The Joy and Blessings of Forgiveness
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· 12 viewsPsalm 32 teaches us that happy people are forgiven people who know how to confess their sin and trust in God.
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Introduction:
Lloyd Jones prescription on sick patients.
Americans on what makes the Happy.
Miserable and unhappy Christians.
What makes you happy?
For my kids, ice cream makes them happy.
Or maybe your kids makes you happy.
Maybe a new set of clothes or shoes for the school year makes you happy.
Or maybe increases in wealth and money makes you happy.
A new home or a new care makes you happy.
Defining happiness can mean different things to different people. Because too often happiness can seem fleeting doesn’t it even when our hearts long to be happy.
I just wanna be happy
But if I keep on doing the things
That keep on bringing me pain
There's no one else I can blame
If I'm not happy
Wasted time but now I can see
The biggest enemy it was me
So I'm not happy
Cry yourself to sleep
Shout and raise your hands
It wont change a thing child
Until you understand
If you're tired of being the same
If you're tired of things not changing
It's time for you to get out the way
Don't get stuck in how you feel
Say Jesus take the wheel
He knows the road that you need to take
(But it only works if)
If you wanna be happy
(Look at yourself and say)
Don't you wanna be happy
I just wanna be happy
But when it comes to a Christian, what do you thinks makes a Christian happy?
Have you ever thought that forgiveness makes the Christian happy? A Christian is supremely happy and satisfied in God because he has been forgiven. Forgiveness of sins is essential to understanding who God is and who we are as sinners. And a forgiven sinner is a happy saint who knows what He has been forgiven of and continually places his trust in God.
Have you ever thought forgiveness makes you happy?
Miserable and unhappy Christians.
Today, we are going to look at the joy and blessings of forgiveness. Forgiveness brings many benefits including happiness, but also renewed trust and joy in the Lord.
We are taking a break in Mark and looking at a few Psalms this month. Calvin called the Psalms an “anatomy of the soul.” In other words, the psalms deal with wide range of human emotions: happiness, sorrow, pain, grief, praise, and cries of deliverance and for justice. If you notice in introduction of the Psalm, it says it was a Maskil of David. We don’t know it is written by David. The word Maskil may mean some type of musical term for singing, or it means instruction on how to confess sin and be happy in the Lord.
Calvin called the Psalms an “anatomy of the soul.”
Main Proposition: gives us three practices of a happy Christian, so that we may rejoice in the blessings of God’s forgiveness. Happy Christians are those who know their sin has been forgiven.
I. The Happy Man declares God’s mercy (vv. 1-2)
II. The Happy Man confesses his sin (vv. 3-5)
III. The Happy Man trusts his gracious God (vv. 6-11)
Context:
gives us probably the context of the psalm. It is probably related when Nathan the prophet confronts David because of his adultery with Bathsheba. is his confession, while psalm 32 is his declaration of his forgiveness.
Context:
You remember David stayed in Jerusalem when his forces rode off battle. He was on his rooftop and saw a beautiful woman bathing and asked for her to come to him. He slept with her. And she found out she was pregnant. And then tried to cover up his sin by bringing Uriah back from the frontlines trying to intoxicate him and get him to sleep with his wife. But he would not go home.
Instead, Uriah was more noble than David and knew his men were at war and knew it was not time to rest and recreation. David commanded his leaders to make Uriah fight in the front lines and withdrew indirectly causing the murder of one of his own mighty men.
2 Samuel 11:28
2 Samuel 11:
And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.
David tried to conceal his sin for a year until He was exposed by the prophet Nathan as he spoke to him in a parable about a rich man stealing a little lamb from a poor man. David was indignant that such a man would do something so wicked. And Nathan said “You are the man!”
David knew he was guilty. And then he confessed his sin and was restored because God was merciful.
2 Samuel 12:13
David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.” And Nathan said to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall not die.
This is his testimony of God’s forgiveness.
Scripture Reading:
Scripture Reading:
A Maskil of David.
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
they shall not reach him.
You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.
Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
The first practice of a happy Christian is that He declares He has been forgiven.
I. The Happy Man Declares God’s Mercy (vv. 1-2)
I. The Happy Man Declares God’s Mercy (vv. 1-2)
Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Blessed can also be translated “happy” or “fortunate”. It is a state of peace and wholeness. And David says “Happy” is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, whom the Lord counts no iniquity.
In a TGC Article, “#Blessed May Not Mean What You Think”
Search #blessed on Instagram, and you will find more than 100 million posts. The hashtag highlights pictures of beautiful places, toned bodies, new babies, graduations, successes, and abundance. Scrolling down, you’ll see recent business startups, wonderful technology, new marriages, and fancy cars.
If you look at the Psalms, begins with Blessed is the Maw who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked.
Blessed is the man who meditates on God’s Law
In the NT
Blessed are the poor in spirit
Blessed are those who mourn
Blessed are the meek
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst and rigtheousness
And in this Psalm we see Blessed are those who are forgiven. Happy or fortunate are those who are forgiven. When the Bible speaks of blessing or happiness, it is not speaking of something that is fading or temporary, but often of spiritual blessings and long-lasting.
Three Terms for Sin
A. Transgressions
And noticed the first term for sin. It is the term transgressions. Willful rebellion against God. God says something, and it is deliberately consciously saying to God “no” and go against what God has said.
God told Adam, “You shall not eat from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.” And Adam and Eve still did it anyways.
B. Sin
Sin is missing the mark. It is an archer shooting the arrow and missing the bulls eye completely. The NT defines it as falling short of God’s glory or standard.
for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
C. Iniquity
The third term for sin is iniquity. It speaks of something twisted or crooked. It speaks of something that has been inwardly corrupted.
I think of Smeagol the Hobbit who was corrupted by the ring’s power who became a ugly and hiddeous creature on the outside because his soul was corrupted.
Our nature, by the corruption of the first sin, [being] so deeply curved in on itself that it not only bends the best gifts of God towards itself and enjoys them (as is plain in the works-righteous and hypocrites), or rather even uses God himself in order to attain these gifts, but it also fails to realize that it so wickedly, curvedly, and viciously seeks all things, even God, for its own sake."[2] Martin Luther
To talk of sin in our culture is not popular. The culture and even churches will even try to minimize the language of sin.
Instead of calling it sin, we rename sin and call it sickness.
Instead of speaking of transgressions, we call it mistakes.
Instead of speaking of iniquities, we call it disorder.
Instead of speaking of real guilt, we tell others to just forgive ourselves.
When you minimize sin, you minimize the holiness of God. If you do not feel the gravity of sin, you will not see the depths of God’s grace.
was Augustine’s favorite psalm by the way.
Psalms, Volume 1: (Psalms 1–41): An Expositional Commentary Psalm 32: A Great Man’s Great Testimony
This was Saint Augustine’s favorite psalm. Augustine had it inscribed on the wall next to his bed before he died in order to meditate on it better. He liked it because, as he said: intelligentia prima est ut te noris peccatorem (the beginning of knowledge is to know oneself to be a sinner).
The beginning of good works is the confession of evil works.
Three Terms for Forgiveness
Commentary on the Old Testament Psalm 32
The forgiveness of sin is styled נָשָׂא (Exod. 34:7), as a lifting up and taking away, αἴρειν and ἀφαιρεῖν, Exod. 34:7; כִּסָּה (Ps. 85:3, Prov. 10:12, Neh. 3:37), as a covering, so that it becomes invisible to God, the Holy One, and is as though it had never taken place; לֹא חָשַׁב (2 Sam. 19:20, cf. Arab. ḥsb, to number, reckon, ουʼ λογίζεσθαι, Rom. 4:6–9), as a non-imputing; the δικαιοσύνη χωρὶς ἔργων is here distinctly expressed.
A. Forgiven
A. Forgiven
Thee word is to be lifted up or taken away.
In Pilgrim’s Progress, Christian has a heavy burden of sin he carries only until he comes to Calvary where the burden is “lifted off”.
To be forgiven is to have your sins “lifted from you and taken away.”
B. Covers
Blessed is the man whose sin is covered. We can think of the OT imagery of sacrifice and the mercy seat. Where blood was sprinkled on the Ark after a sacrifice was made and the sin was covered by God’s mercy.
C. Counts no iniquity
Reckons or counts no iniquity is an accounting term. Blessed is the man who God does not credit iniquity.
You understand this term if you have a credit. If you debt, you owe the creditors that amount. But if you or someone pays the debt, you receive credit for the debt paid.
It is the same language in Romans.
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due.
For what does the Scripture say? “Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness.” Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Romans 4:
The one who trust in God, he is credited righteousness. David is happy because he his rebellion has been forgiven, his sins have been covered, and his corruption is not credited to him.
Blessed in the man in whom there is no deceit or guile. In other words, blessed is the man who has nothing to hide. Blessed is the man who is sincere.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
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.
God wants an honesty.
Christian—Let us not rationalize or minimize or sin. God knows all things. Let’s call a spade for a spade. Or let’s now beat around the bush when we sinned against God. Let us be specific with our sin and own up to our sin because God knows. And God is merciful. He will lift our sins and cover our sins if we confess it to him.
Non-Christian—We tend to seek happiness in things that do not satisfy or things that are fleeting. We try to fill our leaky hearts without God. Happiness is found not in running away from God but running to God. Have you experienced the forgiveness of God? Have you considered that you belong to God, yet you have missed the way? You have gone your own way? You have rebelled against his good commands? If you turn to Him, He will be merciful to you and gracious to you.
Church—As we celebrate communion today. Let us remember what the Lord has accomplished to remember what he did to achieve the forgiveness of our sins. Communion should be a special time to confess our sins to God and what it took Jesus to forgive our rebellion and corruption.
A Christian understands his sinful nature and looks to God’s mercy. But a happy man not only declares God’s mercy, a happy man knows how to confess sin to God because He knows he is merciful.
II. The Happy Man Confesses His Sin to God (vv. 3-5)
II. The Happy Man Confesses His Sin to God (vv. 3-5)
A. Sin Kills Happiness. Sin kills joy.
We see that Adam and Eve lived in paradise and were completely happy in God and in one another. It was only until sin was introduced where sadness and sorrow came.
Sin is a happiness killer. It is a joy killer.
And the natural response of every human being is to hide and cover when we sin. Adam and Eve tried to hide and cover by sewing fig leaves upon themselves.
Israel tried to that with false worship and empty ritual.
We may do trying to hide in our careers, successes, wealth, or even religion. Religion could be a cover up rather than dealing with a our sin. And noticed the pain David experienced when he tried to conceal his sin.
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
David tried to cover his sin for a whole year before confronted by the Prophet Nathan. And when he kept silent, his bones wasted away. In other words, his sin affected him physically. Now, this is not to say that all physical illness is related to sin. But in some cases, like in David’s, this particular case made him physically weary.
Martyn Lloyd Jones was a gifted and aspiring medical doctor in St. Bartholemew’s Hospital. He would of have a successful career as a medical doctor. But as he was interning and diagnosing patients, he realized that many physical symptoms were related to spiritual problems.
People were not eating because of anxiety.
People were not level-heaved because they had a drinking problem.
And this realization made Lloyd Jones leave the medical career and become a preacher with little income because many problems were related to spiritual causes.
He felt God’s hand of discipline and judgment for trying to cover his sin.
His strength was dried up and couldn’t do anything because of his sin.
Illustration: Palm Springs
We went to Palm Springs a few weeks ago. Do you know what people do in Palm Springs? Nothing. They stay inside their hotels. Why? Because it is extremely hot. When we were there, it was 115-120 degrees. The minute you step outside of your hotel room, you feel the rush of heat. You are thirsty. You are tired. You get sluggish and do not want to do anything because it is so hot.
Well David said his strength was dried up like the heat of summer.
He had no energy to rule or lead. He had become spiritually sluggish because of his sin.
I wonder why we don’t have more men or women serving in ministry? I wonder how many people serve because they have not dealt with their sin. They are spiritually sluggish because the carry the weight of guilt around and don’t know the joy and blessings of confessing and being forgiven by God.
B. Confession Restores Happiness (v. 5)
I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Confession restores the soul. It restores happiness. David uses the same three words in verses one and two. And he says “I acknowledge” “I did not cover” “I will confess”
Hypocrites fail to acknowledge their sin. Hypocrites minimize their sin and cover their sin. Hypocrites because of their pride do not confess their sin.
But a true believer will acknowledge, uncover, and confess their sin.
Here is the lesson:
If you try to cover your sin, eventually God will uncover your sin and expose you.
But if you uncover your sin to God, God will immediately cover your sin and protect you.
Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper,
but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
Christian—Have you been trying to conceal and cover your sin? Eventually your sin will find you out and you will be exposed. But as Christians, we know that we should be the most honest people in the world because God knows all things and God is merciful. Confession is good for the soul. Confession frees the soul of guilt. And confession relies on God’s mercy.
Confession is an acknowledgment of our shortcomings.
Confession Renews Trust in God.
Confession uncovers sin for what is without minimizing it or excusing it.
Confession agrees with what God has said in his word.
Confession to God is not merely admitting our sin as real but also rejecting our sin as repulsive. John Piper
Confession will lead to repentance and renewed trust in God.
Church—As a church, we should be regularly confessing our sins before God in the prayer of confession. We should confess our sins to one another.
Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.
Christian—You can be assured that God will forgive you because He does not lie and He is faithful to His Word.
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world.
Transition: The Happy Man not only declares the mercy of God in being forgiven of sin, he knows how to be happy because he knows how to confess his or her sin, but finally, the happy man continually trusts his gracious God.
III. The Happy Man Trusts His Gracious God (vv. 6-11)
III. The Happy Man Trusts His Gracious God (vv. 6-11)
The text breaks down neatly into three expression of trust. A happy man will pray, will listen, and will worship His God.
III. The Happy Man Trusts His Gracious God (vv. 6-11)
III. The Happy Man Trusts His Gracious God (vv. 6-11)
I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
they shall not reach him.
You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
Therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
they shall not reach him.
Psalm 32:
Those who look to him are radiant,
and their faces shall never be ashamed.
A. Pray
The first expression of trust is praying to God.
Therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
they shall not reach him.
You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
Psalm
Rush of great waters speaks of great danger or being overwhelmed with a flood. But the godly man cries out to God for protection and hides in God. He rests in the fact that God will preserve Him from trouble.
IV. The Believer’s Instruction
IV. The Believer’s Instruction
B. Listening
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.
You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
But not only a trusting man will be praying to God, he will be listening to God. God will instruct and teach us in the way we should go. Whether it is David speaking here:
Psalm 32:
Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
Or God is not the point. The point is that the Holy Spirit speaking through David is telling us we should listen.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Adam had a listening problem.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
Israel had a listening problem by failing to listen to God through prophets.
And we too have a listening problem.
Do not be an untamed horse who rushes along or a untamed mule who drags along. God is saying, “don’t be dumb.” Don’t live like an animal that does not listen to God’s good instructions.
Fools reject reproof and instruction.
A whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey,
and a rod for the back of fools.
Do you listen to God? Do you listen to Him privately? And corporately? And even as God speaks through others to you?
One of the most important things we do every Sunday is listen to God’s Word. Are you listening? Are you actively listening? Are you putting what you listen to into practice?
Psalm 34:
C. Worship
Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
The last expression of a happy man who trust in God is he worships God.
Many are the sorrows are the wicked. Sin brings sadness. But the steadfast or covenant love of the Lord surrounds those who trusts in the the Lord
Notice the expressions for worship: Be Glad in the Lord, Rejoice, and Shout for Joy.
V. The Believer’s Praise
V. The Believer’s Praise
The forgiven are those trusting. The forgiven are righteous in God’s sight because they trust in God. And the upright in heart praise God for His mercy and forgiveness.
Christian—Can I encourage you to show up on time? Singing is not just to kill time before we get to the sermon. Singing is worship. A Christian will want to rejoice and sing God’s praise. Your heart will sing a tune because you know what God has done for you. The natural response of a forgiven sinner is praise.
It is one who is satisfied in the Lord. One who rejoices in the Lord and and praises God.
A trusting man is happy because he can turn to the Lord in prayer and feel secure, listen to His word because the Lord guides and directs, and worships because He knows the joy and blessings of forgiveness.
A happy man is a forgiven man. He is a blessed man because he knows and declares God’s mercy. He confesses His sin. He trusts in God.
God is merciful. God is trustworthy because he has shown it to us in Jesus Christ. Paul in fact picks up on this same Psalm.
NT Gospel
Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!
Now to the one who works, his wages are not counted as a gift but as his due. And to the one who does not work but believes in him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness, just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
“Blessed are those whose lawless deeds are forgiven,
and whose sins are covered;
blessed is the man against whom the Lord will not count his sin.”
Romans 4:
Wiersbe’s Expository Outlines on the Old Testament Psalms 32 and 51
The past is forgiven—the present is joyful—and the future is secure in the hands of God.
The Book of Psalms Psalm 32: Celebrating Forgiveness
This psalm celebrates what is the very heart of the Christian tradition, God’s grace and forgiveness that allows for us to know true happiness.
God justifies the ungodly. God justifies the sinner. How does he do that?
The floods will not surround us because the flood of God’s wrath rushed upon Jesus.
Psalms, Volumes 1–2: A Mentor Commentary 1. The Blessing of Pardon (vv. 1–2)
Three terms for sin are used. ‘Transgressions’ (péshaʿ) refers to acts of rebellion against God, while ‘sins’ (chatâʾâh) is the broadest term for sin in the Old Testament. It denotes in general a missing of the mark, and hence an offence against God. The third term (ʿâvôn), also translated as ‘sin’ in the NIV, has the idea of distortion or twisting from the right way. The wonderful thing that the psalmist can sing about is that all three kinds of sin can be forgiven by God. He can remove sin as far as the east is from the west (Ps. 103:12).
Ours sins have been lifted because Jesus was lifted on a cross.
Our sins have been covered because Jesus covered our sin for us.
Our corruption and iniquities have not been counted against us because it has been counted on Christ and we have been credited His righteousness.
Psalms, Volume 1: (Psalms 1–41): An Expositional Commentary Psalm 32: A Great Man’s Great Testimony
This was Saint Augustine’s favorite psalm. Augustine had it inscribed on the wall next to his bed before he died in order to meditate on it better. He liked it because, as he said: intelligentia prima est ut te noris peccatorem (the beginning of knowledge is to know oneself to be a sinner).
“David here teaches us that the happiness of men consists only in the free forgiveness of sins, for nothing can be more terrible than to have God for our enemy; nor can he be gracious to us in any other way than by pardoning our transgressions” John Calvin
“The sum is, that there is no other remedy for our afflictions but to humble ourselves under God’s hand, and to find our salvation on his mercy alone; and that those who rely on God shall be blessed in all respects, because, on whatever side Satan may assault them, there will the Lord oppose him, and shield them with his protecting power” John Calvin
Have you experienced the joy and blessings of forgiveness? When you do, you will be satisfied and happy in God.
I sing because I’m happy.
I sing because I’m free.
His eye is on the sparrow and I know He watches me.
Let us pray.
"Specifically, this psalm was written by David to teach the people of God to confess their sins to the Lord." Lawson
Forgiven "to have one's sin lifted off".
Bones wasted away means David's "physical stamina and vitality were drained".
"The confession of sin is the uncovering of our sin before God, exposing it for what it is." Steve Lawson
Happy people are forgiven people who know how to confess their sin and trust in God.
Transgression "going away from, departure, rebellion, or defiance."
Sins "to miss the mark, miss the way, to go wrong, to go astray."
Iniquity "corrupt, twisted, bent, crooked."
Deceit "deception" Cf. 51:6
“Seek the Lord while he may be found;
call upon him while he is near;
Commentary on the Old Testament Psalm 32
The forgiveness of sin is styled נָשָׂא (Exod. 34:7), as a lifting up and taking away, αἴρειν and ἀφαιρεῖν, Exod. 34:7; כִּסָּה (Ps. 85:3, Prov. 10:12, Neh. 3:37), as a covering, so that it becomes invisible to God, the Holy One, and is as though it had never taken place; לֹא חָשַׁב (2 Sam. 19:20, cf. Arab. ḥsb, to number, reckon, ουʼ λογίζεσθαι, Rom. 4:6–9), as a non-imputing; the δικαιοσύνη χωρὶς ἔργων is here distinctly expressed.
Commentary on the Old Testament Psalm 32
Sin is called פֶּשַׁע, as being a breaking loose or tearing away from God; חֲטָאָה, as a deviation from that which is well-pleasing to God; עָוֹן, as a perversion, distortion, misdeed.
Commentary on the Old Testament Psalm 32
The forgiveness of sin is styled נָשָׂא (Exod. 34:7), as a lifting up and taking away, αἴρειν and ἀφαιρεῖν, Exod. 34:7; כִּסָּה (Ps. 85:3, Prov. 10:12, Neh. 3:37), as a covering, so that it becomes invisible to God, the Holy One, and is as though it had never taken place; לֹא חָשַׁב (2 Sam. 19:20, cf. Arab. ḥsb, to number, reckon, ουʼ λογίζεσθαι, Rom. 4:6–9), as a non-imputing; the δικαιοσύνη χωρὶς ἔργων is here distinctly expressed.
Commentary on the Old Testament Psalm 32
The forgiveness of sin is styled נָשָׂא (Exod. 34:7), as a lifting up and taking away, αἴρειν and ἀφαιρεῖν, Exod. 34:7; כִּסָּה (Ps. 85:3, Prov. 10:12, Neh. 3:37), as a covering, so that it becomes invisible to God, the Holy One, and is as though it had never taken place; לֹא חָשַׁב (2 Sam. 19:20, cf. Arab. ḥsb, to number, reckon, ουʼ λογίζεσθαι, Rom. 4:6–9), as a non-imputing; the δικαιοσύνη χωρὶς ἔργων is here distinctly expressed.
Commentary on the Old Testament Psalm 32
The forgiveness of sin is styled נָשָׂא (Exod. 34:7), as a lifting up and taking away, αἴρειν and ἀφαιρεῖν, Exod. 34:7; כִּסָּה (Ps. 85:3, Prov. 10:12, Neh. 3:37), as a covering, so that it becomes invisible to God, the Holy One, and is as though it had never taken place; לֹא חָשַׁב (2 Sam. 19:20, cf. Arab. ḥsb, to number, reckon, ουʼ λογίζεσθαι, Rom. 4:6–9), as a non-imputing; the δικαιοσύνη χωρὶς ἔργων is here distinctly expressed.
