A Renewed Start

A renewed start for 2006

Psalms 51:7-13

Marc Axelrod “Last year at this time, some of you were saying, "This year, things are

going to be different! I’m going to change! I’m going to be a better spouse.

I’m going to spend more time with my family. I’m going to spend more time

reading my Bible. More time praying to God. More time serving others.” Are you saying, “This year things will be different, I will make a difference?” I will make a change! The fact is that we’ve all made mistakes or bad choices that have kept us from doing some of the things we wanted to do. You know what they say about New Year’s resolutions? They usually go in one year and out the other!”

A son who called his parents up to wish them a happy new year, And he said, "Well dad, what’s your New Year’s resolution?" The dad said, "My resolution is to make your mother as happy as I can all year." The son said, "Aw, that’s so sweet!" Then his mom got on the phone. He asked her, "What’s your resolution, mom?" She said, "My resolution is to make sure your father keeps his resolution."

What is it going to take for you and me to really mean business with God? God isn’t going to stand there and make sure you do what you said you would at the beginning of the year. It takes a deep desire on yours and my part.

Ps 51:7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

Ps 51:8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.

Ps 51:9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Ps 51:10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Ps 51:11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

Ps 51:12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

Ps 51:13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.

The sin with Bethsheba had just happened and Daniel was waking up to his faults and needed a renewing of his spirit.

I. He confesses his sin, Ps 51:3-6, II. He prays earnestly for the pardon of his sin, Ps 51:1-2, III. For peace of conscience, Ps 51:8, IV. For grace to go and sin no more, Ps 51:10-11

John J. Parsons http://www.hebrew4christians.com/index.html

Hebrew Lev Tahor – A clean heart When King David cried out to the Lord, "Create in me a clean heart, O God," he did not use the Hebrew word yatsar, which means to "fashion" or "form" something from pre-existing material, but instead used the word bara, a verb exclusively used to refer to God’s creation of the cosmos (Gen 1:1). Something totally new. *

David understood that no amount of reformation of his character would be enough, and instead appealed to that very power of God that alone could create "out of nothing." Such was the nature of the remedy required.

The heart (lev) is the inner person, the seat of the emotions, thought, and will. The Bible describes the heart of man as "desperately wicked" (Jer 17:9). The Lord Jesus declared that the heart is the source of all our uncleanness, moral defilement, and perversity (Matt 15:19-20).

The opposite of this defilement is a quality called tahor, a word normally used to denote ritual purification and the consecration of things set apart for God by means of atoning blood (Lev 17:11). Such rituals were intended to instill an abiding awareness of the sanctity of God and our sinful condition before Him.

By means of the precious blood sacrifice of Jesus on the cross for our sins, God’s wrath against our sin is satisfied, and He is able to create within us lev tahor, cleansed from our old nature’s defilement and perversity. Because of the Lord Jesus, we can truly have a heart that is re-created and sanctified in the image of God.

This is where we will pick up and focus on verses 10 and 12

Looking at;

A totally Clean Heart

A totally renewed spirit

A totally restored salvation

1. A totally Clean Heart vs. 10a

Western Civ. class has a empty board before class then it was filled up and then at the end of class the slate was wiped clean for the next class. Thru the year you write different things on your slate (trying new things) but at the end of the year each person has a desire to start anew….this is how David was…51:10 Create in me a clean heart