Bless This Home Pt.2
Pure in Heart
Sermon Notes | September 26-27, 2026
“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God."
Matthew 5:8 (NIV)
Without Christ, there is no such thing as a PURE heart.
“The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? ‘I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind…’”
Jeremiah 17:9-10a (NIV)
“They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity…”
Ephesians 4:18-19 (NIV)
We are not just a CHRISTIAN FAMILY.
Instead, we are a CHRIST-CENTERED HOME.
“How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.”
Psalm 119:9-10 (NIV)
You don’t build a life of RIGHTEOUSNESS on a foundation of SIN.
HOW DO WE CREATE A CULTURE OF PURITY?
1. Get your OWN heart right.
“Above everything else, guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.”
Proverbs 4:23 (NIV)
2. Parent to the HEART.
“…The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7 (NIV)
We don’t just settle for OUTWARD SUBMISSION when there’s still INWARD REBELLION.
3. Pursue PERFECT purity of the heart.
“But among you there must not even be a hint of sexual immorality or any kind of impurity…”
Ephesians 5:3 (NIV)
“I will give you a new heart and put a spirit in you; I will remove from you a heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.”
Ezekiel 36:26 (NIV)
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