Keeping Your Heart Pure

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We love you, 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:11.560 and if you're ever in our area, stop buying seas. 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:14.160 I give you a personal invitation to be a part 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:15.359 of one of our services. 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:16.880 You'll really enjoy it. 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.440 And I say it often, but these guys are the 0:02:19.480 --> 0:02:21.760 finest people in all of Houston, so we'd love to have. 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:22.280 You be apart. 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.320 Thanks for coming today. I like to start with something 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:29.040 funny each week. And I heard about this group of children. 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.560 They were in the cafeteria line at this Catholic high 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.280 school during lunch, and at the head table there was 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:36.960 this tray of. 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:40.080 Apples and a nun had written a note and it said, 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:42.520 take only one. God is watching. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.640 At the end of that cafeteria line, there was this 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:48.080 big batch of chocolate chip cookies and one of the 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:49.680 little children had written a note. 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:54.440 It said, take all you want. God's watching the apples. 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:57.080 All right, hold up your bibles and say it with me, 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.400 and you're ready. This is my Bible. I am what 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:03.160 it says I am, I have what it says I have. 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.480 I can do what it says I can do. Today 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:10.160 all will be talked the word of God. I boldly confess. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:14.480 My mind is alert, my heart is receptive, I will 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:18.400 never be the same. In Jesus' name, God bless you. 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.320 I want to talk to you today about the importance 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.040 of keeping a pure heart. What's going on in you 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:29.280 is really more important than what's going on around you. 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.320 And we all have two different lives. 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:36.240 We have our outer life that's our public life that 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.440 everybody can see, and then we have an inner life 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:43.080 that's only between us and God. It's made up of 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:47.840 our thoughts, our attitudes, and our motives. Nobody knows what's 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:51.360 going on down in here except us in God. And 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:56.120 too many people go around today pretending acting one way, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:59.760 talking one way, yet on the inside they're thinking something 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:04.040 totally different. Their heart and their actions don't line up. 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.600 And really this is what we would consider to be 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.440 a phony. They play up to people trying to get things. 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.720 They've got ulterior motives. They can smile at you and 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.400 be thinking I don't really like you at the same time. 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:22.560 See, their heart is not pure. We have to understand God. 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.799 Looks at the inside, not the outside. We can fool 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:26.240 a lot. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.000 Of people, but we can't fool God. 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:32.200 And God would rather us be open and honest about 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.880 our shortcomings than for us to go through life pretending, 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.600 wearing these masks and kind of being two faced all 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:40.080 the time. 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.480 Now, I want to challenge you today. 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.440 To take inventory of what's going on in you, not 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.080 what's going on around you, Not what's going on in 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.840 your circumstances or your marriage or your pocket book. Know 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:56.919 what's going on in the deep recesses of your heart. 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:01.560 Are you at peace? Are you over life offenses? Do 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.720 you believe the best in people? Are you positive, hopeful, 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:08.720 expecting good things? Or when you look deep down in here, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:11.440 would you have to say, Joel, I'm kind of critical, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:15.560 I've got a problem with jealousy, I'm angry at my neighbor, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.080 or I tend to manipulate people to try to get things. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:21.840 No, you've got to guard your heart. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:25.080 If your heart is polluted, then your whole life is 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:26.159 going to be poisoned. 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.000 And we've got to learn to be honest with ourselves. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.120 If you have a problem with jealousy, don't sweep it 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.000 under the rug, don't pretend like it's not there. 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:37.680 Get it out in the open and deal with it. 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:39.960 Just say, God, I'm jealous. 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.320 They got the promotion and I wanted it, and I 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.520 know I should be happy for them, but I'm not, 0:05:46.200 --> 0:05:48.359 and God, I don't want to feel this way. 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:51.479 Help me to change, God, help me to keep my 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:52.080 heart pure. 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.800 Let me tell you, you'll go a whole lot further if 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:58.400 you'll take it to God and ask him to help you. 0:05:58.800 --> 0:06:01.080 Then if you just bury it and pretend like it 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.159 doesn't exist. And it's interesting. The people that Jesus got 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:09.160 the most upset with were the pretenders. He got mad 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.880 at the Pharisees. They were the religious people. He called 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:16.880 them hypocrites. It was because they were fakes. They put 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.920 on a good show on the outside. They wore their 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.600 fancy robes, and they went to the temple regularly. They 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.760 looked real holy, but the problem was on the inside. 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.320 They were full of greed, full of judgment, full of criticism. 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.560 And Jesus had some very stern words for him. They're 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.520 in Matthew twenty three, verse twenty seven. He said, you 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.040 guys are like a bunch of whitewashed tunes. You look 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.840 real beautiful on the outside, but on the inside you're 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:48.000 full of dead men's bones. And I don't know about you, 0:06:48.360 --> 0:06:50.320 but I want to pay attention to what's going on 0:06:50.400 --> 0:06:54.120 in me, because we can do the right thing. But 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:57.120 what's really important is are we doing it with the 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.640 right motive? Are we doing it with the right attitude. 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.599 For instance, I can give somebody something, i can do 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.520 somebody a favor, but if I'm doing it just to 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.080 try to get something from them, if I'm doing it 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:12.720 to manipulate them, or maybe they're real important so I'm 0:07:12.760 --> 0:07:15.760 trying to buy their friendship. Well, the truth is, I'm 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.520 not going to be blessed. What's going on in me 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.280 is going to affect my harvest. Some of you today, 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:24.840 you're doing the right thing, You're doing your best. 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:26.720 You don't realize it, but. 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:29.840 It's some of these inner issues that are keeping you back, 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:35.360 impure motives, being judgmental, being jealous. Now listen, if you'll 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.760 fix the inside, the outside will take care of itself. 0:07:39.480 --> 0:07:42.400 Even when we give, we should not give because we 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.920 have to. We shouldn't give because we feel guilty. And 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.559 I know people that have the attitude. Okay, God, here's 0:07:48.600 --> 0:07:51.480 my ten percent, God, here's the money I owe you. 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:53.679 Now you need to check the inside, check your heart. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:55.920 We should give with a grateful attitude. 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.400 We should give with a cheerful heart, not because we 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:02.440 have to, but because we want to. Now, I don't 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:05.360 even think we should give just to try to get blessed. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.920 We should give just because we love God. We should 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.560 give just because He's done so much for us. 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:13.560 But see, we need to check our motives. 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.920 If I play up to my boss and tell him 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.960 how great I think he is, while down in here, 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:22.240 I don't even really like the man. I'm just trying 0:08:22.240 --> 0:08:25.360 to get this promotion, and so I flatter him with 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:29.000 all of these compliments that I don't mean. Then even 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.040 if I do get that new position, I'm gonna have 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:35.640 a tough time keeping myself there because if you put 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:40.160 yourself somewhere by pretending and playing up to people, then 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:41.679 you're gonna have to do the same thing to. 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:42.560 Keep yourself there. 0:08:43.120 --> 0:08:45.800 But if you'll let God do it his way and 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:48.400 just take the higher road and keep a pure heart, 0:08:48.600 --> 0:08:50.120 then when God puts you there. 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:52.760 He'll keep you there. He'll make sure that you stay. 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.840 The scripture says in Psalm twenty four, who will go 0:08:57.960 --> 0:09:00.960 up the holy mountain, who will see God? Those with 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.120 clean hands and a pure heart. Notice it's not enough 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:07.800 to just have clean hands. It's not enough to just 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:10.760 do good things. We have to have a pure heart. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.520 In other words, we can do good things and have 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:17.320 the wrong motive. We can do the right thing and 0:09:17.360 --> 0:09:20.320 have all kinds of junk on the inside, and it's 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.400 good that we're doing it. But unless we clean up 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:26.439 the inside and get our hearts pure, it's going to 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.680 keep us from God's best. And this is something that's 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.600 just between you and God. Nobody knows what you're thinking. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:36.559 Nobody knows when you're pretending. I mean, you can spend 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.840 your whole lifetime being nice and kind to that person 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.560 you work with, yet on the inside you kind of 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:44.280 look down on them, or you're kind of a little 0:09:44.400 --> 0:09:46.800 judgmental because they don't do this or they don't do that. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.120 Only you know if your heart is pure. Or maybe 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:51.440 you run into somebody at the. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.000 Mall, Hey, how you doing? 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.839 You know, so glad to see it, And yet at 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.960 that exact same time, you're thinking, I don't really like you, 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.240 and your hair doesn't look good, and I can't believe 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:04.800 you wore that outfit. And just as they're about to leave, Hey, 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.080 come over and see me sometime. I'd love to have 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.640 you for dinner down And here you're thinking, God, please 0:10:09.679 --> 0:10:13.640 don't let them come over. Now that's what I'm talking about, 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:16.720 pretending being a phony. And when you do that, you're 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:18.760 not hurting them, You're only hurting yourself. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.520 You're sowing the wrong kinds of seeds. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.000 And I'm not saying that you go up to everybody 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.680 and just tell them exactly what you're thinking. Don't go 0:10:26.800 --> 0:10:28.520 up to them next time and say, hey, Joel told 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:31.640 me to tell you I can't stand you. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:31.679 Know. 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:34.800 What I'm saying today is take that attitude to God 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.040 and say, God, help me to not be so critical, 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.800 help me to not be a fault finder. God, I 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.439 know I have a problem in this area, and I'm 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.080 asking you to help me to change. 0:10:45.559 --> 0:10:46.079 And this is. 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.559 Something we have to constantly be aware of, we need 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.240 to continually work on. I know i'm a minister, and 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:54.120 yet I've gone up to somebody. 0:10:53.720 --> 0:10:55.760 Before said hey, how you doing. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.840 You really look great today, And I hate to admit it, 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.920 that whole time I'm thinking, you know, that's the ugliest 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.880 suit I've ever seen. Maybe one day that tie will 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.640 come back into style. I don't know what you did 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.840 to your hair, but that ought to be illegal. Just 0:11:09.920 --> 0:11:11.800 cutting them up and down with my thoughts and the 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.000 whole time I got my big smile on my face, 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.439 and deep down in here, I can feel that conviction. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.320 Deep down in here, I can hear that still small 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.240 voice telling me, Joel, you shouldn't think about your brother. 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:23.719 Paul like that. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:33.840 I'm just kidding. Don't be a pretender, don't be a phony. 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.800 Let's keep our hearts pure before God. And I understand 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.559 there are some people that we just don't particularly care for, 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.240 but let's always remember that person is made in the 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:48.160 image of Almighty God. When we criticize, when we judge, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:50.760 when we find out all their faults, all we're doing 0:11:50.880 --> 0:11:54.559 is criticizing God's very own creation. It's like that lady 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.920 I heard about. She invited all these people over for 0:11:56.960 --> 0:11:59.560 dinner one night. They sat down and we're just about 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.560 to eat. She turned to her little six year old 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.480 daughter and said, honey, why don't you say the blessing 0:12:03.559 --> 0:12:04.240 for us tonight? 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:06.440 And she said, oh, mommy, I wouldn't even know what 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.160 to say. She said, oh, sure, you do. Just say 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:10.320 what you hear mommy say. 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.040 So they all bowed their heads and this little six 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.600 year old girl said, oh Lord, why did I invite 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:21.760 these people for dinner? Heart Crimson, I want us to 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.640 be real. I don't want us to go around pretending 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:27.440 be in two phase. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:29.359 Act in one way. 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.600 Yet on the inside we're thinking another way. No, keep 0:12:32.640 --> 0:12:36.400 your heart pure, pay attention to your inner life. That's 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:39.320 more important to God than our outer life. And one 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.800 of the best things we could ever do is really 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.080 get to know ourselves. By that, I mean, find the 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:48.400 areas you need to improve in and then be big 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.400 enough to call a spade a spade. If you're jealous, 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.960 don't go through your whole lifetime acting like it's not there, 0:12:55.120 --> 0:12:57.680 pretending No, get it out in the open and deal 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.400 with it. What a shame to allow something that's so beatable, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.559 something that you can overcome, to keep it in mediocrity. 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.439 And if you have a problem with anger, a problem 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:11.079 with pride, or a problem with having ulterior motives, it's 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:13.000 not going to do you any good to hide them. 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:14.960 I mean, you can hide them from a lot of others, 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:17.600 but we can't hide anything from God. And if we 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:19.920 don't have a pure heart, it's going to keep us 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:22.760 from being all that God's created us to be. And 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:26.160 I'm not saying that you're going to overcome everything instantly. 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:29.000 Some things you may have to deal with for quite 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:29.720 some time. 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.280 But as long as you're bringing it out in the 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.840 open and asking God to help you, and you're not 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.480 playing games and acting like it's not there, then you're 0:13:39.520 --> 0:13:43.240 going to be making progress. It's when we deceive ourselves 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:47.800 into being two faced, pretending to everybody one thing while 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:50.800 we know down in here we're ignoring these issues. That's 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.720 when we get ourselves into trouble. In fact, the scripture 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:57.920 says in James five point sixteen, confess your faults one 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:01.880 to another so that you may be notice. You've got 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.920 to be honest enough with yourself to confess your faults. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.120 You've got to come to the point where you say, 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.360 you know what, I recognize I have some issues that 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.199 I need to deal with. And sometimes you're gonna have 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.360 to find a friend, find somebody you can trust, and 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:18.200 go to them and say I need your help. 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:19.560 I'm struggling in this. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.760 Area and I really need you to stand with me 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:26.160 and don't be embarrassed. It's the truth that sets us free. 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.680 And I'm asking us today to examine our inner life, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.840 our thoughts, our attitudes, our motives. It may just be 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.400 something small you say, all Joe, I got this little 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.760 problem with being jealous or I'm a little pride for 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.720 it's not hurting anything. No, it's gonna keep you from 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.520 being your very best. Why don't you come up higher? 0:14:44.560 --> 0:14:48.240 Why don't you make a decision to change today? David said, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:53.120 God desires truth in the inward parts. We can all 0:14:53.160 --> 0:14:55.880 put on a good show on the outside, but what 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:59.440 really counts is what's going on down and here on 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:02.160 the end side. I mean, let's go deeper than that. 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.720 What are our motives? Why do we do what we're doing. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.840 That's what's going to determine how high we're really going 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.520 to go in life. I love what the Psalmist said. 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.240 He said, God, let the words of my mouth and 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:20.480 the meditation of my heart always be acceptable in your sight. 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:24.800 One translation says, God, let the intentions of my heart 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:29.760 always be pleasing unto you. In other words, he was saying, God, 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.600 help me to keep my inner life right. Help me 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.520 to stay pure in my thoughts, pure in my motives, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:38.760 pure in my attitudes. And that's the first prayer I 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.600 pray every single morning. I'd encourage you to do the 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:45.720 same thing. God, Let everything I do today bring honor 0:15:45.760 --> 0:15:49.240 to your name. Let my thoughts let my actions, let 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:50.800 my motives, all. 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:52.479 Be pleasing unto you. 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:55.280 See, I'm not really talking about some kind of great 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.680 sin today. I'm simply talking about the intentions of our heart. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:01.800 Why do we do what we do. 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:06.240 The right thing is to honor God. The right reason 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.720 is to fulfill our destiny, to help others. The wrong 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:13.280 reason is to just one up our neighbor, to feed 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:17.120 our ego, to build my career, to make me look good. Now, 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.280 learn to do things with a pure heart, with the 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:21.200 right motives. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:22.920 That's when you're going to really be blessed. 0:16:23.520 --> 0:16:26.160 And the Scripture says in Proverbs four, verse twenty three 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:30.720 that we should guard our hearts with all diligence, for 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.920 out of our hearts flow the issues of life. And 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.880 I'm convinced the enemy is constantly trying to poison our hearts. 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.120 He's constantly trying to give us a little bitterness, a 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:42.120 little resentment, a. 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:45.280 Little jealousy, a little pride. But don't take his bait. 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.960 If your heart is not pure, it's going to affect 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:52.080 everything about you. And I know people that are going 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.920 around with all this junk on the inside, wrong motives, 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.840 wrong thinking, wrong attitudes, and they don't realize it, but 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:03.440 it's contaminating who they really are. Now. I like to 0:17:03.440 --> 0:17:06.679 think of it like a stream. God made you to 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:11.000 be a crystal clear stream. He's created us to be happy, 0:17:11.440 --> 0:17:14.159 to be peaceful, to be loving, to be merciful, to 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:18.400 be forgiving, to enjoy our lives. But so often we've 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:21.440 allowed this junk to get in and pollute our waters. 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:23.440 Somebody offends us. 0:17:23.720 --> 0:17:26.000 Instead of letting it go and moving on, we hold 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.560 on to it and the water gets a little bit muddy. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.680 A friend gets a promotion. Instead of rejoicing with them, 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:36.000 we're jealous. We don't understand it. God, I work harder 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:36.520 than they do. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:40.520 That's not right. The water gets a little more contaminated, and. 0:17:40.560 --> 0:17:43.080 Over the years, if we're not careful, we got all 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.920 this junk in there, and it's keeping us from being 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:49.439 our very best. Now you've got to guard your heart. 0:17:49.880 --> 0:17:53.200 It's going to affect our whole Outlook. See, we see 0:17:53.280 --> 0:17:57.120 things the way we are, not necessarily the way they are. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.880 In other words, we view things from our own stream. 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:04.160 The Scripture says, in tite us to the purer, all 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.800 things are pure. When your heart is right, you're gonna 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:08.879 see the best in people. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:10.480 And you have a pure. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:13.560 Heart, You're not gonna be judgmental and critical. You're not 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:17.240 gonna go around complain and finding fault in everything. And 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.080 a good way to see what kind of heart you 0:18:19.200 --> 0:18:22.919 have is in how you size up other people. I 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:26.440 found if you're a trusting person, you'll see other people 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.000 as being trustworthy. But if you're negative and critical, you're 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.160 gonna view others as being negative and critical. We see 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.639 things not necessarily the way they are. We see them from. 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:37.840 Our own frame of reference. 0:18:38.359 --> 0:18:42.280 And that means if your stream has become contaminated, then 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:46.080 everything is gonna be filtered through those murky waters, and 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.240 it's gonna affect you everywhere you go. I heard about 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:52.880 this grandfather that fell asleep in his living room one day, 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:55.920 and his grandkids decided to play a little trick on him, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.520 and they got some real strong smelling cheese out of 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.600 the refrige was very potent, smelled really bad, and while 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.200 he was sleeping, they snuck up and they just very 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:09.439 gently rubbed some of this cheese on his mustache. And 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:12.080 so a few minutes later, his nose began to twitch 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.080 and he kind of tossed and turned there a little, 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.080 and then all of a sudden, he sat straight up 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:19.200 in that chair and he said to himself, man, something 0:19:19.359 --> 0:19:22.240 really stinks. And so he left that room and went 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.080 into the kitchen, hoping to get some relief. 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:25.760 And he sniffed. 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:28.000 Here and sniffed there, and same thing. Man, it stinks 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:30.800 in here too. So he decided he's going to go 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.280 outside and get some fresh air. He thought for sure 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.440 that would do it. So he went outside and took 0:19:35.480 --> 0:19:37.840 a deep breath of air, and finally he said, you 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:42.600 know what, the whole world stinks. The point is, if 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.080 you're carrying around the stink, it's going to pollute you 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:47.639 wherever you go. You're not going to be able to 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:54.360 get away from it. The whole key is we have 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:58.000 to change. We have to keep our own stream pure, 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.680 and at some point we need to f the common denominator. 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.560 I mean, if you see everybody as being critical, that 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.720 means you're probably critical. And I'm asking you today to 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:11.200 not blame other people. Now put your foot down and say, 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:14.919 you know what, I recognize that I may be the problem. 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.199 I recognize that I have these issues. And I'm not 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.520 gonna bury him. I'm gonna take him to God, and 0:20:20.520 --> 0:20:21.760 I'm gonna ask him to help me. 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:23.800 And again, if you get the. 0:20:23.680 --> 0:20:27.680 Inside fixed, then the outside will begin to change. And see, 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:30.280 when we have a pure heart, doesn't matter where we are, 0:20:30.280 --> 0:20:32.600 it doesn't matter what's going on around us. We're gonna 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.280 be happy. We're gonna be positive, we're gonna be hopeful. 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.919 I heard about this real wealthy family. One day, the 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.840 father decided he wanted to show his little seven year 0:20:41.880 --> 0:20:44.840 old son how the poor people lived, and so they 0:20:44.920 --> 0:20:47.200 left their big, fancy house and they drove way out 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:50.199 in the country and spent the night on this little farm. 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:53.560 It was just a little frame house. These people hardly 0:20:53.600 --> 0:20:56.200 had anything. And after a day and a half there, 0:20:56.640 --> 0:21:00.000 they headed back home, and the father was so curious 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:02.720 to see if his son had really learned his lesson. 0:21:03.040 --> 0:21:05.560 So driving back home, he asked him, son, how'd. 0:21:05.280 --> 0:21:07.120 You like our trip? He said, oh, Dad, I really 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.800 enjoyed it. And he said, well, did you see how 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:12.720 poor people can really be? He said, yes, Dad, I did. 0:21:13.119 --> 0:21:14.919 He said, son, will tell me what were some of 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.399 the things that you learned. The son thought about it 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.480 and he said, well, Dad, I learned that we have 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:22.080 one dog at home and those people have four. 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.159 And Dad we've got a swimming pool that reaches. 0:21:25.160 --> 0:21:27.879 Halfway out to our backyard, but they have a stream 0:21:27.920 --> 0:21:31.720 with no end. And Dad, we got these fancy lanterns outside, 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.040 but they got the stars. Dad, we have a front 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:37.679 porch that reaches to our front yard, but they have 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:40.720 the whole horizon. His dad was just kind of shaking 0:21:40.720 --> 0:21:42.600 his head. He couldn't believe it. About that time, the 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:44.919 little boy spoke up and said, Dad, thank you for 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:50.480 showing me how poor we really are. See, it all 0:21:50.520 --> 0:21:53.200 depends on what kind of view you're coming from. 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.520 It all depends on how we look at things. 0:21:55.840 --> 0:21:58.119 And if you have a pure heart like that little boy, 0:21:58.440 --> 0:22:01.280 you're going to see the best. When your stream hasn't 0:22:01.359 --> 0:22:02.879 been contaminated, you're going to. 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.280 Be happy wherever you are. You're gonna bloom right where 0:22:05.320 --> 0:22:05.800 you're planning. 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:09.040 And if you're not happy today, I would challenge you 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:12.520 to quit focusing on what you don't have, quit looking 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:15.040 at what's wrong in your life, and start thanking God 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:16.360 for what's right in your life. 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:18.080 Be a grateful person. 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:22.600 I've discovered, the more I thank God for what I 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:25.080 do have, the more God gives me what I don't have. 0:22:25.760 --> 0:22:29.080 If you're always complaining, always finding fault. You've got to 0:22:29.160 --> 0:22:32.000 recognize your stream has become polluted. 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:36.520 You've got to get your heart pure. It's not your circumstances, 0:22:36.640 --> 0:22:39.040 it's your attitude. And nobody can change this for you. 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:40.240 You've got to do it now. 0:22:40.240 --> 0:22:43.359 I know people today that are so stressed out, so 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.440 run down, people that are even physically sick, and it's 0:22:47.440 --> 0:22:50.479 all because of the junk that's constantly going on on 0:22:50.520 --> 0:22:56.760 the inside. You know, bitterness, resentment, playing games, manipulating people. Listen, 0:22:56.840 --> 0:22:58.639 you know as well as I do, all that's going 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.400 to do is whar you're out. It is very freeing 0:23:01.440 --> 0:23:04.080 to say, God, I'm letting all that junk go. I'm 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:06.440 not gonna spend my life being bitter. I'm not gonna 0:23:06.440 --> 0:23:09.520 spend my life pretending playing up to people. I'm not 0:23:09.560 --> 0:23:12.240 gonna ignore all these issues. God, I'm gonna start keeping 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.639 my heart pure. Listen, you do that, You'll go to 0:23:14.680 --> 0:23:17.920 a whole new level. I was reading about the famous 0:23:17.960 --> 0:23:21.439 painter Leonardo da Vinci. One time, he was working on 0:23:21.480 --> 0:23:25.000 this painting of Jesus, and he allowed some young school. 0:23:24.760 --> 0:23:26.160 Children to come in and watch him. 0:23:26.560 --> 0:23:29.720 One of those kids accidentally bumped the canvas and knocked 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:33.400 the painting over. He was so upset, he got so angry. 0:23:33.600 --> 0:23:36.000 He had them all leave the room. And when he 0:23:36.080 --> 0:23:39.199 came back in and sat down and was ready to finish, 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:42.800 he said he tried and tried, but he could not 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:46.160 paint the face of Jesus with that anger in his heart. 0:23:46.960 --> 0:23:50.520 And that's what happens when our stream becomes polluted. No 0:23:50.560 --> 0:23:53.240 matter how talented we are, no matter how many gifts 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:57.040 we have, it stifles our creativity. It keeps us from 0:23:57.080 --> 0:24:00.560 rising higher and being our very best. Some of you, 0:24:00.760 --> 0:24:02.879 if you just get the junk out of the inside, 0:24:03.320 --> 0:24:07.040 you'd see your productivity increase. You would see your gifts 0:24:07.119 --> 0:24:09.920 and talents come to the forefront. You'd have more energy, 0:24:09.960 --> 0:24:11.560 you'd get more done. 0:24:11.560 --> 0:24:11.919 Friends. 0:24:11.960 --> 0:24:15.320 The inner life is connected to the outer life. If 0:24:15.359 --> 0:24:18.879 you can just keep the inside pure, God's blessings and 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:22.800 favor will freely flow. I think about David when he 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:26.199 committed adultery. It took him over a year to repent. 0:24:26.880 --> 0:24:29.000 He didn't deal with it, He just swept it under 0:24:29.040 --> 0:24:29.440 the rug. 0:24:29.480 --> 0:24:30.600 He thought it doesn't matter. 0:24:31.240 --> 0:24:34.240 But the scripture says during that year he was miserable, 0:24:34.680 --> 0:24:38.439 he was weak, he was upset, he was troubled in 0:24:38.520 --> 0:24:41.359 his heart. It's when he got it out in the 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:43.960 open and he made a decision to just make things 0:24:44.040 --> 0:24:47.119 right and ask for forgiveness. That's when his joy and 0:24:47.240 --> 0:24:50.040 victory returned. I know a lot of times we kind 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:50.280 of do. 0:24:50.359 --> 0:24:52.520 Like David, we just sweep it under the rug. 0:24:53.000 --> 0:24:55.040 Well, Joel, I know I got these issues, but you 0:24:55.040 --> 0:24:57.680 know it's not hurting anything. I'm a little proud, I'm 0:24:57.680 --> 0:25:00.359 a little jealous, or I do manipulate people, but you 0:25:00.359 --> 0:25:01.800 know I've done this all my life. 0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:04.680 It's no big deal now. I don't think we realize how. 0:25:04.640 --> 0:25:07.159 Much it's holding us back. And I want you to 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:09.800 be all that God's created you to be. I want 0:25:09.800 --> 0:25:12.600 you to come up higher today. And I know it 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:15.359 starts with having a pure heart. I mean, it's one 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:17.359 thing to clean up the outside and to put on 0:25:17.400 --> 0:25:20.239 a good show, but I want to honor God in 0:25:20.240 --> 0:25:24.000 my inner life, in my thoughts, in my motives. 0:25:23.520 --> 0:25:24.359 In my attitude. 0:25:24.920 --> 0:25:27.720 The scripture talks about in tewod Timothy, if we can 0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:32.280 just keep ourselves free from these contaminating forces. In other words, 0:25:32.280 --> 0:25:35.000 if we can just keep our hearts purer, then we 0:25:35.040 --> 0:25:38.600 will be vessels of honor used for God's highest purposes. 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:41.760 And I'm certainly not perfect. But I can tell you 0:25:41.840 --> 0:25:43.919 one thing, and I hope you'll take this in the 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.840 right sense. But from the time I was a little boy, 0:25:47.400 --> 0:25:50.280 I've always done my best to keep my heart purre 0:25:50.359 --> 0:25:54.199 before God. This is something that my parents instilled in me. 0:25:54.520 --> 0:25:57.040 I saw it lived out in the life of my father. 0:25:57.680 --> 0:26:00.719 Daddy always believed the best in people. Didn't matter what 0:26:00.760 --> 0:26:03.080 you've done, didn't matter how many mistakes you made. He 0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:05.159 would always be for you. He wouldn't judge it, he 0:26:05.160 --> 0:26:08.480 wouldn't criticize you. Early on in life, my father went 0:26:08.520 --> 0:26:10.679 through some great hurts, but he didn't. 0:26:10.440 --> 0:26:11.399 Let it get him better. 0:26:12.000 --> 0:26:15.639 All along the way, he had opportunities to compromise, but 0:26:15.720 --> 0:26:18.399 he always took the high road. And I believe that 0:26:18.480 --> 0:26:21.439 one reason God has blessed me, one reason he's promoted me, 0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:24.360 and I say this humbly, is because I've simply done 0:26:24.440 --> 0:26:27.560 my best to keep my heart pure. And I found 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:31.520 that in life it's very easy to become critical. It's 0:26:31.560 --> 0:26:34.160 easy to get a little bit sour, a little bit tainted, 0:26:34.600 --> 0:26:38.880 a little bit sarcastic with all life deals us, with all. 0:26:38.720 --> 0:26:41.760 The negative things that are coming against us. How we've 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:43.560 got to learn to guard our hearts. 0:26:44.359 --> 0:26:47.200 I believe how high a person is going to go 0:26:47.920 --> 0:26:50.560 is going to be directly related to how pure their 0:26:50.600 --> 0:26:53.880 heart is. How much joy, how much peace, how much 0:26:54.000 --> 0:26:56.919 victory you're going to have, I believe is going to 0:26:56.960 --> 0:27:00.280 be in direct proportion to the purity of your heart. 0:27:00.720 --> 0:27:03.600 And our attitude should be God, my life is an 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:07.199 open book. I love what David said, God, search my 0:27:07.320 --> 0:27:09.720 heart and point out anything in. 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:12.840 Me that makes you sad. What a great attitude he 0:27:12.960 --> 0:27:15.760 was saying. God, show me where I need to change. 0:27:15.840 --> 0:27:18.119 God show me how I can come up higher. 0:27:18.840 --> 0:27:21.480 Well, imagine with me today, what if our life was 0:27:21.520 --> 0:27:24.520 an open book. What if our thoughts and motives were 0:27:24.520 --> 0:27:27.159 to put up on a movie screen for everybody to see. 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:30.320 What if they were made public wherever we go. A 0:27:30.359 --> 0:27:31.120 lot of times we. 0:27:31.040 --> 0:27:32.280 Think, man, I wouldn't like that. 0:27:33.040 --> 0:27:36.159 We have to realize God sees it, and he's the 0:27:36.200 --> 0:27:39.200 one that brings promotion. He's the one that lifts up 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:42.360 and brings down. And so if we're going to experience 0:27:42.440 --> 0:27:45.720 his best, if we're going to really reach our full potential, 0:27:46.000 --> 0:27:49.080 first and foremost, we have to make sure that our 0:27:49.119 --> 0:27:52.080 hearts are pure before God. Out of our hearts, the 0:27:52.119 --> 0:27:55.280 whole course of our life is being directed. And so 0:27:55.320 --> 0:27:58.480 I just challenge you again, do your very best. 0:27:58.160 --> 0:27:59.240 To keep your hearts pure. 0:28:00.000 --> 0:28:02.320 Won't be a pretender, don't be a phony when you 0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:05.760 have those feelings, don't bury it, don't feel condemned. 0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:08.879 Just take it to God. God. I don't like this person. 0:28:09.320 --> 0:28:11.760 I don't want to be critical. God help me to change, 0:28:12.000 --> 0:28:14.439 help me to be better than this. When you have 0:28:14.520 --> 0:28:16.280 the desire, God will always help you. 0:28:16.920 --> 0:28:19.040 And friends, there's no limit to what God will do 0:28:19.119 --> 0:28:21.639 in your life when you have a pure heart. And 0:28:21.720 --> 0:28:24.120 my prayer today is that you will be more aware 0:28:24.200 --> 0:28:27.040 of your inner life, make sure your motives are right, 0:28:27.359 --> 0:28:29.080 and be quick to deal with issues. 0:28:29.400 --> 0:28:31.679 If you do that, I know you'll be a vessel 0:28:31.720 --> 0:28:32.119 of honor. 0:28:32.400 --> 0:28:34.560 God will use you for his high as purposes and 0:28:34.840 --> 0:28:37.480 you'll see the life of victory that He has in story. 0:28:37.480 --> 0:28:40.320 Amen, do you receive it today? I know you do that? 0:28:42.280 --> 0:28:45.320 Do We never like to close our broadcast without giving 0:28:45.320 --> 0:28:48.280 you an opportunity to make Jesus the lord of your life? 0:28:48.520 --> 0:28:49.440 Would you pray with me? 0:28:50.040 --> 0:28:51.240 Just say Lord. 0:28:51.080 --> 0:28:55.920 Jesus, I'll repent of my sins. Come into my heart. 0:28:57.000 --> 0:29:00.680 I make you my Lord and Savior. 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