I want to read the first two
verses of Psalm 32. Blessed, happy. Most blessed is the man whose
transgression is forgiven. Most happy is the man whose sin
is covered. Most happy is the man unto whom the Lord will not charge
iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile. And most all
of the writers agree that this psalm was composed by David,
of course, under the leadership of God's Spirit, because all
Scripture is God-breathed, all Scripture is given by inspiration
of God. holy men of God spake as they
were moved by the Holy Ghost. But most writers believe that
this psalm was composed by David after the murder of his friend
Uriah, and after his confession of sin, after the prophet of
God had come to him and brought to his attention God's anger,
God's wrath, and David confessed his sin. and the Lord promised
forgiveness. Now, I think we see that in the
third verse. Will you turn to verse 3 of Psalm
32? There was a period of time when
David did not confess his sins. There was a time after the murder
of his friend that he did not seek the Lord, that he kept silent,
that he hid this iniquity. He that covereth his sin shall
not prosper, whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall find
mercy." David did not prosper and did not find mercy because
he did not confess his sin. He said in verse 3, when I kept
silence, when I kept quiet, when I sought to ignore this transgression,
my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was
heavy upon me. David knew the hand of God was
upon him. David knew the frown of God was
in his direction. And he said, Thy hand was heavy
upon me, and my moisture was turned into drought. And then
verse 5, I acknowledged my sin unto thee. My little children,
these things write I unto you, that you sin not. if any man
sin, we have an advocate with the Father. And if we confess
our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin. I acknowledged my sin unto thee,
and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my
transgressions unto the priest, no, unto the I will confess my
transgressions before the church." No, unto the Lord. Well, I will
confess my transgressions to my best friend, and we'll talk
it over, and we'll agree that everything's all right. No, I
acknowledged my sin unto thee. I confessed my transgressions
unto thee, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Now back to our text. Now that's
what we believe about this psalm, that it was written in a day
of deep water. It was written in a day of great
sorrow. It was written in a day of great
conviction. I acknowledged my sin. But now
in verse 1 and 2, which I've selected as the text, there are
three words which describe the nature of evil. There are three
words which give us some insight into what evil really is. These three words, look at them.
First of all, and I wondered as I looked at this psalm, well,
why did David use three different words to talk about his sin,
his evil? First of all, he said, blessed
is the man whose transgression is forgiven. Blessed is the man
whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom
the Lord will not charge iniquity." There are three words that describe
the same thing. There are three words that describe
the nature of evil, transgressions, sin, and iniquity. So I got out the concordance
and the Hebrew dictionary and I looked up these three words
to find out what David is saying. He knew, he knew exactly what
he was saying. The Holy Ghost knew exactly what
he wanted David to say. He used the word transgression.
Blessed is the man whose transgression, the Hebrew word transgression,
and this is not being smart. Any of you that's got $5.95 can
buy you a Hebrew dictionary, but the word transgression
means revolt. It means rebellion. That's what
it means, rebellion. And from the Garden of Eden to
this day, man has been in rebellion against God. Rebellion. A man stood before my desk one
time when I was pastor of the Pollard Baptist Church here in
Ashland, a member of the church, Sunday school teacher. but a
man whom I believe does not know the Lord, and did not then. And
I was bringing to his attention some things that had been brought
to my attention, and he looked at me and he said, Brother Mahan,
when anybody tells me what to do, that's exactly what I'm not
going to do. He said, when anybody commands
anything of me, that's exactly what I'm not going to do. I'm
going to do the opposite. And that's been man's nature
since the first sin. Transgression is revolt. All
we like sheep have gone astray. We've turned everyone to his
own way. That's what we want. We want
our way, not God's way. We want our own way. And that's what transgression
is. It's our own way. It's not God's way, it's our
way. It's not God's will, it's our will. And our nature is in
rebellion against God, and our hearts are in revolt against
God's government. That's what transgression is.
I know what it means to trespass. But trespassing is when the sign
says, no trespassing, we'll walk on it anyway. When the sign says,
no hunting on this property, it's private property, we'll
hunt there anyway. When the sign says 70 miles an
hour, we're going to drive 80 miles an hour. Because we're
in revolt against the law. We're in rebellion against God's
government. We're in revolt against authority. And that's what transgression
is. Now, secondly, the word S-I-N. The word S-I-N means an offense.
That's exactly what it means, an offense. It means a thought
of offense. It means a word of offense. It means an act of offense. Sin
is the lust and the motions and the passions of evil that spring
forth from the heart in thought, in word, and in deed. And the
third word here that David uses, the word transgression, blessed
is the man whose transgression, whose rebellion, whose revolt
is forgiven. Blessed is the man whose sin,
whose motions of evil, whose lusts and passions of evil that
spring from the heart are covered. And blessed is the man to whom
God will not charge." And you know what a charge account is,
don't you? That means you've got to pay it. That means that
somewhere your name is on a piece of paper, and under that piece
of paper are some obligations that have been charged, imputed
to your account, and they've got to be met. They've got to
be paid. There's a day of reckoning, there's
a day of accounting, there's a day for settling these accounts.
And blessed and happy is the man to whom God will not hold
responsible, God will not impute, God will not charge what? Iniquity. Well, brother man, what is iniquity?
Well, the word iniquity, and this is the root of the whole
matter, this is that which causes us to transgress. This is that
which causes us to trespass. This is that which causes us
to engage in an offense against God. This is that from which
the thought and the word and the deed and the act of evil
springs. This is iniquity, a word which
means moral perversity. moral perversity. And this is
that original sin. This is that fallen, wicked nature
which came into and upon Adam and his entire race when he sinned
against God. Turn to Matthew 15. Matthew chapter
15, verse 17. The Lord Jesus is teaching right
here. The root of the matter, He's
teaching iniquity. Iniquity is moral perversity. Iniquity is a problem that plagues
every person. Iniquity is that nature, that
spring of evil, that source of evil, that fountain that is born
in every life, in every soul, in every heart. And Christ said,
verse 17 of Matthew 15, Do you not yet understand that whatsoever
entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly? and is cast out
into the draft. Men put much emphasis upon meats
and drinks. They put much emphasis upon those
things which goeth into the mouth, into the belly, out into the
draft. But Christ said that's not what
defiles a man. That which defileth a man, verse
18, are those things which come out of the mouth, because they
come from the heart. That's what defiles us, it's
that which comes from the spring. You can stand over a pure spring
and pour corrupt water in it, but it will not corrupt the spring.
But you can stand over a corrupt spring and pour good water in
it, and it won't change the nature of that spring. The nature of
that spring is corrupt, and everything that's poured into it will be
corrupted too. But you cannot corrupt a pure
fountain only by pouring impure water into it. And Christ said,
It is not that which goeth into the mouth that defiles a man.
It's that which comes from the fountain. It's that which comes
from the heart, the heart which is double, perverse, wicked,
evil. For out of the heart proceeds
evil thoughts. Out of the heart proceeds murder,
out of the heart proceeds adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnesses,
blasphemy. These are the things that defile. It's that which springs from
the fountain of iniquity, the root of all evil, transgression,
revolt, sin, and offense. moral perversity by nature, by
birth, when Adam's sin, death, condemnation passed upon all
men. Now, notice something else in
verse 1 and 2. There are three words that describe
the nature of evil, but there are also three words that describe
the nature of pardon. You see them? Blessed is the
man who is revolt, who is rebellion. against God's law and against
God's government, against God's rule, is what? Is forgiven. Forgiven. What does forgiven
mean? It means to be carried away. Behold the Lamb of God
that carrieth away, that taketh away, that beareth away the transgression
of the world. Atonement has been made. The
rebellion is dismissed and the traitor is reinstated. The traitor
is forgiven, and the traitor is reinstated, and the rebel
completely forgiven. Now the second word is covered.
Blessed is the man whose revolt, whose rebellion is forgiven.
Blessed is the man whose sin, whose offense, whose thoughts
of evil, whose words spoken too quickly, whose acts of evil and
offense are covered. Every evil thought, every evil
word, every evil deed is completely covered or blotted out by the
blood of Jesus Christ. And the picture here is one that
is taken from Pharaoh's forces that went down into the sea,
and the sea completely covered them over. They are blotted out
as writing on the sand. When you go down to Florida and
visit on one of the beautiful beaches of Florida, you sit there
and you write your initials on the sand, and then you stand
back and you watch the wave come in and washes part of it away,
and then the next wave comes up and washes more of it away,
and then the next wave comes up, and when it goes back into
the sea, there's nothing there at all. Blessed is the man who's
seen, who's a in thought, in word, in deed, has been so covered
by the blood of Christ that it's been completely brought it out.
It doesn't even exist. It's not even there. God says
there's sins, I'll remember no more. And then the third word
that deals with the nature of pardon is the word imputed. Imputed means to charge. It says
here, blessed is the man whose evil nature Blessed is a man
whose iniquity, whose moral perversity, blessed is a man whose inherited
evil nature from his father Adam is not charged to his account. Oh, I tell you, I haven't done
it many times, but once or twice, through the grace of a friend,
I've gone down to a place where I owed some money, and I said,
I want my bill. I want to pay it. And the fellow
goes to the to the books and looks at the bill and he said,
your bill is all paid in full. Is that right? Yes, somebody
came in and paid it up. Oh boy. Now you talk about, you
can walk out of that feeling pretty good because it's all
put away. Nothing, nothing on the account.
Nothing at all on the account. It's all paid in full. Whose
evil nature, whose moral perversity is not charged to his account.
Somebody's paid it all. All the debt you owe. Sin left
a mark, a stain, but he washed it white as snow. Sin is rebellion
against God's law, rebellion which is forgiven. Sin is an
offense against God's holiness, and that sin is covered. Sin is a debt of punishment that
must be paid, but now it's no longer charged to my account. I want us to look at four things
briefly now. First of all, this great part.
No wonder David said, blessed or happy is the man, good night
alive, happy. Oh, when the traitor is brought
home and forgiven, when the rebel is forgiven, he's happy. When
the man whose offense against God, who knows he's thought wrong
and said wrong and walked wrong and done wrong, when all of that
is covered, like the writing on the sand is blotted out, it's
all blotted out, that man's happy. And the man who finds that his
record in glory, that his record at God's judgment seat, is not
charged to his account any more, but it's all put away, now that's
happiness. They got a little song, happiness
is this, and happiness is that, and happiness is the other. Temporary
happiness is, I'll grant you that, but permanent happiness
is transgression forgiven. Permanent happiness is sin blotted
out. Permanent happiness is iniquity
not charged to my account. Four things, and they're easy
to remember. Number one, the author of pardon. the author of pardon. Stephen
Charnart, the great preacher and great writer of the eighteenth
century, said this, Pardon is the sovereign prerogative of
God Almighty, whereby he doth acquit completely
a believing sinner. He acquits that sinner from all
obligation to punishment upon the account of the satisfaction
and righteousness of Jesus Christ. Who pardons? God pardons. It's God's divine prerogative
to pardon. I'll show you that, first of
all, in Exodus chapter 33. In Exodus 33, verse 18, Moses
said, Lord, show me your glory. Show me your glory. And the Lord
said, I will cause my goodness to pass before you. I will be
gracious to whom I will be gracious. I will be merciful to whom I
will be merciful. The guilty can't pardon himself.
Now, he can desire pardon, and he can plead for pardon, and
he can seek for pardon, and he can inquire after pardon, but
he can't pardon himself. I've been in this place before,
seeking pardon for a friend. I went to the judge, and he couldn't
pardon my friend. First of all, I went to the lawyer.
A friend of mine was in prison, and I felt he was in prison wrongly.
I went first of all to the lawyer and talked to him, the advocate,
but he couldn't pardon my friend. And then I went to the judge.
And he was not cooperative at all. And then I inquired after
some influential friends whom I thought might help me. They
couldn't do anything. But I wrote the governor, and
he wrote me back, and I wrote him back. And the friend was
pardoned. The governor has the power. And
you can't pardon yourself, and your friends can't pardon you,
and your advocate, even Jesus Christ. Your advocate. Now be careful, preacher. I'm
being careful, but I don't want them talking about it. Can't
pardon you. It takes God the Father to pardon. That's right. They work in unity. I know that. Father, Son, Holy
Spirit are not opposed to one another. But the Lord Jesus Christ
prays for our pardon, but it is the Father, it is the King,
it is the Governor, it is the Supreme Ruler of the universe.
Pardon is the act of the King. And when the King pardons, Paul
said, who is he that condemns? Turn to Romans chapter 3, chapter
8. Romans chapter 8. The guilty
cannot pardon himself. The friends of the guilty cannot
pardon him. the advocate, the lawyer, cannot
pardon him. He pleads for pardon. He presents
his sacrifice for pardon. And he appears in the presence
of the Father, interceding for pardon. But pardon comes from
the throne. In Isaiah, in Romans chapter
8, verse 33, it says, "...who shall lay anything to the charge
of God's elect." It's God that pardoneth. It's God that justifies. Let me read you a verse, don't
turn, but it's over in Isaiah chapter 43, verse 25. Listen to this. Isaiah 43, 25. I, even I am he that broughteth
out thy transgressions. I am he that broughteth out thy
transgressions. I'm he. Pardon is the act of
the king. Secondly, pardon is an act of
his mercy. We do not deserve his grace.
We do not deserve his love. We do not deserve his pardon.
We do not deserve his forgiveness. It was mercy that spread the
feast. It was mercy that bade me come
in. Mercy drew up the covenant of
love, mercy sent Christ into the world, mercy nailed His beloved
to the tree, mercy puts up with us in our rebellion, mercy puts
up with us in our resistance, mercy calls us out of darkness,
and mercy leads us to repentance and faith. It's the mercy of
God. I've heard people say, well,
all I want at the judgment is justice. No, you don't either.
Believe me, you don't. You don't want justice. You don't
want to be judged on the basis of what you've thought, what
you've said, what you've done. You don't want justice. My friend,
you want mercy. In the book of Micah, the Scripture
says, Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity,
moral perversity? Pardoneth. Who is a God likened
to Thee that pardoneth iniquity? Who is a God likened to Thee
that passeth by the transgression, the rebellion and revolt of Thy
people? Who is a God likened to Thee
that retaineth not Thy anger forever? Because, O God, Thou
delighteth in mercy." Mercy. Pardon is God's act. Pardon is
the King's act. Pardon is handed down from the
throne of the Father. He pardoneth, he said, whom he
will. I will be merciful to whom I
will be merciful. I'll be gracious to whom I will.
Now, my friend who was in prison, I wrote the governor, and I pleaded
for pardon. And I knew when I wrote the letter
that the governor didn't have to do it. No, he didn't. No sirree. The law had found
him guilty, the jury had found him guilty, the judge had sentenced,
the door, the iron door had closed on his back. And when I wrote
to the governor and I pleaded, I knew this, I was pleading for
mercy, because he didn't have to do that. And I'm telling you,
my friend, when that leper came to the Lord Jesus Christ, he
used the right words. He said, Lord, if you will, you
can make me clean. I knew the governor could sign
his name to a pardon. I didn't doubt that one bit.
I knew he could do it. But the question was, would he
do it? I knew he had the power. I knew all in the world I had
to secure was his signature. That's all. Just a phone call
from him. Just a word from him. That's
all I needed. But I also knew he didn't have
to do it. And my friend, you can't obligate
a governor or a king, and under heaven you can't obligate God
Almighty now. You just put that down. You can't
obligate God. He doesn't have to pardon you. The wages of sin is death. That's
what you've earned. But the gift of God is eternal
life. I don't want justice. I want
mercy. Pardon is God's act. Pardon is an act of God's mercy. If God forgives me, it'll be
mercy. And then thirdly, pardon is an act of God's justice. Turn
to Psalms Now here's a psalm that you ought to understand,
and if you understand this psalm, if you understand this verse,
you understand the gospel. In Psalms 85, verse 10, it says,
Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have
kissed each other. Now, my friends, mercy and truth
are attributes which seem to be contrary. Righteousness and
peace are attributes that seem to be as opposite as the poles. And yet, mercy and truth, righteousness
and peace, contrary attributes of God, are joined together to
produce forgiveness. The throne of justice becomes
a throne of grace. How can mercy and truth meet
together? How can righteousness and peace
kiss each other? I'll tell you how, at the cross
of Calvary, where Christ became sin for us and where Christ paid
our debt. And God can be righteous and
truthful and just in punishing our iniquity in the person of
Christ. And God can be merciful. And
God can be kind, and God can be peace by justifying us and
forgiving us and granting pardon through the blood of his Son.
And then pardon is the act of God's power. In Ephesians chapter
2, verse 1 and 2, the Scripture says, And you who were dead in
trespasses and sins, hath he quickened." Now, my friend, I've
had some loved ones to die. When they were in the hospital
or the sick at home, I didn't completely give up. I felt like
that they could be restored to health, they could be retained
on the earth, they could be healed, because there was life in their
bodies. But when they died, hope was all gone. It was beyond the
power of the physician, it was beyond the power of the preacher,
it was beyond the power of the loved ones, because they were
dead. There's no more helpless, hopeless feeling in the world
than to stand and look into the face of a dear friend and know
that he's dead. Because there's nothing, nothing,
anybody in earth, on earth can do. It takes power to raise the
dead. Well, right here it says, "...you
who were dead in your transgressions, and dead in your sins, and dead
in your moral perversity, and dead in your iniquity, God the
King hath quickened, he hath spoken." Lazarus, come forth. There's only one voice. An angel
can't do it, and a man can't do it, and a demon can't do it.
Only one voice can give a man life. My voice can't do it. And the voice of mother and dad
and brother and sister and dear friend and preacher, the voice
of evangelist, the voice of the missionary cannot give the dead
life. Only His voice in His power can
make a dead sinner live. Pardon is the act of God. Pardon is the act of His mercy. Pardon is the act of His justice. He's doing it right on the basis
of the righteousness of His Son. And pardon is the act of His
power. Power. It takes the power of
God to give a sinner life. It takes the power of God to
speak peace to a troubled heart. Takes the power of God to make
the lame to walk. Takes the power of God to make
the blind to see. Takes the power of God to make
the rebel a submissive son. Now, what's the second thing?
God is the author of pardon. How is pardon given? How is it
given? Blessed is a man whose transgression
is forgiven. Blessed is a man whose sin is
blotted out. Blessed is the man to whom God
will not, under any conditions, at any time, charge sin." How
does that come about? Well, first of all, by his death.
Turn to Isaiah 53, by the death of Christ. My friend, my account's
been paid because there was a payment made. The ransom The kidnapper
of the law has to return me to my father because he paid the
ransom. There was an effectual payment,
there was an effectual sacrifice. It says in verse 4 of Isaiah
53, he, surely, he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows,
and we did esteem him Christ, stricken, smitten of God, and
afflicted. He was wounded for my transgressions,
my rebellion, my revolt, He was wounded for my transgressions. God nailed him to the cross because
I revolted, I rebelled. He took my place and was wounded
for my transgressions. That's how it's forgiven. God
doesn't perform an act of magic and rub his hands over the soul
place and say abracadabracadoo and make the sin go away. My
transgressions wounded Christ! Look at it! He was bruised for
my moral perversity, my iniquity. He was bruised. The chastisement
of my peace because of my offenses was laid on Him. You don't put transgressions
away by getting baptized. You don't put iniquity away. You don't erase that awful, awful
charge account in the judgment by walking down an aisle and
shaking a preacher's hand and saying, I believe some doctrine.
You don't put away S-I-N by promising you won't do it next time, knowing
all the time you will. But the way that sin is put away
is because Christ was wounded He was tormented, the word says,
for my rebellion. He was bruised for my moral perversity,
and the chastisement, the punishment of my offenses were laid on him,
and with his stripes I am healed. I sin pardoned by the death of
the Son of God. And secondly, by his resurrection.
Somebody said his death is the payment, his resurrection is
the certainty. If Christ be not risen, you're
yet in your sins, because there is no certainty that God accepted
the payment. You couldn't be sure. Maybe the
account's still up there. Maybe it's still under your name.
If Christ died and He was buried and He did not rise, maybe the
Father didn't accept it. He didn't have to. He's the King. Pardon is His divine prerogative. And by his intercession, he's
able to save to the uttermost them that come to God by him.
Now, let's notice the third thing quickly. What is the effect of
pardon? Why are you so happy about being
pardoned? Why does it mean so much? Why
does David say, happy is the man whose rebellion is forgiven,
happy is the man whose sin is blotted out, happy is the man
whose moral perversity is not charged to his account. Well,
number one, the effect of pardon is all taken away. You know,
the human race is not the only race that sinned. The angels,
the scripture says, kept not their first estate. The angels
sinned and fell, and Jude says that they are kept in everlasting
chains of darkness awaiting the judgment of that day. And Paul
said that Christ took not on himself the nature of angels,
but he took on himself the nature of Abraham's seed. Christ didn't
become an angel, he became a man. sin stripped the angels of their
position and condemned them to eternal judgment, and sin stripped
us of our position and condemned us to eternal punishment. But
Christ took on Himself our nature and undertook our redemption
and came into this world by His righteousness and death to restore
us. He restored my soul. And that sin's taken away, that's
why we're happy. And we have access to God. Turn
to Hebrews, chapter 10. Now listen to this. In Hebrews,
chapter 10, verse 19, it says, "'Brethren, don't be afraid,
don't be shy. Brethren, boldly come into the
presence of God.'" God invites you into the holiest. Come on in to the holiest. Come
on in. Where's the holiest? Well, it's
not over in Jerusalem. Everybody talks about going to
the Holy City. One of these days, I'm going to the Holy City. I've
been there in spirit. I've been there in prayer. I've
been there by faith. I've been to Calvary. I've been
there by faith. Well, one of these days, I'm
going there in the flesh. I'm going to walk into the Holy
of Holies. Brethren, by faith, come into
the holiest, into the presence of God. How? By the blood of
Jesus. He's open for you into his presence
by the new and living way. The privilege to come yourself
into God's presence. And then we're sons of God. As
many as received Him, to them gave ye the privilege to become
the sons of God. And we have, because our transgressions
are forgiven and our sin is blotted out and our iniquity is not charged,
we have peace of heart and peace of conscience and comfort in
every trial. And we have eternal life. Now,
last of all, who has it? Turn back to Psalms 32. And here's
the fourth thing, and I close. The true signs of a pardoned
man. Now this may not be yours. I want you to listen right here.
Blessed is the man whose rebellion is forgiven. Happy is the man
whose sin is covered and blotted out. Happy is the man whose awful
account is not charged to him anymore. His moral perversity
is not charged. Who is that man? Look at the
last line. The man in whose spirit there
is no guile. It doesn't say the man in whose
flesh there's no fault. It doesn't say the man in whose
heart there is no evil thoughts. It doesn't say the man who never
makes a mistake and never stumbles and never falls and never makes
an error. and wears his sleeves long enough,
and his collar high enough, and his face plain enough, and doesn't
eat certain meat on certain days, and who keeps certain holidays,
it says the man who is happy, and his transgressions forgiven,
and his sin blotted out, and his iniquity not imputed is the
man who is sincere, in whose spirit there is no hypocrisy. When he comes before God confessing
his sins, he means it. He ain't playing games. He means
it. It's the man who, when he says
he believes Christ died for his sins, he means it. It's a man
or woman who says, I love the Lord Jesus Christ, and he's not
playing tiddlywinks. He's not making a show. He's
not putting up a front. He's not trying to snob somebody
with a lot of piety. He means it. He loves Christ. Christ is his substitute. Christ
is his sacrifice. Christ is his sin offering. Christ
is his hope. When he says he loves the people
of God, he's not lying. He loves them. When he says,
I'm glad when they said unto me, let's go to the house of
the Lord, he means it. He means it. He's not playing
games. There's sincerity in his walk. Blessed is the man who loves
our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity, Paul said. That's what's lacking. Sincerity. Blessed are they that mourn They
should be comforted. They're not playing games. They
mean it. They mourn overseeing. They're not changing their voice
to speak in a ministerial tone to try to appear pious. They're
crying in their hearts before God. Blessed is the man in whose
spirit there's no hypocrisy, He forgives others, too, because
he's been forgiven. Turn to Matthew 18. Look at this. There's no guile about this thing. There's no hypocrisy about it.
There's no game-playing. It says in verse 35 of Matthew
18, So likewise shall my heavenly Father do unto you. So likewise shall my heavenly
Father do unto you. What's God going to do unto me? I want to know. If from your
hearts you forgive not everyone his brother their trespasses, if from your hearts you don't
have sincerity of walk and sanctification of purpose and forgiveness and
love, So also shall my Father do unto you." What's he going
to do? The preceding verse said his Lord was angry and delivered
him to the tormentors till he pays everything due. I don't want to pay it, do you?
I don't want to pay for my transgressions, and I don't want to pay for my
sin, and I don't want to pay for my iniquity. I want the Lord
Jesus to pay for it. Well, the only way the Lord Jesus
is going to pay for it is for there to be in my heart sincerity. O God, let thy blood be propitiation
for me, thee sinner, and I'm sincere. Our Father, take the
word and bless it to our prophet, to thy glory. Bless it to the
people who hear it in days to come over the radio. May Jesus
Christ, our Lord, be praised. May His blood be propitiation
for us on the mercy seat, our transgressions covered, our sin
blotted out, our iniquity not charged to our account. For put
in our hearts a sincere