Text: Psalms 51:1-17

Theme: A Broken and Repentant Heart

Introduction: Ano ang gagawin mo kung malaman mong ika’y nagkasala?
The events are plainly and painfully described in 2 Samuel 11-12.
What the Psalmist teaches us about God in brokenness and repentance?
A. God is a merciful and loving God.

Have mercy on me, O God,

    according to your unfailing love;

according to your great compassion

    blot out my transgressions.

2 
Wash away all my iniquity
    and cleanse me from my sin.

a. God is love
b. David asked for mercy, and that according to the measure of God’s lovingkindness.
This is God’s hesed, His loyal love, His covenant mercy. It was a well-phrased request
with the eloquence of true brokenness.
c. David used several words to speak of his offense against God.

Transgressions has the idea of crossing a boundary.

Iniquity has the idea of twistedness or perversion.

Sin has the idea of falling short or missing the mark.

B. God forgives our transgressions and iniquity.

For I know my transgressions,

    and my sin is always before me.

4 
Against you, you only, have I sinned
    and done what is evil in your sight;

so you are right in your verdict

    and justified when you judge.

5 
Surely I was sinful at birth,
    sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
 6 
Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb;
    you taught me wisdom in that secret place.

Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean;

wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
    

a. I acknowledge my transgressions: David realized it was not only one, but multiple
transgressions. He did this without excuse, blame-shifting, or rationalization.
b. My sin is always before me: In the many months between the time David
committed these sins and this confession, he had not escaped the sense of sin –
it was always before him. He did his best to ignore it and deny it, but as a
genuine child of God he could not escape it. He was in unconfessed sin, but
miserable in it, as a child of God should be.
c. Acceptance as sinner. (walang halong pride at pagkukunwari)
d. God can wash our sin as white as snow.
e. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: David looked for God to do a work of
spiritual and moral cleansing, and to do it in connection with the atoning sacrifice
of a substitute. Hyssop was used to apply the blood of the Passover lamb (Exodus
12:22). Hyssop was also used to sprinkle the priest’s purifying water (Numbers
19:18).

C. God restores us.

8 
Let me hear joy and gladness;
    let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
9 
Hide your face from my sins
    and blot out all my iniquity.
10 
Create in me a pure heart, O God,
    and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
11 
Do not cast me from your presence
    or take your Holy Spirit from me.
12 
Restore to me the joy of your salvation
    and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

a. Pure heart
b. Renewal of the Spirit
c. God’s presence
d. Restore the joy of salvation
e. Willing spirit to sustain me

2 Chronicles 7:14 (New International Version)

14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and
will heal their land.
Conclusion: God can heal everything! When Jesus says, “Your sin is forgiven” he means you are
healed physically, spiritually and socially.