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It's good to see you on this 
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All right, if you have your 

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Bibles, please take and turn 
them to Luke, Chapter 18. 

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Luke is in the New Testament. 
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it's Luke, and then before John 
in the book of Acts. 

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So depending on what you have at
the back of your Bible, maybe 

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you know, 70% or so through 
7080% into your Bible. 

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Luke chapter 18. 
Luke is a physician who actually

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doesn't walk with Jesus. 
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way goes to those who saw the 
events of Jesus first hand and 

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he then writes about them to a 
friend named Theophilus. 

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OK, so Luke starts his letters 
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Theophilus. 
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occasion where Jesus is going to
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OK, so this is Luke chapter 18 
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from verses 9 through 14. 
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told this. 
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some who trusted in themselves 
that they were righteous and 

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treated others with contempt. 
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into the temple to pray. 1A 
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collector and the Pharisees, 
standing by himself, prayed 

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thus. 
God, I thank you that I'm not 

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like other men, extortioners and
unjust adulterers, or even like 

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this tax collector, he said. 
I fast twice a week. 

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I give ties of all that I get, 
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far off will not even lift his 
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breast, saying, God be merciful 
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Verse 14 I tell you, this man 
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Jesus, justified rather than the
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For everyone who exalts himself 
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humbles himself will be exalted.
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our series in Psalms, and I'm 
going to talk to you about songs

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of repentance. 
Songs of repentance. 

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Let me pray for us about how 
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and to be with other believers, 
other disciples, other followers

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of you, Jesus. 
And now as an act of worship, we

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take our thoughts captive and we
open our minds and our hearts 

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and we say, speak to us through 
your word. 

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This is worship God us receiving
from your truth in your word. 

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This is worship unto you. 
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We pray through your word in 
Jesus name. 

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And everyone loudly together 
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So this fall I'm doing a series 
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And the first week, this is the 
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First week. 
I just introduced you to the 

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Psalms. 
Many of you are very familiar 

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with them, but some you're new 
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You wouldn't even know where 
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So they're kind of there in the 
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And the Psalms are 150 chapters 
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And it's it's, it's, it is 5% of
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OK. 
And so the Psalms are ancient 

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songs that were written between 
a period of 1500 years, and they

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went from like the period of 
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Shadrach, Meshach and a Bendigo 
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Nehemiah, if you know those 
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Testament. 
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playlist of songs from that era.
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call it the OG, like the 
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And some of you remember 
creating playlist back in the 

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I mentioned every because it's 
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You might even call the radio 
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requesting the song. 
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she remembers And you'd sit 
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at the right time. 
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the accomplishment. 
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of your favorite songs, and it 
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Nowadays, you just go to Spotify
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playlist just like that, man. 
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But back then we had to work for
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And so nowadays, kids, you just 
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easy, right? 
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or a playlist. 
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of songs that that the Holy 
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the Old Testament, to the Bible 
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different types of Psalms there.
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is in the next weeks to come, 
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this type of Psalm and this type
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Today we're dealing with songs 
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repentance. 
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that spoke about, you know, who 
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There's lots that you can learn 
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You read about God as creator 
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knowing. 
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it gives you more insight into 
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And the second week I went to 
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like Psalm 23, The Lord is my 
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I shall not want some of the 
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In the weeks to come, I'll be 
tackling psalms that seem to 

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have like difficult theology. 
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Psalms and you go, man, that 
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right? 
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they'll surprise you. 
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And then there are Psalms of 
lament where they're like grief.

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We're going through loss or 
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There's some great 
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And so those Psalms are there to
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sorrow. 
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at Psalms of repentance. 
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I, I never want to be guilty of 
grabbing what I call like the 

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low hanging fruit. 
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it might be that the best apples
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right? 
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the best. 
You don't want to just grab the 

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ones at the bottom right. 
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teaching on who and what God is 
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low hanging fruit. 
No, these are really profound 

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truths. 
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This week I will tell you like 
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challenging. 
What I'm going to talk to you 

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about is it you, It takes a 
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around this idea of repentance. 
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reach high and we're going to 
connect some dots and see some 

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challenge teaching truths that 
we should add, disciplines that 

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we should add to our life. 
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If I continue to do this, I 
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I'm starting in the New 
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seem odd to you. 
It's like you're starting in the

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New Testament and then you're 
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I thought it's a series on the 
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It is. 
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I'm grabbing a place where the 
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get this into your thinking is 
that the Old Testament is 

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valuable. 
The New Testament, just the 

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Psalms alone are mentioned over 
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And some Christians, they come 
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don't know if the Old Testament 
if I need to read that or get 

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that. 
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say, oh, I just want the red 
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All I need is the red letters. 
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just the red letters. 
You need the entire New 

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Testament. 
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valuable also. 
And so we saw Jesus quoted it 

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last week. 
We saw Peter quoted it. 

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And this week I'm going to show 
you a surprising character that 

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quotes and draws from the Psalm.
So my pattern so far has been I 

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grabbed something from the New 
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Old Testament in order to 
establish the importance of the 

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Old Testament. 
Now Jesus taught with parables 

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and a parable is a story and 
these stories had some like 

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surprise truth or profound 
pivotal moments where Jesus 

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would like bring great truth and
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OK. 
And he uses the story of the 

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Pharisee and a tax collector. 
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It's, it's a story to to show a 
point and Jesus tells us brief 

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story, but there's so much 
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And I'll just show you what 
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there's two postures at hand 
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There's a Pharisee and a 
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religious leader, but not like 
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It was more of a religious 
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like a political way. 
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the role of a pastor is to be 
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people. 
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They were not caring and they're
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They were separated from people,
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in the story, as more righteous 
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they followed the rules more to 
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their faith, OK. 
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they were maneuvering and they 
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stuff. 
You have this Pharisee, and he's

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going to have a posture of 
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prayer is that he's going to 
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And what we get from this is 
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he's not in the group. 
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kind of found a place to like 
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It would be like if someone came
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the front. 
They're like, they're standing 

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by themselves and like watch me 
pray and they're just right down

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there and watch how I pray. 
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everyone can hear him. 
He's like, I'm not like the 

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worst scum of the earth. 
I'm not like the adulterers and 

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I'm not like the, and he, and he
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collector. 
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this tax collector, it's like he
sees the tax collector and he's 

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being critical of him thanking 
God that he's not like the tax 

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collector. 
It's not a great posture of 

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prayer. 
Then you get this, you get this 

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posture of prayer from the tax 
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off. 
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but maybe he's like in the back 
feeling like, you know, I'm just

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going to be back here quietly 
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connect with God. 
My posture of prayer is not 

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grandstanding in front of 
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So he's standing far off and his
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The prayer that the tax 
collector prays is God be 

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merciful to me, a Sinner, 
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I'm not like these people. 
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be merciful to me, a Sinner. 
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you know, this, they were 
considered like the, the most 

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hated because the Romans had 
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and they were taxing all the, 
the kingdoms that they'd 

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conquered. 
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is they would take somewhat of 
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and they would make them collect
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So now you have a Jew collecting
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And they were corrupt and they, 
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They hated that a Jewish person 
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So they were like the outcasts. 
They were the ones who were not 

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going to be invited to the 
parties and they were not 

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popular on Facebook. 
Maybe they had very few friends 

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on Facebook, Who knows? 
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God be merciful to me, a Sinner.
He says it far off. 

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Now, what I want to show you is 
that the tax collector is using 

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a phrase, a popular saying, and 
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I'm going to take you to where 
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how phrases have origins. 
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use and maybe you don't know the
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For example, the idea that the 
buck stops here. 

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You ever heard that phrase 
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The buck stops here. 
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here? 
It means? 

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It means it's like I'm 
responsible. 

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I'm I'll take, I'll take charge 
here. 

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You can count on me. 
The buck stops here. 

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But where did the phrase start? 
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Cowboys in the West would play 
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like a, a big knife. 
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understand the deal would rotate
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be different dealers. 
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you had the knife, they called 
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into the table. 
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protected, right? 
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responsible. 
I'm the one who has the buck, as

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they call it the knife. 
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dealing, it was the next turn. 
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and the next guy would take the 
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the buck. 
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and he takes that that 
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doll on the door, a sign on the 
door of his office that said the

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buck stops here. 
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I'm responsible. 
I all right, you can count on 

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me. 
I'm in charge. 

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OK. 
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a poker table with a knife 
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And now we say it like, oh, 
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The buck stops here and we know 
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that's in charge. 
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This is a little dark. 
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that. 
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so is about to kick the bucket, 
right? 

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We know that means they're about
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But the origin of it is that 
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they would hang somebody else, 
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bucket and then they would put 
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they kick the bucket out from 
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It's really terrible. 
It's a dark thought, right? 

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So the next time you're talking 
about someone said, man, they're

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about to kick the bucket, you 
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differently, right? 
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OK, so that's the kick the 
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Or what about close but no 
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I understand that touring 
carnivals when they used to have

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like games, We have games here 
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get a teddy bear or something 
like that nowadays, but you used

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to be able to win a cigar. 
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winning at a carnival game. 
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say, well, you're close, but no 
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You don't get a cigar, right? 
close. 

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And then finally, this idea of 
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early 1900s that like a, a wagon
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with a political candidate on 
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band. 
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of that political candidate, 
then you might jump on the wagon

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and might go down the parade 
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So nowadays we use that phrase, 
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Well, what I want to show you is
that the tax collector is taking

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an ancient Psalm and he's using 
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And This is why Jesus says he 
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utilizing the tax collector, not
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The Pharisee is supposedly the 
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himself self-righteous and he's 
boasting about how he's not like

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other sinners. 
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going to lean into a Psalm 
written by David and it's Psalm 

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51 and this is how David says it
in his song. 

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And Psalm 51 I'll read you 2 
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It says, have mercy on me, O 
God, according to your steadfast

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love, and according to your 
abundant mercy, blot out my 

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transgressions and wash me 
thoroughly from my iniquity and 

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cleanse me from my sin. 
Now I showed you Jesus quoted 

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the Psalms, Peter quotes the 
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And now Jesus in the story takes
a tax collector and now the tax 

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collector is drawing, also 
quoting from the Psalms in the 

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story that Jesus it's telling. 
Now this is not my own idea. 

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I'm not just making this up. 
I often want to remind you that 

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I'm not coming to you with 
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And sometimes I feel like maybe 
the Lord of the Holy Spirit will

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prompt me in some way. 
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and reading. 
I'm not coming to you with some 

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far fetched, I think thing that 
no one else has ever seen. 

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If you ever hear a preacher go, 
I'm going to tell you something 

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nobody else has ever seen in the
word of God before. 

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This has never been seen. 
Then just close your ears. 

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Don't listen. 
That's right. 

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Because they're full of 
something. 

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OK, so you don't want that, 
right? 

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You want. 
Yeah. 

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Christian thinking scholars and 
other Christians have thought 

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the same thing. 
I'm not making this up. 

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OK. 
And again, anytime they make it 

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up, just run. 
In fact, I'll expound that. 

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In the Old Testament or in the 
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church, there was a early heresy
where those who were, they were 

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called the Gnostics, and the 
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knowledge. 
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Christians running around going,
oh, I have some knowledge that 

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nobody else has this. 
Nobody else's has seen this yet.

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Oh, the Lord has shown me 
something nobody else's got. 

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They were called the Gnostics, J
And oh, I didn't tell us the 

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first story, J I'm sorry. 
GNOSTICS, the Gnostics. 

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And they were heretics and they 
were coming up with things that 

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no one else had seen. 
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of his letters, right. 
So I'm not, I'm, I'm not the one

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who's going, wow, look, the tax 
collector, No one else has ever 

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seen that. 
The tax collector's like David. 

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No, I'm telling it's stacks and 
stacks and stacks of 

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commentators and commentaries 
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And what is a commentator? 
A commentator is a person who 

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comments on an event, right? 
So there are commentaries that 

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you can read that will comment 
on Scripture when it's difficult

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to get your head around a 
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I would encourage you to use 
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And you know, the commentator 
often, like think about a sports

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commentator, right? 
They're going to talk about that

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when you watch football today, 
they're the sports commentators.

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They're making comments about 
the game. 

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Some of you are commentators. 
You've got a lot of comments 

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about a lot of things, right? 
You're a commentator even though

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you didn't know it. 
But certainly there are Bible 

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commentaries. 
And nowadays it's so easy to, 

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when you read a passage that 
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what is this? 
What does this mean? 

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And you're trying to figure it 
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You can go. 
I'll suggest even instead of 

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your notes, biblegateway.com. 
That's an easy one to remember. 

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biblegateway.com. 
And when you get there, they 

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have tons of free commentaries. 
And all you have to do is put 

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in, you know, Psalm 51 verse 
one, and there will be comments 

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from reliable people that are 
not, you know, I'll name names. 

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They're not Jehovah Witnesses, 
they're not Mormons, they're not

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universalist, they're not other 
unreliable, in my opinion, 

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scripturally traditions, right? 
I'm encourage you 

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biblegateway.com, very just 
reliable, and go there and find 

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comments, commentaries to help 
you understand scripture when 

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you run across something that 
you don't understand. 

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So I'm telling you that stacks 
of commentaries connect the 

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origin of what the tax collector
says to what David said in Psalm

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51. 
When David says God be merciful 

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to me, a Sinner, he is saying 
the same. 

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And going back to Luke 18, This 
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this man went down to his house 
justified rather than the other.

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For everyone who exalts himself 
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humbles himself will be exalted.
David humbles himself by saying,

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God be merciful to me. 
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same. 
Now Jesus takes the tax 

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collector and the pair and the, 
and the, the Pharisee and he 

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like turns the ideas of culture 
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There's a there's a saying that 
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What is the origin? 
The origin? 

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Is it like if you take someone 
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their feet should go, you've 
turned them on their ear, right.

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So Jesus often was doing this 
like society and culture thought

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this, this is the Pharisee is 
obviously better than the tax 

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collector. 
Not according to Jesus. 

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God often has his way in his 
thinking of going, I'm going to 

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shock you, I'm going to surprise
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You thought it was like this, 
but I'm showing you it's 

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different. 
Jesus shakes things up. 

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He flips the script, the tax 
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Pharisee. 
Now in the Psalms, what I want 

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you to see is that we're not 
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chapter one through 150. 
I'm not teaching them that way. 

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I'm taking groups of Psalms and 
I'm kind of grouping them 

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together. 
OK, So I took the most popular 

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psalms. 
We did that. 

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This week we're doing songs of 
repentance. 

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On weeks to come again, I'll do 
songs of lament, songs of grief,

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all there's so many different 
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This week we're talking about 
songs of repentance and the one 

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of the scholars would call this 
a penitential Psalm. 

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That's a big word. 
I don't expect you to remember 

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that. 
But a penitent person is a 

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person who confesses sin and 
wrongdoing and seeks 

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forgiveness. 
That's a penitent person. 

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If you're penitent, you go to 
someone that you have wrong. 

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You go to God, you go to 
someone, your spouse, your 

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children, a friend. 
And when you're penitent, you go

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and you say, I'm sorry. 
I did. 

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That was not how I intended to 
come across. 

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That wasn't the best me. 
I'm sorry, I'm penitent. 

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And from penitent we get the 
word penitentiary. 

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And this is a curious thing 
because the word is evolved. 

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A penitentiary used to be a 
place where people went when 

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they were sorry and they went 
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Nowadays A penitentiary, when we
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time we think, well, everyone 
who's there is innocent, right? 

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If you saw Shawshank Redemption,
remember, everybody in the jail 

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was innocent according to them, 
right? 

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So you don't find, sadly, a lot 
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penitentiaries anymore. 
Now, Psalm 51, let me read a bit

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more of what David says. 
He says have mercy on me, Oh 

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God, according to your steadfast
love, according to your mercy, 

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blot out my transgressions and 
wash me thoroughly from my 

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iniquity and cleanse me from my 
sin. 

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Just those two verses are so 
great. 

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It's such a simple prayer that 
when you need to repent in your 

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life and the reality is this is 
not a one time occasion. 

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It's something that should be 
happening in life of Christian 

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ongoing throughout our life. 
I'll unpack that more. 

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This is a good Psalm to know 
Psalm 51 to know to, to even if 

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you don't memorize it, there's a
couple phrases from it, if you 

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at least get those like the tax 
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the phrases and he prayed it and
he was honored by Jesus. 

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Now I'm, I'm going to take a 
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unpack what repentance is and 
what it looks like. 

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And then I'm going to come back 
to Psalm 51 and I'll read more 

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of it to you. 
But I'm warning you, here comes 

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a long tangent. 
OK, what is repentance? 

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Repentance is a change of mind 
or heart that leads to a turning

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to God and away from sin and the
context of our faith in 

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Christianity. 
Repentance is I've been going 

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this way. 
I've been is the picture is I'm 

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all about me. 
I'm the king of my life. 

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I'm the Lord of my life. 
I reign over by life. 

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I'm about self and when we 
repent, we turn and now we say, 

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now God, I want to be about you 
and your ways and Jesus, I want 

446
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you to be the Lord of my life. 
I surrender to your lordship. 

447
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I'm made for that. 
So I, I turn from this and I 

448
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,880
turn over here God to you. 
And that's what repentance is. 

449
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:09,840
It's a turning, it happens 
throughout our lives. 

450
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,720
And let me present you this 
theology and doctrine. 

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You cannot be a Christian 
without repentance. 

452
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:18,120
You can't be a Christian without
repentance. 

453
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,480
It's a turning. 
When we choose to believe in 

454
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Jesus, we're turning towards 
God. 

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00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:27,800
So did we find this, first of 
all, the premise of what must we

456
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do to be saved? 
Well, at its simplest form, we 

457
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must believe in the Lord Jesus 
and you'll be saved. 

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We find this in Acts 16. 
This is Paul and Silas are in a 

459
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jail and there's like an 
earthquake of sorts and they're 

460
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about to escape and this jailer 
asks them this question. 

461
00:23:39,960 --> 00:23:42,200
Then he brought them out and he 
said, sirs, what must I do to be

462
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:45,280
saved? 
And they said believe in the 

463
00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,520
Lord Jesus and you will be 
saved, you and your household. 

464
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,320
Now Paul in this occasion, he 
doesn't say, OK, you have to 

465
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repent. 
He just simplifies it. 

466
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:58,120
You, you believe in the Lord 
Jesus, but then you go, well, 

467
00:23:58,120 --> 00:24:01,120
what is believing look like? 
And Luke in Acts is not 

468
00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:04,080
recording the entire 
conversation with the jailer, 

469
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,600
but I'm sure that Paul's saying 
believe and be saved. 

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00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:08,640
And then the jailer's going to 
say, well, what is believing? 

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Look like Paul is going to 
unpack. 

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00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,840
Well, it looks like turning. 
There's a turning that happens 

473
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in your life when you turn 
towards God in Jesus. 

474
00:24:17,120 --> 00:24:19,800
And sometimes sometime back, I 
really wanted to simplify 

475
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believing in Jesus as the point 
of salvation because some 

476
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:25,840
Christians want to be like Jesus
and to be saved. 

477
00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:28,680
You, you follow Jesus and you 
give to the church. 

478
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:32,600
You follow Jesus and you say 
this prayer or use this 

479
00:24:32,720 --> 00:24:34,120
particular little type of 
worship. 

480
00:24:34,120 --> 00:24:36,320
Those are the things that say, 
you know, what do you need to be

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00:24:36,320 --> 00:24:38,080
saved? 
You need to believe in Jesus. 

482
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,800
OK, and what does believe in 
Jesus? 

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What does it look like? 
It looks like an initial turning

484
00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:48,440
and watch. 
Jesus is going to mention this 

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often. 
Jesus mentions repentance over 

486
00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:55,520
and over again Matthew 417 from 
that time. 

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In other words, the time where 
John the Baptist was killed and 

488
00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:01,080
martyred for his faith. 
From that time Jesus began to 

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00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:05,240
preach saying repent for the 
Kingdom of heaven is at hand. 

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00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:11,320
Turn turn to God through Jesus 
and Mark 1 the same Mark is 

491
00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:12,680
telling the same story that 
Matthew tells now. 

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00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:16,800
After John was arrested, Jesus 
came into Galilee proclaiming 

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the gospel of God and saying the
time is fulfilled and the 

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Kingdom of God is at hand. 
Repent and believe in the 

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gospel. 
Luke were quotes Jesus. 

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He says, no, I tell you, but 
unless you repent, you will all 

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likewise perish. 
Oh, you're familiar with John 

498
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,160
316. 
I don't have it in your notes, 

499
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,120
but it says, For God so loved 
the world that he gave his only 

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begotten Son, that whosoever 
believes and him will not 

501
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:47,920
perish. 
And Jesus is saying here, you 

502
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:50,280
know, you take both of these 
truths that Jesus is presenting 

503
00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:54,480
and you blend both of them. 
When you believe on Jesus, you 

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00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:57,080
won't perish. 
But Jesus then says, no, I tell 

505
00:25:57,080 --> 00:25:59,200
you, but unless you repent, so 
He's adding to it, but unless 

506
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,320
you repent, you will also 
likewise perish. 

507
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:05,160
To turn to God, become a 
Christian, it takes repenting. 

508
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,280
That doesn't mean that you clean
yourself up and you stop doing 

509
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:08,880
whatever sinful thing you're 
doing. 

510
00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:10,200
That's not what it takes to come
to God. 

511
00:26:10,400 --> 00:26:13,840
You turn towards God and then 
that leads to repentance. 

512
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:18,200
That turning then begins to 
change who you are as a person. 

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00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:21,200
Peter on the day of Pentecost in
Acts chapter 2, he's preaching 

514
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,200
and he says the story. 
Now when they heard this, they 

515
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,520
were cut to the heart. 
They're hearing Peter's sermon 

516
00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:29,160
and said to Peter and the rest 
of the apostles, brothers, what 

517
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:32,560
shall we do? 
And Peter said to them, repent 

518
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:36,120
and be baptized, everyone of you
in the name of Jesus Christ for 

519
00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:39,040
the forgiveness of your sins, 
and you will receive the gift of

520
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,440
the Holy Spirit. 
Repentance is talked about by 

521
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:46,680
Jesus, by Peter, the sermon on 
Pentecost, and then it's talked 

522
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:49,600
about by Paul. 
Watch in Romans, Paul says, or 

523
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,840
do you pursue them on the riches
of his kindness and forbearance 

524
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:56,360
and patience, not knowing that 
God's kindness is meant to lead 

525
00:26:56,360 --> 00:27:01,000
you to repentance. 
Paul is saying you presume on 

526
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,520
the riches of God when when you 
continue in your sin and you 

527
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:08,200
don't turn. 
And he's saying, listen, the 

528
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,840
kindness that you received, you 
received the salvation of God 

529
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,480
when you were saved, when you 
believed you were saved, OK, and

530
00:27:13,480 --> 00:27:16,240
you started this turning, but 
that turning now continues when 

531
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:18,000
you're going to chase after the 
ways of God. 

532
00:27:18,520 --> 00:27:21,200
And Paul says the kindness that 
you've received from God, God 

533
00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,040
continues to be kind and 
gracious and merciful to you. 

534
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:29,560
And that kindness is meant to 
lead you to repentance through 

535
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:33,360
ongoing turning. 
John Piper, who's a pastor 

536
00:27:33,360 --> 00:27:36,280
preacher that I enjoy, he says 
this repentance means more than 

537
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:40,040
merely stopping sin. 
It means turning from the love 

538
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:43,320
of sin to the love of God. 
So when we start to say, God, 

539
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:46,280
I'm going to love you more than 
anything else in my life. 

540
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,960
I'm going to nurture and grow 
within me a love for you. 

541
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:53,800
And that is then going to lead 
me away from a love of sinful 

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00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:58,800
behaviors and sin in general. 
And then CS Lewis in Mere 

543
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,920
Christianity, he says, now 
repentance, I love this. 

544
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:03,520
He says, now repentance is no 
fun at all. 

545
00:28:04,120 --> 00:28:06,640
It's something much harder than 
merely eating humble pie. 

546
00:28:07,200 --> 00:28:09,800
So if you think repentance is 
just you going to God or to 

547
00:28:09,800 --> 00:28:14,080
somebody else and saying, hey, 
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

548
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,640
That's not quite repentance. 
It it really real repentance. 

549
00:28:18,640 --> 00:28:20,560
It's not fun. 
It's something much harder than 

550
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,920
merely eating humble pie. 
It means unlearning all the self

551
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:27,520
conceit and self will that we've
been training ourselves into 

552
00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:29,680
like we're born. 
And if we're not, especially in 

553
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:31,720
the culture in which we live, 
the culture in which we live 

554
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:36,240
will permit and promote you to 
be selfish and self-centered and

555
00:28:36,240 --> 00:28:38,920
to go for instant gratification 
to be all about yourself. 

556
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:43,160
It will promote all that to be 
sinfully all about self. 

557
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:47,880
God is calling us to a point 
where no, we turn from that and 

558
00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:49,560
we turn to him. 
We're like, OK, Jesus, I'm 

559
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,760
receiving your forgiveness in 
your grace and now you're going 

560
00:28:51,760 --> 00:28:54,000
to show me and you're going to 
you're going to you're going to 

561
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,480
challenge me here in the season 
mindful challenge me there. 

562
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:58,360
God, you're going to continue to
grow me. 

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00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,240
Now watch this. 
There's an initial turning that 

564
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,600
leads to salvation, initial 
salvation. 

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00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,600
But then watch there's an 
ongoing repentance for all of 

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00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:08,640
us. 
That's a good discipline. 

567
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,920
And how do I know this? 
Well, in Revelation 2, four 

568
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:15,680
through 5, John the Apostle, the
disciple of Jesus, he has a 

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00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,880
vision of heaven. 
We call it Revelation. 

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00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:24,320
But before he has this great 
vision of heaven, he meets face 

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00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:27,200
to face. 
Jesus appears to him, and Jesus 

572
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,560
addresses 7 different churches. 
OK, so he's going to speak of 

573
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,800
seven different churches. 
I won't go into great detail 

574
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,520
about it, but three of the 
churches, he's going to tell 

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00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:37,320
them to repent. 
These are churches. 

576
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:40,600
These are existing Christians 
and Jesus is telling them 

577
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:42,520
repent, which leads you to 
believe. 

578
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,520
It's like, oh repentance isn't 
wow, that's for Christians too. 

579
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,960
Oh it's for people who are far 
from God, not saved yet all. 

580
00:29:48,960 --> 00:29:51,280
But then you become a Christian 
and you're told to repent again.

581
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:55,880
Jesus says in Revelation 2, four
through 5 to this church, 

582
00:29:55,880 --> 00:30:00,320
Remember therefore from where 
you have fallen, repent and do 

583
00:30:00,320 --> 00:30:06,320
the works you did at first, what
you did when you first became a 

584
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:09,240
Christian, that fervor that you 
had a commitment, that love that

585
00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,120
you had for the Lord. 
Jesus is saying, go back to 

586
00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:13,520
that, come back to me in that 
way. 

587
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:18,080
Repent, which means that there 
is ongoing repentance in the 

588
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,120
life of a Christian. 
And many Christians don't have 

589
00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:23,720
the discipline to know. 
It's like, Oh yeah, confession 

590
00:30:23,720 --> 00:30:26,200
and repentance is part of life. 
And for some of us, you came 

591
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:29,360
from a Christian tradition where
they so pounded the idea of 

592
00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,560
repentance and confession that 
it was like overboard. 

593
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,920
And you had to walk around in 
shame all the time thinking I'm 

594
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,200
a worm, I'm a worm. 
I'm nothing but a worm. 

595
00:30:37,200 --> 00:30:40,640
There are some church traditions
that that's that's like in their

596
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,200
weekly confessions. 
I'm just a worm God. 

597
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,600
No, that that's not at all what 
this is about, but it is about 

598
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:50,840
being open to saying God when 
you convict me, when you 

599
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,440
challenge me. 
But people who get stubborn and 

600
00:30:55,440 --> 00:30:58,280
unwilling to listen to the 
promptings and Holy Spirit to 

601
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,920
grow to different depths and 
God, they miss out because 

602
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,520
they're not willing to have 
ongoing repentance, ongoing 

603
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,000
turning in their life. 
So you're, you're saved, you're 

604
00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:09,320
a Christian, but there's things 
in your life you need to turn 

605
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:10,560
from. 
OK. 

606
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,360
And I love what Timothy Keller 
says about this in his book The 

607
00:31:13,360 --> 00:31:15,560
Prodigal God. 
He said repentance is not just 

608
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,120
the way we enter the Kingdom of 
God, it's the way we make 

609
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,760
progress in the Kingdom of God. 
You want to make progress in 

610
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:24,520
your Christian life. 
And then it takes you being open

611
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:28,600
to promptings from the Holy 
Spirit where you need to come 

612
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,720
back to God and say, like the 
tax collector and like David, 

613
00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:39,880
God have mercy on me, a Sinner 
in the midst of your grace, I'm 

614
00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,880
going to turn and I'm going to 
go your way. 

615
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:44,960
Instead of a way, there's a way 
for you. 

616
00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:50,120
Now, what I want to show you is 
that the Psalms offer some 

617
00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:54,520
prayers of repentance to help us
in ongoing repentance that leads

618
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:58,360
to progress. 
There are seven of them. 

619
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:03,400
There are 7 Psalms out of the 
150 that are very uniquely given

620
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:08,120
to us as prayers of repentance, 
and they're valuable. 

621
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:10,720
And in your life, again, there 
might be a time where you're in 

622
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:11,800
grief. 
OK, I want you to know the 

623
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:13,800
Psalms about grief. 
There are times where it's like,

624
00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:15,440
oh, I want to know how great God
is. 

625
00:32:15,440 --> 00:32:17,240
I'm going to read that Psalm. 
There's some psalms that are 

626
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,560
like an encouragement to sing 
and to worship. 

627
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:21,840
We want to know those. 
But there are psalms that are 

628
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,760
there that give an example of 
how to repent, and they're 

629
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,400
beautiful. 
And Psalm 51 is one of them. 

630
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,440
And David writes to the choir 
master and you're heading in 

631
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,240
your Bible, it'll say to the 
choir master Psalm of David and 

632
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,040
watch in the heading. 
It gives the occasion when David

633
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:47,280
said have mercy on me, O God, he
said it in the heading in your 

634
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,280
Bible says when Nathan the 
prophet went to him after he had

635
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:55,640
gone into Bathsheba. 
Now you know the story of David.

636
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,000
It's so. 
I mean, even outside of the 

637
00:32:57,000 --> 00:32:58,960
church, it's following. 
David kills Goliath with the 

638
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:02,240
stone, the slingshot. 
David becomes king. 

639
00:33:02,240 --> 00:33:05,520
He's a musician. 
He plays a harp of the likes, 

640
00:33:06,040 --> 00:33:08,840
and he becomes king. 
And you know the story, David's,

641
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:11,840
it's a season where he should go
off to war, but he doesn't. 

642
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,960
And he's on the roof of his 
house and he sees Bathsheba. 

643
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,120
And some would say he has an 
affair with her. 

644
00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:21,440
He commits adultery with her. 
But I think it's really more 

645
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,760
than that. 
I think it's more like assault 

646
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:28,080
maybe, and abuse. 
And David does this terrible 

647
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,320
thing. 
He takes Uriah the Hittite's 

648
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:36,400
wife, Bathsheba, and he abuses 
her, and he's a king and he 

649
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,400
loves God and he does this 
terrible thing, but not only 

650
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:42,520
does he commit this terrible 
sin, but then I won't read you 

651
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,800
the story. 
But in Second Samuel 11, you can

652
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:48,520
go read the story this week. 
He sins in this way, but then he

653
00:33:48,520 --> 00:33:53,000
covers it up. 
And to cover it up, he brings 

654
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:56,920
her husband home and he tries to
set it up where her husband 

655
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,680
would impregnate her because now
he finds out she's pregnant. 

656
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:05,720
His name is Uriah the Hittites. 
And Uriah, to honor his fellow 

657
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:07,720
soldiers, he won't go and be 
with his wife. 

658
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,719
He stays away. 
And so because of this, David 

659
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:14,560
continues the cover up by 
murdering Uriah the Hittite. 

660
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:17,760
He hasn't put on the front lines
of battle knowing that he will 

661
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:21,040
be killed. 
So David, I mean, his sin is so 

662
00:34:21,040 --> 00:34:24,440
horrible. 
He, he has this sexual sin, then

663
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:27,199
he covers it up, then he murders
Uriah and then he marries 

664
00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:31,120
Bathsheba and it's terrible. 
I mean, it's, it's, it's 

665
00:34:31,120 --> 00:34:34,120
horrible. 
So in Second Samuel chapter 12, 

666
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,400
what happens is that leads up to
the context of Psalm 51. 

667
00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:40,480
It says this is, this is the 
song that David sings when Uriah

668
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,920
or when Nathan confronts him, 
Nathan the prophet confronts 

669
00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,600
him. 
So Nathan goes to David and 

670
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:49,600
second Samuel 12 and he's going 
to tell David a story. 

671
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:53,560
It's a parable. 
Nathan tells a parable to David,

672
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,760
as Jesus often told parables. 
And the parable that Nathan 

673
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:01,840
tells in brief, Nathan says, 
David, there's a traveling rich 

674
00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,640
man and he has lots of sheep, 
and he goes into an area and he 

675
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,200
takes a lamb from a man who has 
only one lamb. 

676
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:10,600
And this one man loves this lamb
so much. 

677
00:35:11,000 --> 00:35:13,640
But the rich traveling man takes
that lamb and he slaughters a 

678
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:17,920
lamb and they eat it. 
And David's furious at this 

679
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:19,440
story. 
It's like this is terrible. 

680
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:23,120
And David said whoever has done 
this thing should be put to 

681
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:26,520
death. 
And then watch this in second 

682
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:32,040
Samuel 12 seven. 
Nathan said to David, you, you, 

683
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:36,360
you are the man. 
And we use that phrase like, 

684
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,840
yeah, you're the man, you know, 
in a flippant light way. 

685
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,920
That's not the way it means to 
us now. 

686
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:45,400
But when Nathan says to David, 
you, you are the man that did 

687
00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:51,680
this right there and then in 
Second Samuel 1213, what is 

688
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:55,400
David's response? 
He could have Nathan put to 

689
00:35:55,400 --> 00:35:58,160
death. 
He's the king, he's the ruler. 

690
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,720
He could do whatever he wants. 
But instead he repents. 

691
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:07,760
He repents, he turns in verse 
13, David said to Nathan, I have

692
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:13,920
sinned against the Lord and 
you're going to find that from 

693
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,760
that conviction that he has an 
awareness of how terrible his 

694
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,200
sin is. 
Then we get Psalm 51 that the 

695
00:36:20,440 --> 00:36:23,080
tax collector quotes in Jesus. 
This parable. 

696
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:26,320
Now aware of this is what's 
happened to David. 

697
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,360
Psalm 51. 
Let me read you more of it. 

698
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:30,600
It's 19 verses long. 
I won't take the time to read 

699
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:35,160
all of it, but I'll read you one
through 4 and verse 7. 

700
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:39,960
Then eight through 13. 
David says, have mercy on me, oh

701
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:45,680
God, according to your steadfast
love, not because I'm deserving,

702
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,840
but God, have mercy on me 
because you're loving. 

703
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:52,040
And according to your abundant 
mercy, God, you're merciful. 

704
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:57,240
And blot out my transgressions, 
and wash me thoroughly from my 

705
00:36:57,240 --> 00:36:59,280
iniquity, and cleanse me from my
sin. 

706
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:03,560
For I know my transgressions. 
And my sin is ever before me 

707
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:07,000
against you. 
Only have I sinned and done what

708
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,800
is evil in your sight, so that 
you may be justified in your 

709
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,480
word and blameless in your 
judgement. 

710
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,800
And purge me with hyssop. 
Hyssop is an Evergreen herb that

711
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:22,680
it has healing qualities about. 
It's in the mint family, I 

712
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,960
understand. 
And David's using it like a 

713
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,960
metaphor. 
Like God purge me, like purify 

714
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:29,840
me with hyssop, and I shall be 
clean. 

715
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,000
And wash me, and I shall be 
whiter than snow. 

716
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:38,840
They're not very familiar with 
snow where David was, but he 

717
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:41,280
romanticizes it and it's 
cleanliness. 

718
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:45,520
And then in verse 8, he 
continues in his song of 

719
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:48,040
repentance. 
And he says, let me hear joy and

720
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:49,520
gladness. 
Let the bones that you have 

721
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:53,160
broken rejoice. 
Hide your face from my sins and 

722
00:37:53,160 --> 00:37:56,320
blot out all my iniquities. 
And then he says this classic 

723
00:37:56,320 --> 00:38:00,040
phrase that is worth memorizing 
and praying throughout your 

724
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,200
life. 
Create in me a clean heart of 

725
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,600
God and renew a right spirit 
within me and cast me not away 

726
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,600
from your presence and take not 
your Holy Spirit for me and 

727
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,720
restore to me the joy of your 
salvation and uphold me with the

728
00:38:15,720 --> 00:38:19,200
willing spirit. 
And then this is a profound 

729
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,560
thing that David says. 
He says then I will teach 

730
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:24,560
transgressors your ways and 
sinners will return to you. 

731
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,120
David's like Lord, once I 
experience your forgiveness and 

732
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:29,800
your mercy, then I'm going to go
tell other sinners, 

733
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:36,240
transgressors about how you 
forgave me and they will return.

734
00:38:36,440 --> 00:38:41,640
They'll turn to you. 
David goes on to till you know 6

735
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,480
verses later. 
But I encourage you to go read 

736
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,000
that. 
But my encouragement to you is 

737
00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:48,880
to know these psalms and to have
them like in your back pocket 

738
00:38:48,880 --> 00:38:52,320
when you need to pray this when 
you find yourself in a place, 

739
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:57,200
you're like, OK, God, I, I, I 
disobeyed your best. 

740
00:38:57,640 --> 00:38:59,400
I fell short God of what you 
wanted. 

741
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:03,120
And now I'm in this place and 
God, I, I want to pray for 

742
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,080
forgiveness. 
I'm not sure what words to use. 

743
00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:09,160
These words are great. 
Have mercy on me. 

744
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:12,920
O God, create in me a clean 
heart and, and, and then I'll go

745
00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:16,640
teach transgressors your ways 
and sinners will return to you. 

746
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,760
Now I want to give you just the 
components of repentance. 

747
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,600
When David is repenting, he has 
conviction. 

748
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,960
He knows what he did is wrong. 
He ignores it for a while until 

749
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,720
he's confronted by Nathan. 
But then when Nathan confronts 

750
00:39:29,720 --> 00:39:32,160
him, he's convicted. 
He realizes that what he did was

751
00:39:32,160 --> 00:39:33,240
sinful and what he did was 
wrong. 

752
00:39:33,240 --> 00:39:36,280
We have the same. 
The Holy Spirit will prompt us 

753
00:39:36,280 --> 00:39:39,600
also when we're open. 
And then there's contrition. 

754
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,280
In other words, he has a 
contrite heart. 

755
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:45,000
And a contrite heart is when we 
are actually sorry for what 

756
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,080
we've done to another person or 
before God. 

757
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,800
And we can ignore it or we can 
be contrite. 

758
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:55,440
And it's a bit of sadness. 
It it's contrite. 

759
00:39:55,440 --> 00:39:59,120
We're saying, God, yeah, this, 
this grieves me, God, that I was

760
00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:00,680
this way. 
Now, again, I'm not encouraging 

761
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:02,160
shame. 
I'm not encouraging you to walk 

762
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:03,360
like you're a worm. 
You're a worm. 

763
00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:07,360
What I'm encouraging is to read 
these Psalms and utilize them to

764
00:40:07,360 --> 00:40:09,320
go to God and say, God, I've 
sinned. 

765
00:40:09,320 --> 00:40:12,640
I need your forgiveness. 
So I'm coming back to you again.

766
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,800
God forgive me, and then I'll go
tell others about your 

767
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:18,880
forgiveness. 
So there's conviction, there's 

768
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,600
contrition. 
And then also we are to confess 

769
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,920
our sins before God and 
sometimes others, not all the 

770
00:40:23,920 --> 00:40:26,520
time, but sometimes others one 
to another. 

771
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,920
And when you can, the confession
of your sin, whatever it might 

772
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,160
be, it actually leads to healing
and victory in the future when 

773
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,760
you're willing to confess. 
And then finally, it takes a 

774
00:40:36,760 --> 00:40:40,560
turning or an action. 
Now I'm going to turn from the 

775
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:44,400
sinful thing that has a grip on 
me or the sinful behavior or 

776
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,000
this, whatever it is in your 
life where you're falling short 

777
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,200
of God's best, it's considered 
sin. 

778
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:52,400
And so God is calling you an 
ongoing, He's calling you to 

779
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:58,000
ongoing repentance. 
Now, there are other Psalms. 

780
00:40:58,000 --> 00:40:59,720
I would encourage you to take 
the notes. 

781
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,320
If we run out of notes, Kathy, 
will you make us some more back 

782
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:03,120
there? 
I think I see. 

783
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,520
So I have them listed here in 
your notes. 

784
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:08,080
And I would love it if you took 
these home. 

785
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:11,480
And it's Psalm chapter 6, which 
is a plea for mercy and healing.

786
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,840
And Psalm 32 is about the joy of
forgiveness. 

787
00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:18,800
The confession leads to. 
You can read that Psalm 38 is 

788
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,560
about the pain of grief that's 
brought on by sin. 

789
00:41:22,320 --> 00:41:24,840
Sometimes we experience grief 
over our sins. 

790
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:27,840
Sometimes it's small, but still 
there should be attorney. 

791
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:29,680
But there are other times in 
your life where it's like, man, 

792
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:31,800
this is huge and it's led to 
grief. 

793
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:35,160
And grief could be depression or
anxiety or panic attacks or 

794
00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:38,360
other things, but you can be LED
out of that and lifted out of 

795
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:40,240
it. 
And it's a Psalm of someone 

796
00:41:40,240 --> 00:41:44,800
who's in great physical pain 
about their sin in Psalm 38. 

797
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:46,120
And if you're in that place, go 
pray. 

798
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:49,000
It's a great one. 
Psalm 11-O2 is a declaration of 

799
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:51,400
dependence and a cry for 
restoration. 

800
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,960
OK, so now they're they're 
crying out. 

801
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,960
And when they're crying out for 
this restoration, the period of 

802
00:41:56,960 --> 00:42:00,200
time is like again, post like 
Daniel and the lion's den, 

803
00:42:00,200 --> 00:42:02,040
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego 
and the fiery furnace. 

804
00:42:02,200 --> 00:42:04,480
It's late in the history of the 
Old Testament. 

805
00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:09,440
This is this is a people group. 
This is an entire people group 

806
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,240
have disobeyed God and they're 
crying out as a people group. 

807
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:16,000
So if you want to pray for your 
country, any of your state or 

808
00:42:16,000 --> 00:42:18,720
your city, then this declaration
of dependence and a cry for 

809
00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:21,120
restoration is more of a prayer 
for a people group. 

810
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:23,920
Then they perfumed us to Psalm 
1:30 the day. 

811
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,600
I've taught on this before. 
In fact, I teach them this often

812
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,200
when I go to other churches. 
I've taught on here twice when I

813
00:42:29,200 --> 00:42:33,600
came to interview here and 
Memorial Day weekendish and 

814
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,400
2018, I actually preached Psalm 
130th. 

815
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,680
The day perfumes, which means 
from the depths they perfumed us

816
00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:42,600
is Latin for out of like the 
depths of despair. 

817
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:44,720
And I taught that. 
I know I taught again about a 

818
00:42:44,720 --> 00:42:47,080
year ago. 
And so the day perfume Psalm, 

819
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,120
that's a great one to go read. 
Psalm 143 is loosely grouped 

820
00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:54,760
with the penitent Psalms, but 
it's an urgent plea for guidance

821
00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:56,960
and vindication. 
When someone has vindicated 

822
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,840
vindicated, they're cleared of 
blame. 

823
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:05,080
So if you want, if you say God, 
I want to be vindicated. 

824
00:43:05,800 --> 00:43:08,800
Maybe maybe you were wrong, but 
not not as to the extent that 

825
00:43:08,800 --> 00:43:10,320
someone might be accusing you 
of. 

826
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:12,960
And so then you can go and you 
can pray this like God, I need 

827
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:17,480
you to vindicate me. 
Like God, you declare me free of

828
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,800
blame. 
So these are psalms to know and 

829
00:43:20,800 --> 00:43:22,520
to go utilize. 
And maybe you're in a place 

830
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:23,920
today where you're in one of 
those situations. 

831
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,080
I encourage you go pray the 
Psalm. 

832
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,720
Use it as a prayer. 
Repentance in the life of a 

833
00:43:29,720 --> 00:43:33,520
Christian should become an 
ongoing discipline. 

834
00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:38,200
And in my testimony, I would say
to you, I'm 55 years old, I've 

835
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:39,920
been following the Lord. 
I got to say when I was 8 years 

836
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:42,720
old, I did that turning. 
When I was 8 years old, I turned

837
00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:44,640
to God. 
But in my life there have been 

838
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,680
times where it's been big, where
it's like God, I have mercy on 

839
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:52,080
me, a Sinner. 
God have mercy on me, God, a 

840
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,280
Sinner. 
I take the posture of the tax 

841
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,200
collector. 
Sometimes it's small. 

842
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,280
Other times in my life it's been
big. 

843
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,840
And I've had to say, God 
restored in me the joy of your 

844
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,360
salvation, created me a clean 
heart again. 

845
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:07,640
And these Psalms give voice to 
those times in your life where 

846
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:12,160
you're crying out for a new 
turning and a new forgiveness, 

847
00:44:12,160 --> 00:44:14,840
new repentance. 
It should be an ongoing 

848
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:17,000
discipline in our lives. 
And again, if you came from a 

849
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:19,240
discipline of Christianity where
they shamed you within the every

850
00:44:19,240 --> 00:44:22,160
week, you were just, you had to 
come in and act every week like 

851
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:25,320
you, you grovel and you come in.
I've been to Israel and I've 

852
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:28,720
seen people crawling on their 
hands and feet and bleeding like

853
00:44:28,720 --> 00:44:31,400
to the Church of repentance in 
Jerusalem out of guilt and 

854
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,280
shame. 
It's like that is not what God 

855
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:38,680
is calling us to, but God is 
calling us to ongoing repentance

856
00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:43,200
or turning in our life as we 
sense His conviction to greater 

857
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:50,400
heights in obedience to God. 2nd
Corinthians 2 verse 10 says for 

858
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:53,520
godly grief produces a 
repentance when you feel godly 

859
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:57,440
grief and it leads you to 
repentance that that is going to

860
00:44:57,440 --> 00:44:59,440
lead you to salvation without 
regrets. 

861
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,840
Whereas worldly grief produces 
death if you take upon yourself 

862
00:45:02,840 --> 00:45:05,240
worldly grief, which is that 
again, groveling and like I'm a 

863
00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:07,600
worm, I'm terrible. 
Look, I fell in this area of my 

864
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,680
life again, Oh, I'm so terrible,
I'll never get over it. 

865
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,160
I'm horrible. 
And you go to God in that 

866
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,200
posture. 
No, that's not the posture that 

867
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,560
will lead you into victory out 
of whatever you need to repent 

868
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:18,600
of whatever you need to change 
in your life. 

869
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,880
But if you'll come with these 
Psalms, the posture of the tax 

870
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:28,920
collector, the posture of David 
and you can be lifted out of it.

871
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:36,600
Now I want to give you just some
application as we wind down and 

872
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:40,640
I want to just every week, most 
of the weeks I want to start 

873
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,920
doing even more consistently is 
that I want to give you 

874
00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:45,120
opportunity for that initial 
turning. 

875
00:45:46,240 --> 00:45:48,960
Maybe you've come to North life 
or you, maybe you someone has 

876
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,360
told you about Jesus or you've 
been wrestling with the claims 

877
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,760
of Christianity and you've, 
you've you've not yet taken that

878
00:45:56,040 --> 00:45:57,840
point. 
I've taken the action of saying,

879
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,800
OK, I'm in. 
I'm going to do the initial 

880
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:05,040
turning towards God. 
And at that point, when you have

881
00:46:05,040 --> 00:46:08,880
that initial change or decision,
Jesus, I'm going to follow you. 

882
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:13,880
We call that salvation and you 
turning towards God and you turn

883
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:18,160
towards God and you're like, God
forgive me a Sinner and you're 

884
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:20,880
granted forgiveness through 
Jesus because of what Jesus did 

885
00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,680
on the cross for us and his, his
death, his burial and his 

886
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:28,080
resurrection and what Jesus is 
doing even now with the Father. 

887
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:33,040
When we surrender our lives in 
repentance, then we receive the 

888
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:34,480
salvation of God. 
And if you've never done that, 

889
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,320
if you've never made a decision 
to become a Christian, then I 

890
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,240
want to pray with you. 
I'm going to do that in a 

891
00:46:38,240 --> 00:46:40,760
minute. 
And when you pray to receive the

892
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,080
Lord, then my encouragement to 
you is to tell somebody, whether

893
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:46,320
it's me or friend, tell someone 
that you received the Lord. 

894
00:46:46,600 --> 00:46:48,360
And then I encourage you to be 
baptized. 

895
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,840
We'll have baptisms here in a 
couple months. 

896
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:55,000
We just had them in September. 
We'll have them again. 

897
00:46:55,000 --> 00:46:56,960
And when you get baptized, it's 
your way of saying God has 

898
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:01,080
cleanse me, I'm resurrected, I'm
made new, I'm alive in Christ. 

899
00:47:01,160 --> 00:47:04,320
OK, so that's one application if
you've not made your initial 

900
00:47:04,840 --> 00:47:07,000
repentance. 
But then my question to you, if 

901
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,160
you've been a Christian for many
years, is, is there something 

902
00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:14,000
that you need to repent of 
that's ongoing in your life? 

903
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:19,880
Jesus says to the church in 
Revelation, I have this against 

904
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:21,720
you, you've lost your first 
love. 

905
00:47:21,720 --> 00:47:25,600
And he says, go back to the 
things you did at first, repent.

906
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,600
And maybe there's some areas in 
your life where you need to do 

907
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:31,360
that. 
Repentance is also a discipline 

908
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,600
and an act that ongoing 
Christians do. 

909
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,640
And then my third application 
question for you is, are you 

910
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:40,480
willing to be like David where 
he says, I'm going to go tell 

911
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:44,400
other transgressors? 
You going and telling others, 

912
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,200
it's like I've received the 
forgiveness of God. 

913
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:49,920
It's been so grand in my life. 
It's so life changing. 

914
00:47:49,920 --> 00:47:52,560
I want to tell you about it. 
It's worthwhile. 

915
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:57,080
And David gets his sight on that
even early on and his 

916
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,720
forgiveness that he receives in 
Psalm 51. 

917
00:48:01,360 --> 00:48:03,840
I hope that you take this 
message and that you wrestle 

918
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:06,960
with it and you go, OK, God, 
where do I, how do I do this in 

919
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:08,720
my life? 
What does repentance look like 

920
00:48:08,720 --> 00:48:12,800
in a way that's not not walking 
in shame, not groveling, but 

921
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:15,800
instead experiencing the ongoing
forgiveness and mercy of the 

922
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,680
Lord that comes when we are in 
tune and sensitive to areas in 

923
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:22,600
our life where we need to 
repent? 

924
00:48:23,880 --> 00:48:25,840
Let me pray for us. 
And if you want to make that 

925
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,840
decision to follow Christ for 
the first time to turn towards 

926
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,120
Jesus, then I'm going to pray. 
And I encourage you to echo this

927
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,800
prayer with me. 
You can pray. 

928
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:40,520
Jesus, I come to you and I say I
believe in you, and because I 

929
00:48:40,520 --> 00:48:42,280
believe in you, I can receive 
your salvation. 

930
00:48:42,280 --> 00:48:47,440
So I turn from selfishness and 
my sinfulness and I turn towards

931
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:51,080
you, God, and I say Jesus become
the Lord of my life. 

932
00:48:51,760 --> 00:48:55,080
I receive your salvation that is
eternal. 

933
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:58,480
I will live with you eternally. 
And I receive that eternal life 

934
00:48:58,480 --> 00:49:01,680
now here, not after death, but I
receive it here, and it will be 

935
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,160
with me there after death, but I
receive it now. 

936
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:09,680
So I receive your life and your 
breath and your spirit in me. 

937
00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:13,000
Jesus come and reign and rule in
my life and show me what it 

938
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:16,080
looks like to follow you in 
Jesus name. 

939
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:19,800
And everyone said Amen and Amen.
Let's all stand together. 

940
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:25,520
Don't forget Wednesday night 
this week is out at Fleming 

941
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:26,880
Farm. 
Hope to see you there. 

942
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,040
And then the following Wednesday
are the students leading us in 

943
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:31,520
worship. 
We look forward to having you 

944
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,160
out that night with us also. 
Now before you go, I want to say

945
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,920
a blessing over you. 
So if you'll receive this 

946
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,360
blessing, pause and open your 
heart as I bless you and sway 

947
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:44,760
before you go. 
And now may the Lord bless you 

948
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:48,520
and keep you, and may he make 
his face to shine upon you. 

949
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:54,560
And may the joy of the Lord that
is unspeakable and full of glory

950
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,640
made a bound to you. 
And may the peace of God that 

951
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,120
passes all understanding, may it
surprise you in the midst of all

952
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:05,080
the challenges that life brings.
And then may the mercies of the 

953
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:08,920
Lord, the forgiveness of God 
that is new every morning, may 

954
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,240
be especially new to your now 
and your mornings to come. 

955
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:14,040
And now may the Lord Jesus 
Christ guard your heart and your

956
00:50:14,040 --> 00:50:16,280
mind. 
You are salt and you are light. 

957
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,960
Go now and be salt and light 
unto the world. 

958
00:50:18,960 --> 00:50:21,960
You are blessed. 
We'll see you again soon.