St. J & B Port Colborne, Our study on the Beatitudes, week 4

1. The Bridge & The Border:

2. The Beatitudes:
Crossing into God’s Kingdom
Hungry For
Righteousness
Mourn
Poor in Spirit
Meek
Merciful

3. Blessed are the Pure in Heart…
“Heart”
kardia
• Your truest self
• Thoughts, Feelings, Actions
“Pure”
kaqaros
• Undivided, Unmixed
• Singleness of Thought

4. Blessed are
The Pure in Heart
“Purity of
Heart is to
Will One
Thing.’ ”
Soren Kierkegaard

5. Purity of Heart means
Focus in Life
“Martha, Martha,” the Lord
answered, “you are worried and
upset about many things, but few
things are needed—or indeed only
one. Mary has chosen what is
better, and it will not be taken away
from her.”
Luke 10

6. Purity of Heart means
Focus in Life
Henri Nouwen
“The closer I come to the
HUB of life, the closer I
come to all that receives its
strength from there. My
tendancy is to get so
distracted by the diversity of
the many spokes of life, that
I am busy, but not truly life
giving…”

7. Purity of Heart means
Focus in Life
Henri Nouwen
“…all over the place but not
focused… what does the
hub represent? I think of it
as my own heart, the heart
of God, and the heart of the
world.”

8. Purity of Heart means
Freedom From Idols
“Who may ascend… he who has a
clean hand, and a pure heart, and
does not life up his soul to an idol.”
Psalm 24
“I will sprinkle you and cleanse you
from your impurities and your
idolatries.”
Ezekiel
Luke 10

9. Purity of Heart means
Freedom From Idols
““Samaria, throw out your calf-idol!
My anger burns against them. How
long will they be incapable of
purity?”
Hosea 8:5
“No one can serve two masters.”
Matthew 6:24
Luke 10

10. Purity of Heart means
Freedom From Idols
“The human
heart is an
idol factory.”
John Calvin

11. Purity of Heart means
Freedom From Idols
“The good things that we really
desire… if they are mistaken for the
thing itself they turn into dumb idols,
breaking the hearts of their
worshippers. For they are not the thing
itself; they are only the scent of a
flower we have not found, the echo of
a tune we have not heard, news from a
C.
country we have never S. Lewis
yet visited.”

12. Purity of Heart means
Freedom From Idols
“I need Christ,
not something
that resembles
Him. I want Joy,
not something
that is like her.”
C. S. Lewis & Joy
Gresham

13. Blessed are the Pure in Heart: