Bibles For America Podcast

“Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Many of us have heard these words of the Lord Jesus from Matthew 5:8. But what did He mean? Did He mean that a person who is pure in heart would physically see God, or have a mystical vision of God? What does having a pure heart have to do with seeing God? And isn’t God unapproachable and therefore unseeable? How do we see God? We have the answer in 2 Corinthians 4:4 and 6. Verse 4 says: “In whom the god of this age has blinded the thoughts of the unbelievers that the illumination of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, might not shine on them.” And verse 6 says: “Because the God who said, Out of darkness light shall shine, is the One who shined in our hearts to illuminate the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.” These verses point out that Christ is the very image of God, and that we can see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The very God became a man, our Lord Jesus Christ, and now in Christ, we