Psalm 19 Pt. III
Review
Psalm 19: 1-6 – General Revelation
Powerless Living – God stays out in the universe
Compromised Values – No standard to measure against
Distortion of Truth – Create a God we can manage
Psalm 19: 7-10 – Specific Revelation
Law is perfect converting the soul
Statutes are right rejoicing the heart
Testimony is sure making wise the simple
Commandments are pure enlightening the eyes
Fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever
Judgements are true and righteous altogether
In them we find out His will and what He expects of us
Psalm 19: 10-11 – Transitional Truth
They need to be desired more than gold
In keeping them we are warned and rewarded
As we allow the word to get into us we go from a
Specific Revelation – knowing what God expects to a
Spiritual Revelation - Understanding how it works
Psalm 19:12 – 14 – Spiritual Revelation
James 1: 13-15 – birth of sin
1. Who can understand his error
2. Cleanse me from my secret fault
1. Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sin
Every sin has in it the very venom of rebellion
Keep Back – restrain, withhold, restrain, spare, preserve
hold back, keep in check
Presumptuous – arrogant, proud, insolent
It’s showing it’s visible to others that
1. Some things growing
2. Some one’s showing
Hidden sin boiled over. You know exactly what your doing and to a certain degree not caring.
The conviction is callused over hardening of the heart is setting in.
We have justified ourselves to remove the guilt.
As humans we have to be justified in anything we continue to do or the guilt will not allow us to enjoy it.
We are in deception.
We have reworked and interpreted the scriptures to approve or at least permit the activity because of the state or situation we are in.
We find solace and acceptance in the perversion of this truth “God loves me just as I am.”
It is at this stage we find that human emotions can be stronger than our convictions and what we esteem as our foundational beliefs.
It is amazing how we feel we are an exception to the Scriptural rule when in this condition.
According to the law this type of sin was punishable by death. Numbers 15: 30
Presumptuous Sin has one or more of these elements to it
1. Sin committed willfully against manifest light and knowledge
Our own conscience
Admonition of family and friends
Voice of God
Circumstances of life speaking to you
Watching others
God fingers it in your life
Your own oaths and vows
Walking out on thin ice
Tell yourself
Inner voice tells you
Others tell you
You’ve heard and seen others
You venture out yourself but instead of retreating at the sound of cracking ice you continue. It won’t happen to you!
You fall through rescued and delivered you vow to yourself I will never do that again
Only to find you once again venturing out thinking this time it will be different. ISANITY!
Playing with our eternal destiny for a moment’s worth of pleasure. Proverbs 6: 27-28
2. Deliberation
The lust that tempts is not a passer-by but a lodger at home.
3. Matter of design
Deliberation of the sin has the motive of throwing it in the face of God
4. Through a hardihood of fancied strength of mind
I know how far I can go
I’m not like those
I can handle it
Pride has fed our ego that we think we can go just far enough not to prevent ruin
Keep back thy servant from presumptuous sin!
Curb your servant, keep him back or he will wander to
the edge of the precipice of sin
4. Let them not have dominion over me.
Dominion – jurisdiction, govern, to reign, to be superior
in power, authority, and dominion as a
governor
Not only has sin taken root and is very visible and it’s apparent we’ve been eating the fruit that it has produced. It now controls us when at a time we felt we could control it.
It governs our life and dictates to us
It is a stronghold that now is interfering with our spiritual growth and gifts.
We find ourselves stagnating or even going backwards in our walk.
It seems we can’t get out from underneath its grip.
We need deliverance or else we will come under the total domination of sin. II Peter 2: 18 – 22
Sin now has gone from a disobedient act to a deep-seated strong hold that has perverted our thinking, distorted our beliefs and changed our personality.
Help me not to get to this state is the cry of the Psalmist.
2. Then shall I be upright and I shall be innocent from the great transgression
Great Transgression – rebellion, lawlessness
Keeping out of this sin progression will maintain freedom and the ability to walk unhindered towards maturity.
Upright – unimpaired, sound, complete, act uprightly
Also I will acquit myself of any rebellion in my heart
Innocent – purged, freed from guilt, acquitted, clear of
David understood the progression of sin from the error state as it matures and grows and eventually gives birth to the great transgression.
David and Bathsheba – II Samuel 11: 1 – 27
Lusted after Bathsheba
He sent for her
He committed adultery with her
He tried to cover up the pregnancy with deceit
He plotted murder
He used others to execute his plan
He made light of Uriah’s death
He tried to pass off the child as his own by marrying Bathsheba
This thing was evil in the sight of God
Was David no longer a man after God’s own heart?
No David allowed sin into his life and it grew and matured to a place where it had the mastery of him and was controlling his life.
What he would do next would determine if he would become rebellious and lawless or a broken delivered man.
II Samuel 12: 1 – 14
God sends Nathan the Prophet to challenge
David with his sin
II Samuel 12: 7 – 8 READ
The Judgement
The sword would never depart from his house
Evil will rise up against him out of his own house
Take his wives and give them to his neighbor
Neighbor – some one close
This neighbor will lie with them in the open because what David did in secret God would allow to be done openly
Unfortunately when we allow sin to get its roots in this deep there sometimes comes with it unreversable or life long consequences.
II Samuel 12: 13 – 14 READ
Because he repented he did not die but the
child would because he would serve as a living
memory of his sin. It would give and occasion
for the enemies of the Lord to mock the Lord
that David could do what he did and the Lord
not do anything about it.
Consequences of sin
Immediate – His son’s death
Long Term – The sword and turmoil in
his family forever
Effects the innocent – The child and his
yet to be family
Psalm 51 was written in David’s repentant state
This whole situation was a designed plot of Satan to destroy the “Man after God’s own Heart”. Obviously it turned out but not without a high price. I believe this could be traced back to another what may seem to be unrelated situation in David’s life.
I Chronicles 15: 29 READ
Psalm 19: 14 – Remedy
Words we speak
Meditations of our heart
