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Good morning, chapel. Our sermon today comes from the second book, the Sultan. That is, we shall be looking
at Psalm 51. Psalm 51. Now about this psalm,
is a psalm when we see David confessing his sin, pleading
with God for mercy. Because of the incident that
had happened, Joseph and Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, had committed
adultery and also killed the man. And now after Prophet Nathan
coming to him, confronting him about his sin, he breaks down. As a man of God should be, you
have to break down when you sin and plead for God's mercy. So
this is what David does here. And we are going to read that
now, if you are there. Already we are going to commence
reading God's word. Psalm 51. Have mercy on me, O
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. For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I
sinned and done what is evil in your sight. so that you may
be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. Behold,
I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive
me. Behold, you delight in truth
in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret
heart. Pledge me with his soul, and
I shall be clean. Wash me, and I shall be whiter
than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness. Let the bonds that you have broken
rejoice. Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O
God, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from
your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore
to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing
spirit. then I will teach transgressors
your ways, and sinners will return to you. Deliver me from blood-guiltiness,
O God. O God of my salvation, and my
tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness. O Lord, open my
lips, and my mouth will declare your praise. For you will not
delight in sacrifice, or I will give it. You will not be pleased
with a burnt offering, The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a
broken and contrite heart. O God, you will not despise.
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure. Build up the walls
of Jerusalem. Then will you delight in right
sacrifices, burnt offerings, and whole burnt offerings. Then
bowls will be offered on your altar. Let's pray. Our Heavenly
Father, we thank You for this moment when we come together
to share Your Word, to be encouraged and edified as a body of Christ,
as a family. Lord, we bless You. Always this
moment is wonderful to feed on Your Word. I pray You help me
bring out Your Word to Your people as You wanted to bless us and
bless our meeting together. In Jesus' name. Amen. So David here, he knows something about himself. He discovers something here. He says that, I was brought forth
in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me. He knew that the problem with
him was sin. You see, when you read scenes
where maybe murder has happened, you know, a murder scene, investigators
will come and they will start drawing some funny stuff. Then
they will start standing. You know, if someone was shot
facing this direction, which means the shooter was from the
other direction. They start imagining according
to what happened on the scene. Then they figure out what really
took place. Doctors call it diagnosis. They take you through an examination,
sometimes asking questions, to find out what is the cause of
the sickness. Because when you don't treat
the cause, you are only treating symptoms. And it means The sickness
is going to, you are going to put it off for a while, but it
will come back because it's not gone for good. And now, that's
what David has done to himself. He knows that he's sinning because
he's a sinner. This brings us to the original
sin. The word original sin is a word
not found in the Bible. It's not a biblical word, but
it comes from St. Augustine. Original sin means
that this is the sin we inherited from our father, Edda. When he
sinned, since we come from him, we all sinned. As the Bible says,
we've all sinned and fallen with the glory of God. We are shot.
So, David knows this, that he's a sinner. He sins not because
he wants to, but because he's a sinner. He was born like that. And you see, something with the
original sin, it is something that has corrupted. all our faculties. Our nature
is sinful. So, because our nature is sinful,
all our faculties are sinful also. It means that your intellect,
what you think, is full of sin. Your emotions, what you feel,
is also sinful. Your will, your decision-making,
is also corrupted. with sin. So that brings us to what is
termed as total depravity. Total depravity means total inability. And it means that man is unable
to believe in God and his wife. We are completely helpless, and
we need someone to help us. Man cannot help himself. He needs
a savior. So what is sin, then? Sin is
trespassing God's law. It's rebelling against the laws
of God. It's missing the mark that God
has set for us. God has a standard. And I'm telling
you, none of us can reach it because we are all found wanting. We are down here. We need someone
to help us, get us up there. And that's why the Bible says
that all have sinned and fallen from the glory of God. We are
all sinners. And 1 John says that if you Say
that you are without sin, you are lying to yourself, and you
make God a liar too. So, sin is just in our nature. We sin because we are sinners. That's what we are or who we
are. The sin you do is not what makes
you a sinner, but you sin because you were a sinner. That's who
you were born to be, because of the sin of our father Adam.
Now, that's why Jesus Christ comes to save us. And even before you come to Christ,
God has to perform what is called a rebirth, regeneration. such that we were born again,
because the dead man cannot listen to God's voice. And before we
come to Christ, our hearts are dead. That's what David is talking
about here. Our hearts are dead. He needs
to be born again. Actually, we shall see in front
where David asks God to renew his spirit within him. So, David
finds out, discovers that he is a sinner. Now what? What follows if he knows that
he is a sinner? What follows? David is calling upon God to
create in him a clean heart, to renew a right spirit within
him. not to cast him away from his
presence, not to take his spirit from him. The Bible says those
who are born of the Spirit, they are the children of God. And
you can't be a child of God without the Holy Spirit. You know, this
is like excommunicating you from the Church. When you are excommunicated
for a while, you cease to be part of the family of God until
you repent and then you are restored back into the congregation. It's also like a prison. is a punishment they give you,
you know, after breaking the law. When you break God's law,
they give you that punishment. They exclude you from society
and keep you somewhere. They are punishing you emotionally
because you are away from everyone. You are detached to your normal
life. And that will punish you. It
will bring transformation. And everybody knows that when
the Holy Spirit is taken from me, my life will be like a living
hell. I'm not going to live. Because I can't imagine a life
of a Christian without the Holy Spirit. It is the Holy Spirit
who tells us everything, who helps us in this life to help
us live like children of God, like the people of God. So David
pleads with God, not to take away His Spirit from me. Don't take away Thy Spirit from
me. I need Your Holy Spirit, and
create in me a new heart, a heart that obeys Your commandments,
that knows Your laws. And in Jeremiah, God promises
that in the later days, He will give them the heart of
flesh and remove the heart of stone, the heart that follows
His law. That's what David yearns for. That's what he's asking God to
give him, a heart that will obey Him, a heart that is renewed,
a heart that is transformed, a changed heart. Now, David knows that if God
doesn't help him, he won't make it. And he's pleading with God
to help him, give him that heart. It's a prayer. Now, when we read
this, we might think that that should be only God's prayer.
But if you notice, we all go through what David went through. It might not be a particular
sin he committed, but we are sinning every day. And we need
God to help us, to give us that heart of flesh. And he says, for you will not delight in sacrifice
or I will give it. You will not be pleased with
a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God, a broken
spirit, and a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise."
That's what God requires, a broken and contrite heart. When we sin,
we have to be broken and go to Him and ask Him for forgiveness. One thing comes into my mind.
When Peter had denied Jesus for three times. His heart was broken, and he walked
out of the meeting crying, and he went and repented. He cried
bitterly, and he said to God, I've sinned
against you, please forgive me. This is a man, a righteous man,
who has loved me, who has been there for me. We've worked together,
we've lived life together, but here I am denying Him. All because
of what? To save my... I saw all my life,
you know, it was something bad. But he broke down and cried to
God to forgive him. No wonder Jesus, later on, chooses
him as the leader of his fellow apostles. Says, on that rock,
he will establish his church. And Peter was not that righteous,
or this David we are talking about, but it's because of the
brokenness of the heart. When we sin, we have to reach
that moment where our hearts are broken and repent our sins. We ask God for his forgiveness. Very important for a Christian
to do. And we see a perfect example
here from David. We see he has lost peace. He's unsettled because of this
sin he has committed. He needs to find forgiveness
from God. He's pleading with him. to forgive
him. And as this psalm starts, David
opens with asking for God's mercy on him. Have mercy on me, O 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. He asks God to forgive him according
to his steadfast love. God is a God of confidence. And he had loved them not because
of who they were or something, but he had made a covenant with
them to be their God. And he reminds him about that. And he asks for mercy. You see, Sinners deserve death. They don't deserve forgiveness.
That's all they deserve. Death should be the punishment. And no wonder the Bible says
the wages of sin is death, because that's what a sinner deserves.
But this merciful God rewards sinners with forgiveness. Now, that is mercy. Mercy is
giving you what you don't deserve. And that's what God gives us,
mercy, forgiveness. So David asks God to forgive
him, to have mercy on him. And indeed, God forgives him. The Bible encourages us that
if we confess our sins, He's faithful enough to forgive us. And here, David receives forgiveness
from God. Now, there were consequences,
as we know, but God forgave him because he was supposed to die.
When you read 2 Samuel chapter 12, he was supposed to die. But God preserved his life, but
the consequences are still there. It's also something we need to
know. When we sin, God forgives us, but you can't take away the
consequences. That's why we need to think through
our decisions, our choices, our actions, what will result, what
will follow after you've taken that action. And even though our intellect, emotions,
and will are corrupted with sin, but we can also still hang on
Christ. who can help us do the right
thing, perfect us into who we were created to be. So this morning,
I'm challenging us to be repentant, to have broken hearts that can
repent to God, to ask for forgiveness, to ask for His mercy, just like
David had the man after God's own heart. Let's pray. Our Father,
we thank you for your word. Now that it's shared, we pray
that you help us act according to it. Help us be the kind of
people you want, the people you desire to have. Turn us into
the people who make you proud, the people who worship you in
truth and spirit. Bless even our time, the rest
of the day. In Jesus' name.
The Godly Man and Sin
Series ABU Chapel
Mr. Ken Banda, ABU Alumnus, instructs us from Psalm 51 about what a godly person does with his sin.
| Sermon ID | 4272351756594 |
| Duration | 21:48 |
| Date | |
| Category | Chapel Service |
| Bible Text | Psalm 51 |
| Language | English |
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