Sin

Psalm 51:1–19 ESV

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.

We have two needs that this passage declares:

We Need to be Reconciled.

Reconciliation begins with recognition:

Have Mercy vs 1 — take out the record against me

Wash Me vs 2 — make me clean from what has made me dirty

I know vs. 3 — the failures — the choices (Ps. 32:5)

You are just vs 4 — you are right in your judgement of me

I was born so vs. 5 — sin nature from parents with the same depravity

Show me a better way vs. 6 — give me your way — build me differently (Job 28:18)

Clean me vs. 7 — ceremonially and per your design (Ex. 12:22; Heb. 9:19

Hebrews 9:19 ESV

19 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

Let me take pleasure in what is required vs. 8 — you know...you find out Ps. 44:19

Psalm 44:19 ESV

19 yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

Make me redeemed vs. 9 — a desire for THE LORD to look no longer on the wrong Jer. 16:17

Jeremiah 16:17 ESV

17 For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from me, nor is their iniquity concealed from my eyes.

We Need to be Transformed.

What is required?

Clean Heart — 10

His Presence — 11

Restoration of Joy - 12

I can exhort others — 13 a plea to serve

Deliverance — 14

A Return to Praise — 15

A Recognition of God’s Requirement - 16 —

Brokenness — 17

Boundaries — 18

Right Understanding of Worship — 19

We Have Hope & A Promise!

1 John 1:8–10 ESV

8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Walking Away, But In...

Turn Away - from Sin

Turn Towards - The Lord

Repeat