We're gonna look at Psalm 51
this evening. Psalm 51, just looking at the
first verse. We could spend the whole time
on verse one. When we talk about mercy, mercy
comes from the Lord. Mercy, like salvation, is of
the Lord. Have mercy upon me, O God. He is a God who delights to show
mercy. He is a God who expresses his
glory by showing mercy. Remember Moses asked, Lord, show
me your glory. Remember what the Lord said?
I will have mercy. I will have mercy. If that's
God's greatest glory, to show mercy, that's my greatest need. MERCIES OF THE LORD. HAVE MERCY
UPON ME, O GOD. NOTICE, NOT ACCORDING TO MY GOODNESS,
NOT ACCORDING TO THE FACT THAT I'M THE KING OF ISRAEL, NOT ACCORDING
TO THE FACT THAT I KILLED GOLIATH, THE GIANT, NOT ACCORDING TO ANYTHING
I HAVE DONE, BUT RATHER HE APPEALED TO THE LOVING KINDNESS OF GOD. according to thy loving kindness. Someday I'm gonna bring a message
and the title of that message is gonna be according. According,
because the Lord so many times speaks about doing things according
to his mercy, his love, his grace. Give you an example, not by works
of righteousness, which we have done, but according to his mercy,
he saved us. ACCORDING TO THY LOVING KINDNESS."
ACCORDING TO THE MULTITUDE. HE HAS A MULTITUDE. TENDER MERCIES. THEY'RE TENDER, THEY'RE SWEET.
THEY'RE SAVING. AND THEN HE SAYS, ACCORDING TO
YOUR LOVING KINDNESS, ACCORDING TO YOUR MERCY, BLOT OUT MY SIN. blot out my transgression. So I'm entitling the message
from David's prayer. He prays basically for mercy
and pardon. Mercy and pardon. Here's the
cry of a convicted guilty sinner Before a holy God and what does
he pray for? What does he cry mercy? Mercy
a plea for mercy this psalm like that found In like he's found
in Luke 18 is a sinner's prayer God be merciful. You remember
in Luke 18, God be merciful to me, the sinner. Someone said
to me one day a year or so ago, they said, I don't know what
to pray about or how to pray. You know what I said? WHEN YOU
DON'T KNOW HOW TO PRAY OR WHAT TO PRAY, PRAY THESE SEVEN WORDS,
LORD, BE MERCIFUL TO ME, THE SINNER, AND THEN PRAY IT AGAIN. LORD, BE MERCIFUL TO ME, THE
SINNER. THE LORD SAID THAT MAN WHO PRAYED
THAT PRAYER WENT DOWN TO HIS HOUSE JUSTIFIED RATHER THAN THE
OTHER. THE PHARISEE BRAGGED ON HIMSELF
AND WAS CONDEMNED. THE PUBLICAN CONDEMNED HIMSELF
AND WAS JUSTIFIED. You see, the way up is down.
That's right. Now, the Lord gives David this
cry of mercy when Nathan the prophet confronted David with
his sin. Remember what Nathan said? He
gave him that parable of the rich man and the poor man, and
the rich man took the poor man's one lamb. David said, man did
wrong. He's going to restore fourfold.
RATHER THAN DAVID GETTING ANGRY AND MAD, HE WAS CONVICTED BEFORE
GOD. THEN THE PROPHET GAVE DAVID THE
GOOD NEWS, THE LORD HATH PUT AWAY THY SIN. THE LORD HATH PUT
AWAY THY SIN. NO ONE ELSE COULD. DAVID COULDN'T,
EVEN THOUGH HE WAS THE KING OF ISRAEL. HE COULDN'T PUT AWAY
HIS SIN. THE LORD HAD PUT AWAY HIS SIN. THE LORD HAD PUT AWAY
HIS SIN. IT TAKES THE LORD, IT TAKES THE
BLOOD OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. DAVID DOES NOT JUSTIFY HIMSELF
OR DEFEND HIMSELF. HE COMES TO THE THRONE OF GRACE
AS A SINFUL GUILTY MERCY BEGGAR. PASTOR USED TO TEACH US THIS,
NEVER GRADUATE ABOVE THE STATE OF BEING A SINNER, GUILTY, VILE
SINNER, SAVED BY THE GRACE OF GOD. DON'T EVER GRADUATE. DON'T EVER GET ABOVE THAT. WE
COME BEFORE THE THRONE OF GOD AS MERCY BEGGARS. GOD, HAVE MERCY
UPON ME, THE SINNER. NOW, LET'S MAKE THIS ARTLY. Let's make this our plea before
God. I'm a sinner, guilty, vile, and wretched. What do I need?
I need Christ. I need the mercy of God in the
Lord Jesus Christ. Have mercy upon me, oh God. Here's
what we all need and none of us are worthy of. Jacob prayed
that way, remember? Genesis 32, Lord, I'm not worthy
of the least of thy mercies and of thy truth. We deserve wrath, not mercy. If God would
deal with us strictly upon his holy law and justice, we deserve
nothing but wrath. The wages of sin is death. THE GIFT OF GOD IS ETERNAL LIFE.
WE DESERVE WRATH, NOT MERCY. THAT'S WHAT DAVID COMES TO THAT
CONCLUSION THERE IN VERSE 4 WHERE IT SAYS, I'VE SINNED AND DONE
THIS EVIL AND NOW I DECIDE THAT THOU MIGHTEST BE JUSTIFIED WHEN
YOU SPEAK AND CLEAR WHEN YOU JUDGE. YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S SAYING
THERE? YOU SEND ME TO HELL? THAT'S EXACTLY
WHAT I DESERVE. CAN YOU SAY THAT OF YOURSELF?
If God sent me to hell, that's exactly what I deserve. That's a repentant heart. That
doesn't come naturally. According and do all this according
to your loving kindness. According to your loving kindness.
My God shall supply all your need according to the riches
of his glory in Christ Jesus. According. According. HIS MERCY TO US SPRINGS FROM
THE FOUNTAIN OF HIS EVERLASTING COVENANT LOVE. HE LOVED US WITH
AN EVERLASTING LOVE, HIS LOVINGKINDNESS. DAVID ON HIS DEATHBED, REMEMBER
HIS PLEA? THIS IS MANY YEARS LATER, SECOND
SAMUEL 23. DAVID SAID, ALTHOUGH IT BE NOT
SO WITH MY HOUSE, GOD HAD MADE WITH ME TO US. I LOVE WHAT JEREMIAH
SAYS IN LAMENTATION THREE. HIS MERCIES ARE NEW EVERY MORNING. HE HAS A STOREHOUSE FULL OF MERCY.
WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GRACE AND MERCY? SOMEONE WANTS
TO HAVE A STOREHOUSE FULL OF MERCY. and I've given this to you before. Grace is God giving us what we
do not deserve, his free, sovereign favor. Noah found grace in the
eyes of the Lord, was justified freely by his grace. Grace is
God giving us freely, sovereignly, giving unto us all spiritual
blessings of which we don't deserve one drop of favor and grace. WHAT HIS MERCY IS IN. HIS MERCY
IS GOD NOT GIVING US WHAT WE DO DESERVE. OLD BROTHER BARNARD
USED TO SAY, ANYTHING THIS SIDE OF HELL IS MERCY. THINK ABOUT
IT. ANYTHING THIS SIDE OF HELL, ANYTHING
THIS SIDE OF HELL IS MERCY. YOU'RE NOT IN HELL YET, THAT'S
MERCY. ACCORDING TO THE MULTITUDE OF
THY TENDER MERCIES, HE SAID, THE LAST PART OF VERSE 1, BLOT
OUT MY SIN. NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU,
BUT I'VE GOT A MULTITUDE OF SIN. I'VE GOT A MULTITUDE OF INIQUITIES.
I'VE GOT A MULTITUDE OF TRANSGRESSION THAT NEED TO BE BLOTTED OUT. BLOTTED OUT. TAKE A PIECE OF
PAPER, SCRIBBLE ON IT, TRY TO WRITE A LETTER. MAKE A LOT OF
MISTAKES. HOW YOU GONNA COVER THEM UP?
BLOT THEM OUT. BLOT THEM OUT. WHERE SIN ABOUNDED,
GRACE DOES MUCH MORE ABOUND. AREN'T YOU GLAD? YOU REMEMBER,
TURN A FEW PAGES BACK, PSALM 32. BLESSED IS HE WHOSE TRANSGRESSION
IS FORGIVEN, WHOSE SIN IS COVERED, BLOTTED OUT. BLESSED IS THE MAN
UNTO WHOM THE LORD IMPUTETH NOT INIQUITY, IN WHOSE SPIRIT THERE
IS NO GOD. THAT'S A BLESSED MAN. CAN YOU
IMAGINE THAT, HAVING ALL THE MULTITUDE OF YOUR TRANSGRESSION
BLOTTED OUT? Think of another Psalm over here,
Psalm 130. Can you find Psalm 130? Verse seven, Psalm 130. Let Israel hope in the Lord,
for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption. He shall redeem Israel from all
his iniquities. Lord, blot out my sin. BLOT OUT
MY SIN, THE LORD OUR GOD CAN JUSTLY FORGIVE ALL OUR SIN, BASED
UPON THE COVENANT SACRIFICE OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, FOR HE
APPEARED TO PUT AWAY SIN BY THE SACRIFICE OF HIMSELF. THANK GOD, EVEN THOUGH, NOTICE,
REMEMBER WHAT IT SAYS, BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSIONS, EVEN THOUGH
WE REMEMBER OUR SINS, RIGHT? WE COULDN'T PRAY, LORD, BLOT
OUT MY SINS IF WE DIDN'T REMEMBER THEM, RIGHT? DAVID SAYS DOWN
HERE, IS IT IN VERSE 3? MY SIN, THE LAST PART, IS EVER
BEFORE ME. YOU KNOW WHAT THE BLESSEDNESS
OF THE GOSPEL IS? IT'S NOT BEFORE GOD. HE SAID, THEIR SIN AND THEIR
INIQUITY WILL I REMEMBER NO MORE. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST WILL FULLY
PUT THEM AWAY BY THE SACRIFICE OF HIMSELF WITH HIS OWN BLOOD
THAT GOD ALMIGHTY SAYS THEY ARE GONE. ISAIAH 38, 17 SAID, THEY'RE CAST
BEHIND HIS BACK. Micah 719 says they're cast into
the depths of the sea. Psalm 103, remember we studied
that, says, far as the east is from the west. So far hath he
removed our sin from us. Now turn over here to Isaiah
43. Isaiah 43, 25. Look at this, Isaiah 43, 25. I, even I am he that blotteth
out thy transgression for my own sake and will not remember
thy sins. For my own sake. Across the page,
Isaiah 44, 22. I have blotted out as a thick
cloud Thy transgression and as a cloud
thy sin now returning to me for I have redeemed thee That good news Now I want to
pick up here on the second point verse 2 verse 7 verse 9 Let's
read those three verses wash me throughly from mine iniquity
cleanse me from my sin and WE NEVER READ IN SCRIPTURE WHERE
ANYBODY EVER PRAYED. I LOVE READING THE PRAYERS OF
GOD'S SERVANTS IN THE WORD OF GOD. I NEVER HAVE READ ONE TIME
WHEN ANYBODY EVER PRAYED, LORD, FORGIVE ME FOR ADAM'S TRANSGRESSION. IT'S MY SIN. I'M THE ONE. I'M THE PROBLEM. WASH ME THROUGHLY FROM MINE INIQUITY. CLEANSE ME FROM MY SIN. LOOK
AT VERSE 7. PURGE ME WITH HYSSUP. THE BLOOD
OF THE DESIGNATED PRIEST UPON THE MERCY SEAT, AND I SHALL BE
CLEAN. WASH ME, AND I SHALL BE WHITER
THAN THE SNOW. BUT VERSE 9, HIDE THY FACE FROM
MY SINS, AND AGAIN HE SAYS HERE, LORD, BLOT OUT MY TRANSGRESSION. JUST BLOT THEM OUT. BLOT THEM
OUT. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST, BY HIMSELF,
WITH HIMSELF, PURGED OUR SIN WITH HIS OWN BLOOD. SIN MAKES US GUILTY, MAKES US
DEFILED. SIN SEPARATES US FROM GOD, SEPARATES
US FROM GOD. WE ARE HELPLESS TO PURGE OURSELVES
FROM OUR SIN. THE GUILT OF IT, THE DEFILEMENT
OF IT, IT'S ONLY THE BLOOD OF CHRIST THAT CAN DO THAT. HE HAS
TO PURGE US. PETER PUT IT THIS WAY, WE'RE
NOT REDEEMED WITH CORRUPTIBLE THINGS BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS
BLOOD OF CHRIST. WE ARE SHUT UP TO THE SOVEREIGN
MERCY OF THE LORD FOR DOING THIS FOR US. THANK GOD HIS BLOOD CLEANSES
US FROM MOST OF OUR SIN, FROM THE BIG ONES ANYWAY. ALL OF OUR
SIN, PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE. ORIGINAL SIN, ACTUAL SIN. HE CLEANSES US FROM ALL OUR SINS. SIN OF A COMMISSION, SIN OF COMMISSION,
SIN OF OMISSION, ALL OF OUR SINS. I HAVE MORE SINS THAN I EVEN
KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BECAUSE I AM A SINNER. THE WASHING WE NEED
MUST GO DEEPER THAN THE DIRT upon our skin. Now, you can take
a shower and shower and shower, and you can soap up and wash
down, and you can clean up most of the dirt. You'll never get
to the problem of the defilement of your guilt, because our heart's wicked. WE
NEED TO WASH HIM THAT GOES DEEPER THAN THE DIRT UPON OUR SKIN.
HIS BLOOD MUST GO DEEPER THAN THE STAIN OF OUR SIN HAS GONE. ISAIAH PUT IT THIS WAY. ISAIAH
WRITES ACCORDING TO THE INSPIRATION OF GOD. GOD SAID, LET US REASON
TOGETHER, SAITH THE LORD, THOUGH YOUR SIN BE AS SCARLET, THEY
SHALL BE WHITE AS SNOW. THEY SHALL BE AS WALLS. THAT'S PUTTING
AWAY OUR SIN, MY SIN. VERSE 3, 4, AND 5 IS DAVID'S
CONFESSION. IF WE CONFESS OUR SIN, HE'S FAITHFUL
AND JUST TO FORGIVE US OUR SIN. FOR I ACKNOWLEDGE MY TRANSGRESSION. I acknowledge my sin and it's
ever before me against thee, verse five, verse four rather,
against thee and thee only have I sinned and done this evil. Sin is nothing but evil. What
else can you say about it? Sin is evil. Certainly evil in
the sight of God may not appear that way to us because we're
sinful and evil creatures. But David said, I've done evil
in your sight. Remember, the Lord said to David,
you did this in secret. What I'm going to do to you,
I'm not going to hide it. Again, thee and thee only have
I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest
be justified when you speak and clear when you judge. Verse five,
behold, I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive
me. David said in another place,
I believe it's Psalm 58, we come forth from the womb speaking
lies. Hot little baby, we've got a
new grandson in our home. And he's, what, 10, 12 days old? He's just a little sinner. That's
all he is. He's got the same nature of his
dad and his granddad. Shapen and iniquity and born
in sin. Children aren't born innocent.
If they were innocent, they wouldn't get sick and they wouldn't die.
THEY'RE BORN IN SIN, THEY'RE SHAPED IN INIQUITY. I WAS A SINNER
WHEN I WAS BORN, AND EVEN BEFORE THAT WHEN I WAS CONCEIVED. DAVID
TAKES THE LORD'S SIDE AGAINST HIMSELF WHEN NATHAN SAID, THOU
ART THE MAN. DAVID SAID, YOU'RE RIGHT, I'M
GUILTY. HIS SIN. AND HERE'S WHAT THE
KEY IS, BEFORE GOD. BEFORE GOD. WHEN CONFRONTED WITH
HIS SIN, HE OWNS IT BEFORE GOD. IT'S MY TRANSGRESSION. IT'S MY
SIN. IT IS MY EVIL THAT I'VE DONE
IN YOUR SIGHT. IT'S ALL MY FAULT. ALL MY FAULT. WHAT IS SIN? WELL, IT'S AGAINST
GOD. IT'S EVIL AGAINST GOD. WHAT IS
SIN IS TRANSGRESSION OF HIS LAW, AND THE SCRIPTURES TEACH WE'VE
ALL SINNED TO COME SHORT OF THE GLORY OF GOD. THE LORD LOOKED
DOWN FROM HEAVEN, PSALM 14, REMEMBER, TO SEE IF THERE WERE ANY THAT
DID GOOD, AND THE LORD SAID THERE WASN'T ONE RIGHTEOUS, NO, NOT
ONE. THEY'RE ALL GONE OUT OF THE WAY. DOES THAT INCLUDE YOU? THAT INCLUDES ME. SIN IS A TRANSGRESSION OF THE
LAW. WHOSOEVER COMMITTED SIN TRANSGRESSES
ALSO THE LAW. FOR SIN IS A TRANSGRESSION OF
THE LAW, I JOHN 3. BUT HERE'S THE REST OF THAT VERSE. AND WE KNOW THAT HE WAS MANIFESTED
TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS, AND IN HIM IS NO SIN. HE WAS MANIFESTED
TO TAKE AWAY OUR SINS. THAT'S WHY HE CAME, TO SAVE SINNERS. NOW DAVID GOES ON IN HIS PLEA
HERE, VERSE 6, BEHOLD, THOU DESIREST, THE LORD GOD DESIRES TRUTH, BECAUSE
HE IS THE GOD OF TRUTH. GOD DESIRES TRUTH IN OUR INWARD
PART, AND IN THE HIDDEN PART, THOU SHALT MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM,
WISDOM. MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM AND TRUTH. INWARDLY IN MY HEART, MY SOUL,
MY MIND, MY WILL, MY AFFECTION, MAKE ME TO KNOW WISDOM. CHRIST IS OUR WISDOM. MAKE ME
TO KNOW THE TRUTH OF HOW GOD SAVES SINNERS. AND THEN HE SAID
DOWN HERE IN VERSE 10, CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART. O God, and renew a right spirit
within me. Our Lord said this in Matthew
5, blessed are the pure in heart, they shall see, for they shall
see God. A clean heart is a right heart,
it's a sincere heart before God, it's a believing heart. Now by
nature we're fools, SOLD OUT TO SIN. THE GOSPEL TO THE NATURAL
MAN IS FOOLISHNESS, TO THOSE WHO ARE PERISHING IS FOOLISHNESS.
THE FOOL HAS SAID IN HIS HEART THERE IS NO GOD. IT'S ONLY BY
THE REGENERATING POWER OF GOD, THE HOLY SPIRIT, DO WE SEE OUR
NEED OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST TO BE OUR WISDOM BEFORE GOD. to see the Lord Jesus Christ
as our true God and Savior. He is the wise Lord our God who
justifies us through the blood sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ
alone. In Christ and in the gospel of
his grace, we understand mercy given justly, not at the expense
of his justice. Remember, I'm gonna preach from
Psalm 85. I've got it on my list to do
when we get around to it. Mercy and truth are met together.
Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Where'd that
happen? At the cross. Mercy and truth
reconciled. Righteousness and peace have
kissed. Enable God to be a just God and Savior. Enable him to
be just and the justifier. Verse 8 and verse 17, make me
to hear joy and gladness that the bones that thou had broken may rejoice. Look at verse 17, the sacrifices
of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart. Oh God,
thou will not despise the bones which God has broken. What's
he talking about here? HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE PHYSICALLY
BREAKING OF THE BONES OF OUR BODY, BUT I'LL TELL YOU WHAT
HE'S TALKING ABOUT HERE, THE CONVICTION OF OUR SIN BEFORE
GOD. BREAK ME, CONVICT ME, REVEAL
MY SIN TO ME. YOU REMEMBER PSALM 34, HE'S NINE
TO THEM OF A BROKEN HEART, SAVE US SUCH AS BE OF A CONTRACT SPIRIT,
make me to know the power and wisdom of the gospel, and then
cause me to experience the joy of it in my heart. Conviction
of sin is painful and breaking. It's a breaking and a painful
conviction. But if we don't have conviction
of our sin, we'll never see the comfort that's in the atonement
of the Lord Jesus Christ. There's gotta be conviction of
sin. where you'll never experience comfort. There's gotta be a stripping
before there's a clothing. There's gotta be a wounding before
there's a healing. There's gotta be putting in the
dust before God, before he raises us up. Painful, but necessary. Make me to hear, what'd he say? Make me to hear joy and gladness. REMEMBERS NATHAN'S WORDS TO DAVID,
THE LORD THAT PUT AWAY OUR SIN. NOW LOOK AT VERSE 9, 10, 11,
AND 12. DAVID NOT ONLY BEGS FOR MERCY
AND PARDON AND JOY AND GLADNESS, BUT HE ALSO PRAYS FOR THE LORD'S
RESTORATION AND THE LORD'S RECONCILIATION. hide thy face from my sins, blot
out my iniquity, create a clean heart, O God, renew a right spirit. Verse 11, cast me not away from
thy presence. SEPARATED FROM GOD BECAUSE OF
HIS SIN. HE'S SAYING HERE, I WANT TO BE
RECONCILED UNTO THEE. DON'T CAST ME AWAY. WHY DID HE
PRAY THAT? BECAUSE HE LOVED THE LORD. DON'T
CAST ME AWAY. DON'T FORSAKE ME FROM MY PRESENCE. TAKE NOT THY ABIDING SPIRIT FROM
ME. VERSE 12, RESTORE UNTO ME YOUR
Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation. Now David didn't lose
his salvation, but he certainly lost the joy of it when he was
in this state of rebellion against God's Word. Restore unto me the
joy of salvation. And notice whose salvation it
is. It's thy salvation. Salvation we know is of the Lord.
And then he says, uphold me. HE'S SAYING THE SAME THING THAT
JUDE IS SAYING IN JUDE CHAPTER ONE, VERSE 24, UPHOLD ME. LORD, HOLD ME UP. YOU'RE MY STRENGTH.
YOU'RE MY REFUGE. YOU'RE MY HOPE. YOU'RE MY RIGHTEOUSNESS.
AND DO IT WITH YOUR FREE SPIRIT. THAT FREE SPIRIT IS HIS SOVEREIGN
SPIRIT. MERCY UPON WHOM HE WILL HAVE
MERCY. VERSE 13, THEN, THEN WILL I TEACH TRANSGRESSORS
THY WAYS AND SINNERS, SINNERS WILL BE CONVERTED. WE GET RIGHT
BACK TO THE PREACHING AND TEACHING OF THE I will teach transgressors what? The way of the Lord. The way
that salvation is of the Lord. And the fruit of that is God
will save sinners. They'll be converted. They'll
turn to the Lord. They'll be turned to God from
their idols to serve the living and true God. Deliver me, verse 14, from guilt. deliver me from guilt. You know, that's one of the strongest
convictions that you can feel in your heart and your emotion
is guilt. Guilt. Imagine being on trial
for your life, charged with being guilt CHARGED WITH MURDERING
SOMEONE, AND YOU'RE STANDING THERE WAITING FOR THE JURY TO
COME BACK IN, AND THEY RENDER THE VERDICT TO THE JUDGE, AND
THE JUDGE TELLS THE ONE ACCUSED, STAND WHILE I READ THE VERDICT. WHAT IS THE VERDICT, JURY? GUILTY
AS CHARGED. IMAGINE THE FEELING TO OWN AND FEEL GUILT BEFORE
GOD. THAT GUILTY CONSCIENCE CAN ONLY
BE SOOTHED BY THE BLOOD ATONEMENT OF CHRIST. BY THE BLOOD ATONEMENT
OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. THAT'S THE ONLY WAY A GUILTY
CONSCIENCE CAN BE SOOTHED. HIS BLOOD PUTS AWAY ALL OUR SIN. LET ME READ THIS SCRIPTURE TO
YOU. Having therefore boldness to enter into the holiest by
the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he had consecrated
for us through the veil, that is to say his flesh, having a
high priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a
true heart in full assurance, having our hearts sprinkled from
an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Our hearts sprinkled. FROM THAT
EVIL CONSCIENCE. NOW, I LOVE THIS LAST PART OF
VERSE... DELIVERY FROM MY GUILT, O GOD, THOU GOD OF MY SALVATION. YOU KNOW WHO HE SAVES? GRACE
IS FOR... WHO DOES GRACE FOR? GUILTY. MERCY'S FOR THE MISERABLE. SALVATION'S
FOR SINNERS. IT'S GRACE FOR THE GUILTY. GOD,
THOU GOD OF MY SALVATION, AND MY TONGUE SHALL SING ALOUD OF
THY RIGHTEOUSNESS. NOW, I WANT YOU TO HOLD YOUR
PLACE THERE. I WANT TO SHOW YOU SOMETHING IN PSALM 71, PSALM 71. MY TONGUE SHALL SING ALOUD OF
THY RIGHTEOUSNESS. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
OF GOD THAT'S REVEALED IN THE GOSPEL. I'M TALKING ABOUT THAT
GOD MADE HIM TO BE SIN FOR US, THAT WE MIGHT BE MADE THE RIGHTEOUSNESS
OF GOD IN HIM. PSALM 71, LOOK AT VERSE 2, DELIVER
ME IN THY RIGHTEOUSNESS AND CAUSE ME TO ESCAPE. DELIVER ME IN THY
RIGHTEOUSNESS. LOOK AT VERSE 15, MY MOUTH SHALL
SHOW FORTH THY RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THY SALVATION ALL THE DAY,
FOR I KNOW NOT THE NUMBERS THEREOF. VERSE 16, I WILL GO IN THE STRENGTH
OF THE LORD, I WILL MAKE MENTION OF THY RIGHTEOUSNESS, EVEN THINE
ONLY. VERSE 19, THY RIGHTEOUSNESS ALSO,
O GOD, IS VERY HIGH. WHO HATH DONE GREAT THINGS, O
GOD, WHO IS LIKE UNTO THEE? PSALM 71, VERSE 24, MY TONGUE
ALSO SHALL TALK OF THY RIGHTEOUSNESS ALL THE DAY LONG. Christ, the Lord Jesus Christ,
is made unto us righteousness. What are we singing aloud of?
His righteousness. His righteousness, not ours.
We're not going about to establish the righteousness of our own.
We're resting in the Lord Jesus Christ. Christ is the end of
the law. Romans 10 verse 4, Christ is the end of the law for righteousness
to everyone that believe it. Thy tongue shall sing aloud of
thy righteousness. Verse 15, O Lord, open thou my
lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise, thy glory. Thou desirest not sacrifice,
or I'd give it. Don't delight in burnt offerings. THE JUDGE OF ALL THE EARTH WILL DO
RIGHT. DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE. I LIKE THAT. DO GOOD. GOD CAN
ONLY DO THAT WHICH IS RIGHT. DO GOOD IN THY GOOD PLEASURE. IT'S BY THE GOOD PLEASURE OF
THE LORD THAT WE'RE SAVED. AND HE BUILDS UP HIS CHURCH. THEN SHALT THOU BE PLEASED, VERSE
19, WITH SACRIFICES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. AND AGAIN, ALL THOSE BLOOD ANIMAL
SACRIFICES UNDER THE LAW, BURN OFFERINGS, COAL BURN OFFERINGS,
THE BULLOCK OFFERINGS, THE MORNING OFFERING, THE EVENING OFFERING,
THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, ALL THOSE OFFERINGS POINT TO CHRIST OUR
SACRIFICE. Christ our Passover who is sacrificed
for us. The Lord is well pleased with
the sacrifice of his righteousness not ours. The Lord is well pleased
for his righteousness sake he will magnify the law and make
it