Jesus bless this sermon tonight fill me with your Holy Spirit your God and help everyone who's here myself included to put aside all the cares
of the week and
Focus right now on your word and being in your house
And please just help us to learn something that would help us to grow spiritually and in Jesus name we pray. Amen
Now the chapter starts out Oh Lord rebuke me not in thine anchor neither chasing me in thy hot displeasure
Have mercy upon me O Lord for I am weak O Lord heal me for my bones are vexed
so what is this all about basically David has committed sin and
Basically, I believe that this psalm is here in the Bible to teach us the kind of response that we should have toward God when we
sin, okay
the Bible has all the answers and Psalms a variety of different prayers and and and
Praises to God and here David is basically talking to God after he's committed some kind of sin now
We don't know what sin it is that he committed
It doesn't say what it is, but he's just like we are you know he commits sin. We commit sin
We make mistakes we do things wrong, and that's why he's saying rebuke me not in thine anger
Neither chasing me in thy hot displeasure. He knows that he's got some chasing incoming
He knows God's gonna discipline him for whatever the sin is that he committed
But he's just trying to get some mercy from God that God will chase in him, but not in anger
That God will rebuke him, but not yeah, but not be too hard on him as it were to go easy on him
That's why he's asking for mercy. He says have mercy upon me. Oh Lord for I'm weak
Oh Lord heal me for my bones are vexed now look at another Psalm look at Psalm 38 look over to Psalm 38
Here's another psalm. That's basically the same thing starts out the same way in
Fact it starts out with the same word verbatim it says oh Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath same exact thing
Neither chasing me in thy hot displeasure
For thine arrows stick fast in me and thy hand presseth me sore
There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger
Neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin
For mine iniquities are gone over my head and as an heavy burden. They are too heavy for me now
From this we can see that when you sin God gets angry
Notice that because he says very clearly in verse number
Three says there is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger and so David was a Christian David was saved
It was a believer just like you are just like I am and when David sinned against God
God had some intense anger about that sin
And let me tell you that every time that you sin it makes God mad and makes God angry God gets angry
I mean you do something wrong you violate his word
Especially if you sin willfully it makes him angry he gets angry and he has wrath and it says here in verse five
My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness now
This is the attitude both in Psalm 6 and Psalm 38 that we should have when we sin not notice
He's not saying well. It wasn't really my fault. Let me explain
He's saying look I am wrong
Be merciful to me you have every right to punish me
But just please go easy on me, and he's saying you know what I've done stinks is basically what he's saying
He said I've been a fool. I've done wrong. This is what the Bible calls confession
Now does the Bible tell us that as Christians we need to constantly ask forgiveness for our sins
No
My sins are already forgiven in whom we have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins
And there are a lot of religions out there and this can somehow confuse people
Because a lot of Baptist will use the same terminology
They'll talk about asking forgiveness every time you said well good night
We run into a lot of people out solely that think they have to do that in order to be saved
And you say well, you know you're saved right? Oh, yeah, well what if you said well
I have to ask forgiveness
Or I won't go to heaven and they think they have to ask forgiveness every single time that they sin
Now first of all I don't even know every time that I sin
David said cleanse thou me from secret faults
He didn't even know every time that he sinned and so you can't ask forgiveness every time you sin
you'd be doing nothing, but ask forgiveness, and you wouldn't even be able to keep track of it all and
Plus we already have forgiveness one time. We're saved and one time all our sins are forgiven, but
We are commanded by God in many places in the New Testament and Old Testament to confess our sins to God
And that's what David's doing here. He's confessing that he's done wrong and
The Bible says
You know if you confess and forsake your sins
You'll find mercy, and that's what David asked for mercy
And so when we realize that we've sinned we should number one confess it to God and number two forsake it and not
Try to make excuses, but call it what it is. It stinks. It's corrupt. It's foolish keep reading in verse
Six it says I'm troubled. I'm bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long now today
There's a message of just well you sin, and it's no big deal
now it's true that once you've confessed it and forsaken it and
Lamented it it's time to move on in fact the time to move on is the next day for sure
Because his mercies are new every morning the Bible says great is thy faithfulness
And so you should wake up in the morning with a brand new day
Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before
But the problem is in our zeal to preach that in many cases. We've taken away any kind of sorrow percent and
Now it's like oh you sent don't worry about no big deal when you sin you should mourn
The Bible says be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned to sorrow and your joy to heaviness
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and each other do up
We ought to be sorry for our sin
We ought to feel bad about it and sorrow and mourn and lament and confess it to God then move on
But so often we just want to just move on. Oh, whoops. Sorry you know
When sometimes we've committed a major sin we need to really do some more
Do some some crying or fasting or praying or something to what to basically?
Let God know that we're really serious about forsaking this and we're confessing it. We're acknowledging it
we're not trying to downplay it and
So he says in verse number you say you said I go mourning all the day long verse 6
Verse 7 for my loins are filled with a loathsome disease, and there is no soundness in my flesh
I'm feeble and sore broken
I've roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart
Lord all my desire is before thee and my groaning is not it from me my heart
Painted my strength failed me as for the light of my eyes. It has also gone from me
My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore and my kinsmen stand afar off
They also that seek after my life lay stairs for me
And they that seek my heart speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long
But I as a deaf man heard not and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth
Thus I was as a man that heareth not and in whose mouth are no reproofs for in thee
Oh Lord
Do I hope thou wilt hear oh my god for I said hear me less otherwise
They should rejoice over me when my foot slippeth
They magnify themselves against me for I am ready to halt and my sorrow is continually before me
For I will declare mine iniquity. There's your confession right there declaring your iniquity
I will be sorry for my sin
But mine iniquities are live my enemies are lively and they are strong and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied
They also that render evil for good or mine adversaries because I follow the thing that good is forsake me not Oh Lord
Oh my god be not far from me make haste to help me. Oh Lord my salvation
Now, you know what's funny about this chapter? It's a great chapter. And does that sound like no no big deal, right?
When you said no, I mean he was making a big deal out of it
But here's what cracks me up verse 18 for I will declare my iniquity
I will be sorry for my sin if I have a nickel for every time I've seen a gospel track
They claim that that is necessary for salvation you have to be sorry for your sins
In fact, you have to turn from your sin and then they quote that verse now is David getting saved in this verse
He's already been saved. He committed a sin and he's feeling bad about he's confessing it to God
But see a lot of times people would just lift verses that don't even say the word saved
Nothing about eternal life nothing about and just apply it to salvation. I
Mean I guess you could do that with whatever whatever command in the whole Bible
Pretty soon you'd have to keep the whole Bible to be saved
I mean, yeah, can you see where they're getting at? Cuz I can't I mean nothing in this chapter is talking about salvation
It's pretty much just talking about his deep sorrow and repentance for his sin after he's already been saved for years
Okay, because he just committed a sin, but let's go back to Psalms Psalm 6 where we started
So he says Oh Lord rebuke me not in thine anger neither chasing me in thy hot displeasure
So he's not he's not saying he doesn't want to be chasing
He's just saying don't do it in anger and be merciful go easy on me
For I am weak Oh Lord heal me for my bones are vexed. My soul is also vexed, but thou O Lord
How long return Oh Lord deliver my soul Oh save me for thy mercies sake now flip over if you would to
Deuteronomy chapter 9
Deuteronomy chapter number 9
Want to show you a passage that uses a lot of similar wording to Psalm 6 here in
Deuteronomy chapter number 9 beginning verse number 16
This is where Moses is
Recounting the story about how he went up on the Mount Sinai and got the Ten Commandments and he came down and they're worshiping
The golden cat they're naked. They're dancing. They're partying. They're drinking
Fornicating etc. And he says in verse 16 and I looked and behold you had sinned against the Lord your God and had made you a
Molten calf you had turned aside quickly out of the way
which the Lord had commanded you and I took the two tables and cast them out of my two hands and
Break them before your eyes and I fell down before the Lord is at the first 40 days and 40 nights
I did neither eat bread nor drink water
Because of all your sins which he sinned and doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to angry
For I was afraid of the anger look at these words and hot this pleasure
Wherewith the Lord was wrong against you to destroy you
But the Lord hearkened unto me at that time also and the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him
And I prayed for Aaron also at the same time and I took your sin the cap
Which you'd made a burn it with fire and stamped it and ground it very small even it
Until it was as small as dust and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mountain
That's where he made them drink the actual talk about colloidal silver for health, you know
He's grinding up the golden calf and making him drink it suspended in water. But look at Psalm look at Psalm 90
Psalm chapter 90
So basically
David he knows this scripture of Deuteronomy. He knows the law. He'd written it out by hand. He'd studied it
He'd meditated upon it day and night and he remembered God's extreme anger God's wrap God's hot displeasure
That's why I use that wording that the Lord had toward the children of Israel when they sinned and you see Moses because of their sin
Not only was should they have been weeping for their own sin. Moses wasn't even the one who did anything wrong
He was weeping for the sins of his nation
he was crying out and and and begging God and abstaining from food and
And then basically trying to intercede for the children of Israel
Look at Psalm 90 verse number said now whose whose Bible has at the beginning of the Psalms
This little phrase at the beginning that tells you
What it is, you know
I'm talking about like a psalm of David or like a meaning of Psalm 90
It says a prayer of Moses the man of God now people have asked me before like is that part of the Bible?
Is that part of God's Word? I would definitely say no. It's not part of the text. It's not in the verses
It's not the text
Can you try are these accurate can you try I don't know
Personally, I don't know. I know that I've had many bottles that didn't even happen
You know you take a lot of the typical King James
I think that these statements have been put in there and I'm not sure who put them in there
But I think it's just they've been put in there just like when the original King James version
Was was printed in 1611, you know half the page is all the notes and all the references
just like today you get reference Bibles that have all kinds of additional information and
So it says here a prayer of Moses the man of God now, I don't know whether that's really true or not
But you be the judge as we read it
But I wouldn't necessarily just believe that thing because I don't I don't it's not in the text
It's not part of the verses. I mean, it's just up above the chapter
So, you know, I believe that's just a note that's been put in there, but look at verse look at verse 7
It says for we are consumed by thine anger talking about God's anger and by thy wrath
Are we troubled thou has set our iniquity iniquities before thee our?
Secret sins in the light of thy countenance for all our days are passed away in thy wrath now notice
How many times God's wrath is mentioned you see this verse 7 anger wrath
Verse 9 for our days are passed away in thy wrath
We spend our years as a tale that is told
The days of our years are three score years in ten and if by reason of strength they be four score years yet
Is their strength labor and sorrow for it is soon cut off and we fly away who knoweth the power of thine anger
Even according to thy fear. So is thy wrath
So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts
To wiz unto wisdom and then he says in verse 13 the exact same thing
He said in Psalm 6 see if you notice the same wording return. Oh Lord how long that's exactly what it said in Psalm 6
Return oh Lord how long and let it repent thee concerning thy servants
Oh satisfy us early with mercy that we may rejoice and be glad all our days
You see Moses if Moses is the one who wrote this song or whether it was David or whether it was some other man
Of God who spake as he was moved by the Holy Ghost
These men in the Old Testament. They knew that God's wrath was toward his people when they committed sin
He said well that was the Old Testament Hebrews chapter 10. You don't have to turn there
But it says hey, it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God
And it says to remember that the Lord shall judge his people
It's talking about God's people very clearly
He says those who've been sanctified by the blood of Jesus Christ and then turn around and just
Turn the grace of God in the lasciviousness tread upon the Son of God and and do despite to the spirit of grace
Hey, I'm gonna tell you something. God's anger is kindled toward Christians who live in sin
And let me tell you something you say well
We're all sinners and this what Christianity in 2009 just throws up our hands as well
We all sin so what there is a difference in sin
I'm sick and tired of this Baptist bologna all sins equal now
I think that you must be partially insane to believe that because how can any person who's in their right mind I
Mean stop and think about this. How can any person who is in their right mind?
Actually believe that if I take a pencil home from work
That's not mine. That's all one is if I went out and murdered someone now look. Where do we get this in?
The Bible show me in the Bible all sins equal in God's eyes
Well, you know we rate things you know good
You know big sin little sin
But in God's eyes all sins equal and I've heard it a million times, and they say we don't want to be like the Catholics
Where we have big sins and little sins well
You know if that's what the Catholics believe then that's the one thing that they're right about my friend
Because there are big sins and little sins. Let me tell you something Jesus told Pilate
He said he that delivered me under you have the greater sin now if all sins equal
How can you have a greater sin?
How do you have a greater damnation like Jesus told the the the pharisee said?
Won't you scribes and Pharisees hypocrites for you devour widows houses and for a pretense make long prayer
Therefore you shall receive the greater damnation
All sin is not equal in God's eyes, and there is also what the Bible calls sinning willingly
Sinning presumptuously versus sinning through ignorance or sinning just in the moment, okay the Bible
I have a whole sermon on that called sinning through ignorance
And I go through it from Leviticus all throughout the Old Testament all throughout the New Testament
I preach a book of Romans
I mean going in great detail there is a difference in sin
And let me tell you something when a Christian goes out and commits a wicked sin a grievous sin
And obviously all sin is wrong
I'm not belittling any sin, but there are some sins that are really high up on God's list of
Anger let me tell you what one of missed fornication
Fornication is one where God's wrath is kindled okay? He I mean he basically
Kindled his wrath against the children of Israel in the book of Numbers and slew thousands of them
Because they were committing fornication with all the worldly nations around them
Go you can go even higher up than fornication worse than fornication you say well
How do you know which ones are worse because God put?
Worst punishments on the worst sins and lesser punishment on the lesser sin the symbol of justice in America that we know is
Of course the scale in the hands that you know that there's the the lady
You know who represents justice
And she has a blindfold on and she's holding a scale in one hand and a sword in the other hand right and that scale
Represents the fact that the punishment matches the crime. That's why in the Old Testament if you commit fornication
What was the punishment?
The punishment was that you know you you if the girl will have you and if her dad will have you then you have
To marry that girl if she's willing to marry you you have to marry that girl
Otherwise you have to pay a fine those were punishment fornication under God's laws under human government, okay?
What was the punishment for adultery under God's law?
Yeah, okay, so what's worse fornication or adultery?
Adultery is much worse than fornication because not only are you committing an act outside of marriage?
But so much worse you are violating and desecrating
The sacred vow of marriage that the sacred trust between you and that person
Disposably till death do us part okay these sins cause God's wrath to be killed you say well years and years back
I committed that sin well look you should have already confessed it
Forsaken it mourned over it and be done with it and don't beat yourself up about it forget about it. It's over
It's under the blood you say well. It was after I was saved
Every thing you've ever done is under the blood whether it's before
You know these people say well before your saviors under the blood hey if it was yesterday was under the blood
Okay, but the point is that God's wrath and God's anger is kindled toward believers that commit wicked sin
And so don't expect to get away with sin
Moses said be sure your sin will find you out and God will
Chasing you he will punish you and if you have committed a wicked sin you better get on your knees and beg God for mercy
Like David did in Psalm 6 in Psalm 38 in Psalm 90 and Deuteronomy 9
They were begging for mercy because they knew what it was to fall into the hands of the living God
And so don't be little sin our world. It doesn't think it's any big deal
I mean you try to tell them a sin, and they think it's nothing
Who cares but it doesn't change the fact that God is angry with the wicked every day and God's angry with his people who?
commit these kind of sins and look every sin is wicked, but you know when David committed sin with Bathsheba that
Really angered God and he paid for that big time he paid for that fourfold
He had four of his children die as a result of that and then all the horrible things that were
Associated with those four children that remember the four children had died the infant son of Bathsheba right after he committed sin
She was pregnant. She gave birth to the son
He died when he was a week old remember the next son who died was Amnon after he had defiled his half-sister Tamar
Remember the next son that died was Absalom when he was killed by Joab hanging from a tree
and you remember the fourth son that died Adonijah when he basically conspired against King Solomon by wanting to
Have Abishag the Shunammite wife to try to strengthen his position to take over the kingdom
And so you will reap what you've sown and so don't make light of sin. God's mad
Get on your knees and beg God for mercy, and he and he's very merciful
He's very much look how merciful he was to David
You know what always blows my mind whenever I read the story about David and Bathsheba how merciful God was
Just the fact that God forgives him
I mean that you know that that's amazing how forgiving God is but I'll tell you why it's because you read the Psalms and see how
David was praying that's why he got that forgiveness is because of his attitude. That's why and that's amazing
I mean if David could do that wicked of a sin, and yes
He was punished severely
But just to not have died for it just to be able to be forgiven in the way that he was is pretty amazing
It shows God's mercy toward him, so we're in that psalm 90
Turn back to Psalm 6 if you would I
Wanted to turn to Psalm 90 because of the fact that it talked about the same thing God's wrath towards sin
But also it used the exact same phrase word for word that we found in Psalm 6 where he said return
Oh Lord, how long that's what it says at the end of verse 3 how long return
Oh Lord deliver my soul. Oh save me for thy mercy
State verse 5 for in death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee
thanks now has anybody ever had a Jehovah's Witness show you this verse before I've had a Jehovah's Witness to show me this verse before and
They have this verse and they have one verse in
Ecclesiastes the dead know not anything at all and
They take these verses and they basically try to use these verses to negate the whole rest of I was teaching and say
See when you're dead you're totally unconscious you're in soul sleep. You're not in heaven. You're not in hell. You're just I
Don't know where you are you know rest in peace
I mean, I guess you're just floating around or or maybe just laying there. I don't know if you're cremated
You're sprinkled, or I don't know what's going on with your soul
But apparently they believe that you're just asleep
Now the Bible does talk about Christians as being asleep, but guess what it's talking about your body being asleep
Because that body is gonna rise again, okay
And so that's not talking about your soul being asleep
Paul very clearly said to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord
He said in Philippians 1 I have a desire to depart and to be with Christ which is far better
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more than evil for you
And so we know that those who are in heaven are very conscious look at Revelation chapter 5 or links to chapter 6
You have people up in heaven talking conscious of time
Conscious of what's going on on the earth, and they're up in heaven and by the way
Believers never die anyway only the body dies because he said whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die and Jesus said to the scribes
He said as touching them as touching the dead they rise again. He said wait a minute
Did it God say to Moses?
I'm the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac the God of Jacob God is not the God of the dead
But of the living didn't he say Abraham saw my day and rejoiced
So was Abraham just off in slumberland
No, he was aware of Jesus Christ coming on this earth
and he was rejoicing about the fact that Jesus was there that Jesus was fulfilling the Word of God and so
Clearly all throughout the bottle look at the rich man in Lazarus
The rich man died lift up his eyes. He's in hell Lazarus was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom
Which is not a place, but a body part. It's bosom all right
Not a place a body part, okay
You know I just see you get there, and there's like a neon light flashing Abraham's bosom. Yeah
Like these weird you know these weird taverns that has real weird names. You know. I mean like same rise
Abraham's bosom
You know no, it's a body part. Okay, and he was leaning upon
Abraham bosom like for example. It's like this look see Abraham had his arm around him, so he's in his bosom, right?
pretty weird, huh, oh
So the point is that
He was very conscious. He's speaking. He's thinking he's talking. He's awake. He's alive the body is asleep
Okay, you got that the body sleeps the body dies the soul and spirit live on in heaven or burn in hell
Whatever the case may be but look what this says here. I mean just take it for what it says
He says for in death there is no remembrance of thee in the grave who shall give thee. Thanks now think about this is the grave a
Reference to the spiritual or the physical abode of man when he dies
That's a physical place. Okay. I mean the grave is talking about the hole that's dug in the ground
That's the physical place of death
The soul goes to heaven or the soul goes to hell the body goes to the grave okay
So basically he's referring to the fact that in this physical world that we live in
He says no one in the graveyard
No dead body is you know praising God right now and thanking God
He's basically saying when he's dead
He's not going to be thanking and praising God anymore on this earth his body's going to be dead
The grave is not going to praise it obviously look when you're dead. You're not going to be doing any more soul winning
You're not going to be praying you're not going to read in the Bible you're not going to be serving God
You're not going to be bringing people to church. You're not going to be getting people baptized. You're not going to be preaching the gospel
Okay, yes, you'll be in heaven, but are you going to be doing anything for God on this earth?
No, and so this is from a human perspective here. It's from the perspective of the grave
Hey when you go to the grave, that's it. You're done. It's over. Okay. Does that mean that there's no no heaven?
No, but just as far as life is concerned
It's like when Jesus said it is finished. He gave up the ghost was it was he done for
No, but he was his life was over. He was done with the work that God gave him to do on this earth
Humanly speaking he gave up the ghost he was done with his life, okay?
And so yeah a lot of people just get hung up on stuff
I guess and let me tell you something whenever you're taking one verse and trying to negate
hundreds of other verses you're wrong
You
Know you you got hundreds of verses that say faith not works, and then just James 2
People will try to take that and just try to negate the whole rest of what the Bible is saying
No that the Bible does not contradict itself and so you have to be understanding it right now guess what?
Everything that the Bible says is not literal
Now you should always take it literally
Unless you unless it's because unless it's obvious because whenever it's symbolic God always makes it really obvious
The rest of time you take it literally let me show you something in this chapter. That's not literal
Tell me if you think that this is literal
Verse 6 I'm weary with my groanings all the night make on my bed to swim
I mean do you really think that his bed was swimming?
Do you think he cried I cried so much so many tears that my bed was actually swimming in the tears and
Not only that, but I water my couch with my tears. You know do you think he has a little?
Like a little sunshine bucket, you know
Okay obviously there's metaphor used in the Bible people people get hung up on the fact
They say the Bible is scientifically inaccurate
Because it says that the Sun rides it and the Sun go it down and really it's rotating
You know the planet is going around the Sun and the Sun is rotating around
You know the galaxy, and they say see the Bible's wrong because it's not really going up and down
Okay, but guess what when you're standing on earth. It is rising and it is going down
I mean how hard is that from our perspective?
Okay, it goes up and it goes down, but that people get hung up on this kind of stuff
They they try to you know. I don't know what they're doing, but yeah
Just take it for what it says people in the grave are not praising God. They're not doing anything for God
Okay, they're not accomplishing anything does that mean that their soul and spirit is not up in heaven with God no
And so the Jehovah's Witnesses need to do a little better than that if they're gonna
Promulgate this false doctrine of soul sleep. It's just not true
It's it's simply not true
You never if you spend five seconds dead as a believer
And God lied because he said whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die
Say what about Lazarus he said it about Lazarus in chapter 11 of John
He said that about Lazarus he said Lazarus sleep it, and I'm going to awaken
But he was not dead okay his soul and spirit were not dead now Jesus when he died on the cross
He was dead for three days and three nights, and then he rose again. That's why his soul was in hell
That's the place where the dead people go people who are in heaven are alive Abraham Isaac and Jacob are alive right now
And you know we have this great cloud of witnesses
Okay in heaven and so that's clear in the Bible look at verse. We already looked at verse 6 about
Said I'm weary with my groaning have you ever become physically tired from weeping
You know where you don't physically wear out your body. I mean your muscles will get sore you'll get tired
Why he's basically he wept so hard
That it was wearing him out. I mean it was just draining and physically said I'm weary with my groanings all the night
Make I my bed to swim
He's just basically using a metaphor to describe the extreme amount of tears that are coming out of his his eyes
And he says I water my couch with my tears. You know he's sleeping on the couch. No. I'm just kidding
Oh, I go too deep with that. You know see his wife's mad at everybody's mad
You know he's sleeping on the couch. It says mine. Eye is consumed because of grief
It waxes old because of all my enemies saying basically he's getting old before his time
Which is from the stress and the weeping and sorrow?
Cry weeping you say well, you know I never cry you know
To manly you Jesus wept
I don't think there's anyone more manly than that right Jesus weapon you know what the Bible says about Jesus
Not only did he just weep
John 11 35, but what about Hebrews chapter 5 when it says he offered up?
supplications and prayers with strong
crying and tears
So he said strong crying and tears. I mean Jesus was weeping profusely
I mean it remember when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane, and he was
Pouring out sweat like drops of blood and and and begging God to let the cup of the of the wrath of God
Passed from him, but he said nevertheless not my will but thy be done
You should have weeping in your life, okay?
Don't think that you always have to be happy all the time
You know if you committed sin weep over it we have a weep over the condition of our country
We had a weep over lost loved ones
We had a weep over
All kinds of all manner of things that that are that are wrong and that we want God to hear us and to step
In think about Hezekiah
Hezekiah prayed to God
But it was only when he began to weep and cry the Bible says that God saw his tears
And when God saw his tears, that's when he answered his prayer, that's when Hezekiah got through to God
God hold the voice of God heard the voice of Ishmael when he cried as a 13 year old boy and wept
God heard Ishmael and was merciful and gave them water when they were dying in the desert Ishmael and Hagar in
the book of Genesis
But he says in verse number
Seven mine eyes consumed because of grief it waxed old because of all my enemies
Depart from me all you workers of iniquity for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping now look at Luke
Chapter 13 this is just kind of interesting
I'm not really sure exactly what to make of this you be the judge
But I just when I read this this jumped out of me, and I remembered this being the exact wording from Luke 13
Look at Luke chapter 13 now we all know the famous verse in Matthew 7 23 and then while I profess unto them
I never knew you and they said depart from me that work iniquity you remember that in that
Matthew 7 and then remember Matthew 25 where he said of them also on the left hand depart from me
He cursed into everlasting fire prepare for the devil's angels, but look at this the exact wording
of what he said in Psalm 6 I
Don't know if Jesus was was quoting Psalm 6 or if he's just using the same words
But he says in verse 27, but he shall say I tell you I know you not whence you are
Depart from me all you workers of iniquity
That's exact wording like the one in Matthew 7 is pretty close
But this is exactly the same look at Matthew 6 or Psalms
It depart from me all you workers of iniquity for the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping and then here
He says, but he shall say I tell you I know you not when she are
Depart from me all you workers of iniquity now. Here's what's interesting about this go back
You're in Luke 13 go back up to verse 24
It says strive to enter in at the straight gate straight with no gh there because it's talking about narrow like the Straits of Gibraltar
the
Let's see here. It says can't think of any other Straits right now
For many I say unto you will seek to enter in and shall not be able okay now
What does that mean you know they're gonna be people?
Who one day?
Desire to go to heaven they think they're going to heaven they try to get to heaven
Right they attempted to go to heaven, but it was through their own works
Just like it said in Matthew 7 they're gonna say Lord Lord
Have we not prophesied in thy name in thy name of cast out devils and then thy name done many wonderful works then why?
Professor them I never knew you depart from me that work iniquity and
People try to point that out and say well see everybody who believes isn't safe. It doesn't say believe it says works
Think about this let's say you were to die right now and all of a sudden
You know shine obviously this would never happen because you're saved you're a believer
But let's say all of a sudden you're just before God, and he says depart from me. I never knew you
What would you say would you say?
You know that's I'd be saying
God I believed in you. You know John 3 16
John 6 47
623 I believe on you what it shows these people were not say they didn't even understand
They thought it was about their works. They thought it was about them casting out devils and all these different things
I always think of the Pentecostals right when I see that verse. You know they're a little all their little you know
Exorcism and you know the demon of drunkenness and the demon of adultery and the demon of fornication
They got to cast it out because that you know and the Pentecostals need that verse because it says part me
I never knew you not I used to know you
He said I never knew you depart from me that work iniquity, and he said Luke chapter 13
strive to enter in at the straight gate
For many I stand you will seek to enter in and shall not be able
When once the master of the house is risen up you see saying there's gonna be time was too late
One day people will want to be saved, but it'll be too late
You know when at this time about the second coming of Christ is what this actually talking about it says when once the master of the
House has risen up in a shut to the door and you begin to stand without a knock at the door saying Lord Lord
Open unto us, and he shall answer and say unto you
I know you know what you are then shall you begin to say we've eaten and drunk in thy presence
And thou is taught in our streets
But he shall say I tell you I know you not whence you are depart from me all ye workers of iniquity
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God
And you yourselves?
thrust out and they shall come from the east and from the west and from the north and from the south and shall sit down in
The kingdom of God and behold there are last which shall be first and there are first which shall be last
Now he says here in verse number. Let me see here. Here's what I thought was interesting about this too in Matthew
He says then will I profess unto them I?
Never knew you
Right in Matthew here. He says that basically the Lord
Okay, he says the master of the house the Lord is going to say unto them
Depart from me all you work is iniquity so again. You see that. You know Jesus and God
That's the judge right there Jesus Christ is the final judge
He holds the keys of death and of hell it said in Revelation 1 okay
And so no man cometh unto the Father, but by Jesus Christ, okay, and so he's the one here
That's saying I never knew you. He's the one here who's saying depart from me
He's the one who's who's saying depart from me into everlasting fire in Matthew 25, so he's the final judge
Okay, the father committed all judgment under the son the Bible says and so back to Psalm 6
Let's finish this up here quickly, but you say well. What do you make of that?
I don't know. I just wanted to show you that because it's the same wording in Luke 13 and Psalm 6
I don't know why it's the same wording, but we know that David is a picture of Jesus Christ in the Old Testament
We know that David is you know Jesus called the son of David and many times David speaks as Jesus in Psalms like when he says
That will not leave my soul in hell
Like when he said all my bones are out of joint, and he said my God my God
Why is that forsaken me and all throughout the book of Psalms?
He's a prophesying of Jesus Christ
and so I think that this could be some kind of a foreshadowing of that day when when Jesus sets up his kingdom and
Says to the unbelievers depart from me all you workers of iniquity
For the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping verse 9 the Lord have heard my supplication
The Lord will receive my prayer let all mine enemies be ashamed and sore vexed
Let them return and be ashamed suddenly now. That's a negative thing. He's praying on his enemies there right
He's praying for them to be vexed. He's praying for them to be ashamed now
It's interesting
One of the things that saw always praise and especially when I was studying a lot of these psalms when I was
Meditating upon this chapter to priests tonight. I was noticing the fact that in Psalm 6 Psalm 38 a lot of places
Also, Psalm 90 90 this was mentioned
He's he's begging God for mercy, and he's explained to him how he's sorry and he did the wrong thing
It's all his fault, but then he always brings up his enemies. Did you notice?
We read something he always brings up his enemies, and he says you know God. This is what's gonna happen
I'm a good guy. He tells God I
Mean that's basically we told him at the end of Psalm 38. He said I follow the thing that good is
He said I'm a good guy, okay, and he's like
I'm not trying to say that I didn't do the wrong thing because I did it was wicked it was it was it was
Wrong I'm crying about it. I'm sorrowful
He's I'm in pain, I'm physically ill over it
But he said wait a minute. I'm a good guy and see all these my enemies. They would love to see me destroyed
This is what I'm paraphrasing about ten different songs where he goes into this and if you read the book of Psalms
This is not kind of familiar to you. He basically said my enemies would love to see me fall
They'd love to see me cast down and destroyed
They'd love to see me punished because then they'll turn around and say aha
Here's the guy serving God
Here's the guy who's preaching God's Word. Here's the guy who loves God and look what a failure. He is and so he says look God
I'm sorry. He says I know I deserve punishment, but God
Confound my enemies don't let them triumph over me
Don't let them rejoice over me because your pipe you know go easy on me for the sake of your great name
It's kind of like the same thing Moses said remember when Moses said Lord
I know the children of Israel have sinned exceedingly, but he said do we really want the heathen
to say oh the reason that God destroyed him is because he couldn't bring them out of the land of Egypt and therefore he
destroyed them and
So that's why he said you ought to be merciful to them for your own glory for your own name's sake for your mercy's
Sake, and that's what he said in verse number
For here return oh Lord to live my soul. Oh save me for thy mercy's sake
You say well, what are you playing out with that?
God
When we talk to God we pray to God sometimes
It's almost like you know you want to speak God's language
You know you want to talk to God and then when they talk God sometimes
They're almost bargaining with God remember when Abraham kind of bargaining with God, and we see Moses kind of bargaining with God Abraham
Basically what it is is that it's not about me is what they're saying
He's saying look. I don't want you to be blasphemed because of my sin because of my downfall
Let me live on and succeed so that many sinners can be converted under you
He says in Psalm 51 so that I can you know bring forth your righteous cause and the kingdom of God
And so you know this is a good idea for you
Don't see this and understand how to get God's mercy in your life because there are times when you say
Do you want God to rebuke you in his anger?
Do you want God to chasing you in his hot displeasure you wanted to have mercy on you go easy on?
Well pray to God and say look God. I know you have to punish me I
Know that you're angry, and I'm sorry. I'm upset about man. You know shed some tears over it, but say you know what?
God
Please let me get back up again. God. Don't let me you know kind of like the sermon I preach about being cast down
But not destroyed let me get up again. Give me another chance. God is what they're basically praying
Don't let the enemy rejoice and think about this
You know that there are people who would love to see you fall
Because you're a soul winning Christian if you're sitting in faith for Baptist Church
You love God you love the Bible, and there are people who would love to see you fall. You know that's true
I could I could tell you right now if I were cast down if I fell
There would be multitudes rejoicing. I mean the love the love rally
You know we have on Sunday morning the love rally where they have the protesters
Across the street. You know
Protesting pastor Anson all all four of them and that that's including that guy who just sits in his lawn chair the whole time
You know
They man they'd have they'd have a great triumph. I mean they they'd go from like four to four hundred probably you know
We defeated him
You know so I could use that bargaining chip with God say God you know
Help me out
Don't let me fall because people would love it
I I've said this kind of thing to people like this exact thing. We're eating here for example I
Knew somebody who was basically having a bad marriage and on the verge of divorce
And I said that first I said you know what I said
I said let me name you all the people that would love to see you get a divorce because you're because you're a
Christian and
You're a Baptist and you you stood on a lot of things in the past and they've been wicked and ungodly and heathen
And I said these people would love
For you to get a divorce and fail in your marriage. Why don't you stay with it?
You know why don't you stay in it because you're causing these other enemies to triumph
Okay, these other people who hate the Lord who love to see Christians fall
They love to see Christians fail. They want to see your marriage fail
They want to see our church fail
They want to see everything that you do be a flop and a failure and for you to quit on God and quit the ministry
Hey, David said this a lot. I mean many times in the Psalms
Don't quit because not only are people looking to you that want you to succeed because you have people that want you to succeed
And you're being a blessing to them by staying in the fight by saying
But you know what there's other people who'd love to see you fall. Do you really want to give them that satisfaction?
Do you really want the devil to triumph and be rejoicing and all the demons of hell to be rejoicing and saying yeah
You know we got him we destroyed brother so-and-so we destroyed sister so-and-so
You know we destroyed pastor Anderson. We destroyed faithful word Baptist Church
Hey, I don't want that to happen
God doesn't want to happen and so that's why David saying you got look you want the enemy to triumph
Let them be ashamed let them fall let them be trapped in their own devices, but God
Forgive me
Restore me you know punish me what you need to punish me, but God
I want to get back up and keep on serving you I want you to use me get just like Samson
Samson committed a wicked sin
But he prayed to God and why did God give me strength back?
So you can look at more women he said God. You know. I just really want to see more women
That's what you've been looking at so much and finally
He was you know Santa was looking at too many women and so God decided that you know you get his eyes poked out by
the Philistines you know kind of like Jesus said you know pluck it out. God plucked it out for him, okay, but listen
Samson prayed to God and his prayer was answered
He prayed to God to receive his strength why?
To do God's will to do God's work to destroy the enemies of the Lord
And so what I'm saying is when you pray to God you can't pray
For things to consume it upon your own lust
You can't pray with your own self-interest if you pray with God's interest and God's will at mind
And you know kind of benefits you on the side. You know I
You know that's how you get your prayer answered. I'm serious. That's what David's doing
He's saying God. I'm so sorry. I've done so much wrong, but you know man look
How much worse my enemies are you want them rejoicing?
You know why don't you help me?
You know get back into this and so I just thought that was interesting because I've been studying the whole book of Psalms a lot
Not just the Psalms
You know not just memorizing what I'm preaching
But I've also been you know just going through Psalms over and over again immense fascinating book, but I've seen that pattern a lot
Praying from God's perspective praying for God's will to be done in a way that benefits you hey
That's how you're gonna get your prayers answered
Word of prayer father, please just help us to
Help us not to sin dear God like you said these things you've written on us that we sin not
But if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous
And so please help us not to sin, but when we do sin because we will sin
Help us to weep and and sorrow and feel bad about it
But then help us to pray to you and and get restored and get back in the saddle again dear God and please just
Help us to to serve you to the fullest to get people saved and to be the kind of people
to where you'll want to you'll want to help us not to fail because you want us to succeed because we're doing the thing that
Good is as David said in Psalm 38