Wholeness Journey The Purified Heart

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Wholeness JourneyThe Purified Heart

• Adapted from
• What the Bible Teaches about Mercyby Rex B.
  Andrews

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The Purified Heart

• Blessed Father, we come again to Thy wonderful
  and holy Word. We want to be obey-ers. We have
  found in ourselves an inability both to believe
  and obey. And You have said, Without me (apart
  from) ye can do nothing. We want to not-want to
  DO anything apart from You, or BE anything apart
  from You. Teach us fully the meaning of Thy Word
  from the lips of Jesus, As the Father hath loved
  me, so have I loved you continue ye (abide) in
  my love. We believe that You are teaching us
  that very thing. So we thank You. Amen

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The Purified Heart

• The purpose of my instruction is that all the
  Christians there would be filled with love that
  comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and
  sincere faith.
• NLT 1 Timothy 15

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• The purified heart, like Jacobs ladder, or
  stairway, is an open way from the place
  where-we-are to Heaven, where God is enthroned
• The place-where-we-are is always where our heart
  is and what it is. Our heart is what we really
  are
• The Bible teaches the necessity of a pure heart
• A pure heart is a place for God in the
  place-where-we-are
• God is the source of a pure heart, and also the
  keeper of it
• He wants an open way from His Heavenly throne to,
  and into, our Earthly dwelling , as the extension
  also of His Throne

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• However, by fallen nature the throne-place, our
  heart, is quite fully occupied with self
• Self does not want God to rule as King, but only
  to serve as a slave-servant
• This situation shuts us out of the knowledge of
  His glory
• To change this situation the heart must be
  purified, which only God knows how to and has the
  ability to do
• Gods obstacle is getting us to WANT (hunger,
  and thirst after) His righteousness and its
  peaceful effect of a heavenly pure heart
• Human purity and Gods pureness are not the
  same thing

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Jesus, the Lamb of God who took away the Worlds
  sin, IS the true image of God
• We are called to believe in The Lamb and to love
  and worship Him
• As we do that, the Holy Spirit changes us into
  the same image - from glory to glory
• NKJ 2 Corinthians 318 But we all, with unveiled
  face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the
  Lord, are being transformed into the same image
  from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the
  Lord.
• Changed from the love of our own glory to the
  love of Gods glory
• Changed from the love of honor for ourselves, to
  the love of honor for Jesus

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• This changing process is the purifying of the
  heart
• A purified heart is one in which the ruling love
  is utterly changed from self to God
• Our wisdom is to see our utter helplessness
  because only God knows such a purity, or how to
  produce it
• Our wisdom is to also realize Gods desire and
  pleasure, to do that for us and in us
• That is His calling to and for us
• NKJ Ephesians 14 just as He chose us in Him
  before the foundation of the world, that we
  should be holy and without blame before Him in
  love,
• There is no such thing as holiness apart from
  that love

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• What constitutes a pure heart? One to which God
  alone is totally and purely sufficient to which
  nothing relishes, or gives delight, but God alone
• William Law

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ 1 John 410 In this is love, not that we
  loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son
  to be the propitiation for our sins.
• Our wisdom is to understand this love (i.e., the
  knowledge of the Glory of God)
• Again, our wisdom is to see our utter
  helplessness AND Gods desire and pleasure in
  purifying our heart
• Where does this our wisdom come from?
• By hearing and doing the sayings of Jesus!
• NKJ Matthew 724 " Therefore whoever hears these
  sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him
  to a wise man who built his house on the rock
• We are wise or foolish according to one thing
  whether we hear and do (wise), or hear and do not
  do (foolish)

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• All things are the direct result of Gods
  blessings
• Whatever God blesses has all provision for all
  increase and all fruitfulness
• Furthermore, all growth in divine things results
  from His blessing
• Jesus pronounces nine blessings in Matthew Ch. 5
• The first seven are knowledges of what God IS,
  or, in other words, are seven branches of what
  LOVE is
• The last two describe the effect of triumph in
  the soul when any of the first seven result in
  persecution and injustice
• That effect is joy - great joy!
• The joy of the Lord is the consciousness of
  triumph in the strength and freedom of His life

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• A reason we do not enter more easily, and more
  fully into these Blesseds is that we think of
  the words as human words
• Consequently, we try to understand them in a
  human way
• But Jesus words were not simply human ideas but
  rather they are SPIRIT
• NKJ John 663 "It is the Spirit who gives life
  the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak
  to you are spirit, and they are life.
• They are Gods Words, the communication of Gods
  will and power, of His pleasure and purpose
• It is absolutely essential to our faith to know
  the WORDS of Jesus are SPIRIT - not just ideas as
  humans think of ideas

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Jesus words are SPIRIT and LIFE
• We understand such things by faith, not by human
  reasoning
• We do not understand such knowledge by
  figuring-it-out but by opening the heart to hear,
  and to see God
• NKJ Hebrews 113a By faith we understand
• NKJ 2 Corinthians 57 For we walk by faith, not
  by sight.
• Human reasoning says that I will believe it when
  I see it
• Gods reasoning says that believing is the key to
  seeing, and to receiving His blessings!
• NKJ John 2029b Blessed are those who have not
  seen and yet have believed.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Jesus words form the understanding in our
  spiritual hearts
• True understanding is of the knowledge of God
  (i.e., knowing God intimately)
• To know God is Life - ETERNAL LIFE!
• NKJ John 14 In Him was life zoe, and the life
  zoe was the light of men.
• Zoe (z??) is the Koine (common) Greek word for
  the life of God or rather the God kind of life
• NKJ John 1010b I have come that they may have
  life zoe, and that they may have it more
  abundantly.
• NKJ John 1027 "My sheep hear My voice, and I
  know them, and they follow Me. 28 "And I give
  them eternal life zoe, and they shall never
  perish neither shall anyone snatch them out of
  My hand.
• NAU Luke 88b As He said these things, He would
  call out, "He who has ears to hear, let him
  hear."

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Matthew 53 "Blessed are the poor in spirit,
  For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• This is the Spirit of Poverty
• The word poor means afflicted, pauper, beggar
• It refers to those that have nothing in
  themselves
• Especially no riches of ability or intellect, in
  addition to no love of wealth
• Because they have chosen to have nothing in
  themselves then they must ask God for everything
• Consequently, the poor in spirit are the askers,
  seekers, knockers
• NKJ Matthew 77 " Ask, and it will be given to
  you seek, and you will find knock, and it will
  be opened to you.
• What is so blessed about that?
• The Kingdom (dominion) of Heaven is theirs!

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• This means that their riches, ability,
  attainments are Divine Dominion (i.e., to be
  utterly indwelt and ruled by God)
• This is the poverty of God - an inability to lust
  or covet
• An utter lowliness of knowing how to give all and
  the knowledge of having nothing at all of ones
  own apart from God
• God, in His Spirit, is poor, utterly poor, and
  lowlier than all His creatures
• He covets only their perfection and pleasure by
  giving all He has to them
• The Spirit of Poverty produces that lowliness and
  dominion over all lust-love-coveting
• Lowliness is the PURE LIGHT of God

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Matthew 54 Blessed are those who mourn, For
  they shall be comforted.
• This is the Spirit of Suffering, the division of
  life
• It is one of the deep mysteries of the being of
  God
• The lowliness of suffering is losing, being
  divided from, or deprived of something
• It is being separated from what is ones own
• We mourn for that which we LOSE, or that which is
  taken, or separated from us
• This is a knowledge IN and OF God
• We know the things of God by the Spirit of God

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ 1 Corinthians 210 But God has revealed them
  to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches
  all things, yes, the deep things of God.
• The blessedness of such lowliness is in the
  comfort, the consolation, of the Comforter!
• KJV John 1426 But the Comforter, which is the
  Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,
  he shall teach you all things, and bring all
  things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have
  said unto you.
• The Spirit of Suffering (the Holy Spirit) is the
  comfort of the mourners who suffer loss
• The Spirit of God comforts by the fullness-of-God
  filling all the voids

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• He can do that because God KNOWS our sorrows,
  sufferings, and losses
• NKJ Hebrews 415 For we do not have a High Priest
  who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but
  was in all points tempted as we are, yet without
  sin.
• NKJ Hebrews 58 though He was a Son, yet He
  learned obedience by the things which He
  suffered.
• NKJ Isaiah 533 He is despised and rejected by
  men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief.
• The fullness here is Jesus replacing self or
  Jesus the all in all
• He is the fullness of the Godhead in the form of
  a human body
• NKJ Colossians 29 For in Him dwells all the
  fullness of the Godhead bodily

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• The mourner is blessed by the working of the Holy
  Spirit who shows and reveals to the human heart
  the one supreme loss - to be separated from Jesus
• That is lowliness that is light!
• NKJ 2 Corinthians 13 Blessed be the God and
  Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
  mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us
  in all our tribulation, that we may be able to
  comfort those who are in any trouble, with the
  comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by
  God.
• The blessing of mourning the loss of our life
  (i.e., the death to self) is the reward of the
  Comforters comfort!

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Matthew 55 Blessed are the meek, For they
  shall inherit the earth.
• This is the Spirit of obedience or meekness
• The lowliness of meekness is submission of will,
  to obey and endure the will and authority of
  another
• With God, this means voluntary not forced
  submission
• The meek do Gods will wherever they find
  themselves to be
• NKJ Philippians 28 And being found in appearance
  as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient
  to the point of death, even the death of the
  cross.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Divine light reveals a difference between
  lowliness and humility
• Meekness or lowliness is the quality of God in
  which He serves all and can approach every one of
  His creatures on the level of their own existence
  to impart life and not to consume
• Humility is a voluntary submission of obedience
  to anothers will
• A person can be humble without grasping what
  lowliness really is because they are involved in
  the learning of voluntary submission to law
• This view makes humility appear as a destination
  or goal

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• The lowliness of poverty is the knowledge of
  self-nothingness
• Those that are meek inherit the Earth (i.e., all
  that life contains)
• NKJ Romans 817 and if children, then heirs --
  heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if
  indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be
  glorified together.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Matthew 56 Blessed are those who hunger and
  thirst for righteousness, For they shall be
  filled.
• This is the Spirit of faith-righteousness which
  is the righteousness of God
• Gods righteousness, or faithfulness, is the
  balance of the of the whole creation from the
  largest to the smallest
• It is the justness that maintains every
  creatures personal rights
• It is the power and dominion over all
  intelligence's, by which to adjust them to all
  other creatures
• Gods righteousness is not self-righteousness
• It is the righteousness or justness of
  maintaining the rights of others, and that at the
  cost of ones own rights
• It is the balancing force of the universe

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Science (i.e., mathematical reasoning) can never
  arrive at the meaning of the creation, nor the
  true understanding of it, without first finding
  faith-righteousness
• This is simply because faith-righteousness is
  basically faithfulness
• Faithfulness is the love of the Creator in His
  care for the very least-of-all
• Hunger and thirst for righteousness is the same
  as hunger and thirst for Gods Word, and drinking
  of His Spirit
• We learn to have the love of not having mine own
  righteousness

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Self-righteousness is the determination to
  advance self as being right in ones own ways,
  doings, achievements, aims, etc.
• All of this is faith in self
• Self-righteousness is blind to Gods
  righteousness
• The Spirit of Righteousness reveals the truth of
  God as ones food and drink
• The Spirit of Righteousness produces a divine
  craving for the Holy Word which out-craves all
  other cravings
• The blessing pronounced upon such hunger and
  thirst is that it will be satisfied FULLY!

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• That is satisfaction - full, true, and complete
  satisfaction - of all the hungers and cravings
  which the child of God has
• Blessed are those that do hunger and thirst after
  righteousness for they shall be fully satisfied
  by God imparting to them Himself!

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Matthew 57 Blessed are the merciful, For
  they shall obtain mercy.
• This is the Spirit of Grace, Mercy, and
  Compassion
• This is the universal supply system by which the
  Just One supplies all the creatures with what
  they need for the fullness of life
• The Lowly One, The Servant, who is the Just
  One, The King, died on the cross, as Gods mercy
  to supply LIFE, even unto lost souls

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• If we will receive Him so, and partake of that
  mercy, then we enter His supreme
  Dominion-of-Grace, and sharers in His
  compassion's for His creatures
• Blessed are the mercy doers (merciers) who supply
  Gods supply freely to others
• Blessed for they shall be always supplied with
  God
• He mercies them!

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Matthew 58 Blessed are the pure in heart,
  For they shall see God.
• This is the Spirit of Holiness, which is the
  Spirit of purifying, fire, separation from all
  that is not God
• NKJ Matthew 311 "I indeed baptize you with water
  unto repentance, but He who is coming after me is
  mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to
  carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit
  and fire.
• The blessedness of the understanding open and
  alive in the knowledge of God is is the ability
  to see God as He really is

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• To see God, means to be opened to Him, and alive
  in His light, and to see as He sees - in LOVE
• We view others the way we view ourselves
• Without a purified heart we will see God in our
  image
• We must submit to Gods cleansing fire, while
  becoming merciers, in order to have our hearts
  purified
• NKJ Isaiah 4810 Behold, I have refined you, but
  not as silver I have tested you in the furnace
  of affliction.
• NKJ 1 Peter 122 Since you have purified your
  souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit in
  sincere love of the brethren, love one another
  fervently with a pure heart,

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Matthew 59 Blessed are the peacemakers, For
  they shall be called sons of God.
• This is the Spirit of Peace or completeness
• Peace is the completeness-in-God
• When god has His own place in us, then we are
  complete
• The whole creation is awaiting those complete in
  God who in turn seek to fill and complete others
  even at the cost of their own lives
• They know what the will of God is and do that
  will
• Through Christ Jesus they are complete in Him

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• They neither need, nor seek completion in self or
  in things
• God completes them, that is peace

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Matthew 1518 "But those things which proceed
  out of the mouth come from the heart, and they
  defile a man.
• The scribes and Pharisees were stumbled by Jesus,
  because His disciples did not ceremonially wash
  their hands when they ate their food
• They were offended because He did not keep the
  tradition of the elders
• However, Jesus pointed out that they transgressed
  Gods commandments by their traditions
• One such tradition was that they could designate
  support that should go to their parents as
  corban (Hebrew for gift, offering, or oblation)
  and give it to the Religious Leaders

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• By declaring it corban they could supposedly be
  exempt from honoring their father and mother as
  stated in the Ten Commandments
• NKJ Exodus 2012 " Honor your father and your
  mother, that your days may be long upon the land
  which the LORD your God is giving you.
• Their tradition rendered the Word of God of no
  effect
• NKJ Mark 713 "making the word of God of no
  effect through your tradition which you have
  handed down. And many such things you do."
• They were hypocrites, RELIGIOUS ACTORS

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• They honored God with their lips but their heart
  was far from Him
• Such worship was vain, empty, useless
• It was teaching, as rules for life, the
  commandments of men - their heart was wrong
• These religious actors (hypocrites) were
  scrupulously attentive in seeing ceremonial
  observances, but stone blind to the one important
  thing which they were doing - making the Word of
  no effect
• The reason for this level of blindness is a
  defiled heart

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Jesus corrected their error concerning eating
  with ceremonially unclean hands by stating that
  it was what came out of the person that defiled
  not what goes into them
• NKJ Matthew 1511 "Not what goes into the mouth
  defiles a man but what comes out of the mouth,
  this defiles a man."
• Jesus later explained that it was what came out
  of the heart of person that defiled them
• NKJ Matthew 1518 "But those things which proceed
  out of the mouth come from the heart, and they
  defile a man.
• Point one of a purified heart It is what comes
  out of the heart that defiles the heart

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• A defiled heart is caused by what proceeds out of
  it
• What does proceed out of a defiled heart?
• NKJ Mark 721 "For from within, out of the heart
  of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,
  fornications, murders, 22 "thefts, covetousness,
  wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye,
  blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 "All these evil
  things come from within and defile a man.
• Covetousness is the central name on the list
• Covetousness is lust (Romans 77)
• Lust, or coveting, is the source of the
  corruption which is in the world (2 Peter 14)
• Covetousness is idolatry (Colossians 35)

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Idolatry is the love and worship of something in
  Gods place
• Therefore, coveting is the root of all evils
• The breaking of the tenth commandment is what
  causes the other nine to be broken
• NKJ Exodus 2017 " You shall not covet your
  neighbor's house you shall not covet your
  neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his
  female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor
  anything that is your neighbor's.
• Point Two of a purified heart covetousness-lust
  proceeds out of the heart and defiles the man

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Blessed Father, we have tried to reason out Thy
  holiness, and hoped to attain to some of it in
  order to be free from our troubles. But we are
  not seeking it that way any more. We are now
  seeking THEE. Grant unto us that we may seek Thee
  with the whole heart. Guide us Blessed, Eternal
  Spirit into that purity where we may see God. In
  Jesus Name.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Dear Father in Heaven, help us that we shall not
  just teach or learn ideas about a pure heart.
  Grant us the true freedom of lowliness, so that
  we can walk out in to the light in which You
  dwell. For Your Word has said, Be you holy for I
  am holy. And we have read also the words, pure
  as He is pure. And again, perfect as He is
  perfect. And that is Thy nature, not ours. By
  exceeding great and precious promises You have
  opened to us a way of faith into what-You-are. We
  ask to be guided there. Amen.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Matthew 2325 "Woe to you, scribes and
  Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the
  outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are
  full of extortion and self-indulgence. 26 "Blind
  Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and
  dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.
  27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,
  hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs
  which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but
  inside are full of dead men's bones and all
  uncleanness. 28 "Even so you also outwardly
  appear righteous to men, but inside you are full
  of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Jesus declares four times, in these four verses,
  that those directly named (the religious leaders
  or clergy) are defiled WITHIN
• However, this was not truth without mercy for in
  Christ Jesus mercy and truth have met together
• Jesus was not venting an overflow of aggravation
  or angry like we regular humans get angry
• He was pointing to the one and only hope left to
  them and by so doing was extending mercy
• The mercy is found in the words, Cleanse first
  that which is WITHIN

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Again, four times with unerring aim, Jesus points
  to the ONE thing wrong they were unclean WITHIN
• Any one of them, then or now, who would be
  willing to ACKNOWLEDGE the truth of what He said,
  AND appeal to Him for deliverance, would find
  that the truth was with MERCY, for that was what
  He had come to do
• He was not just closing the matter but rather was
  opening the way out CLEANSE FIRST THAT WHICH IS
  WITHIN

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• It is true that the blood of Jesus Christ
  cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 17b)
• It is equally true that if we walk IN THE LIGHT,
  as He is in the light, we have fellowship with
  Him (1 John 17a)
• THEN, in that WALK, there is a continual
  purifying, cleansing of the heart from all sin,
  by the blood of Jesus
• This is how the heart may be cleansed (cleansed
  within) and kept free from defilement

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Luke 1137 And as He spoke, a certain
  Pharisee asked Him to dine with him. So He went
  in and sat down to eat. 8 When the Pharisee saw
  it, he marveled that He had not first washed
  before dinner. 39 Then the Lord said to him,
  "Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup
  and dish clean, but your inward part is full of
  greed and wickedness. 40 "Foolish ones! Did not
  He who made the outside make the inside also? 41
  "But rather give alms of such things as you have
  then indeed all things are clean to you. 42 "But
  woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue
  and all manner of herbs, and pass by justice and
  the love of God. These you ought to have done,
  without leaving the others undone.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• The Pharisee was faultfinding with the True Light
  because he did not conform to one of their
  ceremonials of exterior holiness
• This holiness in forms (e.g., ceremonials and
  symbols) is that which is outside and is the
  way the whole world worships
• The world ascribes holiness to the office of
  priests, symbols, vestments, writings, etc. -
  THINGS OUTSIDE
• However, there can never be any deliverance of
  mankind from the power of the devil (i.e.,
  deception) except as the heart is opened up and
  exposed
• Gods Kingdom must come WITHIN - Lord Jesus reign!

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Jesus stated, directly, in words, that their
  inward part - their heart - was full of lust,
  uncleanness and all wickedness
• They did not refute that directly but wanted to
  kill Jesus
• People do not like having their heart exposed
• But Jesus said that He who made the outside, made
  also that which is WITHIN
• Jesus sought to focus their attention on the
  heart, by the expressions inward part and that
  which is within
• Then He declared the MERCY

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Luke 1141 "But rather give alms of such
  things as you have then indeed all things are
  clean to you.
• The Greek phrase for such things as you have is
  ta enonta where ta means the things and
  enonta is a compound word meaning within
• NAU Luke 1141 "But give that which is within as
  charity, and then all things are clean for you.
• Jesus was talking about things outside and
  inside, without and within

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Jesus was talking about what they have and do
  WITHIN the heart, and what a terrible condition
  of defilement they were in
• This was true even though they were exceedingly
  religious - Jesus called them religious ACTORS
• A hypocrite is an actor - one who performs
  outwardly what they are not within
• However, Jesus shows them the key to overcoming
  this inward defilement

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Give alms from the heart (from within) and you
  are truly cleansed, and are not defiled by things
  outside of you
• Jesus has declared that as truly as the evil
  thoughts defile from within that from within can
  come forth cleansing
• This cleansing will clean the inside (the heart)
  and the outside (our relation to all things) of
  the man
• This giving must be of things that you have

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• There are three vital keys here
• Such as you have (you can not give what you do
  not have)
• What you have WITHIN
• We are to give that
• NKJ 1 Corinthians 47b And what do you have that
  you did not receive?
• NKJ 2 Corinthians 41b as we have received mercy,
  we do not lose heart.
• NKJ Titus 35 according to His mercy He saved us

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• What we have received freely from God we are to
  give freely
• NKJ Matthew 108b Freely you have received,
  freely give.
• Mercy is what we have all received and it is
  within us by the Spirit of Mercy!
• Jesus is saying that if we give mercy it will
  cleanse us on the inside and purify our view of
  things without

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• The evil heart pours out that which defiles the
  man
• The good heart pours out that which purifies the
  man
• Our hearts are purified by faith, we are cleansed
  by the blood of Jesus, we are made holy and
  righteous by His grace, and through Jesus Christ
  - we are made a new creature
• And it is all, literally all, MERCY!

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• What does the new heart do which purifies instead
  of defiles?
• It gives that which it has received - MERCY!
• How can we abide in a purified heart?
• By doing that which purifies!
• NAU Luke 1141 "But give that which is within as
  charity, and then all things are clean for you.
• However, you can not understand this teaching
  except by doing it

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• God earnestly desires you to be more than
  conquerors through Him that loved us
• However, you can not be this apart from a
  purified heart
• NKJ Matthew 58 Blessed are the pure in heart,
  For they shall see God.

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How It Works
NKJ 1 Thessalonians 523 Now may the God of peace
Himself sanctify you completely and may your
whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved
blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Heart
Spirit
Soul
Body
Brain
Contains Mind (logic) Will Emotions
Holy Spirits Holy of Holies
Physical connection between the Body and Soul
Has 5 senses Hearing Sight Smell Taste Touch
Spiritual Growing Chamber (thoughts conceive
intentions which wait for an opportunity to
become an act) Hebrews 412
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New Christian without Renewed Mind
The soul calculates a response by our mind
(logic) and/or emotion
The Holy Spirit knocks on the door of our heart
desiring to fill it with mercy for them us
The brain converts sight and sound into pictures
and speech - they are being unkind
The senses detect someone talking to us
Something tells us we should not tell them off.
This is our conscience which is the hidden man
or voice of our heart
Spiritual Heart
Spirit
Soul
Body
Brain
We give them a piece of our mind!
The person is being unkind to us and based on a
mind conformed to this world we will or
choose to return anger - our justice!
We sow anger into our spiritual heart causing
it to harden or be seared to receiving the
Holy Spirits voice (via our spirit) and anger
starts growing in our heart
The brain converts the thoughts into signals to
operate the body
The Holy Spirit is grieved and respecting the
choice of our will being done - goes silent
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Learn the Bible to Renew the Mind

• NKJ Romans 122 And do not be conformed to this
  world, but be transformed by the renewing of your
  mind, that you may prove what is that good and
  acceptable and perfect will of God.
• NKJ Proverbs 420 My son, give attention to my
  words Incline your ear to my sayings. 21 Do not
  let them depart from your eyes Keep them in the
  midst of your heart 22 For they are life to
  those who find them, And health to all their
  flesh. 23 Keep your heart with all diligence,
  For out of it spring the issues of life. 24 Put
  away from you a deceitful mouth, And put perverse
  lips far from you.

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Learn the Bible to Renew the Mind (cont.)

• NKJ Joshua 18 "This Book of the Law shall not
  depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in
  it day and night, that you may observe to do
  according to all that is written in it. For then
  you will make your way prosperous, and then you
  will have good success.
• NKJ 3 John 12 Beloved, I pray that you may
  prosper in all things and be in health, just as
  your soul prospers.
• NKJ 2 Peter 14 by which have been given to us
  exceedingly great and precious promises, that
  through these you may be partakers of the divine
  nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
  the world through lust.

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Christian with a Renewed Mind
The soul calculates a response by our mind
(logic) and/or emotion
The Holy Spirit knocks on the door of our heart
desiring to fill it with mercy for them us
The brain converts sight and sound into pictures
and speech - they are being unkind
The senses detect someone talking to us
Something tells us we should not tell them off.
This is our conscience which is the hidden man
or voice of our heart
Spiritual Heart
Spirit
Soul
Body
Brain
We ask the Lord to flood them with mercy to meet
all of their needs!
The person is being unkind to us but the renewed
mind knows Jesus has already paid for this sin,
we listen to our conscience and will mercy!
We sow mercy into our spiritual heart causing
it to remain sensitive to receiving the Holy
Spirits voice (via our spirit) and mercy starts
growing and enlarging our spiritual heart
The brain converts the thoughts into signals to
operate the body
The Holy Spirit is pleased with Gods will being
done (i.e., mercy) and fills our heart with mercy
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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ John 738 "He who believes in Me, as the
  Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow
  rivers of living water." 39a But this He spoke
  concerning the Spirit,
• NKJ 1 Corinthians 619 Or do you not know that
  your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is
  in you, whom you have from God, and you are not
  your own?
• NKJ 1 John 227a But the anointing which you have
  received from Him abides in you,
• NKJ Proverbs 1821 Death and life are in the
  power of the tongue, And those who love it will
  eat its fruit.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Mark 721 "For from within, out of the heart
  of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries,
  fornications, murders, 22 "thefts, covetousness,
  wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye,
  blasphemy, pride, foolishness. 23 "All these
  evil things come from within and defile a man."
• Evil thoughts are from evil desires of
  anti-mercy
• Evil thoughts are the images of those evil
  desires
• Evil desires are made strong and able by the
  thoughts which make a place for them and a way
  for them

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• We are to stop thinking anti-mercy thoughts and
  start thinking mercy thoughts
• NAU Philippians 48 Finally, brethren, whatever
  is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is
  right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely,
  whatever is of good repute, if there is any
  excellence and if anything worthy of praise,
  dwell on these things.
• Thoughts of good are from desires of mercy
• Mercy is
• a passion to do the good that another needs
• the infinite supply of pure love for every need
• This giving of mercy purifies the giver

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• For every case of the works of evil thoughts,
  mentioned by Jesus the purifying opposite is
  found in the thought and prayer of mercy
• Flood them with mercy fulfilling all their need
• The strength of this prayer is the BLOOD of Jesus
• Our very knowledge of what mercy is comes by the
  blood of Jesus
• The power of the blood of Jesus is Gods mercy
  overcoming evil!
• NKJ Revelation 1211 "And they overcame him
  Satan by the blood of the Lamb mercy and by
  the word of their testimony mercy, and they did
  not love their lives to the death all mercy.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• The evil thoughts and temptations of adulteries
  and fornications can all be overcome by
  persistently praying the mercy prayer
• Again, it is the giving of what we have within -
  MERCY - that purifies and overcomes evil with
  good
• NKJ Romans 1221 Do not be overcome by evil, but
  overcome evil with good.
• That is Gods truth, Gods method, Gods plan
• Gods way to overcome evil is to overcome it WITH
  GOOD

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Adulteries and fornications are covetous desires
  of evil
• Do the opposite good and it (i.e., mercy)
  overcomes them
• We can overcome evil with good because it is the
  Holy Spirit who does the doing through us
• NKJ Ezekiel 3627 "I will put My Spirit within
  you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you
  will keep My judgments and do them.
• Just as the evil spirit does the evil through us
• NKJ Ephesians 22c the spirit Satan who now
  works in the sons of disobedience,

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• When the thoughts of adultery and fornication
  come we must learn to pray instead of think
• That is, we oppose the evil thoughts by turning
  to the Lord in prayer
• Turning to the Lord is turning AWAY from the evil
  desire
• Praying to Him is putting Him and His pleasure
  before our eyes in place of that which tempts us
  to evil
• Flood them with mercy fulfilling all their need
• That means, GIVE instead of GET
• Help, strengthen, BLESS, instead of defile

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• The opposite of looking on a woman or man to lust
  after her or him is to look on them with the
  desire and prayer for their best good
• Sometimes you may have to pray the Mercy prayer
  repeatedly for it to take hold in your heart
• But the turning to God, and the thinking of His
  GOoD thoughts, robs the evil spirit of its power
• The answer to the Mercy prayer destroys the evil
• KJV Isaiah 1027b and the yoke shall be destroyed
  because of the anointing mercy.
• The angels go forth and separate the evil from
  the good
• The Holy Spirit pours from us and defeats and
  casts down the unclean spirit and all its lusts

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• The whole Kingdom of God goes into action, and
  into motion to accomplish that mercy and to fill
  the need WHEN THE BELIEVER PRAYS
• True lowliness prays so, and triumphs, for the
  Holy Spirit is the SPIRIT of prayer
• NLT Zechariah 1210 "Then I will pour out a
  spirit of grace and prayer on the family of David
  and on all the people of Jerusalem.
• NKJ Romans 826 Likewise the Spirit also helps in
  our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should
  pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself
  makes intercession for us with groanings which
  cannot be uttered.
• The lowliness is the Holy Spirit and the mercy is
  the passion of the Holy Spirit to do good

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Murders are obliterated by the Mercy prayer upon
  the one you hate-and-want-dead
• We murder in the heart just as truly as
  committing adultery in the heart
• The opposite of looking on someone with
  destroying lust in the heart is to look on that
  one with desire and prayer, in the heart, for
  their best good (God knows just what that is)
• What we know is that they, like us, need MERCY
• We ask God to pour abundantly overflowing floods
  of mercy on the object-of-evil-thoughts-and-tempta
  tion and all things become clean to us
• It is the purified heart overcoming evil with good

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Thefts, covetousness, and wickedness are all
  workings of desire to take away what belongs to
  another in order to satisfy and please ourselves
• Lust is coveting desire
• If you pray the Mercy prayer then God is in all
  your thoughts and the evil is overcome and
  destroyed
• If you pray to give instead of steal, the theft
  is destroyed
• It is the same way with all covetousness and
  wickedness

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Lasciviousness is the maggot like pleasure of
  enjoying all kinds of unclean thoughts
• One of the most certain proofs that the world is
  DEAD in trespasses and sins is lasciviousness -
  an internal pleasure in uncleanness, especially
  in sexual things
• The Holy Spirit will purify and cleanse all
  things before you if you will persist in the
  Mercy Prayer
• Mercy is a passion just as truly as
  lasciviousness is a passion but mercy is a
  passion to do good to another
• It is Gods clean and holy passion of heavenly
  love, to GIVE instead of GET

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• An evil eye come the desire to see evil happen to
  another and often is the retaliating spirit at
  work
• It means to project evil from the heart
• What will pluck out the evil eye, as Jesus said?
• Changing it at the root by projecting good
• Praying the Mercy Prayer for whom your eye is set
  will cause it to be swallowed up in the GOoD eye
  - MERCY
• Gods eye is not an evil eye for that is the
  devils eye, the destroyer and the thief
• NKJ John 1010 "The thief does not come except to
  steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come
  that they may have life, and that they may have
  it more abundantly.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Gods eye is good
• NLT Jeremiah 2911 For I know the plans I have
  for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good
  and not for disaster, to give you a future and a
  hope.
• If you will pray Gods thoughts and His ways, by
  praying the Mercy Prayer, then Your eye will
  become good
• We ask God to project good - floods - and when we
  do so we are seeing in His light as He sees
• NKJ Psalm 369 For with You is the fountain of
  life In Your light we see light.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Blasphemy, pride, and foolishness are all much
  the same thing
• All blasphemy is both proud and foolish
• All pride is both blasphemous - in character -
  and utterly foolish in truth
• Foolishness is the working of folly, and the love
  of it
• Foolishness is blasphemous in character, because
  it is exalting folly in place of giving thanks
• The opposite of foolishness is giving of thanks
  and praise to God
• NKJ Ephesians 54 neither filthiness, nor foolish
  talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not
  fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• Foolishness, foolish talking and jesting are full
  of pride (i.e., the desire to show off)
• Foolishness is a love of the pleasure of folly
• Folly is wisdom dead
• In all cases the character of blasphemy, pride,
  and foolishness is the complete opposite of both
  lowliness and mercy
• Giving thanks is clean and wise and light from
  heaven
• Giving thanks is lowly
• Giving of thanks is the very spirit of lowliness
  and mercy

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• In all cases the character of blasphemy, pride,
  and foolishness is the complete opposite of both
  lowliness and mercy
• Giving of thanks is the very spirit of lowliness
  and mercy
• The prayer for FLOODS of Mercy from Heaven, is
  the exact opposite of the flooding, pushing,
  overbearing quality of blasphemy, pride,
  foolishness, for they operate in a flooding way,
  too
• NKJ Isaiah 5919 So shall they fear The name of
  the LORD from the west, And His glory mercy
  from the rising of the sun When the enemy comes
  in like a flood, The Spirit of the LORD will lift
  up a standard mercy for us against him.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• You cannot blaspheme God, or its equivalent
  against man, when you are praying for floods of
  mercy to fulfill his need
• You cannot blaspheme God, or its equivalent
  against man, when you are praying for floods of
  mercy to fulfill their need
• You cannot remain in the devilish exalting of
  pride when you are carrying through the lowliness
  of the prayer of mercy
• You will lose the love of foolishness, and all
  delight in it, if you occupy your mind with the
  wise-praying for floods of mercy to fill needs
• The needs are all around us

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• In this triumphing in mercy and goodness over
  evil, there comes also the desire to give thanks,
  because you know God answers your prayer
• Mercy is free
• The freedom and triumph of mercy over everything
  in this list of evil thoughts, and the
  proceedings of evils which defile the man, brings
  you to a new viewpoint
• That by GIVING of THANKS you could likewise
  triumph over ALL of those evils
• But we will not give such thanks apart from the
  flowing of mercy
• Why? Because apart from mercy we will not think
  to give thanksgiving and praise

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• It is only a purified heart that thinks to give
  thanks
• For only the purified heart dwells in love and
  triumphs in mercy
• The purified heart is perfect the same way that
  God is perfect
• The purified heart is pure in the same way God is
  pure
• For the purified heart knows Gods mercy and
  gives it freely of that which is within - MERCY
• The purified heart lives unto God as His child
• The purified heart wants to see Him as He is
• NKJ 1 John 33 And everyone who has this hope in
  Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• NKJ Jude 120 But you, beloved, building
  yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in
  the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love
  of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus
  Christ unto eternal life.
• The Holy Spirit will sanctify you in the
  sanctifying will of God, when you do Gods mercy
  for Him
• Even as light destroys darkness, so good removes
  evil
• However, you need to literally live in the Word
  of God as your strength is there

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The Purified Heart (Contd.)

• The Holy Spirit will sanctify you in the
  sanctifying will of God, when you do Gods mercy
  for Him
• Even as light destroys darkness, so good removes
  evil
• However, you need to literally live in the Word
  of God as your strength is there
• NKJ 1 John 518b but he who has been born of God
  keeps himself in mercy, and the wicked one does
  not touch him.

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Christian with a hardened Heart
The soul realizes that the mercy message is truth
and is convicted of sin
The Holy Spirit knocks on the door of our heart
desiring to fill it with mercy
The brain converts sight and sound into pictures
and speech - we have been judgers
The senses have read this teaching
Our conscience by the Holy Spirit tells us we
should repent (i.e., change our mind) and chose
to be a mercier in His strength
Spiritual Heart
Spirit
Soul
Body
Brain
We say a prayer of repentance from the depths of
our heart
We chose to repent and be cleansed from all
unrighteousness (1 John 19)
The brain converts the thoughts into signals to
operate the body
Our heart is renewed again to be a heart of flesh
(i.e., a heart sensitive to the voice of the Holy
Spirit) Ezekiel 3626,27
The Holy Spirit is overjoyed and floods our heart
with mercy
We believe the truth that if we repent God will
forgive us and cleanse us from all
unrighteousness 1 John 19
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Prayer

• Show us, Blessed Father, that the continual
  purifying of the cleansing blood of Jesus is
  found by those who walk in the light as Thou art
  in the light. Bring us quickly to that humbling
  of the heart, where we can always see that we
  have nothing but mercy - but - that we do always
  have mercy as we give forth of that which you
  have given us. In Jesus precious name. Amen