Morning. Let's open this morning
service with number 21 from your spiral gospel hymns, hymnal number
21, the covenant ordered and sure let's all stand. God the Father and the Son and
the Spirit three in one, in eternal ages past, made a covenant sure
and fast, God my father chose his own in the person of his
son and ordained that I should be one with him eternally. God the Son agreed to come in
the flesh to bring me home. ? He would keep God's holy law
? And retrieve me from the fall ? Christ in love so willingly
? Stood as my great surety ? For my price he offered blood ? To
appease the wrath of God God the Spirit, heavenly dove, promised
to come down in love. Bringing life and peace and grace
to the chosen, purchased race. He seeks the lost, heals the
lame, and he brings us to the Lamb. by his mighty sovereign
call God's elect are gathered all this poor sinner ? For God's covenant will endure
? It is sealed by God's own word ? By his spirit and his blood
? Blessed holy covenant God ? I am yours by ties of blood Ties of
grace and ties of love hold me to my God above. Please be seated. Good morning. We're going to be looking at
Psalm 51 this morning. If you would Turn there with
me in your Bible, Psalm 51. That may be my all-time favorite
hymn. That's such a glorious declaration of
the gospel and an encouragement to the believer's heart to know
that we're saved by grace and saved in the covenant of grace.
in the person of our surety. You have your Bibles open to
Psalm 51. To the chief musician, a psalm
of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him after he had gone
into Bathsheba. Now those words are actually
part of the original text and it tells us the setting in which
this psalm was written. We've been looking at the life
of David and Nathan the prophet came to David and confronted
him over his sin and said to him, thou art the man. And soon
after that, David, inspired by the Spirit of God, wrote this
psalm. And I hope that as we go through
it we'll see that David's not just lamenting his sin with Bathsheba
but that the sin problem that David is referring to in this
psalm is much broader than that and I hope by God's grace that
you and I will be able to see ourselves in these words. I've titled this message, A Sinner's
Prayer, A Sinner's Prayer. Let's pray now and ask the Lord
to bless our time. Our gracious and merciful Heavenly
Father, we ask that you would send your Holy Spirit in power
that you would cause your word, these words, to be as a double-edged
sword, that, Lord, that you would kill all our hope in salvation
outside of Christ, that you would slay us Cause us Lord to see
that in us that is in our flesh dwelleth no good thing. That
we are spiritually dead. And then Lord that the other
side of that sword would make us alive. That you would reveal the glory
of Christ and give to your children faith. to rest all the hope of
their salvation in his glorious person and in his accomplished
work. We ask it in Christ's name. Amen. A very familiar passage of scripture
is found in the epistle that Paul wrote to Timothy when he
said, this is a faithful saying. This is a faithful saying. All
of God's sayings are faithful. But when Paul refers to faithful
sayings, I think there's five of them. These are sayings that were often
repeated among the believers. And he goes on to say, this is
a faithful saying and it's worthy of all acceptation. It is worthy
to be accepted in its entirety and it's worthy to be accepted
by all. And here's the saying. Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners. And then Paul,
and he writes this at the end of his life, and then Paul at
the end of that statement, that faithful saying says, of whom
I am chief. He believed himself to be in
need of grace more than any other man. He knew his own heart and
his own sin and his own dependence upon Christ more than anyone
else. And that is every believer's
confession. The Lord Jesus came into the
world to save sinners. He only saves sinners. And he saves every one of them.
and everyone that he saves believes themselves to be chief among
sinners. Now, if being a sinner is the
qualification for salvation, and it is, what is the evidence
that I'm a sinner? Is it that I'm able to identify
and confess particular sins that I've committed in my life. We hear evangelists on TV talk about
confessing your sins, admitting to God in a sinner's prayer that
you have sinned. And it reminds me of what I experienced
as a boy growing up in the Catholic Church when I would go into the
confessional And the priest would raise up the little bar and the
first words out of your mouth were, Father, forgive me for
I have sinned. It has been, and you tell the
priest how long it was since your last confession. Yeah, we really did that. But
that's really no different than what people do today. apart from
the fact that they might have a little booth that they go into
and they're talking to another man, it's really no different
than what people do today in trying to confess their sins
by identifying particular things in their life and that is proof
that they have made a proper confession. I remember as a very
young boy laboring over what I was going to say when I went
in there. You know, I had to search my heart to try to come
up with things that I wanted to confess. What is the evidence that I'm
a sinner? David's prayer in Psalm 51 is
a sinner's plea. And it's every sinner's plea,
and like the model prayer that the Lord gave us, again, we repeated
in vain repetition the Our Father. I'm referring to experiences
that I had as a Roman Catholic. And we thought that if we repeated
these words, that they would be some sort of a magic formula
of words that would unlock the secret of forgiveness. And this
prayer that David's praying in Psalm 51 is not like that. And it's not like what we made
the model prayer to be. It's a pattern. It's not a formula. It's a pattern. And this pattern
is experienced in the hearts of all of God's people. And so,
as we read David's words, the Lord has brought from David's
evil sin, there's no justification for what David did with Uriah
and Bathsheba, and yet our God always brings good out of evil. The greatest example of that
is the cross, the most evil thing that man ever did. was to take
the Son of God and put him on a Roman cross and yet God brought
from that most evil act the greatest glory to himself and the greatest,
the only hope of salvation that you and I have, the greatest
good came from the greatest evil. What a hope we have for our own
sins. no justification for our sin
and we will suffer the consequences of our sin and yet to know that
we serve and worship a God who can take, who does take all things
and work them together for good for them that love him and those
that are called according to his purpose. Here's our hope.
We wouldn't have Psalm 51 without what David did. What a What a
blessing these words have been to every child of God whom the
Lord has made to believe themselves to be a sinner. A sinner, this
prayer is for sinners. And this is how we come and this
is how I know that I'm a sinner because I can identify with these
words and I can say amen to every one of them. David writes in Psalm 32, blessed
is he whose transgressions are forgiven. Is there any greater
blessing than the forgiveness of sin? To be able to stand in
the presence of God and know that my sin has been put away. That I'm not charged before a
holy God with the iniquity of my sin. He goes on in Psalm 32
to say, whose sin is covered, blessed is the man in whom the
Lord imputeth not iniquity. Now that word imputeth means
to be charged or to be credited with or accounted to. Blessed
is the man in whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity. And in whose spirit there is
no guile. There is no, There's no pretense
and no false hope and false justification. Oh, we can see those things in
ourselves as we relate to one another but when we come into
the very presence of God as a sinner, in whose mouth there is no guile.
God makes you to be a sinner, you know that you can't pretend
before God. You know that you have to take sides with God against
yourself, and there's no justification for your sin, and there's no
pretending it didn't happen, and there's no, no, Lord, you're
right. You're right. Everything you
say is true. David goes on in Psalm 32 to
say, I acknowledge my sin unto thee. I acknowledge my sin. And thou forgavest all mine iniquity.
Oh, that's the blessing that you and I need. We need to be
forgiven of God. We're sinners. Look at verse one of Psalm 51.
Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness, according
unto the multitude of thy tender mercies. Blot out my transgressions. Asking for mercy is a confession
that you have no claim on mercy. Asking for mercy, in and of itself,
is a confession that you have no rights, you have no claim,
you have no, you can't present to God anything
that would not only obligate him, or you can't find anything in
your heart that should give God a reason to have mercy upon you. That's what mercy is. Lord, I can't find anything in
me, any reason in me why you should
forgive me. I have no, I have nothing to present. I
need mercy. Think about when someone pleads
the court's mercy in a court of law. What is the judge looking
for? He's looking for some sense of
remorse, isn't he? He's looking for some evidence
that this person's really learned from their mistake and that they're
not going to repeat it. And that's a man judging another
man based on what he can see. But when we come before God, He knows every thought and intent
of our heart. He knows how many times we've
asked for mercy and gone right back and thought and done and
said the same thing again. There's no pleading for mercy
based on a spirit of remorse before God. There's no pleading
for mercy before God based on a commitment to the Lord, I'm
never gonna do that again. God knows better and you know
better when you stand before God that he knows everything.
You see, we don't plead for God's mercy before his bar of justice
in the same way we would plead for a court's mercy in the sight
of another man. So what does David say? What's
David say? Have mercy upon me, O God, according
to thy lovingkindness. The only ground that I can found
that you would have any mercy at all on me. And the word lovingkindness,
the word grace is not as often used. It's not often used at
all in the Old Testament like it is in the New Testament. But
the word lovingkindness is the Old Testament word for grace.
That's the Old Testament word for grace. Have mercy upon me
according to thy grace, thy free and sovereign grace. Lord, that's
the only hope that I have. The only hope I can find is in
you, not in me. That's the only reason that I
can find that you would forgive me or that you would have mercy
upon me. The hope of my salvation is in
you, not in me. When I look to myself, I find no reason whatsoever that
you should have mercy upon me. I can't get any comfort or any
hope from anything that I see in me that I would be a recipient
of your mercy. My only claim for mercy is what's
in you. Blot out my transgressions. I looked up this word blot. The
first time it's found is in Genesis chapter six, when God sent the
deluge and killed living thing on the face of the earth and
the scripture says I will destroy man from the face of the earth
and that word destroy is the same word blot out Lord blot
out my term Lord destroy it through the cast them into the depths
of the sea Lord remove them from my sight Turn with me to Isaiah 43, Isaiah
43. Look at verse 25. Here's the question that we're
asking. Am I a sinner? Am I a sinner according to the
definition that God gives a sinner in his word? Not can I identify
some sins in my life, some things that I, you don't need God's
word for that, you've got a conscience for that. We all come into this
world with the law of God written upon our hearts. And whether
the Lord ever shows mercy on us or not, we feel pains of conscience
for things that we do that violate the law of God. And Having a guilty conscience
is not being a sinner. Everybody feels some sense of
guilt in their conscience. Being a sinner means that I can
identify with what God says a sinner is. This is my prayer. Lord, I need
mercy. And the ground of your mercy
is not found in me, it's all found in you. Look at Isaiah
43 verse 25. I, even I am he that blotteth
out thy transgressions for my own sake and will not remember
thy sins. Here's the reason why I'm going
to do it. I'm going to do it for my sake. I'm gonna do it
for my loving kindness. I'm gonna do it for my namesake.
I'm gonna do it for my covenant promises. I'm gonna do it because
I found reason in me to do it, not because I found reason in
you. That's what mercy is. What do men look to? What will
we look to if God doesn't give us this mercy, if he doesn't
show us this grace? We'll go before God like we would
go before a judge in a court of law and we would try to convince
him by remorse and by commitments and by dedication that we're
not gonna do this anymore and that's why he should have mercy
upon us. And we would present to God some
argument. That's not mercy. Not God's mercy. God's mercy is all found in him. Look at verse two, wash me throughly
from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. Revelation chapter
one, verse five says, he washed us from our sin with his own
blood. David said, throughly. Yes, he's experiencing great
pains of conscience because of what he did with Uriah and Bathsheba
and now the loss of his child but here he says throughly. You ever, I know you have, spot-washed
a garment, you get a little something on your shirt or your pants and
you spot-wash it. That's the way most people deal
with their sin. Well, I just need to get rid of this stain. No, Lord, I need to be washed
throughly, all over, all over. Remember when the Lord was washing
the disciples' feet and Peter said, Lord, you're not gonna
wash my feet. What'd the Lord say? If I wash
not your feet, you have no part in me. And what did Peter say? Oh Lord, don't just wash my feet,
wash me all over. And what did the Lord say? You're
already clean all over, but I need to wash your feet. You've been
walking out there. You see, I need to be clean throughly. I need to be clean all over.
All over. It's not a spot washing. In another
place, the Lord told a parable about a man who has a garment
and it's got a hole in it. And so to patch that garment,
he takes a new piece of cloth and sews it into an old garment.
And what happens with a new piece of cloth that hasn't been pre-shrunk
is the first time it's washed, it shrinks. And then that patch
makes the hole in the garment even bigger than it was. And
that's what we do if we try to spot wash our sin problem. We
try to patch up the holes in our garment. We try to put new
wine in an old wineskin and the wineskin bursts and everything's
lost. No. Lord, I need washed throughly. This sin problem I have is in
every part of my life. Look at verse... In verse 2,
wash me truly from mine iniquity. Iniquity means not equal. That's what it means, not equal.
And everything that falls short of the glory of God, God calls
sin. So what is there in my life that qualifies as being sin? Everything. Everything is iniquity. Nothing equals up. It all falls
short of His glory. Lord, everything about me is
sinful. For I acknowledge my transgression.
Transgression is a violation of God's law. So iniquity is
everything that there is about me that doesn't measure up. And
men try to make up for their sin by doing something that they
think will credit them favor with God. God says that's iniquity. That's iniquity. Transgression
is the violation of God's law. And look at verse three, and
my sin is ever before me. Sin is what we are. God says, when I look down from
heaven, I see that every thought and imagination of your heart
is only evil, and that continually is what we are. Lord, this is
what I need to be throughly, throughly cleansed from and washed
from. Look at verse four, against thee
and thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that
thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when
thou judgest. Coming to God as a sinner is
taking sides with God against yourself. Lord, you're right
and I'm wrong. You're justified in everything
you say about me and I cannot justify myself before thee. Lord,
the only hope of my justification before Thee is that I would be
found in Christ. That's the only hope I have. I have no defense. Your judgments
are true and your judgments are clear. Against Thee, let other men think what they
will. Lord, when I come before you,
you know. You know. One on one, right before
God. That's how we come. Verse five, behold, I was shapen
in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me. I've been this way all my life. Heard someone say recently, have
you always been in Christ? Have you always been a Christian? Oh yeah, I can't remember when
I wasn't a Christian. Well, that's too long. That's too long because
we're born into this world spiritually dead and we have to be made alive.
It's called the new birth. And the Lord Jesus said, except
a man be born again, born of the Spirit, born from above,
he cannot perceive of the kingdom of God. Lord, I was born this way. And my sin is continual. I don't have any hope that I'm
gonna be any Any better, any different? Now, there's no evidence that
David ever had a man killed in order to steal his wife again
like he did with Uriah and Bathsheba. I think he learned his lesson
on that one. But does that mean that David
stopped sinning? Read 1 Chronicles and you find
out right before David died, he told his commander, Joab,
he said, you go number the people. I wanna know how many, I wanna
know what size my army is. David was trying to boast in
what he had accomplished as the king of Israel. And Joab said,
oh, David, don't do it. Don't do it, David. David's an
old man. And David does it anyway. And God sends an angel and kills
7,000 Israelites as a result of David's sin. 7,000, one angel, one sword,
comes in and kills 7,000 Israelites. David said, I was born in iniquity.
I've been a sinner all my life. And then on David's deathbed,
the last words that he speaks, Although my house be not so with
God. Lord, I can't find any hope of
my salvation in the tabernacle of this flesh. I can't find any
hope of my salvation in my home and in my children and in my
kingdom. I can't find any hope of why
I would be saved in anything that I've had any part in. Yet, He made with me an everlasting
covenant, ordered in all things and sure, and this is all my
salvation, and this is all my desire. When was the covenant
of God made ordered and certain, sure? We just sang that hymn.
Christ is our surety, is made sure. The sacrifice that the
Lord Jesus made, his shed blood, that's the only grounds on which
I can find where God would have any more. Lord, I was born a
sinner. I was conceived a sinner. I was
a sinner before I was born. I inherited from my father this
sin nature. And I've committed acts of sin
and will continue to commit acts of sin because I'm a sinner. Big difference there. See, the
natural man thinks, well, I'm a sinner because I've sinned.
No, you sin because you're a sinner. And as we grow in grace and in
the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ, may God restrain, may
God restrain us But I'm certain of this, I'm
certain of this, till I close my eyes in death, I'm going to
remain a sinner. And the more I grow in grace,
the more of the tentacles of sin I see wrapped in every thought
and every intent of my heart. In every word I speak, I see,
you see, the more we grow in grace, the more we see our need
for grace. The more we see of our sin, the
more we see of how dependent we are on the Lord Jesus to stand
in our stead and be our righteousness before God, the more convinced
we are that we have no righteousness outside of him. God's tender mercies, for Christ's
sake, is all I have. John Newton, who wrote Amazing
Grace, on his deathbed said this, when I was younger, I knew a
lot of things. But now I only know two things
for sure. I am a great sinner. And Christ
is a great savior. And he's all I have. Is that
your testimony? It was David's. This is a sinner's
prayer. Look at verse six. Behold, thou desirest truth in
the inward parts and in the hidden part, thou shalt make me to know
wisdom. Lord, if there's truth about
who I am, if there's truth about who you are, if there's truth
about how it is that you are pleased to save sinners, you're
gonna have to make that known unto me. I can't figure that
out. You desire truth in the inward
parts. And for your desire to be fulfilled,
you're gonna have to give it to me. What God requires, God
provides. Lord, I can't come to these conclusions
by myself. I won't come to wisdom on my
own. And if you don't reveal Christ to me, I'll think far too highly of
myself and I'll make a work out of grace. Look at verse 7, purge me with
hyssop. Purge me with hyssop. Now hyssop
was a plant that was used in the Old Testament, the priest
would take hyssop and dip it in a basin of blood and sprinkle
the blood. And it was symbolic. And I didn't know this, I found
this out, I looked up hyssop. Hyssop has two color flowers
on it. Guess what color they are? Red
and white. Two colors. Oh. That's what, though your
sins be as scarlet, they shall be made white as snow. Oh, the
sprinkling of the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ by, Isaiah
put it like this in Isaiah 53, by thy stripes, we are healed. Are we not reminded of the scourging
and the crucifixion that the Lord Jesus went through to bear
the burden of our sin and to satisfy the justice of God? that
the sprinkling of blood through the obedience of Christ would
be my whole hope of salvation before God. Wash me and I shall be whiter
than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Lord, make
me. If you don't make me, I can't
make myself. And what did David say? Make
me what? Make me hear. The hearing ear comes from God.
Lord, if I'm gonna hear what you say, you see, how do I know
I'm a sinner? Because God said so. God said so. Do I feel the depths
of my sin as I ought? Do I? Suffer the sorrow of sin
as I ought? Can I come before God with a
penitent heart as I ought and show remorse in order to get
the court's mercy? No. No, but I've heard from God
and God says I'm a sinner and I believe it. They shall be all
taught of God. What God has said, believers
just bow to it. We believe everything God says. Make me to hear. Lord, if you make me to hear
what you've said, oh, the joy of gladness. The joy of gladness. Only sinners are saved. Christ
Jesus came into the world to save sinners. Here's the gladness. As long
as I'm trying to pretend before God and before man, as long as
I'm trying to atone for my own sins and justify myself, there's
no gladness. There's no hope. There's no joy.
There's no peace. Because I'm always haunted with
this thought. Have I done enough? Have I done
enough? I've watched loved ones die clenching
their rosaries and begging to be told and encouraged, have
I done enough? Have I done enough? No, you haven't
and you can't. Christ did it all. He gets all
the glory. And men won't be saved in such
a way as to give him to all the glory. hide thy face from my sins, blot
out all my inequities. The only way that God's face
can be hid from our sins is if he's looking to Christ. And where God looks, I must look. And God saw the travail of his
soul, and God said, I'm satisfied. Am I satisfied with what God's
satisfied with? That was David's only hope. Create in me a clean heart, oh
God, and renew a right spirit within me. The only way that
I can have a clean heart, the only way that I can have a pure
heart is if there's no charge to be
made against me. I'm innocent. I have no sin. And the only way
that can happen is to be found in him. And if I'm in Him as
He is, so are we right now in this world. You see, the clean
heart is the new heart. It's the new heart. It's the
heart of flesh. It's the mind of Christ. It's
the living heart that looks in faith to the Lord Jesus for all
the hope of its salvation. Verse 10, create in me a clean
heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Now on the
margin of my Bible, there's a little reference made for the word right,
and it says constant, constant. In other words, this looking
to Christ is not a one-time event. We hear our religious friends
and family members talk about when they got saved and they
want to recount their experiences and their feelings and what they
prayed and what happened. No, for the child of God, it's
to whom coming. It is a constant thing. We don't
look back and find hope of our salvation in yesterday's manna.
We need daily bread. We need Christ to come right
now. Lord, I'm a sinner right now.
This matter of being a sinner wasn't something that I was,
of whom I am chief. I need a constant work of grace
done in my heart. Cast me not away from thy presence
and take not thy Holy Spirit from me. All David's saying here is, Lord,
don't leave me to myself. Don't leave me to myself. Lord,
the greatest fear that I have and the greatest judgment that
you could ever exercise against me is to leave me to my own opinions
and my own thoughts and my own ideas and my own actions. Lord, give me your Holy Spirit.
Don't leave me alone. Don't leave me to myself. I'm
my own worst enemy and I will destroy myself. I'm on a path
of self-destruction. Lord, save me from myself. I don't need to just be saved
eternally. I need to be saved every day. Restore unto me the joy of thy
salvation. Not my salvation, thy salvation,
salvation's of the Lord. He did it all. He did it all
in election when he chose a people according to his own will and
purpose. He did it all in redemption when the Lord Jesus Christ died
on Calvary's cross and redeemed God's elect completely, fully,
finished the work. He did it all in regeneration
when in the power of the Holy Spirit, the gospel comes to me.
And I hear and I believe. That's a work of grace. I didn't
have anything to do with that. He does it in sanctification
as he keeps us and causes us to keep coming to Christ. That's
his work. Restore to me the joy of thy
salvation. And he will do it in glorification
when he sends his angels and takes us to be with him in glory. He'll do it all. We can't fly
to heaven. He has to come get us and take
us there. Salvation's of the Lord. Restore
unto me the joy of knowing that salvation is of God. Because I can take great comfort
in knowing that. If my salvation has anything
to do with me, I'm afraid. There's no peace, there's no
comfort, there's no rest. But if it's of the Lord, That's good. Uphold me with thy free spirit.
Where the Spirit of God is, there is liberty. There's liberty from
the condemnation of sin, liberty from the law's great curse, liberty
from the rigors and the demands of God's holy law. There's liberty
and freedom to love and to worship and to serve God freely. Oh,
what liberty we have. We're not under duress. Let's finish with this, look. Then will I teach transgressors
thy ways and sinners shall be converted unto thee. Lord, I
can't help anybody else till you help me. You gotta do something
for me before I'm gonna have anything to give anybody else.
Deliver me from blood guiltless, O God. Thou God of my salvation,
and then my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness. Lord,
I can't worship you until I know that you've forgiven me. And
this is the grounds on which I'm forgiven. O Lord, open thou
my lips and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. Enable me. to rejoice and to believe and
to enter in to the spirit of worship. For thou desires not
sacrifice. David had spent a year grieving
over what he had done. And I can just see it. I bet
you he went to the temple every day. The tabernacle making sacrifices. Temple hadn't been built yet.
Solomon did that, but David, they had a tabernacle there,
and David, all sacrifice on top of sacrifice. And David was in
a position to provide all the sacrifices a man could possibly
provide. And now what does he say? If
thou desirest not sacrifice, I've come to this conclusion,
Lord, that my conscience has not been eased by all the things
that I've done to try to atone for my own sin. It hasn't helped. Thou desirest not sacrifice,
else I would give it. Thou delightest not in burnt
offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken
and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Now something's broken. You break
your arm, it don't work. You can't use it, it's in a sling.
The other day I was in the kitchen open the cabinet and drop a glass
bowl onto the floor and it shattered into a thousand pieces and that
thing can't ever be used again. It's broken, it's useless. Most
things that are broken are useless. The only thing that can find its use only when it's
broken is the heart. God only uses a broken heart. Now what is a broken heart? Is it like the feelings that
I had when I had my heart broken by someone I loved? You know, we talk about having
a broken heart, you know. Broke her heart, broke his heart,
is that what it is? No, a broken heart is like that
bowl, it's useless. It don't work. Lord, when I look to my heart
to try to find a spirit of repentance, a spirit of anything that would
merit Your favor and your salvation,
I can't find it. The Lord is broken. I've got to look outside of my
heart. My heart left to itself is a
stony heart. Lord, I've got to look to Christ
and find in Him all the hope of my salvation. You see, brethren, repentance
of sin can't be found in the human heart. A broken spirit and a contrite
heart, God will not despise that because He's the one that gave
it. He's the one that enabled us to believe that salvation
is all of God. and that the only hope I have
of my sin being put away is what the Lord Jesus accomplished when
he shed his precious blood, purged me with hyssop. All right, let's
take a break.