01/17/22 HEART PURITY, ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION, HOLINESS (of heart), PERFECT LOVE,

01/17/22 HEART PURITY, ENTIRE SANCTIFICATION, HOLINESS (of heart), PERFECT LOVE, are different names, titles, terms (emphasizing specific qualities) given to the same work of God's grace in the heart and life of a believer.

We were born with a Human Nature, which came from God when He created Adam. Being human is something that we will always be, into eternity. Our Human Nature has been corrupted by sin, but through salvation, God redeems, converts, and transforms our Human Nature by being Born Again, by becoming New Creatures.

Human Nature is,
Body (other consciousness, through seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling, and tasting),
Soul (self-consciousness, through desire, reason, emotion, conscience, and will),
Spirit, (God-consciousness).

We were also born with what is commonly called, a "Sinful Nature," (the nature to be sinful, also called the Adamic Nature), which came from fallen Adam. However, it is Biblically referred to as the Old Man, the Carnal Mind (Mind of the FLESH), the Double Mind, the Law of Sin and Death, Sin (in the singular, as a condition rather than an action).

Remember, Jesus had a human nature but He did not have a sinful nature, being the Son of God, rather than the descendant of Adam. Upon His resurrection, His human nature went to heaven. Our human nature was designed and intended for heaven and through salvation, it is qualified for heaven. The sinful nature was never intended for heaven and cannot be saved or qualified for heaven.

At the time of our conversion, we become New Creatures, New Creations, we receive a New Man, a Divine Nature (a new heart, a new attitude). We are told that the New Man is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Though conversion saves sinners from their sins, the new convert still has the Old Man. Sins, which are committed can be forgiven, but we cannot be forgiven of the Old Man because we were not guilty or responsible for having been born with the Old Man, the Carnal, worldly, sinful bent (disposition, inclination). God's solution to the Carnal problem is death to the Old Man.

As converts, the Old Man is an impediment to our spiritual growth and spiritual well-being, and it cannot be fitted for heaven. However, God's redemptive plan includes victory over, and deliverance from our Old Man. God's plan is to destroy it, crucify it, kill it, purge it from our life through the infilling of the Holy Spirit and the purifying of our hearts.

At the time of our conversion, we receive the New Man, but we continue to be plagued by the Old Man until we are delivered from that sinful disposition in this present life. We will always be human, even into eternity, but we do not have to continue to be plagued by the Old Man. God can and will deliver us by purifying our hearts with the fullness of the Holy Spirit.

As long as we have the Old Man, we are not pure in heart. God's plan does not include controlling, converting, or cleansing the Old Man (the Carnal Mind, the Double Mind), since it is an attitude that is unchangeably rebellious to God, which is not subject to the law of God nor can be. No amount of prayer, Bible study, spiritual service can deliver us from this inward tendency to sin. God's saving grace enables us to obey God, even when we are having an inward battle with the Old Man. But God's deliverance from this inward battle results in our loving God with our whole heart, mind, soul, and strength.

God's answer to our problem of the Old Man is to remove it, destroy it, deliver us from it.
This comes:
When the believer realizes that a rebellious attitude remains after our conversion and we realize that this rebellious attitude must be crucified with Christ. When the believer is willing to die to the world and die to self then God delivers the believer from the Old Man.

This means that the believer will wage war against the very presence of the Old Man and follow after holiness, we will hunger and thirst after righteousness, we will crucify the flesh (Old Man) with its affections and lusts.

God gives the new believer a new nature by imparting His Holy Spirit to the new convert. After the new believer walks with God he realizes that He needs to be delivered from the Old Man. Just as a sinner becomes a believer through faith in Jesus Christ, the believer is delivered from his Old Man through faith in Jesus Christ.

God commands and requires heart purity.
Hebrews 12:14-15
14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord:
15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

If God does not purify the believer's heart, how will the believer get purified?
God promises and provides heart purity.
Don't confuse purity of heart with purity of life.
Though they do go together, they are not one and the same.
Neither of these two conditions is accomplished without God and neither is accomplished without human submission to the work of God and the power of God, by faith. Holy living leads to a pure heart and holy living follows a pure heart but they are not synonymous.

Purity of heart is not incremental, it is instantaneous and complete, and should be continuous. There comes a moment when the Double Minded believer becomes pure. When purity is present, purity cannot be made purer. Maturing in the faith begins at conversion and continues until we finish our course. Purity of heart should come at a specific time and continue through the rest of our spiritual walk.

Though purity of life is possible, as we walk with God, by faith, step by step, we are also expected to advance in our knowledge, understanding, and wisdom as new light is received in our relationship with God. As we get new light from God we should walk in that light, which is basically instantaneous, however, growth in grace and knowledge is progressive, incremental. Once we have spiritual insight, we should live by that truth, but we can extend the borders of behavior as we grow.

It can be said,
Heart purity is approached gradually, entered into suddenly, and grown in for a lifetime.
Heart purity is cleansing from all sin.
Heart purity is a state of righteousness.
Not only is Heart Purity possible, BUT IT IS ESSENTIAL TO ETERNAL LIFE.

I ENCOURAGE YOU TO READ THESE FEW PASSAGES. You can read them in 3 to 4 minutes. It could be your best invested few minutes of the day.

Matthew 5:8
8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Acts 15:8-9
8 And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;
9 And put no difference between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.
1 Timothy 1:5
5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:
2 Timothy 2:21-22
21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.
22 Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
Titus 2:11-14
11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
12 Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;
13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
James 4:7-8
7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
1 Peter 1:22-23
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
2 Peter 3:2-10
2 That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles of the Lord and Saviour:
3 Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,
4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.
5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:
6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.
8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
1 John 3:2-10
2 Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.
4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law.
5 And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not: whosoever sinneth hath not seen him, neither known him.
7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.
8 He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.
9 Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.