Broken

For your Bibles with you generally think you would to Psalm 51 will be looking this morning at verses 16 through 19.

For you will not delight in sacrifice or I would give it you will not be pleased with the burnt offering the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and contrite heart of God. You will not despise do good design and in your good pleasure build up the walls of Jerusalem then you will delight in right sacrifices and burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings, then bulls will be offered on your altar that with me as we got our Lord in prayer. Heavenly father. Today's message is about the value of brokenness. You inspired David to say that a broken and contrite spirit. You will not despise.

That seems odd to us. We know like broken things. Brokenness often means paying and discomfort. We like appear to be altogether. We don't get pats on the back for being broken that we get criticized and looked down on that roads are further wrong way. This passage tells us that use brokenness to destroy pride make us dependent and obedient.

So this morning were asking for insight.

Help us to view brokenness as you view it that help us to bow to it and grow from it. Father pray for Deborah called Ron today and she is been through the death of her father this weekend looks be experiencing the funeral this afternoon. Be with her and give her peace. Lord I thank you for her father's salvation, but I do pray for peace and comfort for Deborah but we continue to pray for Nicole Lois. She recovers from this heart oblation speed her recovery. Pray for my brother will Ferris this morning as he is away preaching in a another church and asked father that you help him and anoint him he might preach your word and power as is there heavenly father. Most of all, help us this morning to hear the word of God apply to our own hearts and that we might grow through it exalt Jesus today.

Lord, keep my my lips from era 40 is in the precious in the holy name of Jesus Christ that we pray.

Amen. You may be seated. Lord, what can I do to please you. That's a question on David's heart as he comes to the end of Psalm 51. David is been absolutely overwhelmed by the grace of God. He has realized that he is sand grievously. He has committed adultery with Bathsheba. He has conspired to have her husband Uriah the Hittite murdered in order to cover over his sin, he is brought division in his nation. He is destroyed families. He's brought reproach on the name of God and David in for the last several months has been limited to a literal hell on earth. The guilt is so heavy on his heart that he can even look in the mirror and that beautiful sweet presence of of the Holy Spirit on his life has not been there and it's been about driving crazy. Besides that, he knows that just about everybody in Israel is talking about in and is all negative within God's and Amanda confront David Amand's name was Nathan. He was a great prophet. He came in the David's David's palace.

He stood before David and all of his court and he pointed out his sin specifically and very powerfully, and David broke.

He fell on his face and he was broken and he felt bright heart ache and there was deep in genuine repentance and God didn't work in David's heart.

God clean steam from his CNE remove the guilt God renewed a right spirit within him and restored to him the joy of his salvation and David was so filled with appreciation and gratitude for what God had done that that all he wanted to do was to please God is the Lord.

How can I put a smile on your lips, Lord, how can I bring delight in your heart, Lord, how can I bring you pleasure resident sisters. That's not a bad thing. That's a good thing. And every morning when we get up one of the first questions we all ask is the us Lord, what can I do to please you today. What can I do to bring delight into your heart. You go to a church that stands very strong of the doctrine of inerrancy and infallibility. The last four weeks we've been studying this great passage of Scripture and in Psalm 51 God inspired David to write and we need to realize that it is been used for 3000 years now to help people come into a right or a right relationship with God and to learn how to truly and genuinely repent. But what about this question. Was this all David prayed, do we have everything that he prayed as we look at this particular Psalm, and I would ask you is this his whole prayer was this just an outline that David gave us to follow. I believe that what we have here is an outline. I believe that when David actually prayed this prayer I believe he was much more detailed and much more specific in this song David put prayed that he confessed his transgressions, but I think when he was actually on his knees before God. He was specifically detailing what his transgressions were let me ask you this. You ever had ever prayed this way, Lord's July.

Forgive me for my many sins. You know what that is. That's a copout that's a copout because you can say that you don't even have to think about what you've done to offend God. It just kinda Russian things away folks true confession is detailed in this very specific Lord.

I said something snide to my neighbor because I really don't care much for him. I kinda wanted to hurt his feelings. Lord I lasted when I knew I should've turned my eyes the other way. I didn't want to because I knew would bring pleasure to my heart, Lord, I didn't have my devotional time. This will this morning, but because I wanted to sleep in.

I just got lazy at that specific and that's what David is doing.

Pray a prayer here is very specific and very detailed. With that said, I got three points this morning that I want to share with you as we look at these verses number one. The wrong motive. Look at verse 16.

You will not delight in sacrifice or I would give it you will not be pleased with a burnt offering and what you do when you want to please someone you think whale I give them a gift.

I'll sacrifice something for them. Now that's the natural mind that thinks that way. Are you there husbands ever got the dog house with your wife and I ever do something, you know that just kind of offended them will once you've done that then what you do and how you might want to send him flowers. You might send them RR give them a box of candy you want to give them a gift or something and you do that to let them know I care about you. I'm sorry that I've offended you, I want you to know that I love you and here take my guess is that you'll know that I really care about you will hear in verse 16.

David is telling us that that kind of thinking in that kind of manipulation does not work with God. So David cries out to the God who knows his heart inside an eye out and what is he say paste is Lord you don't delight in sacrifice else I would give it.

And Lord, you are pleased with the burnt offering heavy David know all this had a you know it, who was David's predecessor. David's predecessor was King Saul. You might remember when David was a young teenage boy. He was out keeping watching over his dad's. She out in the in his dad's pastor and Samuel the prophet was called by God to go to the home of Jesse and their God would choose one of Jesse sons to be the new king of Israel, so Samuel went and he stood before Jesse and he said bring your sons here in the first son came.

His name was a lie. He was tall he was strong he was tough he was. This big guy.

He looked like he had it all together and Samuel thought surely this is the one this is gonna be the next king of Israel, and God said no Samuel man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks at the heart and so the next brother came. His name was a been a day and God said to say don't know this is not the one answer five more brothers came seven and all.

And they came before Samuel and God said no. And God rejected them all. Samuel said to Jesse, are there anymore so way gathers the baby booties. After keeping the sheet same as ago getting.

I sent a servant out the servant came back with David. David stood before Jesse and God said to Jesse domains before to Samuel, Samuel. This is the one. This is the man. This will be the next king of Israel, Samuel took a flask of oil, and he poured it over his head to anoint him to be the new king that were not told all the details here but surely David said to Samuel how can I be the next king of Israel. When Saul is still on the throne. Samuel probably said something like this you leave that to God you leave that to the sovereignty of our great God, you will take the throne in God's timing, not before, and not later, and I imagine the conversation probably went something like this. Samuel said David listen God has rejected Saul and he is chosen to view a man after God's own heart to be the next king of Israel, and I think David probably said why sent Samuel did God reject Saul. Samuel sits down with him and begins to explain the story. He said David God commanded Saul to destroy the Amalekite nation. The Amalekite nations what was a nation that was filled with ruthless moral rebellious godless people and they it and they had a desire in their heart to to destroy Israel to wipe them off the face of the earth started way back in the time of Moses and they would ambush the people of God, they would ambush the people of Israel and they would kill the elderly people and they would kill the children and they would ravage the women and they would spread to see and this was a continual battle in Tagalog for 300 years to finally God said this is what needs to be done. Saul you go out and you destroy the people of of of of the Amalekites destroy them all men, women, boys, girls, all of them destroyed, you destroy all the livestock the counselor the sheet all of that and you destroy all their belongings there would be left any vestige of things that would remind us of the Amalekites, God said, I don't want anybody to be infected by their sin by their filth, or by their disease process is called a jihad, a holy war is not a battle to gain land. It was not a battle to show military superiority. This was a spiritual war to wipe out a people who have a desire in their heart to destroy Israel. The people of God. Why would Satan do that because Satan understood the promise that God had given to Abraham. And that promise was this that through Abraham's seed, the entire world would be blessed that God was going to raise up the Messiah, the Savior from one of Abraham's descendents and this Savior would come, he would dial across and he would pay the sin debt for the people and that's what what was going to happen Satan had always tried to use the Amalekites to try to destroy Israel is saying, to destroy the Jewish race that he could have kept Jesus from being born in the entire world would have died in their sins. I'm sure Samuel explained that young David and then said God did not offer Saul an option here.

God did not tell him to handle it as he saw fit. God said Saul destroy the entire nation. This is what you were to do that was God's command. We look at that and that sounds kinda harsh to us.

Done. Listen, God is sovereign God is submission and God is perfectly holy God is perfectly love God is perfectly wise. He never has to guess and he never has to speculate God knows the future and for the artwork that is been collected from the archives of the Amalekite people we have found out that they were very perverted, morally decadent people and there they were a people that very well may have been people that would've transmitted sexually transmitted diseases. Maybe something like AIDS that could've absolutely wiped out a nation if they had wiped out Israel. They could've kept the Savior from being born. So what appears to be up to us a very harsh command from God is not a harsh command that all this in action of love to protect the world to be assured that the Jewish race would not be extinguished and to be sure that Jesus Christ, the Messiah would be born folks we don't know all of God's reasoning against what we don't have to know all Todd's reasoning. God is God, we can trust him. He always does everything right. Samuel said Saul deliberately disobeyed the command of God, he allowed king a gag to live. He allowed many of the soldiers to live a lab most of the people to still live and he did not destroy almost any of the livestock.

Then Samuel told David that he went to Saul since all had you My commandments.

Since all he out kept the commandments we went out we defeated the Amalekites is over and done with and then sameness and wait a minute was that I hear you. I hear the the bleeding of of sheep. Do I hear the lowing of cattle solid you not obey the commands of the Lord and destroy the gut the livestock is God commanded you to do. Saul said whoa.

Wait a minute I know what I'm doing.

I know exactly what I'm doing. I kept these livestock alive in order that I might use them to sacrifice unto the Lord. Listen to what Samuel's response was doing for Samuel 1522 through 23.

Has the Lord is great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord bold obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams for rebellion is this is as the sin of divination or witchcraft and presumption is as iniquity and idolatry.

Because you rejected the word of the Lord. He is also rejected you from becoming king in Proverbs chapter 15 verse eight. Solomon, who is David son said this, the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination before the Lord, what is that mean it means that God knows the motives of unbelievers who make a sacrifice to the Lord. Their motive is wrong. They are trying to buy off God. They say in their heart, Lord, I want to how I won't totally obey you but I'll give you a little something to appease you and get you off my back the way they think, know the words.

Lord, I'll give you some stuff, but I'm not giving you my heart's exactly what King Saul is doing. He is deliberately disobeyed God and then said they is no big deal. I'm giving you something, hereby you all suggest let it go and everything will be fine. What Samuel's cytosol. He said Saul rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. What is witchcraft to it blinds people spiritually is a substitute for true faith is trusting demons rather than trusting God that the English definition that is used for the Hebrew word for witchcraft is divination. So what does that mean is the prediction of the future by using demonic activity in Samuel told Saul this truth, rebellion your rebellion is just like witchcraft. How bad is it.

Another words he said you refusal to be obedient to God is deceitful. It is waking and it is like Satan. David is not like Saul, David is regenerate. He is us save man. He knows Lord is a perfect absolutely not, has a much committed sin absolutely has just like we all have, but he loves the Lord and he has a desire to please God.

David has learned this truth. God will not be manipulated. God will not be bawled off with a sacrifice. God wants more than David stuff God wants David's heart like that takes us to point to and that is the right motive. Look at verse 17 the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit are broken and contrite heart of God.

You will not despise what is God want from his children. He won't cite a broken spirit was a broken and contrite heart was a W toes are used to say that we human beings throw broken things away, but God that use anything until it is broken and my former church associate Pastor Larry Brantley wanted me wanted to introduce me to one of his friends from seminary as pastor and so we got together and the guy came over to me and shook my hand and said hey Doug he said my name is broken Oliver and I look to them like really broken Oliver and I asked him about it and he said yes. He said I changed my name.

He said my name used to be Brian, but when I came to know Christ as my Lord and Savior. I changed my name and legally did it and now my name is broken Oliver. I looked at him like he was crazy and I said why did you do that, he said, because every time I introduce myself to somebody. They asked me about it and that gives me the opportunity to tell him that that before I came to know Christ. I was arrogant.

I was proud I was holy AAN in my life was falling apart and I was headed for an eternal hail. But then God broke me. And when God broke me. He drew me to himself and when he drew me to himself. I came to know him and now going to heaven when I die, and I've got joy every single day. My delight is in God he said I changed my name to broken because I wanted to use my new name as a tool to reach people for Jesus like that. What happens when a child of God is broken, his pride is crushed his dependence on self is just blown to pieces. He is contrite. What does that mean it means that he is Syed and he is sorrowful and repentant over the sin or other failure in his life. The sorrow drives.

CM to God stored meat mean Christ have trouble with that word every time I hear the word meek. I think week when I hear heard the word meek. I think of a mousey little guy who just kind of always introverted, didn't you looking at, he would look you in the face that that kinda guy. I used to think until I read a numbers chapter 12 verse three that says Moses was the meekest man in all the earth. I thought while was Moses weak. Not hardly.

Moses is a man who stood before the Pharaoh of Egypt most politically powerful man on the face of the earth, and he stood before him and said, thus saith the Lord God, and he said it over and over again, and he would not back off.

This is Moses is the same guy who was at the Red Sea, the Army of Egypt coming after him and he stood before the Red Sea and he held out his the rod of God over the Red Sea and he held it out and he said, behold, the hand of God and the Red Sea opened up and and for two huge walls of water.

The children of Israel went through on dry land. Moses is the man who stood before the wicked Cora and Nathan as they were trying to take the priesthood upon them. Sales and God opened up the earth underneath their feet. They want to live in the hail was Moses weak, absolutely not. Was he meek, absolutely. He was what was meat mean it means this it means broken, as in the breaking of a wild stallion you ever think of a wild stallion that is now rideable that somebody can get on and ride you think that while stallion week all know he's not week that is power under control. Books what does God desire for us. He doesn't desire for our spirit to be crushed and destroyed. He desires that we might have a spirit that is disciplined and obedient so difference in a proud Simon Peter, who said to Jesus, Jesus, I would never deny you all know that these other guys Lord but I go to prison few I would die for you, but I would never deny you that was an unbroken Peter that was an unbroken disciple. That's who we who he was at that point in time, but then he did deny Jesus, he was broken broken in pieces, and Jesus forgave him after that he was a broken man and boy what a change as a broken man.

He wrote these words in first Peter chapter 4 went when he said this beloved.

Think it not strange. When these fiery trials come upon you as if some strange things happen to you, but rejoice that you were counted worthy to suffer for Christ sake. Therefore let those who suffer according to God's will and trust their souls to a faithful Creator while doing good. Several weeks after he wrote those great words. Roman soldiers came they dragged him out of his prison sale.

They took him to a heel on the outside of the room and they said to Peter, we get ready to crucify you you have any word you like to say anything you like to say before your death and Peter says yes when you crucify me, crucify me upside down because I'm not worthy to be crucified like Jesus brothers and sisters that is godly brokenness and that's what God wants out of his children, and that's what David is come to realize God doesn't want David stuff God wants David's heart to share an illustration with you have shared this with you before, years ago, but it really hits at home and at what I want to get across here was little eight-year-old boy who had a mom and dad were alcoholics. They lived in Chicago.

One night they got in the car to go to the grocery store. Mom and dad were in the front seat little boy in the backseat and the father had been heavily drinking there on a country road in the father's car swerved off at the road and hit a telephone pole. The telephone pole was not down on the car and it hit the front of the car and immediately killed his mom and his dad little boy what even scratched and little boy saw that his mom and dad were dead and and he said to himself I don't want to spend the rest of my childhood in an orphanage, so he climbed out the window and he ran away he went. For the next several months. He lived under a bridge just to keep the rain off his head and go to restaurants to garbage cans to get the food out of the garbage cans.

He wanted to find work as an eight-year-old was kinda hard to find work is not-year-old finally saw of pet newspaperman that was very desperate newspaperman gave them a paper route, so he could deliver papers like a little money he was delivering papers in a very prestigious neighborhood and one day he looked up at this particular front yard and there were always boys his age playing ball. He looked over at the, the, the house mansion right next door and wonder what it would be like to live in a place like that and he said himself.

I would if I got to lose and he went to the house. He knocked on the door is beautiful young lady comes to the door and she said son. What can I do for you and he said ma'am. I just want to know. Would you like a little boy and she said well you have one in mind and he said yes ma'am me and she said Wilson I don't know about that. I'm not sure that your parents would like that and then he began to explain that his parents had both been killed in this rack that he had been living under a bridge. He been eaten out of garbage cans. The lady began to cry. She said what just a minute. She went back in another room and she brought back her husband very wealthy business executive, and she said to her husband. Would you like to have a son. He said what and she said would you like to have a son and then they told him the story just so happen that they have been trying to adopt children for a year and they had had no success at all. The man took the little boy put them up on his on his lap and he said, son, are you telling me the truth is this absolutely the truth, and the boy said yes or everything I told you the truth is a table or going to do so will adopt you into our family.

You can obey our son working to give you our name. He said you're going to sleep in your bedroom in our house you can eat our food were gonna put you through school.

You can go to church with us you are going to be our son little boy was so excited he could hardly stand it. I said I hear here's a towel and and so go up and clean yourself up, take a bath and they come on back down. He came back down.

They took him off to a restaurant had a great meal. Then they took him to get some close, they went from one store to the next a boating play close to boarding school. Close the going church close and they went to a sporting goods store and they bought them a a baseball glove in a baseball and I came back in man and his son through the baseball back and forth and back and forth until it was dark. Finally got time for bed and they showed him his new bedroom is and this is where you sleep. Global want to sleep and later husband-and-wife went to sleep in their bedroom at 12 o'clock at midnight. The husband heard some footsteps in their bedroom and very quickly reached over and he turned the light on and when he turned the light on, he saw the little boy over by the Bureau and the little boy had his hand up where the man kept his billfold and the man looked at him as a son, would you doing you trying to take money out of billfold fullbore sort of crime.

He said oh no I would never do that. He said I nobody's ever love me like this and said I just brought all the money that I have and I put it up later because I just will pay you back and the man walked over there and 38 pennies that were right beside his billfold and the man took those 38 pennies. He handed me back to the little boy and they said son he said please always remember this. I don't want what you have.

I just want you that little boy a couple of months later came the new Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior.

He grew up he went on to college. And while he was in college.

God told him to preach and he became a pastor, a very successful pastor, one that would preach the gospel with no hesitation in Chicago when we get into his pulpit. He would tell people about his relationship with God.

They say this is what my adopted father taught me is in my adopted father taught me that God didn't just won't what I have. God wants me. God wants me. That's what David is saying right here folks. That's what David is saying is the right motive for us the sacrifices of God are a broken and contrite spirit point .3 is the glorious result in verse 18 through 19 do-gooders ironing your good pleasure build up the walls of Jerusalem then when you delight in writing sacrifices and burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings and bowls will be offered on your altar aunt David is coming to the end of his prayer of repentance. The first 17 verses.

He's been talking about is sin. His relationship with God is fellowship with God. Then he talks about his confession of his sin is repentance the renewal and then the restoration then what does he immediately do a moose from praying about him and himself to praying about others. The price for Zion that is Israel a price for their growth and their prosperity PA praise that they will come to to know the Lord better equips praying for himself. He starts praying for others. I think he probably sprayed this way said, Lord, please let these people know that I am nothing but a sinner saved by grace.

Let them know that although I am the king of Israel, that I am nothing without you folks the colonists is the same as we confess and repent as we surrender more deeply to Jesus we need to not only love Jesus we need to love the bride of Christ is a God who is the bride of Christ, right here that's the bride of Christ and brothers and sisters, we need not only to love each other better.

We need to pray for each other better when because James Montgomery voice not close with this, he said, let us remember that everything we do affects other people, whether for good or evil is, is it not. It is not true that we can sin as long as it does not hurt anyone because she had always heard someone, but it is also true that those who confess their sin, find forgiveness and renewal teach others the ways of God and become a blessing as we prepare for the Lord's supper.

I want you to remember the confession of David as David said this old Lord, a broken and contrite heart you will not despise a man is pray. Heavenly father. David started Psalm 51 this way this prayer, repentance with the confession of breaking the greatest commandment.

Why did he commit adultery.

Why did he murder to cover his sin. He did it because he was not loving the Lord with all of his heart mind soul and strength, and he prays this great prayer we see him moving toward this goal, the deeper his will is love is for God, the better he does it. Fighting sin by the time he comes the end of his prayer. He's brought face-to-face with the second greatest commandment love your neighbor as yourself. David realizes that God is calling on his life to minister to and bless God's people. He's learning to put his own wants and desires to the side and put others before himself, Lord Jesus. You love the church so much he died for her.

May we develop that same kind of love for your bride.

As we get ready to celebrate the Lord's supper. May these principles drive us to a deeper and sweeter walk with you may remember your call on our lives, if any man be my disciple, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.

For us in Jesus holy precious name we pray.

Amen