Heart Purity
Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Christian Sermons, General Christianity, Christian Life
| Author: | L. L. Pickett | ISBN: | 1230000479165 |
| Publisher: | Jawbone Digital | Publication: | June 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | L. L. Pickett |
| ISBN: | 1230000479165 |
| Publisher: | Jawbone Digital |
| Publication: | June 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
The word “heart” in Scripture seldom, if indeed ever, refers to that flabby muscular pump which throws blood in and our through the arteries and veins, It has reference rather to the seat of desires and affections. As the physical heart is the center of bodily life, so the scriptural or moral heart is the center of moral and spiritual life. It occupies in spiritual life the same relation to a man as his muscular heart holds to his natural, or bodily life.
The heart is indispensable. A finger may be destroyed, an arm or foot amputated, and yet life, though marred, will continue. But no man ever lived with his heart cut out. Diseases of the heart are dreaded ; they are quickly fatal. So in the spiritual character, the pure heart is necessary to a holy, happy and truly useful life. An impure heart, diseased morally, corrupted spiritually, is a fountain of evil, a certain producer of more or less of sin and moral deterioration — frequently of vice and crime. Let us study the heart briefly from a Bible standpoint.
The word “heart” in Scripture seldom, if indeed ever, refers to that flabby muscular pump which throws blood in and our through the arteries and veins, It has reference rather to the seat of desires and affections. As the physical heart is the center of bodily life, so the scriptural or moral heart is the center of moral and spiritual life. It occupies in spiritual life the same relation to a man as his muscular heart holds to his natural, or bodily life.
The heart is indispensable. A finger may be destroyed, an arm or foot amputated, and yet life, though marred, will continue. But no man ever lived with his heart cut out. Diseases of the heart are dreaded ; they are quickly fatal. So in the spiritual character, the pure heart is necessary to a holy, happy and truly useful life. An impure heart, diseased morally, corrupted spiritually, is a fountain of evil, a certain producer of more or less of sin and moral deterioration — frequently of vice and crime. Let us study the heart briefly from a Bible standpoint.
