Psalm 51:1-19 - The Gift of Repentance

Listen along as we continue our series in the Psalms.

Notes//Quotes:

Psalm 51:1-19 - Faith

Title: The Gift Of Repentance 

 

“Repentance is a grace of God’s Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.”

- Thomas Watson

 

“Making a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves. Admitting to God, to ourselves, and to another human beings the exact nature of our wrongs. Being entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character. And humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.”

- Alcoholics Anonymous 

 

“As the Lord lives, the man who has done this deserves to die, and he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because he did this thing, and because he had no pity.” - 2 Sam. 12:5&6

 

 “Better is open rebuke than hidden love. Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy.” - Proverbs 27:5-6

 

 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?” 

- Jeremiah 17:9

 

“21 For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, 22 coveting, wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

- Mark 7:21-23

 

“…sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned…”

- Romans 5:12

 

“The appalling misery of the human race can only be explained as a punishment upon sin. How can God, who certainly is good and just, subject all humans from their conception on to sin and death if they are completely innocent? An original moral debt must rest upon all; there is no other way to understand the crushing yoke that weighs upon all the children of Adam.” 

- Herman Bavnik

 

“17 For if, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.18 Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness  leads to justification and life for all men. 

- Romans 5:17&18

 

 “A broken heart cannot keep secrets. Now is all revealed, now its essence goes forth. Far too much of our praying, and of our worship, is like closed up boxes; you cannot tell what is in them. But it is not so with broken hearts; when broken hearts sing, they do sing. When broken hearts groan, they do groan. Broken hearts never play at repenting, nor play at believing…with broken hearts, the hymn is a real hymn, the prayer is a real prayer, the hearing of sermons is earnest work, and the preaching of them is the hardest work of all. Oh, what a mercy it would be if some of you were broken all to pieces! There are many flowers that will never yield their perfume till they are bruised.” —Charles Spurgeon

 

Question:

Am I being willfully blind? 

 

Quote:

“O dear children of God, scorn your sins, lament your sins, weep over your sins! Indulge that feeling, and God will accept it when it is mixed with faith in his dear Son; for “the sacrifices of God”-that is, all sorts of sacrifices put together, sin-offerings, burnt offerings, peace-offerings, scape-goats, and all together-” the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit.” One broken spirit is worth them all. “A broken and a contrite heart,”-though there be but one such,-“O God, thou wilt not despise.”  —Charles Spurgeon 

 

Prayer:

23 Search me, O God, and know my heart!
 Try me and know my thoughts!

24 

And see if there be any grievous way in me,
 and lead me in the way everlasting!

—Psalm 139:23&24