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Introduction:
Refresh: to restore strength and animation to.
To renovate, revive, restore.
Review: David made a colossal mess but somehow came out victorious and even singing.
How?
We need refreshing, it is freely offered in Jesus.
In our passage today we see the heart of the gospel, of God’s grace.
The gospel is more than just our being forgiven.
It’s more than just fire insurance.
It is God’s transforming grace.
“God loves you just the way your are, but refuses to leave you that way.” (Max Lucado)
Main Idea: God’s grace is transforming grace.
We see three aspects to this transforming grace: crushing, cleansing, and creating grace.
1.
Crushing Grace
Verse 8b—"let the bones that you have broken rejoice"
Illustration: Joe Noveson’s Hands — (the indispensability of pain)
Illustration: Jakob’s broken hip touched by God.
Hebrews 12:6-10
God blesses us with violent, uncomfortable grace.
Yes, he really does love us enough to crush us, so that we would feel the pain of our sin and run to him for forgiveness and deliverance.
“This is foundational to everything.
Being a Christian means being broken and contrite.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking you get beyond this in this life.”
(John Piper)
All gracious affections [feelings, emotions] that are a sweet [aroma] to Christ . . .
are brokenhearted affections.
A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble brokenhearted love.
—Jonathan Edwards
2. Cleansing Grace
Verse 7—"Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."
Wash (same verb Ps 51:2) (03526) (kabac/kabas) means to wash (especially clothes), to make clean and soft by trampling (this is the root meaning of kabac), by treading, by kneading or by beating clothes in cold water.
Kabac was always used of clothing, "to launder" and never of "washing" the body.
Purify me with hyssop - This picture suggests that David is alluding to the OT practice describing the law dealing with the cleansing of lepers.
Moses records this ritual in Leviticus 14…a
What is being cleansed then?
Guilt.
shame, Defilement
He also knows from that context the special word for purge, to which the nearest equivalent would be de-sin' (Lv.
14:49; Nu. 19:19), and he pictures the final sequence in the ritual, the washing of clothes and body.
(Derek Kinder)
Illustration: Zechariah 3:1-5 — new priestly garments
3. Creating Grace
Verse 10—"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me."
David is asking for a heart that will choose the right things.
A heart that with trust and obey God instead of continuing in sin and destruction.
Notice that David does not ask for better behavior.
He doesn’t ask for better accountability or more restraint.
It’s because he knows that he acted out the way he did was because his heart wasn’t “clean”.
He didn’t have a “right spirit”.
What does that mean?
We get a clue in verse 12: "Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.”
The "joy of our salvation" is what in fact “upholds a willing spirit.”
Verse 11--'Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me."
David knows that It is in the transforming presence of God that real change occurs.
The good news of the gospel doesn’t stop with pardon.
We treat grace like it’s God’s big eraser for our every wrong or mistake.
But God does not only mean to rub the page clean.
No, he intends to write a new story in sin’s place, replacing what was once broken, wicked, and dead with love, faithfulness, and life.
(Marshall Segal)
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