Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
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… According to the greatness of your compassion, blot out my transgressions. Verse 2, wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. There's no hiding of the fact. There's no blaming of another. There is nothing but naked, open confession in a heart of repentance. Verse 10, create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. He doesn't expect something of the people around him. He doesn't expect another individual even to understand. He's getting it right with God. That's where we start in repentance. 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. …
… According to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. Real repentance means taking complete and total responsibility. I did this. I did this. And I take ownership for it. No blame shifting. No excuse making. It's never starting sentences with, I'm not trying to make an excuse for anything, but, well, why are you making an excuse for something? When everything in us wants to save face and look better and avoid as much shame as possible, when we want to shift the focus towards other factors and past sins, and this happened to me, some of those are relevant, absolutely. But when it comes to true repentance, here's what it looks like. Total personal responsibility. It's my sin. It's me. I'm the one that needs to take responsibility, and I do. This is also taking responsibility before God. Look at verse 4. against you and you only have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight. …
… according to the greatness of your compassion, blot out my transgressions. verse 2 wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me there's no hiding of the fact there's no blaming of another there is nothing but naked open confession in a heart of repentance verse 10 create in me a clean heart oh god and renew a steadfast spirit within me he doesn't expect something of the people around him he doesn't expect another individual even to understand he's getting it right with god that's where we start in repentance 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. …
God of mercy, as we enter into Lent, may your spirit guide us to places we might not necessarily want to go. We turn to you because you, O Lord, have the words of life. Help us to hear what you have to say and grant us the courage to live it out. This we pray in Christ's name. Amen. repent and thou shall be saved. Is that what you came here to hear today? I mean, is life going well with you? When you look out at the world, is it as it should be? Do you find yourself crying out to God in fear or because of injustice? Do you hope that God would finally come and fix all that is broken? You wonder, when will the day of the Lord get here so that we can have peace and justice for all? be careful what you wish for the prophet Joel proclaims that the day of the Lord is coming and is near however he goes on to describe the day as one of darkness and gloom on that day there will be a great and powerful army but it is not to bring liberation and freedom to the oppressed. …
… Blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. He cries out, God, create in me a pure heart, oh God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Restore to me the joy, not of the things of this world, not of material possessions, not of power and wealth. Restore to me, God, the joy of your salvation. and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me. Why did David cry out to God? He remembered very, very clearly that lasting happiness is found in a who, not in a what. It's found in a who. It's found in the presence of a very, very good God. Who is the who? David cried out to the who over and over and over again. In Psalm 16, he said, I say to the Lord, you are my Lord. Apart from you, I have no good thing. You're everything I want. You're everything that I need. He said, Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup. …
… God according to your steadfast love according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. In other words, forgive my sin. Blot out my transgressions. This is Micah 7, 18 and 19. Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not retain his anger forever because he delights in steadfast love. you will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea. Forgive my sin. but when David sinned against Bathsheba, Uriah, and God, and that's the context of this prayer of confession in Psalm 51, he wasn't content with just forgiveness. He wanted God to do more than forgive when it came to his sins, so he says, verse 10, he prays, not just blot out my transgressions, not just cast my sins into the depths of the sea, but he says, verse 10, create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. …
… According to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. He says, have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love and according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. See, there's a secret right there. David didn't look in the mirror. David looked at God. He says, you, God, have mercy on me according to your steadfast love. What's he talking about? Not his failure, but God's steadfast love. But that next phrase, according to your abundant mercy. Abundant mercy. He goes, God, you're not a God who just has a little bit of mercy. you're a God with abundant mercy and it hit me you know I can apply the greatness of God to his holiness to his wrath to his justice and I go I get it I get his holiness it's like there's no words to describe how far beyond us he is but when it came to his mercy it was harder for me to see his mercy as abundant. See, David says, if you wash me, if you wash me, I'll be whiter than snow. I'll be whiter than snow. This is not whiter than snow. See, God, God, you have to think about who he is. Remember, burn your face off. God, unapproachable light. God. Now, if that God decides to wash me, how clean do you think I'll be? See, I wasn't taking his mercy the same way I was taking his holiness. And when I applied that, I go, man, God does not just show a little …
… Blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Verse 7. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. whiter than snow this is not whiter than snow this doesn't make sense like if i wash me i'll be like this but he says you wash me god because i know what you do when do you ever do anything halfway when do you ever do no you you go beyond anything we could imagine and so that's why David with such confidence goes, you wash me and I'm going to be whiter than snow. There's no blemish in me. 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 and renew a right spirit in me. you're the creator make my heart totally clean make me this blank slate make me whiter than snow hide your face from my iniquities it's done it's done and i started thinking about the new testament and going hey idiot what part of first john 1 9 do you not understand okay that if you confess your sins that he again look at him he is faithful you're saying he's not faithful he is faithful and just to forgive you your sins and cleanse you from 99 of your unrighteousness like what are you thinking are you doubting the word of are you doubting the power of god are you doubting that he's capable of this type of mercy but some of us we just have this …
… Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. he just says, God, have mercy on me, according to your steadfast love. See, a lot of times we don't feel that forgiveness because we keep looking at ourselves. We keep looking at our sin. And what David does is he goes, have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love and according to your abundant mercy, blot out my transgressions. This is something we have to focus on is looking at God's abundant mercy according to your abundant mercy, according to your steadfast love. It's like, God, my sin is so wicked. It is so evil. What I've done is so offensive. I know your word. and so I can't claim anything on me. I can't go, okay, let me make up for it. Let me be faithful for the next 20, 30 years and maybe that will make up for it. No, nothing makes up for it. The only thing we can claim is his steadfast love and his abundant mercy. It's not like God has this shortage of mercy. It's like, God, I know I deserve this. Do you have enough mercy left to pour out on me to shower me with that? Is your love steadfast enough? No, it's immeasurable. He has mercy that is abundant. And his love is not like our love that's fleeting and comes and goes. …