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Introduction
Illustration: We’ve all experienced it.
Phone is lagging.
Computer is stuck.
Call tech support… “Turn off device to refresh the system”.
Reboot.
Why? Do any of us realize what that is really doing?
(like most of us when our car doesn’t start.
Open the hood to look under)
Refresh: to restore strength and animation to.
To renovate, revive, restore.
Where are you right now? Have you made a mess of things?
Are you stuck?
Are you ready to start over and begin anew?
How do we do this?
How do we get a fresh start?
Self help?
A new program?
A new class?
Prodigal Son?
Main Idea: The one way to get a genuine refresh.
It is by returning to God.
But we need to see the need, the call, and the way to be refreshed.
The Need to be Refreshed
This Psalm starts with king David in desperate need of a new start.
Verse 1— “Blot out my transgressions” … “wash me thoroughly” … “cleans me”
He is requesting that God would take what he has done, what he is and erase it and start again.
A refresh…a reboot.
Verses 1 and 2 are about getting a “refresh”.
Getting a blank slate.
Starting over.
A washing away a marred past and receiving a new future.
This psalm is written from David's moral failure with Bathsheba (2 Sam.
11-12) — Summarize
Lust, deceit, abuse, rape, adultery, murder, abuse of power, cover up—sounds like Washing DC. —David has made a colossal mess
Personally, this Psalm has always resonated with my heart.
Because I know what its like to fail miserably.
I know what’s its like to feel desperate and not knowing where to turn.
I know what its like to live in the web of lies and the mire of shame.
(Apologetic side note: Bible remarkably authentic…this Psalm was for public worship!)
The Call to be Refreshed
God would never receive me back.
I’ve done too much.
I’ve gone too far.
God just wants to cast me out.
We resonate with that because that’s what we do.
When our phone or device doesn’t work quite right, what do we do?
We upgrade.
We get a new one.
“We may be a replacement people, but God is a renewing God.”
God longs to restore us.
To refresh us with his grace.
David is begging for mercy here.
And the word he uses is appropriate.
“mercy” means to receive something that is not deserved
“Steadfast love” — a faithful covenant keeping God
“Abundant mercy” — God’s mercy is incalculable
The Way to be Refreshed
recall Nathans words to David, “The Lord also has put away your sin; you shall die.”
WHAT?!!
How is this possible?
Because God has promised grace — a payment for sin!
David uses language that recalls Israels sacrificial system.
And these sacrifices pointed to the ultimate sacrifice that Jesus would make in order to “blot out [our] transgressions” and “wash us thoroughly from [our] iniquity” and “cleanse [us] from [our] sin”
Ultimately it’s only Christ’s ino
But the gore of the sacrificial system hinted to David that supplying these needed graces would cost God personally (vv. 1, 4, 9, 12, 14).
Only Christ’s innocent blood could ultimately erase human guilt (Heb.
9:14, 22).
Only Christ’s perfect record of “righteousness” can substitute for iniquities (cf.
Ps. 51:14)
Genuine repentance
David is sorry for his sin against God … not the consequences
Many a murderer is more alarmed at the gallows than at the murder which brought him to it.
The thief loves the plunder, though he fears the prison.
Not so David: he is sick of sin as sin; his loudest outcries are against the evil of his transgression, and not against the painful consequences of it.
(Spurgeon)
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