Gold Nugget 136 - All Things Are Pure

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      Pure-heartedness.  “Unto the pure all things are pure.”  The gospel centres morality as well as religion in the heart.  Men of corrupt tastes cannot have correct morals, because a man may sin against himself as well as against society.  An impure heart makes an impure world of its own within; and that, if it hurts none else, hurts the man himself, wrongs his own soul.  Here we see that the eye sees what it wishes to see, or what the inward taste desires to see.  A pure man does not understand the double entendre; does not see the vision of evil beneath the veil of words or the disguise of art. …

      A bad man will find impure suggestion anywhere and everywhere – even in religious literature, even in the unsuspecting words of holy men – for his heart is not renewed.  So possible is it for men to find evil even in things good. …

      All waters take the colour of the soil over which they pass.  The stained windows make a stained light.  An impure heart colours everything – thought, imagination, observation, and common life. … Their mind and conscience are defiled.  They feel it.  They know it, and at times they confess it.  Many shrink from themselves who have never had resolution to seek him who can “create a clean heart and renew a right spirit within them.” …

      Redemptive truth.  The substratum of the gospel is not merely truth, but redemptive truth.  Truth, not merely to enlighten the intellect and to discipline the mental faculties, but to raise the human soul from spiritual ignorance to intelligence, from spiritual bondage to liberty, from selfishness to benevolence, from materialism to spirituality, from the “prince of darkness” to the true and living God.

 

The Pulpit Commentary, Titus p.17, Titus 1:15, 2:1-4, (W. M. Statham, D. Thomas)

 

Gold Nugget 136 – All Things Are Pure