For They Shall See God

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For They Shall See God!

• Blessed are the Pure in Heart

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Helen Keller (1880-1968)

• The only thing worse than being blind is having
  sight but no vision.

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Matthew 58

• "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall
  see God.
• Greek word for See
• optanomai (op-tan'-om-ahee) to gaze (i.e.
  with wide-open eyes, as at something remarkable
• (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and
  Concordance 1994)

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Acts 101-16
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Acts 101-2

• Now there was a man at Caesarea named Cornelius,
  a centurion of what was called the Italian
  cohort, a devout man and one who feared God with
  all his household, and gave many alms to the
  Jewish people and prayed to God continually.

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Acts 103-4

• About the ninth hour of the day he clearly saw in
  a vision an angel of God who had just come in and
  said to him, "Cornelius!" And fixing his gaze on
  him and being much alarmed, he said, "What is it,
  Lord?" And he said to him, "Your prayers and alms
  have ascended as a memorial before God.

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Acts 105-8

• 5 "Now dispatch some men to Joppa and send for a
  man named Simon, who is also called Peter 6 he
  is staying with a tanner named Simon, whose
  house is by the sea." 7 When the angel who was
  speaking to him had left, he summoned two of his
  servants and a devout soldier of those who were
  his personal attendants, 8 and after he had
  explained everything to them, he sent them to
  Joppa.

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• On the next day, as they were on their way and
  approaching the city, Peter went up on the
  housetop about the sixth hour to pray. But he
  became hungry and was desiring to eat but while
  they were making preparations, he fell into a
  trance

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What is a Trance?

• ekstasis (ek'-stas-is) a displacement of the
  mind, i.e. bewilderment, "ecstasy"
• -Also translated in KJV- be amazed, amazement,
  astonishment, trance.
• Only appears in scripture 5 times
• (Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and
  Concordance)

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Dictionary.com

• Trance
• 1.a half-conscious state, seemingly between
  sleeping and waking, in which ability to function
  voluntarily may be suspended.
• 2.a dazed or bewildered condition.
• 3.a state of complete mental absorption or deep
  musing.

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Paul in Acts 2217-21

• "It happened when I returned to Jerusalem and was
  praying in the temple, that I fell into a trance,
  and I saw Him saying to me, ' Make haste, and get
  out of Jerusalem quickly, because they will not
  accept your testimony about Me.' "And I said,
  'Lord, they themselves understand that in one
  synagogue after another I used to imprison and
  beat those who believed in You. 'And when the
  blood of Your witness Stephen was being shed, I
  also was standing by approving, and watching out
  for the coats of those who were slaying him.'
  "And He said to me, 'Go! For I will send you far
  away to the Gentiles.'"

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Acts 1011-12

• and he saw the sky opened up, and an object like
  a great sheet coming down, lowered by four
  corners to the ground, and there were in it all
  kinds of four-footed animals and crawling
  creatures of the earth and birds of the air.

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Acts 1013-16

• A voice came to him, "Get up, Peter, kill and
  eat!" But Peter said, "By no means, Lord, for I
  have never eaten anything unholy and unclean."
• Again a voice came to him a second time, " What
  God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy."
  This happened three times, and immediately the
  object was taken up into the sky.

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• I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in
  what you call the dark, but which to me is
  golden.
• I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.
  -Helen Keller

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• It is wonderful how much time good people spend
  fighting the devil. If they would only expend the
  same amount of energy loving their fellow men,
  the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
  (Boredom or disinterest) -Helen Keller