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Zechariah 7:12 God called and sent the prophets to Israel but they (Israel) refused to hear and heed the prophets and God’s word. They out of their own conscience made their hearts as an adamant stone most think the adamant stone to be a diamond or flint, the hardest of stones to cut. Thus we see they hardened their heart that is they hardened their conscience and would not heed the beckoning, the drawing of the Holy Spirit in the offer of Grace.

12 Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts.

God brought His wrath upon them for their refusal to turn to Him.

 

Let’s look at the heart of man:

Calvin makes this statement “…Purity of heart is universally acknowledged to be the mother of all virtues…” He then states, “And yet there is hardly one person in a hundred, who does not put craftiness in the place of the greatest virtue.”

Let’s look at the heart of man:

Calvin makes this statement “…Purity of heart is universally acknowledged to be the mother of all virtues…” He then states, “And yet there is hardly one person in a hundred, who does not put craftiness in the place of the greatest virtue.”
So the greatest virtue man has mother of all virtues in him purity of heart according to Calvin.

God created man in His image. What does that mean? Just Adam or everyone born?

Let’s look at shared attributes first.

God is Faithful many men whether saved or not saved have the innate ability to remain faithful. God is good man has the innate ability to accomplish good things, many depend on what they consider good works to get them to heaven.

God is impartial can an unbeliever be impartial, some possibly can, what about a believer, well many believers are far from impartial.

God is said to be a jealous God, men are jealous although it can be in a sinful way.

God is a God of justice, man has what he considers justice.

God is longsuffering, many humans are longsuffering especially with their children.

God is a God of Love, man has the innate ability to love, God gave man the ability to love the innate ability to Love, eros love as well as Philadelphia Love that is brother love. Man whether saved or not has the ability to fall in Love with a woman and a woman with a man. Parents have a great love for their children at least most do. But man does not possess agape’ Love that is the unconditional Love that God shows to sinners.

God is a God of mercy and many humans have the ability to show mercy upon others.

God is truth man has an innate ability to tell the truth but is not constantly telling the truth.

God is wise, men are wise many genius level but they are not spiritual wise.

God is a God of wrath and man can be very much full of wrath.

So man was created with several attributes which are innate in him, where does purity of heart come in as an innate purity of heart? God has placed within mankind a conscience. What is conscience? Ethics, integrity, scruples, moral principles a sense of right and wrong that is where the innate purity of heart is in mankind. It is that conscience that drives a person to God, that knowledge of right and wrong, and many hear the gospel and know it is right in their conscience (heart) and accept the truth of the Gospel and receive Christ. Does following our conscience make us better than others? Not in any fashion, is it works on our part not at all. Many have a seared conscience and that seared conscience leads them to reject God, while those who have a pure conscience (heart) or as the term is a clear conscience, are open to receive God and when the Holy Spirit comes in conviction, when the Spirit and church say come many follow their conscience (heart) as it leads them to accept Christ that is what a pure heart does.

But what does the conscience of human beings do for them?

John 8:9 And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

These had their conscience convicting them with the Lord Himself bringing the truth and they went out from the presence of Christ lost and undone. The woman who was a sinner then accepted Christ and was saved from her sinful ways.

Acts 23:1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

Paul speaks of His conscience being good before God, his conscience (heart) was pure.

1 Timothy 4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; 3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Hebrews 9: 8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.

The conscience of one leads them to accept Christ while the others follow after the lust of the flesh and sin in rejecting the gospel and the grace that God freely offers to them. Those who consciences were seared have nothing to do with God, who seared their consciences?

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