Psalms 32

Psalms 51 * There is a certain consoling in getting things out into the light. * Confession relieves the weight of guilt. It generally results in insecurities and self-hatred. It requires a lot of emotional energy. * Confessing negates the need for expenditure of energy.

Psalms 51:1-13

1 (To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.) Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.  Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be

4 justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.

5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

• Confessing is not going to the pastor.
• There are times that this happens but we are to go to God with our confessions.
• If you have offended someone, you do need to go to them, confess and ask for forgiveness.
• There is one mediator between us and God and that is Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 3:16* Sin is our problem. * We are sinners…every one of us. * The Bible says to preach the whole word of God. * Our sin is the result of selfish and rebellious choices. * James says “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and do it not, to him it is sin”. * Sin violates God’s righteous standard.

Psalms 32:1  (A Psalm of David, Maschil.) Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

• God is righteous. There is only one person who walked on this earth who was sinless and that was Jesus Christ.
• Sin stems from our old nature which is perverse.
• Romans 3:10 states that there is none righteous, no not one.

Psalms 32:2  Blessed is the man unto whom the LORD imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. * Iniquity implies twistedness or perversity. * There is something devious or crooked about sin. * Imputeth means to credit to or lay upon. God does not lay upon iniquity. * Sin violates God’s righteous standard. Guile refers to treachery or deceit.

Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

• Sin will mess us up.
• It is deceitful.
• Many people are deceived by sin and it will destroy you.
• Ephesus was an example of this.
• Ephesus was once a booming metropolis.
• Silt was the reason for its downfall.
• Little particles of silt slowly filled up the harbor from the sea traders.
• Little acts of disobediences act the same way.

• They may seem harmless but let them accumulate and it will destroy us.

• In Hebrews, James says the attractive pleasures of sin are really a mask covering death.

• The little sins go to a bigger sin and another sin and another sin.

• We tolerate sin in our lives.

• It starts out slow but leads to heartache.

• When we sin, something has to die.

• In Psalms 32:1b, “whose sin is covered”

• This goes back to Deuteronomy 23 when God told the Israelites that all their refuge needs to be buried.
• God used our human waste to symbolize our sin to symbolize the filthiness of our sins.
• We can’t bury our spiritual refuge out of God’s sight.
• It must be taken away and only the blood of Christ can do that.

• His blood cleanses all our sin.

• Blessed means happy. Note twice that the man who gets right with God is to be blessed.

• The blood of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all unrighteousness.

• What a happy state to be a sinner forgiven!

• Once someone realizes that their sins can be forgiven, it is as far as the east is from the west, buried in the sea of forgetfulness to be remembered no more.

• We like to play games with God to justify sin but we aren’t happy nor blessed.

• However, God will bless your life and mold you if you allow Him.
• If you have unconfessed sin in your life, confess them to God and be forgiven.