Finding Revival In God’s Forgiveness

FINDING REVIVAL In GOD’s FORGIVENESS—Psalm 51:1-19

‘Ps. 51_01-19 REVOut 2024’--point#s 1-4--presented 05/07/2024pm to: Eastside Baptist Church, McColl, SC(Pastor Rev. Roger Williams)--Day 3 of a 4-day Revival.

Invitation Hymn--‘Whiter Than Snow’--James Nicholson--FISCHER

Attention:

Looking for something very dear & ‘priceless’ to you that has been lost.

Looking for a lost ‘priceless’(to you) ring in a filthy sewer.

Describe my wedding ring.

My, now deceased father, was a dentist. He was adept at installing ‘old school fillings’ to repair people’s cavities. In order to do that he had to acquire some degree of skill in metallurgy.

For my & my wife’s wedding, Daddy painstakingly constructed two 18-24ct.(?) solid gold wedding rings—one for me & one for my wife. I am so thankful for his doing that for us. I NEVER want to lose this ring! It is more than just a ring of gold...For me, it memorializes & represents a precious labor of love!

Now, SUPPOSE I was to lose this ring in the toilet. And SUPPOSE that I discovered that the only way to retrieve it, would be to open up the ‘sewage tank’ & feel around for the ring in the filthy disease-ridden nasty muck, that surrounds it.

?Is that effort—my sacrifice—worth it?

You could replace the ring, but it will always be replaced with something less in real value.

?What are you willing to do, to retrieve your ‘priceless’ ring?

For some of you, God’s Revival isn’t really that precious to you! You’re not willing to do the work. You may try to replace it with ‘excitement’, & fun, & programs, & more time spent at the church-house. But Revival’s must be centered in your relationship with Jesus!

God’s Forgiveness, offered to every individual in the world, along with the Revival stemming from it, is indeed ‘priceless’! The souls of all men, women, & children depend upon it! We must somehow fish that precious forgiveness out of the muck & mess of our lives, that we have used to buried its true power!

In Psalm 51, King David laid bare his need for God’s forgiveness.

Every one of God’s people is in need of, & CAN be a recipient of God’s forgiveness.

?How do we find God’s forgiveness?

OR more appropriately for tonight:

?How do we find Revival in God’s Forgiveness?

Some(14) traits of those who find Revival in God’s Forgiveness.

1—Those who Find Revival in God’s Forgiveness...

SEEK MERCY From GOD(:1, 9)

Explanation:(:1, 9)

:1—<<To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.>> ?“Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions.”

:9—“Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.”

Title:

“<<To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.>>”

This “Psalm” in particular is to be sung corporately or congregationally, because it is addressed “to the chief musician.”

•It was imperative, in “David’s” mind & heart, that the following words be set to music for the BENEFIT of all.

This “Psalm” was written by “David” the second King of a united Israel.

The occasion of it’s writing was “after” “David” had been directly approached by God, thru “Nathan the prophet”, exposing the ‘sinfulness’ of “David’s” sins to “David” himself. Those sins were against Uriah & “Bathsheba.”

•Those events are recorded in 2Sam. 11:1--12:15ff..

By exposing those sins to “David”, his once ‘dormant conscience’ was aroused, & produced this Psalm.—Charles H. Spurgeon in ‘The Treasury Of David’.

:1—“Have mercy upon me, O God, According to Your lovingkindness; According to the multitude of Your tender mercies, Blot out my transgressions.”

:9—“Hide Your face from my sins, And blot out all my iniquities.”

In this Psalm, David uses three synonyms for “sin.”

“Transgressions”—Stepping over the line; Going beyond set bounds; Rebellion.

“Sin”—Any offense against God.

“Iniquity”—Perversity; Depravity; Spiritual misalignment.

At this particular time in David’s life, his sins were many & were grievous...Adultery, Lying/Deception, & Murder, etc..

Those grievous sins were permitted to thrive by “David” thru various means:

Privilege—(as sovereign king),

Arrogance—(ironically, thru the very successes granted him by God),

Lusts—(of the human heart),

& Spiritual blindness—(‘eyes off the prize’--fleshly distractions even in God-ordained obligations).

*A definition of “Mercy” is, To NOT give a perpetrator/guilty person what they deserve; OR--To NOT give a perpetrator what they have earned thru their own ‘mutiny’ against “God.”

At the very minimum, “David” deserved to be killed as an adulterer & as a murderer. ‘Justice’ or ‘Right’ would be satisfied in “David’s” death.

*And yet, David was ‘a man after “God’s” own heart’(1Sam. 13:13-14; Acts 13:22).

“David” seeks out “God’s” “mercy.” He begs for “God’s” “mercy” to be granted to him.