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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Have you experienced so much trouble in life that the
pain makes you feel busted and broken? Well, God puts
you right here, right now to get you some pain relief.
Here's Pastor Jeff Shreeve.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
What do you do when you're busted? What do you
do when your life and the weight of your sin
comes crashing down upon you and you're broken? David Man
after God's own heart. He not only was a great sinner,
but David was a great repenter. And David's heart broke
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and he said, I have sin before the law. David
was busted. David was broken. Hey, what do you do
when you're busted and broken? You take three steps? Wesco
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with real truth, real.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
From us. This is from his heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve,
and welcome to the broadcast today as he opens God's
word that will speak to all of us who feel
busted and broken. We're all in that group, of course,
at some point in life, but how we respond is critical.
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Today we walk with King David as he confronted the
enormity of his sin but sincerely repented, reaping great blessings
in return. The lesson today is the seventh of eight
messages in Pastor Jeff's series Roller Coaster, Facing the ups
and downs of life. You picked a great day to
join us, or did God pick this for you? Let's see.
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Open your bible to Psalm fifty one. Here's Pastor Jeff
to help us understand how to respond when we're busted
and broken.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was late afternoon, early evening in the spring. King
David had sent his general Joe Abb and his armies
out to war, but he stayed behind in Jerusalem. The
Bible says he had been in bed all day, just
kind of lounging around, just doing a bunch of nothing.
He got up in the early evening and he took
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a little walk on the roof of his palace, and
when he did, he saw something. He saw a beautiful
woman and she was bathing. And David knew that he
should turn away, but he didn't turn away. He kept
looking at her, and his look turned to lust, and
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his lust turned to longing, and he just had to
have that woman. And he went back in and he
called his servants and he said who is this woman?
And they said, well, that is bath Sheba, the wife
of Uriyah, the hit Tite David. That is you're my man,
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one of your thirty mighty Men'oraiah the Hittite, that's his wife.
And David said, I have to have her, and he
called for her and she came to him and they
participated in the Night of Sin.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
David thought he had it out of his system, but
then word came back from Bathsheba some time later that
said I'm pregnant. So David thought, what do I do. Now,
I'm kind of in a bind here. Euriah's going to
know this isn't his baby because he's out fighting the
battles for the king. And so he called to Joe
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abb and said, send me Euriah the Hittite. So Uriah
came back from battle to David, and David began to
talk to Uriah and ask him about the battle, what
was going on, And then he said to Uriah, now
you go home and be with your wife. But Uriah
wouldn't do it because Uriah said it was wrong for
him to go home to be with his wife and
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enjoy his wife when his brothers are out fighting the
king's so Uriah stayed the night at the gate of
the king's palace. They told David he didn't go home
so David brought him in the next day and said,
why didn't you go home? And he said, well, I couldn't.
That would be wrong. And so David said, we'll stay
here with me, and David had him eat and drink,
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and David got him drunk, thinking well, maybe if he's drunk,
he'll go home. But he still wouldn't go home. And
so David was trying to figure out, how can I
cover up this sin in my life? And he finally
decided and he wrote a note to joe Ab, the general,
and he sealed it and he handed it to Uriah
and he said, take this to the general. Take this
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to joe Ab, and he did, you're right, and look
at the note. He took it to Joeab, and when
Joeab opened it, it said these words, put Uriah in
the fiercest part of the battle and then withdraw from him.
And joe Ab did it, and Uriah was killed in battle.
And it was told to Bathsheba, husband Uriah has died,
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and she mourned. And when her time of mourning was over,
then David took her to be his wife, and nine
months after their leason, she gave fourth a child. Well
the Bible says that the Lord sent Nathan the Prophet
to David. And when he sent him to David, he
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came with a story, and he said, David, I have
something I need to tell you. I need your judgment
on this. He said, there were two men in the kingdom.
One was rich and one was poor. And the rich
man had many flocks and herds, but the poor man
he just had one little you lamb. And he loved
that little you lamb. It was it was almost like
a daughter to him. It would it would eat at
his table, it would sleep in his bosom. Was he
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just loved that little you lamb. And then a traveler
came to the rich man to visit him, and the
rich man was unwilling to take from his flocks and
his herds, and so he took the poor man's little
you lamb, and he took that lamb and killed that
lamb and prepared that lamb and fed that lamb to
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his friend. And when David heard that story, his anger
just arose within him, and he slammed his fist and said,
the man who did this deserves to die. And Nathan
the Prophet said, and you are the man. You're the
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one who did this something so much worse than that story.
You took Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, and
you had him killed, and you did this tremendous evil
before the Lord. You are the man, and David was
busted Number thirty two twenty three says this, be sure
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your sin will find you out and the devastating consequent
and says don't just end with the person, but they
trickle down into the family, into the children, and the spouses,
and the churches. It's a terrible thing. Hey, what do
you do when you're busted? What do you do when
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your life and the weight of your sin comes crashing
down upon you and you're broken? David man after God's
own heart. He not only was a great sinner, as
I told you his story Second Samuel, Chapter eleven and twelve,
but David was a great repenter. And David wrote Psalm
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fifty one after Nathan the Prophet came to him and
pointed the finger of accusation in his face and said,
you are the man. And David's heart broke, and he said,
I have sinned before the Lord. And David wrote these
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wordsords in Psalm fifty one scripture says for the choir
director a psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came
to him after he had gone into Bathsheba, be gracious
to me, O God, according to your loving kindness, according
to the greatness of your compassion, Blot out my transgressions,
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Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from
my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin
is ever before me. Against you. You'll only have I
sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so
that you're justified when you speak, and blameless when you judge. Behold,
I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin, My
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mother conceive me. Behold, you desire truth in the innermost being,
and in the hidden part. You will make me no wisdom.
Purify me with hissip, and I shall be clean. Wash
me and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me
to hear joy and gladness. Let the bones which you
have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and
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blot out my iniquities. Created me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast
me away from your presence, and do not take your
holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of
your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit. Then
I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will be
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converted to you. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, Now,
God of my salvation. Then my tongue will joyfully sing
of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips that my
mouth may declare your praise. For you do not delight
in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it. You're not pleased
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with burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken
spirit and a broken and a contrite heart, O God,
you will not despise. David was busted. David was broken.
So what do you do when you're busted and broken?
You take three steps, three key steps. Step number one,
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what are we to do? We're to come humbly to God.
You come humbly to the Lord. Now when we sin
and sin greatly? And as I said, there's not a
person in this room who couldn't have the testimony that, yes,
I've sinned greatly. I have experienced that in my life, tremendous,
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horrible sin that if you put it on the screen,
I would be shamed and humiliated beyond words. You know,
when we sin like that, the devil moves in, and
the devil will tell us, well, let me tell you something.
You can't come to God with that. There's no way
that God wants to hear from you. There's no way
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that God wants to see you because of what you've done.
Look what you've done. How dare you go to church?
You need to quit going too, because you are a terrible,
horrible person. Let's get you a scarlet a and you
can wear it like hester Prynne. Let everybody know what
you have done because you are rotten to the core.
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That's what the devil says. But the devil is a
liar and the father of lies. Hey, what are we
to do when we get busted? We're to come humbly
to God. Look at verse one. Be gracious to me,
Oh God, according to your loving kindness, according to the
greatness of your compassion, blought out my transgressions. You mark
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it down. No matter what you've done. God is full
of grace and mercy. God is gracious, and David is
crying out for God's mercy and God's grace. All be
gracious to me.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
God, God, I need your grace and I need your compassion,
the greatness of your compassion, God, God, I know that
I've sent terribly, But.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
God, you are compassionate. God, God, you know the word
compassion literally means the womb. As it says in verse one,
it's a picture of a woman who would protect and
care for that baby in her womb. She'd have tender
mercy and tender love for that baby. God has great
compassion like that. And God is a God who is
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full of that. When the Lord appeared to Moses, he
gave him his resume, and he said, the Lord, the Lord,
compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving
kindness and truth. No matter what you've done, God is
full of mercy and grace. No matter what you've done,
God still loves you, still loves you. Be gracious to me,
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Oh God, according to your loving kindness. That's the Greek
word hessid h e sed hessid, and it means God's
loyal love, God's faithful love, God's covenant love. No matter
what you've done, he still loves you. So, oh, Pastor Jeff,
But I've done things like David did. He still loves you.
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He still loved. David Bible says in Psalm eighty nine,
Our Lord, I will sing of your love forever. Everyone
yet to be born will hear me praise your faithfulness.
I will tell them. God's love can always be trusted,
and his faithfulness lasts as long as the heavens. You
can always trust in God's love no matter what you've done,
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and no matter what you've done, He is able to
forgive you. He can forgive you, David said in Psalm
eighty six, verse five. For you Lord are good and
ready to forgive an abundant and loving kindness to all
who call upon thee. God is not reluctant to forgive.
He's ready to forgive. God wants to forgive you and
forgive me more than we want to come before the Lord.
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God is the father of the prodigal son. He's the
one that if you come and leave the pigs die,
and you come to him, and he sees you coming
to him, he'll run to you. He's ready to forgive.
So the first step when you are busted because of
your sin, and it's not a sin of going sixty
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in a fifty five, you really sinned and sinned terribly
and send greatly with great consequences. What do you do?
You come humbly to God's second step. Not only are
we to come humbly to God, but we are to
confess honestly and completely to God. See. God sees it all.
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God knows it all, So we need to confess it
all to God. I love what it says when it
tells the story of David sin in Second Samuel chapter eleven.
It doesn't mention the Lord at all until the very
last verse, and it says, but the thing that David
did was evil in the sight of it Lord. God
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saw it all. The eyes of the Lord er in
every place, watching the evil and the good. God saw
what David did. And God sees what you do and
what I do. He sees what websites we go to.
God sees it all. He sees the thoughts that we think.
He sees it all, knows everything about you. He knows
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what you did last night, He knows what you did
last week, He knows what you did last summer. He
knows everything. The eyes of the Lord or in every place,
watching the evil and the good. But the thing that
David did was evil in the sight of the Lord.
So what do we do when we're busted Before God,
who sees it all and knows it all. We are
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to confess honestly and completely to him. Now, don't dress
up your sin, because your guilty is charged. Well, there's
a tendency in us to want to dress up our
sin the things that God has already seen. But we
want to put lipstick on a pig, so to speak.
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We want to make it look better. But David said
in verse four against you, and you only, I have
sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so
that you're justified when you speak, and blameless when you judge. Lord,
I deserve your justice, I deserve your chastisement. I deserve
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your punishment because I have sinned. Now, notice he didn't
say that he sinned against Bathsheba, or that he sinned
against Arrayah. He wronged Bathsheba, and he wronged Uriah, but
he sinned against God, and he didn't try and dress
it up. You know, we have a tendency in our
hearts to want to dress things up. When Adam sinned,
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and the Lord said to Adam when he was hiding
from God, and the Lord said to Adam, Adam, Adam,
where are you? And Adam said, well, I heard the
sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked, so I hid myself. And God said,
who told you you were naked? Did you eat of
the fruit that I commanded you not to eat? And
Adam said, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
But.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Yeah, but the woman whom you gave to be with me,
she gave me of the fruit. And I ate, yeah,
but hey, when you're gonna come before the Lord, you
gotta get rid of your Yeah. But there can be
no yab but Lord against you. You only have I sinned.
Don't dress up your sin. You're guiltiest charged. Don't cover
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up your sin. God desires the brutal truth. We like
to cover it up. David said in verse six, Behold,
you desire truth in the innermost being. David tried so
hard to cover his sin, to cover it up, just
to sweep it under the rug. Nobody saw. Nobody needs
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to know about this, and he went on as being king.
No doubt. He sang the songs, no doubt, He went
to worship, no doubt, he prayed prayers. He did all
of that for nine plus months, and all the while
there was rottenness in the innermost part. There was cover
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up in there, and God desires truth in the innermost being.
You know, we can do that so often where we
just try and cover it up, and we just try
and come to church and we just try and well,
I'm gonna sing the songs, I'm gonna play the part,
I'm gonna act, you know, spiritual. All the while God
sees the rottenness in our hearts. All the while God
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sees this hidden part that we have that's filled with
sin and filled with cover up. God desires truth in
their innermost being. God doesn't see as man sees. Man
sees the outward appearance. The Lord looks at the heart,
and the Lord sees what's really there. Many people come
to church trying to cover up when God desires the
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brutal truth. What happened to David when he was playing
cover up for those nine plus months while the baby
was being formed in Bathsheba's womb? What was going on
in his life? He tells us in Psalm fifty one.
He tells us what happens to a Christian, to a believer,
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to someone who loves God but who gets sin in
his or her life. He tells us what happens when
you have unconfessed sin in your life. First of all,
unconfessed sin will make you feel dirty, he says in
verse two, Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse
me from my sin, he says. In verse seven, Purify
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me with hissip, and I shall be clean. He says,
in verse ten, create in me a clean heart. Oh God,
David felt so dirty on the inside, and there's nothing
he could do. There's no ceremonial washing that could take
that away. He felt stained and dirty and soiled on
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the en inside, and it was awful. And he asked God,
clean me up, purify me, wash me, make me white
to snow, Lord, because I feel so filthy inside, you know,
the Lord says, Though you wash yourself with lie and
use much soap, yet the stain of your iniquity is
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still before me, declares the Lord. Because you and I can't.
We can't clean the filth in our hearts. There's no
way to do that. That has to be a work
of God. So we do all the outward things. We
wash ourselves so to speak, with lie and soap. We
put on the religious clothes, we talk a big game,
and all the while we know and God knows, because
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he sees all. We know we're lying, and God knows
we're lying. He desires truth in the innermost being. It's
horrible when you're filthy, and David was filthy before the Lord. Hey,
unconfessed sin will make you feel dirty. Unconfessed sin will
make you feel haunted. Not only dirty, but haunted. Look
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what he says in verse three, for I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me. David was haunted
by the ghost of guilts because of his sin. It
was ever before him. Every time he turned around, there
was his sin. There was his guilt haunting him. Every
time he looked at a soldier's face, he saw Uriah
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the hit Tite, the man that he sent to his death.
You know, when David sinned with Bathsheba, that was a
hot blooded sin. That was a passionate, hot blooded sin.
But when he sinned with Uriah the hit Tite, that
was a cold blooded, calculated sin. There was no passion involved.
That was just diabolical. And so David had this haunting
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presence of guilt everywhere he went. David was carrying his
accuser within his breast. Everywhere he went. Day and night. God,
your hand is heavy upon me. I know my transgressions
and my sin as ever before me, it will haunt you.
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Have you experienced so much trouble in life that the
pain makes you feel busted and broken? Well, God puts
you right here, right now to get you some pain relief.
Here's Pastor Jeff Shreeve.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
What do you do when you're busted? What do you
do when your life and the weight of your sin
comes crashing down upon you and you're broken? David Man
after God's own heart. He not only was a great sinner,
but David was a great repenter. And David's heart broke
(00:33):
and he said, I have sin before the law. David
was busted. David was broken. Hey, what do you do
when you're busted and broken? You take three steps? Wesco
(00:54):
with real truth, real.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
From us. This is from his heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve,
and welcome to the broadcast today as he opens God's
word that will speak to all of us who feel
busted and broken. We're all in that group, of course,
at some point in life, but how we respond is critical.
(01:20):
Today we walk with King David as he confronted the
enormity of his sin but sincerely repented, reaping great blessings
in return. The lesson today is the seventh of eight
messages in Pastor Jeff's series Roller Coaster, Facing the ups
and downs of life. You picked a great day to
join us, or did God pick this for you? Let's see.
(01:43):
Open your bible to Psalm fifty one. Here's Pastor Jeff
to help us understand how to respond when we're busted
and broken.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
It was late afternoon, early evening in the spring. King
David had sent his general Joe Abb and his armies
out to war, but he stayed behind in Jerusalem. The
Bible says he had been in bed all day, just
kind of lounging around, just doing a bunch of nothing.
He got up in the early evening and he took
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a little walk on the roof of his palace, and
when he did, he saw something. He saw a beautiful
woman and she was bathing. And David knew that he
should turn away, but he didn't turn away. He kept
looking at her, and his look turned to lust, and
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his lust turned to longing, and he just had to
have that woman. And he went back in and he
called his servants and he said who is this woman?
And they said, well, that is bath Sheba, the wife
of Uriyah, the hit Tite David. That is you're my man,
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one of your thirty mighty Men'oraiah the Hittite, that's his wife.
And David said, I have to have her, and he
called for her and she came to him and they
participated in the Night of Sin.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
Well.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
David thought he had it out of his system, but
then word came back from Bathsheba some time later that
said I'm pregnant. So David thought, what do I do. Now,
I'm kind of in a bind here. Euriah's going to
know this isn't his baby because he's out fighting the
battles for the king. And so he called to Joe
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abb and said, send me Euriah the Hittite. So Uriah
came back from battle to David, and David began to
talk to Uriah and ask him about the battle, what
was going on, And then he said to Uriah, now
you go home and be with your wife. But Uriah
wouldn't do it because Uriah said it was wrong for
him to go home to be with his wife and
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enjoy his wife when his brothers are out fighting the
king's so Uriah stayed the night at the gate of
the king's palace. They told David he didn't go home
so David brought him in the next day and said,
why didn't you go home? And he said, well, I couldn't.
That would be wrong. And so David said, we'll stay
here with me, and David had him eat and drink,
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and David got him drunk, thinking well, maybe if he's drunk,
he'll go home. But he still wouldn't go home. And
so David was trying to figure out, how can I
cover up this sin in my life? And he finally
decided and he wrote a note to joe Ab, the general,
and he sealed it and he handed it to Uriah
and he said, take this to the general. Take this
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to joe Ab, and he did, you're right, and look
at the note. He took it to Joeab, and when
Joeab opened it, it said these words, put Uriah in
the fiercest part of the battle and then withdraw from him.
And joe Ab did it, and Uriah was killed in battle.
And it was told to Bathsheba, husband Uriah has died,
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and she mourned. And when her time of mourning was over,
then David took her to be his wife, and nine
months after their leason, she gave fourth a child. Well
the Bible says that the Lord sent Nathan the Prophet
to David. And when he sent him to David, he
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came with a story, and he said, David, I have
something I need to tell you. I need your judgment
on this. He said, there were two men in the kingdom.
One was rich and one was poor. And the rich
man had many flocks and herds, but the poor man
he just had one little you lamb. And he loved
that little you lamb. It was it was almost like
a daughter to him. It would it would eat at
his table, it would sleep in his bosom. Was he
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just loved that little you lamb. And then a traveler
came to the rich man to visit him, and the
rich man was unwilling to take from his flocks and
his herds, and so he took the poor man's little
you lamb, and he took that lamb and killed that
lamb and prepared that lamb and fed that lamb to
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his friend. And when David heard that story, his anger
just arose within him, and he slammed his fist and said,
the man who did this deserves to die. And Nathan
the Prophet said, and you are the man. You're the
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one who did this something so much worse than that story.
You took Bathsheba, the wife of Uriah, the Hittite, and
you had him killed, and you did this tremendous evil
before the Lord. You are the man, and David was
busted Number thirty two twenty three says this, be sure
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your sin will find you out and the devastating consequent
and says don't just end with the person, but they
trickle down into the family, into the children, and the spouses,
and the churches. It's a terrible thing. Hey, what do
you do when you're busted? What do you do when
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your life and the weight of your sin comes crashing
down upon you and you're broken? David man after God's
own heart. He not only was a great sinner, as
I told you his story Second Samuel, Chapter eleven and twelve,
but David was a great repenter. And David wrote Psalm
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fifty one after Nathan the Prophet came to him and
pointed the finger of accusation in his face and said,
you are the man. And David's heart broke, and he said,
I have sinned before the Lord. And David wrote these
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wordsords in Psalm fifty one scripture says for the choir
director a psalm of David when Nathan the prophet came
to him after he had gone into Bathsheba, be gracious
to me, O God, according to your loving kindness, according
to the greatness of your compassion, Blot out my transgressions,
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Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from
my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin
is ever before me. Against you. You'll only have I
sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so
that you're justified when you speak, and blameless when you judge. Behold,
I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin, My
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mother conceive me. Behold, you desire truth in the innermost being,
and in the hidden part. You will make me no wisdom.
Purify me with hissip, and I shall be clean. Wash
me and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me
to hear joy and gladness. Let the bones which you
have broken rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and
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blot out my iniquities. Created me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast
me away from your presence, and do not take your
holy spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of
your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit. Then
I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will be
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converted to you. Deliver me from blood guiltiness, O God, Now,
God of my salvation. Then my tongue will joyfully sing
of your righteousness. O Lord, open my lips that my
mouth may declare your praise. For you do not delight
in sacrifice, otherwise I would give it. You're not pleased
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with burnt offerings. The sacrifices of God are a broken
spirit and a broken and a contrite heart, O God,
you will not despise. David was busted. David was broken.
So what do you do when you're busted and broken?
You take three steps, three key steps. Step number one,
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what are we to do? We're to come humbly to God.
You come humbly to the Lord. Now when we sin
and sin greatly? And as I said, there's not a
person in this room who couldn't have the testimony that, yes,
I've sinned greatly. I have experienced that in my life, tremendous,
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horrible sin that if you put it on the screen,
I would be shamed and humiliated beyond words. You know,
when we sin like that, the devil moves in, and
the devil will tell us, well, let me tell you something.
You can't come to God with that. There's no way
that God wants to hear from you. There's no way
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that God wants to see you because of what you've done.
Look what you've done. How dare you go to church?
You need to quit going too, because you are a terrible,
horrible person. Let's get you a scarlet a and you
can wear it like hester Prynne. Let everybody know what
you have done because you are rotten to the core.
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That's what the devil says. But the devil is a
liar and the father of lies. Hey, what are we
to do when we get busted? We're to come humbly
to God. Look at verse one. Be gracious to me,
Oh God, according to your loving kindness, according to the
greatness of your compassion, blought out my transgressions. You mark
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it down. No matter what you've done. God is full
of grace and mercy. God is gracious, and David is
crying out for God's mercy and God's grace. All be
gracious to me.
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God, God, I need your grace and I need your compassion,
the greatness of your compassion, God, God, I know that
I've sent terribly, But.
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God, you are compassionate. God, God, you know the word
compassion literally means the womb. As it says in verse one,
it's a picture of a woman who would protect and
care for that baby in her womb. She'd have tender
mercy and tender love for that baby. God has great
compassion like that. And God is a God who is
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full of that. When the Lord appeared to Moses, he
gave him his resume, and he said, the Lord, the Lord,
compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loving
kindness and truth. No matter what you've done, God is
full of mercy and grace. No matter what you've done,
God still loves you, still loves you. Be gracious to me,
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Oh God, according to your loving kindness. That's the Greek
word hessid h e sed hessid, and it means God's
loyal love, God's faithful love, God's covenant love. No matter
what you've done, he still loves you. So, oh, Pastor Jeff,
But I've done things like David did. He still loves you.
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He still loved. David Bible says in Psalm eighty nine,
Our Lord, I will sing of your love forever. Everyone
yet to be born will hear me praise your faithfulness.
I will tell them. God's love can always be trusted,
and his faithfulness lasts as long as the heavens. You
can always trust in God's love no matter what you've done,
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and no matter what you've done, He is able to
forgive you. He can forgive you, David said in Psalm
eighty six, verse five. For you Lord are good and
ready to forgive an abundant and loving kindness to all
who call upon thee. God is not reluctant to forgive.
He's ready to forgive. God wants to forgive you and
forgive me more than we want to come before the Lord.
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God is the father of the prodigal son. He's the
one that if you come and leave the pigs die,
and you come to him, and he sees you coming
to him, he'll run to you. He's ready to forgive.
So the first step when you are busted because of
your sin, and it's not a sin of going sixty
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in a fifty five, you really sinned and sinned terribly
and send greatly with great consequences. What do you do?
You come humbly to God's second step. Not only are
we to come humbly to God, but we are to
confess honestly and completely to God. See. God sees it all.
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God knows it all, So we need to confess it
all to God. I love what it says when it
tells the story of David sin in Second Samuel chapter eleven.
It doesn't mention the Lord at all until the very
last verse, and it says, but the thing that David
did was evil in the sight of it Lord. God
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saw it all. The eyes of the Lord er in
every place, watching the evil and the good. God saw
what David did. And God sees what you do and
what I do. He sees what websites we go to.
God sees it all. He sees the thoughts that we think.
He sees it all, knows everything about you. He knows
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what you did last night, He knows what you did
last week, He knows what you did last summer. He
knows everything. The eyes of the Lord or in every place,
watching the evil and the good. But the thing that
David did was evil in the sight of the Lord.
So what do we do when we're busted Before God,
who sees it all and knows it all. We are
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to confess honestly and completely to him. Now, don't dress
up your sin, because your guilty is charged. Well, there's
a tendency in us to want to dress up our
sin the things that God has already seen. But we
want to put lipstick on a pig, so to speak.
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We want to make it look better. But David said
in verse four against you, and you only, I have
sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so
that you're justified when you speak, and blameless when you judge. Lord,
I deserve your justice, I deserve your chastisement. I deserve
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your punishment because I have sinned. Now, notice he didn't
say that he sinned against Bathsheba, or that he sinned
against Arrayah. He wronged Bathsheba, and he wronged Uriah, but
he sinned against God, and he didn't try and dress
it up. You know, we have a tendency in our
hearts to want to dress things up. When Adam sinned,
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and the Lord said to Adam when he was hiding
from God, and the Lord said to Adam, Adam, Adam,
where are you? And Adam said, well, I heard the
sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid
because I was naked, so I hid myself. And God said,
who told you you were naked? Did you eat of
the fruit that I commanded you not to eat? And
Adam said, yeah.
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But.
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Yeah, but the woman whom you gave to be with me,
she gave me of the fruit. And I ate, yeah,
but hey, when you're gonna come before the Lord, you
gotta get rid of your Yeah. But there can be
no yab but Lord against you. You only have I sinned.
Don't dress up your sin. You're guiltiest charged. Don't cover
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up your sin. God desires the brutal truth. We like
to cover it up. David said in verse six, Behold,
you desire truth in the innermost being. David tried so
hard to cover his sin, to cover it up, just
to sweep it under the rug. Nobody saw. Nobody needs
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to know about this, and he went on as being king.
No doubt. He sang the songs, no doubt, He went
to worship, no doubt, he prayed prayers. He did all
of that for nine plus months, and all the while
there was rottenness in the innermost part. There was cover
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up in there, and God desires truth in the innermost being.
You know, we can do that so often where we
just try and cover it up, and we just try
and come to church and we just try and well,
I'm gonna sing the songs, I'm gonna play the part,
I'm gonna act, you know, spiritual. All the while God
sees the rottenness in our hearts. All the while God
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sees this hidden part that we have that's filled with
sin and filled with cover up. God desires truth in
their innermost being. God doesn't see as man sees. Man
sees the outward appearance. The Lord looks at the heart,
and the Lord sees what's really there. Many people come
to church trying to cover up when God desires the
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brutal truth. What happened to David when he was playing
cover up for those nine plus months while the baby
was being formed in Bathsheba's womb? What was going on
in his life? He tells us in Psalm fifty one.
He tells us what happens to a Christian, to a believer,
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to someone who loves God but who gets sin in
his or her life. He tells us what happens when
you have unconfessed sin in your life. First of all,
unconfessed sin will make you feel dirty, he says in
verse two, Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse
me from my sin, he says. In verse seven, Purify
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me with hissip, and I shall be clean. He says,
in verse ten, create in me a clean heart. Oh God,
David felt so dirty on the inside, and there's nothing
he could do. There's no ceremonial washing that could take
that away. He felt stained and dirty and soiled on
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the en inside, and it was awful. And he asked God,
clean me up, purify me, wash me, make me white
to snow, Lord, because I feel so filthy inside, you know,
the Lord says, Though you wash yourself with lie and
use much soap, yet the stain of your iniquity is
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still before me, declares the Lord. Because you and I can't.
We can't clean the filth in our hearts. There's no
way to do that. That has to be a work
of God. So we do all the outward things. We
wash ourselves so to speak, with lie and soap. We
put on the religious clothes, we talk a big game,
and all the while we know and God knows, because
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he sees all. We know we're lying, and God knows
we're lying. He desires truth in the innermost being. It's
horrible when you're filthy, and David was filthy before the Lord. Hey,
unconfessed sin will make you feel dirty. Unconfessed sin will
make you feel haunted. Not only dirty, but haunted. Look
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what he says in verse three, for I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me. David was haunted
by the ghost of guilts because of his sin. It
was ever before him. Every time he turned around, there
was his sin. There was his guilt haunting him. Every
time he looked at a soldier's face, he saw Uriah
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the hit Tite, the man that he sent to his death.
You know, when David sinned with Bathsheba, that was a
hot blooded sin. That was a passionate, hot blooded sin.
But when he sinned with Uriah the hit Tite, that
was a cold blooded, calculated sin. There was no passion involved.
That was just diabolical. And so David had this haunting
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presence of guilt everywhere he went. David was carrying his
accuser within his breast. Everywhere he went. Day and night. God,
your hand is heavy upon me. I know my transgressions
and my sin as ever before me, it will haunt you.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Today's lesson was part one of the message Busted and Broken. Faster.
Jeff is in a series this month covering important truths
found in the Book of Psalms, where he takes a
transparent and honest look at the struggles we face on
this planet Earth and how God is there for us
all the time. The series is called roller Coaster Facing
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the Ups and Downs of Life, and it includes today's message,
part one of Busted and Broken. This inspiring eight message
series is available when you call each six six to
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God still loves them and has a wonderful plan for
their lives. Again call eight six six four zero Bible,
go to fromis Heart dot org. Well, thank you for
listening today. I'm Larry Nobles, hoping you'll join us tomorrow
for part two of the lesson Busted and Broken. It's
from Pastor Jeff's series Roller Coaster, facing the ups and
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downs of life. That's on Tuesday, when we'll again open
up God's word and share real truth, real love, and
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