What Does God Want From Me?

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Going to go through . Going to do something that you can do when you read your Bible, ask two questions;

What does this teach me about me/people?

What does this teach me about God?

The story behind ; David and Bathsheba,

Going to walk through . Going to do something that you can do when you read your Bible, ask two questions;

What does this teach me about me/people?

What does this teach me about God?

Title: What does God want from me?

David knows his God. Called “a man after God’s own heart. God is loving and just/right/fair. He is both.

Sometimes we only think of Him as one, or the other.

Sometimes we don’t think of Him as either one, but that is usually because we are focusing on the wrong things.

At first David tried to hide what he did. Then he ignored it. Then God, in His love and rightness, helped David remember. Not to punish him, but to save him.

What is sin? Both an attitude, and actions.

Attitude - I am the boss. I decide what is right and wrong for me.

Actions - Doing what your attitude tells you to do.

Jesus on murder and sleeping around.

The result is separation or distancing from God.

How bad does the sin need to be? Crossing the line - one step, one hundred steps, doesn’t matter.

10 commandments and a chain.

Two greatest commandments.

Love can be misdirected.

God, someone else, something else, self.

In the end, sin makes you hide it or yourself, it makes you forget it, or forget yourself. God, in his mercy, compassion, and unfailing love, wants to expose it, in order to heal us of it. Like a doctor and a cancerous growth.

David knows that God is merciful, compassionate, loving, and just. So he goes to God in prayer to deal with this cancer of sin.

Title: What does God want from me?

Psalm 51:1-2

Mercy - not getting what you do deserve, but with feeling. Like a cop dad pulling over his kid.

Unfailing love - fierce friendship, loyalty

Compassion - brotherly love, feeling for someone as you would your own family.

Blot out - erase, wipe clean

Wash - treading out

Guilt - not the feeling the guilt, but the fact of guilt. The feeling will follow.

Purify - usually involves sacrifice, or fire. Smelting.

Do you see the escalation?

Who is doing it? God. David isn’t asking how to do it to himself, he isn’t trying to show God how good he is apart from all of this.

What does this teaching me about God? What does this teach me about God?

He is merciful toward me, He is fiercely loyal for me, He loves me like I am his own family.

What does this teach me about me?

I am not entitled, I don’t deserve these things from God, but I can ask for them at any time.

3 - This has to be in our heart from the beginning, an awareness of this truth. Sermons without sin are only have preached. You can’t apologize unless you know what you’ve done wrong. Me, Brian, Mandy, and camp.

4 - What about Bathsheba, Uriah, David’s family? I think David would agree, but sin attitude is against God, actions are against God and people.

What does this teach me about me? What does this teach me about God?

That I am the one who is wrong, I can’d do anything about it until I feel convicted by it and go to God with it.

What does this teach me about God?

That God is right, but doesn’t rub it in my face. God never says, “Neener neener.”

5 - Are we born with a desire to do good or bad? Ever raise a child? “Sin nature.”

6 - The reality of our sin nature vs what God wants for us. Inmost being, inner person, deep or hidden parts. Heart. Maybe womb in context.

What does this teach me about me? What does this teach me about God?

That I was born this way, and being born any way doesn’t make anything right.

What does this teach me about God?

God’s desire is to shape me into his ideal version of me, not my ideal version of me. I need to cooperate with that.

- Riff

Up until now dealing with what to do about sin, where sin comes from. David now shifts to how he feels about his sin, how it has been dealt with, and feeling connected to God.

What does this teach me about me? What does this teach me about God?

I can come back from this, not because of what I can do, but because of what God has done.

What does this teach me about God?

God wants to do this, He wants this for you and me.

- Riff

David now shifts to living out a forgiven life.

“and” isn’t conditional, its the result. It isn’t “God, if you do this, I will do that.” It is “God, as you do this I will be doing that.”

What does this teach me about me? What does this teach me about God?

Not only can I come back from this, my disasters can be used to help others.

God wants to work through me to help others!

What does this teach me about God?

That God is right, but doesn’t rub it in my face. God never says, “Neener neener.”

- Riff

This message is titled, “What does God want from me?” The answer is here.

God doesn’t want sacrifices? What about all that stuff at the beginning of the Bible that all about animal sacrifices? What about Jesus?

To the person who doesn’t have a spirit and a heart that isn’t broken by their own sin, going through the motions that God requires doesn’t matter.

When our kids were little and one of them did something to the other, we would try to teach them the need to say “sorry” and ask “will you forgive me?” You could always tell when they were going through the motions.

A “repentant heart” is one that wants to change, or be changed. To repent doesn’t just me to change your actions, or to just turn around. It means to change the way you think so that you change the way you act.

Paul in tells us to be transformed, be changed, by the renewing of our minds. Our minds, our thinking needs to be changed so that our actions can change. Only God can do that.

Don’t just quit drugs or whatever, change the way you think about them.

Don’t just quit being angry at people, change the way you think about them.

Don’t just stop sleeping around, change the way you think about people.

What does this teach me about me? What does this teach me about God?

That God wants my heart first, and then my actions.

Since He wants broken up heart and spirit, I can and should take them to Him. Which can be harder than the actions.

Without getting into all of the historical and cultural background, I’m going to skip to the pattern principle we can apply to ourselves.

David was the king. As the king goes, so goes the kingdom. Now that David had dealt with his heart and his sin, His kingdom would prosper and David’s people would also worship God with a right heart.

We have influence on the people around us. Spouses, kids, other family, coworkers, bosses, employees. Whatever is happening in us affects those around us, our relationships. As we deal with out own hearts and actions, it will also affect the people around us, the business around us, the world around us, and God will get the credit.

Preach the Romans Road

- All have sinned…

God demonstrates His love for us…

The wages of sin is death…

if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2016). (). Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles.

Bring your broken heart and spirit, bring your repentant heart through this, and you will have a new life.

Alter call kind of thing