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06/22/25- Harrisonburg campus: The Psalms : I Didn’t Know That: Psalm 51 – Pastor Kevin Griffin

 THE PSALMS

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PSALMS 5 PARTS

  1. PSALMS 3-41
  2. PSALMS 42-72
  3. PSALMS 73-89
  4. PSALMS 90-106
  5. PSALMS 107-145

PSALMS 146-150    HALLELUJAH

  • BEFORE WE GET TO THE PSALM TODAY THE STORY THAT LEADS TO THIS PSALM IS LOCATED IN

PICTURE OF COUPLE

  • 11-12 YEARS OLD
  • WAS A THURSDAY- CHURCH-50 MINUTES AWAY
  • SPOKE ON PSALMS THAT NIGHT

HOW IS YOUR HEART?

  • BEFORE WE GET TO THE PSALM TODAY THE STORY THAT LEADS TO THIS PSALM IS LOCATED IN

2 SAMUEL 11

  • 1. In the spring, at the time when kings go off to war, David sent Joab out with the king’s men and the whole Israelite army. But David remained in Jerusalem. 2 One evening David got up from his bed and walked around on the roof of the palace. From the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was very beautiful, 3 and David sent someone to find out about her. The man said, “She is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.” 4 Then David sent messengers to get her. She came to him, and he slept with her. (Now she was purifying herself from her monthly uncleanness.) Then she went back home. 5 The woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.” 6 So David sent this word to Joab: “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” And Joab sent him to David. 7 When Uriah came to him, David asked him how Joab was, how the soldiers were and how the war was going. 8 Then David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king was sent after him. 9 But Uriah slept at the entrance to the palace with all his master’s servants and did not go down to his house. 10 David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” So he asked Uriah, “Haven’t you just come from a military campaign? Why didn’t you go home?”
  • 11 Uriah said to David, “The ark and Israel and Judah are staying in tents, and my commander Joab and my lord’s men are camped in the open country. How could I go to my house to eat and drink and make love to my wife? As surely as you live, I will not do such a thing!”

DAVID BATHSHEBA

THEN THE PROPHET NATHAN CONFRONTS DAVID

DAVID IS ABOUT 50 YEARS OLD- MID LIFE CRISIS

  • DAVID SITS ON THIS ABOUT A YEAR
  • WHEN YOU DON’T  ENGAGE IN THE BATTLE
  • END UP ON ROOFS LOOKING AT THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T BE LOOKING

PRESENTS A PARABLE- YOU ARE THAT MAN DAVID

  • DAVID DESIRES
  • DAVID HOLDS ALL THE POWER
  • DAVID IMPREGATES HER
  • LURES HER HUSBAND HOME
  • GETS HIM TO TRY AND SLEEP WITH HER
  • COVER UP- DRUNKENESS
  • HAS URIAH KILLED IN BATTLE

PSALM 51:1-2

  1. “HAVE MERCY (RAHAM-MOTHER WITH HER CHILD) ON ME OH GOD, ACCORDING TO YOUR UNFAILING LOVE; ACCORDING TO YOUR GREAT COMPASSION, BLOT OUR MY TRANSGRESSIONS. WASH AWAY ALL MY INIQUITY AND CLEANSE ME FROM MY SIN.

SIX WORDS DEALING WITH SIN

   TRANSGRESSIONS- BLOT OUT (MOSES LANGUAGE)

     INIQUITY- WASH AWAY

      SIN- CLEANSE

DEFINITIONS OF SIN

   SIN: HAMARTIA

A MILITARY SHOOTING TERM MEANING TO “MISS THE MARK” MISS THE BULLS EYE.

“WILLFULL TRANSGRESION OF THE KNOWN LAW OF GOD.”  JOHN WESLEY

“REMEMEBR IT IS SIN TO KNOW WHAT YOU OUGHT TO DO AND THEN NOT DO IT,”  JAMES 4:17

DISOBEDIENCE TO WHAT GOD DESIRES”

SIN IS THE EXPRESSION OF BROKEN RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

 PSALMS 51:3-4

  • FOR I KNOW MY TRANSGRESSIONS, AND MY SIN IS ALWAYS BEFORE ME. AGAINST YOU, AND YOU ONLY, HAVE I SINNED AND DONE WHAT IS EVIL IN YOUR SIGHT; SO YOU ARE RIGHT IN YOUR VERDICT AND JUSTIFIED WHEN YOU JUDGE.

PSALM 51:5-6

  • SURELY I WAS SINFUL AT BIRTH, SINFUL FROM THE TIME MY MOTHER CONCEIEVED ME. (ORIGINIAL SIN) “YET YOU DESIRED FAITHFULNESS EVEN IN THE WOMB; YOU TAUGHT ME WISDOM IN THAT SECRET PLACE.

PSALM 51:7

  • CLEANSE ME WITH HYSSOP, AND I WILL BE CLEAN; WASH ME, AND I WILL BE WHITER THAN SNOW.”

HYSSOP- PLANT USED CLEANSING FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS

JESUS ON THE CROSS – SOMEONE GRABS A HYSSOP PLANT AND EXTENDS IT TO JESUS- DYING FOR THE FORGIVENSS OF SINS

HYSSOP PLANT GROWS WAILING WALL IN JERUSALEM

HYSSOP PLANT APPLY THE BLOOD OVER DOOR POSTS

PSALMS 51:9-10

  • “HIDE YOUR FACE FROM MY SINS AND BLOT OUT ALL OF MY INIQUITY. CREATE IN ME PURE HEART, O GOD, AND RENEW A STEADFAST SPIRIT WITHIN ME.

6-7 TIMES IT ADDRESSES SIN OR SINNER

 PSALM 51: 11-12

  11. DO NOT CAST ME FROM YOUR PRESENCE OR TAKE YOUR HOLY SPIRIT FROM ME. RESTORE TO ME THE JOY OF YOUR SALVATION AND GRANT ME A WILLING SPIRIT, TO SUSTAIN ME.

PSALM 51: 13-14

  13. THEN I WILL TEACH TRANSGRESSORS YOUR WAYS, SO THAT SINNERS WILL TURN BACK TO YOU. DELIVER ME FROM THE GUILT OF BLOODSHED,”

  • THE HEART IS THE CENTER OF THE PERSON-
  • NOT JUST THE PHYSICAL

 IDIOMS ABOUT THE HEART

  • CHANGE OF HEART
  • HEART OF GOLD
  • EAT YOUR HEART OUT
  • HEART TO HEART
  • LOSE HEART
  • HEART OF STONE

EZEKIEL 36:26

   I WILL GIVE YOU A NEW HEART AND PUT A NEW SPIRIT WITHIN YOU; I WILL TAKE THE HEART OF STONE OUT OF YOUR FLESH AND GIVE YOU A HEART OF FLESH

  • WHEN DAVID WAS CHOSEN- REMEMBER HAPPENED
  • It speaks to the deep pain we feel inside us when we sin, and then it shows us the mercy of God. His is the love of a Father who sees his child’s stricken face — washes the tears away — and then reaches inside to create in us “a clean heart;” to breathe “a new and right spirit” within us. Sarah Christmyer

I SAMUEL 16:6

   6. “WHEN THEY ARRIVED, SAMUEL SAW ELIAB AND THOUGHT, “SURELY THE LORD’S ANNOINTED STANDS HERE BEFORE THE LORD.

I SAMUEL 16:7

   7. BUT THE LORD SAID TO SAMUEL, “DO NOT CONSIDER HIS APPEARANCE OR HIS HEIGHT, FOR I HAVE REJECTED HIM. THE LORD DOES NOT LOOK AT THINGS PEOPLE LOOK AT. PEOPLE LOOK AT THE OUTWARD APPEARANCE, BUT THE LORD LOOKS AT THE HEART.

DAVID IS CHOSEN- GOD SAYS IM INTERESTED IN HEART

 PROVERBS 4:23

  23. “GUARD YOUR HEART ABOVE ALL ELSE, FOR IT DETERMINES THE COURSE OF YOUR LIFE.”

BIBLE TALKS 830 ABOUT YOUR HEART-METAPHOR FOR WHO YOU ARE

STATISTICS ON GLOBAL HEART DISEASE

 STATISTICS ON US HEART DISEASE

  • THE THING THAT IS KILLING ALL THESE PEOPLE
  • IT IS PREVENTABLE

MANY OF US GRIEVE OVER THE CONSEQUENCES OF SIN BUT NOT THE SIN ITSELF

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  • MAN WITH A HEART SURGERY GETS TO MEET DR
  • MAN GETS TO SEE HIS OLD HEART
  • YOU HAVE A NEW HEART
  • YOU CANNOT LIVE LIKE YOU DID BEFORE

HOPE IS FOUND IN FORGIVENESS-

HOW IS YOUR HEART? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

HOPE IS FOUND IN ALLOWING THE LORD TO USE YOU

PSALM 51:13 SAYS IT WELL

  13. THEN I WILL TEACH TRANSGRESSORS YOUR WAYS, SO THAT SINNERS WILL TURN BACK TO YOU. DELIVER ME FROM THE GUILT OF BLOODSHED,”

  • LORD YOU CAN REDEEM ALL THIS
  • AND I WILL POINT PEOPLE TO YOU

MATTHEW 26:26-29

  WHILE THEY WERE EATING, JESUS TOOK BREAD, AND WHEN HE HAD GIVEN THANKS, HE BROKE IT AND GAVE IT TO HIS DISCIPLES, SAYING, “TAKE AND EAT; THIS IS MY BODY.”

27. THEN HE TOOK THE CUP AND WHEN HE HAD THANKS, HE GAVE IT TO THEM, SAYING “DRINK FROM IT ALL OF YOU. 28. THIS IS MY BLOOD OF THE COVENENANT, WHICH IS POURED OUR FOR MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS. 29. I TELL YOU, I WILL NOT DRINK FROM THIS FRUIT OF THE VINE FROM NOW UNTIL THAT DAY WHEN I DRINK IT NEW WITH YOU IN MY FATHERS KINGDOM.”

WHEN RHEY HAD SUNG A HYMN- THEY WENT OUT TO THE MOUNT OF OLIVES

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