August 25, 2019 - A walk through Psalm 51(Week 1 KIngdom Kids)

It'll take some time to jump there today in the Bible take a walk through Florence. And let's see if we can learn. Okay, so if you have your Bibles, you can put the song 51 now or if you have your phone you can scroll down tap on that chapter cuz that's the thing. We will have to pass these up here on the screen. I will be reading from the ESV version just in case it sounds different from whatever is in your reading. During adverse one have mercy on me. Oh God, according to your steadfast love according to your abundant Mercy blood on my transgressions Wash Me thoroughly for my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for I know my transgressions in my sin is ever before me 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 judgments behold. I was brought forth in iniquity and then send it. My mother conceived me behold you Delight in truth in the inward being and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart 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. May the Lord bless the reading of his word. if you noticed I only went up 2 verse 12 because I'm broken Psalm 51 into two sections and we had to take a look at them at different times because there's two big themes that one so sorry, I'm part 1 you can see that the song Falls something in the formula formula known as the if this then this formula for everything David ask of God David promises to do something in return that you see a lot more of this and part two, but it begins here in part 1 Traverse one begins with David asking for forgiveness via a personal petition for cleansing and inward healing have mercy on me o God according to your steadfast love of corn are abundant Mercy blood on my transgressions. So David is begging God to have mercy on him after what he's done. Now. He's using the word transgressions and the Hebrew the word for transgression is pesha or Rebellion David understands that he went contrary to God's will that he did the exact opposite of what God won't want it by comparison the guys order key rebelled against it. He's owning up to his sin and he's asking That God forget about it. He's asking he knows I keep rebelled, but he's asking for God to have mercy on him. Despite his rebellious nature. So what we can learn from this is that we should also do the same thing when we been called out when God stirs in us and says hate you did something wrong. We shouldn't fight it. We should accept the fact that we rebelled we're sinful rebellious by Nature so we should stop pause Get Down On Our Knees and say yes, God I did mess up and I am rebellious I have that but please have mercy on me a rebellious sinner. Going to verse to wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin that the words David uses her washing cleanse is a case that he's been stained by his actions that his actions are noticeable. From an outward and inward appearance. He wants them gone. He wants the stain that his son is left on his person removed. Now the Hebrew word for wash my back needs trample and the word for cleanse tahor means pure so he wants God to trample over his sins as means to make him fear. He wants them beaten down and stomped into the dirt as a means of getting rid of them strong language for sure. Jon Seda living in sin we should let God cleanse us. We should desire for God to cleanse us. We should want him to trample our sins to trample over our iniquities as his way of having Mercy on us. Yes, it's likely to hurt because sin has consequences, but it's the good kind of hurt is too hurt to let you know that you're being fixed that you're being made whole again. So ask him to restore what was lost what you gave up during the Rebellion. Daddy's next to versus detail David's at confession of sin and the admission of his guilt for I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before you again. See 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. So David openly admitting his faults and owning up to the blame that he's so justly deserves. He tells God that he's done wrong in his eyes and admits that God is right and he is wrong as he is a man. That wasn't for us again for wrongdoings. You'll see the David repeatedly tells God that he was in the wrong and God was in the right that he did something bad and I got hoes calling enough for it. But we should also in this process desire to be open about accepting what God is calling out. We should be close to him cuz it's so easy that when God calls us out on time. We turn. No, no, no, not me know we should be open about it because the stubborn will Face-Off far harsher judgment than those who are open and get down on your knees when they been called out.

So the next to vs David confesses that he's been morally impotent and that he slipped up behold. I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me behold you Delight in truth in the inward being in teach me wisdom in the secret heart now by David also shows what he did wrong. He was born into sin. He is sinful by Nature the hole that was brought forth in the Nick was he send evil he was born this way. He gets that that is his nature. He understands that he is rebellious by Nature that's in is almost a given and that he has to try and lift contrary to that. But the same time he asks that God.

Yes that God's wisdom feel him because David's lost the wisdom and let desire control his impulses which led to his affair with Bathsheba. Show us the wisdom to learn from him in this instance is to let God fill you with his wisdom to let him speak to you and tell you what it is. He prefers because what he prefers is infinitely better to anything you could think would be better. Okay?

The summarize only God can renew us and turn us around but we have to be willing to do so in the first place. God will forgive us but only if we confess and want to be forgiven. David wants to be forgiven which is why he used he wrote out 19 verses of forgiveness and humility for us all so surely we can do likewise.

Now that David has owned up to the blame and admitted his faults he petitions God for desire to be Clans versus 729 SE 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 blotted on my iniquities. So David is asking that he be purged of his sin. I was in case he wants it removes gone from him. He wants it separated. He was stained by his Rebellion now, he wants it gone. He wants it cleansed. He wants him to take a stain to the dry cleaners and have it removed.

But the imagery that uses here with hyssop and washing is not what you think. It is at first. It's it's a far deeper cleansing when you understand the culture hyssop is not so much time you wash yourself with as much as you grind up and drink. It's a medical drink choices cause you have hits up. It says wash me on the inside. They was covering all the areas. He says wash me and I'll be whiter than snow on the outside, but cleanse me with hyssop and I will be clean on the inside. And when he says Blood Out My iniquities, the Hebrew word for Block is maca, which means dissolve he wants his sins to disintegrate to be gone in an instant. He wants them removed from him as far as the East is from the West. His attitude of a desire for repentance for cleansing is something we should also desire born in sin. All of us are stained right from the get-go. We are staying with the stain of sin, but we should desire for that stain to be cleansed from us.

Now this last portion. Of this first half of some fifty one last portion of the first half.

God David is asking God for Spiritual enablement. 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 me the joy of your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit. So the wording David use is yours evocative of a sense of fear. He understands that God is Sovereign and what God gives you can take away just as easily. David understands that in the midst of his rebellion in the midst of his active sin that his spirit that God had made after his own had become. Crushed altered standby sen David wants it remade. He wants a rebuilt. David indicates that he knows he's committed some love of self destruction in this fair that went. It build up he a torn down with this act of sin.

No, the wording. He uses the Hebrew word for renew. My Dash means to rebuild David wants God to become his foundation all over again. He wants God to build him up build him back up to the statue that he wants was and the Hebrew word for a pulled or sustained is come back which means to prop up David guess that he cannot sustain himself any longer that what he thought he can hold up isn't going to hold up. He wants God to prop him up. He wants to be upheld. He wants to be pushed back to that original upright standing that he once had with God. Any David understood that he couldn't do it on his own that only God was capable of doing this to him.

So earnestly praise for God did not reject him. Totally. It's a good thing to have a healthy fear of the Lord. It's a good thing to understand that God canteras down as well as build a sphere in this understanding of God is healthy for us. God is in control of our lives and he could just as easily not forgive us, but it's in his nature to forgive cuz if he quit forgiving you would stop being God David got this but he also understood God's That God cannot allow sin to go unpunished and so he prayed that God would show Mercy to him. So he was afraid of God, but the same time he was in awe of God. So what's so what's there for us to learn from verses 1 to 12? Where we got so far well. Three big things follow his example don't Rebelle any further against God own up to your sin and adopt an attitude of penitence for God is gracious to the repentant David paints a picture of a kind of posture. We should be in after leaves scent. We need to be down on our knees. We need to confess. We need to own the fact that we had sex and we shouldn't be stubborn it be so easy for us to say no God my way is the right way. I'm not interested in hearing anything else, but that's when we turned stubborn. That's when our heart hardens like the example of pharaoh in Exodus. It got worse for him. So for us we need to soften our hearts. We need to get that we were in the wrong and we will always be in the wrong when it comes to God. We need to accept the fact that God is willing to forgive us. But only if we are willing to accept that forgiveness because if we're not willing life is not going to be easy.

So I asked the Lord to soften your heart ask him to make a change happen within you asked him to work you to build up your spirit again admit your sins. So you each one of them out loud get them out in the open and then ask him for mercy and forgiveness because he will give it. The only the only catch is that we have to ask for it. He's ready and willing to give just ask. Examine yourselves learn from David's experience understand that forgiveness is a two-way street just like a relationship with God as a tourist rate. He's willing to give but we have to be willing to receive as well. Okay, that was part 1 Let's get the part 2. So I touched a house on Falls and if so and then pattern where David asks God for something and then David promises to do something in return. You'll see this a lot more in verses 13 to 19. Then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners will return to you deliver me from blood-guiltiness. Oh God. Oh God of my salvation and my tongue will single out of your righteousness. Oh Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare your praise for you. I'm 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. Oh God, you will not despise do good to Zion in your good pleasure build up the walls of Jerusalem. Then what you Delight in right sacrifices and burnt offerings and Holborn offerings them bulls will be offered on your altar. Alright, what's a notice right off the bat here couple things actually has a requirements and end result is Statue of David asking for something which is quickly play something David will do in return. I just carries over because of what he's done because of what he's asked for in the first few verses starting at verse 13 and then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners will return to you after asking God for a sustained presence of his holy spirit David promises to teach God's grace and his Mercy to other Sinners other transgressors as he puts it. The logic for this is found in the old Jewish Theology of because of what God's done for me. I will act accordingly when Paul says that when faith is faith without works is dead that's going back to the Jewish Theology of because God has forgiven me and show me mercy and because I love him so so much I will do something about it. And that's what David is saying right here. You forgiven me if you show me mercy, I will promise to tell everybody I know about it. I will preach it to the nation. I'm a king. I have sway I've influenced I can spread word about your forgiveness and mercy To the ends of my domain. That's what we should do to sure. We're not Kings of Kings and the kingdom maybe but here on Earth we can spread God's love and his Mercy to everyone we meet we can tell them about all the influence he's had over us. We can tell people that God has willingly forgiven us and the guy will willingly forgive them as well. God is a gracious God and there's so many people out there who don't know that sure there's so many people who are afraid of that kind of concept. They're afraid of who God is there for the he's just going to Smite them. Wait, we can be the ones that say no he's not like that. He's not like that at all. He's willing to show you Mercy. Even if you mess up again, and again and again, you can have the most devastating Ascend you could have the smallest of sins and I will still wiping all the way so teach people what suppresses to teach people about who God is and what he's willing to do cuz he's willing to do a lot.

Verses 14 to 15 deliver me from blood-guiltiness. Oh God. Oh God of my salvation and my tongue will sing a lot of your righteousness. Oh Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare your praise Indies versus David positions. God once again and immediately follows up with a promised each one of his request. If y'all will pardon such severe sins like murder and adultery, what won't he pardoned? David recognize this as determined to declare God's righteousness to everybody. Now the word he uses blood-guiltiness. There's a few different versions of this in the Hebrew. But in this instance, the word is Dom which means the Bloodshed at death. There's a few different types of Bloodshed found in the Hebrew text such as avenging Bloodshed the kinds of blood that is shed when a murderer is killed as Penance for those. He's murdered or this sacrificial Bloodshed the kind of blood that is shed when some some animals sacrificed on God's altar when this case the Bloodshed at death explicitly refers to murder in the Hebrew text. So David gets that he's committed the sin of blood-guiltiness. It's on his conscience murder is on his conscience. He's owning up to that. But the same time he's the kind God's righteousness and righteousness in this Hebrew is Kazakh, which means Justice. David is a client God is Sovereign that God is being just in the situation that he is just in all situations even now asking for Mercy David is holding God up above all else. He understands that God is Sovereign and so should we God has a Divine authority over a situation. He has the sway. Over how our lives will go.

So fresh and we should adopt David's attitude of recognition of God's sovereignty again, he will always be right. But at the same time we should rejoice and give God the praise and gratitude. He is worthy of for having pardoned and unpardonable that all of our sins we can do nothing about the stand it leave behind only he can so we should be grateful and thankful and give him the praise that he is due. So, I'd encourage you to take some time to do that as well know that God forgives you and that you should praise him in the aftermath ask him for forgiveness and then praise him for his mercy and his forgiveness. He didn't have to show it. But again if he didn't forgive he wouldn't be God. God will always forgive you so show him the praise he is due.

Verses 16 to 17 safer. You will not Delight in sacrifice or I would give it you will not be pleased with burnt offering the sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit a broken and contrite heart. Oh God, you will not despise to hear David uses the imagery of the traditional Hebrew sacrifices that we've been offered throughout the Old Testament but much like the story of Cain and Abel in which God was pleased with the wholehearted sacrifice of Abel and not pleased with a half-hearted attempts of Cain David understands that if he were to offer a burnt offering of some kind of sacrifice an animal to give God some sort of glowing praise. God will not accepted in this instance because of his sin. Much like how Jesus said to go into your closet and pray and said being boastful allowed in the city David gets that he needs to come to God on his hands and knees. Another language. She uses here contrite spirit broken Spirit. The Hebrew word for contrite DACA means collapsed David is on the ground on his hands and knees before God. He's committed sin. He doesn't deserve to stand up above everybody else with His Hands Held High praising God not with the stain of sin all over him David gets this and so he lays himself low the king of Israel lays himself low gets down in the dirt and begs God for forgiveness. He adopt an attitude of humility. And he willingly sets aside all regalia all sense of Pride. He gets down low and ask God for forgiveness.

We should do the same thing. It said of remaining proud instead of being boastful instead of carry on life everyday as though nothing's changed. Even though we must stop we should as the Bible say leave your gift at the altar and go make peace with God before hand or else. It's a vein sacrifice a sacrifice that will not be accepted God's not too happy with those who are self-righteous in this instance. Look at me. Look at what I've done.

So be humble. Contrite in spirit adopt a broken Spirit when you come before God.

Totally humble yourself. Be open to God's products. My dad says you've messed up own up to that. So yeah, you're right. I'm sorry because if you're stubborn, you'll face a Swift and harsh judgments that I'm pretty sure nobody wants to face.

Do good to Zion in your good pleasure build up the walls of Jerusalem, then will you Delight in right sacrifices and burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings then bulls will be offered on your altar. So these last two verses of Psalm 51 switch perspective from a personal to a national level. David is telling God that you forgive me. I'll tell everyone everyone will turn to you. It's a win-win. David is asking guys to supplement the people under his world rule to expand the walls and the boundaries of Jerusalem so that his people may be blessed essentially David is asking that God does not enforce his punishment the punishment that David is due. He's asking that the Jewish people do not receive it in turn. He's asking that even though their King has messed up. He wants the people to still praise God. So he's asking God, okay, take it out on me, but do good for your people raise them up sustained them grow them bless them. Then they will bless you and return.

Could because David gets the people will flock to praise God when God does good for them. I mean, how true is that? When times are good. We praise God, right? But in the same way, we should be praising God when times aren't good as well. So David is putting out a prayer for a city God be evident in this city. Even if I can't tell anybody made you still be evidence. And the same to go for us. I mean, it's a little tricky to pull something out of this especially when it sounds like it was written in BC for a Judean when there's some sort of somewhere. But the truth is that we should also be praying that God has an influence in our city as well. If he can forgive us he can forgive the millions of people who live in Edmonton he can forgive all of us. We pray that do not punish this city because of what we've done wrong. But lift up the city so that the city can turn around and pray as you.

So what's the get out of this three big things? Once again, give God the praise. He is due follow David's example of praise and don't be stubborn above all don't be stubborn. You can give God the praise His do because after everything he's done. He is worthy of it.

Phila prison guard right now, right Give her a shout of Praise right now because he is worthy and he is due all the praise and honor to come his wife.

At the same time follow David's example of Praise. He lives he lives of God. He holds him Sovereign above his entire situation. He asks that God does not. Enforce the punishment is due on the whole city and said us to bless the city to have the city Praise Him in return. Praise him praise him for everything. He is due praise him for what he will do consequences hurt. Yes, but the same time the praise and the buses to come afterwards is so much better. I know one of my friends. He just became a dad recently, and he has his daughter every time she does something bad. He tells her no, but the same time he just wants to hug her immediately afterwards, and that's exactly what God is like he wants to argue, but he has to discipline you first it's a little late. This will hurt me more than it hurts you because I don't want to do this. I love you so much. You're my child. I love you because you messed up. I do have to discipline you. God will always welcome you back with open arms. Don't be stubborn. Don't be stubborn about it. Got to say. Hey, I'm right here Groupon. Come on. And what are you doing right now? I don't want to hear it. I want to hear it.

So don't be stubborn break yourself down. Behold a contrite heart and an attitude of humility and repentance heart that way I can welcome you back with open arms because he's ready and willing to give it he wants to give it.

I smell 50 first chapter of songs with a beautiful example of humility and forgiveness in all that time. Now get on your knees follow the principles of David outlined come before God ask for forgiveness break down your heart adopt a spirit of humility and him praise him afterwards for that everything. He's done. Okay, let's take some time to do that. Father God I pray for all these people here right. Now. I pray that they would take your word to heart and that they would accept the mercy that you have to give that they would had opted an attitude of repentance and humility that you which highlight their transgressions that they would be soft-hearted and would willingly confess their sins to you father. I pray that you do not punish the city in the same manner that we are to be punished for our sins God. I pray that she would instead bless the city. We pray that you bless the cities that your name will be made known and that everyone in Hamilton will be able to say Jesus is Lord and He forgives. Father in Heaven, I pray that we would all adopt a humble and contrite heart father. Would you break our Spirits down that? Yes, the pain is hard. But you can but you have to be broken before he can be built. Father God become our foundation again, Lord prop us up prop up our hearts. We thank you for your mercy for the guy. We give you all the praise that you are do because of what you do for other God. Air pressure somebody named Emma. Take some time. Take some time to ask for forgiveness break yourself down before I guess it was short, but there's a reason because I want you to practice what you've heard evidence practice what I preach. I want to be a very good passer know what I they were taking the time to listen.

So thank you so much Dan for that message and how it spoken to each of our lives. So just quick reminders.