Psalm 51: Repentance
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(Smile , breathe, and slow down For the Lord is with you)
(Speak to the unbeliever, speak to the new person, speak to Kent, speak to flourishing Christian, Speak to Nick)
(Ask the pastors to read through the end of 2 Sam. 11 and the beginning to the middle of 2 Sam 12) (Then ask the NT passage to be Romans 7)
Let’s pray together.
Father,
Introduction to myself:
Good morning everyone! If you are new here this morning, WELCOME, we are so glad that you have decided to join us. We would love to follow up with you, so if you would please fill out one of the connect cards that are placed under the chair in front of you. That would really help us. Also, in the back of the chair in front of you are Bibles, if you do not own a Bible please take one as our gift to you. Finally, we have little brochures out in the lobby that we have printed off that will get you acclimated to who we are here at Trinity and the different ministries that we currently offer. So after service, feel free to grab one on your way out.
For those of you who I have not had the pleasure to meet, my name is Philip Barnhart. I am a member here at Trinity Church, I am married to my wonderful bride Grace, and I currently have the privilege of serving as an English as a second language teacher for my day job.
Transition: Now that we know each other, let us get into our text for this morning. Please open up your copy of God’s Word to Psalm 51. If you are using the Bibles in front of you, that will be on page 474. As you are turning there...
Introduction to sermon:
What is the definition of confession? Look at dictionary
FCF: Psalm 51 cuts down to the heart of confession. In Christ, we have been made clean by the blood of the cross, been granted the gift of the Holy Spirit to dwell with us, and yet sin still remains in our life on a daily basis.
Jesus, in teaching his disciples how to pray, says in Matthew 6:9-13
9 Pray then like this: “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 10 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 11 Give us this day our daily bread, 12 and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. 13 And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
Jesus is teaching his disciples to pray daily not just to be fed spiritually, but also for the debts of the sinner to be forgiven. Jesus makes it clear that although Christians have been saved, they are still in need of daily forgiveness from their heavenly Father.
We see this exact reality inside of the life of the Apostle Paul in Romans 7:22-23
22 For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, 23 but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Once more in 1 John 1:8, where John says
8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
There is no doubt as to whether Christians continue in sin after their initial conversion from death to life. But the question remains how do we respond to our sin?
Some of us may confess to other believers, but are unwilling to confess to a holy God.
Some of us may be faithful in confessing to the Lord, but then attempt to fight against sin all on their own, and time and time again find themselves stuck back in the same position
For some of us, shame drives from confessing our sin, and instead leads us to sin more
For others, we may think we are quick to confess our sin, but when we confess we simply say “I am sorry” and never really admit our wrongdoing.
Another way we seemingly practice repentance is by actually not confessing anything but just stacking a bunch of “good” up and then assume that we are good.
We may be quick to start thinking of how to be obedient next time, but never actually stop and admit our wrongdoing before a holy God. We like to ask for renewed joy in our salvation, but not actually admit our wrongdoing.
MIM: Repentance requires God-given confession and faith
Background of 2 Samuel 11-12
13 David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
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.
Main Point #1:
6 The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Main Point #2:
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. 26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
LORD’S SUPPER INTRO:
In just a moment we will take the Lord’s supper together.
In taking the Lord’s supper together we are doing three things, you heard them last week, but we are going to hear them again - we are Looking back - we are remembering and proclaiming what Christ has done, his death, burial, and resurrection - we are also looking forward - looking forward to the day promised when Christ will return - and we are looking around - looking at one another, looking at the people God is saving through the work of His Son - we are looking around at the family of believers God has united together by the saving work of Jesus - and we are proclaiming and remembering the work of Christ together -
It is for this reason that we ask that if you are not a baptized believer in Jesus Christ, if you have not trusted in Jesus, relied on Him in faith for the forgiveness of your sins, that you do not take the Lord’s Supper with us - we don’t want you to proclaim something you do not believe to be true and we don’t want you to eat and drink judgement on yourself in taking this - we ask that you just take this time to reflect on the gospel, to consider it, to consider what Christ has done - and we hope and pray that as you are not joining us in taking the Lord’s supper that it would make you want to - it make you want to be a part of this family of believers, that it would stir your heart to believe and then you can join us in taking it next week. But until then, please refrain -
The way we do the Lord’s Supper here at Trinity is by having them up front - Eric is going to play a song, instrumental for a couple minutes and then begin singing - at any point during the song we invite baptized believers in Jesus Christ who are in good standing in their local church to come forward and to get the elements - once you get them, hold onto them and return to your seat - after the song we will in unity, take the elements all together - during the song we invite you to reflect on Christ’s work, confess sin, sing, or if you need to reconcile with a brother or sister in Christ, feel free to move about and go do that now. Eric is going to start playing, come forward as you are ready.