The Psalmist's Horror

Q: What does the Bible say about wickedness?

The Bible describes wickedness as a departure from God's law, which leads to destruction and judgment. Wickedness in the biblical context is defined as a willful departure from God's commandments and His word. As noted in Psalm 119:53, the psalmist expresses profound horror at the wicked who forsake God's law, indicating that forsaking God's word is the essence of wickedness. This theme is reflected throughout Scripture, where transgression against God’s law signifies turning away from Him, as illustrated in Isaiah 59:12-13. Such actions lead to judgment and distance from God, which underscores the seriousness of sin and the importance of adhering to divine statutes.

Q: How do we know the importance of God's law?

God's law reveals His holiness and righteousness, guiding humanity to recognize their need for salvation. God’s law holds immense importance as it serves as a revelation of His character and requirements for holiness. In Exodus 20, God communicates His nature through the giving of the law, establishing a foundation for righteous living. The law is not only a guideline but also exposes humanity's sins and shortcomings, as stated in Romans 3:20, where the law brings the knowledge of sin. It leads sinners to see their need for redemption and points them to Christ, illustrating the crucial role of the law in the believer’s journey to faith and obedience.

Q: Why is acknowledging sin critical for Christians?

Acknowledging sin is essential as it leads to repentance and a deeper understanding of God's grace. For Christians, acknowledging one's sin is the first step toward genuine repentance and restoration. As articulated in Psalm 51, David confronts his transgressions with a heart of repentance, recognizing his rebellion against God's law. This acknowledgment is foundational for experiencing the grace of God, as it reveals our need for Christ’s atoning sacrifice. Understanding our sinful nature allows believers to fully appreciate the magnitude of God's mercy and forgiveness, which is crucial for spiritual growth and maintaining a right relationship with God.

Q: What does horror over sin signify for believers?

Horror over sin reflects a believer's sensitivity to God's holiness and the gravity of transgressing His law. The psalmist’s expression of horror regarding sin illustrates a deep awareness of God’s holiness and the seriousness of sin’s consequences. In Psalm 119:53, the psalmist feels horror due to the wicked forsaking God's law, demonstrating a love for God's righteous standards. This horror serves as a spiritual alarm, reminding believers of the severe implications of sin and the separation it causes from God. Such feelings are critical for spiritual growth, as they compel believers toward a life of holiness and obedience, recognizing that Christ's sacrifice is essential for atonement and reconciliation with God.

Q: Why is God's word vital for comfort in affliction?

'God's word provides comfort and hope, quickening and reviving the believer's spirit in times of distress.' In times of affliction, God’s word is indispensable for providing comfort and renewing hope within the believer. As expressed in Psalm 119:50, the psalmist finds solace in God's word, recognizing it as a source of life and revival during trials. The truths contained in Scripture remind believers of God's promises and faithfulness, acting as a balm for weary hearts. Moreover, as seen in James 1:21, the implanted word offers salvation, affirming that an intimate relationship with Scripture fosters spiritual resilience and fortitude through life’s challenges.

Let us turn to God's Word. I want to turn with you to the 119th Psalm. Psalm 119. And we'll read the portion. Remember how this Psalm is divided into 22 sections. And each of the sections under the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet. And here we have the letter Zayn. We read then here in Psalm 119 verse 49 through 56. Remember the word unto thy servant upon which thou hast caused me to hope. This is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me.

The proud have had me greatly in derision. Yet have I not declined from thy law? I remember thy judgments of old, O Lord, and have comforted myself. Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage. I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the night, and have kept thy law. This I had because I kept thy precepts. The words that I really want to take up for a text are these that we have at verse 53 Psalm 119 verse 53 horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

As I said it's a remarkable psalm it's a long psalm by far the longest of all the psalms and it is divided into these 22 sections and we have the Hebrew alphabet really and each of the letters and I know I've mentioned this before but of course in the original it is really an acrostic poem and so in this section each of the verses would begin with this letter Zayn as is the case with all the other sections it's an acrostic and it's a celebration really of the Word of God and in the Old Testament that Word was given in the Hebrew tongue and as we read through the Psalm we discover that there are references to God's Word or the Scriptures in all of the verses bar 122 and 132 different names are used, synonyms spoken of as the words, spoken of as the law, spoken of as judgments, or statutes, or precepts, a whole variety of different synonyms I use, but it's a wonderful psalm because it celebrates what the Word of God is. It teaches us to have a very high regard, a high doctrine. of what we have in our Bibles.

It's not the words of mere men, this is the words of God. These are the lively oracles of heaven. In the 89th verse, the Psalmist says, Forever O Lord, thy word is settled in heaven. In the 129th verse he says, Thy testimonies are wonderful. Testimony, just another Word really for the Lord of God or the statutes of God. Thy testimonies, thy words are wonderful. That's true in an objective sense. It's a remarkable book, the Bible. If we just consider it as a piece of literature. But of course it's more than that.

There's a subjective element to it. now God's word is experienced in the souls of men how God works by his spirits through his words and we are familiar with that word in the New Testament in James the opening chapter in the 21st verse received with meekness he says the engrafted words I think the margin says the implanted words that is able to save your soul. We are to humbly submit then to the Word of God and pray that it might be to us that implanted Word, engraved upon our hearts as it were, applied by the Spirit of God.

Here in the 130th verse we read, The entrance of thy Word giveth light. And when God's light shines into all the awful darkness and deadness, of our hearts so it reveals to us our sad state as those who are in alienation from God enemies in our minds by wicked works well here in the verse that I want us to consider for a little while verse 53 horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law I want to speak of the psalmist's horror the psalmist's horror and to consider two things here first of all what is the mark of wickedness and then secondly to think a little of the majesty of the word of God and the Lord of God the mark of wickedness so we consider the verse really in the reverse order looking first at what he said in the second part of the verse the wicked that forsake thy Law.

The wicked that forsake thy law. Sinful nature is manifested then when there is the forsaking and the departing from the Word of God. That's quite evident. In the New Testament we read, Whosoever commiteth sin transgresseth also the law. Sin has to do with God and the Lord of God and the Word of God. and wickedness is a solemn departing from what God has said, God who is the creator of us all, who made us in his image.

He makes man for himself. And remember the language of that great church father Augustine of Hippo in North Africa, that was made us for thyself. Our souls are restless till they find their rest in thee, and yet man in his folly, in his sin, he departs from God. In the language of the shorter catechism, the chief end of man, to glorify God and to enjoy Him.

And yet, what do we see? We see it there in the Garden of Eden, a departure. A departure from God, a departure from the Word of God, the disobedience of our first parents, Adam and Eve. instead of abiding by the commandment of God how Eve tempted of the devil through the serpent believes that lie oh there's a solemn departure there look at the language again in the in the prophet Isaiah there in chapter 59 and verse 12 following it says for our transgressions are multiplied before them and our sins testify against us for our transgressions are with us and as for our iniquities we know them in transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing away from our God speaking oppression and revolts conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood and judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth afar off for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter. What a description! And amongst all that he is saying here of what sin is, we have those words, concerning departure. Verse 13, in transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing away from our God.

And as we read those words, do we not think of the state of affairs in our own nation? Oh, what do we see in this land? We see such a solemn departure. from all the word of God and all the commandments of God you hardly need me to spell out any of these things we're aware of them, we're surrounded by them there's no more any capital punishments of the murderer and yet God's word is plain enough that the man who shedeth man's blood by man shall his blood be shed that is what the Bible teaches us that's justice but there's no more the execution of the murderer but rather than that of course there's the murder of babes in the womb the awful right of abortion and all that's associated with those things embryo research no fault divorce now no recognition of the marriage bond really easy divorce homosexuality, same-sex marriages what an awful condition we find ourselves in as a nation and you can think even with regards to the matter of the Lord's Day the awful way in which people just do their own thing upon The Lord's Day, that day that the Lord has set apart, one day in seven, the first day of the week in this Christian dispensation. We observe that day, and it was once upon a time recognized, and now it's desecrated. And it's all happened in a lifetime.

I can remember as a young boy, I mean, like any youngster, I was mad keen on football, but you know, the Football Association would not recognize any Sunday football. Oh, there was some Sunday league, but they had no official recognition. And professional clubs played no football on Sundays. In sport in general, you see, you think of cricket matches. When there were test matches, there was never any play on Sundays. That was a rest day. Lawn tennis. When Wimbledon was on, no play on Sundays.

All that's gone. people say well that's unimportant isn't it? but it's a transgression of the law of God is it not? what solemn departures and what does the psalmist say in the text? horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law all these awful solemn departures look at the language that we have later in the 126th verse it is time for thee Lord to work for they have made void thy law." They make void the law of God.

But in a sense it's easy, isn't it, to make those general statements and criticize the state of affairs in the land. But God's word is much more personal than that.

Surely we need to see how it relates to us, to ourselves. well we learn something surely here concerning the matter of what sin is and what wickedness is and there are of course always those two elements when it comes to any forsaking of the law of God first of all there can be those sins of commission those sins of commission and in Daniel chapter 9 where we have that remarkable prayer that Daniel prayed when he understood that God had now accomplished the 70 years in the desolations of Jerusalem. The people are there, they've been there now for nearly 70 years in Babylon and Jerusalem in ruins and the temple of the Lord raised to the ground and he understands, he's reading there in the book of the prophet Jeremiah and he begins to turn what he's reading in God's Word into prayer and he prays, he prays that God will have mercy yet. But what does he say as he makes his prayer? He makes confession also. He says there in verse 11, Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing. That's how they transgress God's law, by departing. and not obeying God's voice not doing the things that God commands usually but doing the contrary to what God commands being willful and he acknowledges in a very personal way when we read that prayer we can't but observe the way in which the Prophet speaks Although he makes mention of the sins of the fathers he involves his own generation also.

I prayed unto the Lord my God and made my confession and said O Lord the great and dreadful God keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him and to them that keep his commandments. We have sinned. We have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments. Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets which bake in thy name to our kings, our princes and our fathers and to all the people of the land. O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces."

You see, he knows something surely of what the psalmist is saying. Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked. that forsake thy law and he feels himself in many ways to be one of those wicked. And how sometimes we can be guilty can we not and be impartial in the word of God.

How the prophet Malachi rebukes the priest of his own day there in Malachi 2.9 ye have not kept my ways he says as God's mouthpiece. speaking to the priests, you have not kept my ways but have been partial in my law. And law, you see, can be used in a very general sense in reference to the whole of the Word of God. As I said, throughout this 119th Psalm we have different synonyms, different words, but they're all really speaking of God's Scripture. In this blessed book.

But how those priests were partial. and we're not to be like that it's interesting the margin gives this reading you have not kept my law but have lifted up the face against my law you have not kept my ways but have lifted up the face against my law brazen rejection of the laws of God And let us not be guilty friends. Let us not be guilty and delight only in the promises of God.

Christ says if you love me keep my commandments. You keep his commandments. You know what his commandments are. If you love me keep my commandments. There's a manifestation of love. And we love the... there's nothing wrong in loving the promises. They're exceeding great and precious promises. What is the gospel? The gospel is the great promise of God, the promise of salvation. And a promise that's been confirmed by God.

Who are those who are true believers are the children of Abraham. Abraham is the father of all them that believe, isn't it? And when God made a covenant with Abraham, when he gave a promise to Abraham concerning his seed, remember Galatians 3, thy seed, it says he's Christ. I know Isaac of course is the seed in the sense of the child that was born to Sarah. the promises. But Isaac is a type of the Lord Jesus Christ. But when God made that covenant with Abraham, what did he do?

He swore by himself. He swore by himself. He confirmed his promise by taking an oath. And the oath was himself. In other words, if his promise fails, God fails. And that could never be. God cannot fail. God is God. The great I am that I am, the unchanging one. But what has he done? You see, he's magnified his word above all his name.

Oh, we should love the promises. We must love the promises. What great comfort there is in the promises. but we're not to overlook the precepts. We don't want to be partial, we want to embrace everything. If we love the Lord, if we love his gospel, if we love his promise, his oath, and all that he has given to us in the gospel, we must be those who would obey every commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And what is it to transgress? What is it to depart? Now the word transgress literally means, as it were, to step over. It's something deliberate and willful. Remember, as a child going to the local park and sometimes there'd be a sign there saying, keep up the grass. And what do you do as a little child? Oh, you want to walk on the grass. But he tells you not to walk on the grass.

Well, that's a transgression. That's willful. That's deliberate. And we read Psalm 51, David's great penitential psalm. There he speaks, doesn't he, of transgression. He speaks of transgressing. He'd sinned. He had sinned so grievously. He'd committed adultery. He'd tried to cover his sin. And he couldn't cover his sin, so what did he do? He murdered. He committed sin with Bathsheba when he can't get her husband Uriah the Hittite to do what he wants to do.

David calls Uriah back from the field of battle where he is there with the armies of Israel under Joab. David calls Uriah back and he wants Uriah to come and he wants him to enjoy for a while the comfort of his own bed. And the man comes and he refuses. I can't have the comfort of my bed when the armies of Israel are in the open field. So David plies him with drink and thinks if he gets the man drunk why then he'll do what I want. He'll go and lie with his wife and it will appear that his child conceived by me is Uriah's child.

But Uriah is more noble than David, he refuses. So what does David do? He sends him back with the death sentence in his own hand, which is to put into the hand of Joab. And Joab is to see to it that in the siege they go forward with Uriah at their head and they withdraw from him and he is killed.

What a sinner! was David. He transgressed and now we see him confessing that in that remarkable psalm.

Blot out my transgressions, he says there in verse 1. Verse 3, I acknowledge my transgressions. But you see he is full of penitence, he wants to teach transgressors the ways of God, he says in verse 13. how the faithful prophet Nathan had dealt with him and made it so evident that David was the man. Oh David, thou art the man. Now David felt it and we have that wonderful psalm in which he acknowledges sins of commission, willful sinning. But there's also sins of commission and of course that's even more evident in Psalm 51 we find the word sin immediately really verses 2, 3, 4 and 5 he uses the word sin and as I said before that's an interesting word in the Hebrew because the Hebrew language is is more concrete I suppose and narrow those people seem to think in in terms of of pictures we might say and the word sin is literally a word that has the idea of missing the mark falling short you see it's not just sins of commission it's not just doing the thing that you shouldn't do it's also failing to do the thing that you should do falling short of the glory of God all of sins and come short of the glory of God and so Daniel in that remarkable prayer confesses we have sinned and committed iniquity and done wickedly or to us belongeth confusion of face to us belongeth confusion of face the horrors that the psalmist is expressing here horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law and can we not turn it upon ourselves are not we those wicked ones have not we forsaken the law of the Lord and gone after our own devices and our own desires but what do we see in this passage we see something of the great majesty of that law of God.

He calls it, doesn't he? Thy law. He's addressing God. And what have the wicked done? They have forsaken thy law, God's law. And what is God's law? God's law in a sense is a revelation of himself. There in his law we see his holiness, his righteousness, his justice. That's what the law is. The law is good, says Paul. The commandment is holy and just and good. Of course it is. It's God's law. And it's a revealing of himself.

In Exodus 3 we see Moses, don't we? He's caring for the sheep of his father-in-law. He goes to the back sides of the desert and we find him there caring for the sheep. and it's called Horeb the mountain of Horeb there in the beginning of Exodus chapter 3 as he cares for the sheep he brings them to that very spot and God tells him later in verse 12 you shall serve God upon this mountain He's going to serve God on that mountain, the mountain range of Horeb. Mount Sinai is there in the midst of Horeb.

And this is where the Lord God brings them that he might enter into covenant with them. And remember what God says at the beginning of Exodus 20 where we have those 10 commandments How does it all begin? I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. God begins by declaring himself, I am the Lord thy God.

And then in what follows, he's revealing something of himself, his character, his holiness. It's interesting what we have here in verse 55 because the psalmist says, I have remembered thy name, O Lord, in the nights, and have kept thy law. And we have these parallels which is quite common really in the Hebrew poetry, parallel statements. I have remembered thy name, I have kept thy law. Those are parallel statements. As one remembers, so one keeps.

But you see, our name really answers to law. God's name is in His law. Because the law is really a revelation of Himself. And what do we see in the law? Oh, we see the majesty of God. not the mercy of God, the majesty of God. The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. What is this law then?

It's that ministration of condemnation, it's that ministration of debt. This is how the Apostle Paul explains these things in 2 Corinthians chapter 3, remember, where Paul is drawing a contrast between between law and grace, between law and gospel. The law he makes clear is that that is to minister condemnation to man. It kills man. It fills them with horror. Horror hath taken hold upon them because of the wicked that forsake thy law.

Or there is a the use of the law, it's a schoolmaster it's to bring the sinner to Christ Paul says, doesn't he there in the opening chapter of the first epistle to Timothy we know that the law is good if a man use it's law for that The law is good if a man uses it lawfully.

And he goes on to say that that law is not made for the righteous man. Who is the righteous man? Well there is none righteous, no not one. There is none that are good. All our righteousness is our filthy rags. Who is the righteous man? Surely the righteous man is that man who is the justified sinner. He's that man who knows the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lord is righteousness. He's that man who is a saved sinner. But how has he become a saved sinner?

Because he was once in a lost state. but then he knew something of that law, the law is good if a man use it lawfully knowing this that the law is not made for a righteous man but for the lawless and disobedient for the ungodly and for sinners well that's the ministry of the law to bring horror into the soul of the sinner what things however the law said it said to them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God That's the ministry of the law that Paul makes so plain there in Romans chapter 3.

Now, it brings the sinner really to the end of himself. Whatsoever things the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law, and all are under that law. And it stops the mouth of the sinner. By the law is the knowledge of seeing. how terrible it is and we have it here in the psalm look at verse 96 I have seen an end of all perfection but thy commandment is exceeding broad how God's law you see is so broad it finds us out it finds us out what the law requires is perfection obedience to every commandment and obedience not just in the deed but also in word and in thought. And doesn't the Lord Jesus make that play in the course of his own preaching in the Sermon on the Mount?

He explains, he expounds the spirituality of the law of God. You are guilty of murder, he says. You've broken the commandment, thou shalt not kill, thou shalt do no murder if you have hate in your heart towards your brother. You are an adulterer if you have a wanton thought or a lustful look. How spiritual the Lord of God is! And there the Apostle Paul had to learn that he was one such a self-righteous man, he was a proud pharisee. And he could say, touching the righteousness which is of the Lord, I'm blameless, he really thought he was. But the commandment came and sin revived and he died. We know that the Lord is spiritual, he says. But I am carnal. I am but a natural man. I am a child of Adam and Eve. I am a sinner.

And the Lord requires something so perfect. I have seen an end of all perfection. For thy commandment is exceeding, You see, the but is introduced, isn't it? It's in italics, it's been put in by the translators. Literally it says, I have seen an end of all perfection, thy commandment is exceeding law.

All the law finds out the sinner. In many things we offend all, says James. Whatsoever, rather, whosoever shall keep the whole law and yet offend in one point is guilty of all you obey every commandment in the right and proper sense in regards to deed and words and thought and you offend once and you're undone because it requires perfection it's God's law, it's a good law. Oh David then here in the psalm, what does he say?

Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. He sees what the law is and what the forsaking of the law is. He's speaking of course of his own distress in a sense. Later in the 109th verse he says my soul is continually in my hand yet do I not forget thy law it's interesting the connection there his soul is in his hand as it were his soul is in great danger we carry something about in our hand we might lose the grip we might drop it we might even forget what we've got in our hand and throw it away we've not done that sometimes all of a sudden we realize we put something in the bin which had some value in it it's not safe to have things in our hand we want to put them in a secure place but what is David saying there in that 109th verse? my soul is continually in my hand yet do I not forget thy law is aware, you see, that his life is in danger of the law.

The law is ready to condemn him. Oh, the law brings that awful conviction of sins. The law is that that kills a man. But then, we have to remember this, aren't we? where we get our wounding there we are going to find our healing that's the ways of God where we get our wounding our conviction it's there that we'll find our healing and the language the language there in Deuteronomy chapter 32 and verse 39 God says see now that I even I am he and there is no God with me I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hands oh where we get our wounding there we get our healing the Lord is our schoolmaster what does he do it brings us to Christ it's a schoolmaster it leads us to Christ the Samish were so aware of that verse 50 he says this is my comfort in my affliction for thy word hath quickened me thy word that same word you see the quickening power of the word how does Peter speak of it? there in 1 Peter chapter 1 and verse 23 being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth forever and what is this word? it's the gospel the law serves the gospel that's the point and purpose of the law that's the principle use of the law to bring the sinner to Christ to cause him to see that there is no other way of salvation. No salvation in his own efforts. The law will condemn him time and time and time and time and time and time again.

But Christ, he was made of a woman, he was made under the law to redeem them that were under the law that they might receive the adoption of sons. He stood in their law place. he's honoured the Lord, he's magnified the Lord, he's obeyed it in every precept but he's not only honoured it by living that righteous life he's also honoured it by dying his obedience is unto death, even the death of the cross and there in dying is he not also dealt with the whole matter of the penalty of the law he has paid the price He has died, the just for the unjust, to bring the sinner to God.

Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law. But David is not just concerned about himself and his own experience here. Surely the principle thing is the offense that the law is to God himself that's what grieves David most of all the law is against God again in verse 158 I beheld the transgressors he says and was grieved because they kept not thy word and do we not see it in the language that he employs in his great penitential psalm. His great concern is really God and the glory of God.

This is where he sees the horror of what his sin was. You know the language that he uses there. In verse 3 he says, I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin, my sin is ever before thee, and then against thee, the only of my sins, and I am this evil in thy sight." Well, he had sinned against Uriah, he had sinned with Bathsheba, but he feels, you see, the horror of sin is God, and the God that he sinned against, is God who is good and gracious. here in verse 52 he says I remember thy judgments of all the Lord and have comforted myself or he will take the side of God he will take the side of God against the wicked he will take the side of God against himself the Puritan Thomas Manton says of this word horror it's a strong word suggesting a storm, a tempest In this man, David, the man after God's own heart, what is the great horror that he beholds when he sees what sin is? When he sees sin as that awful departing, that willful transgressing of God's law, that falling short of the glory of God. It fills his soul with horror. He's on God's side, even against himself. Oh, that the Lord would so teach us something of the awful character of sin.

Elsewhere in this psalm, in this 119th psalm, we have those words, Thou art good, and thou do us good. I can't remember the verse now, I found it. You'll find it somewhere in the psalm. Thou art good, and thou do us good. How awful it is then that we should ever sin against such a God as that. A God who is good. and where do we see all that goodness of God do we not see it in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ who though he was rich yet for your sake became poor says Paul to the Corinthians that ye through his poverty might be made rich how he so willingly comes and gives himself as that great sin atoning sacrifice bearing in his own person his person as God man bearing that punishment that was the just desert of the sinner. Well, what do we make of this man, the man Christ Jesus? Oh, the Lord be pleased to open our eyes to see the wonder of his person and the great work that he has accomplished here upon the earth. And the Lord bless his word to us and write these words upon our souls. Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked. that forsake thy law. Amen.

The Psalmist's Horror

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What does the Bible say about wickedness?

How do we know the importance of God's law?

Why is acknowledging sin critical for Christians?

What does horror over sin signify for believers?

Why is God's word vital for comfort in affliction?

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The Psalmist's Horror

Key Quotes

What does the Bible say about wickedness?

How do we know the importance of God's law?

Why is acknowledging sin critical for Christians?

What does horror over sin signify for believers?

Why is God's word vital for comfort in affliction?

Sermon Transcript

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