Purer in Heart Purity is NOT optional: 1 Peter 1: 17 – 23 Philippians 4:8 -- Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. 1 John 1: 5 - 10

Purity is YOUR responsibility! 1 John 3: 1-3 Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not. Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure. Purity is YOUR responsibility!

The necessity of God’s help in being pure! Note the beginning of ending of each verse: “Purer in heart … help me to be!” God does the cleansing AFTER 0ur admission of the filth! Acts 22:16 – And now why tarriest thou? Arise and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord.

The necessity of God’s help in being pure! Note the beginning of ending of each verse: “Purer in heart … help me to be!” God does the cleansing AFTER 0ur admission of the filth! 1 Peter 1: 22 – 23 -- 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: Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Are YOU pure before Him? The necessity of God’s help in being pure! Note the beginning of ending of each verse: “Purer in heart … help me to be!” God does the cleansing AFTER 0ur admission of the filth! Colossians 1: 13 – 14 -- Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son: In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins. Are YOU pure before Him?

There is the necessity of KEEPING ourselves pure! 1 Timothy 1: 5- 11 1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity. Thus … James 1:27 – Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and the widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world. James 4: 7 - 12

Purer in heart oh God, help me to be! “May I devote my life wholly to Thee. Watch Thou my wayward feet, guide me with counsel sweet.” Romans 12: 1- 2 -- I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Purer in heart oh God, help me to be! “May I devote my life wholly to Thee. Watch Thou my wayward feet, guide me with counsel sweet.” Colossians 3: 1- 4 -- If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

Purer in heart oh God, help me to be! “May I devote my life wholly to Thee. Watch Thou my wayward feet, guide me with counsel sweet.” Doing so requires His guidance: Psalms 139: 9 – 10 -- -- If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:)

Purer in heart oh God, help me to be! “Teach me to do Thy will most lovingly. Be Thou my Friend and Guide, let me with Thee abide.” Matthew 11:28 – 30 -- Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Purer in heart oh God, help me to be! “Teach me to do Thy will most lovingly. Be Thou my Friend and Guide, let me with Thee abide.” This is what is required to be HIS friend! John 15:14 – Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you. James 4:4 – Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

Purer in heart oh God, help me to be! “That I Thy holy face one day may see. Keep me from secret sin, reign Thou my soul within.” No one has yet seen God’s face and lived Exodus 33: 18 – 33 But someday … Revelation 22: 1- 5

Purer in heart oh God, help me to be! Are YOU “purer in heart”? “That I Thy holy face one day may see. Keep me from secret sin, reign Thou my soul within.” Secret sins will be known to Him! Psalms 90:8 – Thou hast set our iniquities before Thee, our secrets sins in the light of Thy countenance. Galatians 2:20 Are YOU “purer in heart”?