Matthew 5, 27-32. Now at present, we're studying the seventh commandment, thou shalt not commit adultery. And this morning we look at our second in considering this commandment. So I want us to listen to Matthew 5, 27 and following. that it was said of them of old time, thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee. For it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee, for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. It hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement. But I say unto you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery, and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced, committed adultery. Thus ends the reading of God's holy and inspired word. If some of you want a few additional sections of Scripture that cover this topic in a thorough way, Paul in Ephesians 5, 1 through 14 deals with sexual uncleanliness. As well, he deals with it in 1 Thessalonians 4, 1 through 8, and then in Galatians 5, 16 through 26. Now, we've been looking at a series of messages on the ten commandments. We've considered the first table of the commandments, the first four commandments, and we've looked at the object, and the matter, and the manner, and then the time of worship. And we've recently begun to look at the second table and consider the sanctity of authority, of life, and now we're at marriage. We hope to look at property, the sanctity of property in the 8th commandment, the sanctity of our reputation in the 9th, and then consider the summary of the commandments, really the heart of the issue for all the other commandments, as we consider the sin of covetousness in the 10th commandment, which Paul in Colossians 3.5 says is idolatry. And so Paul in Colossians 3.5 basically says that a violation of the 10th commandment is a violation of the 1st. And it comes right back to the beginning. again. Now, we're considering this sin of adultery and we need to recognize that we live in a society that seeks to stir up lust in the heart. We live in a society that promotes it, that does all it can in so many ways to stir up lust in the heart. We also live in a society that not only is actively engaged in promoting this sin, but we also live in a society that thinks it's alright to commit this sin. So, not only do we live in a culture that promotes it, but we live in a culture that is really not very shameful about the sin. And so, we are clearly running against the tide in this matter. Last Lord's Day we considered the heinousness of the sin of adultery, and I gave us twelve reasons why adultery is a heinous sin. It's sinful because it degrades sexuality. It's sinful because it destroys trust. It's sinful because it damages others. It's sinful because it's destructive to the body. It distorts our view of God. It impairs our mind. It destroys our reputation. It's inconsistent with the Spirit's indwelling in us. It's inconsistent with Christ's sufferings for us. It's inconsistent with our heavenly calling. It incurs temporal judgment. And we said, lastly, adultery is sinful because it incurs eternal judgment if not repented of. So, it is a very heinous sin. Secondly, last Lord's Day, we considered the sins forbidden in the commandment, or basically tried to group them in four areas. Adulterous eyes, adulterous thoughts, adulterous actions, and adulterous speech. You see, what we see will eventually affect what we tend to think about, and once we begin to think about something, it won't be long before we begin speaking of it or acting it And that's why I read Matthew 5 here, because Matthew 5.28 says, Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. Jesus wants the people of God to know that the commandment regarding adultery is much deeper than just the act itself. He wants them to know that though that's a crime and it's a heinous crime, you've still violated the seventh commandment if you've even thought about doing it. You've committed adultery already. That's Jesus' emphasis. Not that it's not a more heinous crime to go and commit the thing that you've thought about, but what Jesus is saying is this commandment is broad and it's deep. And it's not just about actions, it's about eyes, it's about He does say in that passage, whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, he suggests that looking usually comes before lusting and before desiring. And so, adulterous eyes will tend to increase adulterous thoughts and adulterous thoughts will eventually lead to adulterous actions and adulterous speech. Now, this morning I want us to consider sins which lead to adultery. Sins are things that are sinful in themselves, but things that aren't necessarily exactly a violation of the seventh commandment, maybe violations of other commandments, but that tend to promote this sin and lead to this sin. These are accessories to the crime, as we considered accessories to the crime or the violation of the sixth commandment, thou shalt not kill. We considered anger and envy and covetousness in the heart that can lead to the crime of murder, so I think there are certain sins that lead to adultery that we need to address. The first one is immodesty. or wearing immodest apparel. This does fit under the seventh commandment itself. Remember, I read Isaiah 3.16 to us last Lord's Day. There it says, "...the daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go and making a tinkling with their feet." In other words, God says through Isaiah, the women in the church amongst the people of God are prancing around. They're showing off their stuff. And they're doing it amongst the people of God. So we have to deal with this sin of immodesty. Paul deals with it in 1 Timothy 2.9 in the church. Peter speaks of it in 1 Peter 3.2-3. In Proverbs 7.10, we learn about a woman that has, quote, the attire of a harlot. In other words, you can distinguish a harlot from a non-harlot by the way they dress. So, dress does matter. In Jeremiah, we learn that we should not wear strange dress. Moses, tells us that men are not to wear women's clothing or to wear effeminate clothing, clothing that would make them appear effeminate or dress like a woman. Certainly a prohibition against cross-dressing. We have to accept the fact that though the Scripture maybe isn't explicit in any one verse, The predominant emphasis of the first eleven chapters of Proverbs as Solomon speaks to his sons regarding the adulterous woman is, is that men are uniquely visually oriented. It's assumed by the Scriptures. The Scriptures don't come out and say it explicitly, but so much in the Scripture assumes that that's the fact. We don't have exhortations to women to watch for that man that's dressing a certain way. It's not to say that that's never an issue, and that women don't need to be on their guard, when they also need to be on their guard uniquely in this culture, which is seeking in a unique way to enliven women's passions in a way that's unhealthy and unbiblical. But these are issues that have been dealt with the church from its early days, even in the New Covenant. Tertullian wrote a book called De Cultu Mul, which is on the apparel of women. An extensive book on how women ought to dress to prevent adulterous thoughts in the hearts of men. Also, clearly, there is what the Westminster Confession calls lascivious dancing. lascivious dancing. The Westminster standards don't say that all dancing is lascivious, but they suggest that there is dancing that clearly is provocative. And that kind of dancing is immodest. It stirs up the passions of those involved as well as those that watch. And so we need to be on our guard in this regard. We live in a culture that's very immodest, don't we? And so we need to recognize that. We also recognize that some of us send our children to schools, Christian schools or what have you, that might not hold the dress code that we might be completely happy with. And in a very influential period of their life, they're being exposed to dress that might not be what their parents, what their father would approve of. And yet they're tempted to want to begin to dress like everybody else so-called dresses. And so, we need to face this head-on as families in our congregation because it's a serious issue. Immodesty. Secondly, idleness is another sin. Now, this idleness is not only a violation of thou shalt not steal, it's also a violation of the fourth commandment where we're told to labor six days. In 2 Samuel 11, 1 and 2, we read this, at the time when kings go forth to battle, remember where David was in the time when kings go forth to battle? He was in the palace. And it came to pass an eveningtide that David arose from his bed. The time when David should have been worn slap out from working, he couldn't get to sleep. So he cruises up on top of the house and looks around to see what he can see. We learn a little bit more of the danger of idleness in Ezekiel 16.49. And I'll quote this verse again as we consider intemperance. But in Ezekiel 16.49, we learn a little bit about the sin of Sodom and how the sin of Israel was much like it. God says through Ezekiel, Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom. Pride, fullness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters. Neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. She was comfy, and instead of helping those that weren't comfortable, they were idle. and promoted adultery of the most heinous form. So not only immodesty but idleness are things that promote adultery or uncleanness. Thirdly, intemperance. And that would include not only drunkenness but gluttony as well, because gluttony is a sin where someone cannot say no to their desire. And so, continually saying yes to every desire in the realm of food is weakening the ability to withstand desire in other realms. Again, Ezekiel 16.49, it was fullness of bread in Sodom. that had something to do with their sin. In Proverbs 23, 20-21 and then 31-33, we learn of the drunkard and how dangerous it is. It adds temptation. Your guard is let down when you have a buzz. And things that you might say no to when you're sober, you're much more willing to say yes to when inebriated. Whether it's by alcohol or by drugs or what have you, your conscience is weakened at that point. You're much more susceptible to say yes when you know you should be saying no. Consider Romans 13, 12 and 13. Paul says, the night is far spent, the day is at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light. Let us walk honestly as in the day, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envy." He's saying, you're children of light. Why would you behave like children of darkness? Why would you commit the kind of crimes that people know are criminal and that's why they do them in the dark. That's why they do it and want to hide from letting people know that they're doing it. And these are the kind of sins. Rioting or partying and drunkenness. Chambering and wantonness. These things all go together. Strife and envying. You start partying and sleeping with someone and being wanton towards everyone else that you look at, Wanton means wandering. Wandering eyes. Then you can imagine that strife and envy follow. So, intemperance is another sin that leads to the sin of adultery. Fourthly, unchaste company. In Proverbs 5.8 we're told that the man of God is to remove his way far from her and come not nigh the door of her house. There, Solomon is speaking of the harlot. But in Proverbs 7.11, we learn about a woman whose feet abide not in her house. In other words, she always has an itch to be somewhere else but home. You see, in 1 Peter 3.7, Paul says, according to knowledge. And I think sometimes we miss the word dwell. Unless providentially hindered, men and women should be cohabitating. They should be living together. And when they find easy ways to live apart, they're taking the first step to adultery. Now, there are obviously providential cases, a man at war or what have you. There are cases where a man is not home every evening, but that ought to be contemplated. It ought to be taken into account and reckoned with. A man that would go on the road and be a traveling salesman needs to consider the added temptations that accrue to the job. It can't be ignored. It shouldn't be ignored. It might be appropriate to take the job. The traveling salesman job is not an unlawful job. Working in the military is not unlawful in itself. But we have to be real about the added temptations that certain vocations do lead to. And we have to be prepared to address them personally and as a family and as a church. Church leadership needs to consider that. It ought to affect the way we pray for certain people. given what we know and where the Lord has placed them and the unique temptations that they face, that others may not face. So, there are some examples. Also, Titus 2.6, the woman of God is to be discreet, chaste, a keeper at home, good, obedient to their husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed. So, all these characteristic traits characteristic traits, but the trait of chastity is related to being discreet. It's related to discretion. It's related to being focused upon the home and being good and being submissive to your husband. All these things are wrapped up together and portray the godly character of a godly woman. That, the Word of God, be not blasphemy. even though the heathen next door might participate in all kinds of sin and want to tell you that it's not sinful, somehow they still know when a Christian is involved in those things that the Word of God is blasphemy. They blaspheme God's Word because we don't live up to it as believers in our generation. So unchaste company. And that could easily roll into potentially a fifth, and that's pornography. Our Westminster divines spoke of lascivious songs, books, pictures. Yes, they talked about lascivious dancing and stage plays as all being sinful. But all the words, songs, books, pictures, dancings and stage plays are modified by the word lascivious. They're saying there's all kinds of ways that impure thoughts can creep in. You can be exposed to through the senses. We need to be on guard. And I'll speak more about that in a few moments as we consider some directives to keep ourselves pure. We've talked about four sins that lead to adultery. I think we need to consider just briefly the opposite virtues. Modesty versus immodesty. Industry versus idleness. Temperance versus intemperance. Chaste company versus unchaste company. It's not enough just to say no. We have to say yes to something. What are we to say yes to? We're to say yes to modesty. We're to appreciate modesty in ourselves and in others. We're to seek it and promote it. We're to appreciate it. We're to commend it. And I think with modesty goes fatherly and husbandly jealousy. Jealousy is a word that we often think of as sinful. All jealousy, just as all anger, is not sinful. There is a lawful, righteous jealousy. Paul could say, again, arguing from the lesser to the greater, he says in 2 Corinthians 11-2, for I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. He tells the Corinthians, I'm jealous over you. Paul's speaking under inspiration. He's not speaking sinfully. For I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." He says, I've been involved in this espousal process. I'm the instrument by which you've come to Christ. And what he's telling them is, they're not married yet. We're espoused to Christ. We're betrothed to Him. And full communion with Him yet awaits us as the people of God. And Paul says, I was involved in espousing you that I might present you a chaste virgin to Christ. That's my desire. That you are the real thing and that I will be involved in presenting you as a pure bride to Christ. But he's using language of the family because God has been pleased to explain His love for us as a father, as a husband. So, if Paul would say this regarding the church, are we not as fathers to say this regarding our daughters? Are we not to have this godly jealousy that we would espouse them to one husband? We would be desirous to present them as a chaste virgin to that one husband. We're responsible for our daughter's modesty. Yeah, they have a responsibility, but we have the ultimate responsibility. Industry versus idleness. We've got to be busy in the tasks that God has called us to. We need to display temperance. That doesn't mean lists of do's and don'ts, but it means that we can enjoy God's gifts, but we can enjoy them properly. We can enjoy them without being overwhelmed by them and allowing them to be gods to us. Paul speaks about those whose God is their belly. The desire for fleshly pleasure in eating and drinking was more important to them than obeying God. So, temperance, chaste company. We need to hang with those that are modest and chaste in their language. Now, let me give you several directives. Four directives to keep oneself or yourself pure. are from this sin. And this is not original. It's from a minister in Ireland, Ted Donnelly. And he says what we must do is reduce, resist, rejoice, and redirect. Reduce, resist, rejoice, redirect. Think you remember those four R's? We need to reduce the stimuli to sin. were surrounded, as I said earlier, by temptations. They're in the grocery store, the video store, the bookstore, the billboards, advertisements on the TV, the Internet. Very few products today aren't sold utilizing sex. In whatever form the advertisement comes to you. I get a Toyota. thing in the news or in my mailbox about every month. And even Toyota tries to sell preventive maintenance using a woman. I mean, where will it end? I've seen toolboxes at work with men who have calendars given to them by the tool company that sells them the tools that they work with. It's all over the place. And the fact is we've become desensitized to it. Because it's all over the place, we sometimes don't recognize that it's all over the place. But I would contend it's affecting us more than we recognize. It's insidious. I think I've used this illustration before, but it's like going into a smoke-filled room. You go into a hotel room that someone's been smoking in the day before and you know it and it's awful, but if you choose to stay there within an hour or so, you can't tell it anymore. Now you reek. You step out, you go visit someone, they'll recognize you've been in a smoke-filled room. You won't any longer. And that's the culture that we live in. We live in a culture similar to that that Peter speaks of in 2 Peter 2.14, where people have eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin. They beguile unstable souls. They have a heart that they've exercised with covetous practices. What's at the heart of their eyes being full of adultery? That they don't cease from sin. They're beguiling others and leading others into it. Because they've exercised their heart, their inner man with covetous practices. They just continue to dwell on them and dwell on them and dwell on them and come up with more heinous thoughts that lead to more heinous crimes. And that's why children are being stolen and molested and raped and killed in our country. And pornography is almost always tied to it And yet, our judicial system and our media doesn't want to admit it. I've seen some statistics that tell us that most of the people in America don't think pornography is that dangerous. We're in a sad state when that is the case. We need to pray. like David did in Psalm 119.37, "...turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity, and quicken thou me in the way." Consider Job 31.1. And I would encourage you men in particular, us that are given to things visual, we ought to consider what Job did. He said, I made a covenant with mine eyes. Why then should I think upon a maid? I made a covenant with mine eyes. Why then should I think upon a maid? I made a commitment not to look at a woman to lust after her. Now why should I be thinking about her? If I've committed not to look at her to lust at her, recognize you can't always cease from looking. But there's a difference between looking and looking, and we all know what the difference is. I may not be able to explain it in words. We all know what it is in our heart, don't we? You can look at something as you're stepping out the Walmart or the grocery store. You see it there, but you don't see it. And then you can lock in on it and see it if you want to see it in a whole other level. He made a covenant with his eyes. to not look upon a maid so that he wouldn't think upon a maid. The more looking you do, the more thinking you're going to do. It's inevitable. And that hits right at Matthew 5.27 and following. Jesus in the midst of saying that if you think on a woman to lust after her, you've committed adultery. He goes on to say that you need to be willing to pluck out a right eye and cast it from you. It's better to go to heaven without a right eye It's better to go to heaven without a right hand than to go to hell with all your eyes and all your hands." What's he getting at? He's saying there are certain things that you're going to have to say no to. Things that you see and things that you do. Things that may be sinful in themselves, may not be sinful in themselves, but if they're temptations to you, and no matter how dear they are, as dear as your right eye and right hand is, they're assuming that the case is, as it really is, most people are right eyed and right handed. Most of us here have stronger right eyes and stronger right hands than our left hand and our left eye. So, you have to be willing to give up some dear things that you see and that you do to prevent or to keep you from being tempted in this area. So, reduce the stimuli to sin. Secondly, resist the temptation to sin. Just say no. 1 Corinthians 6.18, flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body, but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." Paul has a rationale here. He says, you're hurting yourself. This is a unique sin. Again, in Colossians 3.5, "...mortify therefore..." Put to death. Mortify could be translated. "...put to death therefore the members which are upon the earth." fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and cuppaciousness, which is idolatry." He's giving us a list of sexual sins. Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affections. In other words, a desire that goes beyond a normal God-given desire. It's inordinate. It's excessive. It's out of bounds. A sexual desire that's beyond being pure any longer. Evil concupiscence. Concupiscence is another word for desire. An evil desire. And covetousness. He includes covetousness again. Comes back to the Tenth Commandment. To break the seventh, you've got to break the tenth. Which is idolatry. He says, then you're breaking the first. Because now you're making some woman that you're looking at Whether it's through the internet, or in a magazine, or an advertisement, or what have you, you're making her your God. You're making yourself and your desire and fulfillment of your pleasure your God. That's why all sin is insanity. Because at the moment that you give in, you're basically denying God's existence. You're ignoring the fact that God sees and God will. Recompense. Consider how Joseph faced the temptation in Genesis 39.9. He said to Potiphar's wife, because thou art his wife, how then can I do this great wickedness and sin against God? You see, he was walking in God's fear. He had an appreciation that even in an ungodly nation, a nation that didn't serve the true God, yet they still practiced marriage. They were illogical to do so because if God instituted marriage, then why do people that don't serve the true and living God practice the institution of marriage? They do so because they're created in God's image and as much as that image has been effaced in the fall, it's not defaced, it's not totally obliterated. So most non-Christians still operate on a seven-day work week and they still get married and they still do many things that they shouldn't logically be doing. But they're doing it nonetheless. And so he recognizes that this woman is uniquely his master's. He would be stealing. as well as breaking the seventh commandment, he would be doing so before God. He recognized it a great wickedness and so he fled. And so must we. And so we must walk in the fear of God. So we're prepared for that onslaught. But if we keep saying yes in our minds over and over again, we're much more likely when a real flesh temptation hits and not be prepared to say no. That's the reality. So, we need to resist the temptation. We need to resist the temptation not only when it comes in the flesh. We need to resist it when it comes in the book or whatever else or in the mind itself. We need to resist. Reduce. Resist. Also, rejoice. Rejoice in the means God has given. Proverbs 5.18. We read Proverbs 5 last Lord's Day. Proverbs 5.18 says, "...let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth." God has given an outlet for the desires that He has placed in us as creatures made in His image. He's made us different, male and female, and He's given us an innate attractiveness towards one another. And He's given an outlet, He's given a context in which that desire can be fulfilled pleasurably. So there's such thing as lawful sexual intimacy, but there's also something called unlawful sexual intimacy. The Bible says one of the ways we prevent unlawful sexual intimacy is participating in lawful sexual intimacy. Paul could say in 1 Corinthians 7, 2, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife. He goes on to say, come together again. There in the latter verses, 3 and 4 and 5, he speaks about the fact that sometimes when you are practicing abstaining as part of fasting, and you're doing it for a biblical reason, he says, come together again that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency. He says, at some point, if you stay apart, man and wife, you're tempting one another. At some point, it's no longer for your spiritual good. Consider with me Ezekiel 24-16 and the godliness of Ezekiel. God tells Ezekiel that God says, I'm going to take your wife from you. But listen how He describes to Ezekiel, Ezekiel's wife. He calls Ezekiel's wife, the desire of thine eyes. This is God's description of Ezekiel's wife It's a description of how Ezekiel's wife was held in Ezekiel's mind. It's not a command. It's not an ought. It's not, this is the way you should think of your wife, Ezekiel. He's saying, this is the way you do think of your wife. And this is God saying it. God who knows Ezekiel's mind is saying it. Not someone that can just look on the outer man and think, wow, this guy really loves his wife. in a special way. No, this is God. God says it to Ezekiel. God knew that man. He knew that he was a one-woman man. Paul says in 1 Timothy 3 that it's a one-woman man, literally in the Greek. That's one of the qualifications for office, that he be a one-woman man. And it reaches deeper than just being a one-woman man on paper. It gets down to being a one-woman man in your heart. And Ezekiel was. Ezekiel was. What an example to us. Rejoice in the wife of your youth. Fourthly, redirect your energies to the Lord's service. There are some here that can and must, all of us can and must be involved in the first two directives. We must reduce and we must resist. Females as well as males. But not all of us here can carry out three. Because some of us in God's providence do not have a wife or a husband at present. Some are eager to rejoice, but God has not provided them yet the means to rejoice. So what does God say to you? In 1 Corinthians 7.32, we learn a little bit about God's rationale, His wisdom in the fact that many are married and yet God has ordained that some of His own never do marry or marry later. He says in verse 32, "...but I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belongeth to the Lord, how he may please the Lord." He says for a single person, you don't have to be worried about how to please somebody else. You can uniquely be focused upon serving the Lord. They're saying that is the thing you should be focused upon. You should work diligently. You should be involved in physical and intellectual and emotional work. And all of us should be, whether we're married or not. You should be trying to cultivate deep friendships. You should be developing interests that are lawful. You should be helping the needy. Pursuing God, seeking first His kingdom. As you look at 1 Corinthians 7, preceding verse 32, verses 26 and following, particularly through 29, we're reminded that, and I believe this is Paul's argument here, is that sexual intimacy will not exist in heaven. I've just recently come to it. I believe that's accurate. I've often wanted to deny it. been unsure about it, clearly relationships we've established in this life will continue and the intimacy will, but will it be physical? Paul seems to suggest that what's going to happen is that it's really irrelevant whether you have a wife or not because very shortly you're going to be in eternity. So, yeah, you bear a little bit more not having a wife, but it's really not that long anyway. Isn't that what Jesus is getting at in Matthew 22-30? He says, in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage. If he just left there, I would be confused about whether there is sexual intimacy in heaven or not. But he goes on to say, but are as the angels of God in heaven. We do know something about the angels. We do know that they don't reproduce. And clearly, that was one of the major reasons for sexual intimacy. So, I've given us three R's. Reduce the stimuli. Resist the temptation. Rejoice in your wife, in your spouse. Redirect your energies in the Lord's service. In closing, in application, I want to give us three things to consider. Consider the danger of this sin. Recover from it, apart from grace. I think that's what Solomon's getting at in Proverbs 2.19. None that go into her return again. Neither take they hold of the paths of life. It's an insidious sin. It's generally a downward spiral into more heinous and heinous sin until grace steps in. Apart from grace, few recover. from this sin. Secondly, consider the consequences of this sin. Let me quote Wilhelmus of Brockville at this point. He says, always consider the consequences of this sin. It yields but a brief delight for the flesh and a long and bitter aftertaste for the soul. And if this aftertaste presents itself as a lively reality for you, you will then be able to reject its brief delight that much easier. If you have a picture of how bitter the aftertaste will be, you'll be more likely to not bite for the bait. Thirdly, these are somewhat negative, but I want to end on a positive note. Consider the blessedness of the pure in heart. Jesus could say, blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. A very short verse. It's easy to sometimes neglect those short ones. This is one of the Beatitudes, one of those power-packed verses that just says so much to us if we just let it If we just let ourselves dwell upon it, bless it, all God's blessings are upon the pure in heart. Why? They will see God.