Psalm 51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest..
..10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
No Excuses
.. And what is that heart? That heart acknowledges – doesn’t try to cover it up or excuse – that’s the heart He looks for. We’re so good at excusing and finding something to blame. No no we stand naked before God. We’re going to thank the Lord when we are caught away when we’re with God in glory. We’re going to praise and thank Him for the Word that He has given to us over the years. This Word that we receive if you did but know it is preserving you from yourself which is your worst enemy. The enemy is pretty is bad but I tell you ourselves is equally as bad because we so deceive ourselves, and God won’t let us do that..
Active And Honest
.. And so you see these godly affections – these desires – have to be worked in us if you want this purity of heart and motive. Because you see motive means that which is active – we have to act our faith. We have to walk in this world. We have to embrace all sorts of situations, and in all of that God wants us to have a right heart and motive that is clean and acceptable in His sight..
Me And God Alone
.. The love of God and your love for Him always reveals this purity of heart and motive.. ‘I have done this unto you and you alone. ‘ That is purity of motive and we have got to stop using excuses and face it as men and women in Christ – in maturity – that whatever He’s dealing with it’s me and God alone and I cannot use anything else. We’re so good at finding an alternative – a substitute. Those days are gone if you want a pure heart before God.
Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 15:19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
Proverbs 6:14 Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
2 But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
3 For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness.
Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
Psalm 24:3 Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place?
4 He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He shall receive the blessing from the Lord, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
1 Peter 1:15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.
1 Peter 1:22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
