WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.919 Well, good morning, everyone. It's great to be here with you this morning at Brunsfield. 00:00:06.459 --> 00:00:15.099 And I'm aware that many of you won't know me. So I hope you won't mind me asking a personal question. 00:00:16.019 --> 00:00:22.420 When you feel guilty, how do you process your guilt? 00:00:23.740 --> 00:00:29.280 So I'm assuming that you do feel guilty, at least at times. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.119 If you never feel guilty, that's pathologically worrying. 00:00:34.380 --> 00:00:45.840 Whether it's that twinge of guilt that passes really quickly or that burden of guilt that weighs us down year upon year. 00:00:46.760 --> 00:00:52.519 When you feel the pang or the burden, how do you deal with it? 00:00:54.079 --> 00:00:55.900 What's your process? 00:00:55.899 --> 00:01:04.120 David, in Psalm 51, has a quite unusual way of dealing with his guilt. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:09.700 At least unusual in our secular, godless culture. 00:01:10.980 --> 00:01:12.840 He prays about it. 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:19.439 David processes his guilt by crying out to God. 00:01:19.439 --> 00:01:28.700 And not only does this transform how he feels, but it changes the course of his life. 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:33.459 And it impacts the community around him. 00:01:33.459 --> 00:01:41.959 So let's revisit David's prayer and see if God might use this to speak into our lives today. 00:01:42.639 --> 00:01:46.959 Keep that passage open if you've closed it at Psalm 51. 00:01:47.959 --> 00:01:52.459 There's 51st song in the Hebrew songbook. 00:01:52.459 --> 00:02:00.719 Now, if I were to sum up this message in a sentence, it would go something like this. 00:02:01.459 --> 00:02:09.599 To be free from the grip of guilt, humbly pray to a merciful God. 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:16.799 You don't need to copy David's prayer, at least not word for word. 00:02:17.680 --> 00:02:20.240 But you do need to pray like David. 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.000 Authentically, humbly, to a merciful God. 00:02:27.259 --> 00:02:30.240 What does such a prayer sound like? 00:02:31.079 --> 00:02:33.759 What are the dynamics of a repentant prayer? 00:02:33.759 --> 00:02:37.519 How is such a prayer answered? 00:02:37.659 --> 00:02:38.419 Is it answered? 00:02:38.620 --> 00:02:39.479 And in what way? 00:02:41.060 --> 00:02:45.299 Well, let's retrace that as we go through David's prayer together. 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:48.060 There's four bits to this prayer. 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:51.719 First of all, it begins with a desperate cry. 00:02:52.419 --> 00:02:56.579 A desperate cry in the opening couple of verses. 00:02:57.159 --> 00:03:02.799 It's a desperate cry that arises out of a desperate situation. 00:03:03.759 --> 00:03:06.099 Look at the inscription of the psalm. 00:03:07.099 --> 00:03:11.519 The bit before verse 1, which is part of the psalm. 00:03:12.239 --> 00:03:15.419 And a very important backdrop to the psalm. 00:03:16.419 --> 00:03:19.259 Why was David so guilt-ridden? 00:03:20.599 --> 00:03:23.959 In what circumstances was he crying out so desperately? 00:03:25.539 --> 00:03:32.919 Well, he tells us it was because he had committed adultery with Bathsheba. 00:03:33.759 --> 00:03:40.199 A very grim reason for David to have a desperate cry to God. 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:50.319 Now, in our society, adultery is often minimized and even glamorized. 00:03:51.479 --> 00:03:54.419 Adultery, I mean, people rarely use that word nowadays. 00:03:54.419 --> 00:03:55.699 It's just a fling. 00:03:56.359 --> 00:03:57.459 A bit of fun. 00:03:58.559 --> 00:04:02.739 Or if it's seen negatively at all, it's a lapse of judgment. 00:04:04.479 --> 00:04:08.179 The scripture speaks with far greater seriousness about this. 00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:10.959 Adultery is sin. 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:14.760 And it leaves devastation in its wake. 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:25.579 Tragically, David, not a man without any morals, but a man of God, falls in to the sin. 00:04:26.540 --> 00:04:34.780 The long and sorry story is recorded at length in the Bible in 2 Samuel chapter 11. 00:04:34.779 --> 00:04:44.979 A story of a king who abuses his power, indulges his lust, and then covers up his tracks. 00:04:46.519 --> 00:04:56.379 David uses his considerable resources to try to not only ignore what he's done, but to bury the evidence of his sin. 00:04:56.379 --> 00:05:02.139 But there was one set of eyes in the universe that David couldn't escape. 00:05:03.360 --> 00:05:04.680 God saw. 00:05:05.860 --> 00:05:09.800 And the prophet Nathan was sent to call David to account. 00:05:10.319 --> 00:05:14.819 This psalm is written in the aftermath of that confrontation. 00:05:14.819 --> 00:05:27.860 Perhaps it was immediately on the back of that that David went back to his room and finally stopped pretending and began praying. 00:05:28.800 --> 00:05:34.139 With desperation, not only in his heart, but in his voice, he cries. 00:05:35.139 --> 00:05:40.939 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love. 00:05:40.939 --> 00:05:52.920 Now, it's worth just pausing here at the beginning and reflecting on what David doesn't do in response to his sin. 00:05:53.860 --> 00:05:57.100 There's a number of other avenues that David doesn't take. 00:05:58.399 --> 00:06:05.459 He doesn't cower in a corner, feeling crippled with guilt for the rest of his life. 00:06:05.459 --> 00:06:17.259 Neither does he minimize his sin or make excuses for his errors, which is always a popular strategy. 00:06:18.639 --> 00:06:22.259 The yes, I did it, but approach. 00:06:23.399 --> 00:06:26.859 I was wrong, but I was tired. 00:06:27.299 --> 00:06:28.359 I was stressed. 00:06:28.939 --> 00:06:33.859 I was sinful, but don't you know the circumstances that I was in? 00:06:33.860 --> 00:06:35.580 Don't you know what the other person did? 00:06:36.560 --> 00:06:40.180 There's none of that here in David's cry. 00:06:41.280 --> 00:06:43.660 There's no bargaining with God either. 00:06:44.660 --> 00:06:46.360 That's another common approach, isn't it? 00:06:46.360 --> 00:06:52.720 God, if you forgive me my sin, then I will take the rest of my life to make it up to you. 00:06:54.600 --> 00:06:57.900 None of that in the opening of this psalm. 00:06:57.899 --> 00:07:06.279 All this psalm records is the cry of a desperate man who has nothing to trade with God. 00:07:08.079 --> 00:07:13.979 David's only hope is in the character of the God to whom he cries. 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:22.219 A God, verse 1, of mercy, unfailing love, and great compassion. 00:07:22.220 --> 00:07:33.420 And a God who, out of that compassion and love, blots out his transgressions and erases his worst errors. 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:37.280 This brought to mind a school teacher. 00:07:37.560 --> 00:07:39.360 Interesting, this school illustration today. 00:07:40.160 --> 00:07:45.600 I remember a teacher I had who used to mark our work at the front of the class. 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:51.600 You would go up and, of course, my maths in particular was pretty weak. 00:07:52.020 --> 00:07:55.760 So there were plenty of errors to mark and to cross. 00:07:56.420 --> 00:08:05.120 But what I loved about this teacher is she used to take her own rubber and she would erase my errors on the page. 00:08:05.920 --> 00:08:06.980 I loved that teacher. 00:08:07.100 --> 00:08:11.060 I never even needed to go back to my seat and rub them out myself. 00:08:11.060 --> 00:08:17.680 And that's exactly the kind of God that David has. 00:08:19.160 --> 00:08:21.040 His God is like this. 00:08:21.220 --> 00:08:23.300 His God does this. 00:08:25.300 --> 00:08:30.360 There's a long-running series on television called The Equalizer. 00:08:31.139 --> 00:08:35.320 Some of you might have seen the film version with Denzel Washington. 00:08:36.259 --> 00:08:37.840 Who is the equalizer? 00:08:37.840 --> 00:08:43.800 The equalizer is the guy you call when what you need is justice. 00:08:45.300 --> 00:08:51.480 If you've been the victim of a crime and the courts have failed and the police can't help, 00:08:52.820 --> 00:08:56.300 he's the man you need when what you need is justice. 00:08:58.180 --> 00:09:03.680 But I'm guessing he's not much use when what you need is mercy. 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:09.799 Who do you call on when what you need is mercy? 00:09:11.319 --> 00:09:14.039 Well, you can call on David's God. 00:09:15.000 --> 00:09:19.000 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 00:09:19.919 --> 00:09:26.819 who Paul in the New Testament calls rich in mercy and great in love. 00:09:26.820 --> 00:09:31.040 But how do we get the ear of this God? 00:09:32.320 --> 00:09:33.400 Very simple, isn't it? 00:09:34.200 --> 00:09:35.600 We cry to him. 00:09:37.620 --> 00:09:40.300 It doesn't need to be polished or sophisticated, 00:09:41.140 --> 00:09:43.000 but it does need to be real. 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.020 And that takes humility, doesn't it? 00:09:47.980 --> 00:09:49.180 And vulnerability. 00:09:49.179 --> 00:09:53.620 Because when guilt weighs heavily on us, 00:09:54.299 --> 00:09:57.099 the last thing we often want to do is admit it. 00:09:58.539 --> 00:10:02.279 But that's exactly where we need to begin this morning, 00:10:02.279 --> 00:10:04.039 if we're feeling the weight of our sin. 00:10:05.719 --> 00:10:07.059 So a desperate cry. 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:08.739 But notice that David continues. 00:10:09.539 --> 00:10:13.179 There's a depth to this psalm of repentance. 00:10:13.500 --> 00:10:14.079 There's a depth. 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:21.800 Secondly, we move to a deeper diagnosis in verses 3 to 6. 00:10:23.100 --> 00:10:25.160 And what we have in these next verses 00:10:25.160 --> 00:10:31.000 is David's deeper reflection on his own sinfulness. 00:10:32.740 --> 00:10:34.520 It's interesting that, isn't it? 00:10:35.759 --> 00:10:37.580 Often when we're feeling guilty, 00:10:38.259 --> 00:10:42.500 we want to get out of that emotional space as quickly as possible. 00:10:42.500 --> 00:10:45.600 Because it's an unpleasant feeling to have. 00:10:45.919 --> 00:10:49.940 We don't like to linger in thinking about our sin. 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:53.220 But David lingers. 00:10:54.519 --> 00:10:59.120 He meditates even more deeply on the depths of his sin 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:01.700 and the heights of his unholiness. 00:11:02.379 --> 00:11:05.080 And as he does this, as he meditates, 00:11:05.480 --> 00:11:07.399 a couple of insights come to him, 00:11:07.740 --> 00:11:08.820 inspired by the Spirit. 00:11:08.820 --> 00:11:13.580 The first is that his sin, 00:11:14.280 --> 00:11:15.640 first and foremost, 00:11:16.140 --> 00:11:18.140 is a crime against God. 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:21.220 You'll see that in verse 4. 00:11:22.920 --> 00:11:25.360 Against you only have I sinned 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:28.980 and done what is evil in your sight. 00:11:30.440 --> 00:11:32.600 People sometimes think that David is having 00:11:32.600 --> 00:11:36.140 momentary amnesia in verse 4. 00:11:36.139 --> 00:11:38.779 I mean, how can David say this? 00:11:39.759 --> 00:11:43.240 Has David forgotten all the people he has hurt? 00:11:43.960 --> 00:11:46.059 All the people he has sinned against? 00:11:46.740 --> 00:11:49.699 Not least Bathsheba and her husband. 00:11:50.879 --> 00:11:55.980 How can David say that against God only has he sinned? 00:11:57.500 --> 00:11:59.279 Let's just be clear of one thing. 00:11:59.819 --> 00:12:02.340 David is not whitewashing his own sin 00:12:02.340 --> 00:12:03.519 or ignoring the victims. 00:12:03.519 --> 00:12:08.120 And the reason we know that is because of the inscription 00:12:08.120 --> 00:12:09.620 that we just read earlier. 00:12:10.439 --> 00:12:12.000 At the start of the psalm, 00:12:12.159 --> 00:12:15.360 the mention of Bathsheba is something that David wrote. 00:12:15.740 --> 00:12:19.840 David's making that publicly available in this psalm. 00:12:20.319 --> 00:12:22.939 So David knows his crimes against people. 00:12:23.059 --> 00:12:26.000 The nation knows his crimes now through the psalm 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:28.139 that he has wronged others. 00:12:28.139 --> 00:12:31.740 But what David is pointing out 00:12:31.740 --> 00:12:34.419 is that there is a deeper crime. 00:12:35.679 --> 00:12:38.740 There is a more ultimate crime. 00:12:40.340 --> 00:12:42.799 David had sinned against his creator 00:12:42.799 --> 00:12:46.360 and rebelled against his maker. 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:50.139 And that is so serious 00:12:50.139 --> 00:12:54.080 that it is as if that is the only thing 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:55.700 that matters in this equation. 00:12:56.460 --> 00:12:59.560 Until that is reckoned with and sorted, 00:12:59.980 --> 00:13:01.440 nothing else can be sorted. 00:13:03.440 --> 00:13:06.980 David's deepest sin wasn't lust or murder. 00:13:06.980 --> 00:13:09.539 It was godlessness. 00:13:12.180 --> 00:13:13.360 At the end of the day, 00:13:13.420 --> 00:13:16.480 that's what makes all bad behavior so bad, 00:13:16.580 --> 00:13:17.720 so serious. 00:13:19.480 --> 00:13:21.920 If you don't believe in a God, 00:13:22.639 --> 00:13:26.320 if you don't have a divine judge in your worldview, 00:13:27.180 --> 00:13:29.740 then who's to say what's right and wrong? 00:13:29.740 --> 00:13:34.200 It all becomes a matter of personal opinion 00:13:34.200 --> 00:13:35.600 and personal feelings. 00:13:36.700 --> 00:13:40.080 But if there is a God who is above us 00:13:40.080 --> 00:13:41.879 and who has designed us, 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:44.940 then he can tell us what is good 00:13:44.940 --> 00:13:47.320 and tell us what is destructive. 00:13:49.139 --> 00:13:52.419 That's David's first deeper diagnosis. 00:13:53.860 --> 00:13:55.860 All sin is a crime against God. 00:13:55.940 --> 00:13:57.159 That is much more serious 00:13:57.159 --> 00:13:58.620 than even what we've done to others. 00:13:58.620 --> 00:14:03.700 But notice there's another deeper insight here 00:14:03.700 --> 00:14:05.100 in verse 5. 00:14:06.399 --> 00:14:08.019 And buckle up for this one. 00:14:08.200 --> 00:14:08.899 Listen to this. 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:12.279 Surely I was sinful at birth, 00:14:13.259 --> 00:14:17.860 sinful from the time my mother conceived me. 00:14:18.980 --> 00:14:21.320 Now, David doesn't say, 00:14:21.659 --> 00:14:22.539 and he could have said, 00:14:23.200 --> 00:14:26.440 I was sinful from the moment I committed adultery. 00:14:27.039 --> 00:14:28.180 What does he say? 00:14:28.620 --> 00:14:31.560 I was sinful from conception. 00:14:32.259 --> 00:14:34.899 I was sinful from birth. 00:14:36.700 --> 00:14:41.179 Theologians call this the doctrine of original sin. 00:14:42.139 --> 00:14:46.820 The idea that we are born into the world as sinners 00:14:46.820 --> 00:14:49.759 on the basis of the sin of Adam. 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:54.840 We sin because we are sinners. 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:59.080 We don't become sinners because we've committed a sin. 00:14:59.080 --> 00:15:00.080 It's a biblical truth. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:04.379 It's a biblical truth that, of course, 00:15:05.520 --> 00:15:08.540 raises a number of questions in people's minds. 00:15:09.780 --> 00:15:12.680 Not least, is this unfair? 00:15:12.679 --> 00:15:18.399 Is it unfair that people should be born with a propensity to sin? 00:15:19.539 --> 00:15:23.759 Well, that's a question we could spend a lot of time discussing. 00:15:24.239 --> 00:15:25.919 Very philosophical discussion. 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:28.899 But let me say this. 00:15:29.559 --> 00:15:33.679 That however you feel about the doctrine of original sin, 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:36.240 I'm sure you will agree with me, 00:15:36.659 --> 00:15:39.679 it is the most provable doctrine on the planet. 00:15:40.339 --> 00:15:40.860 Right? 00:15:40.860 --> 00:15:46.039 If you doubt that, if you doubt that original sin is a real thing, 00:15:47.139 --> 00:15:49.440 spend five minutes in a kid's nursery 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:54.560 or two minutes in a kid's playground on day one of school 00:15:54.560 --> 00:16:01.139 where kids who have never been taught to be jealous are jealous, 00:16:01.139 --> 00:16:06.399 where children who have never been taught by their parents to be unkind 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.740 are quite capable of it. 00:16:10.100 --> 00:16:12.199 It's instinctive. 00:16:14.480 --> 00:16:17.519 And so the real shock about David's sin 00:16:17.519 --> 00:16:21.480 is that it actually wasn't out of character. 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:27.980 It was an extreme expression of the sinner he always was. 00:16:27.980 --> 00:16:35.340 Friends, if we really want to deal with guilt in our life, 00:16:36.039 --> 00:16:40.159 we must move beyond the incidence of sin 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:44.039 and recognize that sin is part of our identity. 00:16:45.800 --> 00:16:47.820 It's a much more fundamental problem. 00:16:47.920 --> 00:16:50.180 It's not just that I need to be saved from certain mistakes. 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:51.860 I need to be saved. 00:16:54.340 --> 00:16:56.039 Reminds me of the man, you know, 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.299 in the story Jesus told in the Gospels, 00:16:59.019 --> 00:17:00.459 the tax collector, 00:17:02.319 --> 00:17:04.200 a man who had lived a pretty sinful life, 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:08.619 and one day he feels moved to go up to the temple 00:17:08.619 --> 00:17:12.299 and confess his sin to God and see if it works. 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:14.859 And the Bible says that 00:17:14.859 --> 00:17:18.359 he couldn't even raise his head towards heaven, 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:20.460 such was his sense of guilt, 00:17:20.460 --> 00:17:22.480 but he beat his breast 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:23.640 and he said, 00:17:24.019 --> 00:17:26.220 have mercy on me, 00:17:27.539 --> 00:17:28.200 the sinner. 00:17:30.279 --> 00:17:30.880 Notice 00:17:30.880 --> 00:17:34.819 that the man does not even list his sins. 00:17:35.079 --> 00:17:38.579 He does not even catalog his many wrongs. 00:17:39.440 --> 00:17:40.680 He was wrong. 00:17:41.840 --> 00:17:43.160 He was 00:17:43.160 --> 00:17:44.799 the sinner. 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:48.519 The Bible says that that man went home forgiven. 00:17:48.519 --> 00:17:53.259 Because he identified his core problem. 00:17:54.579 --> 00:17:56.799 And it's only when we grasp that, 00:17:57.579 --> 00:17:59.259 that sinners indeed we are, 00:17:59.859 --> 00:18:01.460 that we will be in the position 00:18:01.460 --> 00:18:04.480 to receive the deliverance that now follows. 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.720 And that's what comes next in verses 7 to 12. 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:15.480 So having spent considerable time pondering his sin, 00:18:16.860 --> 00:18:18.500 David finally swivels 00:18:18.500 --> 00:18:21.500 and he thinks about God's deliverance. 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:23.240 So thirdly, 00:18:23.319 --> 00:18:24.600 a divine deliverance. 00:18:26.360 --> 00:18:30.740 Now, notice that David is still praying for forgiveness. 00:18:31.100 --> 00:18:33.500 In fact, that's the case through the whole of this psalm. 00:18:33.500 --> 00:18:36.599 At least in how this psalm is written, 00:18:36.720 --> 00:18:38.200 it's a psalm of expectation. 00:18:39.180 --> 00:18:43.180 He's anticipating the forgiveness to come. 00:18:44.619 --> 00:18:49.799 David starts to list the ways in which he expects God 00:18:49.799 --> 00:18:51.319 to answer his prayer. 00:18:51.319 --> 00:18:54.879 What can you and I expect 00:18:54.879 --> 00:18:57.700 when we humbly cry for mercy, 00:18:58.319 --> 00:19:02.200 when we bank on the cleansing power of God? 00:19:02.759 --> 00:19:06.419 Well, we can expect a whole number of things. 00:19:08.099 --> 00:19:09.339 A cascade, 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:11.139 a kind of waterfall 00:19:11.139 --> 00:19:14.059 of blessing and deliverance. 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:17.639 Let's quickly note these. 00:19:17.700 --> 00:19:18.799 It's almost a list of them. 00:19:18.799 --> 00:19:21.000 In verse 7, 00:19:21.960 --> 00:19:22.759 there's cleansing. 00:19:24.859 --> 00:19:27.440 Remember that muck of David's sin? 00:19:28.980 --> 00:19:29.720 Earlier on, 00:19:29.759 --> 00:19:31.059 he describes it almost like a, 00:19:31.379 --> 00:19:33.079 it's almost like one of these rugby shirts, 00:19:33.200 --> 00:19:33.419 you know, 00:19:33.480 --> 00:19:36.099 that our mother's got to wash every Thursday night 00:19:36.099 --> 00:19:38.639 that you can't even see the original color. 00:19:39.079 --> 00:19:40.299 David needed that cleansing. 00:19:40.460 --> 00:19:41.799 And he says in verse 7 00:19:41.799 --> 00:19:44.579 that he will be purged 00:19:44.579 --> 00:19:46.440 with hyssop. 00:19:46.440 --> 00:19:51.400 I'm guessing hyssop isn't a particularly familiar word to us. 00:19:51.480 --> 00:19:52.039 Hyssop was, 00:19:52.720 --> 00:19:53.620 in the Old Testament, 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:56.660 a branch that the Israelites used 00:19:56.660 --> 00:20:00.519 to dip into animal blood, 00:20:00.920 --> 00:20:01.980 animal sacrifices. 00:20:02.259 --> 00:20:03.980 It was something the Israelites used 00:20:03.980 --> 00:20:05.360 in acts of atonement. 00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:07.900 In other words, 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:11.000 David expects cleansing to come 00:20:11.000 --> 00:20:12.440 through atonement, 00:20:13.440 --> 00:20:14.440 through the blood of atonement. 00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:18.440 That is always how cleansing comes. 00:20:20.220 --> 00:20:22.000 Why do you think Jesus died on a cross? 00:20:24.240 --> 00:20:24.880 Secondly, 00:20:25.019 --> 00:20:26.440 he expects healing 00:20:27.140 --> 00:20:28.400 as part of his deliverance. 00:20:28.460 --> 00:20:29.740 That's verse 8. 00:20:31.539 --> 00:20:32.360 David's bones, 00:20:33.039 --> 00:20:35.140 which have been crushed with guilt, 00:20:36.140 --> 00:20:39.279 will now return to the joy of health. 00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:41.899 Did you know that guilt 00:20:41.899 --> 00:20:44.220 is bad for you physiologically? 00:20:45.779 --> 00:20:47.599 Did you know that forgiveness 00:20:47.599 --> 00:20:49.859 is actually good for your physical health? 00:20:49.980 --> 00:20:50.500 It is. 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:53.839 David even expects 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:56.019 more than that in verse 9. 00:20:56.139 --> 00:20:57.379 He talks of the blessing 00:20:57.379 --> 00:20:59.759 of God hiding his face 00:20:59.759 --> 00:21:01.680 from his sin. 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:04.820 When your sin's forgiven, 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:09.160 God chooses not to see that sin anymore. 00:21:11.180 --> 00:21:13.060 Often we continue to see it, 00:21:13.120 --> 00:21:14.080 but God doesn't see it. 00:21:14.440 --> 00:21:15.820 That's the promise of his word. 00:21:18.060 --> 00:21:19.140 And what is more, 00:21:19.460 --> 00:21:20.060 verse 10, 00:21:20.920 --> 00:21:23.480 there's a purifying that happens 00:21:23.480 --> 00:21:24.519 when we're forgiven. 00:21:24.519 --> 00:21:27.700 There's not just the expunging 00:21:27.700 --> 00:21:29.779 of our record before God, 00:21:30.460 --> 00:21:33.139 but the purifying of our heart. 00:21:34.940 --> 00:21:36.440 I mean, this is not stingy, is it? 00:21:36.440 --> 00:21:38.879 It's a cascade of blessings. 00:21:39.019 --> 00:21:41.299 It's an overwhelming deliverance. 00:21:41.420 --> 00:21:42.000 It results, 00:21:42.619 --> 00:21:43.539 look at verse 11, 00:21:44.200 --> 00:21:46.779 in God abiding with David 00:21:46.779 --> 00:21:50.619 and restoring his joy, 00:21:50.940 --> 00:21:51.779 verse 12. 00:21:51.779 --> 00:21:56.099 One thing that often happens 00:21:56.099 --> 00:21:58.940 when we really mess things up in life 00:21:58.940 --> 00:22:01.960 is that people get real scarce 00:22:01.960 --> 00:22:03.779 really quickly. 00:22:05.559 --> 00:22:08.119 Family, friends who were loyal to us 00:22:08.119 --> 00:22:10.700 often don't want to know us. 00:22:13.019 --> 00:22:15.059 Will God abandon David too? 00:22:16.559 --> 00:22:18.139 Well, not if he prays 00:22:18.139 --> 00:22:20.180 this kind of prayer in Psalm 51. 00:22:20.180 --> 00:22:22.960 He will not be abandoned 00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:25.420 or cast from God's presence 00:22:25.420 --> 00:22:27.440 or have the Holy Spirit 00:22:27.440 --> 00:22:28.500 removed from him. 00:22:30.340 --> 00:22:34.200 No wonder that will lead to his joy. 00:22:35.720 --> 00:22:38.640 Notice his restored joy. 00:22:40.140 --> 00:22:41.360 It's very easy to preach this 00:22:41.360 --> 00:22:43.039 to someone that's maybe not a Christian, 00:22:43.200 --> 00:22:44.600 and I'm going to do that in a moment, 00:22:44.740 --> 00:22:45.259 but actually, 00:22:45.700 --> 00:22:47.200 here's some hope for you. 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:48.160 If you're a believer 00:22:48.160 --> 00:22:49.620 who's stuffed things up, 00:22:50.940 --> 00:22:53.940 David once enjoyed joy 00:22:53.940 --> 00:22:55.560 in fellowship with God, 00:22:55.660 --> 00:22:57.300 and sin has disrupted that. 00:22:58.759 --> 00:23:00.320 Misery has flooded in, 00:23:01.740 --> 00:23:02.900 but in repentance, 00:23:03.060 --> 00:23:05.060 that joy of fellowship is restored. 00:23:06.660 --> 00:23:08.779 It's a comprehensive transformation. 00:23:09.259 --> 00:23:11.019 It's a comprehensive deliverance. 00:23:11.019 --> 00:23:12.980 It's a comprehensive joy. 00:23:15.259 --> 00:23:16.819 Now, in my house, 00:23:16.900 --> 00:23:18.420 I have a number of people 00:23:18.420 --> 00:23:20.879 who love house programs 00:23:20.879 --> 00:23:22.579 of all descriptions, 00:23:23.019 --> 00:23:25.259 and one of the genres of this 00:23:25.259 --> 00:23:26.879 is house transformations. 00:23:28.940 --> 00:23:30.480 I actually like those ones. 00:23:30.859 --> 00:23:32.299 Often there's like a family 00:23:32.299 --> 00:23:33.839 living in a house, 00:23:34.420 --> 00:23:36.680 and the house is completely unsuitable 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:37.259 for them, 00:23:37.259 --> 00:23:39.920 and so they'll send them 00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:40.500 out of the house 00:23:40.500 --> 00:23:42.220 into a hotel for a week, 00:23:42.900 --> 00:23:43.879 and then they'll send 00:23:43.879 --> 00:23:45.759 this huge team of people in 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:47.980 to transform the house, 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:49.220 and it's not like 00:23:49.220 --> 00:23:51.440 a minor set of changes. 00:23:52.480 --> 00:23:54.140 They knock through walls, 00:23:54.839 --> 00:23:56.559 put in new ramps and stairs, 00:23:57.400 --> 00:23:58.220 reconfigure rooms. 00:23:58.220 --> 00:24:00.720 They totally change it 00:24:00.720 --> 00:24:01.460 on the interior, 00:24:02.039 --> 00:24:04.799 and then they bring 00:24:04.799 --> 00:24:05.920 the family back in, 00:24:06.799 --> 00:24:08.140 and what's the result? 00:24:09.259 --> 00:24:10.759 Wide-eyed wonder 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:13.259 and tears of joy 00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:15.039 streaming down their cheeks. 00:24:16.279 --> 00:24:17.600 It's the same house, 00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:20.980 but nothing in it is the same. 00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:25.519 That's what God's deliverance 00:24:25.519 --> 00:24:28.359 feels like in somebody's life. 00:24:29.879 --> 00:24:31.819 It's an absolute transformation 00:24:31.819 --> 00:24:35.059 of your past, present, and future, 00:24:35.900 --> 00:24:37.579 of the inside of your life 00:24:37.579 --> 00:24:39.039 and the outside of your life. 00:24:41.440 --> 00:24:43.039 I'm wondering this morning 00:24:43.039 --> 00:24:45.720 if you have ever had 00:24:45.720 --> 00:24:47.279 that complete transformation. 00:24:49.180 --> 00:24:50.819 Has God given you 00:24:50.819 --> 00:24:55.079 that inside-out deliverance? 00:24:56.420 --> 00:24:58.379 Have you experienced 00:24:58.379 --> 00:25:01.480 the joy that only comes 00:25:01.480 --> 00:25:02.619 from sins forgiven? 00:25:03.859 --> 00:25:04.240 Listen, 00:25:05.200 --> 00:25:07.500 don't misread Psalm 51. 00:25:08.559 --> 00:25:10.740 It is not a psalm designed 00:25:10.740 --> 00:25:12.000 to make you sad. 00:25:12.879 --> 00:25:14.420 It's a psalm 00:25:14.420 --> 00:25:16.720 to take you out of sadness. 00:25:19.700 --> 00:25:21.379 And Brunsfield Church, 00:25:21.380 --> 00:25:24.420 how aware are you 00:25:24.420 --> 00:25:26.440 of how greatly 00:25:26.440 --> 00:25:27.460 you've been forgiven? 00:25:29.800 --> 00:25:32.100 The happiest people on earth 00:25:32.100 --> 00:25:34.020 are forgiven sinners. 00:25:34.019 --> 00:25:40.859 if our joy is low or absent, 00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:43.200 could it be, 00:25:43.660 --> 00:25:44.980 I'm not saying it necessarily 00:25:44.980 --> 00:25:45.839 is the case, 00:25:45.940 --> 00:25:46.900 but could it be 00:25:46.900 --> 00:25:49.160 that one of the reasons is 00:25:49.160 --> 00:25:51.700 we have lost sight 00:25:51.700 --> 00:25:54.119 of our epic deliverance? 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:56.639 We have lost sight 00:25:56.639 --> 00:25:58.839 of how in debt to grace we are. 00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:03.879 Maybe we are robbing ourselves 00:26:03.879 --> 00:26:05.039 of Christian joy 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:08.039 because we are not regularly 00:26:08.039 --> 00:26:10.039 practicing the confession 00:26:10.039 --> 00:26:11.019 of our sin. 00:26:13.199 --> 00:26:16.000 Not just waiting for the big ticket items 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:16.799 to come along 00:26:16.799 --> 00:26:18.419 where we know we really need 00:26:18.419 --> 00:26:19.419 to get on our faces 00:26:19.419 --> 00:26:20.199 and our knees, 00:26:20.740 --> 00:26:23.240 but living that life 00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:25.359 that's dependent on grace, 00:26:25.359 --> 00:26:27.919 that life of continual confession 00:26:27.919 --> 00:26:29.899 and trust. 00:26:32.059 --> 00:26:33.519 It's that kind of life 00:26:33.519 --> 00:26:34.719 that will result 00:26:34.719 --> 00:26:36.619 in a displayed devotion. 00:26:37.740 --> 00:26:40.179 That's our final heading this morning, 00:26:40.279 --> 00:26:42.379 a displayed devotion. 00:26:44.039 --> 00:26:45.139 Notice that this psalm, 00:26:45.259 --> 00:26:46.519 which has been very private 00:26:46.519 --> 00:26:48.359 in some ways so far, 00:26:48.879 --> 00:26:50.299 becomes much more public, 00:26:50.539 --> 00:26:53.240 visible toward the end. 00:26:53.240 --> 00:26:55.880 One of the features 00:26:55.880 --> 00:26:57.299 of the way that our culture 00:26:57.299 --> 00:26:58.220 encourages us 00:26:58.220 --> 00:26:59.220 to process guilt 00:26:59.220 --> 00:27:04.019 is that it's often quite personal 00:27:04.019 --> 00:27:06.059 and, dare I say, 00:27:06.539 --> 00:27:08.120 self-centered, right? 00:27:08.380 --> 00:27:09.980 A secular counselor 00:27:09.980 --> 00:27:10.859 will say to you, 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:12.980 process your feelings of guilt 00:27:12.980 --> 00:27:15.240 so that you feel better, right? 00:27:15.240 --> 00:27:16.620 It's all about you 00:27:16.620 --> 00:27:17.920 enhancing your life. 00:27:19.400 --> 00:27:20.940 But David's repentance 00:27:20.940 --> 00:27:24.200 leads to the benefit of others. 00:27:25.640 --> 00:27:27.799 So, verse 13, he says 00:27:27.799 --> 00:27:30.480 that if God restores him, 00:27:31.160 --> 00:27:33.580 then he will teach transgressors 00:27:33.580 --> 00:27:34.600 God's ways. 00:27:36.340 --> 00:27:38.900 David will start a master class 00:27:38.900 --> 00:27:39.759 in forgiveness. 00:27:40.640 --> 00:27:42.279 And if you want to enroll 00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:43.140 in his course, 00:27:43.360 --> 00:27:44.519 he would be happy for you 00:27:44.519 --> 00:27:45.320 to do so. 00:27:46.080 --> 00:27:47.340 It will be a lecture 00:27:47.340 --> 00:27:49.180 on the road home 00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:50.060 for prodigals 00:27:50.060 --> 00:27:52.620 and how to travel it. 00:27:53.980 --> 00:27:55.220 Because David has taken 00:27:55.220 --> 00:27:56.140 the journey himself 00:27:56.140 --> 00:27:57.220 and he knows the way. 00:28:00.039 --> 00:28:00.920 Restored sinners 00:28:00.920 --> 00:28:03.539 are the best evangelists. 00:28:04.820 --> 00:28:05.240 In fact, 00:28:05.539 --> 00:28:06.180 restored sinners 00:28:06.180 --> 00:28:07.920 are the only evangelists. 00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:11.880 They must be very humble evangelists 00:28:11.880 --> 00:28:13.720 because they're speaking 00:28:13.720 --> 00:28:15.039 out of their own needs 00:28:15.039 --> 00:28:16.160 and their own salvation. 00:28:16.160 --> 00:28:18.960 And as we've already said, 00:28:19.040 --> 00:28:20.100 they are meant to be 00:28:20.100 --> 00:28:21.660 happy evangelists. 00:28:22.779 --> 00:28:23.740 As they notice, 00:28:24.019 --> 00:28:25.980 not only teach God's salvation, 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:27.279 but they sing of it 00:28:27.279 --> 00:28:28.779 and they praise it. 00:28:29.259 --> 00:28:30.920 Verse 15 and 16. 00:28:31.360 --> 00:28:31.640 Actually, 00:28:31.779 --> 00:28:32.519 our singing, 00:28:33.220 --> 00:28:34.060 which was very good 00:28:34.060 --> 00:28:34.600 this morning, 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:36.740 is something of an indication 00:28:36.740 --> 00:28:38.580 of the joy 00:28:38.580 --> 00:28:40.680 of our sins forgiven. 00:28:40.680 --> 00:28:43.980 such people 00:28:43.980 --> 00:28:45.480 will live lives 00:28:45.480 --> 00:28:46.560 that aren't characterized 00:28:46.560 --> 00:28:48.360 by fake sacrifice, 00:28:49.220 --> 00:28:51.320 but by an ongoing 00:28:51.320 --> 00:28:52.299 broken spirit 00:28:52.299 --> 00:28:53.140 of confession. 00:28:53.620 --> 00:28:53.960 And 00:28:53.960 --> 00:28:55.940 this devoted life 00:28:55.940 --> 00:28:57.000 will involve prayer 00:28:57.000 --> 00:28:59.320 for others as well 00:28:59.320 --> 00:29:02.140 in verses 18 and 19. 00:29:03.380 --> 00:29:04.440 Notice that the psalm 00:29:04.440 --> 00:29:05.259 ends with David 00:29:05.259 --> 00:29:05.960 no longer praying 00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:06.740 for himself, 00:29:07.740 --> 00:29:09.400 but praying for Jerusalem. 00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:11.440 and praying for the 00:29:11.440 --> 00:29:13.160 spiritual condition 00:29:13.160 --> 00:29:14.300 of the nation. 00:29:15.120 --> 00:29:15.940 Remember that David 00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:17.080 was the king 00:29:17.080 --> 00:29:18.200 of the nation. 00:29:19.040 --> 00:29:20.759 He was meant to be 00:29:20.759 --> 00:29:21.740 the spiritual leader 00:29:21.740 --> 00:29:22.519 of the people. 00:29:24.040 --> 00:29:25.180 His prayer for them 00:29:25.180 --> 00:29:26.759 is that not only 00:29:26.759 --> 00:29:27.640 will his life 00:29:27.640 --> 00:29:28.380 be restored, 00:29:29.140 --> 00:29:30.860 but that everyone's life 00:29:30.860 --> 00:29:31.780 will be restored 00:29:31.780 --> 00:29:32.820 and built up 00:29:32.820 --> 00:29:34.840 to the glory of God. 00:29:34.839 --> 00:29:38.179 We haven't really 00:29:38.179 --> 00:29:40.199 got hold of Psalm 51 00:29:40.199 --> 00:29:42.279 if it ends with us 00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:44.259 hiding in our rooms, 00:29:44.919 --> 00:29:46.019 confessing all the sins 00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:47.339 we can ever think of. 00:29:48.639 --> 00:29:50.079 Out of the joy 00:29:50.079 --> 00:29:52.199 of private restoration, 00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:53.699 we're called 00:29:53.699 --> 00:29:54.859 to public witness, 00:29:55.919 --> 00:29:58.000 living lives 00:29:58.000 --> 00:29:58.819 with integrity, 00:30:00.299 --> 00:30:01.439 teaching the gospel 00:30:01.440 --> 00:30:02.640 with clarity, 00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:04.840 and praying 00:30:04.840 --> 00:30:06.259 for others diligently 00:30:06.259 --> 00:30:08.559 that they too 00:30:08.559 --> 00:30:09.940 might know this joy. 00:30:13.100 --> 00:30:14.420 And we do this, 00:30:14.500 --> 00:30:15.180 of course, 00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:16.160 in the knowledge 00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:18.160 that Jesus 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:19.160 makes all 00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:20.620 of Psalm 51 00:30:20.620 --> 00:30:21.220 possible. 00:30:23.100 --> 00:30:24.120 Maybe you've been 00:30:24.120 --> 00:30:24.940 wondering as we've 00:30:24.940 --> 00:30:25.940 gone through this psalm, 00:30:26.059 --> 00:30:27.259 how and where 00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:29.039 Jesus features. 00:30:29.039 --> 00:30:31.139 And it's one 00:30:31.139 --> 00:30:32.159 of the trickier Psalms 00:30:32.159 --> 00:30:32.879 in that regard, 00:30:32.940 --> 00:30:33.299 isn't it? 00:30:33.339 --> 00:30:33.799 Because, 00:30:34.839 --> 00:30:35.139 well, 00:30:35.359 --> 00:30:35.960 we know, 00:30:36.119 --> 00:30:36.759 after all, 00:30:37.339 --> 00:30:38.539 Jesus wasn't a sinner. 00:30:39.259 --> 00:30:40.339 It's not quite so easy 00:30:40.339 --> 00:30:41.319 to say that Jesus 00:30:41.319 --> 00:30:42.799 sang this psalm 00:30:42.799 --> 00:30:43.519 in quite the way 00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:44.740 that we would sing it. 00:30:46.619 --> 00:30:47.339 Yet while 00:30:47.339 --> 00:30:49.259 he wasn't a sinner, 00:30:50.759 --> 00:30:51.680 Jesus bore 00:30:51.680 --> 00:30:52.619 the burden 00:30:52.619 --> 00:30:54.099 of sin. 00:30:55.720 --> 00:30:57.339 All of the filthiness, 00:30:57.339 --> 00:30:59.659 all of the blots 00:30:59.659 --> 00:31:00.439 on the book, 00:31:01.359 --> 00:31:02.619 all of the 00:31:02.619 --> 00:31:04.559 body-wracking guilt 00:31:04.559 --> 00:31:06.439 that was ours 00:31:06.439 --> 00:31:08.000 was laid 00:31:08.000 --> 00:31:09.220 on his body. 00:31:11.139 --> 00:31:12.000 God's face 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:12.599 was hidden 00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:13.319 from him 00:31:13.319 --> 00:31:15.839 so that God's face 00:31:15.839 --> 00:31:16.599 might be hidden 00:31:16.599 --> 00:31:18.659 from my sin. 00:31:20.519 --> 00:31:21.319 Psalm 51 00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:22.459 only works 00:31:22.459 --> 00:31:23.879 because Jesus 00:31:23.879 --> 00:31:25.019 bore the burden 00:31:25.019 --> 00:31:26.400 of dying 00:31:26.400 --> 00:31:27.779 like a sinner. 00:31:29.660 --> 00:31:30.519 And through 00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:31.559 his church today, 00:31:32.879 --> 00:31:34.139 Jesus is teaching 00:31:34.139 --> 00:31:35.259 a guilty world 00:31:35.259 --> 00:31:36.960 the road 00:31:36.960 --> 00:31:37.559 of repentance. 00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:39.839 He's showing us 00:31:39.839 --> 00:31:41.339 the way home 00:31:41.339 --> 00:31:43.000 through a psalm 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:43.799 like this. 00:31:45.200 --> 00:31:46.319 And he's praying 00:31:46.319 --> 00:31:47.099 for each of us 00:31:47.099 --> 00:31:47.700 this morning 00:31:47.700 --> 00:31:49.079 in words 00:31:49.079 --> 00:31:49.819 that he would cry 00:31:49.819 --> 00:31:50.680 from the cross. 00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:52.320 Father, 00:31:53.740 --> 00:31:54.480 forgive them. 00:31:56.259 --> 00:31:57.299 I wonder today 00:31:57.299 --> 00:31:57.980 whether we 00:31:57.980 --> 00:31:59.299 will enter 00:31:59.299 --> 00:31:59.900 the joy 00:31:59.900 --> 00:32:01.740 of those sins 00:32:01.740 --> 00:32:02.200 forgiven. 00:32:03.799 --> 00:32:04.740 And I wonder 00:32:04.740 --> 00:32:05.660 as God's people 00:32:05.660 --> 00:32:07.360 whether we will 00:32:07.360 --> 00:32:08.620 continue in that joy 00:32:08.620 --> 00:32:10.580 living what 00:32:10.580 --> 00:32:11.060 Martin Luther 00:32:11.060 --> 00:32:11.620 called 00:32:11.620 --> 00:32:12.920 a lifestyle 00:32:12.920 --> 00:32:13.900 of repentance. 00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:16.000 Not just the beginning 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:17.259 of the Christian life 00:32:17.259 --> 00:32:18.100 but the pattern 00:32:18.099 --> 00:32:19.159 of the Christian life 00:32:19.159 --> 00:32:21.199 all the way 00:32:21.199 --> 00:32:23.279 until our cleansing 00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:23.919 and forgiveness 00:32:23.919 --> 00:32:25.939 is complete. 00:32:27.639 --> 00:32:28.519 Let's pray 00:32:28.519 --> 00:32:30.759 for just a few moments. 00:32:39.759 --> 00:32:40.980 And let's not let 00:32:40.980 --> 00:32:42.139 these moments pass 00:32:42.139 --> 00:32:43.259 without considering 00:32:43.259 --> 00:32:45.980 what God 00:32:45.980 --> 00:32:46.480 is saying 00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:47.259 to us 00:32:47.259 --> 00:32:48.079 personally 00:32:48.079 --> 00:32:50.180 by his spirit. 00:32:56.619 --> 00:32:57.720 Whether we're here 00:32:57.720 --> 00:32:58.339 as someone 00:32:58.339 --> 00:32:58.960 who isn't 00:32:58.960 --> 00:33:00.000 a person of faith 00:33:00.000 --> 00:33:03.200 whether we're here 00:33:03.200 --> 00:33:03.740 as a person 00:33:03.740 --> 00:33:04.279 who is 00:33:04.279 --> 00:33:05.480 and we've messed up 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:08.779 and we've not 00:33:08.779 --> 00:33:09.460 confessed it 00:33:09.460 --> 00:33:10.379 let us bring 00:33:10.379 --> 00:33:12.460 our cries 00:33:12.460 --> 00:33:12.900 to God 00:33:12.900 --> 00:33:13.400 quietly 00:33:13.400 --> 00:33:14.160 in our hearts. 00:33:19.160 --> 00:33:20.299 Have mercy 00:33:20.299 --> 00:33:21.039 on us 00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:21.559 O God 00:33:21.559 --> 00:33:24.019 according to 00:33:24.019 --> 00:33:25.299 your unfailing love 00:33:25.299 --> 00:33:26.039 according to 00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:27.460 your great compassion 00:33:27.460 --> 00:33:29.360 blot out 00:33:29.360 --> 00:33:30.620 our transgressions 00:33:30.620 --> 00:33:32.180 wash away 00:33:32.180 --> 00:33:32.799 all 00:33:32.799 --> 00:33:33.700 my 00:33:33.700 --> 00:33:34.340 iniquity 00:33:34.340 --> 00:33:36.299 and 00:33:36.299 --> 00:33:36.980 cleanse me 00:33:36.980 --> 00:33:37.900 from my sin 00:33:37.900 --> 00:33:39.740 we ask 00:33:39.740 --> 00:33:40.380 in Jesus 00:33:40.380 --> 00:33:40.740 name 00:33:40.740 --> 00:33:42.539 Amen. 00:33:42.539 --> 00:33:42.599 Amen.