Psalms 32
Psalms 51
- There is a certain consoling in getting things out into the light.
Psalms 51:1-13
1 (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.) Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be
4 justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
- Confessing is not going to the pastor.
We are sinners…every one of us. The Bible says to preach the whole word of God. Our sin is the result of selfish and rebellious choices. James says “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and do it not, to him it is sin”. Sin violates God’s righteous standard.
Psalms 32:1 (A Psalm of David, Maschil.) Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
- God is righteous. There is only one person who walked on this earth who was sinless and that was Jesus Christ.
Psalms 32:2 Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
- Iniquity implies twistedness or perversity.
Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
It is deceitful. Many people are deceived by sin and it will destroy you. Ephesus was an example of this. - Ephesus was once a booming metropolis.
- In Hebrews, James says the attractive pleasures of sin are really a mask covering death.
- We tolerate sin in our lives.
- In Psalms 32:1b, “whose sin is covered”
- Blessed means happy. Note twice that the man who gets right with God is to be blessed.
- Once someone realizes that their sins can be forgiven, it is as far as the east is from the west, buried in the sea of forgetfulness to be remembered no more.
- We like to play games with God to justify sin but we aren’t happy nor blessed.
