The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit. O God, you will not despise a broken and contrite heart.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: A broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
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… Then he comes in verse 17 to the verse I want to mention, develop. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Look closely at the verse. These are sacrifices. These are sacrifices that God finds pleasure in, a broken spirit and a contrite heart. I meditated on those thoughts quite a while and came up with a brief list of five characteristics of a contrite heart. I've observed this in others on a few occasions. I'm sorry it hasn't been on many but on a few occasions and I've experienced it myself on a few occasions a contrite heart number one nurses no grudges nurses no grudges contrite heart never says if it hadn't been for what sheep or if this hadn't happened then or because I was raised like I was raised then none of that a contrite heart nurses no grudges second makes no demands i don't come with a contrite heart demanding that you now do this in return so that leads me to the third contrite heart has no expectations i don't expect good treatment i don't expect to be treated nicely. I don't expect people necessarily to forgive me. That'll have to take time. I don't come with expectations. My contrite broken spirit and my contrite broken heart come with simply no expectations. Fourth, I offer no conditions, no ifs, no wishes. I simply come broken and contrite. …
… Here's what David says. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. When you rise to new life in Christ, you clothe yourself in a new posture. And it's a posture that doesn't leave. Here's how you can tell someone's not genuinely repentant. is that the humility they had yesterday is not there anymore. I can be humble when I'm caught, but can I be humble a week later? Can I be humble a month later? Can I be humble a year later when my wife needs to process what I've done? When your husband needs to process what you've done, when your children need to process what you've done, are you able to be humble in an ongoing way? that's what genuine repentance looks like. That's what it looks like. A broken and a contrite posture is a humble posture. And this again we find in Christ. When I'm dealing with consequences that I don't like, that I want people to just get over, I can accept it because I can look at the long suffering that Jesus had. …
… develop. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, you will not despise. Look closely at the verse. These are sacrifices. These are sacrifices that God finds pleasure in, a broken spirit and a contrite heart. I meditated on those thoughts quite a while and came up with a brief list of five characteristics of a contrite heart. I've observed this in others on a few occasions I'm sorry it hasn't been on many but on a few occasions and I've experienced it myself on a few occasions a contrite heart, number one nurses no grudges nurses no grudges. Contrite heart never says, if it hadn't been for what sheep, or if this hadn't happened then, or because I was raised like I was raised then, none of that. A contrite heart, nurses no grudges. Second, makes no demands. I don't come with a contrite heart demanding that you now do this in return. So that leads me to the third. Contrite heart has no expectations. …