The Sermon Grace - Amazing by David McGee
Sep 08, 2013
Grace - Amazing (41:26)
Referenced Scriptures: Psalm 51:1-5; Genesis 2:16-17; Genesis 3:1-6
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Psalm 51:1-5
1) Have mercy on me, God, according to your lovingkindness. According to the multitude of your tender mercies, blot out my transgressions.
2) Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin.
3) For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
4) Against you, and you only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in your sight; That you may be proved right when you speak, And justified when you judge.
5) Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity. In sin did my mother conceive me.
Genesis 2:16-17
16) Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
17) but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it you will surely die."
Genesis 3:1-6
1) Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, ‘You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?‘"
2) The woman said to the serpent, "Of the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat,
3) but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.‘"
4) The serpent said to the woman, "You won‘t surely die,
5) for God knows that in the day you eat it, your eyes will be opened, and you will be as God, knowing good and evil."
6) When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit of it, and ate; and she gave some to her husband with her, and he ate.
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Now if I were choosing songs for today's message, it wouldn't have been the chosen in the better ones. You know, amazing and great, amazing Grace, and then not come home running and then you know everything bows before you humming those are just hand-picked so that it will looking at Psalm fifty one, and I guess I've entitled the message grace amazing Grace amazing and Psalm fifty one, is a Psalm of David and David has no oil. David has been have and I say this. David has strayed from his use of relationship with God in his his relationship with the nation of Israel. He is lost his focus and he has committed adultery. He has taken that Shiva and she has become pregnant and so David, you're being to new figures. While you know I can handle this. I'm change solely take Sarah has her husband sent to the front of the battle and her husband is killed, he married Bathsheba Hsia, she's got have a child who can say anything, I'm king in a Oregon cake and that's okay. And so then it is, lost his perspective on right and wrong. He has lost his way and so he thinks that nobody can do anything and everybody knows it now. I'm the court. They know what's going on, while anyhow, the prophet Samuel comes and says David gives this illustration about an individual having many sheep and his neighbor fun night neighbor chaperoning is one sheet and the guy goes over and takes is one she'd been killed and ate a lot. He's got many sheep and he tells us out of the don't have one. He has is his sheet. Bake until the endeavor gets all outrage. Instead were going well until that man were to punish him and his angle says you're the guy David has yet a lot of many wives and you took the one wife of your your general and then you have your general killed and here you are and God knows what happened, and it was that situation enforces David to come to the reality and come to grips with how he had distanced himself from where he should be no David was supposed to be in it talks about how that in the time of battles in the time of war. David was supposed to be with his armies out fighting the battles but David had some accomplished commanders. Yet some accomplished generals and so then it says it all. What you guys go and love others will stay back in Jerusalem and rest in the palace while he was giving up forsaking becoming complacent with his leadership role as King and leaving his armies. The web become complacent in his relationship with God, and looked at as Sheba and lusted after her and took her in and all and had an affair with her and he had become complacent in all this, even to the point that you know I'm kidding you know what that matter. And when Samuel brought this to his attention, and Damon realize how far he had come away from his relationship with God and what he had done. That's when the reality of this sin gets it now. I had a look at it. There's there's two types of sorrow. There is godly sorrow and there is kind of the sorrow of art by society. Godly sorrow yes I sorrow liver produces repentance introduces a heartfelt repentance about what has happened, and I've done wrong in the sight of God, and I've been wrong before God, and is hurting and that there is a sorrow that says, you know what I should and got caught that sorrow doesn't cut it. And whenever I counsel lot. There were individuals who had done some very, very either put an electric chair in. I had a tortured them, but you know, they sat there and talk to me and they were sorry they got caught, but they weren't sorry for what they've done and I I member. One individual in particular that I spoke to, and I've I may, I think I've said this before, but this was the wall. They don't build one individual that I got out of the chair and went over to them: get out of my office because he did may be self frustrated with his indifference to his actions and that he came there because if he came to Christian counseling, they wouldn't press charges, and he came there, and I can still remember him setting their and he had not one ounce of remorse for the sins that he and done for numerous years. I told him to get out because there was no sorrow. There, there was an. This wasn't just one meeting. This was a number of meetings in which we talked about, talk about talk about it, and it was like he is had to say to him if you don't repent of what you've done, you know, basically saying Gosselin for a job and I'm telling you to leave my office because of what you've done David here is in the the jubilation in which he feels that no UK, they can do basically whatever you want to get away with it. But whatever comes to our relationship with God, and who we are in the inside, and Damon talks about here in the Samana wanting truth. Truth on the inside advantage of loss that he had lost the truth on the inside, and whatever he was confronted with losing the truth he does. He doesn't like collapses before God, and he is repentant and godly sorrow mafia, what have I done, however I failed so distinctly and Mrs. Psalm fifty one, and were reading verses one through fifteen and reading the message Bible and I have some little excerpts here from the King James, a kind reminder seven and this is David's repentance in the King James, he says, have mercy upon me, O God, and the message it says generous and love God gives grace children mercy wipe out my bad record. Scott scrubbed away my guilt sunk out my sins and in your laundry. I know how bad I've been my sins, staring me down the King James, this is my sin is ever before me for David's just your dislike while in cat illnesses. This is so tragic in his life. You're the one I violated and give seen it all. Seeing the full extent of my evil in the King James. It says against DMV only have I sent and done this evil in your sight, you have all the facts before you. Whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time in the wrong since before I was born what you're after is truth from the inside out intermediate I see a new true life so leaving your laundry and I will become out clean scrubbed me and I'll have a snow white light gently into foot tapping song set these once broken bones. The dancing don't look too closely for blemishes give me a clean bill of health God make a fresh start with me. Shape a Genesis week, the chaos of my life from the chaos of my life between James has created me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Shape a Genesis week in the dogs roaming out with the trash or failed to breathe holiness in the bring me back from gray exile put a fresh wind in my sale King James is restoring to me the joy of my salvation. Give me a job teaching ruffles your ways so the loss to find their way home communities my death sentence got my salvation. God, and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways unbuttoned my lips, their God, and all loose. I'll let loose with your praise restore unto me the joy of my salvation, so this song then speaks of where we come from the psalmist. It is your son has said the dishonest is basically a form of repentance and how people come to know God and make a recognize their godly sorrow and repent of it in the long, but this is also somber. We need to read and read over again and recognize where we come from, where we were wrapped in missing the mark where we were out of step with God and God has made and also new nature God has given us a new life. I'm a new job, the new job is teaching rebel the two rivals. Way, letting God speak through us and speak his word in our life so that Islam is Islam repentance, a song written by David a song written after he has gone into this affair and this horrendous crimes of sending his king and his general to to is that by going into battle being the front man in the takeover, the can't take over the city. So David van is out of step. He has overlooked one thing his complacency has creeped into his life, and this complacency has given him a concept that everything is as it should be, and I'm pretty good, broad math and everything is all right. It's a lot like Adam and Eve in the garden to be in the Genesis. We did this on a Sunday school lesson, and I was with was mentioning in Sunday school that when I wrote this sermon and wrote this long before I had started to read the Sunday school lessons, study it, and the Sunday school lesson and SR very similar, so maybe knew some of the same Scriptures that are in Sunday school for this debate. So you needlessly need to come sensible men. A great time talking about sorry, how to assist health advertisement globe within their laboratory in the Sunday school with coffee and donuts become at nine thirty, so if you feed them, they will come so on. I thought in the Bible. Okay, now that was a movie if you build it they will come wasn't quite feed them is built, did that was the idea of what happens if you know it's funny how things get twisted and that's what happened when Adam and even the garden and with the Word of God. Things get worse as they get out of focus now I the movie whenever they built the stadium stuff when they are built. They were come, but with yucky freedom, they will come Ellis, like a wall money is the root of all evil, know the love of money is the root of all evil. While cleanliness is next to godliness. No doubt it's good, they claim, but that doesn't make you like God. Okay, I'm sorry. They laughed. Yes yet. I think, but it doesn't mean you're like God after you take a bath. I thought is not in the Bible. Now so anyhow, Genesis chapter two. God gave this command he gave it to Adam is working to keep straight. When God gave the commandment not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He told Adam and Eve wasn't created yet ladies, you always want off the hook. This is that I don't know about the book down the street preacher said I'm off the hook. I took a bath, unclean, the book. What else can there be in a one Genesis chapter three. The serpent, who was clever, more clever than all the wild animals. God has made. He spoke to the woman do I understand the God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden. The first misconception is God told Adam Donald E all of one tree, tree of knowledge of good and evil only thing at the second reason for this. Adam and Eve. Adam was created to be caretaker of what God created he had one commandment donated to treat the reason for that is, God is the owner. Adam is the caretaker we when we give our life to Christ, God of the old there we are. The caretaker when the caretakers of our life on our garden and we are responsible before God, you godless liberal things in our garden and we have the right to tell them no growth someplace else or we have the right to say God, your God is only given us two commandments in the garden that we live in love God, love your neighbor as yourself going to commend cellular resentment at AMI don't have one. But anyhow, what does it say can do a test ease by making her a question. While the ontology attending any training garden is as well, not at all. When Jenny from the trees in the garden installing the out entry in the middle of the garden, God said no increment and don't even touch in her unit die hello, thank you you thought you thought Bob was done in the athletic field, laughing way back then, right on cue, I cannot yet you got a brink of the church. They know exactly when the right time to jump in there is any rate on your way to thought God was, not so anyhow he didn't get the Commandments straight. He exaggerated the Commandments. She said all were not allowed to touch it orbital to die. You know what he has in the concept of what dying is and God didn't say don't touch it to David so what happens is we began and many people are like this, why don't go to church because I don't understand is understand that it generally is an exaggerated form of some obscure passage in the Bible that they are and I will work in your letter try and explain it to them. And when you're done, right. I'll be good to do very well because because we need all with the VI is we have to do the work speaks for itself. You don't understand. I'll think you know that your site. I would not have T-bone steak and of them opens up to you and said you know what I thought you said you getting all states. While that's why we can eat the entire state, or delete the bone will know when the necessary allow. When you eat T-bone steak, need about, you need to make the leap about right. You get about the dog something like that in our understanding of the Scripture. There are some things that we don't understand, but there are some things that we don't understand. But you know, with the passing of time and the maturing you begin to understand other things, you cannot put aside. It's like telling a child don't complain the street when they do I get my car is standing on the sidewalk less than one per I get my car stand up on her arms on the street I live far while with age, and when they have kids willing inside the house down the street because it took a while for them to get the concept that you'll get you're going to get hurt out there on the street, so understand there are some things that we don't understand, but take the truth. We do understand and know that true while in here is playing into the hands of out of state and because Satan is playing the game here and, what if there is no think that you can even entering the lot of our beginning from the trees in the garden. It's all right if one were not allowed to touch the serpent told the woman involved. I can't knows that the moment you eat of the tree that you'll see what's really going on there to be just like God you go to know everything ranging from all the way from good to evil. First of all is I've got a concept of what death is. Just think about a concept of what evil is and so when Satan says you're not going to die installing her half-truth because she is going to live forever, but he's planning on her spending eternity with him. Evil decision, and most of is to destroy God 's creation to destroy God 's image in us. IMO wants to take away the image of God in your life. The image of God is the moral fiber of who we are as a person. It is the fiber. The car created in us and created lots of the very beginning, so keep God wants us to know the word and to know what the word says and entered, taken in its context, and it within the context of the whole book. It takes the Scripture to interpret the Scripture you know you can. People will take obscure passages in and isolate them and say say what this means, and if, like all in taking out of context and reading it sure doesn't make sense. But when you put within the framework of what is said, what has been said, but instead throughout the Scriptures got sixteen hundred years of the Bible being written by multiple authors, and there is one person who inspires it, it's gone. That's why there is a contextual strain. There is a contractual flow from the hallway from the beginning to the end about reconciliation and redemption and forgiveness that even appears here at the very beginning in the garden so we know the word take the word and understand the word and allow the Scripture to tell us and talk to us about the character of God, Adam and Eve they broke God 's commandments, and it seemed like they became complacent in this place of relationship with God while temptations come to everyone and temptations come to us now and in the context of Adam and Eve. There are three template three categories were temptation always fall into lust of the eyes, lest the flesh, and the pride of life, it looks good. It feels good to make me more than what I am getting now if you look at the advertising that goes on in arts in our society. It makes you look good. It will make you feel good in this make you better than what you are surely one advertisement doesn't talk about those three things. Those are the three categories that he was tempted with kindergarten is still the same three categories attempt us and we are tempted by those little areas of our life, we cannot have hidden in remote areas will seek when God creates a clean heart renews a right spirit in us. He is walking with us and David. You know got a weakness here any open attentiveness or something come along and present something defendant is going to tempt you to go in the wrong direction. So Damon walked into the SanDisk this trap, knowing completely what he was doing. I'm changing I can do whatever I please. But the outcome was something that he had never imagined the outcome was something he couldn't believe what happened to seek God had brought David from being a shepherd boy watching sheep, the king of Israel. His writings of his songs and his leadership would be examples that that all generations were following Judaism and even for us. We study and to look at it, and even the promise that his descendents would sit upon the throne of Israel forever, the Messiah and David risk it all for this affair with Bathsheba Satan independent. This is a quote from the Sunday school lessons morning says Satan give Satan gave Adam and Apple and took away paradise. Satan gave Adam and Apple. They really, we don't know what kind of fruit. It was, but he gave a even Adam and Apple, and he took away paradise. There are temptations that come to us and we need to consider what were going to lose not going to gain and always temptation look good, feel good, make me more than what I am David thought that his he was untouchable as King and Guzman to do something against me and surely I have all my Whisenhunt reminds what's one more and decided to do away with while God is in slacken his promises, meaning that if God were vengeful God. It would killed Adam and Eve started over again. And if you have a God when you and David said to him, and another guy near God doesn't work that way. The promise of God is the tier talks about it. The is is gone instantly with his promises of some measure lateness is restraining himself on account of you think God if there is a God in heaven when strike me dead in our next thirty seconds. Okay, so here you are, you think you can exhaust the grace of God in thirty seconds when the entire humanity and all the sins and failures of humanity has not exhausted the grace of God you are stand there and somehow be belligerent enough to say that I have eleven strike me dead didn't happen to forget the cry is, but you know people will say anything and why you see, there is no God. And now this is howling. This is that, given that best suit when I go to help, so I don't get Barnhart Hall Law gave ready but you see, God is in slack. He is a lax in his promises. He is restraining himself because he loves you more than you understand he has more grace for your life and the lives of the people that are in here lives of people who won't go to church the lives of people who want darken the door of any time, religion because they just don't believe they've seen too many phone. They seem to me that they've seen that you want the world is full of hypocrites. I am. I've never been to a bar. I really have one time I was a bar and I went inactive to talk to someone about broad mention that I was walking down the street in Rhode Island and if I close about the agreement that all meters place because we felt God wanted us to go against the related Bible in her hand and she screamed. I walked into the barn. I was trained none of the people from the school salami, because I did get down. I wanted as far as stand-in and unlike verified as all these people smoking is barking is, whenever not, and I just turned around and ate up the dispersant- God has me here for you and I start talking to him. He says I can't believe you came here to tell me that I can't because I used to go to church, but I've been running away from God. And I said, God brought me here to tell you that he loves you and you want you back the message that God has set the same message. Samuel gave to David, and it's the same message that God gives to each of us all the time he always lets the bring us closer to him. He's not original. I must be going to lead us in delivering his message, and if jamming it giving everyone's space and time to change you know why God doesn't just a stopping of the second coming of Christ. The trump of God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up in the human ear. A why God is coming back because he's getting everyone's space and I change the other gracious and loving and kind God who wants to get every living person. I check in heaven and he is he is waiting, wanting people running home, home running. He's getting every living being. Every person the chance and there is a day and there will come a day in which it will be over, but right now he gives everyone space and time to change this song is David Lee for mercy in God 's grace when David states in verse four that he has sinned against God, he says, you and this is one of those this is one assault he says it is one of the verses is like, how can this be how does that make sense. He says against God. You are the one I've violated. That's the message Bible, King James said against you and you only, I have sinned and done evil in your sight. David has said with Bathsheba then complacent in his leadership as King sends one of his leaders of his army to his death. He says God you're the only one that I've affected in this while every day on the news. We have people who are victims with people who have been hurt raw filled family Zubin had loved ones taken from the assaulted these are victims, but alternately ultimately every offense is against God. Every offense where people rebel against the character. The moral character that is inside of the created by God. There are some people who live with a seared conscience is seared consciences. They have no feeling anymore for good. There have no feeling anymore for remorse have no feeling because they have done it so long and so wafted they don't feel that anymore, but they are still going to be accountable for there is a judgment day God is waiting with his grace to forgive, but the accounting is still there. Bible says vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay. That is why God wants us to focus on forgiving. That is why God wants us to let go of the pain and let go of it until the pain is gone we keep forgetting until our pain is gone in our life the field and we're going on with life. Because every person that has created these pains is still going to be accountable to God, and I can't be there, Judge, their actions will be there John before God. That's why I forgive because I have to, I can live with all that pain. I can't blame of all those those hertz, and those things have been done. I can look within. That's why I have to forgive them about finding God 's hand and they didn't get away with it, God holds us accountable, unless just like us in this moment of time, like David, we confess, and we ask God for forgiveness. David repents, he has a godly sorrow. He has full of remorse and repent places himself in a in a position where he cries out to God and ask for forgiveness and grace that forgives and restores is a costly grace is the Samuel didn't come into Damon Sega what you sent, but you're forgiven. It's not that the grace that we have is like sometimes we bestow grace is saying a lot. God has grace for all of us. Okay, you've all got it, go home. That's kind of like a an insignificant words, the costly grace is, I recognize I have sinned. But God has paid the price for me to be forgiven, God has paid the price and that price was his death on the cross, and his his blood being shed, and I recognize that I am cleansed by this grace in this mercy. I am not worthy of it, but God has given to me as so as I repent. I'm looking for truth to be inside of me. Truth to be inside of me. The truth of God 's love and the truth of God 's forgiveness. The truth that I have failed, but the truth that I can become the truth that I will be what God created me to be. I have a whole. When I have a purpose and I have a call and I have a new life. I have had and I have eternity have the power of God. In the present. These are true, and I allow God to speak into my heart that I allow God to to come into my life and restore me as if I had never seen as in things that never gone wrong in my life because God looks beyond my fault he see my mean economy to look beyond the fault of others in Seymour, I'm going not allowing them to determine where I am going not allowing my past to influence my present to recognize that eternity is where I'm going. And God is leading me. There disgraces the action of God towards us. It's an action of God you saying I'm here. I've given it to you in my godly sorrow says I have transgressed, and I have sinned, and God has forgiven me. David flares in verse six. Surely you desire truth in the inner parts you teach me wisdom in the end, most pipe places claims may wash me, and I will be wider than the snow is like able to say what you know God. I really didn't do that but that many pointed out, all atoms of God was not my fault. The tires now all my fault if the woman you gave me the law clearly gone, it's your fault that you vegan, vegan, Adam Kelly God is begun. It's not my fault if yours. You had made the woman when she is no you didn't end and leave of course says is not my fault. God is not something you may take your phone again, because if you may have. I wonder the Muslim and the something says sorry is not my fault if the devil they got inside of me called me talk to her display, although whose fault is it God 's fee if we didn't have free will and him and me and blame game goes a long way of the arrester kit to hello what they did, who granted the problem was in the first ten. What is David say created me up your heart clean heart, O God, and renew our strength as steadfast or right spirit within me, bringing the renewing creates creates creates a Genesis moment. What did God do at the beginning before the dust of the earth they breathe into her mouth. The breath of life, and they became a living soul, when God forgives us. It has created me create free advice, I create again, create, create in me, that means that car is still creating and what you creating he's creating and you and me a new heart. All right spirits is creating earlier. Come home, running just as you are come running his arms open wide, all learning why because I am redheads and sometimes sorry for my sins and my failures and can't create in me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit within me because I've got an eternity to live with you and I want to live with you forever. God wants us to close. He wants us to be close to him, to be close to the Bible says don't really want us to enter individual within paying less like a team of this, Jesus says let's make it seem. It is you and I have found you and I together, we're going to be a team and this organ, a yellow cup were many are young together and we are going Jesus is enter into my joke with me for my dope is easy and my burden is light, creates a new spirit within me. Create a clean heart in the Renaud, a right spirit and God. I like to gather and I take this on because I got planned for you. I've got a purpose for you. I'm not hope for you. I've got tomorrow for you. I've thought about adventures for you and no matter what happens in your life. The two of us are not make good cleansing that filibuster going to make it okay that will allow us that you love us are going to make it. And I together. Amen. You know, and if we have that conflict going on, God forgive that would start in homily times a day do we have to say that while all of you. You work with the people I worked with that saying every day you what you may have to until we get the strength until we get the string until that new spirit in that that power of God is alive within us. God is at work. Amen, so is the father, forgive us about that one. Jesus forgive me. Let's say that Jesus forgive me by, godly sorrow Jays us. Forgive me. Yes it was. It was easy. Yes, it was the serpent. Yes, it was Satan, but Adam is responsible for his decision, even as responsible for her decision, God I am responsible for my decision. Forgive me godly sorrow put truth in my heart I don't have to blame someone else. I've been playing circumstances, I have to blame God. This is why am I need your forgiveness because I want to clean hearts. I want to rip my experience I want I want to go along with you, Lord, because that's what you want with me, you want Lord to make me clean and new. Again, you want me to be your child. You want me to enter into that go with you. You want to be a team with me. You want to team up with me Lord, thank you I come home running Lord, just as I am, and I enter into that go with you and I forever changed headed to home, which is an eternity with you. Thank you Jesus, for forgiving me. Thank you for the truth of your word. It sets me free. Thank you for the power of your spirit. It gives me strength each day. Thank you Jesus, come home, running just as you are a man they met God bless you allNow if I were choosing songs for today's message, it wouldn't have been the chosen in the better ones. You know, amazing and great, amazing Grace, and then not come home running and then you know everything bows before you humming those are just hand-picked so that it will looking at Psalm fifty one, and I guess I've entitled the message grace amazing Grace amazing and Psalm fifty one, is a Psalm of David and David has no oil. David has been have and I say this. David has strayed from his use of relationship with God in his his relationship with the nation of Israel. He is lost his focus and he has committed adultery. He has taken that Shiva and she has become pregnant and so David, you're being to new figures. While you know I can handle this. I'm change solely take Sarah has her husband sent to the front of the battle and her husband is killed, he married Bathsheba Hsia, she's got have a child who can say anything, I'm king in a Oregon cake and that's okay. And so then it is, lost his perspective on right and wrong. He has lost his way and so he thinks that nobody can do anything and everybody knows it now. I'm the court. They know what's going on, while anyhow, the prophet Samuel comes and says David gives this illustration about an individual having many sheep and his neighbor fun night neighbor chaperoning is one sheet and the guy goes over and takes is one she'd been killed and ate a lot. He's got many sheep and he tells us out of the don't have one. He has is his sheet. Bake until the endeavor gets all outrage. Instead were going well until that man were to punish him and his angle says you're the guy David has yet a lot of many wives and you took the one wife of your your general and then you have your general killed and here you are and God knows what happened, and it was that situation enforces David to come to the reality and come to grips with how he had distanced himself from where he should be no David was supposed to be in it talks about how that in the time of battles in the time of war. David was supposed to be with his armies out fighting the battles but David had some accomplished commanders. Yet some accomplished generals and so then it says it all. What you guys go and love others will stay back in Jerusalem and rest in the palace while he was giving up forsaking becoming complacent with his leadership role as King and leaving his armies. The web become complacent in his relationship with God, and looked at as Sheba and lusted after her and took her in and all and had an affair with her and he had become complacent in all this, even to the point that you know I'm kidding you know what that matter. And when Samuel brought this to his attention, and Damon realize how far he had come away from his relationship with God and what he had done. That's when the reality of this sin gets it now. I had a look at it. There's there's two types of sorrow. There is godly sorrow and there is kind of the sorrow of art by society. Godly sorrow yes I sorrow liver produces repentance introduces a heartfelt repentance about what has happened, and I've done wrong in the sight of God, and I've been wrong before God, and is hurting and that there is a sorrow that says, you know what I should and got caught that sorrow doesn't cut it. And whenever I counsel lot. There were individuals who had done some very, very either put an electric chair in. I had a tortured them, but you know, they sat there and talk to me and they were sorry they got caught, but they weren't sorry for what they've done and I I member. One individual in particular that I spoke to, and I've I may, I think I've said this before, but this was the wall. They don't build one individual that I got out of the chair and went over to them: get out of my office because he did may be self frustrated with his indifference to his actions and that he came there because if he came to Christian counseling, they wouldn't press charges, and he came there, and I can still remember him setting their and he had not one ounce of remorse for the sins that he and done for numerous years. I told him to get out because there was no sorrow. There, there was an. This wasn't just one meeting. This was a number of meetings in which we talked about, talk about talk about it, and it was like he is had to say to him if you don't repent of what you've done, you know, basically saying Gosselin for a job and I'm telling you to leave my office because of what you've done David here is in the the jubilation in which he feels that no UK, they can do basically whatever you want to get away with it. But whatever comes to our relationship with God, and who we are in the inside, and Damon talks about here in the Samana wanting truth. Truth on the inside advantage of loss that he had lost the truth on the inside, and whatever he was confronted with losing the truth he does. He doesn't like collapses before God, and he is repentant and godly sorrow mafia, what have I done, however I failed so distinctly and Mrs. Psalm fifty one, and were reading verses one through fifteen and reading the message Bible and I have some little excerpts here from the King James, a kind reminder seven and this is David's repentance in the King James, he says, have mercy upon me, O God, and the message it says generous and love God gives grace children mercy wipe out my bad record. Scott scrubbed away my guilt sunk out my sins and in your laundry. I know how bad I've been my sins, staring me down the King James, this is my sin is ever before me for David's just your dislike while in cat illnesses. This is so tragic in his life. You're the one I violated and give seen it all. Seeing the full extent of my evil in the King James. It says against DMV only have I sent and done this evil in your sight, you have all the facts before you. Whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time in the wrong since before I was born what you're after is truth from the inside out intermediate I see a new true life so leaving your laundry and I will become out clean scrubbed me and I'll have a snow white light gently into foot tapping song set these once broken bones. The dancing don't look too closely for blemishes give me a clean bill of health God make a fresh start with me. Shape a Genesis week, the chaos of my life from the chaos of my life between James has created me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me. Shape a Genesis week in the dogs roaming out with the trash or failed to breathe holiness in the bring me back from gray exile put a fresh wind in my sale King James is restoring to me the joy of my salvation. Give me a job teaching ruffles your ways so the loss to find their way home communities my death sentence got my salvation. God, and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways unbuttoned my lips, their God, and all loose. I'll let loose with your praise restore unto me the joy of my salvation, so this song then speaks of where we come from the psalmist. It is your son has said the dishonest is basically a form of repentance and how people come to know God and make a recognize their godly sorrow and repent of it in the long, but this is also somber. We need to read and read over again and recognize where we come from, where we were wrapped in missing the mark where we were out of step with God and God has made and also new nature God has given us a new life. I'm a new job, the new job is teaching rebel the two rivals. Way, letting God speak through us and speak his word in our life so that Islam is Islam repentance, a song written by David a song written after he has gone into this affair and this horrendous crimes of sending his king and his general to to is that by going into battle being the front man in the takeover, the can't take over the city. So David van is out of step. He has overlooked one thing his complacency has creeped into his life, and this complacency has given him a concept that everything is as it should be, and I'm pretty good, broad math and everything is all right. It's a lot like Adam and Eve in the garden to be in the Genesis. We did this on a Sunday school lesson, and I was with was mentioning in Sunday school that when I wrote this sermon and wrote this long before I had started to read the Sunday school lessons, study it, and the Sunday school lesson and SR very similar, so maybe knew some of the same Scriptures that are in Sunday school for this debate. So you needlessly need to come sensible men. A great time talking about sorry, how to assist health advertisement globe within their laboratory in the Sunday school with coffee and donuts become at nine thirty, so if you feed them, they will come so on. I thought in the Bible. Okay, now that was a movie if you build it they will come wasn't quite feed them is built, did that was the idea of what happens if you know it's funny how things get twisted and that's what happened when Adam and even the garden and with the Word of God. Things get worse as they get out of focus now I the movie whenever they built the stadium stuff when they are built. They were come, but with yucky freedom, they will come Ellis, like a wall money is the root of all evil, know the love of money is the root of all evil. While cleanliness is next to godliness. No doubt it's good, they claim, but that doesn't make you like God. Okay, I'm sorry. They laughed. Yes yet. I think, but it doesn't mean you're like God after you take a bath. I thought is not in the Bible. Now so anyhow, Genesis chapter two. God gave this command he gave it to Adam is working to keep straight. When God gave the commandment not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He told Adam and Eve wasn't created yet ladies, you always want off the hook. This is that I don't know about the book down the street preacher said I'm off the hook. I took a bath, unclean, the book. What else can there be in a one Genesis chapter three. The serpent, who was clever, more clever than all the wild animals. God has made. He spoke to the woman do I understand the God told you not to eat from any tree in the garden. The first misconception is God told Adam Donald E all of one tree, tree of knowledge of good and evil only thing at the second reason for this. Adam and Eve. Adam was created to be caretaker of what God created he had one commandment donated to treat the reason for that is, God is the owner. Adam is the caretaker we when we give our life to Christ, God of the old there we are. The caretaker when the caretakers of our life on our garden and we are responsible before God, you godless liberal things in our garden and we have the right to tell them no growth someplace else or we have the right to say God, your God is only given us two commandments in the garden that we live in love God, love your neighbor as yourself going to commend cellular resentment at AMI don't have one. But anyhow, what does it say can do a test ease by making her a question. While the ontology attending any training garden is as well, not at all. When Jenny from the trees in the garden installing the out entry in the middle of the garden, God said no increment and don't even touch in her unit die hello, thank you you thought you thought Bob was done in the athletic field, laughing way back then, right on cue, I cannot yet you got a brink of the church. They know exactly when the right time to jump in there is any rate on your way to thought God was, not so anyhow he didn't get the Commandments straight. He exaggerated the Commandments. She said all were not allowed to touch it orbital to die. You know what he has in the concept of what dying is and God didn't say don't touch it to David so what happens is we began and many people are like this, why don't go to church because I don't understand is understand that it generally is an exaggerated form of some obscure passage in the Bible that they are and I will work in your letter try and explain it to them. And when you're done, right. I'll be good to do very well because because we need all with the VI is we have to do the work speaks for itself. You don't understand. I'll think you know that your site. I would not have T-bone steak and of them opens up to you and said you know what I thought you said you getting all states. While that's why we can eat the entire state, or delete the bone will know when the necessary allow. When you eat T-bone steak, need about, you need to make the leap about right. You get about the dog something like that in our understanding of the Scripture. There are some things that we don't understand, but there are some things that we don't understand. But you know, with the passing of time and the maturing you begin to understand other things, you cannot put aside. It's like telling a child don't complain the street when they do I get my car is standing on the sidewalk less than one per I get my car stand up on her arms on the street I live far while with age, and when they have kids willing inside the house down the street because it took a while for them to get the concept that you'll get you're going to get hurt out there on the street, so understand there are some things that we don't understand, but take the truth. We do understand and know that true while in here is playing into the hands of out of state and because Satan is playing the game here and, what if there is no think that you can even entering the lot of our beginning from the trees in the garden. It's all right if one were not allowed to touch the serpent told the woman involved. I can't knows that the moment you eat of the tree that you'll see what's really going on there to be just like God you go to know everything ranging from all the way from good to evil. First of all is I've got a concept of what death is. Just think about a concept of what evil is and so when Satan says you're not going to die installing her half-truth because she is going to live forever, but he's planning on her spending eternity with him. Evil decision, and most of is to destroy God 's creation to destroy God 's image in us. IMO wants to take away the image of God in your life. The image of God is the moral fiber of who we are as a person. It is the fiber. The car created in us and created lots of the very beginning, so keep God wants us to know the word and to know what the word says and entered, taken in its context, and it within the context of the whole book. It takes the Scripture to interpret the Scripture you know you can. People will take obscure passages in and isolate them and say say what this means, and if, like all in taking out of context and reading it sure doesn't make sense. But when you put within the framework of what is said, what has been said, but instead throughout the Scriptures got sixteen hundred years of the Bible being written by multiple authors, and there is one person who inspires it, it's gone. That's why there is a contextual strain. There is a contractual flow from the hallway from the beginning to the end about reconciliation and redemption and forgiveness that even appears here at the very beginning in the garden so we know the word take the word and understand the word and allow the Scripture to tell us and talk to us about the character of God, Adam and Eve they broke God 's commandments, and it seemed like they became complacent in this place of relationship with God while temptations come to everyone and temptations come to us now and in the context of Adam and Eve. There are three template three categories were temptation always fall into lust of the eyes, lest the flesh, and the pride of life, it looks good. It feels good to make me more than what I am getting now if you look at the advertising that goes on in arts in our society. It makes you look good. It will make you feel good in this make you better than what you are surely one advertisement doesn't talk about those three things. Those are the three categories that he was tempted with kindergarten is still the same three categories attempt us and we are tempted by those little areas of our life, we cannot have hidden in remote areas will seek when God creates a clean heart renews a right spirit in us. He is walking with us and David. You know got a weakness here any open attentiveness or something come along and present something defendant is going to tempt you to go in the wrong direction. So Damon walked into the SanDisk this trap, knowing completely what he was doing. I'm changing I can do whatever I please. But the outcome was something that he had never imagined the outcome was something he couldn't believe what happened to seek God had brought David from being a shepherd boy watching sheep, the king of Israel. His writings of his songs and his leadership would be examples that that all generations were following Judaism and even for us. We study and to look at it, and even the promise that his descendents would sit upon the throne of Israel forever, the Messiah and David risk it all for this affair with Bathsheba Satan independent. This is a quote from the Sunday school lessons morning says Satan give Satan gave Adam and Apple and took away paradise. Satan gave Adam and Apple. They really, we don't know what kind of fruit. It was, but he gave a even Adam and Apple, and he took away paradise. There are temptations that come to us and we need to consider what were going to lose not going to gain and always temptation look good, feel good, make me more than what I am David thought that his he was untouchable as King and Guzman to do something against me and surely I have all my Whisenhunt reminds what's one more and decided to do away with while God is in slacken his promises, meaning that if God were vengeful God. It would killed Adam and Eve started over again. And if you have a God when you and David said to him, and another guy near God doesn't work that way. The promise of God is the tier talks about it. The is is gone instantly with his promises of some measure lateness is restraining himself on account of you think God if there is a God in heaven when strike me dead in our next thirty seconds. Okay, so here you are, you think you can exhaust the grace of God in thirty seconds when the entire humanity and all the sins and failures of humanity has not exhausted the grace of God you are stand there and somehow be belligerent enough to say that I have eleven strike me dead didn't happen to forget the cry is, but you know people will say anything and why you see, there is no God. And now this is howling. This is that, given that best suit when I go to help, so I don't get Barnhart Hall Law gave ready but you see, God is in slack. He is a lax in his promises. He is restraining himself because he loves you more than you understand he has more grace for your life and the lives of the people that are in here lives of people who won't go to church the lives of people who want darken the door of any time, religion because they just don't believe they've seen too many phone. They seem to me that they've seen that you want the world is full of hypocrites. I am. I've never been to a bar. I really have one time I was a bar and I went inactive to talk to someone about broad mention that I was walking down the street in Rhode Island and if I close about the agreement that all meters place because we felt God wanted us to go against the related Bible in her hand and she screamed. I walked into the barn. I was trained none of the people from the school salami, because I did get down. I wanted as far as stand-in and unlike verified as all these people smoking is barking is, whenever not, and I just turned around and ate up the dispersant- God has me here for you and I start talking to him. He says I can't believe you came here to tell me that I can't because I used to go to church, but I've been running away from God. And I said, God brought me here to tell you that he loves you and you want you back the message that God has set the same message. Samuel gave to David, and it's the same message that God gives to each of us all the time he always lets the bring us closer to him. He's not original. I must be going to lead us in delivering his message, and if jamming it giving everyone's space and time to change you know why God doesn't just a stopping of the second coming of Christ. The trump of God shall sound, the dead in Christ shall rise, and we which are alive and remain shall be caught up in the human ear. A why God is coming back because he's getting everyone's space and I change the other gracious and loving and kind God who wants to get every living person. I check in heaven and he is he is waiting, wanting people running home, home running. He's getting every living being. Every person the chance and there is a day and there will come a day in which it will be over, but right now he gives everyone space and time to change this song is David Lee for mercy in God 's grace when David states in verse four that he has sinned against God, he says, you and this is one of those this is one assault he says it is one of the verses is like, how can this be how does that make sense. He says against God. You are the one I've violated. That's the message Bible, King James said against you and you only, I have sinned and done evil in your sight. David has said with Bathsheba then complacent in his leadership as King sends one of his leaders of his army to his death. He says God you're the only one that I've affected in this while every day on the news. We have people who are victims with people who have been hurt raw filled family Zubin had loved ones taken from the assaulted these are victims, but alternately ultimately every offense is against God. Every offense where people rebel against the character. The moral character that is inside of the created by God. There are some people who live with a seared conscience is seared consciences. They have no feeling anymore for good. There have no feeling anymore for remorse have no feeling because they have done it so long and so wafted they don't feel that anymore, but they are still going to be accountable for there is a judgment day God is waiting with his grace to forgive, but the accounting is still there. Bible says vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay. That is why God wants us to focus on forgiving. That is why God wants us to let go of the pain and let go of it until the pain is gone we keep forgetting until our pain is gone in our life the field and we're going on with life. Because every person that has created these pains is still going to be accountable to God, and I can't be there, Judge, their actions will be there John before God. That's why I forgive because I have to, I can live with all that pain. I can't blame of all those those hertz, and those things have been done. I can look within. That's why I have to forgive them about finding God 's hand and they didn't get away with it, God holds us accountable, unless just like us in this moment of time, like David, we confess, and we ask God for forgiveness. David repents, he has a godly sorrow. He has full of remorse and repent places himself in a in a position where he cries out to God and ask for forgiveness and grace that forgives and restores is a costly grace is the Samuel didn't come into Damon Sega what you sent, but you're forgiven. It's not that the grace that we have is like sometimes we bestow grace is saying a lot. God has grace for all of us. Okay, you've all got it, go home. That's kind of like a an insignificant words, the costly grace is, I recognize I have sinned. But God has paid the price for me to be forgiven, God has paid the price and that price was his death on the cross, and his his blood being shed, and I recognize that I am cleansed by this grace in this mercy. I am not worthy of it, but God has given to me as so as I repent. I'm looking for truth to be inside of me. Truth to be inside of me. The truth of God 's love and the truth of God 's forgiveness. The truth that I have failed, but the truth that I can become the truth that I will be what God created me to be. I have a whole. When I have a purpose and I have a call and I have a new life. I have had and I have eternity have the power of God. In the present. These are true, and I allow God to speak into my heart that I allow God to to come into my life and restore me as if I had never seen as in things that never gone wrong in my life because God looks beyond my fault he see my mean economy to look beyond the fault of others in Seymour, I'm going not allowing them to determine where I am going not allowing my past to influence my present to recognize that eternity is where I'm going. And God is leading me. There disgraces the action of God towards us. It's an action of God you saying I'm here. I've given it to you in my godly sorrow says I have transgressed, and I have sinned, and God has forgiven me. David flares in verse six. Surely you desire truth in the inner parts you teach me wisdom in the end, most pipe places claims may wash me, and I will be wider than the snow is like able to say what you know God. I really didn't do that but that many pointed out, all atoms of God was not my fault. The tires now all my fault if the woman you gave me the law clearly gone, it's your fault that you vegan, vegan, Adam Kelly God is begun. It's not my fault if yours. You had made the woman when she is no you didn't end and leave of course says is not my fault. God is not something you may take your phone again, because if you may have. I wonder the Muslim and the something says sorry is not my fault if the devil they got inside of me called me talk to her display, although whose fault is it God 's fee if we didn't have free will and him and me and blame game goes a long way of the arrester kit to hello what they did, who granted the problem was in the first ten. What is David say created me up your heart clean heart, O God, and renew our strength as steadfast or right spirit within me, bringing the renewing creates creates creates a Genesis moment. What did God do at the beginning before the dust of the earth they breathe into her mouth. The breath of life, and they became a living soul, when God forgives us. It has created me create free advice, I create again, create, create in me, that means that car is still creating and what you creating he's creating and you and me a new heart. All right spirits is creating earlier. Come home, running just as you are come running his arms open wide, all learning why because I am redheads and sometimes sorry for my sins and my failures and can't create in me a clean heart. Renew a right spirit within me because I've got an eternity to live with you and I want to live with you forever. God wants us to close. He wants us to be close to him, to be close to the Bible says don't really want us to enter individual within paying less like a team of this, Jesus says let's make it seem. It is you and I have found you and I together, we're going to be a team and this organ, a yellow cup were many are young together and we are going Jesus is enter into my joke with me for my dope is easy and my burden is light, creates a new spirit within me. Create a clean heart in the Renaud, a right spirit and God. I like to gather and I take this on because I got planned for you. I've got a purpose for you. I'm not hope for you. I've got tomorrow for you. I've thought about adventures for you and no matter what happens in your life. The two of us are not make good cleansing that filibuster going to make it okay that will allow us that you love us are going to make it. And I together. Amen. You know, and if we have that conflict going on, God forgive that would start in homily times a day do we have to say that while all of you. You work with the people I worked with that saying every day you what you may have to until we get the strength until we get the string until that new spirit in that that power of God is alive within us. God is at work. Amen, so is the father, forgive us about that one. Jesus forgive me. Let's say that Jesus forgive me by, godly sorrow Jays us. Forgive me. Yes it was. It was easy. Yes, it was the serpent. Yes, it was Satan, but Adam is responsible for his decision, even as responsible for her decision, God I am responsible for my decision. Forgive me godly sorrow put truth in my heart I don't have to blame someone else. I've been playing circumstances, I have to blame God. This is why am I need your forgiveness because I want to clean hearts. I want to rip my experience I want I want to go along with you, Lord, because that's what you want with me, you want Lord to make me clean and new. Again, you want me to be your child. You want me to enter into that go with you. You want to be a team with me. You want to team up with me Lord, thank you I come home running Lord, just as I am, and I enter into that go with you and I forever changed headed to home, which is an eternity with you. Thank you Jesus, for forgiving me. Thank you for the truth of your word. It sets me free. Thank you for the power of your spirit. It gives me strength each day. Thank you Jesus, come home, running just as you are a man they met God bless you all