A Pure Heart — Keith Malcomson

The Heart God Desires

I want to take you here this morning to Matthew chapter 5 and if you know your Bible you already know what the message is and the subject and something of the title. If I just say Matthew chapter 5, I would hope at least some of you, if some of you don't know, I'm very, very worried about this church.

But I had hoped if you knew your Bible then you'd know immediately when I say Matthew 5 where we're going. We are actually dealing in these Sunday mornings with a heart for God and we're looking at what does this heart look like that is for God, God's heart for us, and the heart that God is searching for or going to bring forth in the church, the thing that is very precious to Him.

Do you know really it's not your outward works that He's interested in, it's your heart that He desires. And also Jesus says where your heart is, sorry, where your treasure is, there is your heart. Or where you put your treasure, the most precious things in your mind, that's where your heart is.

You see, I know where all of your hearts in this room are. It's where you put your focus and your attention and your money and your time and your thoughts and affects your motive. If I spend a little bit of time with you I'll begin to understand where your heart is because your words reveal it and your actions reveal it and your attitude reveals it and your hobbies reveal it.

All of that reveals where your heart actually is. Your lifestyle reveals where your heart is because your heart actually is situated where your treasure is. The question is, is Jesus your treasure? Is heaven above?

I mean, spiritual things, are they your treasure? Because then that's where your heart is. So if you find someone who's very earthly, earthbound, I know their heart is in this world. That's where it is.

And I'm going to have to hold myself back because I feel like I'm overflowing here and that's not natural or out of the mind or out of the soul. I just know there's, God obviously wants to speak, I really believe that.

My message this morning, we've already dealt with a broken and a contrite heart, a humble heart and a God-fearing heart. But my message, part five, a pure heart. Reading from Matthew 5, verse 8, just one short verse here that we're going to read and this is my text.

Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God. Let's pray together. Father, I do thank you for the word of God. It's so precious to us. My God, we'd be so lost, so confused, so messed up. Lord God, we'd be dead in our graves, we'd be out of our minds.

We would have messed up marriages. We would have destroyed our lives. We would have destroyed every friendship and relationship. We would have driven ourselves into the grave if it wasn't for your loving kindness and your goodness and your mercy towards us.

And Lord God, we pray that you purify our hearts this morning. Lord God, make us to fall in love with Jesus Christ all the more. Let our love towards him abound and exceed our present imagination. I pray this morning, stir up holy love out of a pure heart that we might love Christ among another with a pure heart.

Lord God, we call upon you. Lord God, this morning with a pure heart, Lord God, we're asking that you sanctify us because we do want to see you. We want to see you in the affairs of life. We want to see you in our life.

We want to see you in our church. We want to see you in our city. We want to see you high and lifted up. We want to see you exalted above cancer. We want to see your name exalted above sin and drugs and degradation.

My God, we want to see you as you truly are and all of your glory and your power. And my God, we know according to the word of God, we can only have a clear vision of you. We can only truly see you and perceive you if our heart is pure and our hands are clean.

My God, be merciful unto us this morning. Lord God, that you bring forth a heart within us individually and as a church that you bring forth a pure heart in the midst of us here because if we have a pure heart, we know that we shall see God in his glory and we long for that, that the curtain of heaven would be pulled aside and we would see you enthroned in majesty and power and glory and splendor.

We bow the knee this morning and we ask that you be very gracious, O God, through the word of God this morning in Jesus' mighty name, amen, amen. A pure heart. Remember what I said, I'm only talking about one heart, but different aspects of that one heart that God is looking for.

Do you know right now God is searching every home, every individual, every family in this city right now. The spirit of God is searching every town and village in Ireland, every little community. He doesn't miss a little shack of a house or a great mansion of a house.

He doesn't miss any. He doesn't miss the man on the streets. Nobody does he miss searching for a certain kind of heart. He is looking, searching, moving back and forth. That's what the Bible tells us.

The spirit of God goes to and through in all of the earth, actually looking for a heart because he goes, if only I can find such a heart, I will show my power. I will reveal myself. I will open up who I am.

I will manifest my glory. But can he find such a heart? That is the issue. Look for this verse in a minute as we open this up. It says, blessed are the pure in heart. This word blessed is used nine times here in Matthew 5, nine times.

And it's the Lord Jesus preaching this. This has been called the Sermon on the Mount. One of the longest messages in the Bible or one of the two longest in the Bible. And here as he speaks and begins to open this up nine times, he talks about those who are blessed.

He's talking about a particular kind of person. Everyone isn't blessed in this room. Everyone isn't blessed in this city. Oh, there's people out there have lots of money and they say, aren't I blessed?

No, not really. There's people in this city have a large house and no mortgage and they say, aren't I blessed? No, that didn't get on the list, I'm afraid. There's those at the university who are going, I've got straight A's and I'm the top of my class and I'm a high flyer.

Aren't I blessed? That didn't get on the list. Do you see what Jesus begins to talk about in these nine clear statements? He's talking about a particular kind of person who is truly blessed of God. He gives all the information of what a blessed person looks like.

The word blessed here means happiness in its simplest form, to be really genuinely happy. We think of happiness as a result of circumstance. Good things happen, you're happy. Bad things happen, you're sad.

That isn't what the word blessed means. To be happy is to be satisfied in Christ. It is a joy in Christ. It is a happiness where you could be crying tears with a broken heart and yet at the same time be blessed of God and be happy in the Lord Jesus Christ.

So we see here, it can mean happiness. It means spiritual prosperity, not worldly prosperity. It means that you are an envied one. If you're blessed of God, if you have these nine statements true of you, you're to be envied this morning.

I envy you. You ought to envy me if I am a blessed person. People out in the world who are sinners ought to look at us and say, I envy you because of your spiritual life, not because of your money and your intelligence and your church building, but we envy you because you are a blessed people and it's very obvious that God is blessing you.

Notice in this verse that God ties together happiness with holiness. He said blessed and pure. So he always puts the blessing of God together with a pure heart. Who are these blessed? Never think that the blessing of God means that you're not happy.

It is a happy person. And please don't let the devil tell you if you're holy, if you're a pure person, if you're obeying God and sanctified, that you're doer, as the Scots say, and you only wear black and you don't even enjoy yourself.

That could not be further from the truth. Do you realize that those that are pure in heart are the happiest people on the earth, according to Jesus? Do you realize if you're not pure in heart here this morning, you're not happy?

You cannot enjoy that. And even as a Christian, if you're there letting lots of things in your heart and ignoring them, and there's things in your mind and things in your words, and you don't put things right, as a Christian, you're not happy this morning.

You're a miserable so-and-so. And you know it from your Christian life. If you neglect time with the Lord, fellowship with Him, time in His Word, time praying and communing with Him, do you know what?

You become a miserable person. You don't have that glow of happiness. Whereas I could be going through the darkest trials of my life and I'm happy, I am blessed. You see, those who are truly holy, they are happy.

And these two things are tied together, blessing and heart purity, happiness and holiness. Never, never separate them. There is a clear message here about a pure heart. Blessed are those who have a pure heart.

Is your heart pure here this morning? Is your heart purified? I'm not saying do you do all the right things, go to all the meetings, give your money, take up the Lord's table, being baptized in water.

I'm not asking that. I'm saying, is your heart pure this morning? Because all of the blessings of God are literally tied into that. Look back at verse 4 and it shows how spiritual all these are. Blessed are those who mourn.

Do you know how we use that verse normally? We say, blessed is he that mourns. Oh, they had someone die in their family. They're crying over their loved one. They're mourning. God's going to comfort them.

Blessed are those that mourn. I'm going to tell you, if you lose a lost one, you're not very happy about it. Do you know what the mourning here that it is actually talking about in verse 4? Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.

We think the comfort is the comfort of comforting someone about a lost one. Whoever told you that, that is an interpretation of that text. Do you know what the mourning is actually about? Look at verse 6.

It talks about hunger. It's a spiritual hunger for righteousness. Do you know what the mourning of verse 4 is about? Not crying tears over a lost one. This mourning is mourning over an impure heart. It's mourning over sin in your life.

It's talking about a blessed man. If you mourn over the sin in your life, you're very blessed of God. I'm not saying you're sinless here and you've never sinned and you don't fail. What I'm saying here is that those who are blessed when they sin, if they sin against God.

Do you know what? They mourn over that sin. They are grieved. They're heart-stricken. They beat their breast. They thump their thigh. They say, oh God, like what brother Paul shared at the Lord's table.

Blessed are they that mourn. Do you realize unless you mourn over your spiritual condition, you will never have a pure heart? And so Jesus says the blessing of God is on these things. Do you mourn over your sin?

Then I'll comfort you. Are you there broken saying, oh God, my sin. I've sinned against you. I've neglected spiritual things. I've let myself get cold. That is mourning. That's the mourning he's speaking about here.

And you know what he says? I'll comfort you. I'll wash you in the blood of the Lamb. I'll forgive you. I'll encourage you. I'll restore you. And do you know what he leads you to is a purity of heart. Blessed are the pure in heart.

Purity as an Inner Work of God

Now when he says the pure in heart, he's saying a heart that is pure. This isn't an outward thing. This is a real internal thing. You know what the heart is? It's the center of your being. It's the inward heart of the man.

He's not talking about the outward. Do you see how God wants to get right inside you? He wants a pure heart. He doesn't want just your tongue to be pure and your hands to be pure and for you to be morally upright.

Oh, I don't drink and I don't smoke and I don't go to the pub and I don't do all those bad things and I'm not sleeping around. I'm pure. Whoever told you that that alone was purity? Do you realize purity is a pure heart?

You're not pure if your motive, your heart, your inward man, your thoughts. That's where purity is tested. And you know what? If you have a pure heart, you will be blessed of God. You're very happy. You're very successful.

You are very rich this morning if you have that. Now when he talks about a pure heart, this word pure in the Greek can mean two distinct different things. The first thing that the word pure can mean is clean.

Your heart is clean. Clean from all trash, stain. Your heart is sanctified or the word sanctified means holy as well. Your heart is washed from sin. You have no present conscious awareness of guilt or condemnation or failure.

You know your heart is clean. The stain is removed. There is no impurity there in your heart. That's what it means to have a pure heart. There's an absence of impurity and a beautiful purity of the presence of God.

That's the first meaning. The second meaning of this word pure in the Greek, it doesn't mean only to be clean. See, there's some people say, Oh, I've been forgiven. God's washed me in the blood. It's his work.

I'm clean. But that's only one side of the coin. If you separate these two things, I'm explaining about purity. You'll have problems. What is the second meaning of this word pure? It means to be unmixed.

If you have a pure heart, your heart is unmixed. It means to have a single heart, not duplicate. Remember like what we said last week, not two hearts, not double hearted. So a pure heart is a single heart, not a double heart, not a heart that's divided, trying to live for the world and trying to live for God.

You cannot do that. It is a heart without folds. Nothing is hidden. This heart, this pure heart is single minded. It has a single eye upon the Lord Jesus Christ. It is the inward man of the heart. It is free from all hypocrisy.

You know what hypocrisy is, is that you play a game to people and then go and live another life and you're not bothered about it. You have your Sunday come to church front and then you've got your at home front.

You know, as soon as I get home, I'm going to put on trousers that you will never see me and I'm going to put a t-shirt on with holes. I love that t-shirt and those trousers. They're my best friends.

Candice keeps trying to throw them in the bin. They've got holes in them. I like them. They're my sit around home. Wouldn't wear them in here. That can be a hypocrite when it's in the spiritual life. You see, to have a pure heart, it means free from hypocrisy, free from outward show.

It means that you have an integrity of heart, a sincerity of heart or a transparency of heart. My heart is open. It's got nothing to do with being quiet or extrovert. Not about that. Just to be clear and open.

It means that you with a single eye have a focus, an absorption, a concentration on God himself. God does more than wash away your sins. See why it's two meanings here. Means to be clean, to be washed, to be made right.

But it also means to have this certain kind of defined heart. It's two sides of the same one coin, a pure heart. You see, if you just say, oh, it means to have a clean heart and have been washed. You could be born again saying, hey, I'm forgiven and I have a pure heart.

And yet you've got attitudes and thoughts and actions and words undealt with and you're not dealing with them. You just say, oh, forgive me, Lord. And you carry on like a good Catholic. Go and say your confession to the Lord Jesus and then just live the same way.

What difference to Catholicism is there in that? And you think they're wrong and point the finger at them. Actually, you're in a worse condition if you do that. Far worse than any Catholic in this city because you know better.

And so these two things have to go together. Together, God does not merely wash away sin to give you a pure heart. He puts within you a new heart that wants to focus wholly upon God. That is a pure heart.

It's not not doing sinful things. A pure heart is being consumed with the Lord Jesus Christ. And if you do this, you're gonna see God. The word used here is katharos. And in the Greek, I love the Greek and the Hebrew because they have word pictures and individual words or statements.

It's beautiful. And so the word katharos mean impurity. It means to clear from shame, to clear your heart from all guilt, to have no charge against you, no pollutions in your heart. That's what it means.

It's a bit like diluting milk with water. And if any of yous haven't grown up on a farm and didn't live 40 years ago drinking milk, you've been duped, I'm gonna tell you. Because that thing you go into a shop and get and you think is milk, I wanna assure you if you were a proper drink, milk drinker, that is not milk.

It's pure water. It doesn't even taste like milk. You know, now I've grown accustomed over years of drinking the milk out of the shops. I used to jump over the wall with a little crate to fill up 12 pints, I think sometimes twice a day from the next door farm, pure unmixed milk.

And so an impure heart is a mixture. Oh, it has lots of good things there. It has a desire for God. It is a desire to read the Bible. It wants to be in church on Sunday. But it's a mixed heart. You could be born again and yet you've got a mixed heart.

It's like milk being tempered down. In classical Greek, this word katharos, it describes a river whose flow was clear and open. That's the picture in the Greek. To have a pure heart is this free flowing clean river flowing out without hindrance.

It's also used of a army. In ancient Greek, amongst the Roman soldiers, they used to talk about an army being katharos or pure. Imagine all those rough army soldiers drinking, running after women. And yet there would be certain, all of the soldiers weren't katharos.

Didn't mean they didn't drink. They used it to mean these are dedicated soldiers. See a lot of soldiers, they are part timers. They don't want to die. They don't want to go to war. They are in it for the benefits and the fame.

That's why they are there. They're in it for the pay packet. But they don't want to die on a battlefield. Definitely not. And this word katharos used to be used of a certain realm of soldiers within the legion who were not rebellious.

They were very loyal. They were committed and absolutely focused on the command of their general. There's another way this word was used in the ancient Greek. It was used of metal that had been refined until there were no impurities in that metal.

It went in the fire, fire burnt to make it pure and it became katharos. Now we would still know there's gold in there, even if there's impurities, but you need the fire to bring it and make it to be katharos.

It's a remarkable thing. And so we see here in this verse, we are dealing with blessed are the pure in heart. That purity of heart is one of the most precious things in the Bible. And you know, in today's church, purity is really holiness, but it means more than to be doing holy things and not doing sinful things.

Some people think that's what holiness is. That's what they think it is. Oh, but I don't go and drink. I'd never get drunk. Might be tempted to do some time, but I'd never do that. And I'm not going to sleep around with someone I'm not married with.

So I'm holy. Actually, you could do all those things and be impure in your heart. God is after a pure heart that you could be clothed in morality. I mean, dress from the top of your head to the soles of your feet and yet you're on your way to hell.

You can meet someone down the time who keeps all the 10 commandments, tells everyone else to keep the 10 commandments, and yet they're on their way to hell because their heart isn't pure before God. God deals with the heart.

The Bible actually commands us, be holy for I am holy. That's what God says. This isn't an option. Holiness is a vital part of your Christianity. The blood saves you, but holiness proves that you're a real Christian.

Someone who does not walk right proves that they're not saved or born again or right with God. If you don't want to flee sin and flee to holiness and purity, there's something wrong with your experience.

There's something really detrimentally wrong here. In Matthew chapter 5 and 20, Jesus actually talks about the Pharisees. He says, for I say unto you that except your righteousness, speaking about the church, your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and the Pharisees.

Ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven. See, if you in this church, you say, oh, the Pharisees were saved by law. We're saved by grace. That's not what this verse says. This verse says, see you Christians, if your righteousness, how you live your holiness is not better than those old Pharisees that were meticulous about holiness, outward holiness.

What did they focus on? The outward, tithing all of the little seeds, very faithful, keeping the Sabbath, dressing right, doing everything right. Jesus says, if your righteousness doesn't exceed them, you won't get in the kingdom of heaven.

What do you think? Grace gives you a way out. So per Pharisees, they had to be stringent and everything, but there's an easier way for us. Do you see the deception that comes into the church? Psalm 45, 13, given a description of the bride of Christ, says that she is glorious within, all glorious within.

What a beautiful statement about her. You see, I'm asking you this morning, is your heart, whether you're unsaved or whether you're saved this morning, can I ask, is there unforgiveness in your heart?

Is there hardness? Are you ignorant of the Bible? You could be a Christian and you're ignorant of the Bible. You don't even spend time in the Bible. You've got an impure heart. You can't excuse that. It's got nothing to do with education.

I failed all my exams. You could have unbelief in your heart and you go, sure, that's okay. Lord, give me more faith and you go on. You see, in this verse, the heart is the focus of this purity. It is the heart, the inner person, the center of your life.

The issue of the heart, as a preacher once said, the issue of the heart is the heart of the issue. That's the real issue here. Going right to the heart of the matter. It's your heart. The Pharisees were caught up in outward righteousness, the outside.

Remember how Jesus accused them, you want to make the pot all clean, but it's rotten inside. You want to whitewash the sepulcher, but it's filled with dead men's bones. You're actually consumed with the word of God.

You spend all of your time in religion and morality. I mean, these men, they knew the word of God. They were hyper on morality. You can't do this and you have to do that, and you can't do this on that day, and you shouldn't be doing that, and you shouldn't be wearing that, and you shouldn't.

You know what Jesus said? Jesus pulled back the cover and said, you have dead men's bones in you. You're on your way to hell. Your purity is an outward purity, but it's not of the heart. And yet God is after the heart.

He's not after the head. You could be moral in your head. You could know all the right things. You can correct everyone else with your head. That's not right. You shouldn't do that. This is what the Bible says, and yet your heart is impure.

You see, you could have good conduct. You could have good morals. You could have good ethics. And yet you do not have a pure heart. Your heart is defiled. And in fact, it needs real heart surgery done to it.

And look at the blessing. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. They will see God. That means if your heart isn't pure, you don't see God this morning. Do you know there's people in this room can't see God?

Saved and unsaved. What do I mean, see God? I don't mean in a vision or a dream or physically. There is an ability to see God, but only the pure in heart can see him. If your heart isn't pure, it blinds your eyes to him.

Also in things, you don't see God in things. You don't see God in certain situations or in certain persons. We've had people come into this church and they think they're only dealing with Malcolmson. They think, oh, good message, Malcolmson.

And they think they're dealing with a man. You're not dealing with a man. I don't stand here as a man. I'm actually a servant of God. I know it's the word of God being preached. And in fact, it affects me before and during and after.

Sometimes I preach and I go to bed at night and I can't sleep at night because these things are dealing with me. And it goes over and over and over and over again. Do you think I'm merely a teacher and standing up here and just spouting out a message for you this morning?

No way, absolutely not. You see the pure in heart shall see God. It means to have an inward open heart, a heart that has spiritual eyes. And those spiritual eyes perceive God, comprehend God, grasp God, attain an awareness and an understanding of God's actions in all things.

You can have two Christians in the same situation and they see God differently. One of them sees God in it. The other doesn't see God in it. So one is going, where is he? The other one is saying, thank you, Lord.

In the very same situation, there is an experience of God purifying the heart that opens up your eyes of faith to see him clearly. We may see him to different degrees. All of us in this room have different eyesight.

Some of you need glasses. Some of you are pretending you don't need glasses. Won't mention any names. And there's others who definitely don't need glasses. Same with your hearing. If I'm studying away, I can hear something way, way down the road.

And then Candice can come up and put a cup of tea on the table. I haven't even noticed she's done it. And five minutes later, I go, where'd that cup of tea come from? I had my attention elsewhere. But our eyes are all different.

So spiritually, our eyes all have different extents of perception depending on the purity of the heart. Do you see God this morning? It depends on the purity of your heart. Seeing him who's invisible.

Yes, we see through a glass darkly. And one day we're going to see him face to face. Can I ask, is your window dirty this morning? We see through a glass darkly. How dirty is your window that actually darkens your view of God?

You know, there's Christians who are satisfied in looking through a window where they can barely see any movement of God. And they're satisfied. Try cleaning the thing. While you're on earth, you'll never see fully clearly.

It'll always be through a shade, a darkness. You see him here, you see him there. See him everywhere. You can hardly find the Scarlet Pimpernel. I'm telling you, sometimes you go, I can't explain God any more than when I first met him.

There's so much I've got to learn about this God. It's remarkable. And so we see the Bible talks about, blessed are they that are pure in heart, for they shall see God. Let me give you three points here concerning the pure in heart seeing God in three different ways.

The first way is seeing God in salvation. The second way is seeing God in sanctification. The third way is seeing God in glorification. Take those three terms. Salvation is the born again experience. It's the beginning.

Sanctification is that work of holiness all through your entire Christian life. It never stops. If you stop pursuing holiness, something's gone wrong with you. You're backslidden. Then third of all, glorification means you've been perfected.

Your body, your soul, your spirit. Jesus has come. Or you've died. Do you know on the day you die, you're glorified. Death is an enemy. Death breaks a heart. Death is a part of the fall. But what happens at that time isn't glorification.

I'm actually going to gain in death. I will be glorified. I'll be so sorry to see the back of you, honestly. But you know what? I will enter into the immediate presence, not by faith, not by spirit, but I will literally, it says, to be absent from the bodies, to be presence with the Lord.

Seeing God in Salvation

That's what glorification is. Let's look at these for a moment. Number one, seeing God in salvation. The pure in heart see God. But this first point, seeing God in salvation, it says in 2 Corinthians 4 -3, but if our gospel be hid, if you don't share it, if you hide it, keep it to yourself.

If we as a church don't evangelize, if our gospel be hid, if we keep it behind four doors and say, bring the sinners in, Lord, when all the time he's told you multiple times, go out to where they are.

Whoever sits in the middle of dry land with a fishing rod saying, Lord, help me to catch a fish. One hour, two hours, three hours. Lord, I have all the faith. A fish is just about to jump all this distance and catch onto my hook.

I have the faith. There'd be a few people there and hit you over the head and say, catch yourself on. And they say, you know what? You need to go to a river or a pond or somewhere where there's fish. You can pray and believe all you want and all the fish are hopping, but not where you are.

You go fishing where the fish are. That's where you fish. Anyway, look what he says here. He says, if our gospel be hid, it is hid from them that are lost. They are lost, going to hell. They're in sin.

And whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them, which believe not. So notice what it means to be blind as a sinner. You do not believe. Oh yes, you can believe with your mind. You can believe with the outward, but with your heart, you do not believe that Jesus Christ has died for you and washed away your sin.

And it says here that in whom the God of this world, Satan or the devil has blinded the mind. Do you realize everyone out there who doesn't believe the devil has blinded their minds. Their eyes are blind.

They can't see God. They actually spiritually cannot see God. Why is that? The devil has blinded their eyes. There is a spiritual power that will stop you seeing God. You see on the day you see God by faith, you're going to be utterly transformed.

Seeing God in salvation. And so it says here, lest and why does the devil blind minds and eyes? Lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should shine onto them. He doesn't want this light to shine in.

You know, people used to mock us in the church and go, all of you saw the light. That's what they used to say about born again Christians. There couldn't have been more, right? Yes, I have seen the light.

On that day, the light shone into my life and I saw everything clearly. Do you know four and a half years old, suddenly in a second, I saw God. Not with the physical eye. I saw him alive. He was so real.

He became alive. He became my best friend. I saw God because the light was switched on and the devil's power was broken. It says that the devil has blinded the minds. That means to harden, to petrify, frozen hard, to obscure so that you can't see God.

Sinners don't see God. You talk about salvation and the new birth and miracles and God moving in your life. And the sinners, they're going, I haven't got a clue what you're talking about. Oh, I understand religion.

I understand morality. Well, what do you mean? Should I just keep the 10 commandments? No, no, no, no. You need to see God. You need to be born again. And then just after this in verse six, for God who commanded the light to shine in darkness, to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

The only cure for a blind man is for the light of God to shine into their heart. If they're not changed, it means God has not spoken into their hearts. Do you know I had an experience when I got born again, God spoke right into my heart and I was filled with light.

This is what seeing God in salvation. When you experience true salvation, you really do see God. And again, I have to say it, not a dream, not a vision, not something visible with the eye, not something physical and literal.

I mean, the whole heart becomes pure. Do you realize that's why you see God on the day you get saved? That's why you suddenly go, you perceive him, you see him in everything. The entire world changes to your perspective.

Why? Because your eyes begin to see God. Do you know why that is? Your heart has just been purified. God has purified your heart. On the day you get saved, God purifies your heart. You don't need to work into this.

You don't need to sort out all of your life to become this. On the day you get born again, do you know what God does? He cleanses your heart. He gives you a pure heart, a single heart, a focused heart.