How Do you Know If Your Heart Is Pure? Matthew 5:8
April 14, 2024
Hello Kingdom Family,
Welcome to our Jesus-centered community. We are glad you are listening to today’s message.
Our purpose statement is “We are People Helping People Experience a Jesus-centered Life.”
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:8 and look at what it means to be merciful and to receive mercy.
Questions to ponder:
- What does it mean to be “pure in heart?” What does it mean we will see God?”
- What does it mean to be “pure in heart” from the Biblical definition?
- How is it possible that we will see God if we have a pure heart?
- Why must we understand God’s idea of a pure heart? Are there eternal consequences?
- What does the word purity mean to you? Why is it life-changing?
The Greek word for pure is (katharos). It means to be “clean, blameless, unstained from guilt.” The Greek word for heart is (kardeeah). The Hebrew word for pure is (taher) It means “to be clean from the inside out.”
“The good life is for those with a pure heart, for they will see God.”
Below is the Bible Project podcast link referenced in the message and throughout this message series. We highly suggest you support the Bible Project and all their work. https://bibleproject.com/podcasts/the-bible-project-podcast/
If you have been blessed by this message, please share it with others. Please subscribe to our YouTube Channel and like us on Facebook. If you would like to support Hill-Tran Ministries, please go to www.hilltran.org/online-giving/.
You will have a drop-down menu to choose which campus you wish to support, HUMC or TUMC; then, you can select which fund and how much you want to give. We would greatly appreciate a gift of any amount. PayPal is the provider of our electronic giving, so it’s safe and secure.
Peace,
Hill-Tran Ministries
- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Beatitudes
- Bee Gees
- Blessed
- Pure In Heart
- Tin Man
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
How Do You Be Merciful; Especially Since God Granted Us Mercy? Matthew 5:7
April 7, 2024
- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- 1 Timothy 2:1-4
- 2 Peter 3:9
- Exodus 24:6
- Ezekiel 33:11
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Forgiveness
- Forgiving
- Grace
- Merciful
- Mercy
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:7 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to be merciful and to receive mercy.
One With God and Others – John 17 & 21
March 31, 2024
- Harold Long
- Easter
- John 17
- John 21
- Baptism
- Baptism of Fire and Spirit
- Character Defects
- Easter
- Jesus
- Jesus the Christ
- Jesus-Centered
- Jesus-centered Community
- Jesus-Centered Faith
- Jesus-centered life
- Jesus-looking God
- Jesus's Baptism
- Lostness
- Melancholy
- Resurrection
- Separation
- Shortcomings
- Sin
- Sin Nature
- Sinful Nature
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Welcome to Easter Sunday 2024. Pastor Harold unpacks John 17 and John 21 in today’s message and focuses the entire message on three questions: • Question: How is Easter relevant in the 21st century? • Question: How is the church still relevant in the 21st century? • Question: What difference does it make, especially since the world is so lost and divided?