Well, every piece that comes into God’s presence is automatically purified. The true Israelite is called the pure in heart. “Behold this Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile.” So no one can stand in his presence and not become him, for we become what we behold. But he doesn’t draw into his presence until in his mind he sees the pure in heart. So he sought David “a man after my own heart.” So he calls him. But he purifies the heart. Don’t try to purify it. The heart becomes purified by the death of delusion, and man cannot work on his delusions and overcome them. A prejudice is a delusion. If you are against any race or nation or religion, you can’t rationalize it, you can’t justify it. And [...] a race of people because one individual of a race you dislike and think all of them are the same, it’s stupid. Yet man who dislikes them can’t seem to help it. But God will purify their heart: He will take a member of the race the individual dislikes and use a member as his savior. He’ll be saved from some embarrassment in this world by a member of the race or the nation or the religion [...]. I’ve seen it time and again. And so he could not have plotted the little play whereby he was put in a predicament, and then the only person who rushed forward to save him was a member of the hated group. So a man can’t work upon his delusions, his present delusions. He always tries to justify them. And as Blake said, “Self-justification is the voice of hell.” In hell there is no such thing as forgiveness of sin; it’s all self-justification. A man justifies and justifies [...] justify it. He knew exactly what he did, but he doesn’t know that you know how he’s revealing himself. But he reveals himself by his attempt to justify his behavior.194 ¶48
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