Confession | Psalm 51
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The Big Idea: God both produces and delights in the broken hearted, for in them he is glorified and in Him they are satisfied.
The Structure of the Sermon
Examine the expression, confession, hope and activity of a broken spirit
The Psalms adorn our emotions with words.
The psalm presents itself as a spectrum
Acknowledge God’s relationship to a broken and contrite spirit
3. Consider how the truth about God should instruct us moving forward
Our Joy and Delight in God
“A people transformed by the Word of God making disciples for His glory in Blue Ridge and around the World.”
Truth #1 | God breaks the spirit of man
TCBR’s Mission
English Standard Version Psalm 51
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
“To make faithful disciples through the gospel of Jesus for the glory of God.”
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Truth #2 | God takes pleasure in the broken spirit of man
1. Our Zeal and Preparation for Evangelism
2. Your Zeal and Preparation for Evangelism
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
Truth #1 | God breaks the spirit through… (v. 8)
2. Your Zeal and Preparation for Evangelism
The Exposure of Sin ()
2. Our Concern and Care for the Kingdom’s Well-Being
The Manifestation of Sin ()
3. Your Concern and Care for the Kingdom’s Well-Being
The Devastation of Sin ()
A Broken and Contrite Spirit
A Broken and Contrite Spirit
Truth #2 | God takes pleasure in the broken Spirit because… (v. 16-19)
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem; then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
We are satisfied (v. 16-17)
He is glorified (v. 18-19)
A Broken and Contrite Spirit
A Broken and Contrite Spirit
Truth #1 | God is pleased by a broken and contrite heart
Truth #1 | God is pleased by a broken and contrite heart
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Truth #2 | God produces a broken and contrite heart
Truth #2 | God produces a broken and contrite heart
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
A Broken and Contrite Spirit
A Broken and Contrite Spirit
The Expression of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
The Expression of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
The Expression (v. 1-2)
This Psalm is not a ritual. This is not a empty reciting of the Lord’s prayer, “Father forgive our debts as we forgive our debtors.” This is not a forced apology. This Psalm of David comes from a place of deep emotion. “Have mercy on me, O God!”
Absolute Desperation
When David opens his mouth in , he speaks from a broken and contrite Spirit, and immediately two expressions become clear, absolute desperation and genuine emotion. David said, "Have mercy !" Only those at the end of their rope cry out for mercy. David heard the Word of God from Nathan the prophet and and his hopeless situation and inevitable death became real. He knew the Law. He know that there was no sacrifice for adultery and murder. He knew that death was his just reward. He had only one thing to do, he had to desperately plea for mercy.
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at the end of their rope cry out for mercy. David heard the Word of
God from Nathan the prophet and
and his hopeless situation and
inevitable death became real. He
knew the Law. He know
that there was no sacrifice for
adultery and murder. He know
that death was his just renard. He
had only one thing to do, he
had to desperately Des for mercy.
Genuine Emotion
This desperation as you night imagine was drenched in emotion. David did not simply calculate his actions and their just reward. His guilt and status before a just and holy God crushed him! He says, “Have mercy O God! The "O”! is the expression of a soul in turmoil! In the expression of the emotional turmoil of the sinner is even more clear:
was drenched in emotion. David
did not simply calculate his actions
nd their just renard. His guilt and
status before-just and holy guard
Have you ever been in a desperate place? Has reality ever set in with an undesired outcome being inevitable? Have you ever experienced that moment when after you worked with all your energies and all your strength to avoid what you feared, you realize further struggle and wrestling are useless. All hope of avoiding it is lost. There is nothing left to do but weep?
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This is the position of David. He knew the Law all along. He knew that adulterers and murderers get death. After all this knowledge is what led him to avoid being exposed. He thought for an extended period of time, “I can take care of my sin problem. I can fix this!” But, when God spoke through Nathan, David saw the truth, He was guilty. Death was the wage of his deeds. And there was nothing he could do about it! The knowledge of his danger in the sight of a Holy God move him at the deepest level so that a flood of emotion poured forth.
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3 My soul also is greatly troubled. But you, O Lord—how long?
English Standard Version Psalm 6
6 I am weary with my moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
7 My eye wastes away because of grief;
it grows weak because of all my foes.
6 I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
7 My eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.
David felt the full weight of his
David felt the full weight of his sin crushed down on his soul, and out from it came a desperate and emotional plea for mercy !
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end emotional plea for mercy !
The Confession of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
The Confession of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.
4 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.
5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
The Confession
“I have sinned” (v. 3)
David says, "I have sinned! I know my transgression, and my sin is ever before me!" David, unlike many, made no excuses. Unlike Adam, he did not blame the woman. He had sinned ; he knew it. There is no rationalizing; there is no excusing or diminishing of what occurred. He sinned. It's always before him. He carried his guilt around everywhere he went! The shame, the burden, the horror of his sin always and constantly pressing down on him.
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“Against you only, I have sinned” (v. 4a)
David confesses, "Against, God alone, I have sinned!" This does not mean David did not wrong Uriah, Bathsheba, or many otters. It does mean that David stands under the judgment of God and God alone. It is God's Law he broke. It is the justice and holiness of God he must face. Sin is defined in relationship to God, and in this relationship David is the offender.
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relationship to God, and in His
relationship David is the offender.
“You are just in my damnation” (v. 4b)
“You are just in my damnation” (v. 4b)
"You are just in my damnation." All David had done was in the sight of God. Not only did God see it but he also considered it evil. The wages of sin is death. David brought with him no accusation of injustice on God's part. He did not say, "Yes, I sinned but death is unfair!" Or, "I deserve another chance!" Instead, he confessed "I have sinned against you! And, You are just to condemn me to die."
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it evil. The magos of sin is
death, David brought with hin
no accusation of injustice on
God's part. He did not say,
"Yes, I sinned tout death is enfuir !"
Or, "I deserve another dance !".
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sinned against you ! And, You are
just to condemn me to die'."
“There is no salvation in myself” (v. 5-6)
Last, David adds, "There is no salvation in myself." He says, "Behold, I was brought forth in my iniquity !" David confesses that sin is his nature. His state is much worse than these outrageous acts of sin. He says, "This is who I am!" I am a sinner! I can offer no promise to do better. I can't claim that this is not who I really am. He made no appeal to all the good he had done in an attempt to spare his life. Instead, he saw his sin and declared, "Yes! that is who I am! I must look elsewhere for help because only sin is found in me!”
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The Hope of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
The Hope of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
English Standard Version Psalm 51
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
9 Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
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.
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
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.
The Hope
The Hope (v. 7-12)
Forgiveness of sins
Forgiveness of sins (v. 7-9)
Explain the use of Hyssop
David knows that he cannot cleanse himself. He is stained with guilt! But, he holds on in hope that God will cleanse him. We see this in v. 7- 9. His asking to be purged with hyssop may not mean much to us but it was by hyssop plant that blood was applied in the OT rituals to signify cleansing. Notice how the author of Hebrews connects this to the forgiveness of sins.
→ Read Heb. 9:19-22
21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
David, finding no hope in himself looked outside himself to God to provide the cleansing he needed. He turn to God hoping in His steadfast love and His willingness to provide atonement for sins.
19 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,
20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”
21 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.
22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.
David, finding no hope in himself looked outside himself to God to provide the cleansing he needed. He turn to God hoping in His steadfast love and His willingness to provide atonement for sins.
Renewal of self (v. 10)
David continues," Create in me a clean heart!" He knew that "Out of the heart flows the issues of life!" He knew if he did not change sin would continue to manifest itself!" David needed more than forgiveness of sin, he needed to be transformed. He needed a new self made and conformed in the image of God!
"Out of the heart flow the issues of life!" He knew if he did not change sin would continue to manifest itself!" David needed more than forgiveness of sin, he needed to be transformed. He needed a new self made and conformed in the image of God!
Fellowship with God (v. 11-12)
To truly understand David's desperate and emotional plea for mercy, we must understand v. 11-12 as the heart of the passage. This is the real issue. David desires nothing more than to dwell in the presence of God and to gaze upon His beauty. David knew the pleasures of God. He knew the delights of basking in the radiance of God's glory. His sin would leave him cast out of the presence of God. In his sin He could not approach God. But, if God could forgive his sin and clean his heart there was hope that he could return to God his fountain of joy and delight. It is with this hope he prays, Cast me not away from your presence! Return to me the joy of my salvation!
19 Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus,
20 by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh,
21 and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
22 let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Extension of Blessing (v. 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.
English Standard Version Psalm 51
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.
Last, David hoped for something beyond his individual forgiveness and private pleasure in God. His hope extended to the world. To see this you need to understand that in the OT the thriving of Zion or Jerusalem suggested two ideas that were inseparable
Last, David hoped for something beyond his individual forgiveness and private pleasure in God. His hope extended to the world. To see this you need to understand that in the OT the thriving of Zion or Jerusalem suggested two ideas that were inseparable
Extension of Blessing (v. 13, 18-19)
1. The people’s joy in communion with God and each other.
2. God’s great name honored and glorified among the nations
With this in mind, we understand what David is praying and hoping for. He says, "Oh, if you would forgive me and reconcile me to you. If you would let me return once again to be satisfied at your right hand, If you will be my delight and joy once again, I will teach others of Your mercy! I will shout it the the world that in You is forgiveness of sin and the joy and pleasure we all log for!" He continues, "Then sinners will return to you! The sinners like me who know He pains of seeking pleasure and joy in sex, food, possessions, and power will come to You to be satisfied! Door, God forgive me and use me to bring the world to You the fountain that never stops satisfying the soul!
13 Since we have the same spirit of faith according to what has been written, “I believed, and so I spoke,” we also believe, and so we also speak,
14 knowing that he who raised the Lord Jesus will raise us also with Jesus and bring us with you into his presence.
15 For it is all for your sake, so that as grace extends to more and more people it may increase thanksgiving, to the glory of God.
TWO TRUTHS THAT UPHOLD THE HOPE AND MOTIVATE THE ACTIVITY OF THE BROKEN AND CONTRITE SPIRIT
TWO TRUTHS THAT UPHOLD THE HOPE AND MOTIVATE THE ACTIVITY OF THE BROKEN AND CONTRITE SPIRIT
Truth #1 | God breaks the spirit of man
Truth #1 | God breaks the spirit of man
Truth #2 | God takes pleasure in the broken spirit of man
Truth #2 | God takes pleasure in the broken spirit of man
Truth #1 | God breaks the spirit through… (v. 8)
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The Exposure of Sin ()
The Manifestation of Sin ()
The Devastation of Sin ()
Truth #2 | God takes pleasure in the broken Spirit because… (v. 16-19)
The Exposure of Sin ()
We are satisfied (v. 16-17)
The Manifestation of Sin ()
We are satisfied
The Devastation of Sin ()
Truth #2 | God takes pleasure in the broken Spirit because… (v. 16-19)
He is glorified (v. 18-19)
We are satisfied (v. 16-17)
He is glorified (v. 18-19)
The Activity of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
The Activity of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
The Activity of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
The Activity of a Broken and Contrite Spirit
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.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
O Lord, open my lips, and my mouth will declare your praise.
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure; build up the walls of Jerusalem;
then will you delight in right sacrifices, in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on your altar.
The Activity
The Activity
Teaching sinners (v. 13)
Praising God (v. 14-17)
Building the kingdom (v. 18-19)
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Truth #1 | God is pleased by a broken and contrite heart
Truth #1 | God is pleased by a broken and contrite heart
TWO TRUTHS THAT UPHOLD THE HOPE AND MOTIVATE THE ACTIVITY OF THE BROKEN AND CONTRITE SPIRIT
TWO TRUTHS THAT UPHOLD THE HOPE AND MOTIVATE THE ACTIVITY OF THE BROKEN AND CONTRITE SPIRIT
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.
Truth #1 | God breaks the spirit of man
Truth #2 | God takes pleasure in the broken spirit of man
Truth #2 | God produces a broken and contrite heart
Truth #2 | God produces a broken and contrite heart
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8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Truth #1 | God breaks the spirit through… (v. 8)
Instructions
Instructions
8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
The Exposure of Sin ()
7 Nathan said to David, “You are the man! Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
8 And I gave you your master’s house and your master’s wives into your arms and gave you the house of Israel and of Judah. And if this were too little, I would add to you as much more.
9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
The Word of God comes to David, and it condemns him. Nathan comes and applies the Law to David and David is damned. There is nothing left for David to due but agree. This is how the Law of God is taught rightly, it brings sinners to an awareness of sin and guilt. Consider what the apostle Paul later wrote:
19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God.
20 For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
The Manifestation of Sin ()
The Manifestation of Sin ()
Surely, if God only announcement you have sinned and are guilty we would argue. But, His declaration of our guilt is backed by evidence. The Sin in David manifested itself in horrendous actions:
9 Why have you despised the word of the Lord, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
The same is true with us. God has turned man over to their sinful minds and hearts which oppose God with ferocity! Here is the result of God turning us over to our sin:
28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
29 They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
30 slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,
31 foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
32 Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Do you see? Not only does God’s Word point out our sin, but our behavior confirms it. Which one of us is not guilty? Are not all of our mouths stopped before God? Sure, your sin might be well hid from those in this room, but how well have you hid it from God? His Law condemns us. Our actions support his claim. Surely, we are guilty! God help us for it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God!
The Devastation of Sin ()
As if God’s exposure of our sin, and the evidence of our sin were not enough to leave us begging for mercy and pleading to be changed, God exposes us to the devastation our sins cause. Notice what happened because of David’s sin:
10 Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’
Sure, sin is pleasant for a season, but it leads to great pain. We sinned because we trust something forbidden by God will bring greater pleasure and satisfaction than God. But, when we seek to replace the Creator with creation, we find that the pleasures and delights supplied by earthly things eventually runs dry and death reigns. Our break from fellowship leads to the breaking of fellowship with those we love. Rather than joy filled communion with God and each other, we are left devastated, pain stricken, and miserable. Our sin tastes sweet in the mouth but it makes the stomach sick.
Notice that this connection between our sin and great pain is not a convenient coincidence that God exploits as an argument for us to quit sinning. Instead, God himself attached pain to our sin in hope that it will lead to glory.
18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.
19 For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God.
20 For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
22 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.
23 And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
24 For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
Truth #2 | God takes pleasure in the broken Spirit because… (v. 16-19)
We are satisfied (v. 16-17)
21 But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it—
22 the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
25 whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God’s righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
26 It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
17 “And now, brothers, I know that you acted in ignorance, as did also your rulers.
18 But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,
20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
He is glorified (v. 18-19)
20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
21 whom heaven must receive until the time for restoring all the things about which God spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets long ago.
What should we do?
What should we do?
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