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Q3. Is it possible to have a pure heart? How does God bring about a pure heart? What is our part in this?

Is it possible to have a pure heart?
Yes, but it is not by cleaning up the heart we were born with. That heart is terrible wicked and does what is evil. We have a new heart when we become a Christian. It is not a changed life but an exchanged life. Exchanging the sinful life of the family of Adam, for the holy sinless life in the family of Christ.

How does God bring about a pure heart?
When we ask Christ to become a member of the Kingdom of God. Then we receive our heart transplant.

What is our part in this?
Ask and Repent.

YES

Yahweh establishes a pure heart within us.

Reconizing that we are as filfthy rags before an almighty Elohim.

Yes, we can all have a pure heart.

God wants us to have a pure heart...all we have to do, is have faith.

How wonderful! How marvelous! Or as my daughter-in-law says, "Woo Hoo!"

:-)

Only God; can help us become pure by becoming pure in the Heart. Dying to self and increase in More of purity and Gods; ways. Pray ceaselessly to seek his ways.

Discipline the self first and you can be free..

Q3. Is it possible to have a pure heart?

Only through the washing in the blood of Jesus can our sins be forgiven and yes we can have a pure heart washed clean in the blood of the Lamb the Son of the Living God.

How does God bring about a pure heart?
When we pray the sinners prayer asking forgiveness God changes our hearts. They are clean and pure. Thank you Jesus.

What is our part in this?
Our part in this is to maintain this heart pure and undefiled before the Lord. He washed us clean when we ask him to forgive us and now we live our lives to please him. We make sure we do not go back into the sin he has forgiven us for. We become filled with joy and we do the bidding of the Lord Jesus and go forth into all the world and preach the gospel and live the word not just read it. Thank you Jesus for Calvary and all you gave so we can be free to serve you and be healed by the stripes you took for us. You are all we need. Praise your Holy name forever.

Is it possible to have a pure heart?
Creat in me a clean heart, Oh God and renew a right Spirit. Why because the heart is evil but when we acknowledge Jesus as our LORD, we become a new creation and our heart of stone is turned into a heart of flesh. We put on the new creation and the old goes away.

What is our part in this?
To ask Jesus to be LORD of our lives - - not just in words but with a willingness to turn around. Weacknowledge our need, our sin and the fact that only the power of God can turn us around. The we continue to follow our Rabbi - Yeshua on this walk each day of our earthly lives.

1. Yes
2. By Faith
3. To pray and repent.

Is it possible to have a pure heart? In the spiritual sense, we already have one. In the natural sense, we try. Every believer has been given a new divinely pure spiritual heart, but the ongoing battle between the spirit and the flesh keeps us from completely following the character of that heart. So in practical terms of this earthly life, I don’t think anyone has a truly pure heart. That would mean there is not even a trace of impurity or defilement in our thoughts, attitudes, desires, and motives. We would have to live above the flesh in all things, in every way, at all times. We're simply unable to do that because we don't perfectly live in the spirit, as Jesus did. So we pray, “Create in me a clean heart, O God!”

However, a person seeking the character of God’s purity will be steadfastly moving in that direction. We continually fail, but I'm so grateful that God has a plan to handle that. We can be completely cleansed by submitting to the convicting work of the Spirit and by constantly dealing with sins as they occur. I’ve always heard we should keep a “short account” with the Lord – take care of things quickly. Praise God, that, even as we struggle, He looks on us through the cleansing blood of Christ; He already sees the finished, but yet to be fully realized, work of purification in us!

As gold is purified through intense heat, God often uses intense testing to purify our hearts. He allows us into circumstances that force our impurities out in the open so that we recognize them and then turn to Him for cleansing. Our part is to be sensitive to the Spirit, be quick to confess sin, and maintain a spirit that is willing to obey God.

Q3. Is it possible to have a pure heart? How does God bring about a pure heart? What is our part in this?


It is possible to have pure heart provided we walk in His ways and submit to His will. Why not ? God questions us. When I have sent my only son for your sin's sake, why not become pure through His blood. Yes, its perfectly possible to maintain a healthy relationship and keep our hearts and minds always pure. For when Satan tempts us and makes us fall, we should go back to the bosom of our Father and immediately cleanse the slate and erase the virus before it has a chance to spread.

God brings about a pure heart in us by controlling our inner man. The inner being is the sole dictator of terms. Once that is in the hands of God, then our lives will be pure and without any blemish. That inner purity is achieved by feasting on the Word of God and being in communion with him constantly. Our part in this process is to submit to His authority. Let no self will guide us. It is best to hand over the charge to an authority who can rightly take care of things.

Q3. Is it possible to have a pure heart? How does God bring about a pure heart? What is our part in this?

Only when we turn to God in repentance for our sins. Even if we are soul-blackened by our sins, He can and will purify us if we truly repent and turn back to Him. that means more than just lip-service. We have to be sincere in our repentance, not just sorry we got caught! But, He can and will make us pure in heart!
Our part is to accept that we have sinned and are repugnant in God's sight. We cannot change that. Only God can make us pure. We must come to Him, truly repent, and place ourselves before His mercy. He in His goodness and love will respond to forgive us (only because of the substitutionary death of Jesus on the cross), and we can start over pure.
This doesn't mean that all consequences of our sin are gone. We often must face those consequences, just as David did in the death of his son by Bathsheba, but the eternal consequences of separation from God and eternity in hell is removed from us!

Q3 Is it possible to have a pure heart?

Only by allowing God full access to your heart. Don't think you can hide part of yourself from Him. Everything earthly must be put in the background and God is to have Priority.

How does God bring about a pure heart?

God searches your heart and mind, to see who you really are, and what your intentions are. If He is satisfied that you are indeed what you say that you are, you will be forgiven. Hence, a clean, pure, heart.


What is our part in this?

Truthfulness, faith in Jesus Christ, allowing the Holy Spirit to work in us.

If it wasn't possible to have a pure heart then Jesus died for nothing. Throughout the bible God, in His anger, delivered His people into slavery, withheld the rain, sent locust, and flooded the world, only because of the evil that is in mans heart.

He did all this not for punishment but to bring us back to a loving relationship with Him. Here is what the LORD said through Jeremiah, "Is not Israel still my son, my darling child?" asks the LORD. "I had to punish him, but I still love him. I long for him and surely will have mercy on him. 21 "Set up road signs; put up guideposts. Mark well the path by which you came. Come back again, my virgin Israel; return to your cities here. 22 How long will you wander, my wayward daughter? For the LORD will cause something new and different to happen – Israel will embrace her God. "

Isaiah also spoke of this new and differant thing God was about to do, "For I am about to do a brand-new thing. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness for my people to come home. I will create rivers for them in the desert!"

That new and differant thing He was about to do was to send His Son to bear our sins in order to create in us a pure heart and restore a lost relationship with Him. Do you not see it?

What our part in this is that we, as a forgiven child of God, need to quit thinking of the sin in our life and begin to think of the good. Not the good things in our life, but of the things that make us good in God's eyes. Paul says in Galatians, "For you have been called to live in freedom – not freedom to satisfy your sinful nature." If we continue to go to God and ask for the forgiveness of sin, isn't that just another way to satisfy the sinful nature? He goes on to say, "but freedom to serve one another in love. 14 For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

If we must think about what Christ has done for us let us think about Galations 5:22 But when the Holy Spirit controls our lives, he will produce this kind of fruit in us: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, and self-control. Here there is no conflict with the law. 24 Those who belong to Christ Jesus have nailed the passions and desires of their sinful nature to his cross and crucified them there. That my friend is the ABUNDANT LIFE promised us by Christ.

Darrell

1&2. Yes. As was posted before when we accept the sacrafice that Jesus made for us and our need for it, the blood of Jesus cleans us and we start to grow a new pure heart.

3. this answer will come later today

Jesus said: "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God"
It is, I believe, from the Lord's perspective that a pure heart is recognized..we long for love and purity..perhaps it is like a longing for humility...just when we think we have it, we've lost it..perhaps we should live our life, honest before God, that others may see our good works, and glorify our Father who is in
heaven.Yet, no matter how others see us, our Lord knows, and that's what matters, and He will give us the desires of our heart.

ed

Q3. Is it possible to have a pure heart? How does God bring about a pure heart? What is our part in this?

Yes - Christ's sacifice transforms our life and heart and makes us clean on the inside through God's forgiveness and mercy. He restores in us that which we have so foolishly destroyed - our intimate relationship with Him.

Q3. Is it possible to have a pure heart? How does God bring about a pure heart? What is our part in this?

Yes, throught the blood of Jesus. Our part is to believe.

Oh yes it is possible to have a pure heart. When I humbly confess my sins and turn away from them, I am washed by the Blood of the Lamb. I am reminded of this through the symbol of the Eucharist. Every time I partake, having first gone through the confession, I drink and I remember that by the Blood Jesus shed on the Cross my sins are forgiven and by the Stripes Jesus endured I am healed. Halleluia!

Lesson 4 Q 3
Is it possible to have a pure heart?

Yes!

How does God bring about a pure heart?

By the blood of Christ that was shed for us. Jesus died for our sins and He desires to forgive us, no matter what we have done.

What is our part in this?

To pray a prayer for a pure heart and a willing spirit. A spirit that longs to serve God, and a heart that is inclined to Him. This is our part.

Is it possible to have a pure heart? How does God bring about a pure heart? What is our part in this?

I believe it is possible to have a pure heart and still make mistakes. God brings about a pure heart by His fellowship and contact with us and by His word being available to us, also by the shed blood of Christ Jesus. Our part is to seek to please Him in all possible ways and to repent when sin is revealed to us.