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Psalm 51:13-19

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

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.

The Result of Mercy is Active Disciple-making - V.13

Psalm 51:13

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

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)

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

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

Worship as disciple-making And disciple-making as authentic worship.

(Teach) God’s ways - Ps. 51:13

(Sing of) God’s faithfulness - Ps. 51:14 (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

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

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

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

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

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

psalm 51:18 - seems almost out of place?

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

“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

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?

Will I cry out and return to the Lord?