Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Christ crowns His sermon with blessings because He came to bless us, and His pronouncement makes us truly blessed. The world is wrong about happiness: it calls the rich and powerful blessed, but He calls the poor in spirit blessed instead, overturning every carnal notion of what makes a man happy.
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Commenting on Matthew 5:3-12
The world counts cunning as the highest virtue and laughs at simplicity as foolishness. Christ says otherwise: those who deal sincerely, who hide nothing in word or look that they do not feel in heart, will see God in heaven. If you lack the wit to deceive here, you gain the sight of Him there.
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God looks at the heart, not the outward appearance. To see God's face means to stand before Him not as a Judge but as a Friend and favourite, as those privileged to dwell in His presence. Purity of heart opens that fellowship.
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