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  • D. Marie Hamilton avatar

    When Good People Do Bad Things

    Contributed by D. Marie Hamilton on Sep 3, 2007
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    An examination of how good people can make bad mistakes. This is a personal illustration of the 51st Psalm

    When Good People Do Bad Things Generous in love- God, give peace! Huge in mercy- wipe out my bad record. Scrub away my guilt, Soak out my guilt, Soak out my sins in your laundry. I know how bad I’ve been; My sins are staring me down. You’re the One I’ve violated and you’ve seen it all, Seen the ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    What To Do When You Have Sinned And You Know It

    Contributed by Ed Pruitt on Apr 14, 2007
    based on 75 ratings
     | 36,630 views

    Sometimes when we sin we feel that it is too big and we get discouraged and begin to feel low. Hopefully this sermon will bring you up.

    DISCLAIMER: Since there are a large amount of sermons and topics and illustrations that are posted on Sermon Central, I feel it is necessary to place this disclaimer on all of the sermons that I submit. These sermons are original to the author and the leading of the Holy Spirit. While ideas and ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Conquering The Invisible Giants In Our Lives

    Contributed by Mark Roper on Feb 9, 2008
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    Guilt is a giant with interesting powers. This giant is the most invisible, but the heaviest one of all. There are people all around us who are being slowly crushed, slowly suffocated by the giant of guilt. It kills slowly but with excruciating pain. Thin

    Conquering the Invisible Giants in Our Lives Psalm 51 Guilt is a giant with interesting powers. 1.This giant is the most invisible, but the heaviest one of all. There are people all around us who are being slowly crushed, slowly suffocated by the giant of guilt. 2.It kills slowly but with ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

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    Forgiveness

    Contributed by Dean Rhine on May 13, 2008
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    Forgiveness as seen in Psalm 51

    “Forgiveness - Psalm 51” Two little brothers, Harry and James, had finished supper and were playing until bedtime. Somehow, Harry hit James with a stick, and tears and bitter words followed. Charges and accusations were still being made as mother prepared them for bed. The mother instructed, ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Where Are My Sins?

    Contributed by Paul Norwood on Nov 29, 2010
     | 3,312 views

    Examines what sin is, what it does to us, the penalty for sin, the remedy for sin, what we must do to get rid of our sin and what God does with our sin.

    “Where Are My Sins?” Text: Psalm 51:1-11 I. Welcome II. Introduction Most of us are familiar with King David and his adultery with Bathsheba as well as his murder of her husband – Uriah, the Hittite. The horrible details of David’s sins are recorded in 2 Sam. 11. But it is Nathan the prophet’s ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    God's Extreme Make Over

    Contributed by Dr. Phillip Paschal on Jan 14, 2009
    based on 7 ratings
     | 10,351 views

    GOD’S DIVINE SPIRITUAL RENEWAL OF MAN.

    GOD’S EXTREME MAKEOVER PSALMS 51 1.THE TEXT. DAVID’S DISPOSITION REFLECTED HIS CONDITION. a)HE WAS BURDENED AND BESEIGED BY GUILT THAT RADIATED FROM A SINFUL HEART. b)DAVID WAS GUILTY OF ADULTERY WITH BATHSHEBA AND HAVING HER HUSBAND MURDERED IN ORDER TO CONCEAL HER PREGNACY. c)SIN DRIVES MEN AND ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    Repentance

    Contributed by William D. Brown on Jan 31, 2009
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     | 14,958 views

    Violation of the law of God in thought, word, and deed shows the sinfulness of the human heart. Sin is a contradiction to the holiness of God, whose image mankind bears. This depraved condition is called “original sin

    PSALMS 51:1-12 REPENTANCE 1-31-09 Today I want to talk for a little while on the thought 0f “repentance”, we don’t hear very much about “repentance” these days, some people seem to have the idea that “repentance” is not for this day and time because we’re saved by ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    David: The King Who Bared His Soul Series

    Contributed by Eloy Gonzalez on Feb 25, 2009
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     | 4,766 views

    Ash Wednesday: Are we open with others and God about our sinfulness? We learn from king David’s life that God honors openness and "bared-soul" confession. (Note: While sermon is original, the theme is based in part on sermon helps from Concordia Publishin

    A man after God’s own heart… a woman after God’s own heart? – Beloved, let us take an honest inventory – see how we stack up: My overdependence on food for comfort instead of God has created its own public witness. We know that Jesus’ divinity peeked through at his transfiguration - - but for me, ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Stop Feeling Guilty

    Contributed by Troy Borst on Aug 17, 2011
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    All of that is important, but it is David’s record of Psalm 51 which is his diary of sorts on how he dealt with that guilt. David’s wrote his heart down on paper and we have it recorded in Scripture for us. All of us deal with guilt from many different

    STOP FEELING GUILTY PSALM 51 & PSALM 32 INTRODUCTION The movie “Saving Private Ryan” (1998) is a movie that many of us have seen and is quite a memorable movie because of its portrayal of the D Day invasion of Normandy in World War II. The movie begins and ends with an elderly man ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

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    Confess Like King David

    Contributed by Daniel Habben on Oct 3, 2011
    based on 1 rating
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    Confess Like King David 1) “I am the problem, Lord.” 2) “You, Lord, are the solution.”

    He, a married man with children, seduced and slept with another man’s wife and then arranged to have him murdered. Can you imagine what the headlines would read if the current Prime Minister of Canada was guilty of these sins? He isn’t, as far as I know, but the leader of another ...read more

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    Denomination: Lutheran

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    Create In Me A Clean Heart

    Contributed by J Jeffrey Smead on Mar 21, 2015
    based on 83 ratings
     | 44,494 views

    The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart These, O' God, you will not despise. Create in me a clean Heart O' God! (Updated February 2023)

    Psalm 51 ... designated for today ... is one of the few psalms ... where we are given ... the historical background ... that led to the writing of this Psalm. The inscription reads, ..."A Psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came to him, ... after he had gone into ...Bathsheba." That ...read more

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    Denomination: Anglican

  • Gerald Roberts avatar

    "Getting Fit For The Kingdom"

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Mar 27, 2015
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    The sermon shares how we get ready for the kingdom of heaven based on David's plea.

    Getting Fit for the Kingdom Psalm 51:1-13 1. David was a man of great respect at one time in his life He was the one who overcame Goliath • he slayed 10000's when the king only slew thousands, • David not only a man of great valor but a man after Gods own heart 2. David carried a ...read more

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    Denomination: Methodist

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    Motivation To Repent

    Contributed by Derek Geldart on Feb 11, 2017
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     | 11,130 views

    The motivating factors behind repentance determines whether one is forgiven or not.

    REPENTANCE SERIES Online Sermon: http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567 We started off this series by talking sin and the character of God. When we sin, we become distant from God because He is pure light and there is no darkness in Him at all. We learned that repentance is the mechanism ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

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    A Sprinkling With Hyssop

    Contributed by Christopher Holdsworth on Mar 4, 2017
    based on 7 ratings
     | 9,881 views

    A Psalm of true repentance.

    A SPRINKLING WITH HYSSOP. Psalm 51:1-17. In this solemn Psalm of repentance, we dive in (headfirst, as it were) with a plea for mercy. The verbs “have mercy… blot out… wash me… cleanse me” (Psalm 51:1-2) all appear to be in the imperative: but they are in fact plaintive pleas based in the fact ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

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    Restore The Joy

    Contributed by Jerry Cosper on Mar 21, 2017
     | 10,144 views

    An analysis of Psalm 51 and what it truly means to ask God for forgiveness of sin.

    There’s a modern-day proverb that says: “To err is human. And so is denying responsibility and avoiding an admission of guilt.” Why is it so tough to own up to our mistakes? There’s nothing new or modern about sin and the need for repentance. Tonight, we will look at perhaps the most classic ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist