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If there was one word that described every living person in all of the world, what might it be?
It might be
- humanity.
- The World.
- Peoples
- nations
- powers
Today, I would like to highlight one word in particular, that describes all the World:
Sinners.
Humanity as a whole has many common qualities.
We all need food and water.
We all need shelter.
We all inhabit this earth.
We all desire a future for our children.
Another character quality that speaks of every person in all the world is that we are all sinners.
Which means we each have a huge problem; we all have sinned before God.
Now some have depicted God as an overgrown monster who shows no compassion for the helpless.
- He is Holy dictator ready to smash us like bugs.
In fact, the real denial is the goodness of God as much as it is a denial of our own sin.
Further, a scoffer of religion looks at examples of the horrors of the Middle East to show that self-proclaimed Godly people seek vengeful vengance for sin.
There are a number of sins according to Islam that require an immediate killing by the community.
Therefore, it is not uncommon for someone who has commited a perceived sin to be Murdered in the streets.
What is the one thing that the nations would never expect?
What is the one thing that none of us would do?
Mercy and Grace before God.
Tonight, we are looking at in which David is being persecuted for His sin.
David is being attacked by Self-proclaimed righteous people are looking to have vengeance because of His sin.
Look down at your text in .
Where do we go when we have sinned?
In contrast to the opinion of the nations, we principally should go to God.
Christians, when we sin,
Proposition: We ought to seek God’s Kindness after we Sin.
Transition: and this text tells us 2 ways that God comforts us in the midst of our sin.
Before we begin,
I would like to caveat that we are really focusing on the first 5 verses.
I will briefly discuss the last half of the Psalm at times in the sermon, but the focus of our two comforts comes from verses 1-5.
Let’s being by looking at the situation in David’s life.
We first notice that this is related to sin because David calls for mercy in .
Psalm 6:1
We also know that people are seeking vengeance against David because of this Sin.
“foes/Enemies”
And the combination of his sin and his accusers, makes His soul despair at what His sin has caused.
We see this despair in Psalm 6:2-3.
And the combination of his sin and his accusers, makes His soul despair at what His sin has caused.
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Have you ever been so afraid your bones ache.
Have you ever been so afraid your bones ache.
You try to sleep, but instead you are awake sobbing at the hurt and fear of what is going on.
And perhaps as that happens you recognize that your brought this on yourself.
It is your sin that caused this struggle.
So what do you when the consequences of your sin are all round you?
How often does even the church turn a judgmental eye on someone?
If someone struggles with health problems, we are right there beside them.
However, if someone struggles because of sinful wrong choices; should we not still be there to help them overcome those struggles.
Certainly, people are responsible for their choices and sometimes true love allows the natural consequences of sin to help point someone to do right.
But this should not be the default answer
Further, May I suggest, that when we are suffering because of the consequences of sin, that suffering is still not outside the hand of God.
David is struggling because of His sin.
David is struggling because of his accusers,
and look who he runs to.
1) David calls out for God’s mercy in Judgement.
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He requests for God to withhold his anger, rebuke, and discipline.
In other words, he asks God not to be angry with him and not to give him the righteous punishment he deserves.
He asks for Mercy.
What does God’s unrestrained anger and judgement look like?
Just think about the final judgement.
A description experiencing this kind of Judgement is the Rich man of the Gospel.s
David request, have mercy on me and withhold your anger and judgement.
David asks Yahweh gracious to him despite his sin.
So for David, when he was struggling, he called on God to have grace and mercy in His judgement.
Where should we go when we are under the Judgement of God?
We ought to run to God and plea for his mercy and Grace.
2) David calls out to God for His mercy in the consequences of Sin.
Have you ever commited sin, and there were consequences you face in this life because of those sinful choices.
Maybe you are facing them now.
And while you are facing those consequences, you felt hopeless and overwhelmed.
And while struggling with those consequences you felt too guilty to pray to God to help you in that struggle.
May I say, one of the biggest lies of sin is that I can get away with it.
There are consequences.
But the second biggest lie of sin is that I can’t call to God for help in my struggle with sin’s consequences.
It is ironic,
that those who believe that Christ died for them in mercy and grace, are the same ones who feel that God cannot be their refuge for the consequences of sin that Christ died for.
David did not have this error, and in fact, he called out to God for mercy from the consequences of sin.
Psalm 6:4-
What is he doing?
He is calling on God’s love to deliver him from the consequences of His sin.
Understand, the believer in Christ is never outside the love of God, even when we sin.
Even though we deserve the consequences of sin, God is their to be refuge to those who seek him.
CONCLUSION:
David spoke boldly that God heard his call for mercy.
Mercy over the judgement of his sin
and mercy even over the consequences of sin.
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So remember this the next time you are struggling because of your sinful choices.
Your guilt is paid for, under the blood of Christ.
God so loved you that he paid for the consequences of your sin, physical and eternal death.
If Christ has paid for the final judgement, is God’s mercy not yet available for the temporal consequences of sin in this world.
May we as God’s people rest in the Peace of God’s mercy, even when we sin.
May we as God’s people be as quick to love sinners as we are to love those who struggle for other reasons.
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