Sabbath School Lesson with Doug Batchelor

[Music] [Music] do hello and welcome to another edition of the sabbath school study hour we are just so pleased to be able to have you join us if you're with us live here this morning nice to have you if you are tuning in later as we are broadcasting on different various networks it is good to be able to have you join us for the next hour as we continue to study in one of my favorite subjects which is rest in christ and that's our new quarterly that we've been looking at for the last two or three weeks so depending on how you define new i suppose on that as well so again we're looking at rest in christ today's lesson study is number four lesson study number four the cost of rest well what does that mean what does the scriptures talk about in regards to the cost of finding that rest in christ so make sure that you invest in the next one hour as we continue to learn more about god's word i also want to invite you to take advantage of some further study we have a new a free gift offer 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make this available and readily available as to as many people as possible please take advantage of that and i know that you will be blessed our teacher today is going to be pastor doug bashar our lead pastor for our church here in granite bay hilltop as well as the president director of amazing facts ministries and before we invite him out and we open with prayer we're going to invite our musicians out as they bless us in worship through music [Music] great jesus oh god my father is no shadow of turning with thee thou changest not thy compassion they fail not all thou has to be in thou forever [Music] my [Music] great is thy faithfulness great is thy faithfulness boring my morning new mercies i see all i have needed thy hand hath provided [Music] great is thy faithfulness lord unto me pardon for sin and a peace that endureth thy old your presence to cheer and to guide strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow blessings on my with ten thousand besides great is thy faithfulness great is thy faithfulness morning by new mercies i see all i have needed thy hand hath provided great is thy faithfulness great is thy faithfulness [Music] me [Music] thank god for a faithful god father in heaven this morning as we continue our study we want to pray that your holy spirit will guide us and lead us we claim that promise that you would send your holy spirit to teach us and guide us and lead us into all truth lord we come today praying that you will speak the truth to us and not only father do we pray that you will help us to hear it but just as importantly lord we want to pray that you also help us to be able to embrace it and to be able to love it and be able to run with it and call it ours as well in jesus name we pray these things lord amen again we want to thank you pastor doug bashler for teaching our lesson study good morning thank you pastor sean good morning everybody glad to have you here that's so good to be able to meet together again can you say amen and i want to welcome our friends who are watching via satellite or online and we know we have some of our friends that are watching that are part of the hilltop online family from around the world and we greet you as well we're continuing in our study dealing with the subject of rest in christ and today we're going to be talking about lesson number four it talks about the cost of rest before we get into the lesson in the memory verse um i want to share a little amazing fact with you self-imposed imprisonment for most people prison is a place you want to escape from but for some south koreans in desperate need of a break a day or two in an imitation jail is the escape since 2013 the prison inside of me facility in northeast hong kong has hosted more than two thousand inmates many of them over stressed office workers and students seeking relief from south korea's hyper demanding work expectations for ninety dollars a day a client can check themselves into prison where they get a blue uniform a yoga mat a tea set a pen and a notebook they sleep on the floor there's a small toilet inside the room but no mirror prison rules are strict no talking with other inmates no mobile phones or clocks the menu is rice porridge for breakfast and steamed sweet potato and a banana shake for dinner you might wonder why would someone be paid to be incarcerated south koreans work more hours per week than any other first world country this extra stress leads to a very high rate of suicide among business professionals and students park high rai a 28 year old office worker said the prison gave me a sense of freedom i was too busy park said as she sat in a 54-foot square cell she she said that as she was in the cell prison co-founder no jing hang said some customers are a little apprehensive about spending a day or two in a prison cell until they try it after a stay in prison many inmates say this is not a prison the real prison is the hectic life we return to you know the bible says there's many free people out walking the streets that are really in prison some people are so desperate for a little peace and rest they will actually put themselves in prison to find that you know what recidivism is recidivism is the the rate of people returning to jail after they've been released some people get so used to being in jail that after they're free and out on the streets they don't know how to handle it and they try to check back in they get institutionalized i heard one man that walked up to a teller in a bank and said i'm robbing the bank for twenty dollars she's for twenty dollars i just want twenty dollars so she gave him twenty dollars and he went and he sat down in the waiting area as the police came he said that's all it would take for it to be a felony and him to go back to jail he wasn't sure how to cope on the outside well there are some people that have a hard time finding that rest and then some people who are such a desperate need of rest that they have a breakdown that's where our story is going to go today the cost of rest and a lot of this is based upon the experience that you find in second samuel chapter 11 dealing with david and bathsheba and some of the fallout from that and david's repentance but we have a memory verse from psalm 51 and at psalm 51 verse 10 create oh i'll give you a chance to find that you can say it with me psalm 51 verse 10 you know this create in me a clean heart o god and renew a steadfast spirit within me i'm going to invite you to say that with me again here at hilltop you ready create in me a clean heart oh god and renew a steadfast spirit within me this is the new birth where god creates in us a clean heart all right so under sunday section it starts out talking about warren and weary and we're going to go to in our bibles to the second book of samuel chapter 11 we're going to be reading verses 1 through five together and this sort of gives us the the backdrop for what's happening here second samuel 11 verse one through five it happened in the spring of the year at the time when kings go out to battle the david sent joab and his servants with him and all israel and they destroyed the people of ammon and besieged rabbah but david remained at jerusalem now right away do you see something interesting about this passage this is the time when kings go out to battle but david stayed in jerusalem he quite frankly was pretty tired do you realize if you read the history of david david fought with the philistines of course you probably know goliath very well he fought with and he fought several battles with the philistines he fought with the ammonites he fought with the he fought with the moabites he fought with the syrians david fought with virtually every bordering nation and some beyond and sometimes several nations would come together in a coalition to fight against david and joab and msi and so he had been fighting wars on every side but now he had pretty much subdued all of his enemies except the people of ammon and he said you know i need a break and so i i just i'm so stressed out i need to rest and he decided joab you know how this is done i mean they've been fighting for years at this point he said you take the mighty man you go besiege rabba rabba is the capital of ammon now a siege can be boring when you besiege a city you're surrounding the capital you don't allow anybody in you don't allow anybody out to get food and you kind of starve them into surrender and it's kind of a waiting game david thought i'm not going to be down there on the battlefield when i can be up here in the palace i've earned my dues and so david ended up staying in jerusalem he probably should have been the season for kings to go out for battle but you know there's a passage if you read in ezekiel if you've got your bibles you know if i were to tell you what was the sin of sodom and gomorrah a lot of people would instantly say oh yeah that's an easy one that was talking about the immorality but that's not the whole story you look in ezekiel chapter 16 verse 49 look this was the iniquity of your sister sodom she and her daughter had pride fullness of food an abundance of idleness neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and the needy an abundance of idleness you ever heard the expression idleness is the devil's workshop i used to say that you don't have anything to do you get into trouble and this is what happened david he said look i i need some r r and a little r r is good but too much after you've been stressed out you can have a meltdown and it happened when he should have been at battle go to verse two it happened one evening that david arose from his bed now when it says evening there it's talking about late in the afternoon twilight he had taken an afternoon half he got up it wasn't uncommon for people when it was hot in that country to take an afternoon siesta and it says that because if it was pitch dark he wouldn't have seen anything it says it happened one evening that david arose from his bed and he walked on the roof of the king's house and from the roof which probably was a good piece of real estate usually higher than other places if it's the king's house got good view of the surrounding area it says from the roof he saw a woman bathing and the woman was very beautiful to behold now you know if he was walking around the roof just trying to take in some fresh air uh and he saw a woman bathing bathing you know usually you're not properly clad for that it wasn't a sin for him to notice that but when he continued to look that observation turned into sin now whether you're a man or woman if you're walking down the street and you happen to notice somebody that is immodestly clothed and not clothed at all it's not a sin if that comes to your attention but when you then begin to focus on that and that's what happened you think about it the little mistake you know joe uh yeah job job says i've made a covenant with my eyes why should i behold a young maiden made a covenant with his eyes and every believer needs to make a covenant with her eyes and if they're seeing something they shouldn't be seeing that don't keep looking turn away what did joseph do when potiphar's wife cast her eyes upon him he ultimately he made it a point not to be where she was and then he ran when she actually got a hold of him well david he knew better and uh but it says she was very beautiful and he thought you know i'm the king i can't read his mind but this is the kind of thing that sometimes is a prelude to sin i'm the king and i've worked hard and you know um she should know better than to bathe right there in my vista point or who knows what he was thinking but he looked long enough where he became intrigued he became infatuated he went to his servants and he said you know that house around the corner it's on beautiful street number 666 he said uh who lives there and they said oh that's the uh that's where uriah lives the hittite your soldier one of your sergeants he's one of your mighty men you know uriah that's his wife bathsheba and it says she's the daughter of elam you know elam elim is the son of a hitherfell you know a hitherfell he's your counselor so he knew who this was and i just like to mention that because sometimes people think well bathsheba she was just you know a pretty some uh empty-headed girl that was not paying attention when she was out bathing she was actually very intelligent she gave birth to solomon and her father was david's wisest counselor so she was not only beautiful she was bright and it tells us that he did something you know his servants are saying hey david look you got ten wives this is the wife of your eye he said well i know you know he's off at battle he said i'm kind of lonely i just made tell her to come on up i just i want to show her a new song i wrote i don't know something happened and so david sent messengers and took her brought her to the home and he said you're hungry has his service bring out a little feast he said i want to play for you david could sing and he could play the harp and he swooned her and david the bible says was good looking these are facts in the bible we know he had a great voice we know he was one of the best songwriters in history and that he was a good-looking and he was strong so yeah that kind of set the table i don't think some people say that he raped her there's nothing in the text that says that by the way in the judgment that came the judgment came on david and bathsheba so he took her i think he took advantage of his power and his position and seduced her and it says she laid with her for she was cleansed over impurity you know the bible there was a certain period just during and shortly following the monthly cycle that you were not to come together and while the siege goes on she notices that something's happening maybe she's feeling seasick and she's missing those normal dates and she sends a message to david and said i am with child you know you cannot sow wild oats on saturday night and then pray for crop failure on sunday the bible says that what you sow you're going to reap god is not mocked so we see here that david and maybe he had been just working too long he hadn't been taking appropriate risks and so from when he finally did rest his guard he was exhausted he was his guard was down when does the devil come with temptation when did the devil come to jesus hungry tired yeah if now now karen and i are a little different um when she gets hungry she'll feel a lot better and be a lot nicer if you feed her i can go a while without food and i'm okay but if i get sleepy i get grumpy and so everyone's wired a little different but the the devil takes advantage of it if you are hungry and you are tired and you are stressed i mean he had been under the stress he had been chased by king saul for years and he's been constant battle and there was civil war in the kingdom and he's got all these things going on and in a moment of weakness he he gave in and then you read on in second samuel 11 verse 6 then after she says she's with child david thinks instead of confessing and coming to god and finding rest the cost of rest is repentance and that's where we're going in this lesson but instead of repenting instead of confessing he tries to do a man-made cover-up david's pretty smart and he thinks well i don't want to get her in trouble so it's got to look like her husband's responsible but he's out of town on business i thought well i'll find i'll create an excuse to get uriah to come home so david sends a messenger and to job and he said send uriah to me and uriah comes and he says how's joab doing joab's a general and how are the people doing how is the war prospering and then david said uriah now go on down to your house and he actually catered a little meal he says i've sent a present you don't even have to cook you don't want your wife busy cooking you go down to your house and he's trying to set things up so that uh you know uriah would enjoy the normal privileges of a husband and wife after being gone for a long time and david thinks problem solved except something goes wrong he doesn't know how dedicated uriah is the bible says uriah departed from the king's house and a gift of food from the king followed him but uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord and he did not go down to his house so when they told david uriah did not go to his house david said uriah did you not come from a journey why then did you not go down to your house david is mystified i mean what soldier who has been out in the field eating army rations and you know sleeping in a dirty tent with a bunch of stinking soldiers you go home and you're married to bathsheba and you don't go home but you sleep with the king's servants in the barracks of the king you know the hero in this story people always focus on david and bathsheba and the scandal but there's a hero in the story and um you read here in second samuel 11 uriah says to in this ii samuel 11 11 it's a great verse uriah it's the only time uriah speaks your eyes listed among the mighty men of david but here's the only place he speaks and uriah says to david the ark what's the first words out of his mouth the ark what was the ark where was the presence of god if you needed to put your finger on the land of israel and say where do you find god's presence it would be the ark that's where god appeared to moses that's where the word of god was he says the ark first thing out of his mouth the ark now calls him uriah the hittite because he had been from a hittite background but he had converted to jehovah and israel he talks about god and his neighbors what's the two great commandments love the lord i love your neighbor this is the first thing comes out of his mouth and judah the people of god are dwelling in tents throughout the field and my lord joab he's got respect for leadership and the servants of my lord are encamped in the open fields they're involved in a battle shall i then go to my house and eat and drink and lie with my wife as you live he actually articulates the very thing david was hoping as you live and as your soul lives he makes a vow he says i will not do this thing why did he say that now if you're bathsheba would you be a little offended your husband comes home and he's within a stone's throw from your house and he doesn't come home you know i think what uriah was doing is the men had often made covenants and they said we are not going to rest until this battle is won uriah also was a leader he had other men under him and he probably thought i don't want to demoralize my men they're suffering i'm going to suffer with him your ryan is like a type of christ in this story he ends up dying a sacrificial death he dies to cover david's sin isn't that what jesus does matter of fact when david hears this he realizes who's the best man in the story david or uriah david's saying he's a better man than i am he said well i know what i'll do i'll get him drunk if i could get him to drink he'll lower his natural resistance i mean after all david could read in the bible where lots of daughters got their father drunk and he did the unthinkable so david thinks noah got drunk and wandered around naked i mean let's face it when you drink you're not the same and that's why christians shouldn't drink amen and so he's all just get him to drink a little bit and then i'll say okay uh uriah let's toast the army this is he respectfully says okay and he gives them the strongest drink wine they've got you know wine could have varying levels of alcohol and he makes him drunk and he thinks surely now he'll go to his home he'll go staggering home and then when bathsheba comes up pregnant in and has a baby after only six months we'll just say oh i guess it was a premature um but even drunk he does not go against his conscience this guy's remarkable he goes back and he sleeps again with the barracks david said enough is enough and so what david does is he writes a letter now i'm condensing the story because um but you need to know the background for the psalms we're going to study david writes a letter but keep in mind uriah is one of his friends he and uriah have lived in caves together fighting in the philistines and i mean they're they're old friends he writes a letter he's so worried about losing the respect of his people and literally uriah's got the right to kill david for what he's done according to the bible so david writes a letter he becomes frightened still doesn't repent and confess doesn't trust him god's going to get him out of this sends it to joab a sealed letter sends it by the hand of uriah his own death sentence and job reads a letter and the letter says take uriah set him at the forefront of the hottest battle and retire from him that he dies. now joab is he's an obedient general he may not know what's going on but he's got a direct order from the king it's a sealed order which means this is top secret and so joab i think joab failed here too he knew uriah was a good soldier joab takes uriah and he puts him at the forefront there was a place where they the gates were guarded it was probably the main entrance of robin they had the mightiest men there and he assigns uriah and his little contingent of soldiers and says i want you to go charge storm the gates and uriah looks a job he says hey look you guys we've been fighting together for years we understand war tactics you realize this is a suicide mission why would we charge the gates job says we'll cover you never heard that before we'll cover you we got your back and so obediently uriah and his men they charge the gates of rabbah and at first uriah and his soldiers are covering them then they withdraw and the soldiers up on the wall they get down they fire down a hail of arrows just as you would expect and several soldiers are killed including uriah that's the tragedy so uriah goes into a suicide mission he basically lays down his life to obey that's a great uh lesson for us so david thinks all right as soon as bathsheba gets word that uriah is dead she wears her she goes through the customary period of mourning but it's not very long i think it's truncated because as soon as she's done mourning david takes her his wife so that when she comes up with a baby in about six months uh at least they've got some semblance of a story now god gives david all this time to repent you know god is patient the bible says in ecclesiastes and i forget the verse but i remember the passage because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily therefore the hearts of the sons of men are fully set in them to do evil that means that because god does not thump us with a hammer from heaven as soon as we do wrong we think that we're okay god did not send judgment on david right away because he was giving him time to repent there's a lot of people that have peace in their lives right now not because they're doing well but because god is patient think about how patient god was while noah was building the ark with that nate that world it says the thoughts of their hearts were only evil continually and god gave him 120 years god is loving he's patient god rescued sodom and gomorrah through abraham before he destroyed them years later gave them patience so god gives david this probationary period of time to repent and confess there was a lot of good things about david uh you know god loved david david had done a lot god had chosen david but david had fallen for this terrible sin and so do you think david had peace during that time i mean how could you you kill a loyal friend to take his wife to cover up your sin and other men died in the process i'm sure that he was tormented by that but he had somehow stifled his conscience and then you go to now the wake up call this is our next section and you turn to second samuel chapter 12. oh by the way the end of chapter 11 it says the thing that david had done displeased the lord now that is the understatement of scripture displease that word displease there it means god was extremely aggravated he was disappointed he was grieved by what david had done go to chapter 12 verse 1 and we'll be reading through verse 7. and the lord sent nathan to david and he came to him and he said there were two men in one city now what's happening here it was common for the king to sit usually a couple of times a week and he was the supreme court they had priests scattered throughout the land the levites were to be judges the levites were like your doctors too whenever anyone was examined for any kind of uncleanness or disease the levites often would prescribe cure they'd declare them unclean if it was contagious and the levites would also adjudicate small cases and disputes they had judges in every town and they had levites that would help do this but then the supreme court was the king if they had difficult cases it would come to the king you remember the two women that had the baby and died during the night and they're fighting over the baby the king would sit in judgment on these difficult cases so nathan the prophet friend of david god told nathan what was going on but nathan now is going to get david to confess and basically to condemn himself he says to the king there were two men in one city doesn't say what city one rich the other poor the rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds but the poor man had nothing except one little you lamb which he had brought up ever since it was a lamb and nourished and it grew up together with him and with his children it was a family member it ate of its own food and drank from its own cup we used to have goats years ago and when we milked the goats because the goats would fight over the feed and we didn't have a barn built yet we'd bring the goats into the house i don't know i shouldn't tell you that you probably think i'm unsanitary but so i you know i kind of somewhat relate here a little bit but and he said it ate of his own food any of you ever feed your dogs from the table come on not supposed to do it all the guilty just laughed ate of his own food drank of his own cup and lay in his bosom and it was like a daughter to him and a traveler came to the rich man who refused to take from his own flocks now it was a custom in bible times that if a traveler came you were supposed to host them and you remember when the two travelers came to abraham he told sarah kill the fatted calf and we're gonna you know have a meal so this traveler comes and and instead of providing from his own many flocks and herds he forcefully takes his poor neighbor's only lamb and kills it and feeds it to his guest david's anger was greatly aroused now god is it's sort of silly to say god is very smart because that's obvious but um what was david's occupation his whole early life so he puts this in a story that david could really resonate with did david when he was young did david lay down his life to defend little lambs they were taken by the bear and the lion and here to have this stranger this wealthy stranger who was so greedy david had dealt with a wealthy greedy friend that wasn't a friend a wealthy greedy neighbor his name was nabal that's how david ended up with his wife abigail nabel was just a selfish stingy man and so david's going yeah yeah boy this guy he took his only lamb and david when he hears this his anger was greatly aroused against the man and he said to nathan as the lord lives this man who has done this shall surely die and he will restore fourfold for the lamb because he did this thing and he had no pity and the nathan said these are some of the most stirring words in the bible nathan said you are the man now there are several videos i want to see when i get to heaven and just little vignettes you know but uh i i always i think i've told you i want to see i want to see the look on haman's face you know in the story of esther when haman's invited to this feast and he doesn't know why he's come to this feast but he's just really honored that he's invited to a feast just him the king and the queen and he's invited this feast and finally at the feast the king says esther you've asked for this feast two times now we've had the feast and i'm here with him and he said what's up and esther says your highness there's someone who wants to annihilate me and my people and if you wanted to make a slaves that would be okay but to exterminate us i can't bear this and the king says who is it that would dare to do such a thing and human goes yeah who and esther said thou art the man she said it is this wicked haman i want to see that video that the look how the blood drains from his face and you know jesus he goes around the table he says this night one of you is going to betray me and all the apostles one by one said no we all love you no one none of us we die for you peter actually said that i'll lay down my life for you even if all of these forsake you i'll never forsake you and then one by one they say lord is it i is it i is it i is it i finally judas sees everybody looking at him because he hasn't asked yet and he goes is it i and jesus said thou has said so nathan said to david thou art the man thus says the lord god of israel i anointed you king over israel i delivered you from the hand of saul i gave you your master's house and your master's wives into your keeping i gave you the house of israel and judah and if that this is something that is just amazing god says and if that had been too little i would have given you much more he said david if you had said lord i'm just lacking i need more land and more palaces and more kingdoms or whatever he said i would have given you more i wouldn't think you'd need any more wives i mean you know one is plenty but yeah someone asked benjamin franklin you've heard me share this they asked benjamin franklin they got into a theological argument with him and they said there's nothing in the bible that says a man can't have more than one wife franklin disagreed he says it says you cannot serve two masters he said if you wanted more i would have given you more why have you despised the commandment of the lord not only the commandment that says thou shalt not murder but the commandment that says thou shalt not commit adultery and the commandment that says thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife david broke several commandments here why have you despised the commandment of the lord and done evil in his sight you have killed uriah the hittite with the sword david's thinking well i wasn't there god's saying you did it it's your blood it's his blood on your hands and you've taken his wife to be your wife and you killed him with the sword of the people of amen you killed him with a sword you just use someone else's sword to do it now therefore the sword will never depart from your house because you've despised me and you've taken the wife of uriah the hittite for your wife thus says the lord behold i will raise up adversaries against you from your own house and i'll take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor what you do to others will be done to you and it wasn't just one wife absalom laid with ten of david's wives they were his concubines david took abigail and his other wives with him when he fled from jerusalem but his ten concubines were left behind in the presence of everybody absalom went into the harem he says because you've done this i'll raise up adversaries from your own house his own sons for you did this thing secretly but i'll do this thing before israel and before the sun now david is so overcome with guilt and shame finally he comes to his senses this is the turning point where he discovers rest but he has to go through repentance it says i have sinned against the lord as soon as he repents of his sin nathan says the lord has put away your sin you shall not die however there are consequences because of this deed you've given great occasion to the enemies of the lord to blaspheme by the way this is in the bible did everybody in israel soon know wasn't in all the tabloids in the newspapers what david had done did he lose the respect of his people after this to a great extent they would never have followed absalom against david if david hadn't lost the respect of the people how can david judge his people when he's done this you've given gay great occasion for the enemies of the lord to blaspheme the child who has borne you shall surely die god is basically saying i can't bless this relationship and the whole world's gonna see then nathan departed to his house and the lord struck the child and you know this story david spent seven days on his face and he prayed and uh god kept his word and then the baby died now think about this that son of david died because of david's sin what is jesus title the son of david died because of our sin isn't that right so there's a beautiful analogy here as a result of that now turn in your bibles to oh you know what there's one more story see if i can squeeze it in here talking about thou art the man how many of you remember in the bible where judah had a son and he married a local canaanite gal named temar and judah's son died lord slew him because he was evil so as the custom was the younger brother married tamar and then he died now you're thinking this girl's bad luck now jude is supposed to give his younger son sayla to tamar but he said i i've lost two sons married her i don't know what's wrong but i'm not gonna do the third well she's wearing her widow garments for years and he never follows what he's supposed to do and so tamar says look i'm gonna be a widow and childless the rest of my life and so she disguises herself and probably paints herself up pretty good and dresses like a harlot's what the bible says she knows jude is going to be traveling alone between his flocks she seduces him successfully she says instead of payment you know give me give me your staff and give me your signet ring and he does and then when he goes to get those things back to redeem them with money never can't find this harlot several months later someone tells judah you realize that your your step your daughter-in-law is pregnant and judah says that's scoundrel bring her forth and burn her so they bring her out with a mob and they're going to burn her publicly for her adultery and she said well just before you burn me i think i'll let you know that i'm pregnant by the person who owns these things basically she says to judah thou art the man so does jesus say be careful about judging others because in doing so you might have one of those aha moments where god says before you take the speck out of your neighbor's eye you might want to get the log out of your own eye right okay that's not the lesson but it's good theology i wanted you to just know that also happened to paul he's killing all the christians and jesus appears and said paul you're not fighting for god you're fighting against god thou art the man you're the bad guy not the good guy so there's several of those in the bible so go with me in your bibles to psalm 51 and here you see where god has said he's forgiven david's sin and this is under forgiven and forgotten let's look at the first six verses have mercy upon me oh god david writes a song of pleading for god's mercy according to your loving kindness according to the multitude of your tender mercies blot out my transgressions wash me thoroughly for my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for i acknowledge my transgression and my sin is always before me against you and you only have i sinned well i thought you'd sinned against uriah and maybe even bathsheba but ultimately who is sin against god when joseph was tempted by potiphar's wife joseph said to potiphar's wife how can i sin against god he didn't say against my master all sin is ultimately breaking the law of god it's a sin against our creator against you and you only have i sinned and done this evil in your sight that can we ever sin outside of god's sight can you run from his presence or is everything naked and open to the eyes of god as it says in hebrews that you might be found just when you speak and blameless when you judge behold i was brought forth in iniquity and in sin my mother conceived me behold you desire truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part you will make me to know wisdom you read on psalm now this is under the section something new purge me with hyssop verse 7 and i will be clean wash me and i will be whiter than snow what's that promise in isaiah put away the evil of your doings it says that though our sins be a scarlet they shall be as white as snow though they be red like crimson they shall be as wool make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones that you have broken may rejoice we are humbled sometimes through conviction but god wants to lift us up hide your face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities created me a clean heart oh god and renew a steadfast spirit within me and then when god does that what's the result we then become reflectors of his light when you do that it says restore to me the joy of your salvation then verse 13 i will teach transgressors your ways how can we convert others if we're not surrendered if we have not repented of our sins i will teach others your ways and sinners will be converted to you beautiful psalm one of the most beautiful psalms of repentance david also wrote psalm 32 you can read that verses one through eleven but we don't have time today we i think of uh we're up for our lesson i want to remind those who may be tuning in a little bit late we do have a free offer connected with today's study and it's called no turning back how do you consecrate yourself to the lord and not change your mind if you'd like a free copy of this you can simply call 866-788-3966 and after offer 146 and you can also text sh137 to 40544 you can actually read this online thank you so much for studying with us friends and god willing will continue to study his word together again next week [Music] i went to church as a child i think more out of because that's what you did so i became an altar boy because it looked cool it was very ritualistic which was fascinating to me there was a pattern and a process to it and you got to be out in front of all those people and just do something after that we moved away i never really went to church again as i became a teenager drifted away from church never believed in god never thought about god got through high school did pretty good but again hanging out with the wrong people doing things i shouldn't have been doing just involved in in doing drugs doing recreational drugs sometimes more than recreational drugs and from that i knew i needed some discipline in my life and i joined the u.s navy and i thought that would change my life and in some ways it did but i still had that big hole i was still looking to fill it i now have direction and i had discipline in my life i learned to trade and i never found god it just the circumstances never led me to god i got married while i was in the navy i married a naval officer we married we had son together we didn't go to church god was not a part of our lives and it reflected in our lives and it ended up in a failed marriage for a lot of reasons got in a second failed marriage we didn't have god

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Published: Sat Jul 03 2021