WHEN GOD REVEALS OUR SIN
Part II
Psalm 51:7-10
INTRODUCTION
We all probably know the story of the young lad who was shipwrecked and found a bottle with a genie inside it. The genie promises to give him three wishes if the lad will release the genie from the bottle.
If we were the lad in the story, what three wishes would we ask for? How much time would we take to make our decision?
Suppose instead of a genie, God came to us as He did to Solomon. God says He has pardoned us from our sins. Now, what personal requests would we ask of Him?
Some would ask for personal wealth. Others would ask for personal health. The list could probably be long if we compiled such a list of requests from this audience.
In this passage David is in need for such an audience with God. He has been caught with another man’s wife and death has occurred in his family because of his sin. What does David say are the most important personal things to ask for from God?
What David asks for is what we must first ask for in our personal life. Things do not take the place of personal peace in the inner chambers of our heart.
THEME: WHEN GOD REVEALS OUR SIN WE MUST CRY FOR:
I. PURITY 51:7
A. Before Purity There Must Be Ownership Of Our Sins
NOTE: vs. 1 Have mercy upon me
My transgressions
vs. 2 Mine iniquity
My sin
vs. 3 My transgressions
My sin
vs. 4 I have sinned
I have done this evil
vs. 9 My sins
Mine iniquities
B. Purge Me
1. The root word means to bear the blame and then be cleansed
NOTE: de-sin (as in de-lice a person)
2. A ceremonial word in the purification services of the temple
C. Wash Me
1. Sin dirties
2. Forgiveness cleanses
D. I Shall Be Clean
1. Statement of faith
2. Clean – to be pure innocent righteous
E. Hyssop
1. A common wall plant used in sprinkling blood for cleansing of a leper
2. At the conclusion the priest says, “He is clean”
F. Whiter Than Snow
NOTE: With God there are no halfway measures
T.S. WHEN GOD REVEALS OUR SIN WE MUST CRY FOR:
I. PURITY 51:7
II. JOY AND GLADNESS 51:8
A. Make Me To Hear Joy And Gladness
1. Not, let me hear me say these things
2. The congregation says these things
3. We are outside the congregation as a leper in self imposed exile
a. The outcasts return into the congregation with its sounds of festivity
b. Joy and gladness in fellowship with others which we only have after forgiveness
NOTE: Sin keeps us away from God’s people; forgiveness brings us back to fellowship
B. That The Bones Which Thou Hast Broken May Rejoice
1. A wayward sheep will not follow the voice of the shepherd
2. The shepherd takes his staff, wraps his cloak around the end and breaks the sheep’s front leg
3. The shepherd had to carry and feed the sheep until the leg heals
4. Then the sheep rejoices and follows the shepherd the closest of all the sheep
C. Rejoice – Dance
T.S. WHEN GOD REVEALS OUR SIN WE MUST CRY FOR:
I. PURITY
II. JOY AND GLADNESS
III. FELLOWSHIP 51:9
A. Hide Thy Face From My Sins
NOTE: vs. 3 – my sin is ever before me
1. We can hold our sin in our eyes to pursue them
NOTE: If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me Psalm 66:18
2. We can behold our sin and ask God to forgive and forget
B. Hide Thy Face
1. Face of wrath looking on sin
2. He hides His face in displeasure
C. Blot Out All Mine Iniquities
1. Either God hides His face from our sins
2. Or He hides us from His face (sent to hell)
T.S. WHEN GOD REVEALS OUR SIN WE MUST CRY FOR:
I. PURITY
II. JOY AND GLADNESS
III. FELLOWSHIP
IV. A CLEAN HEART 51:10
A. We Are Not To Pray For Forgiveness Of One Terrible Sin, But For Many, And For The Renewal Of Our Whole Nature
B. Create In Me A Clean Heart
1. He does not say, Clean up my old heart
2. Create
a. Hebrew – bara
b. To bring into existence out of nothing
c. Used of God in Creation in Genesis One
NOTE: This clean heart is necessary to stand before God in fellowship now and in judgment later
C. Renew A Right Spirit In Me
1. Firm in faith; steadfast in obedience
2. Not easily swayed in temptation
3. Fixed and resolute in its allegiance to God
4. Unmoved by temptation; Therefore, fellowship with God
CONCLUSION
WHEN GOD REVEALS OUR SIN WE MUST CRY FOR:
I. PURITY
II. JOY AND GLADNESS
III. FELLOWSHIP
IV. A CLEAN HEART
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