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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:
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
This is his testimony of God’s forgiveness.
Scripture Reading:
Scripture Reading:
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)
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
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