For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me.
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… 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. …
… 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. …
… This is an important verse too. Psalm 51, verses 3 and 4. David, when David realized God sent Nathan to David, God sent a prophet to David to expose what he did. And David realized he did wrong, and he wrote the 51st Psalm. When you read Psalm 51, that's David's writing. That's what he wrote when God spoke to him that what he did was wrong. He said, verse 3, Psalm 51, verse 3, For I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Verse 4, Against you, you only, have I sinned. and done this evil in your sight that you may be just when you speak and blameless when you judge. Ooh, y'all missed a great spot. Here's what that says. When David sinned, the person he sinned against is really God. I know that went over y'all head. Here's why it went over your head. Because you think you have a heaven or hell to put people into. But you don't have a heaven nor hell to put anybody into. …
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. …
… 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. …