David's Repentance: Understanding Psalm 51 Week 7

Psalms is the biggest book in the Bible. Yeah. And if you open to the middle, you get to Psalms. Um Psalm 51 is a penitential uh psalm. It's a uh confession of sin by David. Uh the first thing I'm going to let you see is the heading. the they call it uh script incription. Well, our question is, is this inspired? And my answer to you is it was in the Hebrew scriptures and even the New Testament writers refer to it so they know what context uh they're referring to. Okay. So I'm going to enlarge this part. Okay. To okay to the chief m musician psalm is a uh a song or sacred poem. Um compared to English poetry they don't have meters.

They don't have rhythm. You know English poetry would end in a rhyme. Okay. a psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came unto him after he had gone into Ba Sheba. Okay, there are two things there and I'm gonna ask you to well we don't have to it's all in here on on the screen. Okay, 1 Samuel number one is the what did David do so that he had to do this sum of repentance penitent when na and then the second one oops second one would be the when Nathan the prophet came unto him after he had gone into Bath Sheba so we are going to 2 Samuel 11. Am I okay? Okay. Then we'll look at some New Testament passages.

Okay. Okay. This is the U text. Uh when I go to this um kind of pinkike color that's uh I'm referring you to go to 2 Samuel 11. Okay. Let's see what 2 Samuel 11 was. Do you know who the author of 2 Samuel 11? Samuel. Okay. Uh and it came to pass after the year was expired when the year they have two kinds of uh years. Okay. They have a civil year and a sacred year. I think this is the sacred year. Uh it begins in April and May. Uh so the end of 12 months, it's [snorts] a lunar um kind of year. Uh after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, where should David be? Battle.

Battle, right? David sent Joab and his servants. He sent his general and his ser his servants and all Israel, the the troops, and they destroyed the children of Ammon and besieged Rabba. This is a this is a very important battle. But David was nowhere to be found. He was at home. Have you heard this [snorts] uh this saying before? An idol mind is the workshop of the devil. Devil's workshop. The devil's workshop. You got it. How many of you have heard that? You have heard it, I'm sure. Yeah. So, you know that the devil devil is going to work on David. He's the sweet psalmist of Israel. Um he was a shepherd and so on but he um defeated Goliath.

Uh yeah, he was anointed be and it came to pass this uh verse two now in an evening tide time for romance, right? No, that David arose from off his bed and walked upon the roof of the king's house. His palace is overlooking Bath Sheba's Bath Sheba and Bath Sheba's what? A woman washing herself and the woman was very beautiful to look upon. God gave us five senses faculties. What are [snorts] they? Ears for hearing, eyes for seeing. That's the two most uh important faculties. You know why? If you cannot see, there's no morality. Well, taste is uh what your uh tongue, right? Skin is the sense of touch and sense of his smell is your nose.

Um, I was when I was going to seminary, I I went to uh I did undergraduate school there in San Francisco and then went on to seminary and you know uh the pastor told me I was assistant to the pastor uh I cannot go and visit this man. So he told me to go and visit the man in a coma and what what do I do? I just explain the gospel. pretty soon I see tears streaming by uh from his eyes. So hearing but this one was like porn. Okay, that's why we are to watch what we do, what we see. Be careful little eyes what you see or be careful little hands what you do. Okay, David sent and inquired after the woman.

Somebody said okay is not this Bath Sheba the daughter of Eliam. Now if you know the story of how how many of you know this story by the way? Okay thank you. Do you know who Ahel was? Ahead was a counselor and his u counter spy was Hushai. Uh how many of you know that? Okay. This was Ahel's uh son. That's why he colluded with Abselum. Okay, I'm going too fast. Uh anyway, so what happened was David sent messengers and took her. So they went to get Bashiba. Yeah. And she came in unto him, unto David, and he lay with her bad. And she returned unto her house. [snorts] What happened? Adultery, right?

Okay. And the woman conceived and sent and told David and said, "I am with child." This is really getting complicated. Um, so now we're going to the next chapter. What happened was, okay, ah, there was an a prophet named Nathan. Okay, maybe I'll go there already. The Lord set Nathan unto David and he came in came unto him and said unto him. So God gave Nathan a parable so he could speak this to uh David. There were two men in one city. The one was rich and the one the other was poor. The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds. But the poor man had nothing save one little u lamb. Now there was a troubling man who the rich man was hosting and the rich man took whose lamb?

Uh whose sheep? Who's the poor man? The poor man. And so David was saying he got to die. He's going to die. But they uh Nathan said this, "Thou art the man, David. Thus say the Lord God of Israel." Then Nathan told David what he was. He was just humble man. I anointed thee king over Israel and I delivered thee out of the hand of Saul. Okay. I gave thee the master. Who's the master? Saul. I gave his Saul's house his wives. I gave thee the house of Israel and of Judah. And if that had been too little, I would moreover have given unto thee such I would give in more things if that was too small for you.

But you do this, this is a bad command. Uh verse 9 says, "Thou uh has wherefore hast thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his sight? Thou hast killed Uriah the Hitittite with the sword, and has taken his wife to be thy wife." Uh he was laying with a Do you know how u Uriah was killed into battle? That's right. Go to the front where they had a firefight and he he he got killed all because he sinned. David sinned. Um, so he brings in u Uriah the Hitittite from the battlefront, but he Uriah wouldn't go home. Why? Because his troops were out there fighting. He was a loyal soldier.

He was a very loyal. He was one of the top 30 guys. Uriah the Hitittite. Okay. Uh, thus sayith the Lord, behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house. Some bad things will happen to David from his own family. Okay. Um, I'll take thy wives before thine eyes and so on and so forth. Okay. Okay. Here are the bad effects. His son with Batha dies. Okay. his oldest son Amnen, David's oldest son, Amnen, rapes a halfsister named Tamar. And who's the brother of Tamar? Abselum. And about two years, I think about a couple years, Abselum kills killed Amnan. Abselum effects a coup deta. You know what a coup d'eta is?

Trying to take over. Try to take over, right? He wanted to be king. So uh God allows these things to happen because of David's sin. Abselum rapes David's concubines about nine of them in public. You know if you see this story you should you should read this story. And uh you know David was the standard of the kings in Judah. Okay. uh a a a bad king, God would say to him, "You never did like your father." They don't have a um grandfather in in Hebrew. It's all father. Okay. Um so he did do like uh David did. Okay. Let's go to the New Testament and see some uh verses here. It was not printed yet because they didn't have the New Testament.

All they had was the Old Testament. Yeah. There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to men. It's all common to us. The problem is what? The flesh, the world, the devil. Okay. But God is faithful. There you go. Who will not Yeah. I you you like some perfidelist, right? Always faithful. God is faithful. who will not suffer you to be tempted above that you are able but will with the temptation also make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it. Uh another you got to confess when you have committed the sin. Okay. If we confess our sins is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If I could give you any um any verses to take home with you, memorize these verses. I memorized Psalm 51 long time ago. It's still, you know, I can still say it sometimes. [snorts] Okay. Now, I uh want you to see parallelism. Okay. Before I go on to the text, there are two statements in a verse. The second statement says says the same thing as the first statement says. That's called synonymous parallelism. Synthetic. Uh the second statement adds and goes beyond the first statement. Antithetic. The second statement involves a contrast to the first. They're opposite. Okay. Let's go to the first verse.

Have mercy upon me, oh God, according to thy loving kindness, according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies, blot out my transgressions. Um, I made it this way. By the way, I put kind of outlining this uh Psalm 51 verses 1 and 2 is a plea for forgiveness. Yes. Uh, he he he was in deep sorrow for sin. David was. So um but let me ask you what kind of parallelism is this? Is this synonyonymous or antithetic or synthetic? Probably synonymous. Okay. Okay. He was pleading for God's mercy, his tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions. Have mercy upon me, oh God. Okay. Now let's go back here. Verse two.

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. What kind of parallelism is this for you? Synonymous. I'm sorry. Correct. Synonymous. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. Okay. I'm going to com combine the two verses some um of verse two and verse three. Okay. Uh if you remember if you David uses three words for sin. Sin is the general u uh term in the Hebrew it's kata. In the Greek we had hamartiology here. Hamartia. Okay. It's missing the mark. The word iniquity is a corrupt moral corruption. And the word transgression is a violation of God's law. But um I wish I could show you what uh David was thinking.

He was deeply in sorrow for his sin. Okay. The reasons for forgiveness would be verses 3-6. Against thee the only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight. Th I'm going to ask you some more and then I'll just quit that stuff and we'll go on. Against thee, thee only have I sinned, done this evil in thy sight, sin and evil that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear or fair when thou judgest. What is this synthetic? Probably synonymous too. Okay. Behold, I was shaped in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me. Iniquity and sin are are same thing. Okay, he's telling him, you know, he's telling God even before I was conceived, my mother was in sin, you know, Psalm 139.

Do you know that Psalm? Anyway, let's go on. Behold, thou desires truth in the inward parts. Truth and wisdom are God's attributes. Okay? And his word is thy word is truth. And to know wisdom is all wise. Um several times in the King James it says you are all wise. Anyway, verse seven, purge me with hissup. Hissup is the same thing that they applied the Passover blood on their uh portals. And I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter than snow. Um verses 7 to 12. That's that's like what 8 six verses 7 8 9 10 11 12 six verses. Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou has broken may rejoice.

Um he had a multitude of sorrow in his heart. So even his bones were affected. Uh but make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou has broken may rejoice. Maybe antithetic. I don't know. Okay. Verse n. And hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities. Now here if you remember he's saying my sins my sins. Thou art the God who forgives. Forgive me. Forgive thou art the just and faithful God. Forgive me. Forgive. He's looking to God. Create in me a clean heart, oh God, and renew a right spirit within me. All right. Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy.

Now, you can't say this already these days. Once you're saved, does the Lord Jesus ever forsake you? I will never leave thee, leave thee, nor forsake thee. Did Christ had the Holy Spirit at that day? Back then in the Old Testament, it was a special kind. Yeah, it was a special kind. Only the priests and the prophets and the kings. [snorts] And it was a temporary kind of a thing. And in those days, [snorts] take not thy holy spirit from me is a good prayer. And God's presence may come out of you today. No, no. Once once the holy spirit uh holy trinity comes to you and I said the holy trinity when you receive Jesus Christ you have you are indwwellled by the holy spirit you're indwwellled by Christ liveth in me Christ in you and who else the father the holy trinity actually indwells you restore unto me the joy of thy salvation uphold me with thy free spirit Uh, that's probably synonymous, too.

Then will I teach transgressors thy ways, and sinners shall be converted unto thee. And we have here like five verses. Desire to offer grateful service. Okay, let's let me go on. Deliver me from blood guiltiness. You know what blood guiltiness means? Is that is that murder? It is murder. Thou God of my salvation, my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. Synthetic maybe. Um, oh Lord, open thou my lips and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. Psalm 16, for thou desires not sacrifice, else would I give it. Thou delightest not in burnt offering. This is good for the Old Testament, but today God does not.

God delights in you offering sacrifices of praise. uh today. Uh anyway, let's go on. And the sacrifice of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart. Oh God, thou will not despise. This is what pleases God. A repentant heart. You ask your forgiveness from him and he he does. Uh do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion. This is uh verse 18 and 19. He's thinking about all the nation of Jerusalem knew what happened. He committed murder and adultery. Uh so this is a prayer for Jerusalem. Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness with burnt offering and whole burnt offering.

Then shall they offer bollocks upon thine altar. This is the end of the psalm. What I want you to remember is this. God in Acts, you know, they they didn't have the New Testament. Then when he God had removed him, Saul, he raised up unto them David to be their king, uh Judah's king. Okay? To whom also he gave testimony and said, this is what God said about David. I have found David to be the the son of Jesse, a man after my own heart who shall fulfill all my will. I hope you're like that. Do you know the will of God? Um there was a question Mary and um [snorts] the siblings, the half siblings. Yeah.

Jesus Christ was born of a virgin but he had half siblings. Four brothers. I think they are what? Judas and Simeon, James and who else. Um, and he had some sisters, too. Okay. Anyway, he was the one that pleased God, not Saul. Uh, I want you to do God's will. Okay. Uh, what did God say? What did Jesus say? Those who do God's will are my own brothers and sisters. Do you remember that verse? Remember this. [snorts] I delight to do uh to do the will thy will, oh God. Well, yes, but thy law is within my heart. Um God's law. This is the Old Testament still. Psalm 40:8. Okay. New Testament. And this is the confidence that we have in him, in God, that if we ask anything according to God's will, what does he do?

He heareth us. And if we know that he hear us. Whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petition that we desired of him. If you ask according to God's will, he gives. God hears our prayers. You have not because you ask not. Do you even ask? Prayer is the most powerful uh it's not the missile that they dropped on Iran. Not even the intercontinental missiles. Okay. Prayer is whatsoever you desire, believe that you receive them and you shall have them. The New Testament says that okay we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. Yes, we will have it. We have the petitions. Whatever petitions that we desire but what what what do you need to do?

Know God's will. Ask anything according to his will. He heareth us. Okay, that's about it for now. I'm sorry I was given 45 minutes. I think uh I'm not sure if you can do this. Uh I wanted to uh see if I can do this. Uh let's see if I can. Yeah, last week uh last Sunday was Easter. And then one day I'll cross the river. I I lost myself to victory. I'm lost. Just because he lives. Because he lives, I can face tomorrow. Because he lived, all fear is gone. Because oh, he holds the future and life is worth the living just because he lives. Was written by Gaither. He had a baby. How sweet to hold a newborn baby and feel the pride and joy he brings.

But greater still the comeurous this child can face uncertain days because he lives. Because he lives. I can face tomorrow because he lives. All fear is gone because I know all he holds the future and life is worth the living just because he live. Thank you for seeing. Okay. Do you have any questions? I'll answer any questions. spiritual or um practical. Yes. Any questions? Can you define again synthetical and Oh, okay. I I'll grab all Okay, I I'll go back there. Okay, let's see. Okay. Yes. Okay. Psalm 51. Okay, forgive me. Okay. Uh, some psalms are like this. Sometimes they have three statements.

Okay. And uh let's see slideshow. There you go. And from current slide. Okay. Uh with the synony synonymous parallelism, the second st statement says about the same thing as the first one. Okay. So um the synthetic is it adds more to the first statement. It it's about the same or adds and goes beyond the first. Antithetic is there's a contrast between the two. The first and the second statement are contrasting. Any any other questions about the psalms? Okay. The word psalm is sacred poem or songs. That was the worship songs in the temple. And that's why David says to the chief musician and talks about sila stop, pause and listen the words s e l a h.

Okay. Any other question? You just ask me. I I'll answer what I can say what I know. [snorts] Yes. Uh that term that the idol hands is a devil's workshop. Is it? No, it's not. Yeah. But it's true. Yeah. If you don't do anything, the devil can get a hold of you. That's what he was doing. Instead of going to the battle the battlefield, he was staying. And then at night, instead of uh doing something constructive, he gets up and what does he see? Porn. I say porn. Okay. Uh okay. If you have any any other questions, what is simplify? Always faithful. Always faithful. God is always That's what means.

Yes. I didn't know that. Ser is always fidelity. It's a Latin word. I never in a military. I I heard it, but I never knew what it meant. We Marines know it. [snorts] Simpify. Huh? Yes, sir. Okay. Yes. You said there's different definitions for iniquity and sin and transgression. Yeah. Uh sin is like the word the Hebrew word is kata. Um and uh the uh hamaria is the Greek word for that. It's missing the mark. It's the general um word for um sin. Okay. Iniquity is moral corruption. and transgression is violation of God's law. Something to that effect anyway. Well, but he uses them all. But that shows his um mind set.

He was really repented before God. So I hope that uh Psalm 51 means anything to you. But I know confess your sin. That's the first thing. And remember beforehand, yeah, there's God to look at, to look to, uh, uh, okay. Uh, oops. [snorts] I have a question. Yes, sir. When he asked God to block out my iniquity, did God block out and never bl my transgressions? Never remember it again. See, when you're saved, all your uh, all your sins are forgiven. They are as far as the east is from the east is from the west. Is that right? East is there west. Huh? That's what he meant when he asked, "Walk out my iniquity.

Blood out all my transgressions." Something like that. Yes. He does not. But you remember if you're saved, there's judgment. You may suffer the present effects of sin like what he did. I'll raise up evil in your family. So um the old his son dies his son with Bata dies. Then the oldest son Yeah. commits rape. So there you see an adultery and murder. Abselum kills Amnan later on. Yeah. There's there's a lot to see. Okay. All his for sins were forgiven. But resolve. Okay. Consequence. I'm sorry. Consequences. Consequences. Yes. Thank you. So Solomon was a second child, second son of Bath Sheba. And yeah, it's a complicated situation.

But you see, God can forgive. There's grace. And for all of us, that grace is uh for us to look to. What is the difference between grace and mercy? and justice. Grace means God gives you more than you deserve. Mercy means God does not give you what you deserve. And uh justice, you get what you deserve. You get what you get. So sowing in the principle of sowing and reaping, you reap what you sow. You reap what you sow. Correct. Okay. Uh, I have five more minutes if you have any questions. Yeah. You got another song you want to sing? A second? You want to sing another song? Okay. Sure. Something old school, please.

Old school. Okay. Okay. In the I like that, but I don't have I'm sorry. H uh let's see something. I I got some come and die in dwelling in the Bah land. Okay. How about that? Oops. I got to get the uh song. again. I I I I far away the noise of strife upon my ears falling. Then I know the sins of earth. Go ahead. [singing and music] In beautiful land I'm living on the mountain underneath a cloudless sky. Praise God. Drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry. Oh yes, I'm feast on the mana from above full supply. I am dwelling in view the land. Far below the storm of doubt upon the world is beating.

Sons of men in battle the enemy with stand. [music and singing] Am I within the cast glass retreating? Nothing can reach me. Then I'm living on the mountain underneath a cloudless sket. I'm drinking at the fountain that never shall run dry. Oh yes, I'm feast on the mana from a bounty full supply. I am belling in view la land. The stormy breezes blow their cry. Cannot alarm me. I am safely sheltered here protected by God's here. The sun is always shining here. There's not can harm me. I am safe forever in beautiful land. I'm living on the mountain underneath the cloudless sky. I'm drinking [singing and music] at the fountain that never shall run dry.

Oh yes, feasting on a mana from a bountiful supply. I am dwelling in view lent viewing here the works of God. I sing [music and singing] in contemplation. Hearing now his blessed voice, I see the way he planned. Dwelling in the spirit. Here I learn a full salvation. Gladly will I t in bula land. I'm living on the mountain underneath a cloudless sky. Praise God. I'm drink at the fountain that never shall run dry. Oh yes, I feast on the mana from a bountiful supply. For I am dwelling in bula land. One minute short. Thank you for all all for coming. Thank you so [snorts] much. I have one last question for you.

Yes. Since we're singing this song, you know what is what is ba land? Ba land. No, not that. That ba means married. Good question. What is what does ba mean? Bula means married. Married. Married. I guess married to God. Oh, indwelt by the hol the holy trinity. Yeah, I think so. Well, answer me this if you can, sir. Mana from heaven. Mana. The word mana means what is it? They didn't know what it was. It was like a tiny what do you call that? And they they had to pick up so many every day except for Saturdays. They pick up twice on Fridays. Yeah. Like three pounds every day. But something like that intelligent.

Yeah. They document every little the who? The Jews. Yeah. All the descendants of Abraham. He is the father of those who believe including the New Testament believers. He is. So what would come? So that's why we we say father Abraham. How many of you sing that song? Father Abraham. Yeah. Okay. I just trying to figure out anything close to mana that we can now today is free of cholesterol. Oh, no heart attacks like Peter bread something without yeast or something. Crispy cream donut. Yeah. Cholesterol free. Yeah. Four more. They go bad. Okay. Thank you, Lord, for all these folks. Bless them as they go. Enable us to repent always to remember that you are a just and forgiving God. Thank you for your forgiveness all the time. Thank you for your tender mercies in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Lord bless you all. Thank you.