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Blessed are the Pure in Heart | Pr Jason Martin

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  1. You're listening to a message to go from at church.

  2. We hope this message will light up your tea.

  3. We'll like to watch a series halfway then start another show,

  4. but I'm not a fan of that. Ready to finish it.

  5. But even as I was preparing this, I was like, hey,

  6. actually this ties in very much with fasting as well. Okay,

  7. So I wanted to give you a recap before we

  8. go into today's message. So the recap we are this year.

  9. The team for this year is disciple first, all right,

  10. so I get the slides up. Okay, So a recap again.

  11. What is a disciple? A disciple learns from Jesus, lives

  12. like Jesus, and tells others about Jesus. That's what a

  13. disciple is, okay. And when we are going into to

  14. the be attitudes, the berattitudes is Jesus one of Jesus'

  15. I think most popular summons. And it all starts with

  16. the word blessed. Blest are those right? So what is blessed?

  17. And the next line, so blessed is when you have

  18. a deep joy walking God's way. When you have a

  19. deep joy walking God's way, so it does not mean

  20. you're not going through tough times. It does not mean

  21. that everything is going your way, but in spite of

  22. it all, you can still smile because you know that

  23. God is in control. If we are in control of

  24. our own situation, and when things go wrong, we have

  25. no one else to depend on. But when we depend

  26. on God and things go wrong, we can still smile

  27. because we know God is a good God and when

  28. we trust in him, he will be able to bless us. Okay,

  29. so that is blessed, and this next light. So this

  30. was the few that we covered previously. Blessed those to

  31. our poor in spirit. So this is when we surrender

  32. our pride. Blest those who mourn, We surrender our lack.

  33. We usually mourn when we are in lack, whether we

  34. lost something, we lost someone. That is when we surrender

  35. our lack to God. All right, Or we mourn our mistakes,

  36. you know, or our sins or stuff like that. That's

  37. when we surrender it to God. We don't allow guilt

  38. to take control, right, So we surrender that to God.

  39. Blessed are the meek. Meek surrender our strength. So you

  40. don't only surrender your weaknesses, You surrender your strengths to

  41. God and allow God to use your strength for his glory. Okay,

  42. And when we do that, then we are emptying ourselves

  43. of a lot of things. So when you empty yourself,

  44. you become hungry. And when you hunger and thirst, God

  45. fills it with his righteousness because you'll be less of

  46. the world. So now God can come in and take

  47. his place. Okay, So after You're filled with God's righteousness,

  48. how does that look like? Next? So, blessed are the merciful. Remember,

  49. so we had blessed at a merciful So that was

  50. what I shed previously. So today I'll be sharing about

  51. Blessed are the pure in heart? Okay, Blessed are the

  52. pure in heart? You know, it's quite difficult to share this, actually,

  53. each of them bered tides very difficult. And then I've

  54. let the gig all the time, like, hey, how come

  55. I started on this side? It's so so difficult. It

  56. looks very easy, but it's it's tough in terms of it.

  57. And so just a recap on Blessed are the mercyful.

  58. Next line, So blessed are the merciful. Remember I was

  59. talking about the good Samaritan. So what does mercy do?

  60. Mercy sees the need mercy feels for it, and then

  61. mercy acts. You take action, and mercy forgives. Because the

  62. Samaritan and Jews are enemies, but there were Samaritan put

  63. his differences aside. When he saw the need, he felt compassion,

  64. he acted to help the Jew and ultimately that shows forgiveness.

  65. All right. So when we are poor in spirit, we

  66. surrender our weaknesses. We surrender our strengths to God. God

  67. can then fill us with righteousness, which is mercy. Okay.

  68. So this is what we covered previously. So today next line,

  69. I don't think I will take very long, but I

  70. think it can go deep. So I will look at

  71. your faces. If you all look lost, then I will

  72. try and put in a joke somewhere, try and help

  73. it out. Okay. So, blessed are the pure in heart?

  74. Blessed in the pure in heart. So before I go

  75. any further, right, when you hear the word pure, what

  76. comes to mind? Clean, summer, drinking water? All right? Think? Okay?

  77. Think outside of church, la. Do you hear the word

  78. pure used often in the world chemical reaction, gold, gold? Okay? Someone?

  79. See the word pure? Is there what else? Sexual? Purity?

  80. Very deep? Okay? But a baby all right, all right,

  81. and when you pump patrol, there's different kinds of ron

  82. right ron ninety five, ninety seven, ninety nine. You know,

  83. the higher the number, the more pure it is, right,

  84. the higher the quality less impurity, so pure in terms

  85. of we know that we value purity, we value pority. Right.

  86. So one of the things that was mentioned was gold, right,

  87. So I wanted to sort of get us to understand

  88. purity from the aspect of gold. Okay, So this is

  89. a gold purity chart. Okay, so do you know how

  90. for gold? Right? What is the standard for gold? They

  91. call it as carrot. It's the same as diamonds as

  92. well for gemstones. Carrot all right, so you will have

  93. ten carrot, fourteen carrot, eighteen carrot, twenty two carrot, and

  94. then you know the Bruno mass song twenty four carrot

  95. magic you know, so twenty four carrot is the purest one.

  96. So have you seen shops selling nine one six a

  97. mass nine one six? Okay? So pop quiz right now,

  98. how many carrot is a Muss nine one six twenty two? Correct?

  99. See correct? It is correct? So now you know a

  100. bit more on goal. Right, So gold it there is

  101. the purity of gold. It shows like for example, if

  102. it's ten carrots, right, so the goal is divided into

  103. twenty four different components. All right, the more gold they have,

  104. the higher the carrot. Okay, So like for example, ten carrot,

  105. the parts of gold is only ten out of twenty four.

  106. For fourteen carrot the parts of gold is seven out

  107. of twelve, eighteen is three quarter, all right, twenty two

  108. is eleven out of twelve, and twenty four carrot? Is

  109. your percentage is? They will always say ninety nine point

  110. nine because there will always be a margin for error.

  111. All right, So we know that gold. How many of

  112. you all wont ten carrot goal? How many are your

  113. one twenty four carrot goal? You want twenty four carrot goal? Now? Okay?

  114. Which is the strongest gold? Which is the strongest gold? Actually? Right,

  115. the strongest gold is actually, yeah, the weak the less carrots,

  116. the stronger the goal. Because gold is pure and if

  117. the when it's very pure, it is not mixed with

  118. any other metals. So that's why it is soft, you know.

  119. And you know that the Bible says that a God

  120. is purifying us like gold. Right, So the more we

  121. are of the world, the more contaminants we have. The

  122. more things of the world are williness, which makes it

  123. very difficult for God to mold us. But if we

  124. want to be so that is meaning you're being strong,

  125. strong willed, You're not able to be molded by God.

  126. But when we are twenty four carrot Christians, it means

  127. God can mold us into whatever he wants us to

  128. mold us. All right, So that is that is just

  129. a side note in terms of right. Okay, So so

  130. that is one aspect, So you know, a bit of

  131. a gold right. So looking at the world today, do

  132. you think the world is moving towards purity or impurity?

  133. Impurity or purity impurity? Why evil? It's polluted? Okay, So

  134. I'm engineer by training, right, So I like graphs, So

  135. picture speaks a thousand words, right, So look at this,

  136. I lomanded color a bit off. But okay, why Christianity

  137. will always appear more extreme over time because God's standard

  138. stays the same, but society standard keeps on dropping, keeps

  139. on dropping. You know that last time there were a

  140. lot of graphs which I stumbled upon us. Right. I

  141. think before the fifties they had prayer in school, you know,

  142. in school, they had prayer and because of that, right,

  143. I mean, the society was at a much better place

  144. once they removed prayer from school. Immediately you see all

  145. the vice going up, you know, in terms of bullying,

  146. in terms of crime, in terms of so many things.

  147. And because of that, society standard also continues to drop.

  148. And in today's world, when we're talking about purity, we're

  149. talking about God's standard. And if you a simple thing

  150. right right now, last time, how many of y'all grew

  151. up watching RTM one, two three, maybe you got TV

  152. three and then suddenly they had a TV. You know,

  153. if you're fortunate in terms of that, othern't know that, right,

  154. you had nothing else to watch at that time, right,

  155. I think quite pure a the shows, right, you don't

  156. see any anything that is impure in terms of that,

  157. even if they had anything, probably their schedule it maybe

  158. eleven pm and night or whatever it is. But right now,

  159. in this day and age, you can get any sort

  160. of content any time by anyone. So in purity right

  161. is now at our fingertips. Right, we can like YouTube,

  162. like Netflix, but what they do is they just put there,

  163. oh this is eighteen. Then it's up to you whether

  164. you want to watch or you don't want to watch,

  165. or you go to cinema. If you go cinema and

  166. they bleep out the word, people complain, No, hey, I

  167. don't appreciate the full essence of the movie because you

  168. cut certain things, you know. So it is people are

  169. more interested in their in enjoyment than in purity, you know.

  170. So now I got a second question. Okay, don't show

  171. that first. Sorry. Second question, So, this is God's standard,

  172. society standard. How do you think the church standard looks like?

  173. How do you think the church standard looks like? How

  174. do you think a disciple standard looks like? That's a

  175. tough question, right, So next line, So is it like this?

  176. How is the church upholding God's standard or are we

  177. being pulled into the standard of the world. Because again

  178. I put this here, right because I am part of

  179. the church as well, and I call myself a disciple

  180. of Christ as well. So that's why this graph for

  181. me is like, ay am I moving more towards God

  182. or more towards the world. So we may have started

  183. off high. You think that a we are holier we

  184. come to church on Sunday, you know, but against God's standard,

  185. we don't compare ourself against the world's standard. You don't

  186. compare yourself. Don't compare ourselves and say that A, I'm

  187. not so bad as my neighbor. We should compare ourselves

  188. against God's standard to say it, God, am I leaving

  189. according to your standard or not? Right? So because of

  190. this right the next light, we demand purity of others,

  191. but not of ourselves. How many us demand purity? Like

  192. for example, if somebody sells you gold you demand. Your

  193. demand is that it's pure. But if you say that A,

  194. do you put that same demands on yourself? Am I

  195. living a life of purity? Am I making sure what

  196. I watch is pure? What I speak is pure? How

  197. I act is pure? Without purity, we cannot live a

  198. life of mercy. Remember the Samaritan? What was in it?

  199. What was it in for the Samaritan for helping the Jew? Nothing?

  200. He did it out of the purity of his heart.

  201. So if we do not have purity, everything that we

  202. do is like what's in it for me? What's in

  203. it for me? And how does this tie into fasting

  204. and prayer? You know what is fasting and prayer? It's

  205. about repenting and turning back to God, It's about seeking

  206. a life of purity. It's like God, I want to

  207. forsake something because I want to seek You, And that

  208. is what purity is. So we demand like for example,

  209. if somebody serves you, or even if you're Durian, is

  210. this Durana pure? No black torn like I saw the

  211. guy who created the black ship quite power? Yeah, well,

  212. you you pay premium for purity. But is the church

  213. pure our disciples as we as disciples? Are we pure?

  214. Because if we are not, we are not potent. You

  215. know that we are not valuable at all. The value

  216. of purity is the thing that brings the value up.

  217. If we are not living a life of purity, then

  218. what's the difference of being in church or not being

  219. in church? Right? So tough questions, tough questions, But again

  220. these are questions that I'm dealing with as well. Okay,

  221. so let's go into the verse. Okay, next, So, like

  222. what I mentioned just now, blessed are the pure in heart,

  223. for they shall see God. So does that mean that

  224. those who are not in pure, pure in heart will

  225. not see God? You know, that's a question never to

  226. ask us. So, blessed are the pure in heart for

  227. they shall seek see God. So I wanted to share

  228. with your different version. If you have the message Bible

  229. on your you version right, So next you're blessed. When

  230. you get your insight world, which is your mind and

  231. your heart put right, then you can see God in

  232. the outside world. This is a different translation. So if

  233. you say, like God, where are you in my situation?

  234. Where are you in my this thing? Unless we are

  235. pure and we get our minds and our hearts right,

  236. then we can see God in our circumstance, in our situation,

  237. in everything. I mean. This is uh yeah, it's a message.

  238. Translation is an interpretation of it. Okay, So how many

  239. of y'all want to see God in your outside world?

  240. Not only when you go to heaven, but in your

  241. outside world. I would want to, right, So today's that's

  242. the introduction. So today, but no mind after this is

  243. quite fast. So the question today is how do we

  244. become pure? How do we become pure? Again? It may

  245. not sound like a sexy word because how many you say, hey,

  246. you want to be pure? You want to be I

  247. think the teens last night they had X teens they

  248. had talk about boyger relationship, which I'm sure they touched

  249. on purity. So when you talk about purity, most of

  250. the time you always talk about sexual purity, purity, but

  251. there's so many other purity as well. Purity when it

  252. comes to your intentions, Purity when it comes to your

  253. business dealings, Purity when it comes to delivering work. You know,

  254. if you if you go to a doctor who is

  255. not pure or does not have the right intentions, he's

  256. only in it for money, would you want go there, No,

  257. you would want to go to someone which has the

  258. right intentions, pure intentions. So like what that's what I mentioned.

  259. We expect that of everybody else, but do we live

  260. it out as well? Because we cannot expect somebody else

  261. to live it out. We have no control over how

  262. somebody acts or things. The only control we have is

  263. over our own selves. And if we call ourselves disciples

  264. of Christ, it says Blessed are those who are pure

  265. in heart. So we are called to live pure lives.

  266. So is it easy to live pure lives? Anyone can

  267. live pure lives? It's tough, right, So in the world,

  268. purity is a standard that means you're either pure or

  269. you're not right. You're either twenty four Carrot or you

  270. are ten carrot. There is a standard. But the good

  271. news is that in God's world, God's word, purity is

  272. a destination that we are working towards. Purity is a

  273. journey that we are taking. God does not demand from

  274. us to be perfect, but to head in the direction

  275. that He has for us. So that is the good news.

  276. So purity, don't worry. You don't have to be one

  277. hundred percent pre twenty four carrot twenty four k Christian,

  278. but you have to be at least ten point one tomorrow,

  279. then ten point two the next day, ten point three.

  280. We are moving towards purity. Okay, So how do we

  281. become pure? Okay? There are few four points. So the

  282. first one, purity starts with realization and repentance. The only

  283. way to realize that you need purity is to realize

  284. that we are in peal. You know, you can't help

  285. someone who does not think they need help, because if

  286. you're going to help someone who thinks they who thinks

  287. they they will help, you know, like for example, somebody

  288. with maybe a knife sticking out his arm, He's like, hey,

  289. come I help you. No, I'm fine, I'm okay, no't

  290. worry I'm okay, and you try and help. But unless

  291. the person acknowledges that, yes, I need help. There's a

  292. knife within me. I need your help to help me

  293. take it out. Only when you do that, then can

  294. you help that person. The same goes to purity. If

  295. we think think we are okay. Hey, I tell you

  296. I'm okay. I don't have a problem with purity because

  297. I'm comparing myself against my neighbor, I'm comparing myself against

  298. the world. Then we will never head down the journey

  299. of purity because we didn't realize it that we have

  300. a problem. Okay, So let's look at some of the verses.

  301. So this verse Psalms fifty one, have mercy on me,

  302. Oh God, according to your loving kindness, according to the

  303. multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions, wash

  304. me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me for my sin.

  305. For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always

  306. before me. You look at this psum is very clear

  307. that the author says, I acknowledge my sins. I know

  308. I messed up. I need you. You know who is

  309. the author of this David? You know when He wrote

  310. this after Prophet Nathan confronted him for killing you Riah.

  311. That she Ba's husband was David Pierre. He was not pure,

  312. but he acknowledged what he did wrong, and he was

  313. on the journey towards purity. And that's was how he

  314. asked God for forgiveness. He acknowledged that God, I have

  315. done wrong, wash me thoroughly from my inequity, cleansed me

  316. from my sin, for I acknowledge my transgressions, and my

  317. sin is always before me. He knows that without God,

  318. his sin can't be washed away. Okay, next line, so

  319. this is also psund fifty one, verse ten. I think

  320. this one. If you've been in church long enough, you

  321. would have sung this song. Create in me a clean heart,

  322. old ond and renew a right spirit within me. Renew

  323. a step fast spirit within me. Cast me not away

  324. from your presence, Take not your holy spirit for me,

  325. restore unto me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me

  326. my generous spirit. Then I will teach transgressors your way,

  327. and sinners shall be converted to you. So once we

  328. acknowledge that we have sinned, and we accept God's forgiveness,

  329. then in turn we can then share to others and

  330. they will then receive God's forgiveness as well. But unless

  331. we do it, why would people want to listen to

  332. us if they deem us as not pure. It's like, hey,

  333. how many of your you like, your friends suddenly told you, huh,

  334. you're Christian? I didn't know because your actions are like,

  335. doesn't seem like Christian? You know. I hope nane of

  336. us have that. But that that's the thing. Purity, right,

  337. it attracts on like it it is not it is

  338. It is like, it stands out. Purity stands out, and

  339. Christians are men to be salt and like, which means

  340. you have to stand out and only then it will

  341. attract others. Because it will attract others not because we

  342. are good, but it's because God is good and He

  343. forgave us and he has made us pure. Okay, next line,

  344. so Saysia. If we say that we have fellowship with

  345. Him and walk in darkness, we lie and do not

  346. practice the truth. You see, this is very important. If

  347. we call ourselves disciples of Christians, but we walk in darkness,

  348. we lie and do not practice the truth, then we

  349. are not walking with him. But if we walk in

  350. the light, as he is in the light. We have

  351. fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ,

  352. his son, cleanses us from all sin. If we say

  353. we have no sin. This is when we say that, hey,

  354. I don't have a problem with purity. If we say

  355. we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth

  356. is not in us. If we confess our sins, he

  357. is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and

  358. to cleanse us from all righteousness. So first we have

  359. to realize, hey, we messed up. All of us messed

  360. up because we need to make sure we are benchmarking

  361. ourselves against the right standard. Most of the time we

  362. think we are okay because we are benchmarking ourselves against

  363. the wrong standard. If we benchmark ourselves against God's standard,

  364. we will always fall shot. But that's why we need him.

  365. But if we benchmark ourselves against the world's standard, then

  366. we will hit down the path where the world is

  367. hitting right. And once we recognize that, then only and

  368. we repent, then God will forgive us of our sins. Okay,

  369. So there is point one. So point two purity renews.

  370. So after you have recognize I got a problem, I

  371. need God to intervene. Then God intervenes. What happens next

  372. purity renews. Okay, so let's go into the worst Ezekiel

  373. thirty six. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you,

  374. and you shall be clean. I will cleanse you from

  375. all filthiness and from all your idols. I will give

  376. you a new heart and put a new spirit within you.

  377. I will take the heart of stone out of your

  378. flesh and give you a heart, and give you a

  379. heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you

  380. and cause you to walk in my statues, and you

  381. will keep my judgments to do them. This is when

  382. our heart of stone is our ten k gold, our

  383. ten k gold. It might be too stubborn for God

  384. to use because we think we are okay. But God

  385. wants us to be moldable. That's why he says he

  386. will put a new spirit within you, and he will

  387. give you a heart or flesh right, and then you

  388. will keep my judgments and do them. So by our

  389. own strength it is impossible, and that's why we need

  390. God to give us a new spirit and a new heart.

  391. If we do it on our own strength, it's tough.

  392. It's not tough. It's impossible, Okay, next night. For if

  393. the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of

  394. a hypher sprinkling the uncleaned santifies for the purifying of

  395. the flesh, how much more shall the blood of Rice,

  396. who true the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God,

  397. cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God.

  398. So in the Old Testament, before Jesus came, they offered

  399. burnt offerings, all right. But in the New Testament, is

  400. the blood of Jesus will that will cleanse our conscience.

  401. It renews our mind, It transforms us. And it's not

  402. a one of you know, it's not like a transformer

  403. you're like immediately you can transformerry, it's a daily process,

  404. which leads me to my third point. And this is

  405. the part which we don't like. Purity refines because like

  406. what I mentioned, it's not an immediate transformation. You go

  407. to the gym osso it's not immediate transformation. Have you

  408. gone anywhere even if you go to you after your

  409. medical checkup, you change your diet, you transform immediately nothing,

  410. there is no immediate transformation. So it is with purity

  411. as well. It is a journey that we are heading towards.

  412. So purity refines, and when it refines is when we

  413. go through the fires of testing. So when they melt gold,

  414. that's when the impurities will be taken out because it

  415. is then either it surfaces or it sinks, right, and

  416. then that's how the goal becomes purer and purer and purer.

  417. And most of the time we think that, hey, if

  418. you're going through times of testing, it's sometimes God using

  419. us to build us up. How many of you all

  420. have watched movies before where the movie the hero in

  421. the movie had no testing one. I think it's a

  422. very boring movie. Say, for example, Spider Man. Spider Man,

  423. if he you know his uncle dian I, and then

  424. he suddenly discovered he got powers and suddenly he had

  425. to overcome his insecurity. No villain or you got no villain.

  426. Then you watch like taly Wso it's like it's like

  427. super boring, right, But at the end of the day,

  428. you are rooting for the hero to overcome and become

  429. the person that you expect him to be. And that's

  430. what God what is doing to us. God is rooting

  431. for us. He is rooting for us. Come on, you

  432. can do this. You can overcome it. You can do it.

  433. It is tough, but I am with you. Don't give up.

  434. Don't give up. It is tough. But the same thing

  435. it is for muscles. When you go to the gym

  436. and you work out right, you know that your muscles

  437. has to tear. It has to tear, and then when

  438. it heals, that's when it becomes bigger and stronger. The

  439. same way for our character as well. If we don't

  440. go through challenges and we are tested, how will we

  441. know that we will pass if we are not tested? Right,

  442. So let's look at some verses next in this Greatly

  443. rejoice though now for a little while, if need be,

  444. you have been grieved by various trials, that the genuineness

  445. of your faith, being much more precious than gold that perishes,

  446. though it is tested by fire, may be found to praise,

  447. honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ, whom,

  448. having not seen you love, so you can see that

  449. the genuineness of your faith, How genuine is your faith,

  450. How genuine is gold? They have to test gold to

  451. see how genuine it is. If you go and buy gola,

  452. they just give it to you. Bro, trust me. Trust

  453. me is genuine? And will you take it at faith value?

  454. Maybe they give you a gold coin chocolate, you know,

  455. he it looks like gold, feels like gold while you

  456. open the wrapper. It's a chocolate. So how do we

  457. know of it's genuine? Our faith isn't only genuine if

  458. it is tested the same way that we went into

  459. a primary school? Right stand the one you take the

  460. exam you pass. You take the exam to pass one

  461. right your standing one? Teachers didn't tell you that he

  462. take the exam us because I'm satistic and want you

  463. to be in standing one forever. No right, the teachers

  464. want you to progress the same way. We know this

  465. in the natural, but in the supernatural, in the spirituals,

  466. sometimes we we when we go through times of testing,

  467. we turn against God instead of turning to him, and

  468. then we fail. You know. So this is one of

  469. the verses God wants tests us so that we will grow. Okay,

  470. next line, behold, I have refined you, but not as silver.

  471. I have tested you in the furness of affliction for

  472. my own sake. For my own sake, I will do

  473. it for how should my name be profaned? And I

  474. will not give my glory to another, because if we

  475. do not give glory to God, who are we giving

  476. glory to. It is either the flesh or the world.

  477. And if we glorify our flesh or the world, that

  478. is when we destroy ourselves. So when we read these

  479. verse you sometimes you say, Hey, God's so insecure. How

  480. come God is so insecure he wants glory only for himself.

  481. God is not insecure. In fact, he's a loving God

  482. because he knows. If we glorify anything else other than God,

  483. we are on the path of destruction. Glorify money. Money

  484. is the love of money is the root of all evil.

  485. Because of money, we are willing to do impure stuff.

  486. We are supposed to use money to help people instead

  487. of use people to get money. Right, But if we

  488. put God first and give him glory, then God. When

  489. God is glorified, God can then use us to achieve

  490. his plans and purposes. And you will achieve your plans

  491. and purposes because God has a plan and purpose for

  492. each and every one of us. Okay, all right, next one. Therefore,

  493. having these promises, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthyness

  494. of the flesh and the spirit, perfecting who holiness in

  495. the fear of God. When you fear God, you will

  496. do his will. If you don't fear God, you will

  497. not do his will. As simple as that. And that's

  498. why the refining Fire is to remove the fear of

  499. the world and instead direct the fear God. You know

  500. just now, right, even as I was preparing for this

  501. right during worship, right, I'm not sure how many of

  502. you all recognize or realized. So Jerome was up here

  503. in Friant, right. And if you know Jerome and you

  504. know the journey that we've been through, him singing that

  505. loud and singing in all purity is a miracle is

  506. a miracle. So when I heard him praise that way,

  507. I'm like, dude, my worship is my worship as pure

  508. as his. Am I conscious whether people hear me sing,

  509. whether I'm out of tune or not. Am I conscious

  510. if I'm singing out loud or out loud or not?

  511. Because when I look at him. That's why after a

  512. prayer time, I went and stand next to him, because

  513. I'm like, man, I need to my heart needs to

  514. be convicted, because this is him preaching to me without words,

  515. saying that hey, you're talking going to preach about purity,

  516. but are you pure? Because when it comes to worship,

  517. that was unadulterated pure worship. So let's not have the form.

  518. You know that sometimes right, the nine to one six

  519. goal looks better than the twenty four k goal. You

  520. know why because it is tougher, so they mold it

  521. into jewelry and whatever it is. But the actual value

  522. it is not there. Onn God still values twenty four k.

  523. So we may be looking very good on the external.

  524. But when we go through the refining fire, God's refining fire,

  525. and our faith is tested, then right, all the cosmetics,

  526. all the looking good, all the feeling good, all the

  527. I know how to use the all the jargon. I

  528. can speak Christianese very well. All that when you go

  529. through the refiner's fire, when somebody is when you're under persecution,

  530. you know. Which brings me to another story. So in

  531. one of these countries where the Gospel is not openly

  532. chat right, So this church was meeting, this church was meeting,

  533. they were having services. Suddenly in the middle of the service,

  534. soldiers barged in. Soldiers barged in, and the general of

  535. the soldiers says, how many of you all are Christian?

  536. How many of y'all say you are Christian? How many

  537. of you all are followers of Jesus? You are disciples

  538. of Jesus? Because what this, y'all are going against the law.

  539. You know you're violating the law. People left because if

  540. you admit what happens, you die. People started leaving. They

  541. ran out, They ran everyone ran out at all, right,

  542. there was only one guy left. The soldier walked to him, says,

  543. are you a Christian? Say yes, I'm a Christian. Do

  544. you know that you will be killed if you profess

  545. that you're a Christian? Say yes? Then the soldier told him, okay,

  546. now tell me about Jesus, because the world also wants

  547. to see whether we are face value Christians or we

  548. are pure Christians. The soldier was seeking for Jesus, but

  549. he knew there's a lot of fakes and he was

  550. looking for the truth. So the same thing for us

  551. when we go through the refiner's fire, will we stand

  552. up for what God wants us to stand up for

  553. or will we back? Now? Will we have the fear

  554. of the world or the fear of God? And that's

  555. what dictates whether we are pure or not okay, And finally,

  556. purity radiates like what I mentioned, right, it attracts. It

  557. attracts the same way that Soldier was attracted to to

  558. that one guy who was in the church, the same

  559. way I was attracted to Jerome when he was worshiping.

  560. It's the same way. It's purity, right. You can't fake it.

  561. You can't fake it. You know, it's just pure. You

  562. want to fake it, you can for a certain extent,

  563. but then when the fires come, it'll be burnt. Right.

  564. So there's a lot of verses, but I knew I

  565. didn't have much time to go into it, but I

  566. wanted to just put it in a table. So we

  567. have a radiant relationship, which means purity deepens our intimacy

  568. with God and sharpens our spiritual vision. You know, those

  569. who are pure in heart will see God. Your spiritual

  570. vision improves transformational influence. A pure heart cultivates wisdom, credibility,

  571. and readiness to serve. So you can see those verses

  572. there and wholeness in love. Purity brings peace, harmony, and

  573. love that flows from the heart, not from ulterior motives.

  574. When you have this kind of radiance, right, it is

  575. so attractive that people will want to know what is

  576. so different, and that is how important purity is. So

  577. even as I draw towards the close, probably get the

  578. band up. So the last light I know, I said

  579. a lot of things. I just wanted to summarize it.

  580. The path to purity. First we have to realize and repent,

  581. and then God renews our mind, renews our heart, and

  582. then he refines us because it is a journey. It's

  583. just a journey to ards purity. He refines us and

  584. draws us closer and closer to him. And while he

  585. refines us, we will continue to RERADI we are a

  586. reflector of God's goodness. We shine, We are the salt

  587. and light. We attract people because it is very opposite

  588. of the standard of the world, and people will know

  589. the difference.

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  593. this week is going to be a good week. I

  594. hit for you. God bless