Psalm 51:13-19 The Result of Mercy
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Psalm 51:13-19
Psalm 51:13-19
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.
This last section display the result of of mercy as selflessness - a genuine concern for others restoration, renewal, & joy.
The sinner cries out for mercy - v.1
The sinner sees the depth of his own sin & his inability - v.3-4
The sinner desires to experiences restoration and renewal - V.7
The sinner desires to experience the sweetness of a restored joy - V.8
The sinner will show concern for others to experience restoration and renewal. (Today)
vv. 13-19 Read
Jude 20-23
20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life. 22 And have mercy on those who doubt; 23 save others by snatching them out of the fire; to others show mercy with fear, hating even the garment stained by the flesh.
24 Now to him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you blameless before the presence of his glory with great joy,
Last week: non repentance is dangerous
Non repentance impact those around us - It did David.
Main idea: The LORD God graciously works through those who cry for mercy.
Main idea: The LORD God graciously works through those who cry for mercy.
The Result of Mercy is Active Disciple-making - V.13
The Result of Mercy is Active Disciple-making - V.13
Psalm 51:13
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
Do I see disciple-making as leading others to walk repentance?
Do I see following Jesus as learning to walk in repentance?
After mercy is applied “then I will” (7 ways the Lord will apply Mercy into David)
Even As David is still actively pursuing restoration and renewal and joy his mind is thinking of his people.
“There is a joyous connection between a joyous faith and an infectious one.”
When you experience restoration/renewal/ joy you want to leads others to it as well.”
“Your Ways” ??
Deuteronomy 26:16-17
16 “This day the Lord your God commands you to do these statutes and rules. You shall therefore be careful to do them with all your heart and with all your soul. 17 You have declared today that the Lord is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his rules, and will obey his voice.
In the context, the “ways” of God probably means how God deals with sinners—that is, the way in which he afflicts them in their sin and accounts them righteous on the basis of the sacrifices, which point forward to the atoning work of Christ, when they confess it
Rom 4:7-8 (Quoting Ps.32)
7 “Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
8 blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
Once forgiven David would communicate the truth to others with the goal to others turn back to God by acknowledging and forsaking their sin
Matt 28:20
20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.”
David’s heart! My fall will ultimately lead to the restoration of others.
Do we believe that we can teach others through our own failures? But to do that you must have had mercy applied.
Write down one person that you desire to restored and walking in repentance?
Are you actively pursuing or discipling them?
The Result of Mercy is Active Disciple-making and
The Result of Mercy is Authentic Worship - v.14-17
The Result of Mercy is Authentic Worship - v.14-17
Worship as disciple-making And disciple-making as authentic worship.
(Teach) God’s ways - Ps. 51:13
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
(Sing of) God’s faithfulness - Ps. 51:14 (Righteousness)
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
David’s faith is growing? How? by the exercise of prayer.
He confesses sin more plainly in this verse than before, and yet he deals with God more confidently.
the word righteousness in verse 14 is not so much the righteousness of God as he is in himself, but rather God’s faithdfulness in the justification of sinners.
David desire to preach God’s ways to the wandering and the wounded, and now he will sing of God’s faithfulness in their rescue.
(Declare) God’s praise - Ps. 51:15
15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
Lord = Adonia = Master
"Great mercies call for great songs" - Spurgeon
Declare: to state emphatically and authoritatively (inseparable from disciple-making)
What will be the result of being free from guilt and shame?
His lips are shut by shame, grief and horror
Someone released from guilt, and wrath, and shame cannot help but declare in some fitting way the goodness of God displayed towards themselves or other. Ps. 50 :14,23
Ex: Oliver/Elvis
(Understand) God’s delight - Ps. 51:16-17
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.
V. 16 - Spurgeon - The psalmist saw far beyond the symbolic ritual; his eye of faith gazed with delight upon the actual atonement
“Broken” - plural Broken =bruised or crushed
Ezek 6:9 - God is telling of the judgment that is coming
English Standard Version Chapter 6
how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols.
To understand what God delights is to understand what “breaks God’s heart” (dont make God like us… context is Judgement )
v. 17 - Same word - “broken” - crush to pieces - shatter
“Contrite” - sorrow - to crush
Humility before God and brokenness over sin are the expression of a genuine confession and David knew it.
He wants to praise God but only out of a broken spirit and a contrite heart for this and this only is what delights his Lord.
Are you saying that God delights for me to be sorrowful? No, God delight in you being humble?
What God requires in regenerate people is a yielded spirit, which will express itself in willing obedience.
Rom 6:1-2
1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Experiencing God’s delight begins in delighting in God’s ways
How do I worship God in brokenness?
That which breaks the heart is God's Word - Jer. 23:29
29 Is not my word like fire, declares the Lord, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
Never yet has God spurned a lowly, weeping penitent, and never will he while God is love, and while Jesus is called the man who receives sinners.
The Result of Mercy is a Concern for God’s people - V.18-19
The Result of Mercy is a Concern for God’s people - V.18-19
psalm 51:18 - seems almost out of place?
18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
build up the walls of Jerusalem;
Two opinions about v.18-19 -written by David or written later and added by exiles. (No doubt this psalm played into the exiles repentance. Well see in application)
This could not be written by the exiles because they could not have offered sacrifices
Either way:
My sin never affects only me
Sin is ultimately against God...BUT
His sin has affected the people of God
By his sin he had not only weakened his own devotion and relationship with the Lord but the people also
He is asking to repair the breaches that his sin has made.
Ex: Wall metaphor - hole in the wall and my sin made it!
Secret sin knock holes in the walls of our families, marriages and churches!
Unconfessed sin quenches our worship and stifles our mission.
He feared like Achan his sin will affect the people of God.
Psalm 51:19 - The heart must be right before sacrifice can be right
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
“then will you”
Worship is the fruit of our devotion to the Lord, it is not a substitute for it. -The fruit of a sincere heart is worship
My Sunday worship/devotion is the fruit/culmination of my weekly worship/devotion
Authentic worship always leads to extravagant, selfless generosity.
Whole burnt offering =entirely consumed - complete surrender or offering
Rom 12:1
1 I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship.
Bullocks were the largest and mostly costly sacrifice - radical sacrificial generosity
How do we motivate each other to lives of spiritual worship?
Actively disciple-making - authentic worship - A Genuine care for each others holiness.
So Then?
So Then?
Will I cry out and return to the Lord?
Will I cry out and return to the Lord?
Davids greatest fear came true. After him, The people followed their wicked leaders and The Lord brought his discipline hand on them and from exile the became aware of their sin, cried out to their Lord and he came! This is the grand story of Redemptive history; We sin, we cry & He comes to Us!
Lam 3:40
40 Let us test and examine our ways,
and return to the Lord!
Will I pursue the wandering and the wounded?
Will I pursue the wandering and the wounded?
Matt 18:10-14
English Standard Version Chapter 18
10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven. 12 What do you think? If a man has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? 13 And if he finds it, truly, I say to you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. 14 So it is not the will of my Father who is in heaven that one of these little ones should perish.
Motivation?
We love because we are love loved
we are gracious because we have been filled by His grace.
We pursue because we have been pursued
We seek because we have been found
As The Father sent me so I send you! - John 20:21
21 Jesus said to them again, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I am sending you.”
Two responses this morning:
1- We are going to stand and worship our Lord for his grace
Then I will come and invite us to the Lord’s table
2- We are going to come to the tables
Prayer
1 John 3:1-3
1 See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is. 3 And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.
Let us come to the table take both elements and then I will come lead us to take together
23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body, which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord’s death until he comes.