God Speaks and We Disobey - Psalm 51

God Speaks and We Disobey - Psalm 51

God has revealed Himself and His divine character as well as nature via what He has actually made as well as through the special discovery of His Word. We knowingly rebel against Him as well as experience separation from God-- the resource of life-- which is spiritual death.

 

Sin makes our hearts solidified as well as dead. Only as God challenges us and also awakens our hearts to the fact of our wrong against Him will certainly we look for the cleansing and also redemption that only He supplies. In this flow, we see David recognizing his wicked heart, recognizing his wrong against God, as well as calling out to Him for mercy and cleaning.

 

1. We wrong by nature and also on purpose (vv. 5-6).

David does not here impugn the personality of his moms and dads or the conditions of his perception. It is not that our hearts become sinful as we devote sin. From this structure David evaluates his actions and also look for the only readily available solution.

 

How many times have you heard a well-intentioned parent or grandparent state of a kid grandchild that resides in open rebellion versus God: "However he really is a good person." This contrasts what God's Word states, and what David appropriately recognized about the condition of his very own heart. Unless we see the true condition of our own wrong, which of others, we will certainly fail to pursue the only readily available treatment.

 

2. Our transgression, despite whom it affects, protests Holy God (vv. 3-4).

If you consider the far-reaching results of David's infidelity and also murder, it appears that his transgression was "versus" many-- Bathsheba, Uriah, Israel, and so on. Ultimately, nevertheless, David realized that His wrong protested Divine God, the one that is "justified in [His] words as well as blameless in [His] judgments." God, not the ones versus whom David sinned, would certainly be the One prior to whom David would provide an account and also face judgment.

 

It is crucial not to miss out on the numbing impact David's transgression had upon his own heart. David's transgression numbed his heart and apart him from God. God took the effort to face David in his transgression and call David to repentance.

 

Do you discover it very easy to warrant sin, watching it either as a "error" or simply an infraction versus an additional wicked individual-- maybe one who has also sinned against you? Is there some sin you have "excused" in your life that has produced spiritual tingling? Are you willing to recognize that your sin is disobedience versus God, and repent and admit it today?

 

3. The only remedy for our transgression and also spiritual fatality is God's grace (vv.1-2).

Since David was a sinner by nature and selection, as well as had in fact sinned versus the divine and also simply God, his only hope was for God to show him grace. David can not eliminate his very own transgression. He, as a result, called upon God to "blot out" his disobediences, "wash" him of his iniquities, as well as "clean" him of his wrong.

 

How do you attempt to deal with your sin? Will you react today to God's mercy by coming to Him in repentance and confidence?

 

Final thought concept.

God has actually clearly revealed Himself and His criterion to us, and we have actually rebelled as well as disobeyed. Wrong divides us from Him - this is spiritual death. If we want to receive forgiveness of transgression and spiritual life, we, like David, require God to "remove" our disobediences, and also to "clean" and also "clean" us.

 

For centuries, individuals of Israel depended on the high priest to supply a sacrifice on the Temple altar to keep back God's rage against their transgression for another year. As the writer of Hebrews reminds us, the blood of goats and also bulls can not take away sin (Heb. 10:4). For our sins to be "blotted out," "cleaned," and "washed" it would take a better high priest and also a far better sacrifice. Jesus Christ was that much better high priest. He was that much better sacrifice-- the Lamb of God that removes the sin of the world (John 1:29).

 

The extravagance of God's grace was put on full display screen as His Son died a sacrificial, substitutionary death on the cross. The enormity of His power was revealed as He elevated Christ from the dead, offering life and also want to all who would certainly repent of their sin and place their faith and count on Christ.

 

If you have never ever relied on Christ, trust fund Him today. Confess that sin today if you are a fan of Christ however have allowed wrong to hinder your fellowship with Him. Permit Him, according to His excellent grace, to forgive your transgression and to enable you to walk with Him in belief as well as obedience.