you because the disaster happened had been to church of six months and so we blamed the whole church the church need to call and check on source oh no no you need that there is a knowledge of God that you can you can attain to that even in the darkest moment you still know who the Lord is but to attain this level it's going to cost you what's going to cost you the filthiness of the heart from a practical standpoint the things that we Harbor that we know that we should let go those things block us from knowing and seeing God as revealed through Jesus Christ it's like a a darker and darker lens you could you could you could see him so much clearer if you throw those things away that God says get rid of it oh you could understand Church and the things of God you won't be so bewildered and so easily confused if you come out of some the thing that the Lord is telling you to let go on see this thing the practical purity costs summary gone back in a closet and find them cigarettes and throw them away go through the house get that alcohol get out of your house write this one off cut that one off you're communicating with the wrongful let that stuff go and you know what you know what God gives you in return clearer sight way to understand a greater knowledge of who he is a greater appreciation for the things of God you get to see him you look at everything that's going on and you're not confused after you've listened to all the talking heads you don't you don't go back and forth because you see what God is doing and you know what God is doing what are we willing to pray what price are we willing to pay to understand God better to see the Lord but I said of the pure of heart are they they shall see God they will discern God they see what God is doing in the nation they know what of God and they know what's of the devil amen they don't they're they're not easily confused the Lord wants us to know him to the extent that we can know him while here blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God that's not blessed are the pure in heart but they shall see God in heaven some day we already know that's that's the case I mean Bob tells us that but that's this is dealing with down here we used to sing we don't sing it anymore I think that's why I enjoyed Toledo a South being so they weren't trying to be CCM and nothing they're just old fat judge of garlic rice hand clapping foot stomping just coach job well I was at home I taught you I still have recovered I guess I couldn't preach good to you today but listen to this listen to this [Applause] the Lord wants us to be as old songs were I'm not doubting about the way walking in the life holiness is I'm not doubting about the way in my walk with the Lord now I talked to very few people who walk in that confidence very few of us confident confident who know beyond a shadow of a doubt you'll never leave me you never forsake me even though I may be sick in my body I will turn to another even though things aren't going right now the way I want him to go I'm not wondering God are you still up there no because we know him we know him and we remember what Jesus says Jesus says I will never leave an office safely and and then and then when he went back to heaven ago at the Father he said now I'm gonna send you another comforter someone like me just like me but different I'll send you another comforter equal to me in every way no unlike me I got to go to the Father but this one that I said he will abide with you forever and when he gets in you Jesus says he will talk about me why about him for the father chose to reveal himself to mankind through the Sun this is why Jesus today is such a pariah even most politicians when they finish their speeches now when they blessed the country they'll say god bless america I'm waiting on one to say god Bless America in Jesus name [Applause] in Jesus name I was I was invited one time I don't know if they changed it but at the time they wanted me to come and pray you know the opening session of sessions for the politicians I was so excited and then they asked me a question I mean I felt like I was somebody they asked me to go down there and pray wow I've arrived so then how do you how do you pray I know how to answer that I mean just pray then I found out that they didn't want me to close the prayer in Jesus name and say you can say in your name but you know we don't want to offend anybody I said get somebody else I'm not gonna do my lord like that that may seem that names sanctified and there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we might be saved the name of Jesus I want to understand God better I want to understand God better I want to understand him better I want to understand them better I want to understand him better I want to understand him better I want to understand him better I want to understand him better better on the sea God I want discern what the Lord is doing I want to discern I want to see in my life preacher in the world in my relationships I want to know where I stand I want to see him better and if practical purity is the price that I must pay if I must give up this that or the other even those pet vices that are kind of like that agrees with you for the knowledge of God for a greater revelation I let it go because I want to know him if I'm talking to you meet me at the old [Music] you

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Published: Mon Jul 30 2018