Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
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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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
No one in this life is pure enough to be free from sin, that is true only of Christ, angels, and the glorified. But those justified by His righteousness and cleansed by His blood may be said pure in heart; their grace is spotless though their old nature remains. They shall see God face to face in glory, a sight unspeakably glorious and satisfying.
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