Summary
Guest speaker Lucas Walker walks through Psalm 51, emphasizing the necessity of being broken over sin. He highlights David's acknowledgment of his wrongdoing and his plea for God's mercy, illustrating that true repentance leads to a renewed heart and spirit. Walker encourages believers to recognize their insufficiency and dependency on God, asserting that this brokenness compels them to share the gospel with others.
Welcome and Church Information
Thank you for listening to Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Sermon Audio. For more information, please visit our website, pgbcronda.com, or visit on all social media platforms. Good morning. How are y'all doing? Y'all awake?
James was my youth pastor when I was a senior in high school. I actually had the opportunity to hire him. I was on the committee, and they brought one youth to be on the committee, and I was that lucky person.
But he's been a good friend to me, and he took me on my first ever international mission trip and enjoyed that.
So he's a great friend to me. I'm going to be in Psalm 51, but if you want to first turn to 2 Samuel 12. 2 Samuel 12.
And I'm going to give you kind of a cliff notes of what's happened. So we'll jump into Psalm 51, but before that, you have to know the context.
So the context is this, that David's a king. He's a man after God's own heart. But what kings are supposed to do in the springtime was go to war. Springtime is wartime.
And during the spring, his men were off to war, but he stayed home, which is not a good king, in my opinion. But that also opened up an opportunity for him to make mistakes.
If you're going to send your men off to war, you better go with them if you're the king. But he didn't. He stayed home. And what he did was he went out one day.
You can kind of use your imagination of him having a huge, probably the biggest house of all Jerusalem.
And he goes out on the balcony, and he's able to see all these other balconies and all these other homes that are stacked upon each other. And he goes out, and he sees a woman bathing, Bathsheba.
And I'm a single 25-year-old. I don't know much about women, but I know one thing is that they like to be clean. And they take showers often.
And so this is what David is seeing, is that a woman is taking a shower. And he not only sees her, but he realizes that he wants her. And what you can think about a king is a king can have anything, anytime, anywhere.
He's a king. He can do whatever he wants to do. And so not only did he see her, but he lusted after Bathsheba, and he acted upon that. And he got his men. He says, I want her. So he brings, or he sends off his men.
They bring her to his house, to his chambers. And, you know, and he has his way with her. And some people think that he even maybe raped her.
Covering Up Sin
A man after God's own heart maybe even raped this woman. And she conceived of a child.
And then David realizes, just like a lot of us, man, I need to cover my tracks. I've done something wrong immorally, and I need to cover it up. I'm not going to try to face the facts. I'm going to cover it up. So he brings Uriah, which is Bathsheba's husband, home for more.
So she was home by herself. Her husband was at war. He brings her, rapes her. Now he brings the man back to sleep with his wife so that he would think that that was his child.
He's trying to cover it up. But a righteous man that Uriah was, he didn't even enter his bedroom. He stayed outside the doors. He slept in his house, but he stayed outside.
And what David did again was not only did he bring him home, but once he realized that he didn't stay with his wife Bathsheba, he sent Uriah back out to war and put him on the front lines and
then pulled back the troops, which was practically suicide in that war. And so this is what we find here in 2 Samuel. And Nathan is a prophet. This happens.
He takes Bathsheba as his wife. And then Nathan comes, the prophet, and has something to tell David. What he tells David is a story of a rich man,
that a rich man had a lot of flock, a lot of sheep. And he was going to have some guests to come in. But there was also a poor man who had one ewe lamb, one little kid.
And that poor man, he would feed this sheep with the same plate that he ate out of.
He would allow the sheep to drink out of the cup that he drank out of. He even allowed the sheep to lay in the same bed that he laid in. This poor man took great care of this one little sheep.
But what happened was the rich man who had the guests didn't want to kill his flock. He didn't want to kill his sheep. But he came to the poor man's house and he killed this sheep and fed it to his guests. And this is what Nathan tells David.
And this is David's reaction to this story. He says that he is infuriated.
Verse 5, it says this, of 2 Samuel 12, if you want to look at it with me. David was infuriated with the man and said to Nathan,
as the Lord lives, like David even makes a declare, as the Lord lives, the man who did this deserves to die. The rich man who took the poor man's sheep, he deserves to die.
Because he has done this thing and shown no pity and he must pay four lambs for that lamb. And then Nathan replied to David, you are this man.
God's Judgment on David
You are the man. This is what the Lord says of Israel. Our Lord God of Israel says, I anointed you king over Israel. I rescued you from Saul. I gave your master's house to you and your master's wives into your arms.
I gave you the house of Israel and Judah. And if that was not enough, I would have given you more. This is what Nathan is telling David. And so Nathan is now confronting David on his sins.
And a lot of us would, you know, at this point try to cover it up some more. We'd make excuses.
There have been people that's come to me and try to tell me I've done wrong. And I try to tell them how they're wrong. You know, we've all been there before. But I love David's response. He says this in verse 13. David responded to Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord.
Then Nathan replied to David, and the Lord has taken away your sin. You will not die. However, because you've treated the Lord with such contempt in this matter, the son born to you will die. Then Nathan went home. That's some news right there and then going home. But he told the king his son's going to die.
But one thing that sticks out to me is this. And then we'll get into Psalm 51.
Nathan replies to David. After David says, I have sinned against the Lord. This is what Nathan replies in verse 13. And the Lord has taken away your sin. Why? That's my question.
Why? Like, think about this in real time. A king, a high up guy, a rich person, however you want to look at it. Or even in any context, a man doesn't go to war when he's supposed to. He stays home.
Right? He not only stays home, but he sees a woman bathing. Not only that, he acts upon it. He takes advantage of her and uses his strength and his power to get her into his home. He rapes her.
Not only that, but he brings the husband back. Not only that, he sends him back to get killed. And not only that,
but his son's going to die because of all these actions. And then we get to this verse and Nathan says, the Lord's wiped him away. How in the world?
Like, my thing is, I want to preach a righteous God. Like, I want to preach a just God. That's what I want to preach. I want to preach about a God who loves you, but not only loves you, but he takes account of people's sins. And even still does that today.
Right? We want to preach and love this God who's right.
Who's just. And the reason why God is just for overlooking David's sin. I love this. In verse 25 and 26 of Romans 3, it says this. God's demonstrated him, which is Jesus, as the mercy seat.
By his blood, through faith, to demonstrate his righteousness. Because in his restraint, God passed over the sins previously committed. God passed over David's sins. Why? Verse 26. God presented him to demonstrate his righteousness at the present time. So that he would be just and the justifier.
The one who has faith in Jesus. Right? God is just to pass over David's sin. Because he knew one day Jesus would be put on the cross. And he would be poured out all the sins that were previously committed. And the ones that we commit today was poured out on Christ. So he was just and the justifier.
And then David went home.
In verse 15, it says, The Lord struck the baby. And I love this because this is David writing this. In verse 15, The Lord struck the baby that Uriah's wife had born to David.
And he became deathly ill. Like at this point, David had realized that the whole time it's Uriah's wife. It can be his wife now, but the sins that he's committed was against Uriah's wife.
So what we have before we get to Psalm 51 is this. David's a king. He's a man after God's own heart. That's what he's known for. Right? If I mention David without any context, you'd think he's a man after God's own heart. Not only that, but he commits adultery.
He commits this horrendous actions against this woman. He kills the husband. And not only that, that now the baby that he bore, that his wife bore, that Uriah's wife bore, is now dead.
Psalm 51 Introduction
And so if you want to turn with me to Psalm 51, Psalm 51 was actually written a year later after all this.
And if you think about it, if Bathsheba took this child to the full term, then it's only three months after his baby was put to death.
And so it's all fresh. It's still on his mind. So Psalm 51 says this, Be gracious to me, God, according to your faithful love, according to your abundant compassion, blot out my rebellion.
Completely wash away my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. For I am conscious of my rebellion, and my sin is always before me. You know, that makes a lot of sense.
He says, For I am conscious of my rebellion, and my sin is always before me. Against you and you alone I've sinned, and done this evil in your sight. So you are right when you pass sentence.
You are blameless when you judge. Indeed, I was guilty when I was born. I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
Surely you desire integrity in the inner self, and you teach me wisdom deep within. Verse 7, it says, Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I'll be white as snow. Let me hear joy and gladness. Let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
You see, David realizes that he is crushed over his sin, but it is the bones that you, God, has crushed. Rejoice.
Verse 9, it says, Turn your face away from my sins, and blot out all my guilt.
One of the verses that a lot of us know, it says, God, create in me a clean heart for me, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not banish me from your presence, or take your Holy Spirit away from me.
Restore the joy of your salvation to me. Amen. Sustain me by giving me a will and spirit. Then I will teach the rebellious your ways, and the sinners will return to you. Lord, we want to thank you for this morning. Thank you for these folks, God.
Thank you for your word. God, your word is for us.
God, you know what you were going to do. You know the redemptive plan that you were going to do. But your word is for us. For us to know. For us to start a relationship with you, God. For us to know how to live.
For us to know how to pray. For us to know how to deal with sin. God, this Bible is for us to know how to live a godly life. How to navigate this world that seems a counterfeit to what we read. God, God, all of this is for us.
And I pray that you would just help me to get out of the way. And allow us, God, to see what you have for us this morning. God, help us to be broken over our sin. God, we love you and we thank you. In Jesus' name. Amen.
And so the title this morning over Psalm 51, I just titled it, A King's Cry. David is a king, but he's crying to another king. And so he's crying out to God.
I usually do a big idea. It's probably on that sheet of paper that has been printed out. But it says, In view of God's grace, it is necessary for believers to be broken over sin.
Like it is necessary for us to be broken over our sin. And I don't want you to get confused. I don't want you to think when you sin, you become full of guilt and full of shame and get depressed and go on this whole tangent of, I don't have any hope.
The Nature of Sin
I keep sinning. I keep falling short. No, this is the sort of brokenness that you run to Christ. This is the brokenness that you realize that sin has a price. Sin has a death sentence on your life.
And if you don't believe me, then you look at Genesis 3. It took one sin to crush the whole world. And you and I still see the effects of that sin in Genesis 3. We see death. We have prayer requests because there's death, there's illness, there's brokenness in the world. Why? Genesis 3.
One sin. One disobedience. And so it is necessary for us to be broken over sin. And if that's not good enough, it's necessary for us to be broken over sin because God sent His only Son to die for you. There's a price.
There's an eternal price of sin. And so a lot of times we look at these white little lies as something smaller than this thought of rape or this thought of cheating on the wife or this thought of being greedy and stealing from a company.
But really sin is sin. And whether you think it's a big sin or a little sin, they're all huge sins because sin in its definition is disobedience towards God.
And one of my favorite ways to look at it that R.C. Sproul talks about is cosmic treason. When you sin, there's cosmic treason. You're committing treason against God.
And so in this reality, I believe it's necessary for us to be broken over our sin.
So let's look at this. Why should we be broken over our sin? Verses 1 through 5.
Be gracious to me, God, according to your faithful love, according to your abundant compassion. Blot out my rebellion. Completely wash away my guilt and cleanse me from my sin. Right? David writes this a year after he commits adultery. A year after he sleeps with Bathsheba. A year after he commits murder towards Uriah.
A year after.
Right? And this is the first thing that he says. He pleads with God and he says, Be gracious to me, God. According to your faithful love. According to your abundant compassion. Right? He's pleading. The very first thing that David does is he pleads with God. God, would you please,
God, look at me. Would you please be gracious to me?
And I believe with all my heart that David has finally realized that God has given him grace to live another year after committing such sin. Like God has been merciful. God has been faithful to him. He's been kind to him. But he also knows that God has been gracious.
He lives another year. This is a desperate cry. This is, man, God, would you please be gracious to me? I know my sin. I know I've done all the things I've done. I know I've made a mess of this world.
I know I've made a mess of Jerusalem. Think about it. Like, these are real people. It's not that he just, you know, wrote it on paper. But Bathsheba was a real woman. David's a real man. Then Uriah was a real husband. And Uriah has parents. And Bathsheba had parents.
So not only did David crush Uriah, not only did he crush Bathsheba, but the families. Think about the emotional turmoil of knowing that your daughter was raped by the king.
Or knowing that your son or your son-in-law was killed because the king had his way with your daughter. You know, think about that there's implications. And David is finally saying, God, would you be gracious to me? I've made a mess. And how does David go about this?
What does David, what does he pray? First, he says, blot out my rebellion. Blot out. There's three verbs here in verses 1 and 2
that David describes on how he wants God to take away his sin. And this is the first one. Blot out my rebellion. The second one, wash away my guilt.
And the third one is, cleanse me from my sin. He's using three verbs to describe one thing.
God, would you get rid of sin? The first one is blot out, to completely wipe away. We see this in Genesis 6, verse 7, when God says that I will wipe mankind whom I created off the face of the earth. He's talking about wiping out. Wiping the slate clean.
God, would you completely flood my heart and completely flood away and wash away and destroy the sin of my life. Blot out.
The second one is, completely wash away my guilt. And I've had the pleasure of going to Peru. And Peru, they don't have wash machines. They have hands and they have a washboard.
And that's probably the cleanest my clothes have ever been in my whole entire life. Those ladies, they had the yellow gloves. And we came back to the hotel or where we were staying.
And they were just absolutely going nuts on my clothes, man. They were scrubbing. And you could see them beating it and scrubbing and going deep. And that's exactly what David is saying.
God, would you scrub out my sin? Would you wash my sin? And not rinse it off. Don't cover it up. Would you scrub it out? Would you get the stains out of my heart?
And then cleanse me from my sin. This is like a purification. And the first thing that came to my mind is the woman that we read in the New Testament that has had her blood was pouring out for 12 years. Nasty. Unable. She would go to the doctors to try to get healed.
She would try to... She had spent all of her money going to doctors trying to figure out what was going on. And she finally touched the cloth of Jesus and she was completely clean. This is what David is praying.
He's like, man, would you blot out my rebellion? Would you wash me? And would you cleanse my sin? And my question would be, why? Why, God?
Why do we pray these prayers? Why do we have these kind of moments where we come to God and vulnerable and we're desperate? Verse 3, it says this.
For I am conscious of my rebellion and my sin is always before me. Doesn't that make sense? He can't get the images that he's done out of his head.
He can't get the situation. He can't get the pictures and the vivid images of him being with Bathsheba out of his head.
He can't get the fact that he killed an innocent man, a righteous man at that. He can't get that out of his head. It's on his mind. He can't quit thinking about it.
Right? And there's things that I've done in my life. I work at Samaritan's Purse. And we have been given houses away, mobile homes or stick-bit homes.
And to those people in western North Carolina, so I drive about five hours a day taking furniture and putting furniture in a home. And in the meantime,
it is easy to daydream and to think about things that you regret. And I've had that before.
There's been days where I'm like, am I getting anything done? Because I think I just daydreamed about something I've done that I'm ashamed of. And this is what David's saying. I can't get the images out of my head. We've all been there.
There's been a past. We all have a past. There was a time where you weren't saved. And we've made a mess of ourselves. And these oftentimes stay in our mind.
And I love what Votie Bauckham says. He says this, Recognize that sin creates memories that stay with you. Sin is not passive. Sin is aggressive. Sin is like cancer.
Sin not only... My mom had breast cancer. And I tell you what, she has scars from the port. There's things... Her fingertips hurt because of the chemo. Right? There's things that happen when you have cancer and you go through treatments and there's...
I guarantee you she's got vivid images of times of sitting in that chair and taking the chemo or taking radiation.
And that is the same thing I promise you with our lives. There's things in your life that you can remember from whether it's 10 days ago or 10 years ago that you've done in your life that you regret.
Sin creates memories. And I like to think of it too as this. If you think of that we're in a spiritual warfare then sin is bullets. And if you ever get shot by a bullet there's going to be a scar. Sin scars us.
There's things that we deal with each and every day that have scarred our hearts and that have impacted our lives.
Whether we're 18 or 60 whatever it is we have scars we have stains. And David has the same thing. He cannot get the sins that he's committed off his mind. It says my sin is always before me. It's like every corner he turns he sees his sin. The memories come back up.
Just like if you ever listen to a song during a specific season of your time and
you know maybe five years later and you hear the song and it takes you right back to where you were five years ago it's like ever before him no matter where he turns it's before him.
Sin wounds us. We have scars. Think about for example think about a woman who's convinced to have an abortion and she had an abortion seven years ago and she is in Walmart and she comes by a seven year old that would have been her son's age at that time.
Man at that very moment she falls to her knees and she starts crying because sin scars her. Think about I know a man that's had an affair and he's in his 70's now and I know that he's admitted that he's made the wrong mistake in his 30's when he had an affair.
Sin absolutely scars us. Think about a lot of us men or even some of us women here that we've dabbled into pornography and you get in marriage and you figure out that you're trying to love your wife and care for your wife
but your mind goes back to those images that you had before when you were single like sin absolutely
scars us. But then David turns to the Lord and I love this verse 4 against you and you alone I have sinned and I've done this evil in your sight.
So you are right when you pass sentence you are blameless when you judge indeed I was guilty when I was born I was sinful when my mother conceived me and I love this because David goes directly to the
source man he goes back to God and he says against you God against you God I have sinned yeah I have sinned against Bathsheba but she is just a creation of the creator right he goes back to God and he says for you against you and you alone I have sinned
and anytime that we you know we may think that's kind of a stupid statement like against you and you alone I have sinned because obviously there was an effect against Bathsheba and there was an effect against Uriah but
at the end of the day David sinned against God and when he sinned against God when he disobeyed against God and did his own things and his own flesh without any self-control at that very point that's when the implications fall on the rest of folks
against you God he has offended God and again sin by definition is disobeying God
there was no sin in the apple in Genesis 3 or in the fruit or whatever you want to look at it there was no sin in that the sin was the action of going against God's word we do that every day
we make our own agendas we do whatever we want to do but against God and God alone you sin you may affect others in the meantime somebody might have said something rude to you but at the end of the day when they say something rude to you they're sinning against God
you just have the effect of that sin sin affects families relationships church and foremost it affects the heart of God
and then David kind of goes back and admits why he's sinful you ever heard of
I'm not a sinner because I sin but I sin because I'm a sinner in our nature in our own nature we love sin if we're good at anything we're good at making a mess right I mean look around watch the news
you know we are good at making a mess and David goes back to the very nature and he says the reason why we're good at making a mess because when we're born we are sinful when we're born we're not Christians
we're born enemies towards God and then by the grace of God we are saved and then we're a new creation but when we're born when we are conceived we are enemies towards God and this is what David is
saying he's like this is why he's not making an excuse but he's
acknowledging and he's kind of exposing his own heart this is my nature that's my nature that's your nature is to go against God and he's saying God I have sinned against you so that's my first point I don't
know if I said it but my first point is this brokenness reminds us of the reality of our insufficiency we are insufficient folks
we are insufficient we are really good at sin and we're really good at making a mess and we're really good at going against God's word but we are absolutely
insufficient we should be broken over our sin we should be asking God would you blot out my sin would you wash away my sin would you cleanse of me of my sin because God I am insufficient in myself without God we are just like verse 5
Desperate Dependency on God
guilty when you're born and sinful when you're conceived this is who you are without God there's no hope for those who don't have Christ but the second point is brokenness reminds us of our desperate dependency so our the first point was our insufficiency
being insufficient in ourselves the reality of our insufficiency but now here in verses 6 through 12 is brokenness reminds us of our desperate dependency we gotta be desperate if we're insufficient in ourselves if we can't save ourselves we
need to be dependent on somebody and this is why brokenness is absolutely necessary is because we are desperate verse 6 it says this surely you desire integrity in the inner self and you teach me wisdom deep within purify
me with histop and I'll be clean wash me and I'll be whiter than snow let me hear joy and gladness let the bones you have crushed rejoice turn your face away from my sins and blot out all of
my guilt God create a clean heart for me and renew a steadfast spirit within me do not banish me from your spirit and take away the holy spirit from me but restore the joy of your salvation to me
and sustain me by giving me a willing spirit and so this is the prayer that David has composed a year later and he's praying this is a prayer this is one of the most powerful prayers that he first
admits that he's sinful and he needs a life change but here in the verses 6 through 12 he admits and he throws out himself pretty much on God and he says I'm dependent like if I'm insufficient I must be dependent and he throws himself on God
I love that he says here in verse 6 surely you desire integrity in the inner self and you teach me wisdom deep within so he's going from being guilty and judged and unrighteous to God you desire
integrity in the inner self and I would just say this God cares more about your heart than your church attendance he cares a lot more about what you do in private than what you do in public God cares more about your heart than your skin
right I can dress up and I can put this suit on and I can y'all can all put dresses on and nice clothes on but God genuinely does not care about that if you come in the doors with a heart that doesn't love him with a heart that doesn't desire him
and I think we're really good at covering up who we actually are at least I think the world has kind of trained us to do so even if we
have things going on in our lives we often times try to hide that and here's one way how you doing everybody responds good even if their life is falling apart
and so God cares more about your self your heart your desires your wants what you crave verse 7 it says purify me with hyssop and I'll be clean this is weird to us probably but what they used to do is they'd take a hyssop leaf and they'd dip it in blood
and they would take this to a house that whether it's cancer or any kind of disease and someone has passed away in this house they would take hyssop and they would dip it in blood and they would wave it around like they did with the palm trees or whatever
and or the palm branches not the palm trees and God would be crazy wouldn't it
but they would go in the house and they would wave it around and that would be considered clean so the family could return back to the home and expect not to get the same disease that the person died of
and so this is what David is saying in the same way purify me!
forward because the priest would do this the priest would do the dipping of the blood and hyssop and all that but he says God you purify me
and I'll be clean he said I don't need a priest I don't need the law I don't need any of this I need you God to make me clean wash me and I'll be whiter than snow
verse 8 it says this let me hear joy and gladness and let the bones you have crushed rejoice
let me hear joy and gladness and let the bones you have crushed rejoice and I would just say this if we're in sin and we're unrepentant and we are not crushed by our sin and if we don't feel
this weight upon our shoulders of sin and if we don't realize and recognize that when we sin we go against God and we offend him then we will lose our joy and gladness
there's a lot of Christians that are miserable because they forgot how to be broken over sin
I know a couple I ain't going to say their names but there's people that I know that they profess to be Christian but they are the most miserable folks that you will ever meet why because they forgot
the value of the cross and if you forget the value of the cross then you forgot the value or the strength or the power of sin and sin will separate you from God but also it attacks your heart
it attacks your joy there's been times in my life where I've been rebellious there's been times in my life where I've made mistakes and done absolutely stupid things and in those times in that time period when I didn't
go to God I was miserable and if you don't trust me you can ask my parents if you ever meet them they would say that he was miserable he was horrible to be around because I forgot to be
broken over my sin that sin has a cost and so David is saying let me hear joy and gladness let the bones you have crushed and for people to say that God will never crush you then they're lying straight to your face
God is all about discipline he crushed David so that he would be coming back to him a lot of times we go through stuff and we blame the devil for stuff and a lot of times it's our own
foolishness for one that we make stupid decisions and then we blame it on the devil because we don't like what happened but sometimes God allows things that go completely wrong in your life so that you could repent and come back to him God loves you that much that sometimes life seems destructive
but he has a reason there's a sovereign plan if you believe God is who he says he is and he doesn't change and his character is trustworthy then sometimes he allows bad things in your life he allows the
things to kind of crumble relationships to crumble job opportunities to fade away
there's sometimes things that you have an agenda right we all have this agenda what's your five-year plan we all have five-year plans whether we like it or not and if I'm being honest my five-year plan has vanished five years ago
because where I'm at in life is not where I thought I'd be right now but God is so good at humbling us and allowing us to realize that we are insufficient
and he allows us to go through these trials to realize that we're insufficient because he wants us to be dependent on him and so that is why it's necessary to be broken over a sin
man may we be crushed over our sin that's my that is what I want man I would love God would you help me to be crushed over my sin like help me to hate sin before I even fall
into sin help me to love God so we need to be dependent what does he say also create in me a clean heart and renew a steadfast spirit within me create a new heart be dependent God doesn't you know you don't want just God to
save you but you want to be renewed continuously to be saved has been justified that you were made right with God but why would you continue to live in sin if you've been made right with God we want
to be sanctified to become more and more and more like Jesus to love our Savior to love the man on the cross who died for your sin your mess your the chaos in this world the hopelessness of this
world God sent his son so that we may have hope in him and so renew a new heart in me and I love verse 12 and I'm hurrying up I know you're hungry it's 12 o'clock verse 12
it says this restore the joy of your salvation to me and sustain me by giving me a will and spirit man and I just say a lot of us Christians we maybe maybe we you're being faithful to church
maybe you're doing all the right things and you just feel discouraged depressed you feel like life is going wrong man I just pray that you would have the joy of or the joy restored in your heart like be
reminded of the grace of Christ reminded in in 2nd Timothy Paul talks to Timothy and tells him to be strengthened by grace may your joy be restored by the sheer fact that God has sent his son to die
for you like he sent his son to die for for you for me like and it's may our joy be restored we are absolutely dependent upon him may we be broken over our sin and thirdly if you want
Mission Mindedness and Brokenness
to come up and start playing the piano third point is very quick 13 through 19 says I will teach the rebellious your ways and sinners will return to you so the first point is that there's a reality of our insufficiency brokenness reminds us of the reality
of our insufficiency we are insufficient we are broken over our sin we do nothing but make a mess of our lives we love and crave sin and we make messes of other people's lives we create chaos that's what
sin does sin has always from time past created distance between us and people and us and God so we have the reality of the insufficiency my second point is is that we are desperate upon dependency that brokenness reminds us of our desperate dependency and my third point is this short
brokenness reminds us to be a missionary this is it this is a fact it's true whether you like it or not you will never go on mission if you're not broken over your sin
you will never go on mission you won't be a missionary whether it's Nicaragua whether it's
here whether it's Wilkesboro whether it's on your street whether it's your neighbor you'll never go on mission if you never see the reality of your sin if you never run to Christ and depend on him you'll never have
any gospel to even preach be reminded of the gospel being broken over sin sends us on mission you see in the reality of your sin and your mess you want to go and help somebody because somebody's helped you
the reason you're saved is because someone gave you the gospel and if you accept the gospel and the good news of Jesus then it is only a right thing to do is to go to somebody else and present
the gospel I heard someone say one time that you will only speak about the things you love your grandparents what do you who do you speak about the most
grandkids you will speak and talk about whom you love and if you are not broken of your sin you'll never speak about the one who paid that sin we are called to go on mission he says this verse
13 then I will teach the rebellious your ways and the sinners will return to you I love these next couple verses it says save me from my guilt and bloodshed God God of my salvation and my tongue will
sing of your righteousness what does he say in verse 15 Lord open my lips and my mouth will declare declare your praise like after he runs to God his praise comes back his missionary comes back his heart for
missions comes back you don't want sacrifice where I'd give it to you you are not pleased with a burnt offering verse 17 if you get nothing else out of the messes get this the sacrifice pleasing to God is
a broken spirit he don't care about religion man God actually hates religion he wants a relationship he wants us to have a broken heart over our sin if we see God for who he truly is and what he's done on the cross then sin will absolutely womb us to do it again
the sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit you will not despise a broken and humbled heart God verse 18 this is the missionary mind he's talking about expanding the kingdom and your good pleasure cause Zion to prosper
build the walls of Jerusalem and I will delight in your righteousness or righteous sacrifices whole burnt offerings and the bulls will be offered on your altar he's saying I'm going to speak about this Savior I'm going to speak
about my God and the walls will be built up people will start praising God all because he was broken over his sin I believe it is necessary
for us to be broken over our sin and there's a difference brokenness over your sin and then not going to Christ leaves you guilty and ashamed brokenness of your sin and then running to Christ gives us joy we
can be sorrowful we can be sorrowful and joyful at the same time and so God wants us to be broken over our sin reminds us the reality of our insufficiency our desperate dependency
reminds us to be a missionary there's a mission there's people that need to be taught and loved on and cared for and ministered to and you'll never do that if you're not broken over your sin Lord thank you
for the stay thank you for who you are thank you for your kindness thank you for your goodness God thank you for breaking us over our sin I pray that there's someone here they're never they've never been saved God in short you have sent your son to
die for us we're sinful we like to sin we like to fall short we like to disobey we like to do things on our own and we make a mess and God I pray that you would just help
these folks God if no one's ever professed to be saved or doesn't have a relationship with you may they have a relationship with you there's all kinds of brokenness in this room I don't know anybody they don't know
me they don't know the things and the burdens on my heart but you know the burdens on their heart whether it is family members going through things whether it's illnesses whether it's death on the horizon whether it's
relationships that's been broken whatever it is God you know the hearts of these folks here you know the stress whether it's financial you know it's whether it's substance abuse you know whether it's can't find a job and been
Closing Prayer and Encouragement
looking for a job and finances and my house about to close like there's things going on in these people's lives God and you know them and I pray that they would be reminded of the joy of your salvation God remind them God that brokenness absolutely is
essential and necessary for the heart of a Christian this allows us to none of us to escape the fact that we are all sinful we're all this we're all human we all make mistakes no one is higher no one is lower we're all in this fight together
but God you are the one whom gives us hope and so God would you restore joy for the one who ain't saved God would you remind them
that they are insufficient they will never get to heaven without you for the believer I pray that you would remind them of their dependency that if they've went away and if they strayed away God that we must be
dependent on you because you are trustworthy but also for the believer I pray that we would be mission minded a heart for missions God we love you
thank you again for taking your time to listen to the sermon audio of pleasant road please subscribe to get our latest sermons each week you thanksало yeah yeah Thank you.
Auto-generated transcript · 7,648 words. May contain errors. Select a timestamp to play from that moment.
More from Summer of Psalms
View all
Psalms 150
Psalms 110
Psalms 76
Psalms 133
Psalms 63
Psalms 127
Listen to this sermon