Weekend Wrap-up
Theme of the Week: Forgiveness: Feeling and Fact
Saturday, June 24, 2006
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David had committed adultery with Bathsheba and had engineered her husband's murder. And until the prophet Nathan confronted him about it, he had tried to cover it up. 2 Samuel chapters 11 and 12 recount this story. This Psalm and Psalm 32 are David's first-person accounts of the misery of unconfessed sin and the release that follows confessing and being forgiven.
Interact with God's Word
Psalm 51:1-17
- Why did David tell God (v. 4) that the sin he had committed was against Him?
- What effects of his sin did David fear (vv. 9, 11)?
- What toll had his sin already taken (v. 12)?
- What is the essential nature of confession (v. 4)?
- What attitude is God looking for from the offender (v. 17)?
- What qualities of God's nature (v. 1) assure the repenting sinner that he will be taken back?
- What is the result of being forgiven (vv. 2, 7, 9)?
- What are the effects on the person forgiven (vv. 12-15)?
Spend Time in Prayer
Thank God that there is always hope and a fresh start for the man who knows his sin and is willing to repent of it.
Psalm 51:1-17
1 Have mercy on me, O God, because of your unfailing love. Because of your great compassion, blot out the stain of my sins.
2 Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin.
3 For I recognize my shameful deeds—they haunt me day and night.
4 Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just.
5 For I was born a sinner—yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
6 But you desire honesty from the heart, so you can teach me to be wise in my inmost being.
7 Purify me from my sins, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Oh, give me back my joy again; you have broken me—now let me rejoice.
9 Don't keep looking at my sins. Remove the stain of my guilt.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God. Renew a right spirit within me.
11 Do not banish me from your presence, and don't take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 Restore to me again the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.
13 Then I will teach your ways to sinners, and they will return to you.
14 Forgive me for shedding blood, O God who saves; then I will joyfully sing of your forgiveness.
15 Unseal my lips, O Lord, that I may praise you.
16 You would not be pleased with sacrifices, or I would bring them. If I brought you a burnt offering, you would not accept it.
17 The sacrifice you want is a broken spirit. A broken and repentant heart, O God, you will not despise.
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Thank you, Lord, that my standing with You has nothing to do with deserving, and everything to do with receiving the forgiveness You've offered.
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