INTRO: We come now to the sixth beatitude, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” D. Martyn Lloyd Jones says, “Anyone who realizes even something of the meaning of the words, ‘Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God’, can approach them only with a sense of awe and of complete inadequacy.” Then he says, “This statement, of course, has engaged the attention of God’s people ever since it was first uttered, and many great volumes have been written in an attempt to expound it.”
John MacArthur says, “Here is one of those passages of Scripture whose depths are immeasurable and whose breadth is impossible to encompass. This incredible statement of Jesus is among the greatest utterances in all of the Bible.” MacArthur, who calls this beatitude, Blessed are the holy, says further, “The subject of holiness, of purity of heart, can be traced from Genesis to Revelation. The theme is infinitely vast and touches on virtually every other biblical truth. It is impossible to exhaust its meaning or significance, and the discussion in this chapter is nothing more than introductory.” |
