This document discusses the importance of purity of heart and seeing God. It explains that purity of heart means having a single-minded devotion to God without hypocrisy or divided allegiance. While purity is impossible for humans to achieve on their own, it can be attained through faith in Jesus Christ, who purifies our hearts and enables us to see God. The document emphasizes that true purity comes from within, not just external actions, and requires cleansing both our hands and hearts through drawing near to God with our whole selves.

2. Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.

3. Jesus is
concerned about
our heart.
It is not enough
to clean up our
act on the
outside.

4. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites! for you cleanse the
outside of the cup and of the plate,
but inside they are full of extortion
and rapacity.
Matthew 23:25–26

5. You blind Pharisee! First cleanse the
inside of the cup and of the plate,
that the outside also may be clean.
Matthew 23:25–26

6. The purpose of Christ is not to
reform the manners of society, but
to change the hearts of sinners like
you and me.

7. Jesus did not come into the world
simply because we have some bad
habits that need to be broken.

8. He came into the world
because we have such
dirty hearts that need
to be purified.

9. Malaysia, along with
China, has the highest
levels of bribery and
corruption anywhere
in the world, according
to the latest report,
Asia-Pacific Fraud
Survey Report Series
2013.

10. If you select a
population and they’re
educated and they’re
properly brought up,
then you don’t have to
use too much of the
stick because they
would already have
been trained. It’s like
with dogs.
Lee Kuan Yew

11. You have heard that it was said,
"You shall not commit adultery."
But I say to you that every one who
looks at a woman lustfully has
already committed adultery with
her in his heart.
Matthew 5:27–28

12.  What you really are
 The secrecy of your thought
 The intimacy of your feeling
 God sees your this hidden
chamber

13. Mark 11:12
Now the next day, when they had
come out from Bethany, He was
hungry.
13

14. Mark 11:13a
And seeing from
afar a fig tree
having leaves, He
went to see if
perhaps He
would find
something on it.
14

15. Mark 11:13b
When He came to
it, He found
nothing but
leaves, for it was
not the season for
figs.
15

16. Mark 11:14
Then he said to
the tree, “May no
one ever eat fruit
from you again.”
And his disciples
heard him say it.
16

17. Mark 11:20
In the morning,
as they went
along, they saw
the fig tree
withered from
the roots.
17

18. Mark 11:21
Peter
remembered and
said to Jesus,
“Rabbi, look! The
fig tree you
cursed has
withered!”
18

19. 
The Leaves are lovely

The Fruits are important

20. Man looks on the
outward
appearance, but
the Lord looks on
the heart.
1 Samuel 16:7

21. What comes out of the mouth
proceeds from the heart . . . For out
of the heart come evil thoughts,
murder, adultery, fornication, theft,
false witness, slander. These are
what defile a man.
Matthew 15:18–19

22. Either make the tree good, and its fruit
good; or make the tree bad, and its
fruit bad; for the tree is known by its
fruit . . . For out of the abundance of
the heart the mouth speaks.
Matthew 12:33–34

23. The social relevance is not the
primary concern of Jesus’ teaching
but His Word will affect society.

24. Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Matthew 5:8

25. • Seeing God is the great goal of
being pure.
• Abandon that goal and human
culture collapses into ruin.

26. Why we have to see God?
Why we have to be pure in heart?
How can this be?

27. Presence
Glory
Grace

28. "Get away from me; take
heed to yourself; never
see my face again; for in
the day you see my face
you shall die." Moses
said, "As you say! I will
not see your face again."
Exodus 10:28–29

29. Can I see him
from a distance.
Can I see a
picture of him?
Can I have an
appointment to
be with him?

30. Can I see Him
from a distance?
Can I see a
picture of Him?
Can I have an
appointment to
be with Him?

31. "I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees You; Therefore I retract,
And I repent in dust and ashes.“
Job 4:5-6

32. All our spiritual insights come
through the medium of His Word
and His Work.

33. We experience God and His glory
through the Holy Spirit. We see and
hear His glory through images we
receive from His Word and echoes
from His Promise.

34. For now we see
through a glass,
darkly; but then
face to face: now
I know in part;
but then shall I
know even as
also I am known.
1 Corinthians 13:12

35. We can only ‘see’ God because we have
been ushered into His holy presence
through Jesus Christ.
We are also being overwhelmed by a
direct encounter of His awesome glory.

36. Hear my voice when I call, LORD;be
merciful to me and answer me.
My heart says of you, “Seek his
face!” Your face, LORD, I will seek.
Psalm 27:7-8

37. Do not hide your face from
me, do not turn your servant
away in anger; you have
been my helper.
Do not reject me or
forsake me, God my Savior.
Psalm 27:9

38. Who may ascend into the hill of
the LORD OR who may stand in His
holy place?
Psalm 24:3

39. He who has clean
hands and a pure
heart, who has
not lifted up his
soul to an idol, nor
sworn deceitfully.
Psalm 24:3-4

40. He shall receive blessing from
the LORD and righteousness from
the God of his salvation.
Psalm 24:5

41. Nothing to do with falsehood
Diligently truthful
Free from deceitfulness

42. Deceit is what you
do when you will
two things, not one
thing.

43. You will to do one
thing and you will that
people think you are
doing another.

44. You are feeling one
thing and you make
other people think
that you are feeling
another.
That is impurity of
heart.

45. O Lord, deliver me from
the man of excellent
intention and impure
heart: for the heart is
deceitful above all
things and desperately
wicked
T. S. Eliot
Jeremiah 17:9

46. Purity of heart is to will one thing,
namely, to "seek the face of the
Lord" Psalm 24:6

47. Draw near to God
and he will draw
near to you. Cleanse
your hands, you
sinners, and purify
your hearts, you
men of double mind.
James 4:8

48. Clean hands
Pure heart
Draw near to God

49. The heart
divided
between the
world and God.

50. Having a wife and a girlfriend

51. You adulterous people, don’t you
know that friendship with the
world means enmity against
God? Therefore, anyone who
chooses to be a friend of the world
becomes an enemy of God.

52. Having full
and total
allegiance
to God.

53. Jesus replied:
“‘Love the Lord
your God with all
your heart and
with all your soul
and with all your
mind.’ This is the
first and greatest
commandment.”
Matthew 22:37-38

54. The goal of this command is love,
which comes from a pure
heart and a good conscience and a
sincere faith.

55. Who can say, “I
have kept my heart
pure; I am clean
and without sin”?
Proverb 20:9

56. With man this is impossible,
but with God all things are
possible.
Matthew 19:26

57. Make every effort to live in peace with
everyone and to be holy; without
holiness no one will see the Lord.
Hebrews 12:14

58. There is a real purity
and a real holiness
which fits us to see the
king of glory.

60. For the grace of God
has appeared that
offers salvation to
all people.

61. It teaches us to say “No” to
ungodliness and worldly
passions, and to live selfcontrolled, upright and godly
lives in this present age,

62. while we wait for the blessed hope the appearing of the glory of our
great God and Savior, Jesus Christ,

63. who gave himself for us to redeem us
from all wickedness and to purify for
himself a people that are his very
own, eager to do what is good.

64. He did not discriminate
between us and them, for he
purified their hearts by faith.
Acts 15:9

65. Therefore the
response of our
hearts to God's act
of creation and
Christ's act of
sacrifice is singleminded faith in Jesus
Christ as our Lord
and Saviour.

66. Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own
understanding;
In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6

67. How can we see God?
How can we be pure in heart?
How can this be?

68. Through Christ we can see God!
Through Christ we can be pure
in heart!
Through Christ all things are
possible