SPEAKER_00: Generosity.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna be in Psalm 51 for the message today.
SPEAKER_00: Psalm chapter 51.
SPEAKER_00: If you're happy to be in God's house, would you say amen?
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: Hey, have you guys ever heard about something but you had never experienced it?
SPEAKER_00: So because you heard about something but you didn't experience it, you didn't fully understand how amazing this thing was.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you ever had this in your life.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe somebody told you about a restaurant.
SPEAKER_00: They're like, you gotta go to this restaurant.
SPEAKER_00: This new sushi place.
SPEAKER_00: Any sushi lovers in the house?
SPEAKER_00: Come on.
SPEAKER_00: But you you know, you never experienced this, so you didn't really like fully understand it.
SPEAKER_00: Or maybe it wasn't a restaurant, maybe it was a vacation place.
SPEAKER_00: Oh, if I just go to this, everybody says, you know, well, I've never experienced it, I don't understand it.
SPEAKER_00: I I I had this happen to me a couple years ago for years.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody told me, you gotta go to the Grand Canyon.
SPEAKER_00: Anybody ever been to the Grand Canyon?
SPEAKER_00: Okay, so about about we got about 50% of us have been to the Grand Canyon.
SPEAKER_00: Everybody told me for years you gotta go to the Grand Canyon.
SPEAKER_00: Like, it's spectacular, it's amazing, there's nothing like it.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm like, yeah, I I've seen pictures of it.
SPEAKER_00: It seems that way.
SPEAKER_00: But a couple years ago, that all changed.
SPEAKER_00: I went on a broad trip.
SPEAKER_00: You've ever been on a bro trip?
SPEAKER_00: If you're a lady, you haven't been on a bro trip.
SPEAKER_00: If you're a guy, I went on a broad trip.
SPEAKER_00: It was me, it was Pastor Cody, and it was our friend Caleb, and we went on a broad trip to the Grand Canyon.
SPEAKER_00: Now, on my way to the Grand Canyon, I may or may not have missed my flight, but that's another story.
SPEAKER_00: And we get to the Grand Canyon, and I walk out and I look out over the Grand Canyon, and my jaw just drops.
SPEAKER_00: I was like, it was so vast.
SPEAKER_00: And I was I was in such awe.
SPEAKER_00: I couldn't even pull out my phone to take a picture.
SPEAKER_00: You know it was something, right?
SPEAKER_00: And for years, people had told me, oh, it's so spectacular, oh, it's amazing, oh, it's this, oh, it's that.
SPEAKER_00: But until I experienced it, I never fully understood it.
SPEAKER_00: I bring this up because we're gonna talk about something in Psalm 51 that allows us to go from hearing about something to actually experiencing something.
SPEAKER_00: And in Psalm 51, we experience something that we've probably heard before.
SPEAKER_00: We experience repentance.
SPEAKER_00: We experience something in Psalm 51 that has the power to heal broken relationships.
SPEAKER_00: We experience something that has the power to bring families back together that have been separated for a while.
SPEAKER_00: We get to experience something that literally has the ability to change the entire direction of your life.
SPEAKER_00: Repentance.
SPEAKER_00: Now we're in a series right now called The Rise and Fall, uncovering the secret lives of heroes.
SPEAKER_00: And what we're doing is we are walking through the first three kings of the nation of Israel.
SPEAKER_00: Now, does anybody remember who the first king was who he talked about last week?
SPEAKER_00: His name was Solomon.
SPEAKER_00: That's right, it was Saul.
SPEAKER_00: Saul.
SPEAKER_00: That's right.
SPEAKER_00: So Solomon's next week.
SPEAKER_00: Next week.
SPEAKER_00: He's the third king, but Saul.
SPEAKER_00: It was Saul.
unknown: David is today.
SPEAKER_00: David is today.
SPEAKER_00: David's who we're talking about today.
SPEAKER_00: Now, here, here's the thing about David is David was known as a man after God's own heart.
SPEAKER_00: So you would think that David must have lived perfectly, right?
SPEAKER_00: No, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, we're gonna learn today.
SPEAKER_00: David messed up royally.
SPEAKER_00: But one of the key differences between Saul, the first king, and David, the second king, who we're gonna talk about today, was that David lived a life of genuine repentance.
SPEAKER_00: He lived a life of genuine repentance.
SPEAKER_00: And before we go to Psalm 51, we gotta understand the background of what's happening in Psalm 51.
SPEAKER_00: Before I talk about it, I just want to say can everybody in the room brace yourself for just a second?
SPEAKER_00: Because what just happened was a love triangle that turned into a murder.
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we're talking about this is like Netflix style, okay?
SPEAKER_00: Rated for mature audiences only.
SPEAKER_00: David was the king.
SPEAKER_00: He was supposed to be at war, but he wasn't at war.
SPEAKER_00: And David, while he's at home, he spots a good-looking woman.
SPEAKER_00: There's a problem.
SPEAKER_00: David is already married.
SPEAKER_00: There's another problem.
SPEAKER_00: The woman, her name is Bathsheba.
SPEAKER_00: Bathsheba was also married.
SPEAKER_00: There's actually a third problem.
SPEAKER_00: Bathsheba is married to a man named Uriah, and Uriah is one of David's military generals that is out in the war that is fighting for David.
SPEAKER_00: Kind of a big deal.
SPEAKER_00: Does any of that matter to David?
SPEAKER_00: Not that much.
SPEAKER_00: Because David's like, she's good looking.
SPEAKER_00: I want her, bring her to me.
SPEAKER_00: And David has an affair.
SPEAKER_00: He thinks, no big deal.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna cover this up.
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna be fine.
SPEAKER_00: But something happened.
SPEAKER_00: She got pregnant.
SPEAKER_00: Uh-oh.
SPEAKER_00: That was not part of the plan.
SPEAKER_00: So David now goes on damage control.
SPEAKER_00: And David now tries to cover up everything that he did.
SPEAKER_00: You think about this.
SPEAKER_00: David used his power, his power to take another man's wife.
SPEAKER_00: He used his power to then plan the killing of Uriah.
SPEAKER_00: He then took Uriah's widow, Bathsheba, and said, Now you're going to be my wife.
SPEAKER_00: And then he decided to act like it wasn't a big deal that he had Uriah killed, that he took Bathsheba to be his wife, that he had an affair with her, and he acted like it was okay for months and months and months and months.
SPEAKER_00: This is heavy.
SPEAKER_00: Murder.
SPEAKER_00: Love.
SPEAKER_00: But God still loved David.
SPEAKER_00: Which, by the way, aren't you thankful that even though we sin, God still loves us?
SPEAKER_00: Amen.
SPEAKER_00: He amen.
SPEAKER_00: He does.
SPEAKER_00: And God loved David so much, God revealed what David did to a man named Nathan, which I think that's a pretty good name.
SPEAKER_00: Nathan was a prophet, he was a spokesperson for God.
SPEAKER_00: And Nathan confronted David about what had happened with David and Bathsheba.
SPEAKER_00: And upon David being confronted with his sin for a little while, he was self-righteous about it, but then came to a place where he realized what he did was wrong.
SPEAKER_00: He took ownership of his sin.
SPEAKER_00: And we get to Psalm 51, and this is what we see in Psalm 51.
SPEAKER_00: We see a man in genuine repentance shortly after he was confronted about his sin.
SPEAKER_00: In Psalm 51, really is a prayer from David to God.
SPEAKER_00: And this is what Psalm 51 shows us.
SPEAKER_00: Psalm 51 shows all of us what do we do when we mess up?
SPEAKER_00: What do we do when we make mistakes, no matter how big they are, or no matter how small they are?
SPEAKER_00: Because let's be honest, we all make mistakes, don't we?
SPEAKER_00: And we're gonna see the process right here from God's word.
SPEAKER_00: And this is what we're gonna see, first of all.
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna see that repentance begins by taking ownership of our sin.
SPEAKER_00: Repentance begins by taking ownership of our sin.
SPEAKER_00: We're in Psalm 51.
SPEAKER_00: If you're ready for it, would you say amen?
SPEAKER_00: Psalm 51, verse 1 says this.
SPEAKER_00: It says, Be gracious to me, God, according to your faithful love, according to your abundant compassion, blot out my, what's that next word?
SPEAKER_00: Blot out my rebellion.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't say, blot out my little boo-boo.
SPEAKER_00: He doesn't say, blot out my mistake.
SPEAKER_00: He says, blot out my rebellion.
SPEAKER_00: God, you wanted me to go this way, I went this way instead.
SPEAKER_00: God, this was your plan.
SPEAKER_00: I did this instead.
SPEAKER_00: I'm taking ownership of my sin.
SPEAKER_00: He says in verse 2, his prayer is completely wash me, completely wash me away, wash away my guilt and cleanse me from my sin.
SPEAKER_00: For I am conscious of my rebellion.
SPEAKER_00: And my sin is always before me.
SPEAKER_00: David isn't talking about anybody else.
SPEAKER_00: He's not like Bathsheba.
SPEAKER_00: He's not like, Well, I had a lot of stress happening in the in the palace.
SPEAKER_00: No, David says, This was me.
SPEAKER_00: This is this is me.
SPEAKER_00: I I own this, and this is important.
SPEAKER_00: Because true repentance begins where excuses end.
SPEAKER_00: True repentance begins where excuses end.
SPEAKER_00: I can't genuinely apologize for something if I don't first admit that I did something wrong.
SPEAKER_00: And as long as I'm excusing and blaming this person or the economy or the political climate of our country or this or that, I can never, I can never actually repent because I can't take ownership of what I did.
SPEAKER_00: Now, here's the challenge.
SPEAKER_00: We live in America.
SPEAKER_00: In America, we have been conditioned in certain ways.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, Joe Rigney, who has written a great book called Leadership and Emotional Sabotage, he talks about how in America we have a tendency to blame shift.
SPEAKER_00: This is what he says.
SPEAKER_00: Joe Rigney writes, we've turned blame shifting and excuse making into an art.
SPEAKER_00: So that hardly anyone takes responsibility for themselves.
SPEAKER_00: Instead, we point fingers.
SPEAKER_00: I love that quote because I think it's so real for me.
SPEAKER_00: And it's so real for us because if I'm constantly blaming my hardships, if I'm constantly blaming the difficulties of my life, if I'm constantly blaming my childhood of origin or where I'm from or where I work at, I can never take ownership of the stuff I need to take ownership of.
SPEAKER_00: I can never get to a place where I'm gonna own my junk and I'm gonna own what I did.
SPEAKER_00: And for months, what David did is David refused to take ownership.
SPEAKER_00: But he finally came to a place where he was like, Lord, it's me.
SPEAKER_00: It's my sin.
SPEAKER_00: And then when he took ownership, the second thing he did that shows us what repentance is, is he addressed the person that he hurt.
SPEAKER_00: He addressed the person that he hurt.
SPEAKER_00: Look at what the text says in verse 4.
SPEAKER_00: David says, Against you and you alone I have sinned and done this evil in your sight.
SPEAKER_00: So you are right when you pass sentence.
SPEAKER_00: You are blameless when you judge.
SPEAKER_00: David understood that before his sin was against anybody else, his sin was against a holy God.
SPEAKER_00: So what does he do?
SPEAKER_00: He confesses his sin to a holy God.
SPEAKER_00: And what makes sin is it's something that we do against God primarily.
SPEAKER_00: It's anything we say, we think, or we do that breaks God's law.
SPEAKER_00: This is what sin is.
SPEAKER_00: Now we live in a world that says, like, sin's not that big of a deal.
SPEAKER_00: After all, everybody does it.
SPEAKER_00: And it's caused so many of us to be casual about sin.
SPEAKER_00: Not a big deal.
SPEAKER_00: I get drunk here, I get drunk there, who cares?
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes I sleep with this person, sometimes I sleep with that person.
SPEAKER_00: I'm just a human.
SPEAKER_00: It's okay if I do this.
SPEAKER_00: But Frank, I say this if nobody's told you recently.
SPEAKER_00: Sin is a big deal.
SPEAKER_00: And in the American climate that we live in, nobody wants to say that, but can I just say on behalf of God that sin is a big deal?
SPEAKER_00: And the reason why sin is a big deal is because sin is what cost Jesus his life.
SPEAKER_00: And if we don't believe in Jesus and put our faith and trust in him, what sin will do is it will cause us to spend an eternity separated from God in a place called hell.
SPEAKER_00: Romans 6.23 says this for the wages of sin is death.
SPEAKER_00: So what does David do?
SPEAKER_00: He realizes that his sin is a big deal, he confesses it to God.
SPEAKER_00: And he doesn't just confess that he's sorry for the consequences of his actions.
SPEAKER_00: It's like, God, like I'm so sorry that now people are mad at me.
SPEAKER_00: God, I'm so sorry that like this stuff is happening in the kingdom now.
SPEAKER_00: Notice what he does.
SPEAKER_00: He confesses what he did.
SPEAKER_00: He confesses the action, not the result of the action, not the consequences.
SPEAKER_00: See, that's what repentance is.
SPEAKER_00: Repentance isn't merely grieving the consequences of sin, it's grieving the sin itself and the damage that it causes to God and to others.
SPEAKER_00: It's me saying, it's not just about the consequences, but it's about what I actually did.
SPEAKER_00: I don't know if if you guys have this experience, but I I grew up with a with a younger sibling.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, anybody grew up with a younger sibling?
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
SPEAKER_00: A lot of us.
SPEAKER_00: Anybody grew up with an older sibling?
SPEAKER_00: So pretty much most of us have had a sibling in here?
SPEAKER_00: So then you're probably like me.
SPEAKER_00: I had a PhD in knowing how to get under my little sister's skin.
SPEAKER_00: I had a PhD in getting on her nerves.
SPEAKER_00: I knew how to do it.
SPEAKER_00: And sometimes my mom, she would catch me doing it.
SPEAKER_00: Sometimes my mom would, you know, she'd catch me calling my sister a name or doing something.
SPEAKER_00: And I don't know if your mom's like my mom, my mom would say, you need to apologize.
SPEAKER_00: So you need to apologize.
SPEAKER_00: And I'd say, Do I?
SPEAKER_00: She would say, Yeah, I'd say, sorry.
SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
SPEAKER_00: My mom would say, That's not an apology.
SPEAKER_00: I'd say, mom, I said the word sorry.
SPEAKER_00: She's like, You're grounded.
SPEAKER_00: I'm like, I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_00: I can't play my video games.
SPEAKER_00: I'm so sorry for what you're and we know I wasn't actually sorry for what I did.
SPEAKER_00: I was sorry for the consequences of my actions and the fact that I got caught.
SPEAKER_00: And being sorry for getting caught, or being sorry that now this person's mad at me, or now things are hard because I said this or I did that.
SPEAKER_00: That's not actually being repentant.
SPEAKER_00: Repentance is being sorry for the act that we did, and it's being um sorry for who we sinned against.
SPEAKER_00: And there's something about our flesh that makes it really hard to admit that.
SPEAKER_00: It makes it really difficult and it makes it really challenging to say, hey, I messed up.
SPEAKER_00: I sinned against you.
SPEAKER_00: And I'm not just sorry for the consequences, but I'm sorry that I did this.
SPEAKER_00: Because we have this flesh.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, in verse number five, David talks about this.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Indeed, I was guilty when I was born.
SPEAKER_00: I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
SPEAKER_00: When my mom conceived me.
SPEAKER_00: Now, when we see a cute little baby, most of us are like, oh, that baby's really sweet.
SPEAKER_00: That baby's so cute.
SPEAKER_00: At least most babies are cute.
SPEAKER_00: We're like, oh, it's like a perfect angel.
SPEAKER_00: Like it's got no f it's amazing.
SPEAKER_00: The Bible actually teaches something different.
SPEAKER_00: Notice what David says.
SPEAKER_00: He says, I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
SPEAKER_00: I was I was not perfect.
SPEAKER_00: In fact, Romans chapter 5, verse 12 tells us this.
SPEAKER_00: Wherefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, you guys remember the name of the man that sin entered the world from?
SPEAKER_00: Garden of Eden, Genesis chapter 3, his name was Adam.
SPEAKER_00: Through him and death through sin, in this way, death spread to all people.
SPEAKER_00: You know who all people is?
SPEAKER_00: Us.
SPEAKER_00: All people, Pastor Nate, you understand?
SPEAKER_00: I grew up in the church.
SPEAKER_00: I'm pretty religious.
SPEAKER_00: Good job.
SPEAKER_00: Gold star for church attendance.
SPEAKER_00: Still a sinner.
SPEAKER_00: Pastor Nate, you understand?
SPEAKER_00: When I was a baby, got christened.
SPEAKER_00: Good.
SPEAKER_00: You understand?
SPEAKER_00: I went through all the classes, I'm okay.
SPEAKER_00: Guess what?
SPEAKER_00: Adam's still our father.
SPEAKER_00: That means that all of us are born sinners.
SPEAKER_00: Every single one of us, the best, the worst, everybody in between.
SPEAKER_00: David understood this.
SPEAKER_00: David says, Hey, my in my mother's womb I was conceived in sin.
SPEAKER_00: David goes on.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Surely you desire integrity in the inner self, and you teach me wisdom deep within.
SPEAKER_00: Purify me with hyssop, and I will be clean.
SPEAKER_00: Wash me, I'll be whiter than snow.
SPEAKER_00: Hyssop was a plant that was used for purification and cleansing rituals.
SPEAKER_00: David here isn't asking for like a quick fix.
SPEAKER_00: He wants to be cleansed.
SPEAKER_00: Let me hear joy and gladness.
SPEAKER_00: Let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
SPEAKER_00: Turn your face away from my sins, verse 9.
SPEAKER_00: And blot out all my guilt.
SPEAKER_00: God, verse 10, create in me a clean heart.
SPEAKER_00: This might be the most powerful verse in this whole text.
SPEAKER_00: And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
SPEAKER_00: David doesn't say, God, give me another chance.
SPEAKER_00: God, let me try again.
SPEAKER_00: No, what does David say?
SPEAKER_00: David says, change me at the heart level.
SPEAKER_00: Like, do something in my heart because my heart needs to be clean.
SPEAKER_00: My heart is what needs to be changed.
SPEAKER_00: It's not that I need better behavior.
SPEAKER_00: It's not that I need better performance.
SPEAKER_00: It's not that I just need to wake up and say my daily affirmations and I won't mess up again, God.
SPEAKER_00: No.
SPEAKER_00: God, I need my heart changed.
SPEAKER_00: And this is what repentance is.
SPEAKER_00: Repentance is me desiring change at the heart level.
SPEAKER_00: Pastor Nanya, I did repent.
SPEAKER_00: I did repent.
SPEAKER_00: I just said I want to do better next time.
SPEAKER_00: That's not repentance if you don't desire deep change within yourself.
SPEAKER_00: David says, I want a clean heart for me.
SPEAKER_00: The word repentance literally means a change of mind.
SPEAKER_00: So if I'm going to repent, it has to be a change.
SPEAKER_00: This is what repentance does.
SPEAKER_00: It changes what you think, so I view my sin different.
SPEAKER_00: It changes what I love, so I have a different feeling towards my sin.
SPEAKER_00: And it changes how I live.
SPEAKER_00: So before, when when David, 2 Samuel 11, when he's in the palace, when he's not When he's not at war, when he should be, and he sees Bathsheba, his thoughts are like, Yeah, I just want to get her.
SPEAKER_00: What does he love?
SPEAKER_00: He he loves to fulfill the lust of the flesh.
SPEAKER_00: What does he do in Psalm 51?
SPEAKER_00: He's like, Man, my thinking was messed up, God.
SPEAKER_00: He's like, Man, my desires were wrong at this at this point.
SPEAKER_00: And David, he repents.
SPEAKER_00: It changes how we live.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 11, it says, Do not banish me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
SPEAKER_00: Let's get down and read verse number 12.
SPEAKER_00: It says, Restore the joy of your salvation to me and sustain me by giving me a willing spirit.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Restore.
SPEAKER_00: Restore joy of your salvation.
SPEAKER_00: So here's what sin doesn't tell us.
SPEAKER_00: Here's what temptation doesn't tell us.
SPEAKER_00: Is that on the other side of our sin is brokenness and shame and emptiness?
SPEAKER_00: And David right now is living on the other side of his sin in his brokenness, in his shame, in his emptiness.
SPEAKER_00: And this is what he says God, would you restore the joy of your salvation to me?
SPEAKER_00: You see, friends, we can be like David, and we can act like, ah, it's not a big deal, it's not whatever.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, guys, sin makes life hard.
SPEAKER_00: Sin makes life complicated.
SPEAKER_00: And it's God's kindness that leads us to repentance.
SPEAKER_00: It's God's kindness that shows us that there is a better way.
SPEAKER_00: And David says, Hey, change my heart, give me joy.
SPEAKER_00: And what it's going to result in in the life of David, number four, is a changed life.
SPEAKER_00: A changed life.
SPEAKER_00: It says in uh in verse number 13, it says, Then will I teach the rebellious your ways, and sinners will return to you.
SPEAKER_00: This doesn't mean that David's going to be perfect and never mess up again.
SPEAKER_00: But this is what David says.
SPEAKER_00: David says, Hey, on this other side of repentance, I want to teach others about you.
SPEAKER_00: God, I want to make you known to other people.
SPEAKER_00: That's my heart.
SPEAKER_00: He says, Save me from the guilt of bloodshed, God, God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare your praise.
SPEAKER_00: David had lived in sin.
SPEAKER_00: And now that he comes to the place of repentance in his life, he says, His heart has been changed, his thinking has been changed.
SPEAKER_00: And he says, I want to change my actions.
SPEAKER_00: Now I want my life to make you known, God.
SPEAKER_00: Now I want my lips.
SPEAKER_00: Now I want my lips to declare your praise.
SPEAKER_00: Now I want to sing of your praises, your righteousness.
SPEAKER_00: There's a changed life that happens on the other side of repentance.
SPEAKER_00: And you can say the words of repentance, you can say you're sorry all you want from an outward place, but genuine repentance will cause us to have a change in how we live our lives.
SPEAKER_00: And can I just maybe you're maybe you're here and um maybe you kind of don't understand like the worship music portion of the service, like the singing portion, and uh you're like, man, why do we why do we always do that at church, Pastor Nate?
SPEAKER_00: Like I had somebody come in, they told me before, they were like, Pastor Nate, why don't you just preach an hour and we don't even have any music?
SPEAKER_00: That's how I would like to church or whatever.
SPEAKER_00: Um and maybe maybe and I was like, okay, I rolled my eyes, not really, but I did it internally.
SPEAKER_00: Um and maybe, maybe like they're like, Why do we even sing?
SPEAKER_00: Why do we do this?
SPEAKER_00: Maybe singing happens, and you're just kind of like can I just say it's not because we like karaoke here, it's not because churches have been doing this for years.
SPEAKER_00: This is why, out of response to all that God has done for us.
SPEAKER_00: Out of response.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, David's response is this I will sing of your righteousness.
SPEAKER_00: You are the God of my salvation.
SPEAKER_00: And when you realize all that God has done for you, you will not be able to help but to sing out to Him.
SPEAKER_00: It's gonna come from your soul, it's gonna come from your heart.
SPEAKER_00: And when we understand the greatness of God and the forgiveness that we have, we are going to want to sing.
SPEAKER_00: David tells God, verse 16, he says, he says, I in verse 15, he says, I'll declare your praise.
SPEAKER_00: Verse 16, he says, You don't want to sacrifice or I would give it.
SPEAKER_00: You are not pleased with a burnt offering.
SPEAKER_00: David said, God, you don't you don't want my religious duties or good deeds.
SPEAKER_00: God, you don't want this.
SPEAKER_00: You know what God wants?
SPEAKER_00: God wants a contrite heart.
SPEAKER_00: God wants a change of the heart.
SPEAKER_00: God doesn't want to like, oh, well, I'm gonna do this for you, God.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna come to church instead of once a month, twice a month.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna do this and that, and then I'm gonna be okay.
SPEAKER_00: No, no.
SPEAKER_00: This is what he says, God, you don't want a sacrifice.
SPEAKER_00: You're not pleased with a burnt offering.
SPEAKER_00: You know what God wants in verse 17?
SPEAKER_00: Here's the sacrifice pleasing to God.
SPEAKER_00: A broken, verse 17, if we can get up there, the sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.
SPEAKER_00: You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.
SPEAKER_00: That's what you will not despise.
SPEAKER_00: You know what man-made religion does?
SPEAKER_00: It covers everything up.
SPEAKER_00: It's if you just do that and you do this, then you'll be okay with God.
SPEAKER_00: No, no, God is not pleased with our outward things.
SPEAKER_00: God wants our heart and God wants a broken and contrite heart that says, Lord, here I am.
SPEAKER_00: Here I am.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm gonna be real with you.
SPEAKER_00: God, I know you love me.
SPEAKER_00: I know your ways are the best ways, so I'm not gonna play cover-up of stuff anymore.
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna have a broken and contrite heart, and I'm gonna come right before you, Lord, and I'm gonna say, Lord, I am sorry.
SPEAKER_00: Lord, I am broken about my lust.
SPEAKER_00: I am broken that I that I cover things up, that I treat people that way, that I think it's okay, that I can just live however I want.
SPEAKER_00: I'm broken about my addiction.
SPEAKER_00: God, I have a contrite heart.
SPEAKER_00: Some of the best things some of us could do is if we could just lose our religion.
SPEAKER_00: Lose our man-made religion that's all about doing all this stuff and say, God, here's my heart.
SPEAKER_00: And this is the posture that some of us need to have this morning.
SPEAKER_00: Here's my heart.
SPEAKER_00: A couple years ago, when I was in front of the Grand Canyon looking out over the edge, and I saw the Grand Canyon, everything clicked.
SPEAKER_00: Because it wasn't just somebody talking about it, but I experienced it.
SPEAKER_00: In my heart, it was almost like a spiritual moment.
SPEAKER_00: I was like, wow.
SPEAKER_00: Because I experienced the Grand Canyon for me.
SPEAKER_00: Psalm 51 tells us what repentance looks like.
SPEAKER_00: What the experience of repentance is.
SPEAKER_00: Now, here's what I'm gonna invite some of us to do this morning.
SPEAKER_00: For you to have it right here in your seat.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've heard about repentance for a long time.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe you've heard people talk about it, maybe you've heard me talk about it, but today you've actually seen it from God's word.
SPEAKER_00: But the power only comes when we actually repent.
SPEAKER_00: I have two questions for us and we're done.
SPEAKER_00: Here's my first question What do you need to repent of?
SPEAKER_00: If you're like me, there's daily things I need to repent of.
SPEAKER_00: Maybe another question, and let's hang in here.
SPEAKER_00: I know there's noise up there, but this can be a really holy moment for all of us this morning.
SPEAKER_00: A really holy moment.
SPEAKER_00: Is where do you need to change how you think, what you love, or what you do?
SPEAKER_00: For David, it changed.
SPEAKER_00: His life changed.
SPEAKER_00: What he thought changed, what he loved changed, what he did change.
SPEAKER_00: Listen, guys, what do we need to change?
SPEAKER_00: Because the Lord will not despise a broken and a humble heart.
SPEAKER_00: The sacrifice pleasing to God is a broken spirit.
SPEAKER_00: You will not despise a broken and humbled heart.
SPEAKER_00: And this morning, will we have that before the Lord?
SPEAKER_00: Broken, a contrite heart.
SPEAKER_00: And this is what God will do God will restore to us the joy of our salvation.
SPEAKER_00: Let's all bow our heads and close our eyes.
SPEAKER_00: Let's just have a moment right now.