The Importance of Confessing, Part 2, August 15, 2010 |

The Importance of Confessing, Part 2, August 15, 2010

Posted by admin on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me hear joy and gladness,
That the bones You have broken may rejoice.
9 Hide Your face from my sins,
And blot out all my iniquities.

10 Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 Do not cast me away from Your presence,
And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation,
And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
13 Then I will teach transgressors Your ways,
And sinners shall be converted to You.

14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God,
The God of my salvation,
And my tongue shall sing aloud of Your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
And my mouth shall show forth Your praise.
16 For You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it;
You do not delight in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit,
A broken and a contrite heart—
These, O God, You will not despise.

18 Do good in Your good pleasure to Zion;
Build the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then You shall be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness,
With burnt offering and whole burnt offering;
Then they shall offer bulls on Your altar.

As we began looking into confession from David’s perspective we saw that Psalm 51 gives a wonderful example of how to confess our sins to God. We complete the two-part lesson by seeing that David prayed for renewal and restoration from the Lord, he vowed to take his new found freedom from sin and teach others about the benefits of confession, and he prayed that throughout the whole process God’s will had to come first. The great King David still teaches today the benefits that come from confession of sin.