1 00:00:01,200 --> 00:00:03,100 What is wonderful to be here today. 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,700 We look forward to being here this weekend. 3 00:00:05,700 --> 00:00:09,000 I always look forward to being at the congregation here and 4 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:12,600 especially look forward to being the Frank Cantina and waiting 5 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:18,500 Taylor and and so excited about our time together today, I'd 6 00:00:18,500 --> 00:00:24,600 like to take our study today from the 51st psalm I know, it's 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:26,500 is always for me. I see. 8 00:00:26,500 --> 00:00:29,900 Not always, but very often and intimidating sermon to preach 9 00:00:30,700 --> 00:00:33,700 and it gets intimidating. When someone says that is my 10 00:00:33,700 --> 00:00:38,400 favorite passage and I think, oh no, I hope I don't disappoint. 11 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:44,000 And yet, at the same time, I realized that you could assign 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:47,800 this Psalm to every one of your teachers here and say we're 13 00:00:47,800 --> 00:00:49,600 going to have everyone, teach it. 14 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:54,700 And each one would be unique and each one would be beneficial and 15 00:00:54,700 --> 00:00:58,600 by the time you went through it, and everybody had shared what 16 00:00:58,600 --> 00:01:03,100 this the truth that this speaks you would say I am really glad 17 00:01:03,100 --> 00:01:05,000 we did that. We should find another passage 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:08,800 to do that with and that's what I hope I leave you with today. 19 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:12,900 Not Not that I am going to take an exhaustive study of Psalm 51. 20 00:01:14,100 --> 00:01:17,600 But I do want, if you don't already have an appetite that 21 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:20,300 loves this passage, I want to wet that appetite. 22 00:01:20,300 --> 00:01:23,100 I want you to love it. If you already love it, I want 23 00:01:23,100 --> 00:01:26,400 to increase that passion for it. I want to spark something, but 24 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:31,900 most of all today, I want us to understand what David seem to 25 00:01:31,900 --> 00:01:35,800 understand about, renewing the spirit when you've sinned. 26 00:01:37,700 --> 00:01:39,900 That is something we all have in common. 27 00:01:39,900 --> 00:01:43,300 All have sinned all have come short of the glory of God. 28 00:01:43,300 --> 00:01:47,300 Darren you did a wonderful job of expressing that in our prayer 29 00:01:47,300 --> 00:01:51,700 before God this morning. So, what do we do with that? 30 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:54,300 There's a lot of ways to handle guilt. 31 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:58,000 There's a lot of ways to deal with the stress associated with 32 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:00,700 sin and the guilt. We have regarding it. 33 00:02:02,100 --> 00:02:05,400 How do we process that guilt? We all process it differently, 34 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:09,000 but there is a healthy way to process at the David. 35 00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:11,200 We're going to learn through the 51st song. 36 00:02:13,300 --> 00:02:14,700 Create in me. A clean. 37 00:02:14,700 --> 00:02:18,800 Heart o God and renew. A steadfast Spirit within me 38 00:02:19,400 --> 00:02:22,200 this word create here. It comes from a Hebrew word that 39 00:02:22,200 --> 00:02:25,600 if I understand, right, literally means to form by 40 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,700 cutting. You see this creation that's 41 00:02:29,700 --> 00:02:32,900 going to happen inside us does not mean it's going to be easy 42 00:02:32,900 --> 00:02:36,500 and does not mean it's going to be painless part of the problem 43 00:02:36,500 --> 00:02:39,300 I have in struggling with the guilt of sin is dealing with the 44 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:43,700 pain associated with since consequences and I don't think 45 00:02:43,700 --> 00:02:46,400 really, I'm handling it. Well or it's okay until that 46 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:49,700 pain is gone. And yet, in fact, the psalmist 47 00:02:49,700 --> 00:02:54,300 David says there will be a cutting There will be something 48 00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:59,600 formed by cutting within us, a clean, literally a Hebrew word 49 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,400 that means pure. Clear. 50 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:07,400 Opposed to Filthy our guilt is filthy, our mistakes are filthy. 51 00:03:07,500 --> 00:03:09,400 We want to clean it. We want to polish it. 52 00:03:09,400 --> 00:03:11,500 We want to get rid of that ugliness. 53 00:03:11,700 --> 00:03:14,900 And so that's what is being prayed for formed by cutting and 54 00:03:14,900 --> 00:03:17,700 me, something pure something. Clear. 55 00:03:18,700 --> 00:03:21,300 And I want it to be my heart. This word heart, and the Hebrew 56 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:24,800 is widely, used throughout scriptures to use to describe 57 00:03:24,800 --> 00:03:30,000 feelings will and intellect. So, as you think about this, 58 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,600 that's what he's saying, the way I feel the way I will, the 59 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:37,000 things I want the things I have passion for my intellect. 60 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:40,400 The things I think about formed by cutting and me, something 61 00:03:40,400 --> 00:03:44,200 pure something, clear, and change the way that I feel 62 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:48,600 change the way that I want change. 63 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:51,600 The things that I think about renew them. 64 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:53,700 You know, this comes from a Hebrew word, that means to be 65 00:03:53,700 --> 00:04:00,000 new And it's causative Lie by the very context means rebuild 66 00:04:00,500 --> 00:04:03,300 and this Hebrew word is actually used in other manuscripts to 67 00:04:03,300 --> 00:04:05,500 talk about Renovations and rebuilding. 68 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:08,900 And in fact, that's what needs to happen when we made a 69 00:04:08,900 --> 00:04:11,700 mistake. We need to rebuild its even if 70 00:04:11,700 --> 00:04:15,100 it's between us as individuals and I offend you or I do 71 00:04:15,100 --> 00:04:17,700 something horrible, in my relationship with Rachel that 72 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:22,300 needs to somehow get fixed. We have to rebuild You have to 73 00:04:22,300 --> 00:04:24,900 rebuild trust, you have to be rebuilt in motion. 74 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,400 You have to rebuild many different things in that 75 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,600 relationship, and it's no more true with anything than it is 76 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:34,200 with our relationship with God. And so he says, formed by 77 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,600 cutting in me and making something pure something clear 78 00:04:37,600 --> 00:04:41,300 about the way I feel my will my intellect, so I can rebuild 79 00:04:42,200 --> 00:04:45,200 What's been torn down? What's been destroyed something 80 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:48,400 that steadfast literally comes from a Hebrew meat, which means 81 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,900 to set up, right? Or to erect. 82 00:04:53,500 --> 00:04:56,000 When I preach this recently at Manteca, I was looking at a 83 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,700 roomful of Ironworkers structural Steel. 84 00:04:58,700 --> 00:05:03,000 Erectors they do the superstructure, they do what we 85 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,300 as Constructors. Do finishes and make look pretty 86 00:05:06,300 --> 00:05:09,200 not the structural still isn't pretty but you know, it doesn't 87 00:05:09,200 --> 00:05:12,500 hold out rain. It doesn't give you an 88 00:05:12,500 --> 00:05:15,600 architectural finish. But without it, you have nothing 89 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:19,800 that will stand up all those pretty things and all those nice 90 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:22,400 finishes have nothing to attach to. 91 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,500 And so what the psalmist wants is something steady. 92 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:30,100 Something that is erect that is upright, that everything else 93 00:05:30,100 --> 00:05:33,900 can be built upon, and it's, he wants it to be his Spirit. 94 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:37,300 Literally, this is from a Hebrew word that means when were breath 95 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:47,500 Within Me Hebrew word, that means to the nearest part. 96 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:54,400 It's at your core, it's everything within within you. 97 00:05:54,900 --> 00:06:00,300 And so if I were to retitle this sermon I would say rebuild my 98 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:08,000 spirit fix it, help it be bout built back the way it needs to 99 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:12,400 be. Where do you start? 100 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:16,300 You start in Psalm 51 whenever you go to read a Psalm or any 101 00:06:16,300 --> 00:06:18,800 book in the Bible, do you ever take it and pay attention to the 102 00:06:18,800 --> 00:06:23,000 little words that start it? I think there's a lot said 103 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:27,600 within the little words and my marginal reference or in the 104 00:06:27,600 --> 00:06:30,100 passage right below the numbers, you can look at yours and see 105 00:06:30,100 --> 00:06:32,300 what it says. Mine says a prayer of 106 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:35,500 repentance. Now, I've already indicated that 107 00:06:35,500 --> 00:06:38,100 an intro, but what was he repenting about? 108 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:41,400 My Bible goes on to say, check yours and see if it says it to 109 00:06:41,407 --> 00:06:46,500 the chief musician, a Psalm of David when Nathan, the prophet, 110 00:06:46,500 --> 00:06:53,300 went to him after he had gone into Bathsheba, He being David. 111 00:06:54,900 --> 00:06:57,400 This song, this is written after Nathan. 112 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:00,900 The prophet has come to David and after David has gone to 113 00:07:00,900 --> 00:07:05,200 Bathsheba you say who's Bathsheba, you need to go and 114 00:07:05,200 --> 00:07:08,800 read second, Samuel chapter 11 and verse 1, through chapter 12, 115 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:11,400 and verse 23. It's not a super long reading. 116 00:07:11,400 --> 00:07:14,300 I'll do my best to summarize it and still get back to the Psalm 117 00:07:14,300 --> 00:07:16,900 51. But I have to summarize it. 118 00:07:17,100 --> 00:07:19,000 I have to remind you even if you know it. 119 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,900 Well, I have to remind you what he's feeling guilt over and this 120 00:07:22,900 --> 00:07:26,700 does two things. It is going to help to humanize 121 00:07:27,400 --> 00:07:31,500 Our Heroes of Faith. We tend to look at them and 122 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:32,800 think they didn't make any mistakes. 123 00:07:32,800 --> 00:07:35,100 And yet that's there's nothing further from the truth. 124 00:07:37,700 --> 00:07:40,800 And I hope this helps you. If you're one, who says, you 125 00:07:40,800 --> 00:07:44,600 know what I know, God, forgives people, but you don't know what 126 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:48,100 I did. And you know what? 127 00:07:48,100 --> 00:07:52,100 I don't know what you did. You don't know what it is, 128 00:07:52,100 --> 00:07:57,200 either. The scripture is amazing and 129 00:07:57,200 --> 00:08:01,100 that it gives us insight into what people really did, their 130 00:08:01,100 --> 00:08:04,900 ugliness to help us deal with our ugliness. 131 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,700 David did something ugly. If you go read about In this 132 00:08:10,700 --> 00:08:14,300 passage in second, Samuel chapter 11, you'll find out that 133 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:18,000 David it was getting on in his age as kingship and he walks out 134 00:08:18,000 --> 00:08:21,400 onto the roof of his house. One evening says, he arose off 135 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:25,800 his bed that evening. And as he goes out there and the 136 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:27,200 evening, he's already been to bed. 137 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,000 Now, the sun's going down and he gets up that says a lot about 138 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:32,200 us. I don't want to make too much 139 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:38,299 out of that, but be careful. Be careful how you spend your 140 00:08:38,299 --> 00:08:43,100 time. David stopped going to war and 141 00:08:43,100 --> 00:08:45,800 his armies were out. Now, the people were fighting 142 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:50,100 for the nation of Israel, but David was at home He goes out on 143 00:08:50,100 --> 00:08:53,500 his roof after evening and he sees us, he looks down upon 144 00:08:53,700 --> 00:08:57,000 those around his Palace. He sees a beautiful beautiful 145 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:01,200 woman and she's bathing And have indoor plumbing. 146 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:02,700 They have a lot of what we have today. 147 00:09:02,700 --> 00:09:07,400 She's bathing, and he can see her from the top of his roof and 148 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,900 he inquires, he wants to know who she is and his servants to 149 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:12,900 him, though. That's a Bathsheba, that's the 150 00:09:12,900 --> 00:09:17,500 wife of Uriah the hittite. Now you read up on your right. 151 00:09:17,500 --> 00:09:20,500 He's one of the David's Mighty Men, he's not just an average 152 00:09:20,500 --> 00:09:26,000 guy. David at that point, should have 153 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:30,700 said my bad. But that's not what he did. 154 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,600 He sends for her and have her house, her brought to him. 155 00:09:36,700 --> 00:09:41,500 Long story short, they committed adultery She goes home. 156 00:09:42,900 --> 00:09:44,500 Don't know how long it was one time thing. 157 00:09:44,500 --> 00:09:47,300 Or if this was an affair lasted, a little while, the scriptures 158 00:09:47,300 --> 00:09:50,100 don't tell. But what we do know, is she got 159 00:09:50,100 --> 00:09:55,900 pregnant. She sends message back to David. 160 00:09:55,900 --> 00:09:59,700 I'm pregnant. Now, David scrambling, ever get 161 00:09:59,700 --> 00:10:01,500 know something where, you know, you're scrambling to cover Your 162 00:10:01,500 --> 00:10:04,200 Tracks. David is feeling it, he sends 163 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:06,700 for Uriah, he has him, brought back from the army, they have 164 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:09,200 small talk at the palace houses. How's the battle going? 165 00:10:09,200 --> 00:10:11,200 How's this, how's that? Your eye and gives him the 166 00:10:11,200 --> 00:10:12,300 report he says, hey, you're right. 167 00:10:12,300 --> 00:10:16,000 I've prepared you a nice Feast. I want you to go go home to your 168 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,500 wife, and then you can go back to joab and the armies. 169 00:10:20,800 --> 00:10:23,800 David doesn't do that. David goes and stays at the 170 00:10:23,800 --> 00:10:28,200 palace with the servants and the next day or Uriah doesn't do 171 00:10:28,200 --> 00:10:29,700 that. He stays at the palace the next 172 00:10:29,700 --> 00:10:31,200 day. David says, Uriah. 173 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,700 Why didn't you go home? Your wife, your eyes says, look, 174 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:35,700 I'm your soldier. I am Israel. 175 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:39,400 I am here to do whatever you want me to do, but far be it 176 00:10:39,400 --> 00:10:40,000 from me. Why? 177 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:41,700 My brethren are out there fighting that. 178 00:10:41,700 --> 00:10:43,800 I go home and have pleasure with my wife. 179 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:48,000 It's not the right thing to do. I will guard the palace. 180 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:50,400 I will be here, but I won't go on David Bowie, easy. 181 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:51,600 Easy. It's okay. 182 00:10:51,600 --> 00:10:54,700 I understand I respect that stay in stay one more night. 183 00:10:54,700 --> 00:10:57,500 You go back tomorrow that night. You know what? 184 00:10:57,500 --> 00:10:59,700 David did to Uriah. He got him drunk. 185 00:11:02,700 --> 00:11:04,300 And then tried to send him home again. 186 00:11:05,600 --> 00:11:08,400 This night, Uriah didn't even make it to servants quarters. 187 00:11:09,100 --> 00:11:11,100 He slept on the steps of the palace. 188 00:11:11,300 --> 00:11:13,500 I don't know if he passed out, I don't know what happened, but I 189 00:11:13,500 --> 00:11:17,400 learned two things from Uriah. I can't blame my bad decisions 190 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:21,200 on being drunk. Here's what I believe about that 191 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:23,000 for what it's worth, it's my two cents. 192 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:26,100 I'm not saying it's Doctrine, but people do under the 193 00:11:26,100 --> 00:11:29,800 influence of alcohol, what they wanted to do all along, they 194 00:11:29,800 --> 00:11:35,700 just lost their filters. Don't blame it on the substance. 195 00:11:36,300 --> 00:11:40,100 Blame it on the heart. Uriah did not give in. 196 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:44,200 To do what the flesh would have wanted to do even in those. 197 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,200 He had a moral compass about him. 198 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:51,400 David learned that the next day. David pens a letter seals it 199 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:53,000 with his seal. That tells joab. 200 00:11:53,000 --> 00:11:56,500 The commander, you need to put Uriah at the front of the battle 201 00:11:56,500 --> 00:12:00,200 lines and attack the city, get as close as whatever you have to 202 00:12:00,200 --> 00:12:06,400 do to make sure your iodized. And that's what happened. 203 00:12:06,800 --> 00:12:10,000 In fact, they had to get so close and he was such a valiant 204 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,400 soldier that there was a lot of loss of life that day and joab 205 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:18,000 was so concerned at how many people died, trying to get Uriah 206 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:20,300 killed that, he had to send the messenger. 207 00:12:20,300 --> 00:12:23,400 He says in you, be sure you tell David because he's going to be 208 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:24,700 upset at this. You be sure. 209 00:12:24,700 --> 00:12:27,200 And tell you and Uriah the hittite is dead. 210 00:12:27,200 --> 00:12:30,800 Also. And the runner goes back and 211 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:35,300 gives gives David that message. And David says, it's okay. 212 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:39,900 We're fighting for the Lord. He thinks he's hidden it all's 213 00:12:39,900 --> 00:12:43,000 well that ends. Well right, not right at all, 214 00:12:43,000 --> 00:12:48,100 Nathan the prophet. Comes into him tells him to 215 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:50,300 store you remember. David was the shepherd boy. 216 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,600 David was the one that grew up taking care of sheep and he 217 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:55,900 says, Nathan. The prophet is David, we have a 218 00:12:55,908 --> 00:12:59,200 problem. You got these two people that 219 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,700 are there places are right next to each other ones a very 220 00:13:01,700 --> 00:13:05,000 wealthy man, herds and flocks. I mean, just in abundance and 221 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:07,800 he's got a little poor neighbor, kind of just on the other side 222 00:13:07,800 --> 00:13:09,800 of his fence. He doesn't have herds and 223 00:13:09,800 --> 00:13:11,200 flocks. In fact, you know what? 224 00:13:11,200 --> 00:13:14,600 He doesn't have children, he has one little ewe lamb. 225 00:13:16,800 --> 00:13:19,400 That's naughty. We lamb it's ew e but it's a 226 00:13:19,400 --> 00:13:24,000 little female land. He is so close with that lamb 227 00:13:24,000 --> 00:13:27,200 that lamb eats at his table at sits in his lap. 228 00:13:28,700 --> 00:13:30,600 Now, I don't know if you have a lamb that do that but I know 229 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,100 some of you have pets that do that dogs and cats. 230 00:13:35,300 --> 00:13:38,900 Imagine if what happened to you and your little lap, dog, your 231 00:13:38,900 --> 00:13:41,500 kitty. What happened to this, man? 232 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:45,100 He says that rich man had guests, come to his house and 233 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:49,000 rather than go out and just pick one of his massive flock and 234 00:13:49,000 --> 00:13:51,400 kill it. And feed his neighbor, he goes 235 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,500 over the fence, takes that little pet lamb. 236 00:13:54,600 --> 00:13:59,100 He kills it and feeds it to his his guests. 237 00:13:59,800 --> 00:14:03,500 David is incensed his anger his aroused. 238 00:14:03,500 --> 00:14:08,000 He says this man. We'll die for what he's done and 239 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,600 he will get four out of his flock to repay this poor man. 240 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:14,300 And you know what? Nathan said? 241 00:14:14,300 --> 00:14:18,400 David Thou Art the man you had wise. 242 00:14:18,400 --> 00:14:20,600 God has given you. Everything you could possibly 243 00:14:20,600 --> 00:14:23,800 want David, but that wasn't enough for you. 244 00:14:24,700 --> 00:14:29,300 Uriah had one wife that hiss treasure in life. 245 00:14:31,500 --> 00:14:34,300 And you coveted her and you took her David. 246 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,400 You're that man. He has been found out. 247 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:39,200 He is guilty for what do you do now? 248 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:42,000 You know what Nathan said, David said. 249 00:14:44,500 --> 00:14:47,800 Nathan said to David, he says, David because you sin like this 250 00:14:52,100 --> 00:14:54,800 War will never depart from your house. 251 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:59,200 Side note, I've been giving you lots of personal opinions today, 252 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,900 people and our government. And this world talks about how 253 00:15:01,900 --> 00:15:05,600 we going to keep that Middle East from warring and fighting 254 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:07,500 and battling and killing one another. 255 00:15:07,500 --> 00:15:09,300 And how can we get stability there? 256 00:15:09,500 --> 00:15:13,000 It's not happening in Greg. Branches opinion war will never 257 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:17,500 leave the house of David and it hasn't since and we've had 258 00:15:20,300 --> 00:15:22,700 Government after government try to fix that region? 259 00:15:24,400 --> 00:15:28,400 Number two, David what you did in private with Bathsheba others 260 00:15:28,400 --> 00:15:31,600 will do in public in full sight and full sunlight with your 261 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:36,100 wife. Number three and this is a 262 00:15:36,100 --> 00:15:42,500 hardest one, David. The baby's going to die. 263 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:48,600 The baby dies. Why does the baby died? 264 00:15:49,400 --> 00:15:57,700 What are the baby do wrong? I can't leave you hanging asking 265 00:15:57,700 --> 00:15:59,100 that question. So I'm going to give you another 266 00:15:59,100 --> 00:16:05,000 two cents worth of my opinion. That was God's blessing to that 267 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:07,600 baby. Can you imagine the life that 268 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:08,800 baby would have? Had the house? 269 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:11,900 It grew up in war was going to be a part of that household from 270 00:16:11,900 --> 00:16:21,700 now on his own uncles. His own half-brothers brother. 271 00:16:23,300 --> 00:16:26,800 Would Commit This sin with David's concubines and wives. 272 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:31,100 The family was going to be absolutely dysfunctional. 273 00:16:36,700 --> 00:16:38,600 This baby gets to go to paradise. 274 00:16:41,800 --> 00:16:45,700 This baby doesn't have to go through all that, the rest of 275 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:48,000 the household of David would have to deal with the rest of 276 00:16:48,008 --> 00:16:53,900 their lives. Now me thinking that about this 277 00:16:53,900 --> 00:16:58,500 baby of David. And Bathsheba. 278 00:17:00,900 --> 00:17:04,800 Helps me deal with some of the atrocities that take place in 279 00:17:04,800 --> 00:17:07,800 our world today, including abortion. 280 00:17:12,700 --> 00:17:15,599 It doesn't relieve those who are guilty of sin, but it helps me 281 00:17:15,599 --> 00:17:18,099 understand the baby's gonna be. All right. 282 00:17:23,200 --> 00:17:26,200 What do you do when you've been faced with that kind of 283 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,500 consequence? And that kind of realization of 284 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:32,500 your sins? I'll tell you what, David did. 285 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,900 He spend seven days, he takes off his kingly garments. 286 00:17:38,500 --> 00:17:41,200 He humbles himself. The scripture said, and he 287 00:17:41,200 --> 00:17:45,700 begins to fast and to pray, he won't eat. 288 00:17:45,700 --> 00:17:51,600 He won't drink Seven Days. Can you what would you pray 289 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:56,700 about for seven days? Psalm 51 gives us insight. 290 00:17:58,100 --> 00:18:01,200 This is the kind of guilt. This is the kind of core we come 291 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:05,700 to as we come to the prayer of Psalm. 51, have mercy on me. 292 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:08,600 O God, according to your loving-kindness, according to 293 00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:11,600 the multitude of your Tender. Mercies blot out my 294 00:18:11,600 --> 00:18:16,900 transgressions? God you can erase this erase it, 295 00:18:16,900 --> 00:18:18,600 dear God. You know what I did? 296 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:20,100 Please. I need Mercy. 297 00:18:20,100 --> 00:18:22,300 You ever feel like you need mercy and you just think you 298 00:18:22,308 --> 00:18:24,600 didn't deserve it. I hope you realize now. 299 00:18:24,900 --> 00:18:29,000 Yes, we all can have it. He's got murder, he's got lies, 300 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:31,400 he's got adultery, he's got a dead, baby. 301 00:18:31,500 --> 00:18:37,600 All because of his sin. And he pleads for forgiveness 302 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,300 and tender, mercy. And he asked to be washed me 303 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:43,700 thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. 304 00:18:43,900 --> 00:18:48,200 Fix it, wash it, clean it for, I acknowledge my transgressions, 305 00:18:49,200 --> 00:18:54,500 and my sin is always, before me, his sin will remain before him. 306 00:18:56,100 --> 00:19:02,000 I want you to know that David. God extends his Mercy to him and 307 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:06,600 he does offer forgiveness, but God does not take away the 308 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:11,500 consequences. And I need to remember that too. 309 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:15,700 Sometimes, you need to remember that when we sin, when we make 310 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:18,600 mistakes, we can be forgiven, but there can be some tough 311 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:21,300 consequences that we're going to have to live with. 312 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:24,200 And the fact we have to live with them, does not mean, God is 313 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:28,200 still angry with us. It means it's a consequence that 314 00:19:28,200 --> 00:19:32,500 I have to deal with. And it may ever be before me. 315 00:19:33,900 --> 00:19:37,600 But that will not rob me of my spirit being rebuilt. 316 00:19:37,900 --> 00:19:42,600 That is the fascinating thing in my mind about Psalm 51 against 317 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,600 you. You only have, I sinned and done 318 00:19:45,600 --> 00:19:49,300 this evil in your sight that you may be found. 319 00:19:49,300 --> 00:19:53,200 Just when you speak and blameless, when you judge, I got 320 00:19:53,200 --> 00:19:56,000 to bring that one right back up here because this is a, this is 321 00:19:56,000 --> 00:19:57,800 a problem. Verse for me, it was the thing 322 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:02,900 that kept me from preaching Psalm 51 for the longest, How is 323 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:05,100 it that David can say against you? 324 00:20:05,100 --> 00:20:09,200 And you only have, I sinned and done this evil in your sight. 325 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:10,700 What about your idea? What did he do? 326 00:20:10,700 --> 00:20:12,600 Wrong. Do not sin against Uriah. 327 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:15,900 What about the Army? There are other people that 328 00:20:15,900 --> 00:20:17,500 died. There was a massive battle, 329 00:20:17,900 --> 00:20:20,500 there was a lot of loss of life and the only purpose of that 330 00:20:20,500 --> 00:20:23,900 battle, they had sieged the city, they didn't need to do 331 00:20:23,900 --> 00:20:26,100 that. It was to kill this guy. 332 00:20:26,100 --> 00:20:28,200 So what about the Army then he sent against them? 333 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:32,900 What about Bathsheba? Did she even have a choice in 334 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:34,300 this? What do you do in those days 335 00:20:34,300 --> 00:20:39,600 when the king summons you What about David's family? 336 00:20:39,900 --> 00:20:44,600 You're not sin against them. What about the rest of Israel 337 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,700 that would now have battle and Wars? 338 00:20:52,100 --> 00:20:56,600 Forever. How does he say against you? 339 00:20:56,600 --> 00:21:01,400 God and you only I said to me the answer to that is the second 340 00:21:01,400 --> 00:21:04,200 half that I've underlined that you may be found. 341 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,500 Just when you speak and blameless when you judge, it's 342 00:21:07,500 --> 00:21:12,600 that second half. You know, the fact is no man, no 343 00:21:12,600 --> 00:21:16,400 woman is just or blameless on their own. 344 00:21:17,600 --> 00:21:20,000 I said this at the beginning, all have sinned and come short 345 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:23,700 of the glory of God, you know, who that includes that included 346 00:21:23,700 --> 00:21:28,500 Uriah, that include his whole Army that included Bathsheba 347 00:21:28,500 --> 00:21:30,600 that would include his family. And in fact, it would include 348 00:21:30,600 --> 00:21:33,200 Israel. Everybody has sinned. 349 00:21:33,300 --> 00:21:37,600 No man, no woman is blameless on their own who then could condemn 350 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:41,200 King David. Even Nathan, the prophet 351 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:47,200 couldn't say he was sinless. so, if your king and you can show 352 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:51,900 other people where they've also sinned It almost reminds me of 353 00:21:51,900 --> 00:21:55,100 when Jesus says him, that with us is without sin, Let Him cast 354 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,700 the first stone. It's almost in my mind. 355 00:21:58,700 --> 00:22:00,900 That David knew everybody else were Sinners to. 356 00:22:00,900 --> 00:22:03,800 He wasn't the only one, but it's different with God. 357 00:22:05,800 --> 00:22:09,500 God's not that way. Because God is Supreme Over King 358 00:22:09,500 --> 00:22:13,200 David and because God is Justin blameless. 359 00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:17,900 David has no way to defend himself before God. 360 00:22:20,600 --> 00:22:24,000 It's almost as if David thinks he can make a case for himself 361 00:22:24,300 --> 00:22:28,800 to somehow get off. Dealing with mere humans. 362 00:22:28,900 --> 00:22:31,300 But with God, there is no way God's perfect. 363 00:22:31,300 --> 00:22:32,500 God is blameless. Got us. 364 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:35,200 He's everything. I have no Kasich. 365 00:22:35,300 --> 00:22:37,900 That I can even make for myself. I can't even declare. 366 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:39,700 I'm King, I get to do what I want to do. 367 00:22:41,100 --> 00:22:45,000 Not before God. It's in that sense, I believe 368 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:48,000 that David would have to say against you and you only have I 369 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:52,700 sinned you're the one I have. I am totally a pawn before your 370 00:22:52,700 --> 00:22:55,100 throne. Dear God, please forgive me. 371 00:22:56,100 --> 00:23:00,000 Not that all these other people weren't also send against but 372 00:23:00,000 --> 00:23:03,600 they too had sin in their life somewhere, somehow, even though 373 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,000 some of it, maybe in a closet that you and I never get to know 374 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,500 about But they had their own problems but not God. 375 00:23:12,500 --> 00:23:15,200 And so David goes on to say, behold I was brought forth in 376 00:23:15,200 --> 00:23:17,600 iniquity and in sin, my mother conceived me. 377 00:23:18,100 --> 00:23:22,100 This verse has been so misused missed interpreted, misapplied 378 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:25,400 to say that babies are born in sin that David here was saying 379 00:23:25,500 --> 00:23:29,200 when I was born I was a sinner. Want you to know whatever this 380 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,600 verse is saying he is not making a doctrine that babies are born 381 00:23:32,600 --> 00:23:35,800 in sin. In fact, I believe the context 382 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,600 of the very reason this passage in this prayer is being I'm 383 00:23:38,600 --> 00:23:43,900 stated is proof that babies aren't born in sin because you 384 00:23:43,900 --> 00:23:46,100 remember the end of this story. We might we'll get to it at the 385 00:23:46,100 --> 00:23:50,000 end but David ultimately says that baby cannot now come to me, 386 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:54,500 the baby died that baby cannot now come to me, but I shall go, 387 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,100 I can go to the baby, I got a hope still, I got a chance and 388 00:23:58,100 --> 00:24:03,000 I'm going to repent that baby was sinless and that baby though 389 00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:08,700 May uncircumcised. Still going to be saved. 390 00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:11,600 We learned the same thing in Matthew chapter, 18 and verse 3. 391 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,900 Matthew chapter 19 and verse 14, Mark chapter 10 and verse 14, 392 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:18,900 Luke chapter 18, and verse 16, and less, you become as little 393 00:24:18,900 --> 00:24:21,100 children, ye shall in no wise. Enter the Kingdom of Heaven, 394 00:24:21,900 --> 00:24:25,700 children are not lost whatever. This verse is saying, I do not 395 00:24:25,700 --> 00:24:27,500 believe it saying babies are born in sin. 396 00:24:27,700 --> 00:24:31,100 What I believe David is saying is one or two things, he is just 397 00:24:31,100 --> 00:24:34,300 using this poetic language to say, I've always been horrible 398 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:38,600 ever feel that way. Like there's just nothing good 399 00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:42,400 and it's just, you weren't always really horrible, but you 400 00:24:42,400 --> 00:24:43,900 made such a big mistake. Now. 401 00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:46,500 You feel like you're worthless, he could be saying that, or he 402 00:24:46,500 --> 00:24:49,100 could also be saying it, my mother was a sinner. 403 00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:53,700 Everybody's been Sinners. We've we've all had this 404 00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:57,700 problem. Even my mama we think our moms 405 00:24:57,700 --> 00:25:01,100 are like perfect, right? Even my mom. 406 00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:05,400 Behold you desire, the truth in the inward parts and in the 407 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:09,200 hidden part you will make me to know, wisdom God, I know what 408 00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:13,300 you desire for me is truth in the inward Parts. 409 00:25:14,300 --> 00:25:17,000 This is beginning to be the first step of my understanding, 410 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,800 how to rebuild my spirit the way, David understood to rebuild 411 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:23,600 his Spirit. It cannot it will not it never 412 00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:29,300 can happen without truth. And without that truth, and the 413 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:33,600 wisdom that comes from God through it, David, whatever you 414 00:25:33,600 --> 00:25:37,200 believe about Sin, whatever you believe about the Bible and 415 00:25:37,200 --> 00:25:41,400 whatever you believe about God's grace, you cannot take truth out 416 00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:43,500 of the most inner part of your being. 417 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:49,700 It is possible that people desire to take Doctrine and 418 00:25:49,700 --> 00:25:53,400 Truth to the point that they remove any spiritual impact to 419 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,600 their life. And any real feeling of 420 00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:59,300 commitment to God and only try to do right or not wrong and 421 00:25:59,300 --> 00:26:03,000 make it just a merit-based relationship with God and it 422 00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:06,600 will absolutely fell. I agree with that but it's not 423 00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,200 the problem of trying to do what the Bible says. 424 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:12,200 It's not the problem of truth. It's when truth will not 425 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:16,200 internalized to the heart in the Inner part, the hidden part to 426 00:26:16,200 --> 00:26:21,300 make me to know wisdom. That truth is truth regardless 427 00:26:21,300 --> 00:26:24,300 of whether I believe it. But once I believe it, in my 428 00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:28,800 most inward part and it changes the way I think now I am 429 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:32,100 rebuilding my spirit Purge me with hyssop and I shall be 430 00:26:32,100 --> 00:26:34,600 clear. Wash me and I shall be whiter 431 00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:40,500 than snow was hyssop was used as basically a disinfectant. 432 00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,700 And that's what he talks about, wanting God to do to his 433 00:26:44,700 --> 00:26:47,900 conscience to his inside. Spiritually speaking says, then 434 00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:50,500 I'll be clean on the inside. Like I need to be clean. 435 00:26:50,500 --> 00:26:52,900 Wash me and I'll be whiter than snow. 436 00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:57,400 What is whiter than snow? I'm not talking about the snow 437 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:00,000 that everybody's driven on and you're following people up to 438 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,700 Mammoth. I'm talking about this know 439 00:27:01,700 --> 00:27:04,100 where nobody's ever been nothing touched it yet. 440 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,200 He says you wash me, and I shall be whiter than that. 441 00:27:07,900 --> 00:27:11,800 Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones you have boat, 442 00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,600 broken, May Rejoice. He describes his guilt and his 443 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,800 pains like broken bones are breaking bone. 444 00:27:20,100 --> 00:27:22,000 If you have, you know what he's talking about? 445 00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,500 Except not just one. He says, it's like inside of me 446 00:27:24,500 --> 00:27:27,600 or broken bones. I I want you to help me to hear 447 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:30,900 joy and gladness again. I want to be able to heal from 448 00:27:30,900 --> 00:27:37,100 this Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities. 449 00:27:37,100 --> 00:27:39,800 We get this part of the prayer. We know what he's looking for. 450 00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:41,800 We want it to. So how do we get it? 451 00:27:43,100 --> 00:27:47,400 He says, create in me, a clean heart o God and renew a 452 00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:50,800 steadfast Spirit within me. I want you to remind you at this 453 00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:54,200 point of those Hebrew words and indulge me if you will. 454 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,100 I'm going to italicize it, but I want to put another way to 455 00:27:58,100 --> 00:28:02,100 translate and read this from the strict Greek or Hebrew. 456 00:28:04,300 --> 00:28:12,600 Form by cutting in me. Pure clear feelings and 457 00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:14,400 intentions. So God. 458 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,200 Oh God, rebuild and stand upright. 459 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:24,500 My breath. In the nearest part Within Me. 460 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:34,800 God, you can fix this. And do not cast me away from 461 00:28:34,800 --> 00:28:39,500 your presence and do not take your Holy Spirit. 462 00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:43,600 From me. I don't know what David 463 00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,300 understood about the Holy Spirit. 464 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,000 I don't even know what I understand about the Holy 465 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:53,600 Spirit. But I know David knew it could 466 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,700 be lost. And so he pleased in the midst 467 00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:02,700 of this repentant prayer. To be able to stay in the 468 00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:08,000 presence of God and to have God's spirit within him, restore 469 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,600 to me the joy of your salvation. And uphold me by your generous 470 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:15,700 Spirit God, I want this Joy again, I want your generous 471 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:17,300 Spirit, how am I going to get it? 472 00:29:17,500 --> 00:29:21,700 Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall be 473 00:29:21,700 --> 00:29:26,400 converted to you. You see what David is starting 474 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,200 to transition with here as he prays for this forgiveness. 475 00:29:29,300 --> 00:29:31,600 He says I'm going to do something different. 476 00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:35,900 I'm going to take what you're offering what I'm asking for and 477 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:41,700 I'll teach it to other people. And people will be converted 478 00:29:41,700 --> 00:29:47,500 when they hear my story. Why is all this dirt given to us 479 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:54,300 about David? So that we can take and say, you 480 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:58,500 know what, I can make it too. I may have to follow this 481 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:05,300 pattern that God will forgive me too, but I want you to know it's 482 00:30:05,300 --> 00:30:11,800 not enough to realize that God will forgive you. and as one 483 00:30:11,800 --> 00:30:20,200 person said, and probably has, we got to take it to the point 484 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:22,900 that we know it happens and we're going to tell somebody 485 00:30:22,900 --> 00:30:27,300 else to, you know, Paul James said, confess your faults, one 486 00:30:27,300 --> 00:30:30,300 to another pray, one for another that you meet, maybe, he'll the 487 00:30:30,300 --> 00:30:33,500 effective fervent prayer of a righteous man, availeth much 488 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:38,600 David has been willing to confess his sin and now he says 489 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:44,300 I'm willing to help teach others and have others converted. 490 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,900 You know what else he says? He says deliver me from the 491 00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:49,700 guilt of Bloodshed. Oh God, the god of my salvation 492 00:30:49,700 --> 00:30:54,200 and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness. 493 00:30:56,500 --> 00:30:59,300 He says if you can deliver me from this guilt of this 494 00:30:59,300 --> 00:31:07,100 Bloodshed, I will sing praise. You know, there's one thing I've 495 00:31:08,100 --> 00:31:11,000 think we all probably notice whether or not we really 496 00:31:11,100 --> 00:31:13,700 register or not. I'm not saying this is the only 497 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:20,600 reason this happens. But when we dealt with guilt and 498 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:24,100 we're dealing with getting over guilt and getting over. 499 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,100 And learning to deal with the consequences of our sin. 500 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:34,400 One of the first things I noticed that happens with many. 501 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,100 If not, most of the people, I am able to work with, is they say, 502 00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:45,400 I just can't sing anymore. By the way, they'll also say. 503 00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:51,400 And I really, I don't pray like I used to Now, if I'm talking to 504 00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:54,100 you and if you're like, dude, I'm there. 505 00:31:56,900 --> 00:32:01,100 You need to be like David, you need to pray for this 506 00:32:01,100 --> 00:32:04,900 forgiveness, ask for truth acknowledge the repentance. 507 00:32:04,900 --> 00:32:08,000 It's going to take place and then start singing again. 508 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,700 The excite you have Greg, I can't carry a tune in a bucket. 509 00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:16,300 That's not the point. In fact, you know what the 510 00:32:16,300 --> 00:32:19,700 scriptures say about our singing singing it says sing and make 511 00:32:19,700 --> 00:32:21,600 melody in your heart to the Lord. 512 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,300 I am so glad it doesn't say sing and make melody in your vocal 513 00:32:25,300 --> 00:32:30,200 cords. It says the melody is in your 514 00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:33,800 heart strings. It's a sincere and pure message, 515 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:39,400 you can be tone deaf, it's okay. In fact, I want you to tell me, 516 00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:42,400 I have received as many chills, good chills. 517 00:32:44,700 --> 00:32:47,300 Listen to someone that doesn't know how to carry a tune but you 518 00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:50,100 know they're carrying the theme of that message. 519 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,900 They believe in God's grace, they believe in his Mercy, they 520 00:32:54,900 --> 00:32:57,900 believe in the sacrifice of his son and they're going to sing 521 00:32:57,900 --> 00:33:01,700 it. And you know the truth be told 522 00:33:02,900 --> 00:33:06,800 in most audiences like this, there aren't even one handful of 523 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,800 people that any of us would really pay to hear each other 524 00:33:10,800 --> 00:33:14,200 see. I know in this audience, I think 525 00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:19,800 there's at least but that's there's a lot of us here that 526 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:25,900 you wouldn't pay to hear anyone of us saying And yet, how many 527 00:33:25,900 --> 00:33:27,200 times do people come in an audience? 528 00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,900 They how do y'all do that without any instruments? 529 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:33,400 That is so pretty. I don't know. 530 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:40,100 Seeing and make ability in your heart. 531 00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:42,500 Dear God. Give me this in. 532 00:33:42,500 --> 00:33:45,500 My tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. 533 00:33:45,700 --> 00:33:49,700 If you're having trouble, I'm telling you seen sing in the 534 00:33:49,700 --> 00:33:51,300 assembly. And when you're alone in your 535 00:33:51,300 --> 00:33:54,600 car, you see, sing praises of his righteousness. 536 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:58,500 O Lord, open my lips and my mouth shall Shew forth. 537 00:33:58,500 --> 00:34:01,700 Your praise pray to God, to help you with this. 538 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:07,700 It's not going to be simple. If you're at the point, you've 539 00:34:07,700 --> 00:34:10,199 got to where you can't sing and you're having trouble praying, 540 00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:14,300 it will not be easy and it might even be painful. 541 00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,699 And so you just do it anyway, Shew forth the Praises. 542 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,699 I am not talking about fake it till you make it. 543 00:34:24,199 --> 00:34:30,600 I am talking about you follow, what God's will is revealing and 544 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,500 just watch how it will be fulfilled and true in your life, 545 00:34:34,500 --> 00:34:36,600 too. For you, do not desire, 546 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,699 sacrifice or else I would give it. 547 00:34:38,699 --> 00:34:41,900 You do not Delight in burnt offering in the midst of David's 548 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:45,900 in, there was no amount of lambs or bulls or Rams or oxen. 549 00:34:46,000 --> 00:34:51,300 He could sacrifice to make up for that story we studied He's 550 00:34:51,300 --> 00:34:54,000 like you don't want the it does nothing, that's not. 551 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,100 What is going to work. The sacrifices of God are a 552 00:34:57,100 --> 00:35:01,000 broken Spirit, a broken and contrite heart. 553 00:35:01,900 --> 00:35:05,600 These o God, you will not despise David had to get to the 554 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,800 point that he was broken and falling down at the Throne of 555 00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,900 God. And you and I do, too. 556 00:35:14,900 --> 00:35:16,400 That doesn't mean he won't forgive us. 557 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:18,600 That means we are now taking to a point. 558 00:35:18,700 --> 00:35:22,800 He can begin to accomplish in us, what needs to happen to do. 559 00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:25,700 Good, in your good pleasure design, build the walls of 560 00:35:25,700 --> 00:35:28,500 Jerusalem, it can be rebuilt then you should be pleased with 561 00:35:28,500 --> 00:35:31,400 the sacrifices of righteousness with burnt offering it with 562 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:35,300 whole burnt offering then they shall offer Bulls on your altar. 563 00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,300 When everything gets put back in place. 564 00:35:37,300 --> 00:35:39,200 It's not that the worship wasn't good. 565 00:35:39,300 --> 00:35:41,400 It's not that God didn't want their praise and their 566 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,800 sacrifice. He wanted it from a place of 567 00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:48,700 purity. And a place of humility, I want 568 00:35:48,700 --> 00:35:52,200 you to realize the change that took place in Psalm 51 in tone 569 00:35:52,200 --> 00:35:58,700 from David sorrowful confession. After a contrite heart after 570 00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:04,300 repentance and after humility. Now, he says, we will worship, 571 00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,800 you will sacrifice and we will bring offerings, you notice on 572 00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:11,700 my PowerPoint I says and will eat. 573 00:36:12,700 --> 00:36:15,700 If you go back to second Samuel, chapter 12 and verse 20. 574 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,300 This whole time, he's been praying for seven days that that 575 00:36:21,300 --> 00:36:26,100 baby sick, he notices on this seventh day, something's 576 00:36:26,100 --> 00:36:27,900 changed. I don't know how big the room 577 00:36:27,900 --> 00:36:29,600 is. Will pretend that David was over 578 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,100 here. And as he was in his sack cloth 579 00:36:31,100 --> 00:36:33,700 and Ashes praying having fasted for seven days. 580 00:36:33,700 --> 00:36:35,800 He notices, it's not that. He's kept his face to the 581 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,000 ground. In fact, you don't have to keep 582 00:36:38,000 --> 00:36:42,600 your face to the ground to pray. You can be driving in traffic 583 00:36:42,700 --> 00:36:44,500 with your eyes wide open and pray. 584 00:36:46,700 --> 00:36:49,900 But he notices across the room, they have the symbol and they're 585 00:36:49,900 --> 00:36:53,200 whispering. You know, you can just tell when 586 00:36:53,200 --> 00:36:55,700 something's changed, when something's up, and he could 587 00:36:55,700 --> 00:36:59,700 tell. And he asked if the baby was 588 00:36:59,700 --> 00:37:03,300 dead. They only tell him they're 589 00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:04,700 afraid. He's been acting like this. 590 00:37:04,700 --> 00:37:06,600 While the baby is sick. What will he do? 591 00:37:06,700 --> 00:37:11,500 If he finds out the baby time? Yes, the babies. 592 00:37:11,500 --> 00:37:14,700 Daniel and David. Did he got up? 593 00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:19,200 He went home, he cleaned up. He changed his clothes back into 594 00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,800 his kingly, garments and he went to worship. 595 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,400 He went to Humble himself and do sacrifice, and offering just 596 00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:34,700 like, Psalm 51 says, when you're dealing with the complexities of 597 00:37:34,700 --> 00:37:39,600 guilt and of regret and consequence to your sin, do not 598 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,000 keep yourself away from church thinking, you'll come back once 599 00:37:43,000 --> 00:37:46,400 you get it all straightened out, it doesn't straighten out at 600 00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,700 home. It doesn't straighten out when 601 00:37:48,700 --> 00:37:54,700 I'm wallowing in my guilt. It straightens out when we bring 602 00:37:54,700 --> 00:37:57,900 ourselves back before, the Throne of God and in truth, as 603 00:37:57,900 --> 00:38:02,000 we've already studied, pour out, our praise and listen to his 604 00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:06,300 word for that wisdom. That is deep within after he 605 00:38:06,300 --> 00:38:09,100 worshipped, then he went home and ate. 606 00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:20,600 You're fast. When the Fast Silver, it's hard 607 00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,700 to get me to think about anything except eating. 608 00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:38,000 He praised God, even before he ate. but now he did eat and some 609 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,200 of you, when you go through, great times of stress, You 610 00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:47,600 starve yourself. Sometimes it's because your 611 00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,600 stomach is just like it makes it, you have a nervous stomach 612 00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:53,800 and you just don't digest well and it makes you feel sick to 613 00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,200 eat. We learned from David. 614 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,100 You got to take care of your physical body, too. 615 00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:05,100 Don't destroy your health physically by not eating, right 616 00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:12,000 or by not eating something that practical when people are going 617 00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:15,100 through great issues in their life. 618 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,800 Can help everything else to balance out. 619 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:25,400 The spiritual is all important. There is a time to take care of 620 00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:30,500 even your physical need Just like David we need to move on in 621 00:39:30,500 --> 00:39:33,600 our service to God today. I ask you to bring a contrite 622 00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:38,300 heart, a contrite heart decides, it will believe in God, Mark 16 623 00:39:38,300 --> 00:39:40,100 and 16. He that believeth and is 624 00:39:40,100 --> 00:39:44,100 baptized shall be saved. I want you to understand this 625 00:39:44,100 --> 00:39:46,900 belief goes beyond agreement with scripture. 626 00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:50,600 What do I mean by that? You know, I know some people 627 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:51,400 read the Bible. So nice. 628 00:39:51,400 --> 00:39:52,600 Yeah, I agree with that. That's good. 629 00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,400 I like what you guys believe over there. 630 00:39:54,900 --> 00:39:56,400 I like what the church stand for the. 631 00:39:56,400 --> 00:39:59,700 I agree with that but now they'll get to something like. 632 00:39:59,700 --> 00:40:01,900 But I don't understand we're about to commune and there's 633 00:40:01,900 --> 00:40:04,000 about to be one loaf and one cup. 634 00:40:04,200 --> 00:40:06,400 And it's like seriously, that's gross. 635 00:40:08,100 --> 00:40:10,500 I am not going to eat after anybody and I'm sure not going 636 00:40:10,500 --> 00:40:15,400 to drink after anybody and especially not after what we've 637 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:16,700 gone through this last two years. 638 00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,600 See it's one thing to do it when you agree with it. 639 00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:29,300 It's belief and it's faith when you do it and it's not what you 640 00:40:29,300 --> 00:40:32,600 agree with. It's not what's comfortable, 641 00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:37,200 it's not the way you think I have a humble myself before God 642 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:39,700 until I'm doing something that I don't want to do. 643 00:40:39,700 --> 00:40:42,100 But he said it's the best thing to do and I'm going to believe 644 00:40:42,100 --> 00:40:43,500 it. So I'll do it. 645 00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:45,900 And that cup is one of them for Greg branch. 646 00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,600 In fact, Rachel and I would date, and if she wanted a drink 647 00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,400 of my soda, is like, you can have it. 648 00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:56,200 You know what? Finally fixed it for me. 649 00:40:57,200 --> 00:40:59,600 Some of you might appreciate this children. 650 00:41:01,700 --> 00:41:03,900 They were always getting into everything I've gotten over 651 00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:05,700 that. It just took a long time. 652 00:41:07,100 --> 00:41:09,200 But now I'm still not going to share a cup with you at. 653 00:41:09,300 --> 00:41:11,300 We have potluck today. I'm going to share a drink with 654 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:12,900 you. I'll give you mine. 655 00:41:14,700 --> 00:41:17,600 But we get ready to commune and we this cup goes around, like 656 00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,700 the Lord instituted it. Not going to give it a second. 657 00:41:20,700 --> 00:41:24,600 Thought I don't care if I'm first or laughs and I've even 658 00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:26,900 stopped spinning the cup trying to figure out if there's a place 659 00:41:26,900 --> 00:41:32,400 nobody else drank yet. I believe it. 660 00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:37,500 Percent. Like Peter said to, who else 661 00:41:37,500 --> 00:41:40,500 would I go? What we're else is gives me 662 00:41:40,500 --> 00:41:44,500 words of life. That's belief. 663 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,400 If we believe are we willing to change? 664 00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,000 Repentance, that prayer of repentance? 665 00:41:51,000 --> 00:41:53,200 We just talked about David says, I'll change everything. 666 00:41:54,300 --> 00:41:57,400 I'll start from the inside out. The deepest part within me. 667 00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,800 Fix it. That's repentance. 668 00:42:00,300 --> 00:42:04,200 He says, he'll confess now as a Christian when you want to come 669 00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:06,000 and obedience what is the confession you make? 670 00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:07,400 You come up here and confess all your sins. 671 00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,300 No, that just take too long, right? 672 00:42:10,300 --> 00:42:11,800 And you can even remember everything anyway. 673 00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,500 And so what if you forgot something you have to do it 674 00:42:13,500 --> 00:42:15,700 again? Know when you come in obedience 675 00:42:15,700 --> 00:42:18,100 to the gospel, you're confessing something particular. 676 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:22,500 The Ethiopian eunuch said, I believe Jesus Christ, the son of 677 00:42:22,500 --> 00:42:26,400 God, when Jesus asked his disciples, you know what, Peter 678 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:29,600 stood up and said he said, Thou Art the Christ, the son of the 679 00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:33,000 Living God, and what did Jesus say that to Peter's? 680 00:42:33,000 --> 00:42:34,600 Confession? Says bless you Peter because you 681 00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,100 didn't learn that confession for men. 682 00:42:36,100 --> 00:42:39,900 You got that from God. Today, that's the confession. 683 00:42:39,900 --> 00:42:42,600 We're talking about that, you believe so much that you're 684 00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,500 willing to change your life and you will be willing to tell 685 00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:48,000 people you believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God. 686 00:42:48,200 --> 00:42:50,400 And today, if you'll do that, you need to be baptized 687 00:42:50,900 --> 00:42:55,200 Galatians 3:27. As many of you as have been 688 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,200 baptized into Christ, have put on Christ. 689 00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,000 There's only one baptism according to Ephesians 4 and 5. 690 00:43:01,300 --> 00:43:03,900 Therefore, it must be the one that's recorded in Acts chapter 691 00:43:03,900 --> 00:43:06,900 8, when the Philip and the eunuch came to a certain water, 692 00:43:07,300 --> 00:43:09,500 fill up in preaching, Jesus, they came to the water. 693 00:43:09,500 --> 00:43:11,600 He says, well, here's water, why can't I be baptized? 694 00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:14,400 He said, if you believe you make said, I believe Jesus Christ. 695 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,900 The son of God, that helps us understand how much belief and 696 00:43:17,900 --> 00:43:20,300 what all a person needs to know, it's pretty basic. 697 00:43:20,900 --> 00:43:23,600 They may not understand all the reasons why there's one cup and 698 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,000 one low. They may not understand 699 00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:26,700 everything, we believe about the Holy Spirit. 700 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:29,000 In fact, if we're honest, we all don't even understand each 701 00:43:29,000 --> 00:43:32,900 other. But you believe Jesus Christ is 702 00:43:32,900 --> 00:43:38,100 the Son of God, and that belief set your mindset of obedience 703 00:43:38,100 --> 00:43:40,600 and humility that you're going to accept anything. 704 00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,500 And that's the one Baptist Bible says he stopped The Chariot. 705 00:43:45,500 --> 00:43:49,500 They went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch. 706 00:43:49,500 --> 00:43:53,000 And he baptized, Tim Romans chapter 6, says, it's a burial. 707 00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:57,700 The two of them went into the water and he immersed him. 708 00:43:57,700 --> 00:44:02,500 He buried him in that water. And the eunuch went on his way 709 00:44:02,500 --> 00:44:06,700 rejoicing. Today, if you're a Christian and 710 00:44:06,700 --> 00:44:08,600 you've sinned and you're like, you know what, I'm kind of like 711 00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,300 David though. I knew better I was a child of 712 00:44:11,300 --> 00:44:14,100 God but I did it anyway. You don't have to be 713 00:44:14,100 --> 00:44:17,800 re-baptized. It's a one-time thing but we can 714 00:44:17,800 --> 00:44:20,000 confess our faults one to another pray. 715 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,500 One for another the effective fervent prayer of a righteous 716 00:44:22,500 --> 00:44:25,300 man. Availeth much if you're here and 717 00:44:25,300 --> 00:44:27,900 you've sinned, you want the prayers of the church that we 718 00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:30,200 want to. We want to pray with you and 719 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:33,200 pray for you. 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