Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. SelahI acknowledged my sin to you. I didn’t hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.I acknowledged my sin unto thee, And mine iniquity did I not hide: I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah; And thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. [Selah
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… I acknowledge my sin to you. I did not cover my iniquity. I said I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave. the iniquity of my sin. And here's what David said, and this is what he's telling each of us, which God's Word is telling each of us, therefore, let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found. Surely in the rush of great waters they shall not reach him. You are a hiding place for me. You preserve me. You surround me with shouts of deliverance. Repent and believe. Confess. Tomorrow is a great day at the DeYoung house because Monday is garbage day. We have a lot of garbage. When it doubles with recycling, we have two of those big bins for garbage, three for recycling. So when it's all there, it's lined up five huge bins. Five. Thank you. God bless the garbage man. He comes, just takes it. Now, if you and I pretend we have no garbage, this is not a house that produces any garbage, no garbage here, your house will stinketh. …
… Look at the result. I acknowledged my sin to you, repentance, and my iniquity I have not hidden. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. I thank God for that verse. You say, Jug, what's so happy about it? Because he loves me, he does that in my life. and listen if you're his child he's doing that in your life the next thing is this is the precise guidance that he offers in verse 11 he says nor detest his correction we'll go through this one quickly it doesn't take much time the word detest it's very similar to the previous word look at the word detest do not allow yourself to feel a loathing don't come to that point a heaviness in your relationship with God. This way, watch. A dread or a condemnation, a sense of hopelessness. The opposite is true. A true child of God who's under the conviction of God, and I want to lay this out to you. …
… guilt. And so at that point, David confessed his sin. Look what happened when he confessed his sin. Verse five, I acknowledged my sin to thee and my iniquity. I did not hide. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord and thou didst forgive the guilt of my sin. That last verse expresses the relief that comes to people who confess their sin rather than cover over their sin. When criticism comes into your life, if it is a valid criticism, embrace it. Make the needed change instead of resisting it and experience the relief that comes from repentance. There's a fourth step that we all need to take if we're going to respond and profit from reproofs in our life, and that is entrust your reproofs to God. That means to believe that God brought this negative circumstance into your life, or he brought this negative criticism into your life for a reason. It's to believe and understand that none of us are simply victims of random people or random circumstances that God is in control of our life. And he allowed this negative event, he allowed this negative word into our life for a reason. Again, David provides a great illustration of that. …