1 00:00:02,720 --> 00:00:07,480 Speaker 1: Life Audio. Hey there, and welcome to another Prayer through 2 00:00:07,520 --> 00:00:11,400 Speaker 1: the Psalms episode of the Praying Christian Women podcast. I'm 3 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:14,440 Speaker 1: Jamie Hampton and I'm really excited to be here with 4 00:00:14,480 --> 00:00:18,360 Speaker 1: you to talk about Psalm fifty one and pray through it. 5 00:00:18,480 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: This is from the New American Standard Bible nineteen ninety five, 6 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,959 Speaker 1: as usual, and this is called a contrite Sinner's prayer 7 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: for pardon. This is a Psalm of David and it 8 00:00:28,640 --> 00:00:31,280 Speaker 1: was actually a prayer in the form of a song 9 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:34,360 Speaker 1: because it was for the choir director. And it was 10 00:00:34,479 --> 00:00:37,360 Speaker 1: written when Nathan the prophet came to him after he 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:41,760 Speaker 1: had slept with Bethsheba, and according to the Bible, after 12 00:00:41,840 --> 00:00:44,840 Speaker 1: he had her husband murdered. And we'll talk a little 13 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:48,760 Speaker 1: bit about the backstory after we pray. So I hope 14 00:00:48,760 --> 00:00:51,600 Speaker 1: you're doing well today. I hope that you've had some 15 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: time to spend with God this week. But if you haven't, 16 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:57,120 Speaker 1: that is why we're here. That is absolutely why we 17 00:00:57,200 --> 00:01:00,160 Speaker 1: do this, is so that together we can set apart 18 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: this time to spend with the Lord. So let's pray, 19 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,680 Speaker 1: Father God. We just thank you so much for your word, 20 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for this time to pause. To 21 00:01:10,920 --> 00:01:14,680 Speaker 1: let go of all of the worries, all of the anxieties, 22 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:19,520 Speaker 1: all of the frustrations, all of the burdens and responsibilities 23 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:23,039 Speaker 1: that just seem to swirl around in our minds without ceasing. 24 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:26,759 Speaker 1: We just lift this time up to you, and we 25 00:01:27,040 --> 00:01:29,880 Speaker 1: pray that you would consecrate it, that you would set 26 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: it apart as holy and pure, That you would attune 27 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,920 Speaker 1: our ears to your voice and yours alone, that you 28 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: would shut out anything else. Lord, We just pray for 29 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:45,479 Speaker 1: the racing thoughts, for the intrusive thoughts, that you would 30 00:01:45,520 --> 00:01:47,960 Speaker 1: just help us to take them captive, put them aside, 31 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:51,040 Speaker 1: that we would have ears to hear and eyes to 32 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:53,559 Speaker 1: see what you have for us today through this passage. 33 00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:57,880 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your word. Thank you for David. 34 00:01:59,280 --> 00:02:01,480 Speaker 1: Thank you for an example in the Bible of someone 35 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:04,640 Speaker 1: who was not perfect, but was so loved by you 36 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:09,919 Speaker 1: because of his love for you, because of his humility, 37 00:02:10,880 --> 00:02:13,800 Speaker 1: because of his repentant heart. When he sinned, even if 38 00:02:13,840 --> 00:02:19,320 Speaker 1: he sinned frequently, he repented frequently and was genuine about it. 39 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:23,120 Speaker 1: It wasn't because he was afraid of being caught or 40 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,320 Speaker 1: had fear of punishment of hell. It was because he 41 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: loved you so much, and he didn't want to disappoint you. 42 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:34,239 Speaker 1: I just pray that you would prepare our hearts, help 43 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:37,280 Speaker 1: us to be that way, help us to be like David, 44 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:40,720 Speaker 1: Help us to come before you, and know that we 45 00:02:40,760 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: can come as we are, warts and all. We don't 46 00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,239 Speaker 1: have to clean ourselves up to come into your presence. 47 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:51,480 Speaker 1: But we do pray that as we are faced with 48 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 1: a holy God and with your word, that you would 49 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:59,519 Speaker 1: convict us through your holy Spirit of anything that separates 50 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: us from you, of sin, maybe that we're not even 51 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: aware of, that it would be drawn to the surface, 52 00:03:05,560 --> 00:03:09,280 Speaker 1: that we would truly be washed by your word, and 53 00:03:09,280 --> 00:03:12,080 Speaker 1: that all of the bad stuff, all of the sin, 54 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,800 Speaker 1: all the sinful thoughts, words, actions, would just rise to 55 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:19,840 Speaker 1: the top like dross, to be skimmed off, so that 56 00:03:19,880 --> 00:03:23,480 Speaker 1: we could walk forward out of this time with newness 57 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 1: and freedom that we didn't have before. In Jesus name, 58 00:03:28,840 --> 00:03:34,840 Speaker 1: we pray Amen. All right. So, like I said, this 59 00:03:34,920 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: is a very transparent psalm of David. And if you 60 00:03:40,200 --> 00:03:42,680 Speaker 1: know this story it's from you can read it in 61 00:03:42,960 --> 00:03:48,360 Speaker 1: Second Samuel eleven. And it's the story of David and Bathsheba, 62 00:03:49,400 --> 00:03:53,880 Speaker 1: and David saw bath Sheba while she was bathing on 63 00:03:53,920 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: a rooftop, and he lusted after her. He had his 64 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,400 Speaker 1: people send for our her. He slept with her and 65 00:04:02,440 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 1: then sent her back, and then he received word not 66 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:09,320 Speaker 1: long later that she was pregnant, and he knew that 67 00:04:09,360 --> 00:04:16,400 Speaker 1: her husband was a soldier, and so he called her husband, 68 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:20,359 Speaker 1: Uriah back and basically tried twice to get him to 69 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:24,799 Speaker 1: sleep with her to cover up the adultery that had happened. 70 00:04:25,240 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: And Uriah refused. I mean, he seems like a really 71 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,279 Speaker 1: good guy. He wanted to be loyal to his troops, 72 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:32,600 Speaker 1: and he was saying, Hey, the guys that are fighting 73 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: with me, they're sleeping intense. They don't get to be 74 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:39,200 Speaker 1: with their wives, so neither will I. So twice he refused, 75 00:04:39,880 --> 00:04:42,320 Speaker 1: and David did everything in his power. He tried to 76 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: get him drunk and get him to go home and 77 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: sleep with his wife. It didn't work, so David was 78 00:04:50,279 --> 00:04:53,440 Speaker 1: left apparently with no other choice but to have him 79 00:04:53,520 --> 00:04:57,320 Speaker 1: sent to the front lines to be killed. So David 80 00:04:57,720 --> 00:05:02,320 Speaker 1: was confronted by Nathan the prophet about these sins of 81 00:05:02,440 --> 00:05:11,160 Speaker 1: adultery and murder. And this is his repentant psalm. Let's 82 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: read a contrite sinner's prayer for pardon for the choir director, 83 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:20,320 Speaker 1: a psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came to 84 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 1: him after he had gone into Bathsheba, be gracious to me, 85 00:05:24,760 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: Oh God, according to your loving kindness, according to the 86 00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:32,359 Speaker 1: greatness of your compassion, Blot out my transgressions. Wash me 87 00:05:32,440 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. 88 00:05:36,600 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever 89 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: before me against you. You only I have sinned and 90 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 1: done what is evil in your sight, so that you 91 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:51,680 Speaker 1: are justified when you speak, and blameless when you judge. Behold, 92 00:05:51,680 --> 00:05:54,719 Speaker 1: I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin my 93 00:05:54,800 --> 00:05:58,799 Speaker 1: mother conceived me. Behold, you desire truth in the innermost 94 00:05:58,800 --> 00:06:02,000 Speaker 1: being and the hidden part. You will make me know wisdom. 95 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,680 Speaker 1: Purify me with hissop and I shall be clean. Wash 96 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:09,680 Speaker 1: me and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me 97 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,880 Speaker 1: to hear joy and gladness. Let the bones which you 98 00:06:12,880 --> 00:06:17,279 Speaker 1: have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins, and 99 00:06:17,360 --> 00:06:22,040 Speaker 1: blot out all my iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, 100 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:26,440 Speaker 1: O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do 101 00:06:26,520 --> 00:06:29,440 Speaker 1: not cast me away from your presence. And do not 102 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: take your holy spirit from me. Restore to me the 103 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:37,239 Speaker 1: joy of your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit. 104 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:42,240 Speaker 1: Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will 105 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:47,240 Speaker 1: be converted to you. Deliver me from blood guiltness, Oh Lord, 106 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:51,839 Speaker 1: Oh God of my salvation. Then my tongue will joyfully 107 00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:56,039 Speaker 1: sing of your righteousness. Oh Lord, open my lips that 108 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:59,240 Speaker 1: my mouth may declare your praise. For you do not 109 00:06:59,360 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: delight in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it. For you 110 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:06,800 Speaker 1: are not pleased with burnt offering. The sacrifices of God 111 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart. 112 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,720 Speaker 1: Oh God, you will not despise. Buy your favor, do 113 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:19,040 Speaker 1: good tocion, build the walls of Jerusalem. Then you will 114 00:07:19,040 --> 00:07:23,280 Speaker 1: delight in righteous sacrifices, in burnt offering and whole burnt offering. 115 00:07:23,840 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 1: Then young bulls will be offered on your altar. So 116 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:32,200 Speaker 1: I'm not sure what stood out to you during this 117 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:36,240 Speaker 1: passage the reading of this passage, but for me, the 118 00:07:36,240 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 1: first part that really stood out to me as I 119 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: was looking at some of the commentary is that he 120 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:49,440 Speaker 1: says you are justified when you speak and blameless when 121 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: you judge. See this isn't kingly talk. Kings of that 122 00:07:55,320 --> 00:07:58,400 Speaker 1: day and probably of any day, have a degree of pride, 123 00:07:58,440 --> 00:08:05,360 Speaker 1: have a degree of arrogance, and typically don't admit wrongdoing 124 00:08:05,600 --> 00:08:08,360 Speaker 1: because they are the ultimate authority. They are the ones 125 00:08:08,400 --> 00:08:10,400 Speaker 1: that do the punishing. They are the ones that do 126 00:08:10,480 --> 00:08:17,040 Speaker 1: the bending. But David acknowledges that if he were punished 127 00:08:17,040 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: by God, that it would be right. He realizes the 128 00:08:20,760 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: extent of his sin, and he's not trying to make excuses, 129 00:08:25,920 --> 00:08:28,360 Speaker 1: he's not trying to get out of it. He's absolutely 130 00:08:29,200 --> 00:08:34,920 Speaker 1: transparently repentant. And in the beginning when it says have 131 00:08:35,080 --> 00:08:38,520 Speaker 1: mercy on me, that is in verse one, it says 132 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: be gracious to me, or have mercy on me, and 133 00:08:42,040 --> 00:08:45,000 Speaker 1: the actual Hebrew word for this be gracious to me 134 00:08:45,200 --> 00:08:48,920 Speaker 1: or in other translations, have mercy on me, actually means 135 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:54,000 Speaker 1: to bend down in kindness to someone weaker. So again 136 00:08:54,800 --> 00:09:00,920 Speaker 1: David is deferring to God as the Almighty, as the 137 00:09:01,040 --> 00:09:06,119 Speaker 1: King of kings and Lord of lords. And that was unique. 138 00:09:06,520 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: Another interesting thing Verses one through three. There are three 139 00:09:09,679 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: different words that are commonly used to express sin that 140 00:09:14,800 --> 00:09:19,720 Speaker 1: David stacks together to kind of show a threefold or 141 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:23,679 Speaker 1: like the extent of his sin. In Verse one transgressions 142 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:26,760 Speaker 1: meaning sin. Verse two, wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, 143 00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 1: which is verse two and verse two again it says, 144 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:34,360 Speaker 1: and cleanse me from my sin. And those three words 145 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:41,840 Speaker 1: are in Hebrew. Pesha means rebellion, avon means twistedness, and 146 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:46,839 Speaker 1: hata ah means missing the mark. And so David isn't 147 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:51,480 Speaker 1: just saying, yeah, I made a mistake. He's saying, I 148 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:57,199 Speaker 1: have rebelled against you. I have twisted humanity into something 149 00:09:57,240 --> 00:10:00,520 Speaker 1: it was never meant to be. I am missing and 150 00:10:00,559 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 1: in this case, not just missing the mark if you're 151 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:04,280 Speaker 1: thinking of a bull's eye on a target, but like 152 00:10:04,880 --> 00:10:09,600 Speaker 1: not even hitting the target itself. And he's just again 153 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: expressing the extent of his sin. It wasn't just a 154 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:19,560 Speaker 1: slip up. This was twisted rebellion that completely misses the 155 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:22,520 Speaker 1: point of why God created him. And he understands that 156 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:26,319 Speaker 1: another thing in verse seven where he talks about cleanse 157 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:31,560 Speaker 1: me with hissop. Hissop apparently was used in the application 158 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:37,880 Speaker 1: of passover, blood, leprosy, cleansing rituals, and temple purification. All 159 00:10:37,960 --> 00:10:42,959 Speaker 1: of this is so symbolic, it's so rich with symbolism 160 00:10:43,040 --> 00:10:49,160 Speaker 1: pointing to Jesus because the Passover blood, if you'll remember, 161 00:10:49,480 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: the blood was painted kind of on the doorposts of 162 00:10:54,160 --> 00:11:00,240 Speaker 1: the Israelites to protect them from basically the Angel of 163 00:11:00,320 --> 00:11:04,840 Speaker 1: Death that wiped out the firstborn of anyone in any 164 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:07,840 Speaker 1: of the other places that were not protected with blood 165 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: on the doorpost. And so the Passover represents salvation. It 166 00:11:13,320 --> 00:11:17,560 Speaker 1: was a foreshadowing of ultimate salvation through the blood of 167 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:22,520 Speaker 1: a lamb and leprosy cleansing rituals. That's what Jesus did, right. 168 00:11:22,640 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: He cleansed these lepers. He loved them, and he took 169 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:32,560 Speaker 1: away their brokenness. He took away their uncleanness and made 170 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: them clean in both a physical and a ritual sense. 171 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,400 Speaker 1: Lepers were not allowed to They couldn't be clean. There 172 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:43,720 Speaker 1: was no amount of ritual cleansing that could make them 173 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 1: by the law clean until they were healed, and then 174 00:11:47,840 --> 00:11:53,560 Speaker 1: they were clean. Temple purification again, the temple representing Jesus 175 00:11:54,040 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: being the lamb that was slain from the foundations of 176 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:01,440 Speaker 1: the world, and so he's using all this sacrificial imagery. 177 00:12:01,480 --> 00:12:04,640 Speaker 1: Even though this was the kicker. I didn't realize this, 178 00:12:04,840 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: but there was no sacrifice in the law prescribed for 179 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,160 Speaker 1: adultery and murder. If you committed adultery, the law says 180 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:17,040 Speaker 1: both shall be put to death. If you murdered someone, 181 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:19,480 Speaker 1: it's blood for blood, you know, an eye for an eye, 182 00:12:19,520 --> 00:12:21,440 Speaker 1: a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. 183 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,880 Speaker 1: So you were getting the death penalty. So David is saying, 184 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:30,439 Speaker 1: even though there is no provision in the law for 185 00:12:30,520 --> 00:12:33,760 Speaker 1: me to come back from this, you can invent a way. 186 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:37,240 Speaker 1: You can make a way back. And isn't that so 187 00:12:37,480 --> 00:12:42,360 Speaker 1: prophetic and beautiful that even in the lowest point of 188 00:12:42,400 --> 00:12:46,559 Speaker 1: his life he turned to God and he said, you 189 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:50,840 Speaker 1: are my rescuer, not the prescription of the law, but 190 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:55,840 Speaker 1: you are my savior. Like that is the gospel. And 191 00:12:56,000 --> 00:12:59,640 Speaker 1: I think that's why David is called a man after 192 00:12:59,679 --> 00:13:02,400 Speaker 1: God's own heart. We can go through a lot of 193 00:13:02,440 --> 00:13:04,800 Speaker 1: these other things created me a clean heart. I love 194 00:13:04,880 --> 00:13:07,360 Speaker 1: some of the I don't know about you, but I 195 00:13:07,440 --> 00:13:11,000 Speaker 1: have worship songs going through my mind based on this 196 00:13:11,160 --> 00:13:16,840 Speaker 1: psalm because so many have been created. But the last 197 00:13:16,840 --> 00:13:20,319 Speaker 1: thing I want to talk about is what repentance is. 198 00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:25,520 Speaker 1: And so one thing that I really like about this 199 00:13:25,840 --> 00:13:30,120 Speaker 1: he talks about let the bones you have crushed, rejoice, 200 00:13:30,200 --> 00:13:33,040 Speaker 1: or let the bones you have broken rejoice. And I 201 00:13:33,080 --> 00:13:36,720 Speaker 1: have heard a story that I have since heard was 202 00:13:36,800 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 1: not necessarily true, but if you take it as a parable, 203 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: it kind of illustrates the point. So the story is 204 00:13:44,400 --> 00:13:48,320 Speaker 1: that there was a shepherd, and the shepherd had a 205 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:54,360 Speaker 1: lamb that would constantly wander away, and the lamb would 206 00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: be in great danger, and he rescued the lamb many 207 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,280 Speaker 1: times from near misses of being mall by wolves and 208 00:14:01,360 --> 00:14:06,240 Speaker 1: other predators, and the lamb would just not follow. And 209 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:11,760 Speaker 1: so the shepherd, as was the custom in the days 210 00:14:11,880 --> 00:14:15,240 Speaker 1: of shepherds there, which I don't know if that's true 211 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:18,040 Speaker 1: or not. I don't know if it's true, would break 212 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:21,600 Speaker 1: the legs of the lamb and put the lamb around 213 00:14:21,640 --> 00:14:24,640 Speaker 1: his neck to carry him around and bind the wounds 214 00:14:24,680 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: and allow them to heal. And by the time that 215 00:14:27,320 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: lamb was able to walk on its own, it was 216 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:34,320 Speaker 1: so connected to and bound with the shepherd that it 217 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,360 Speaker 1: would never leave his side and would stay out of 218 00:14:37,360 --> 00:14:40,320 Speaker 1: harm's way. I don't know if that's true or not. 219 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:43,360 Speaker 1: The idea that shepherds used to do that, I have 220 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:45,320 Speaker 1: heard it debunked, So I'm not going to say that 221 00:14:45,320 --> 00:14:50,560 Speaker 1: that's true, but the parable illustrates that there might be 222 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:57,520 Speaker 1: times that brokenness is brought on by God as a 223 00:14:57,560 --> 00:15:03,520 Speaker 1: form of mercy and to help us, to save us 224 00:15:03,680 --> 00:15:09,000 Speaker 1: from a worse fate than some broken bones. And that's 225 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:12,040 Speaker 1: a dangerous path to take because then you start thinking, well, 226 00:15:12,200 --> 00:15:14,360 Speaker 1: is this horrible thing in my life? Did God make 227 00:15:14,440 --> 00:15:17,320 Speaker 1: this happen to punish me, or like get me to 228 00:15:18,200 --> 00:15:20,240 Speaker 1: get closer to Him or something. I don't think we 229 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: can do that. I don't want anyone to extrapolate that 230 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,880 Speaker 1: this is always how God works. But what we can 231 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: take from this is that the shattered brokenness from a 232 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,280 Speaker 1: humbled and repentant heart that can be from God. That's 233 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:41,920 Speaker 1: always conviction is from the Holy Spirit realization that we 234 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:48,360 Speaker 1: have gotten it so wrong, and just the sorrow and 235 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:51,200 Speaker 1: repentance that we feel when we have strayed from God, 236 00:15:52,200 --> 00:15:55,880 Speaker 1: that is from God. If we were just people walking 237 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 1: around with no spirit in us, we would do whatever 238 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:03,400 Speaker 1: we wanted. We would only do what brought us pleasure 239 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:07,960 Speaker 1: or advanced our cause or our genetics. We would be animals, basically, 240 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:11,880 Speaker 1: And because of the Holy Spirit in us, because of 241 00:16:11,920 --> 00:16:15,960 Speaker 1: the God given conscience that the Bible talks about. Even 242 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: people that don't know the name of Jesus have this 243 00:16:18,680 --> 00:16:23,680 Speaker 1: inborn knowledge of what is good and right because God 244 00:16:23,720 --> 00:16:27,240 Speaker 1: wrote the laws. God is good, and he established this 245 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,200 Speaker 1: world for us to know inherently what is good and 246 00:16:31,240 --> 00:16:34,960 Speaker 1: what is bad. And then he further revealed that law 247 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,920 Speaker 1: through the Law and the prophets and the Ten Commandments 248 00:16:37,960 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: and all of those things, and then ultimately through Jesus. 249 00:16:41,720 --> 00:16:45,320 Speaker 1: But that brokenness can come from God, can only come 250 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:48,280 Speaker 1: from God in realizing that we have done something that 251 00:16:48,320 --> 00:16:53,640 Speaker 1: grieves Him. And so that kind of brokenness can lead 252 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:58,840 Speaker 1: to joy and freedom like we were talking about. And 253 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 1: so let the bones crushed rejoice, Let them rejoice, because 254 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:10,960 Speaker 1: the alternative was danger and destruction and suffering and ultimately 255 00:17:11,960 --> 00:17:15,200 Speaker 1: separation from God for eternity. And David knew this. This 256 00:17:15,240 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 1: is incredible that he knew this back then before Jesus. Yeah, 257 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:22,480 Speaker 1: that's what I got from it. I hope you enjoyed 258 00:17:22,520 --> 00:17:25,000 Speaker 1: this psalm as much as I did. And I would 259 00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:31,720 Speaker 1: love to close us in prayer. Lord, we just thank 260 00:17:31,760 --> 00:17:35,440 Speaker 1: you for David again, thank you for permission to come 261 00:17:35,480 --> 00:17:42,159 Speaker 1: before you broken imperfect people. Lord, we just pray for 262 00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:45,719 Speaker 1: godly repentance that leads to life. That's what those broken 263 00:17:45,760 --> 00:17:49,640 Speaker 1: bones are all about. It's brokenness for the sake of healing. 264 00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:54,800 Speaker 1: The kind of sorrow that is of this world leads 265 00:17:54,800 --> 00:17:58,480 Speaker 1: to death and destruction because there's no hope in it, 266 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:02,199 Speaker 1: there's no healing in it and through it. And so 267 00:18:02,440 --> 00:18:04,760 Speaker 1: I just pray in Jesus name that you would protect 268 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:08,160 Speaker 1: each one of us from that kind of worldly sorrow 269 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:12,719 Speaker 1: that leads to death that festers, and instead that you 270 00:18:12,760 --> 00:18:17,400 Speaker 1: would just infuse us with your holy spirit, that our brokenness, 271 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:22,640 Speaker 1: as sin is exposed, as evil is dredged out of us, 272 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:28,359 Speaker 1: would lead to that joy, that rejoicing that David talks about. 273 00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,440 Speaker 1: We just pray that the reading of your word would 274 00:18:32,520 --> 00:18:36,240 Speaker 1: stay with us, would ruminate in our hearts and our spirits, 275 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:40,000 Speaker 1: that you would continue to speak to us through this psalm, 276 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,800 Speaker 1: and like David, that we would be able to face 277 00:18:42,880 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: our sin, not with running away from you because of shame, 278 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:53,600 Speaker 1: but running toward you, confessing and seeing you as the 279 00:18:53,720 --> 00:18:58,680 Speaker 1: loving father, like that prodigal son running to his father, 280 00:18:59,560 --> 00:19:02,160 Speaker 1: maybe feeling ashamed or uncertain, but then seeing that his 281 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:06,479 Speaker 1: father is so pleased to receive him and to lavish 282 00:19:06,560 --> 00:19:09,879 Speaker 1: him with love and gifts and blessing. 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