1185. Broken Before God pt. 2

Welcome to the daily part form from Bob Jones University in Greenville south Carolina this week we've been featuring sermons preached from the Bob Jones University 2021 Bible conference today. Pastor will gulp and will be finishing the sermon from yesterday from Psalm 51 you see what I'm asking for you and consider that you are manifestations of sand the things you say the things you do things you think are driven by a selfishness that drives you prone to wander, Lord, I feel it here, is able to live perfectly here is able to maintain a perfect sacrifice, pleasing to God way of sin is crushing. That's what the law does the law shows us our infractions. We fallen short of expectations and the character of God, you begin to see the law enters into our life.

God uses the weight of our sin, to break us of self-righteousness and crush us of our self dependence left to your own vices you will sin our only hope is God.

No other no other story describes our natural heart condition like second Samuel 11 and 12, but no other Bible prayer expresses the lips of confession quite like Psalm 51 we turn their because in Psalm 51.

I want to introduce you to a friend. I left Idaho I went to North tonight. I never once visited seriously. We got this little pamphlet.

My dad goes maybe should go there. I said okay. I drove there and for the first time I I think I was a believer prior but for the first time my heart was getting sliced open through his word and relationship somewhere my second semester freshman year. God just busted open just a whole pool of bitterness and a bunch of stuff for my growing up years and it is like was like stuff in the net that that that dam was holding back like all sorts of things. Then I went home my freshman summer and I just are clear my conscience and taking care of things that stolen and things I said and I went back and the next sub admixture my sophomore year in and I found I was a first time I ever even heard of the term study Bible, and it was a rightly study Bible in the bookstore and it was 50 box that was a lot of money, I bought my first study Bible and for the first time. I just started reading the Bible. I may like to start. I just was like okay yeah great awesome whoa wow wow you should read this, but all along the way I be stumbling.

Don't you wish you could just confess sin and never be tempted again has became more and more discouraged those clouds of sin. Those old habits that just didn't want to die is on this reading to Bible like I come up to Psalm 51 for the first time I couldn't leave at your ticket all right revival. I still have it like this, there's my friend, you know, Psalm 51 will do for you give me five handholds to climb up out of your pit sin and self much of Scripture talks to us, but Psalm 51 talks for us since brokenness is a shattering of my will, but every action and reaction is controlled by the spirit of God. David, upon hearing the rebuke of Nathan. He simply said, I've sinned against God, I've sinned against the Lord sometime after his private sin was exposing composes this public Psalm is a gift to God's people. There's this prayer is to be sung publicly as an encouragement to know that got what God wants. When his people sin, the prayer of a heart this broken cries out to God. With phrases like were going to see in the first phrase is this Lord forgive me. Look at verse one into pieces, have mercy upon me. Oh God, according I lovingkindness according the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions, wash me thoroughly for my iniquity, and cleanse me from sin continue here. The intensity became a just person will wait for the slow build the lengthy explanation, he simply says, have mercy on me is liking shouting out for forgiveness is broken hearted cry comes from one that seen their sin has devastating effects the weighted sinner pushed him so low.

This almost always uses every every Hebrew word is available to them to describe sin did you see transgression. That's her open rebellion iniquity is that perverse nature is bent and twisted. Sin is when we fallen short of expectations of God.

Think back second Samuel 11 and 12 what David did was it.did was hideous. He murdered multiple people so he could sleep with a woman think of her own rebellion crushes. Lord forgive me with intensity.

It's almost offensive. Seriously think about this this one to sinned against God, and with imperatives. Every one of those verbs is imperative for nurse wanted to and with an intensity. These four verbs. He's just like Lord, have mercy. Blot out my transgressions washed me for my iniquity, cleanse me with my firm I sent but they're not offensive to God because they're desperate imperatives weight when you're lost at sea. You don't whisper for help when you're dying of a heart attack in the library.

You do not respect the no talking sign your desperate Lord forgive me and he said, have mercy on me, you can translate that grace me is similar to the words used in the priestly benediction when the priesthood site may the Lord be gracious to you to cry out, have mercy on me. Oh God is just means that the penitent one has come to the end of himself.

My sin is great. I mean grace that's greater.

Show me mercy have no hope in God, my sin runs deep grace me blot out my transgressions wipe it away. Scrape it off, remove the permanent stain wash me thoroughly for my iniquity take my dirty clothes of sin and wash them entirely, cleanse me from sin so I can comment.

Your presence house of these desperate imperatives not offensive because there also dependent imperatives using David David's told to us as our birds referred to us as that man after God's own heart. He understands the character and promises of God, look what he does.

These cries are directed to the one who can forgive there directed to the one that has the capacity, look what he says.

According to thy lovingkindness. According to the multitude of thy tender mercies in this. Did Clinton in this desperate dependent imperative. David is honoring God when sin disrupts our fellowship with the covenant keeping God. Although we ourselves have no right to those divine blessings a covenant keeping God who promised forgive does sex is 34 the Lord past performance of the Lord, the Lord God, merciful, gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.

His love is steadfast.

His mercy is abundant. I got a question I want to answer right now, just answer this are your sins to big for God.

How many of you are thankful to God is a covenant keeping God. How may thankful that if we confess our sin, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Why would anyone of us want to keep our sin those lecture lecture brokenness over sin be met by the steadfast love, and the abundant mercy of God be in tents like like tonight be intense and just cry out with David Lord forgive me. The second thing we see here in Psalm 51. The second hammock handholds to help us climb out of our picked up the despair and selfishness is Lord I confess my sin have this explosive cry of forgiveness. He says, for I acknowledge my transgressions. My sin is ever before me against the and the only advice on sin and on this evil my site, that thou might as we justify when I speak is can be clear without judges, behold, I was shaping iniquity and sin did my mother conceive me, behold now desires truth in the inward parts, and in the inward parts, thou shalt make me know wisdom. High sin is ever before me, Lord, forgive me now Lord, I confess, he switches from the impact imperative any ghostly indicative now just gets on he was intense and now you just tell the truth tells it like it is that the verbs switch the indicative, and 30 times he uses a personal pronoun. The cold hard facts are the fact that David is a sinner.

David knows he's fallen short.

He makes no excuses. He doesn't say anything like others have so I can't die, they made me do it. My past is the reason you probably would've done the same in my shoes. I'm not as bad as you think I'm I'm not as bad as others know I've send against the Lord, my sin is before me my sin is ultimately before God against the end the only have I sinned your just if you want to judge me your clear if you want to condemn me with honesty and without minimizing the pain that he caused all those other people. He recognized that ultimately his sin against God. By the way, this is when we really begin to grow as a Christian in the sanctifying process is of when we begin to connect everything on this earth with a horizontal relationship with God. When you begin to understand that your fears because you don't trust God when you big understand that you do not you do not love because you do not understand God's love for you when you begin to connect all of your horizontal behavior with your vertical relationship with God and with honesty. David just says it as it is. Your words are just your judgments are blameless. My sin is ever before me is ultimately before God and it's a part of me, behold, I was shaping iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.

Do you know what God wants to do over these next four years that your care listing God's word preached over and over and over, as you really become a full a full adult you know you don't want to do is to push past outward manifestations of your behavior and begin to understand the desires that drive that behavior so that you can become dependent on the one who can save you. Are you being honest about who you are sins are hiding do not drives you. David said, Lord, forgive me.

He said Lord I confess my sin. But he said, Lord, cleanse me. Verse seven through nine's poetic he returns that which he started with the listener what he does purge me with hyssop. I shall be clean, wash me I should be white and Estelle make me hear joy and gladness the bones which I was broken may rejoice. Hi thy face from my sin, blot out all my transgressions.

It's is now he returns, and with a cautious yet confident tone. David asked God to mercifully remove the guilt and the grief caused by simple choices. You can start with this heat he could remember he started with an admission he started with an acknowledgment and now we say now, Lord, please uses a unique grammar. It is an if then kind of a clause he's he's like purge me.

If you purge me. I will be clean if you wash me that I will be whiter than snow. Cleanse me from guilt just like the priest would take this branch of hyssop and intake ceremonial water and and and splash it on want to steer ceremonially clean them piecing. That's what I want. I want to comment your presence you I find is that there's some of us we we got a broken concept of obsidian law gray suite we have is broken concept that we almost try to pay for our sin is like, we can only come to God.

We can only ask for forgiveness after I moaned and after I whipped myself and after I punish myself for okay that since two days that since four days that's in six days. Maybe we really do take a season and get before God and them, call but you know what I'm I'm actually just bad personal every look to sell body, 20 look to Jesus, you see your sin, you confessed percent, Lord, cleanse me from guilt or cleanse me from pain sins effect lingers doesn't that broke my pinky here is ago is meant is that awesome and manly. I broke my pinky was about aches, atmospheric pressure, never once well I remember something I've done something I've said. Where else can I take my sin make me hear joy and gladness the bones which you broke may rejoice.

Hi thy face from my sin. Lord help me believe that you forgiven me my sin is covered.

Help me believe you scrape the graffiti of my iniquity off the wall of my soul and then he switches this prayer retreat he started he started Lord forgive me Lord I confess my sin, Lord, cleanse me.

But now he switches to Lord renew me and keep me verse 10 through 12 create in me a clean heart of God renew a right spirit within me, cast me not away from the presence take not thy Holy Spirit from me restoring to me the joy of my salvation and hold me with thy free spirit. You know what I really studied second Samuel 11 and 12 to hear Samuel say this is a man after God's own heart that's that's almost is almost incomprehensible and the boys just his arms like I can understand that when you read this verse 10 David and say let the kingdom, respect me.

He didn't say bring the riches bring me favor what he say he created me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit within me, cast me not away from the presence take not by Holy Spirit for me this is the opposite of self-righteousness.

This is practical brokenness. You see what David wants is a heart for God to know there's a blessing to getting older. Like there's a blessing there's there's temptations that that you begin ago. I know I don't I don't want to go there. What Jesus there's little whispers of mortality you heard of heaven in Sunday school right you saw pictures big picture books about it. And yet as you get older you begin the cons like no I I only really have Jesus as the only one I have.

That's the only is the only person this moment as my cheap treasure. I love all these things. I love all these relationships but I really only have Jesus, David, he took of his idol. He took his pleasure. He thought it was satisfy procurement crushed so I just want you God. What you presence.

Don't take your Holy Spirit from me.

I want you presence the enabling power of your spirit. Don't take that away. I just want you to touch my affections renew my joy for the the works of the Lord. I just want to sing on the hills of Bethlehem again. I just want my heart I just want take care of the sheep then and Lord keep me from ever forgetting you again uphold me with your willing spirit. How many of you ever confess to sin and you got this fear you're just gonna do it tomorrow. My favorite verse in Psalm 119 verse 176 I've gone astray like a lost sheep. Seek thy servant. Here's David. I've nowhere to go, wretch. I'm selfish I'm broke. I I'm I'm I'm a hardhearted person break me, forgive me. He says I confess my sin. Cleanse me renew and keep me in the fifth handhold is just a response.

Lord, I commit to serve and worship you with all my heart right the one that forgives, he gets my heart. The one restores he gets my life gets my worship. Verse 13 then I teach transgressors thy ways God when you do this work in me. When you forgive me and you restore your spirit you bring back the joy I will then teach transgressors. Once you've done your work, and sinners. They'll be converted to you. Deliver me from blood gilding is all God will got my salvation my time closing a lot of thy righteousness all Lord open thou my lips and my mouth will show forth thy praise for you. Don't hot sacrifice I would do it. I know around about hundred thousand lambs and bring them over the brook Kidron. I'm not a slave them on the day of atonement I water the soil with a plot of land. You don't want that.

You want a broken heart. Oh God. You don't just want some burnt sacrifice because your sacrifices are a broken spirit are broken and contrite heart. Oh God, you won't despise Lord here I am. Use me I just hear him use my life story to help others return to you. That's what he says just use me, Lord, I'll do whatever I'll say whatever I have nothing to hide, Lord, that will write a song all right. It's all so that people through the ages by wickedness. That's what you want because is not going the wickedness is can a glory. The fact that you are God, who is a covenant keeping God use my lips to praise your name. How can I not sing of your praises you ever had the chance to be in the situation were broken. Individuals truly found Christ. They sing delivery from blood gilding is so God and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness, open my lips, and my mouth will sing forth your praise I was in no New York City and the pastor and I took his motorcycle riding double to use brother Steve's work awkward. We drove to prison New York City bad state prison and dumb we go in is like multiple levels of securities maximum security prison. We go, although in the middle. This prison in this pastor would hold a Bible study a little prayer services, chapel service, and there was only about 25 guys and they the worst the worst found grace and these dudes could sing because they been forgiven. He just says it use me in any way you want what the reality of sin crushed me so that your grace will shatter my will and my ever act every action and reaction would just be controlled by your spirit, and then in verse 918 through 19. He just says please don't just renew me but renew all your people do good and I good pleasure on design and build thou the walls of Jerusalem then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness. So all will return back to those things that you commanded us to do. David wasn't negating what God commanded. Just the right order. It's like he wanted the heart God wanted the heart was broken, but will return to these these burnt offerings, the whole burnt offering, they shall offer bullocks upon thy altar. Davidson is great, great, his actions betrayed his condition how to question what was the penalty for stealing a lamb but what was the penalty for committing murder and adultery who deserved to die. But others died for David your iodide the soldiers next to your iodide later on one of his own's sons dies this little baby dies then David and Bathsheba have another son is Saul and he has a son and he has a son he has a son and he has a son and he has a son until another son of David, is born in Bethlehem and this son died for the sins of David as well. This son of David lived perfectly. Never once did he break the law in every way. He fulfilled the righteousness of God's commands in this son of David, the perfect Lamb of God die on the cross, not just for the sin of David, but he died for the sin of you. Have you ever tasted of the joy of being forgiven through the finished work of Jesus Christ.

Have you ever laid aside your own self-righteousness and your picture you're striving to keep the law. Have you ever been forgiven, then Ron from self and plead for the grace of God in Christian divorce, who finished work of Jesus Christ.

Why would I run to anywhere else.

Why would I cover my sin. Why would any longer.

Why when I leave this place tonight trying to cover my sin into the perfect Lamb of God, find the rest of one forgiven you been listening to the conclusion of the sermon by pastor will Goeken from the 2021 Bob Jones University Bible conference. Thanks for listening and join us next time and will hear morsels during sermons on The Daily Platform