1 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,160 Well, good morning, church. Welcome. 2 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:49,480 It's so good to be with you this morning. 3 00:00:49,480 --> 00:00:53,720 Would you open your Bibles with me to Psalm 51, Chapter 51? 4 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:57,160 And that's where we're going to spend our time this morning as 5 00:00:57,160 --> 00:01:00,080 we go through this prayer of David. 6 00:01:00,440 --> 00:01:03,920 I try to convince myself not to sing too loud this morning 7 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:06,480 because I didn't want to lose my voice, but I couldn't help 8 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:08,320 myself. So hopefully it stays there. 9 00:01:11,400 --> 00:01:14,480 But when we're singing of God's goodness, we want to shout it 10 00:01:14,480 --> 00:01:17,840 out, right? And I hope that those words just 11 00:01:17,840 --> 00:01:21,200 repeat in your mind as we go through the Psalm, because we 12 00:01:21,200 --> 00:01:24,680 see God's goodness over and over again through this in the way 13 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,360 that he works through the life of David. 14 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,200 Now, before we jump into the text, I just have a quick 15 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:32,080 question for you that I'd like to ask you. 16 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:38,440 Have you ever found yourself in a moment where you realized I 17 00:01:38,440 --> 00:01:43,960 just blew it? Like not just a little mistake, 18 00:01:44,360 --> 00:01:48,160 but the kind of thing that you feel deep in your chest. 19 00:01:48,520 --> 00:01:52,640 Your stomach is churning a little bit and you realize that 20 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,040 in that moment, you truly messed up. 21 00:01:57,320 --> 00:01:59,800 It's one of those moments that you wish you could just take 22 00:01:59,800 --> 00:02:03,000 back. You wish you could just retrieve 23 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,280 the words and undo the damage that has been done in that 24 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,560 moment. I've had many moments like that, 25 00:02:12,200 --> 00:02:16,280 but I remember one specific time when I said something out of 26 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,800 frustration to someone that I truly love and adore. 27 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:24,080 And in full transparency, it was to my beautiful wife Beth. 28 00:02:25,680 --> 00:02:30,760 It wasn't explosive, it wasn't dramatic, but it was completely 29 00:02:30,760 --> 00:02:34,120 careless. I was, in that moment, 30 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:39,760 completely dismissive of her. And I'll never forget the look 31 00:02:39,760 --> 00:02:44,760 in her eyes as the words just kind of hung in the air there. 32 00:02:46,480 --> 00:02:48,760 The guilt in that moment hit me instantly. 33 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,160 I'm sure many of you are aware of those moments and you've had 34 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,640 those yourselves. When you want to grab those 35 00:02:54,640 --> 00:02:57,760 words mid air, pull them back and shove them back in your 36 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,000 mouth. But it's too late. 37 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:06,400 The damage has been done. What do we do in moments like 38 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:11,840 these? I know I've experienced many of 39 00:03:11,840 --> 00:03:15,280 those, but what we do in those moments is so important, what 40 00:03:15,280 --> 00:03:20,400 our response is like. And this morning, I hope that as 41 00:03:20,480 --> 00:03:23,600 we go through this passage and we see this prayer of David, 42 00:03:24,400 --> 00:03:27,920 that we recognize that repentance truly is a gift. 43 00:03:27,920 --> 00:03:32,080 It's not a burden. How we respond is so important. 44 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:42,520 Psalm 51 is is powerful because we get to see David as he 45 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:46,880 experiences one of these moments, a very deep moment, in 46 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:48,680 fact, a string of moments like this. 47 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:52,920 And to fully understand this passage, this Psalm, we need to 48 00:03:52,920 --> 00:03:56,120 set the scene and remember what brought David to this point. 49 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:59,800 As I was preparing this particular passage and was given 50 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,240 this prayer to go over the summer, I was very thankful 51 00:04:02,240 --> 00:04:04,440 because this one is set up beautifully. 52 00:04:04,760 --> 00:04:08,600 In Second Samuel, we get to read about David and the story that 53 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,360 leads up to him writing Psalm 51. 54 00:04:12,120 --> 00:04:13,880 And so I want to set the scene a little bit. 55 00:04:14,520 --> 00:04:20,279 This is a prayer of King David. This is the same man that slayed 56 00:04:20,519 --> 00:04:24,120 the giant Goliath. It's the same man that wrote the 57 00:04:24,120 --> 00:04:31,080 words the Lord is my shepherd. This same man has just committed 58 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:34,680 adultery and orchestrated A brutal murder. 59 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:38,720 In short, we'll go through the story. 60 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:44,440 David sees Bathsheba. He's tempted, and he decides to 61 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:48,560 sleep with her. But Bathsheba is the wife of 62 00:04:48,560 --> 00:04:53,320 Uriah. Now Uriah is a soldier in 63 00:04:53,320 --> 00:04:56,720 David's army, and he's not just any soldier in David's army. 64 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:00,280 Uriah is one of David's mighty men. 65 00:05:00,680 --> 00:05:04,920 This is an elite group of warriors known for their bravery 66 00:05:04,920 --> 00:05:08,880 and known for their loyalty to King David. 67 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:15,760 Now, surprise, Bathsheba becomes pregnant. 68 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,040 And how does David respond in this moment? 69 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,920 I'll tell you, David's response is not the right one. 70 00:05:24,280 --> 00:05:27,040 David tries to cover it up. He tries to cover up the 71 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,640 scandal. And so he brings Uriah back from 72 00:05:29,640 --> 00:05:32,680 the battlefield, hoping that he'll go straight home, sleep 73 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,520 with his wife, and when she has the baby, everyone will just 74 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:43,160 assume that it is his. But Uriah is a very loyal 75 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:47,280 soldier and and he's loyal to the wartime code of honor. 76 00:05:47,600 --> 00:05:51,600 And when he comes home, he refuses to go home and enjoy all 77 00:05:51,600 --> 00:05:55,560 the comforts of home while his comrades are still in the heat 78 00:05:55,560 --> 00:05:59,560 of battle. And so David realizes he needs 79 00:05:59,560 --> 00:06:01,360 to escalate things in this moment. 80 00:06:02,440 --> 00:06:06,600 And so he sends Uriah back to the front lines with a sealed 81 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:10,600 message that essentially orders Uriah's death. 82 00:06:11,360 --> 00:06:14,800 It orders to have him placed in the fiercest fighting right on 83 00:06:14,800 --> 00:06:18,960 the front lines, and then have the army pulled back so that he 84 00:06:18,960 --> 00:06:25,480 would assuredly be killed. And so Uriah dies in battle. 85 00:06:26,840 --> 00:06:29,400 David steps forward and marries Bathsheba. 86 00:06:29,960 --> 00:06:32,880 And for a little while, we see that David gets away with it. 87 00:06:33,360 --> 00:06:35,040 At least he thinks he gets away with it. 88 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:36,720 He thinks that he has taken care of. 89 00:06:36,720 --> 00:06:39,080 This doesn't seem to affect him at all. 90 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:44,520 But then enters the prophet Nathan. 91 00:06:45,440 --> 00:06:49,040 God sends Nathan to confront David. 92 00:06:50,840 --> 00:06:54,960 So picture this with me, David sitting in his throne room, 93 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:59,960 probably thinking that no one's caught him, no one's on to what 94 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:04,120 that he has done. Bathsheba is now his wife, the 95 00:07:04,120 --> 00:07:07,720 mess has been cleaned up and life gets to just move on. 96 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:12,240 Nathan is wise though, and he knows better than to call out 97 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:16,440 directly David. And so he decides to play to 98 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,080 David's empathetic side. He tries to play to David's 99 00:07:20,080 --> 00:07:24,960 righteous sensibilities with a cleverly thought out story. 100 00:07:27,560 --> 00:07:30,640 And so Nathan approaches King David and he starts like this. 101 00:07:30,640 --> 00:07:36,120 He says, your Majesty, I need your wisdom on a situation that 102 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,680 I have. You see there are two men in 103 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:43,160 town. There's the rich one and one 104 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:46,920 poor. The rich man, he has everything. 105 00:07:46,920 --> 00:07:51,000 He has sheep, cattle, wealth beyond his imagination. 106 00:07:51,280 --> 00:07:54,960 The poor man, he has one little lamb. 107 00:07:56,600 --> 00:07:59,680 He's raised this little lamb like family. 108 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:04,120 It's not just livestock to him. He's raised it like a daughter. 109 00:08:04,640 --> 00:08:07,520 It ate from his plate. It drank from his cup. 110 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:10,320 This little lamb slept in his arms. 111 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:14,680 This little lamb meant everything to him. 112 00:08:16,520 --> 00:08:21,880 Well, a guest came to visit the rich man, and instead of using 113 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:27,440 one of the many flock that he had to prepare a meal, he stole 114 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:32,799 the poor man's little lamb. He took it, he slaughtered it 115 00:08:33,159 --> 00:08:35,760 and served it up as if it was nothing. 116 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:40,559 Now, you can imagine King David's response, remembering 117 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,480 that he is a former shepherd and has a soft spot for lambs. 118 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:49,640 And so this is David's response. He's furious over the story in 119 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:51,960 this moment. And he says as surely as the 120 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:57,360 Lords live lives, this man deserves to die. 121 00:08:58,360 --> 00:09:03,000 He must pay back four times what he took because he had no pity. 122 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:09,840 And then Nathan, as I can only imagine, I can only just be 123 00:09:09,840 --> 00:09:14,680 described as the ultimate mic drop moment here, probably 124 00:09:14,680 --> 00:09:19,440 locked eyes with David in that moment and said you are that 125 00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:24,760 man. I'd imagine you could likely 126 00:09:24,760 --> 00:09:27,440 hear a pin drop in the chamber at that moment. 127 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:34,520 David's face goes from righteous anger to stunned silence. 128 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,480 Because suddenly David is confronted with the truth. 129 00:09:40,840 --> 00:09:44,320 Nathan wasn't talking about two strangers at all. 130 00:09:45,160 --> 00:09:50,320 Nathan was talking about him, about Bathsheba, and about 131 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:56,640 Uriah. Nathan says you took what wasn't 132 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:01,240 yours. God gave you everything and if 133 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:04,640 that hadn't been enough he would have given you more. 134 00:10:05,760 --> 00:10:12,800 But you despised his words and now there are consequences. 135 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:18,320 And so now we get to see David's response in this moment. 136 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:21,800 David's response in this moment is quite different. 137 00:10:21,800 --> 00:10:26,840 His response is not denial, His response is not blame, but his 138 00:10:26,840 --> 00:10:29,880 response in this moment is this prayer. 139 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:35,040 And so if you would turn to Psalm 51, let's read this prayer 140 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:41,440 together. Be gracious to me, God, 141 00:10:42,760 --> 00:10:48,480 according to your faithful love, according to your abundant 142 00:10:48,480 --> 00:10:51,400 compassion. Blot out my rebellion 143 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:55,920 completely. Wash away my guilt and cleanse 144 00:10:55,920 --> 00:11:02,440 me from my sin, for I am conscious of my rebellion and my 145 00:11:02,440 --> 00:11:07,840 sin is always before me against You alone. 146 00:11:07,840 --> 00:11:11,320 I have sinned and done this evil in your sight. 147 00:11:12,520 --> 00:11:16,920 So you are right when you pass sentence, You are blameless when 148 00:11:16,920 --> 00:11:21,160 you judge. Indeed, I was guilty when I was 149 00:11:21,160 --> 00:11:23,360 born. I was sinful when my mother 150 00:11:23,360 --> 00:11:28,160 conceived me. Surely you desire integrity in 151 00:11:28,160 --> 00:11:32,280 the inner self, and you teach me wisdom deep within. 152 00:11:33,600 --> 00:11:36,320 Purify me with hyssop and I will be clean. 153 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:39,280 Wash me and I will be whiter than snow. 154 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:45,440 Let me hear joy and gladness. Let the bones you have crushed 155 00:11:45,760 --> 00:11:49,720 rejoice. Turn Your face away from my sins 156 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:55,320 and blot out all my guilt. God, create a clean heart for me 157 00:11:55,840 --> 00:11:58,880 and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 158 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:03,000 Do not banish me from Your presence or take Your Holy 159 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:08,000 Spirit from me. Restore the joy of Your 160 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:12,840 salvation to me and sustain me by giving me a willing spirit. 161 00:12:13,680 --> 00:12:17,400 Then I will teach the rebellious Your ways, and sinners will 162 00:12:17,400 --> 00:12:21,200 return to You. Save me from the guilt of 163 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:25,640 bloodshed. God, God of my salvation, and my 164 00:12:25,640 --> 00:12:28,640 tongue will sing of Your righteousness. 165 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:35,320 Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare Your praise. 166 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:39,200 You do not want to sacrifice or I would give it. 167 00:12:39,520 --> 00:12:42,480 You are not pleased with a burnt offering. 168 00:12:43,160 --> 00:12:46,520 The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. 169 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:51,040 You will not despise a broken and humbled heart. 170 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:56,600 God in your good pleasure cause Zion to prosper. 171 00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,880 Build the world walls of Jerusalem. 172 00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:03,680 Then you will delight in righteous sacrifices. 173 00:13:03,960 --> 00:13:08,160 Whole burnt offerings, then built bulls will be offered on 174 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:14,600 your altar. And so today I want to take a 175 00:13:14,600 --> 00:13:19,160 look at this response of David. We want to take a look at how he 176 00:13:19,160 --> 00:13:21,400 responds in this particular moment. 177 00:13:21,400 --> 00:13:23,040 And what we're going to see is 3 things. 178 00:13:23,560 --> 00:13:27,280 We're going to see that true repentance is honest, true 179 00:13:27,280 --> 00:13:32,400 repentance is broken, and true repentance is hopeful. 180 00:13:34,120 --> 00:13:39,520 Each of us will be faced with moments like this, and how we 181 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:42,720 respond is so important. The truth is that none of us 182 00:13:42,720 --> 00:13:45,120 like to fess up to what we've done wrong, right? 183 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:47,800 When we're in those moments, we don't like to admit what we've 184 00:13:47,800 --> 00:13:50,960 done wrong. As we're faced with our sin, we 185 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:55,320 have these natural human nature responses, and we respond in 186 00:13:55,320 --> 00:13:58,240 many ways, and we see some of those even in Scripture. 187 00:13:58,480 --> 00:14:03,120 Like Adam and Eve, we might try to hide from our sin. 188 00:14:03,840 --> 00:14:08,560 Like King Saul, we might try to rationalize what we've done. 189 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,440 Like Aaron, we might find ourselves blaming others. 190 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:18,160 Or like Judas, we so often find ourselves beating ourselves up 191 00:14:18,360 --> 00:14:22,800 over our sin. Yes, that is our natural 192 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,200 reaction. Sometimes it's to try and hide, 193 00:14:25,440 --> 00:14:29,200 rationalize, blame, despair, or delay. 194 00:14:29,200 --> 00:14:31,960 But God calls us to something different. 195 00:14:31,960 --> 00:14:35,600 He calls us to confess and to turn. 196 00:14:36,760 --> 00:14:39,880 And today we're looking at David's response in the moment 197 00:14:39,880 --> 00:14:43,520 that his sin is laid bare for everyone to see. 198 00:14:44,360 --> 00:14:48,480 And he first shows us that true repentance is honest. 199 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,080 God, I blew it. Is David's response there in 200 00:14:53,080 --> 00:14:55,320 verse 1. He says be gracious to me God, 201 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:58,800 according to your faithful love, according to your abundant 202 00:14:58,800 --> 00:15:02,880 compassion, blot out my rebellion. 203 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:06,560 David doesn't minimize what he's done. 204 00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:09,880 He doesn't say, MMM, God, I I kind of messed up. 205 00:15:09,880 --> 00:15:14,520 I'm only human. No, in that moment he owns verse 206 00:15:14,520 --> 00:15:18,400 three goes on for I am conscious of my rebellion. 207 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:24,040 My sin is always before me against you alone. 208 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:27,040 I have sinned and done this evil in your sight. 209 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:30,600 So you are right when you pass sentence. 210 00:15:30,760 --> 00:15:32,680 You are blameless when you judge. 211 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:34,520 Indeed, I was guilty when I was born. 212 00:15:34,520 --> 00:15:37,840 I was sinful when my mother conceived me. 213 00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:41,400 David names and he owns his own sin. 214 00:15:41,400 --> 00:15:44,880 In that moment he calls out his own rebellion to God. 215 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,440 In verse three he acknowledges I am conscious of my rebellion, my 216 00:15:50,440 --> 00:15:52,080 sin. It's always before me. 217 00:15:52,080 --> 00:15:54,880 It's right there. I can't not see it. 218 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:03,040 David in verse 4 also recognizes that his sin is ultimately 219 00:16:03,360 --> 00:16:07,360 against God and His Holiness. Against you alone. 220 00:16:07,360 --> 00:16:09,440 Have I sinned? David says In that moment. 221 00:16:10,760 --> 00:16:16,080 All sin truthfully is ultimately against the God who created us, 222 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,320 the God who loves us, and the God who sets the standard for 223 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:24,360 our righteousness. And David continues to recognize 224 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:27,800 that sin isn't just what we do. As he continues here, it's not 225 00:16:27,800 --> 00:16:30,960 just what we do, but it's in all of us. 226 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:36,520 Sin is more than just an action, but rather it's a condition. 227 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:40,640 In verse 5, he says, indeed, I was guilty when I was born. 228 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:44,720 I was sinful when my mother conceived me. 229 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,160 David isn't just confessing to something. 230 00:16:47,160 --> 00:16:51,680 He's done his actions. He's confessing to the condition 231 00:16:52,160 --> 00:16:56,120 of his heart in this moment. You see, sin isn't just the 232 00:16:56,120 --> 00:17:00,640 behavior, it's a nature problem. I love this quote from RC 233 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:05,240 Sproul, and I hope this sinks in because it puts it in context. 234 00:17:05,960 --> 00:17:08,520 We aren't sinners because we sin. 235 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:15,599 We sin because we are sinners. David lays us out well. 236 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,359 You see, we live in a world that's allergic to ownership. 237 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:23,119 We see that around us, right? We, we see phrases like it's 238 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:28,480 just fake news. We try to reframe things, we try 239 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:32,280 to deflect and we try to blame it on anybody else. 240 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:36,120 David could have done any of those things. 241 00:17:36,200 --> 00:17:39,880 I mean, he was king. But instead, David in this 242 00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:45,360 moment, he gets honest. Sometimes the most spiritual 243 00:17:45,360 --> 00:17:48,720 thing we can do in these kinds of moments is to stop 244 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:55,720 pretending, to stop spinning, and just be honest and tell God 245 00:17:56,200 --> 00:18:02,000 the whole truth. Honest repentance rebuilds 246 00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,720 trust. In these moments, trust has been 247 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,360 broken, and honest repentance is that first step towards 248 00:18:08,360 --> 00:18:11,640 rebuilding trust. Whether it's at work or whether 249 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:15,640 it's in a close relationship, openly admitting wrong is the 250 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:20,360 only way that we can begin to start making things right again. 251 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:26,920 For us, being honest might mean confessing to a friend that 252 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:31,560 we've lied about something, admitting to an addiction that's 253 00:18:31,560 --> 00:18:36,200 in it in our lives, maybe being honest about 1/2 truth that 254 00:18:36,200 --> 00:18:41,000 we've told our spouse, or finally telling God the entire 255 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:44,560 truth in prayer instead of trying to hide it. 256 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:48,320 Now, it can be scary to be so vulnerable. 257 00:18:48,320 --> 00:18:51,040 I get it. But remember David's example in 258 00:18:51,040 --> 00:18:54,880 this moment. He laid it all out before God 259 00:18:55,240 --> 00:18:59,560 and was honest with him because he realized that God already 260 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,600 sees our inner truth. God knows it all. 261 00:19:03,360 --> 00:19:07,680 But God desires integrity within our inner self. 262 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:14,600 When we drop the masks and stop trying to hide, that's when God 263 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,640 is able to start working in our hearts. 264 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:24,280 Yes, true repentance is honest. There's no filters, there's no 265 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:29,720 facades, just the unvarnished truth about our sin. 266 00:19:30,560 --> 00:19:34,920 God desires that truth. He desires the whole truth. 267 00:19:35,960 --> 00:19:38,680 The second thing we can take away from this prayer of David 268 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:40,600 is that true repentance is broken. 269 00:19:43,760 --> 00:19:47,040 This Prairie reading we're reading is is more than just a 270 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:52,960 confession. It's a cry for cleansing and for 271 00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:57,320 renewal. Verse 7 David writes, purify me 272 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:01,680 with hyssop and I will be clean. Wash me and I will be whiter 273 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:06,360 than snow. Verse 10 is so well known it 274 00:20:06,360 --> 00:20:10,240 reads God create a clean heart for me. 275 00:20:10,760 --> 00:20:14,160 And renew a steadfast spirit within me. 276 00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:19,080 David in this moment, isn't just asking for a simple slap on the 277 00:20:19,080 --> 00:20:24,520 wrist, he's asking for a complete and total heart 278 00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:27,920 renovation. In this moment when David prays 279 00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:31,800 the prayer Purify Me with Hyssop, he's not just looking 280 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:37,680 for a herbal tea detox, but he's actually referencing an ordained 281 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:42,520 means of spiritual cleansing. He's asking to be treated like 282 00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:47,160 someone who is unclean, who needs to be fully restored by a 283 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:54,120 sacred act. True repentance involves a 284 00:20:54,120 --> 00:21:00,640 broken and a contrite heart. In verse 17, it says the 285 00:21:00,640 --> 00:21:04,720 sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit. 286 00:21:05,040 --> 00:21:10,680 You will not despise a broken and humbled heart God. 287 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:14,080 Some other versions use the word contrite heart. 288 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:21,080 Now the word contrite means to be crushed in spirit by the 289 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:27,880 weight of our sins ugliness. This is not an easy or a 290 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:32,400 pleasant feeling. It's actually quite the opposite 291 00:21:32,400 --> 00:21:36,720 of that casual attitude that we so often have towards sin. 292 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:43,640 In repentance, our hearts should be truly broken and hurt over 293 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:48,120 what we've done. We recognize how we've offended 294 00:21:48,120 --> 00:21:52,720 God and how we've harmed the people around us, and it should 295 00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:58,680 absolutely break our hearts. In David's case, we can imagine 296 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:03,680 the tears that well up and streamed down, the heartache as 297 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:09,160 he realizes the depth of his betrayal of God, as he 298 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:14,160 recognizes the betrayal of Uriah and everyone else around him. 299 00:22:14,520 --> 00:22:19,080 He in this moment is an utterly broken man. 300 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:24,400 Now this kind of brokenness is sometimes understood and I hope 301 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,240 you understand that this this morning. 302 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:31,800 It doesn't mean to be wallowing in self hatred or despair. 303 00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:39,320 Rather it means having a godly sorrow as opposed to just a 304 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:44,080 shallow regret. We don't want to get caught up 305 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:49,360 in worldly sorrow. Worldly sorrow is feeling sorry 306 00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:51,080 for ourselves because we got caught. 307 00:22:51,920 --> 00:22:54,880 Worldly sorrow is feeling sorry for ourselves because we have to 308 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:57,760 face the consequences of our actions. 309 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:02,280 No, we should be grieved with a godly sorrow. 310 00:23:02,280 --> 00:23:06,960 It is different being grieved because you have sinned against 311 00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,880 God's holiness. You've sinned against God's 312 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,360 goodness, God's design for our lives. 313 00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:20,520 David shows this godly sorrow in verse 4 where he he writes 314 00:23:20,840 --> 00:23:26,680 against you alone I have sinned and done this evil in your 315 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:31,880 sight. David's acknowledging that his 316 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,720 greatest offense in all of this is ultimately against a holy 317 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:40,440 God. True repentance focus focuses on 318 00:23:40,440 --> 00:23:44,880 how our sin offends God first, not just how it messes up the 319 00:23:44,880 --> 00:23:49,040 lives and the people around us, but how we are offending a holy 320 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:53,800 and a perfect God. Genuine repentance carries a 321 00:23:53,880 --> 00:24:01,480 godly sorrow for sin, a sorrow that comes from a deep love for 322 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:07,360 God and the realization of having violated his trust in 323 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:11,480 that moment. So I want you to ask yourself 324 00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:16,280 this this morning, when was the last time that I felt truly 325 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:21,400 broken over my sin? Not, not just one of those 326 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,360 moments where you say, oops, my bad, I'm only human. 327 00:24:24,360 --> 00:24:28,560 But when was the last time you were truly broken with a godly 328 00:24:28,560 --> 00:24:33,800 sorrow over your sin? And if it's been a while, I 329 00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:36,720 encourage you to pray for a softened heart from God. 330 00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:43,320 The good news is, Psalm 51 assures us that God will not 331 00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:47,560 despise a broken and a contrite heart. 332 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:54,760 He never rejects or casts aside the person who comes to Him with 333 00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:58,080 humility and with sorrow for their sin. 334 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,920 In our culture, broken things are often cast aside and thrown 335 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,440 away. But I want you to understand 336 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,880 this morning that God loves a broken heart that's offered up 337 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:14,560 to Him. It's the sacrifice He looks for 338 00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,240 more than any kind of outward ritual. 339 00:25:18,720 --> 00:25:24,120 True repentance, it's broken. It mourns over sin with a level 340 00:25:24,120 --> 00:25:30,080 of sincerity that touches God's heart and in turn opens our 341 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:36,280 hearts up to his grace. As we look at David's prayer of 342 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:41,440 repentance, we've seen how true repentance first is honest. 343 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,640 We've seen how true repentance, secondly, is broken. 344 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,240 And lastly, we're going to look this morning at how true 345 00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:56,840 repentance is actually hopeful. You see, at first glance, we 346 00:25:56,840 --> 00:26:01,800 might think that brokenness and hope might contradict one 347 00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,960 another, right? But in the gospel and in 348 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,760 biblical repentance, they belong together. 349 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,520 This is the gospel. This is the good news about 350 00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:17,680 Jesus that we celebrate. He has taken broken lives, He 351 00:26:17,680 --> 00:26:20,880 has taken hopelessness, and he restores. 352 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:29,160 God renews, and He breathes new life into us as we saw a truly 353 00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:34,560 repentant heart that is broken and contrite, but it is not 354 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:39,240 despairing. In David, Psalm 51 shows that 355 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:44,000 repentance leads to restore restoration, and it leads to 356 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:47,120 hope. You see, David comes to God. 357 00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:51,560 He's absolutely crushed by the guilt of his sin. 358 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,760 Yet throughout the prayer that David writes and offers up here, 359 00:26:56,040 --> 00:27:02,360 he expresses confidence in God's mercy, and he looks forward to 360 00:27:02,360 --> 00:27:07,920 being made new. He prays, wash me and I will be 361 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,000 whiter than snow. And then he says, let me hear 362 00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:15,400 joy and gladness. Let the bones you have crushed 363 00:27:15,680 --> 00:27:20,600 rejoice. And then he asked God, create in 364 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:29,040 me a clean heart, restore the joy of your salvation to me. 365 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:36,920 These statements are statements of expectation from David. 366 00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:43,400 David expects that God can cleanse him and this gives him 367 00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:48,120 joy again. I I think this is so important 368 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:54,920 for us to understand even as such sin, even after such sin 369 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,360 and and and we've we've seen David commit adultery, he's 370 00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:02,120 committed murdered here, he still believes in the mercy of 371 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:04,880 God that can completely renew him. 372 00:28:06,120 --> 00:28:11,760 True repentance is fueled in the hope that God's grace is 373 00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:16,040 sufficient for us. If we had no hope of 374 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:21,400 forgiveness, if we had no hope of restoration, then we would 375 00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:25,680 just fall into self loathing or beating ourselves up every time 376 00:28:25,680 --> 00:28:29,800 that we sin, right? But because God is merciful, 377 00:28:31,440 --> 00:28:35,800 repentance is possible and there is hope. 378 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,000 I love the beginning of that song we sang just before the 379 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,160 message. I love you, Lord. 380 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:46,200 I love you, Lord. There are new mercies every 381 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,640 morning. I'm getting the words wrong now, 382 00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:50,600 but as we sang, I was like, yes, that's right. 383 00:28:52,320 --> 00:28:58,800 And I didn't put it in my notes. But David in this moment, he 384 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:04,520 knows God's love is faithful. David appeals to this abundant 385 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:07,680 mercy right at the start in verse, verse one where he says 386 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:15,600 be gracious to me God according to your faithful love. 387 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,080 David knows that God is faithful even when we are not. 388 00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:26,680 This assurance of God's faithfulness, this assurance of 389 00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:30,120 God's character gives repentance. 390 00:29:30,520 --> 00:29:36,200 It's hope. We know that if we confess, if 391 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:41,360 we bring it before God, that he will hear us and he will forgive 392 00:29:41,360 --> 00:29:44,600 us. This hope is rooted in God's 393 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:49,600 mercy, not our goodness. And I have to tell you, as a 394 00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:54,720 first born, that gives me hope because I've grown up wanting to 395 00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:57,120 do the right thing all the time on my own. 396 00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:04,400 But this hope in God is rooted in God's mercy, not our 397 00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:09,520 goodness. We know that Jesus has paid the 398 00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:11,680 full price for our sins on the cross. 399 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:16,080 Amen. So we can be cleansed forever. 400 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,400 In the New Testament we have this promise in first John 401 00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:25,080 chapter one verse 9, which reads, If we confess our sins, 402 00:30:25,440 --> 00:30:30,400 He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to 403 00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:34,840 cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 404 00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:43,840 Our hope in repentance rests on Jesus and His finished work on 405 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,960 the cross. Because Jesus already took on 406 00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:54,000 the judgment for our sin, we can approach God for mercy without 407 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,880 fear. We can step forward and approach 408 00:30:56,880 --> 00:31:01,680 the throne of God with hopeful and expectant hearts. 409 00:31:03,160 --> 00:31:08,640 Now David's story didn't end with sorrow, and neither does 410 00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,680 Psalm 51. After pleading for a clean heart 411 00:31:12,880 --> 00:31:17,320 and a restored joy, David goes on in verse 13 and says, then I 412 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:21,560 will teach the rebellious your ways, and sinners will return to 413 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,360 you. In other words, he's saying, 414 00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:28,160 God, if you forgive, if you restore me, I'll be able to help 415 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:33,440 others find you too. David recognizes that he can be 416 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:37,680 useful to God again. Even in his sin and his 417 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,000 brokenness, he can still be useful to God. 418 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:45,000 He's able to sing aloud of God's righteousness and declare his 419 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:49,080 praise. And this is the hope of a second 420 00:31:49,080 --> 00:31:54,840 chance in Jesus, the hope that God can turn even our failures 421 00:31:55,640 --> 00:32:01,000 into something good. How many of you have been in 422 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,280 that place? The internal dialogue says it's 423 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,120 it's just too late for me. I'm you don't understand. 424 00:32:09,120 --> 00:32:13,280 I'm too far gone. Maybe you're watching online 425 00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,080 this morning because you're too scared to come into a church 426 00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:18,800 building because you think you have sinned. 427 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:21,920 Nobody else has. I want to assure you this room 428 00:32:21,920 --> 00:32:27,160 is filled with sinners. But we're recognizing that it's 429 00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:30,360 only through the grace and the love of God that we can have 430 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:36,880 hope out of that. My heart breaks for you if you 431 00:32:36,880 --> 00:32:40,200 feel that way this morning. And God's heart is broken for 432 00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:45,160 you too. Don't wallow in your regret, 433 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:50,480 friends. You want to step forward into 434 00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:53,840 the hope that we can find through Jesus. 435 00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:57,960 True repentance doesn't wallow in guilt. 436 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:02,480 No, it looks to the future full of hope. 437 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:08,040 Once we've confessed and we've received the mercy given to us, 438 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,480 we don't want to stay stuck in our shame. 439 00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,360 We don't want to stay stuck in the shame of yesterday. 440 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:19,000 We want to move forward into the hope of tomorrow. 441 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,480 Yes, in that moment, we're going to be humbled as we recognize 442 00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:25,720 the sin in our lives and we're broken over it. 443 00:33:26,080 --> 00:33:30,480 But ultimately, friends, we are hopeful because of what Jesus 444 00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,080 has done. As Psalm 51 comes to a 445 00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:39,520 conclusion, David even prays that his renewed life will bless 446 00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:43,680 the community around him. He's essentially praying, Lord, 447 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,280 would you rebuild the walls that my sin broke down? 448 00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:54,040 Use me again, God for good. And David, sorry, God did 449 00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:58,440 restore David. While David certainly did face 450 00:33:58,640 --> 00:34:04,520 many consequences for his sin, he remained king and is often 451 00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,680 referred to as Israel's greatest kin. 452 00:34:08,639 --> 00:34:13,600 He continued to write Psalms and he was known as a man after 453 00:34:13,600 --> 00:34:19,120 God's own heart. What we see out of this prayer 454 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:24,639 of David is that God's forgiveness was greater than 455 00:34:24,639 --> 00:34:31,639 David's failure. The story of King David reminds 456 00:34:31,639 --> 00:34:38,639 us that we are never beyond the mercy and the grace of God. 457 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:42,679 It lays out. And it teaches us that true 458 00:34:42,679 --> 00:34:45,840 repentance is honest. It's broken. 459 00:34:46,199 --> 00:34:53,760 But friends, it is hopeful. We have to be honest when we 460 00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:58,240 repent there, there should be no more hiding, no more excuses, 461 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:02,080 just a full confession of the truth. 462 00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:08,920 And our hearts should be broken, broken for the sin with genuine 463 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:14,680 godly sorrow and humility. But true repentance is hopeful, 464 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,280 right? We need to open ourselves to the 465 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:23,560 mercy of a gracious God and trust Him to forgive us, trust 466 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:28,280 Him to renew us, and trust Him to fully restore us. 467 00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:34,800 This kind of repentance is not a one time event for us as 468 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,040 Christ's followers. This is not something we do and 469 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:41,920 then move on. But it's a lifelong practice. 470 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,600 But as we come into those moments that we're confronted by 471 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,880 our sin, we come into those moments where we see the sin in 472 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:50,800 our lives. We don't need to enter into 473 00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:54,680 those moments and hide, deflect, blame. 474 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,440 We can enter in knowing there is hope because we serve a God who 475 00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,960 loves us. And so as we apply Psalm 51 to 476 00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,760 our lives, let's remind ourselves today that repentance 477 00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,920 is a gift. It's not a punishment. 478 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:19,080 This is what it means to live gospel centered lives under the 479 00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:24,440 truth and the grace of Jesus as we accept him to be the one to 480 00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:28,520 renew and restore us. It's an opportunity each time to 481 00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:32,120 experience a new the mercy of God. 482 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:36,360 Amen. In a world that is filled with 483 00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:41,320 blame shifting, fake news and half hearted apologies all over 484 00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:44,080 the place, true repentance stands apart. 485 00:36:44,720 --> 00:36:48,880 It's something different, it's real and it's transformative. 486 00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:53,720 Imagine the impact in the world around us if more people live 487 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:56,840 this out. If we live this out as God's 488 00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:02,520 community in this world, in our church, in our families, if we 489 00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:06,720 even saw this in public figures, practicing this kind of 490 00:37:06,720 --> 00:37:11,320 repentance, our world would be changed, our relationships would 491 00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:15,840 be renewed and restored. That is the hope of redemption 492 00:37:15,840 --> 00:37:19,440 through Jesus. It would radically change so 493 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,760 much. That is the power of the gospel. 494 00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:26,240 That is the power of God at work in our lives. 495 00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:32,480 So the next time you find yourself convicted of doing 496 00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:37,440 something wrong, don't run from God. 497 00:37:38,240 --> 00:37:42,080 Don't try to hide behind a prideful attitude. 498 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:48,240 Rather, be honest about it. Let your heart be moved to godly 499 00:37:48,240 --> 00:37:54,600 sorrow, and then lift your eyes up to the God of hope and mercy. 500 00:37:55,240 --> 00:38:00,400 Because friends, He's got you. He loves you so we were 501 00:38:00,400 --> 00:38:03,720 reminded. He will not despise a broken and 502 00:38:03,720 --> 00:38:08,440 contrite heart. In fact, he rather welcomes it. 503 00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:13,880 On the other side of repentance, just like David, you'll be able 504 00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,880 to rejoice and declare God's praise. 505 00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:21,880 The weight of sin is lifted. You don't have to carry it 506 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:25,280 anymore. True repentance hurts at first. 507 00:38:25,400 --> 00:38:31,480 It humbles us, but ultimately it leads to healing, and it is the 508 00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:37,880 pathway from the guilt of our sin to the joy of salvation. 509 00:38:38,720 --> 00:38:45,600 Let's pray together. Father, we thank you that 510 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:52,120 through your Son Jesus, we can truly experience what it means 511 00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:58,680 to be fully forgiven, fully renewed, fully restored. 512 00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:07,680 God, our human hearts want to run away from the sin in our 513 00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:12,960 lives just to cover it up, to deflect, to blame others, to 514 00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:15,800 pretend like it doesn't exist. But you've called us to 515 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:19,600 something different. You've called us to confess and 516 00:39:19,600 --> 00:39:24,120 to turn from our sins. And so, Father, today I pray 517 00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,960 that you, through the power of your Spirit, would reveal those 518 00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:35,880 things in our lives that we need to honestly take account for, to 519 00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:41,960 confess, to be broken over. But Lord, in those moments, I 520 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:47,120 pray that you, through your Spirit as well, would not leave 521 00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:51,360 us in that place of despair and wallowing, but to recognize that 522 00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:56,720 that is just recognizing that we are far from a holy and perfect 523 00:39:56,720 --> 00:40:01,080 God, but that perfect God has given us his Son Jesus on the 524 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,520 cross, to forgive us of all those things. 525 00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,560 And then in confessing them to you and recognizing that this is 526 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:14,560 not how you want us to live, and turning from it God, you will 527 00:40:14,600 --> 00:40:19,520 restore our hearts to the full joy of your salvation. 528 00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:24,640 That repentance is not the start of heartache and brokenness, but 529 00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:30,920 rather it is the entrance to a life of joy and freedom where we 530 00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:35,600 can take off the weight of our sin, lay it aside, knowing that 531 00:40:35,600 --> 00:40:40,120 Jesus is paid the cost, and we can live in the full joy of 532 00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:45,720 salvation through you, God. You want to breathe new life 533 00:40:46,440 --> 00:40:52,960 into us? Father, may we turn from those 534 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,640 things that break your heart and come to You in repentance, 535 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:02,600 believing that You are all that we need. 536 00:41:03,000 --> 00:41:07,040 There is nothing in this world that is too big for Your mercy 537 00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:12,160 and Your grace. God, we love you stir us up. 538 00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,800 We pray to live lives that are worthy of You in Your name.