April 14, 2024

Never the Same: Confessing Your Way Out of the Pit of Failure! Psalm 51

Psalm 40:1-3

When God Confronts and Convicts: 2 Samuel 12:1-15

Hold God In the Highest of Esteem!

Agree, Immediately!

The Way of Saul! 1 Samuel 15:12-24

You Practice Partial Obedience, while pretending Full Obedience
You Give Yourself Full Credit for Your Seemingly Spiritual Victory.
When God Confronts You Say: “It isn’t So!”
You Blame Someone Else for Your Rebellion:
You Substitute Sacrifice for Obedience. Psalm 40:6-8 1 Cor 13:1-3
Downplay Disobedience, When God calls it Like Witchcraft

Possess A Godly Sorrow that Produces Repentance:

Romans 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the Kindness of God leads you to repentance.

2 Corinthians 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without egret, leading to salvation but the sorrow of the world produces death.

The Confession from “A Godly Sorrow” Psalm 51

An Appeal to the Glory of God: (1-3) Exodus 34:7-9

A Genuine Confession,

That Knows You Deserve Judgment: 4
That takes Full Responsibility: 4 –
That Understands Your Personal Guilt
That Understands Your Absolute Depravity and Propensities to Sin. 5

A Genuine Conviction & Faith that Only God can Transform.

From the Inside Out. 6
From Dirty to Clean from the Corruption to Purity: 7
From an Impure Heart to a Clean Heart. 10
From Faltering Spirit to a Steadfast spirit 10

A Faith to Know the Basic Needs for Restoration:

The Presence of the Lord 11
And the Power of the Holy Spirit 11

A Faith To Experience Total Transformation and Restoration

To Teach Transgressors His Ways 13
To See Sinners Converted to Him. 13
To Declare the Praise of Our Great God. 14

Psalm 103: Knowing the Nature of Our Father who Keeps on Giving