It is always a bit sad when we come to the end of a given teaching series. This is message #15 in our current series and the last one we’ll be looking at in the series. If you missed any of these messages, you can access them in the sermon archive. The series has alternated between narratives of David’s life and psalms that he wrote about those episodes. As we conclude things, we’ll be in Psalm 51, an impassioned plea for forgiveness flowing from David’s tragic decisions to commit adultery and murder. It was a hard (but good) slog through the story itself last week in 2 Samuel 11-12, and this Sunday we find the relief and comfort as David appeals to God’s mercy to forgive him. Something all of us can readily identify with. Maybe not the adultery or murder, but the need of God’s forgiveness for any number of other sins. This psalm has become a much-loved and oft-spoken prayer of Christians because it gets to the heart of our most pressing need: to be in unhindered fellowship with our God.

Series: The Great Exchange

Todd Dugard

Message: 15 – From Shattered to Forgiven - Part 2

Harvest Bible Chapel

Text: Psalm 51

January 26, 2025

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. - Voltaire

God’s forgiveness will be mine when I…

…appeal to his mercy (v. 1-2)

…fully confess my sin (v. 3-6)

Any person charged with an offense has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal. - Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; Section 11(d)

We are not sinners because we sinned. We sin because we’re sinners. - Anon

Romans 3:23

Simul justus et peccator; both saint and sinner

Romans 7:19, 24

[We must] put the label "Sin" where God puts it—taking not our own estimate of it, but God's. - Alan Redpath

1 John 1:9

…ask him to restore what was lost (v. 7-12)

Many people want a Saviour that forgives sin but not a Lord that dictates their life. —Shane Pruitt

Acts1:4-5

…and lead others to holy living (v. 13-19)

Romans 5:6-8

Philippians 3:8b-9

James 5:16

Galatians 6:2

The Holy Spirit teaching series

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