I've got to go. you. Amen, I'd like to find your place in Psalms chapter 32, Psalms chapter 32. The title of the message is Don't Delay, Confess Your Sin. Don't delay, confess your sin. It's another message in the series of the dangers of being a procrastinator. You ought not to procrastinate when it comes to salvation. Yeah, I tell you, that's something you better not put off. It's appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment. The soul that sinneth, it shall die. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. For the wages of sin is death. I tell you, you better not procrastinate when it comes to salvation. You better get saved today. If you're not saved, I urge you to call on the Lord and be saved today and humble yourself before God and realize you're a sinner in need of a Savior. We also looked at the danger of procrastinating when it comes to serving God. You cannot afford to put off serving God. God saved you for a reason. God saved you and gave you a task to fulfill. You remember we looked at Elijah, and we looked at Elisha, and we looked at Esther, All of them, God had brought them to a place. He had a plan for their life and he gave them the power to do what they needed to do. He also gave them his favor. And you cannot put off serving God. There's a great danger in doing that because it won't just affect you, it'll affect others as well. In Psalms 32, we see the danger of procrastinating when it comes to confessing your sin. Psalms 32 in verse one says it's a Psalm of David Maskeel. That means instruction. It was written for our instruction. We're to learn from this. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture is turned into the drought of summer, Selah. I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgression unto the Lord, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah. Twice here in our verses you find that word selah. Selah means to think about it. It means to stop and meditate. Oh, the first Selah that you come to has to do with thinking about the effects of sin in yourself and thinking about what sin will do and has done to you and how blessed it is to be forgiven versus being under conviction. In verse 4, it says, For day and night the hand was heavy upon me, my moisture is turned into the drought of summer, Selah. Before the psalmist sinned, he had joy. When he was right with God, he felt the blessings of God. But when he sinned, and he did not confess it, he felt miserable. Delaying confession of sin not only damages our fellowship with God, but it invites deeper sorrow of the heart. Matter of fact, it'll go so deep, it hurts your heart so bad that it will harden your heart and will cause you to miss out on opportunities to be forgiven. Number one, I would like for us to look at the peril of postponing confession of sin. Why we delay in doing that? I'm going to tell you why we delay in postponing and why we delay in confessing our sin. Pride blinds us to the urgency of confession. Proverbs 16, 18 says, Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Pride says, I can handle this sin. Hey, pride will tell us, hey, you're all right. There ain't nothing bad happened to you. Hey, you'll be okay. You can confess it later. But the longer we wait, the stronger our pride grows, and we start telling ourselves that we're okay. Or we try to convince ourselves, at least, that we're okay. Hey, there's nothing bad happened to me yet, so surely I'll be all right. Oh, I can handle that curse word. I can handle that dirty thought. I can handle a little bit of the world's music. I can handle just a little bit of alcohol. I can handle just a little bit of drugs. I can handle being around the wrong crowd. I can handle disobeying my parents. I can handle... Oh, I'm telling you, that's some dangerous words. Pride blinds us to the urgency of confession. In Galatians 6, 7, it says, be not deceived. God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. In 1 Corinthians 15, 33, it says, be not deceived. Evil communications corrupt good manners. When we delay to confess our sin, When we delay getting right with God, we actually deceive our own selves. The danger in deception is that deception dulls the conscience. In Hebrews 3.13 it says, But exhort one another daily while it's called today, lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Sin is deceitful. It whispers, it's not that bad. Everybody else is doing it. Hey look, everyone laughed at what you said. Hey look, nothing bad has happened to you yet. You see, delay makes sin seem normal. Delaying to confess your sin leads to spiritual paralysis. In Ecclesiastes 11, verse 4, it says, He that observeth the wind shall not sow, and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap. Oh, if you wait for the right moment, I'm going to tell you, that moment will never come. There's a danger. I'm telling you, there's a danger in postponing getting right with God. I'll wait for a more favorable time. I'll wait for a time where everything's just right. I'm gonna wait for that right moment. That right moment's today. Don't delay confessing your sin. Number two, the price of delay. What it costs you to put off getting right with God. We see that the weight of guilt will increase. In verse 3 it says, When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me. My moisture is turned into the drought of summer, Selah. David shows us that unconfessed sin brings physical and spiritual pressure. The weight of guilt increases. The longer you wait to confess your sin, the weight of that guilt will increase in your life. Not only that, but your fellowship with God is broken. You see, silence does not make sin go away. All it does is build a wall. In Isaiah 59 it says, Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save, neither is His ear heavy that it cannot hear, but your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you that He will not hear. If we delay to confess our sin, our fellowship with God is broken, and that silence, that silence will build a wall between you and the Lord. Not only that, but our opportunities for deliverance are missed. Look at verse six. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found. Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him. Boy, wouldn't that be bad for you to be in a situation where you needed God's help? I mean, you was in a bad situation and you needed God to help you, but because you weren't right with God, then you're going to have to first get right with God before God will hear your prayer. Then you'll have to confess your sin before you can even get help from God. See, we think that we can just live any way we want to in this cry out for help and God's going to swing down and just make everything right. But look, if we're not living right, if we've got sin in our heart and our life and unconfessed sin, we're going to have to deal with that before God will hear our prayer. Psalm 66, 18 says, If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me. There's a window of mercy, but delay may cause us to miss it. Number one, we see the peril of postponing while we delay to confess our sins. Then number two, we see the price of delaying to confess our sins. What it costs you to put off getting right with God. Number three, we see the power of prompt confession. What we gain from confessing our sin. I'm gonna tell you the first thing that you gain is forgiveness. Because forgiveness from God is immediate and it's complete. In 1 John 1.9 it says, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. righteousness. Hey, I'm glad that god doesn't stall when we humble ourselves before him and we just become honest before him and we cry out at him and say, god, be merciful to be a sinner. God, I was wrong and you were right. God does not stall when we become honest before him. I'm telling you, forgiveness is He's faithful and He's just to forgive us our sins. Restoration will bring back fellowship. In Psalms 51, 12 it says, Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit. You see what confession will do. It will reopen the flow of grace and gladness in your life. I'll tell you what, when David got right with God, I'll tell you what, it opened up that door. All that miserable feeling he had before, it is gone now. Why? Because he's got forgiveness. Not only does it restore restoration, bring back fellowship, but it brings back a renewal of purpose. Boy, a clean heart becomes a bold witness. In Psalms 51.13 it says, Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Oh, you know, when you get right with God, you'll be able to teach others the ways of God. Matter of fact, you'll be able to tell him how merciful God was to you. You'll be able to tell him what God did for you and how he forgave you and how God can forgive them. And I'm going to tell you the result will be that sinners shall be converted unto the Lord. A homeowner once noticed a tiny drip under his sink, and he took on the idea that, well, it's not that bad. I'll just put a little tub underneath there and let it catch the drip. He said, I'll fix it later. Days passed on, then weeks passed on, and the drip soon became a stream. One night, the pipes busted and water flooded the kitchen and ruined the flooring and cost thousands of dollars in repairs. He called for a plumber. The plumber said, had you only tightened that joint earlier, it would have cost five cents and five minutes. Sin is like a drip of water. Left alone, it grows, it spreads, and it destroys. You better confess it while it's small, before it floods your life. Today is the day to get clean. Don't wait another hour. In Proverbs 28, 13, it says, He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Happy is the man that feareth away, but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief. Can I ask, is there anything between you and God? Is there anything that the Holy Spirit has brought to your heart and has convicted you that it's sin against God, there's sin in your life? You need to confess that now. You don't confess it to me, you confess it to God. You say, God, I'm wrong. You're right. You shouldn't gamble with your peace, your prayers, or your walk with God. Let me give you some good news. Mercy and forgiveness and restoration is available if you don't delay.