![]() ![]() ![]() Some time ago, David penned these words, "Who may ascend the hill of the Lord and who may stand in His holy place?" Is that your desire? Would you like to ascend the hill of the Lord and stand in His holy place? Well, who may do that? It says he who has clean hands and a pure heart. They are failing, and they are in great danger of being deceived into thinking that they are succeeding, that their worship is acceptable to God. In our text, we have some people trying to purify their hearts by their own efforts through tradition and legalism and through their own man-made religion. So if God will bless us with Himself, and if we will give to God a sacrifice of true genuine praise, there must be at the heart of that a pure heart, a heart made pure by the grace of God. And from an impure heart, God can receive no worship. We will not treasure it, we will reject it, we have no interest in it. If our hearts are filled with wickedness and defilement, we cannot receive the gift of Himself, we can't. We can give no greater gift.Īs I think about those two things, essential to both is a pure heart. The greatest gift that you and I can give to Him is our worship, that we would offer Him a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name, that our hearts would be moved with love and deep devotion to Him, and that moved out of that, we would give ourselves to Him. The greatest gift that Almighty God can give to you and me is Himself. ![]() If I could just see the streets of gold, and if I could see the walls of the new Jerusalem, and if I could see the new heaven and new earth, but I were denied seeing the face of God, it would not be heaven to me. And for myself, I could not enjoy heaven if I couldn't have that. The greatest gift that Almighty God can give you is Himself, that He would reveal Himself, that He would give Himself to you, He can give you no higher gift. ![]()
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