Psalm 51
What You Need to Do With Your Sin • Sermon • Submitted
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· 7 viewsA three part series how to deal with your sin.
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To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. 1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart. 7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit. 13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. 15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem; 19 then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Part One
2 Samuel 11-12:15
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! 3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. 4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. 6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Part Two
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. 11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Part Three
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you. 14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. 15 O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. 16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. 17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. 18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem; 19 then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Psalm 51: To the choirmaster. A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba
God’s faithfulness to retrieve a wandering sheep lost in sin by the means of Nathan a prophet
Josiah’s Sin(s)—Counting the 10 Commandments
10th You shall not covet
Josiah saw Benjamin with a toy that he desired for himself
9th You shall not bear false witness
Josiah told Benjamin that they were going to clean the coop now to get him away from toy
8th You shall not steal
Josiah then proceeded to steal toy from Benjamin and enjoy it himself
5th Honor your father and your mother
When I asked Josiah why Benjamin went outside, Josiah began to lie to me, breaking the 9th again and now the 5th
Of course it does not end with that....that toy became everything to Josiah, so much so he was willing to sin against God to have it, thus God became less important
1st You shall have no other gods before me
That toy became a god to Josiah
7th commandment You shall not commit adultery
Instead of being faithful to the one true God, Josiah went after another love
And of course, Jesus had made clear that when you hate on your brother you are murdering them in your heart
6th You shall not murder
This is what sin does, it starts small with a desire and if left unchecked the hole gets bigger and bigger
14 But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. 15 Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
And David’s sin here is no different
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
There is a highlight here for the pollution of his sin and the need for God’s great work of cleansing
When we feel a rightful sense of odiousness to God for having polluted ourselves in front of a most holy God, we are not to do what the world does and downplay our sin. That will lead to a downplaying of our savior. Instead we acknowledge the wickedness of our ways (indeed, it is worst than we can imagine), so that we highlight God’s tender mercy abounding to us (indeed it is better than we can imagine).
The extent of such sin is mentioned in 4 and 5 in the fact that as God is above all creatures, so his sin is in the end against him. And in verse five it talks about the nature of his sin reaching to his very conception, reaching into the very heart of who he is as a human being himself, beyond just this one act of sin.
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
I know my sin
John Calvin: We will never seriously apply to God for pardon, until we have obtained such a view of our sins as inspires us with fear.
God has ordained proper healing to begin with a proper turmoil in mind
And later we will see a turmoil in spirit (7-12)
Weak physical frame and an underlining depression (8).
I know i have done it, and I bet if you were honest with yourself you would see that you have done it. And maybe you would see that you are even doing it currently, that when God sends you a person like Nathan to bring your mind to turmoil over your sin, your reaction to such a state is to blame others…and not proper repentance
Don’t judge me!
You said it to me not nice enough!
You find it easier to assume motives of the one bringing your sin to your mind, then to be honest with your own motives as you have turned away from God.
To know your sin is to dissect it, to know from whence is came and what it has done so you can make the appropriate responses.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight
This is not David skirting his abuses against Uriah and the army he put in danger to kill the former. This is only to say that any sin we commit against another creatures is always within the shadow of the sin against God.
We sinned against the person who is made in the image of God, and so our sin rests, in the end, against God. And so all acts to make it right then goes forth from him.
Our number one motive to seek forgiveness from another is to be made right with God which will enable us to be right with man and love him.
This is why making things right is not dependent on the person we wronged as well. If we seek forgiveness from a fellow person for our sin with an understanding that this is what is to be done to be right with God, no matter how that person acts in accepting such forgiveness or not, God accepts what you have done and that makes you right ultimately
So that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgement
3 What if some were unfaithful? Does their faithlessness nullify the faithfulness of God? 4 By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged.”
When we sin, we mark the image we are supposed to show of God’s glory but we do nothing against the essential glory God has.
Instead, when we sin, he is still glorified in his judgement against such sin which shows that such judgement against sin is proper, needed, and just.
The hater of God who says, “I cannot love the God of such a people like that” is unfounded.
Thus, we have David rightfully being humbled and brought low for his sin, but in no way does this bring God low as being one of his people, instead it only furthers God’s glory in his judgement and actions against such sin.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
This stops our common attempts to lower the severity of our sin to say it was just this one kind, or a bad day or week or month
Instead such sin comes from a heart that is corrupted totally in sin. Dead and sick there is no hope is diminishing the certain act of sin or having a flowery view of self that will take away the sting of that particular disobedience.
Instead, we know, that such sin comes forth from a heart that is dead and the only hope you have is to turn to God in humiliation and brokenness over the act and over your very sinful nature.
Notice how David is not excusing his sin because he was born after Adam, and his parents who brought sin to his nature. Instead it stands as an added force to his own individual guilt. David understands sin, and the nature of his makeup. Such an understanding aided in his ability to come to the only true remedy.
David knew his sin, and knew his condition.
6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
A rightful cap to this section of knowing the sin and how it delights God for us to know what’s in us truthfully despite the fact that such truth hurts.
Thus, the major thrust of this first sermon in this series is the importance of knowing sin.
This can be said to be the whole purpose why God gave man the law to begin with.
The law was not meant to provide people with a way to have right relationship with him.
When given to Adam it was to show him how he could respond in love to God for all he had done for Adam.
But after the fall, the purpose God had in magnifying the law in giving it and teaching it, and showing the abuse of it was so that we could understand our sin greater.
Part One: Know sin
1-2: The wickedness of the sin and the need for great washing
3-4 knowing the sin that was committed against God justifying God. The deep nature of this sin and the goodness it is to know it deeply and so the person can act in wisdom in light of it.
The sin itself (the nature of how sin takes hold)
The need for total washing
Knowing sin (not being deceived) is used by God for washing
Broken Spirit is used by God for washing
David’s sin:
Put himself in a bad situation
Covet (10th) Bathsheba
Adultery (7th) Bathsheba
