1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:05,640 Psalm 32, beginning in verse one. 2 00:00:08,960 --> 00:00:13,720 How joyful is the one whose transgression is forgiven, 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,140 whose sin is covered. 4 00:00:16,140 --> 00:00:18,920 How joyful is a person whom the Lord 5 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,440 does not charge with iniquity, 6 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:24,160 and in whose spirit is no deceit. 7 00:00:25,460 --> 00:00:28,600 When I kept silent, my bones became brittle 8 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,760 from my groaning all day long. 9 00:00:30,760 --> 00:00:33,520 For day and night your hand was heavy on me, 10 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:37,480 my strength was drained as in the summer's heat, Selah. 11 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:41,160 Then I acknowledged my sin to you 12 00:00:41,160 --> 00:00:43,860 and did not conceal my iniquity. 13 00:00:43,860 --> 00:00:47,840 I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, 14 00:00:47,840 --> 00:00:51,660 and you forgave the guilt of my sin, Selah. 15 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:56,660 Therefore, let everyone who is faithful 16 00:00:57,980 --> 00:00:59,980 pray to you immediately. 17 00:00:59,980 --> 00:01:03,300 When great flood waters come, they will not reach him. 18 00:01:03,300 --> 00:01:05,520 You are my hiding place. 19 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:10,520 You protect me from trouble. 20 00:01:11,220 --> 00:01:15,500 You surround me with joyful shouts of deliverance, Selah. 21 00:01:16,660 --> 00:01:19,380 I will instruct you and show you the way to go. 22 00:01:19,380 --> 00:01:22,320 With my eye on you, I will counsel. 23 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:25,580 Do not be like a horse or mule without understanding. 24 00:01:25,580 --> 00:01:28,060 That must be controlled with bit and bridle, 25 00:01:28,060 --> 00:01:31,060 or else it will not come near you. 26 00:01:31,060 --> 00:01:33,440 Many pains come to the wicked, 27 00:01:33,440 --> 00:01:35,020 but the one who trusts in the Lord 28 00:01:35,020 --> 00:01:37,800 will have faithful love surrounding him. 29 00:01:39,260 --> 00:01:42,600 Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, you righteous ones. 30 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:46,600 Shout for joy, all you upright in heart. 31 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:48,100 Let's set this over here. 32 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,120 If you open your eyes, you turn on the television, 33 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,360 you scroll through social media, 34 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:01,960 you will only take a few moments before you are hit 35 00:02:01,960 --> 00:02:06,480 with the reality of the sin that is all so prevalent 36 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:07,320 around us. 37 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:12,680 Governments, social systems, institutions are all, 38 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,920 or have corruption within them, 39 00:02:14,920 --> 00:02:18,720 we have a media system, media companies 40 00:02:18,720 --> 00:02:21,600 that profit or monetize suffering. 41 00:02:21,600 --> 00:02:23,440 The more salacious or suffering, 42 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:27,360 the more money, potential income for these media companies. 43 00:02:27,360 --> 00:02:29,880 We have all kinds of stories of injustice 44 00:02:29,880 --> 00:02:33,760 and stories of mistreatment, of oppression and corruption. 45 00:02:33,760 --> 00:02:37,360 These are, dare I say, a dime a dozen. 46 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:41,240 As horribly callous as that sounds, 47 00:02:41,240 --> 00:02:43,240 and rightfully so, it's true. 48 00:02:43,240 --> 00:02:46,840 Assault, rape, robbery, murder, slander, lies, 49 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:49,600 filthy language, this is what it means 50 00:02:49,600 --> 00:02:54,040 to live as human in human civilization, 51 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:54,880 quote unquote. 52 00:02:57,080 --> 00:02:59,560 And you might say, as I've heard many people, 53 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:01,120 I think I even heard someone yesterday say, 54 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:03,640 man, the world needs saving. 55 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:06,920 Man, the world needs saving. 56 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:09,880 And I don't think that's too difficult to see. 57 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:14,880 The sin that's out there is so great. 58 00:03:16,880 --> 00:03:20,400 But what if that was only part of the problem of sin, 59 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:22,080 the sin out there? 60 00:03:23,560 --> 00:03:25,680 And what if that part of the problem of sin 61 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,080 was not even really the most pressing part, 62 00:03:28,960 --> 00:03:30,720 at least for you and for me? 63 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:37,560 What if what we are able to see so clearly out there 64 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:41,160 is oftentimes unseen and invisible in here? 65 00:03:44,160 --> 00:03:46,560 For the modern and postmodern mind, 66 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:49,480 it's very hard to see the brokenness 67 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:51,600 that is so much closer to home. 68 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,280 The postmodern mind says that 69 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,680 there's light of goodness within, 70 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:01,960 and it is my job to clean the lens, clean the glass, 71 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:06,160 so that the goodness within me can show out to you. 72 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:11,160 And you are to simply accept it as it's presented. 73 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:12,600 No questions asked. 74 00:04:13,960 --> 00:04:16,440 And so the idea of brokenness within, 75 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:17,560 broken in the heart, 76 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:22,560 broken at the level of desires and affections 77 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,560 is all but foreign to our modern moment. 78 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:28,360 And I believe the season of Lent, 79 00:04:28,360 --> 00:04:31,160 these 40 days, not counting the Sundays, 80 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:35,560 leading us up to the end of the year, 81 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:38,880 Easter, these are an invitation for us 82 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:43,880 to take the first steps toward God's offer of salvation. 83 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:46,720 Most of you, many of you, all of you, 84 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,320 have already done that. 85 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:52,080 But we proclaim it year after year, day after day, 86 00:04:52,080 --> 00:04:56,480 because it is in that salvation that there is great power. 87 00:04:56,480 --> 00:04:58,960 And it is in that story of the gospel 88 00:04:58,960 --> 00:05:01,520 that God intends to reshape the world 89 00:05:01,520 --> 00:05:03,920 and call sons and daughters to himself. 90 00:05:03,920 --> 00:05:06,400 And so it is our job to continually remember 91 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:11,400 and retell the great story of God and his salvation. 92 00:05:12,120 --> 00:05:17,120 It's easy to recognize the corruption out there, 93 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,360 but it is not easy to recognize the evil inclinations 94 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,480 of our own heart. 95 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:28,480 And even more so, it's more difficult to call them out 96 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:32,720 through confession and repentance. 97 00:05:32,720 --> 00:05:34,840 And here we have Psalm 32, where David, 98 00:05:34,840 --> 00:05:37,600 who was a shepherd boy, who became king, 99 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,440 anointed king over Israel, he was a man, the Bible says, 100 00:05:41,440 --> 00:05:44,440 who was after God's own heart. 101 00:05:44,440 --> 00:05:46,560 And yet we also know that the Bible shows us 102 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:50,400 that he was a sinful and flawed human being, 103 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:52,280 very relatable to us. 104 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,040 And yet he loved and walked humbly with the Lord. 105 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,640 And he is the one, we are told, in the heading of Psalm 32, 106 00:06:00,640 --> 00:06:03,040 who wrote this Psalm. 107 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:06,600 And in verse one, he uses a word that is pretty much foreign 108 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,960 to all of our colloquial speech. 109 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:14,960 He says, how joyful is the one whose transgressions 110 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:17,720 are forgiven, whose sin is covered. 111 00:06:17,720 --> 00:06:20,680 Transgression is not a word we just throw around, right? 112 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:24,560 That doesn't just slip out while we're at the grocery store. 113 00:06:24,560 --> 00:06:27,240 Transgression is taken from the Hebrew word, 114 00:06:27,240 --> 00:06:30,560 which means self-centered rebellion. 115 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:34,400 Self-centered rebellion, it means to revolt 116 00:06:34,400 --> 00:06:39,400 or to rise up in clear defiance to authority. 117 00:06:41,080 --> 00:06:44,640 Now we love to use all kinds of euphemisms 118 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:46,280 when it comes to sin, don't we? 119 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:49,600 I made a mistake. 120 00:06:51,760 --> 00:06:53,080 I messed up. 121 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:56,920 Whoa, I had an error in judgment, man. 122 00:06:58,040 --> 00:07:00,280 I made a poor choice. 123 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:03,520 I had a moment of weakness. 124 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:06,400 And to be certain, we all can make mistakes 125 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,440 and we all have moments of weaknesses 126 00:07:08,440 --> 00:07:10,000 and we make unwise choices all the time, 127 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,880 but actually, some of those are not sinful. 128 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:15,640 They're simply the frailty of being human 129 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:19,400 and what it means to live in a broken, corrupt world. 130 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:21,920 But more often than not, we know the difference. 131 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:25,520 We know what we're doing if we really stop and examine. 132 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:28,120 We know inside what is right 133 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:31,720 and we know what we have instead chosen to do. 134 00:07:34,040 --> 00:07:36,360 And therein is what the word transgression means, 135 00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:38,120 self-centered rebellion, to revolt, 136 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:42,560 to rise up in clear defiance to authority or to an authority. 137 00:07:42,560 --> 00:07:46,160 And in this case, our euphemisms are all just softball ways 138 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,480 of us passing off the buck, passing the blame for our sins. 139 00:07:49,480 --> 00:07:52,640 Handing it off and saying, hey, I'm not gonna own up to that. 140 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:56,600 I'll own up to a mistake, but I won't own up to rebellion, 141 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:01,080 revolt, defiance of authority. 142 00:08:03,320 --> 00:08:07,280 Augustine in his confessions, his writing called Confessions, 143 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,520 he gave a story from his youth. 144 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,600 He and his buddies used to go out 145 00:08:11,600 --> 00:08:13,520 and they would steal pears, 146 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:15,920 just steal pears off of other people's trees 147 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:17,640 and they would eat them. 148 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,000 And he recalls this story and he remembers at one point 149 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:24,000 in time asking himself, why do I do that? 150 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,960 He had a little bit of a moment of self-reflection. 151 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:29,680 Why do I go and I steal these pears 152 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:32,080 off of these trees with my buddies? 153 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:33,880 And he realized that it wasn't 154 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,960 because the pears were particularly great. 155 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,000 He recognized in his life he had access 156 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:41,800 to all kinds of top-notch fruit available to him, 157 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,200 including pears. 158 00:08:43,200 --> 00:08:46,000 These weren't exceptional pears that you had to eat. 159 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:47,880 These weren't exceptional pears that you had 160 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:50,680 to get your hands on and therefore it was worth stealing. 161 00:08:50,680 --> 00:08:52,000 He also wasn't hungry. 162 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,400 It wasn't like he was starved or he was an outcast, 163 00:08:54,400 --> 00:08:56,160 you know, or someone who didn't have food, 164 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:57,960 someone living on the streets. 165 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:00,680 And so he continued this process of reflection. 166 00:09:00,680 --> 00:09:02,920 Why do I do this? 167 00:09:02,920 --> 00:09:06,040 And after deliberating with himself for a bit, 168 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:07,680 it dawns on him and he writes this. 169 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:11,320 He said, my pleasure was not in the pears. 170 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,640 My pleasure was in the crime itself. 171 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:18,280 I liked stealing. 172 00:09:18,280 --> 00:09:19,120 I enjoyed it. 173 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:22,600 I enjoyed taking what was not mine. 174 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:24,200 It made me feel something. 175 00:09:26,040 --> 00:09:30,080 And this self-centeredness that Augustine is recalling 176 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,880 where everything revolves around what I want 177 00:09:33,880 --> 00:09:36,360 or what my eyes desire and therefore I do it 178 00:09:36,360 --> 00:09:39,440 and it feeds that desire and causes more desire 179 00:09:39,440 --> 00:09:42,760 to rise up, well that is the root of all evil 180 00:09:42,760 --> 00:09:45,800 and problems in the world that we face. 181 00:09:45,800 --> 00:09:48,520 The problems out there that we recounted at the beginning 182 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:53,520 are all at root self-centered pride, self-centered desire 183 00:09:56,040 --> 00:09:58,960 that reaches out and takes the forbidden fruit 184 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:00,280 because it wants to. 185 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:06,280 It ignores the good and right commands of God's word. 186 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:07,120 Why? 187 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:10,840 Well, in Augustine's perspective in his situation, 188 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:12,920 simply for rebellion's sake. 189 00:10:13,960 --> 00:10:16,320 Because I can, so I will. 190 00:10:21,960 --> 00:10:24,720 I ask you today, do you take it seriously? 191 00:10:25,680 --> 00:10:29,640 Do you have a right view of sin as rebellion? 192 00:10:29,640 --> 00:10:32,880 Do you agree with the word the Bible chooses? 193 00:10:32,880 --> 00:10:35,640 Transgression, rebellion, 194 00:10:35,640 --> 00:10:40,640 do you take seriously or do you mask over the sin 195 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,960 in your own heart with niceties? 196 00:10:43,880 --> 00:10:45,600 Oh, that's just my personality. 197 00:10:47,080 --> 00:10:49,280 You know, baby, I was born this way. 198 00:10:52,720 --> 00:10:55,040 Do you put lipstick on the pig 199 00:10:56,560 --> 00:10:58,840 to make it sting a little bit less 200 00:10:59,720 --> 00:11:01,440 and forget that it's a pig? 201 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,080 Well, what is the sin of rebellion? 202 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:06,520 Well, what is the solution? 203 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:11,520 What is the hope in the midst of this sin-stained reality 204 00:11:11,520 --> 00:11:13,240 we all find ourselves in? 205 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:17,240 Surely it's not to keep quiet about our sins. 206 00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,240 It's not to push it down all the way to the back, 207 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:21,760 to the dark recesses of our heart. 208 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:23,760 Maybe if we put it out of sight, 209 00:11:23,760 --> 00:11:24,840 then it'll be out of mind, 210 00:11:24,840 --> 00:11:26,880 or maybe if we don't make eye contact with it, 211 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:30,120 it's not real, like it's a horror movie or something. 212 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:34,640 Well, David in Psalm 32, what he said is that 213 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,480 when he kept his sin hidden, something happened to him. 214 00:11:38,640 --> 00:11:41,760 When he tried to do that, when he tried to push it down 215 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:43,040 and not call it for what it is 216 00:11:43,040 --> 00:11:46,000 and not acknowledge what it is, something happened to him. 217 00:11:47,160 --> 00:11:50,960 He says his bones were wasting away within him. 218 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:53,720 It felt like his bones were wasting away. 219 00:11:54,960 --> 00:11:57,760 He said it felt like being out in the midday sun, 220 00:11:57,760 --> 00:12:00,960 beating down on him like heat stroke. 221 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,440 It was draining the strength from his body 222 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:05,600 when he tried to keep silent. 223 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:10,080 Did you know the effects of unconfessed sin 224 00:12:10,080 --> 00:12:12,880 can actually cross the boundary between the abstract 225 00:12:12,880 --> 00:12:15,360 into the concrete, into the actual physical? 226 00:12:16,480 --> 00:12:18,320 Did you know that the effects of unconfessed sin 227 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:20,960 can drain you of your life's vibrancy? 228 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:26,320 That you can hang your head in sorrow and grief 229 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,360 and not even know why, because of unconfessed sin 230 00:12:29,360 --> 00:12:33,360 that has been shoved to the back into the darkest parts 231 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,040 and it will strangle out the joy of living. 232 00:12:38,560 --> 00:12:40,640 David experienced it in Psalm 32. 233 00:12:41,920 --> 00:12:43,440 But he actually adds to it. 234 00:12:44,560 --> 00:12:47,760 He says my unconfessed sin had this physical, 235 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:50,240 it was almost like a physical effect on my body, 236 00:12:51,600 --> 00:12:53,760 but then in verse four he says that he was also 237 00:12:53,760 --> 00:12:56,240 experiencing the heavy hand of God on him. 238 00:12:56,240 --> 00:12:59,760 The heavy hand of God convicting his sin, 239 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:02,400 trying to draw him to the place of repentance. 240 00:13:02,400 --> 00:13:05,760 He felt God's hand on him. 241 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:09,920 He realized that God would not allow him 242 00:13:09,920 --> 00:13:12,240 to carry on in comfort 243 00:13:13,760 --> 00:13:16,080 while sin slowly eroded away at his heart. 244 00:13:17,360 --> 00:13:19,360 God would not withstand that. 245 00:13:20,080 --> 00:13:22,880 God would not bear that and so he placed his hand 246 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:24,160 heavily on him. 247 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:27,680 And so he placed his hand heavy upon David 248 00:13:27,680 --> 00:13:30,000 so that he might feel the effects of sin. 249 00:13:32,480 --> 00:13:36,080 CS Lewis said every uncorrected error 250 00:13:36,880 --> 00:13:40,160 and unrepented sin is in its own right 251 00:13:40,960 --> 00:13:44,880 a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin 252 00:13:45,760 --> 00:13:47,600 flowing on to the end of time. 253 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:50,880 Truth is that hidden sin kills. 254 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:53,280 Hidden sin slowly kills. 255 00:13:53,280 --> 00:13:56,880 And also hidden sin multiplies sin. 256 00:13:58,320 --> 00:14:00,320 It multiplies sin in our life. 257 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:04,560 It causes us to always retract back to a hidden state, 258 00:14:04,560 --> 00:14:06,640 always back to a place of darkness 259 00:14:06,640 --> 00:14:08,080 and the deeds of darkness, 260 00:14:08,080 --> 00:14:10,080 the things that happen in the dark 261 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,080 are not the things that happen in the light 262 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:15,120 and so sin is multiplied by sin. 263 00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:20,080 Sin is multiplied when we withdraw into that place, 264 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:22,400 when we leave things in the cupboards, 265 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:25,200 push far back. 266 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:25,920 You know that you always, 267 00:14:25,920 --> 00:14:27,840 you have that cupboard in the house, right? 268 00:14:27,840 --> 00:14:29,600 That one cupboard that no one goes in. 269 00:14:30,320 --> 00:14:32,000 The one over the fridge for us, right? 270 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:33,760 It's like no one could reach it anyways, 271 00:14:33,760 --> 00:14:34,480 certainly not in our house. 272 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,640 I could reach it but no one else could reach it. 273 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:37,680 And no one's gonna go in there. 274 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,000 Well, just shove our sin in that one cupboard. 275 00:14:40,720 --> 00:14:42,400 We also make an error in that. 276 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:45,040 We make an error in the fact that we think time 277 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:47,200 actually erases sin. 278 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,240 For some of you, you think an egregious sin 279 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:54,000 against heaven, against God 280 00:14:54,000 --> 00:14:55,760 that is currently unrepentant in your heart 281 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:57,680 that you did 15 years ago 282 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,040 and you have never acknowledged 283 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:01,200 and brought before the Lord in repentance, 284 00:15:01,200 --> 00:15:03,840 you think that the 15 years has erased that sin. 285 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:06,080 It hasn't. 286 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:07,920 It's a dark spot. 287 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:11,280 And we oftentimes withdraw and go back to those places. 288 00:15:11,280 --> 00:15:13,200 And from that place is like cancer. 289 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,760 One cell multiplying, multiplying, multiplying 290 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:19,120 until it consumes. 291 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,760 And we've all experienced exactly what David's speaking of. 292 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:25,760 I think maybe when we were younger 293 00:15:25,760 --> 00:15:27,600 and we were a little more sensitive, 294 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:29,360 but you knew when you were under guilt, 295 00:15:30,720 --> 00:15:32,240 trying to hide something, 296 00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:36,080 hoping that you would be able to get out of it. 297 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:38,160 Hoping no one would find out, 298 00:15:38,160 --> 00:15:40,720 but thinking that everything anyone ever said to you 299 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:43,120 was actually them seeing right through you. 300 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,200 And they could see the guilt and they knew you were guilty 301 00:15:45,200 --> 00:15:46,320 and you just wanted to say something, 302 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:47,360 but you couldn't say it. 303 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:54,480 The first sin that's recorded in history, 304 00:15:54,480 --> 00:15:58,320 in human history, led immediately to hiddenness. 305 00:15:59,760 --> 00:16:02,400 And you and I, we don't hide behind bushes. 306 00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:03,280 Maybe some of us do, 307 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:07,120 but we typically don't hide behind bushes because of our sin. 308 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:10,080 But we hide behind busyness. 309 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:14,080 We hide behind 80 hour work weeks. 310 00:16:14,560 --> 00:16:16,640 We hide behind anger, 311 00:16:16,640 --> 00:16:18,720 pointing the finger at those other people 312 00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:21,600 who are causing harm and distress in my life. 313 00:16:21,600 --> 00:16:23,760 My life would be better if not for them. 314 00:16:24,880 --> 00:16:25,720 We hide. 315 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,840 We hide all the time because we will do anything 316 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:33,360 to avoid contact with Almighty God. 317 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:36,800 Because contact with God will require 318 00:16:36,800 --> 00:16:38,960 facing the rebellion in our own hearts. 319 00:16:44,080 --> 00:16:46,400 David then says, then I acknowledged my sin. 320 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:49,520 Then I acknowledged my sin to you 321 00:16:49,520 --> 00:16:51,760 and did not conceal my iniquity. 322 00:16:51,760 --> 00:16:54,880 I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord 323 00:16:54,880 --> 00:17:00,240 and you forgave the guilt of my sin. 324 00:17:00,240 --> 00:17:02,160 You forgave the guilt of my sin. 325 00:17:02,160 --> 00:17:04,160 Sin must be confessed. 326 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:09,840 And confession begins with acknowledging that sin is sin. 327 00:17:10,880 --> 00:17:13,360 It acknowledges that in the sinning, 328 00:17:13,360 --> 00:17:16,400 when we sin, we enter into a forbidden area. 329 00:17:16,400 --> 00:17:18,240 We cross a divine boundary 330 00:17:20,080 --> 00:17:23,040 that was set by God between what is good 331 00:17:23,040 --> 00:17:24,960 and what is evil or wrong. 332 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:28,720 And when we confess, we first have to acknowledge 333 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:31,280 and in acknowledging, we first agree with God 334 00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:32,880 and God's perspective. 335 00:17:32,880 --> 00:17:35,440 We say, we see this as you see it. 336 00:17:37,040 --> 00:17:39,200 And when we do that, when we acknowledge sin, 337 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:41,440 we draw a boundary around it 338 00:17:41,440 --> 00:17:43,200 and we isolate our sin 339 00:17:44,960 --> 00:17:46,720 away from the other parts of our heart. 340 00:17:46,720 --> 00:17:48,480 We draw that boundary around it 341 00:17:48,480 --> 00:17:53,440 and then God can come in and do surgery on that part. 342 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,320 When we isolate it by confessing and acknowledging it. 343 00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,440 True confession is not punishment for our sins. 344 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,920 Some of us parents have fallen in, we're guilty of this 345 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:07,040 because we'll force a confession out of our kids 346 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:08,880 and they'll begin to blend the thinking 347 00:18:08,880 --> 00:18:11,680 that confession is a part of the punishment. 348 00:18:11,680 --> 00:18:14,320 You're going to make me say this out loud. 349 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:17,680 And what we really should be doing 350 00:18:17,680 --> 00:18:20,320 is acknowledging the ways that they erred 351 00:18:20,320 --> 00:18:23,040 but showing them that confession is the route out. 352 00:18:24,160 --> 00:18:26,160 Confession is the way to healing. 353 00:18:26,160 --> 00:18:29,280 Confession is the first step toward pardon. 354 00:18:29,280 --> 00:18:30,720 It's not the punishment. 355 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:32,880 It's the remedy. 356 00:18:34,160 --> 00:18:35,280 It's the fixing. 357 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,800 But even in confession, there is a danger that we face 358 00:18:40,800 --> 00:18:42,800 and that is of self-pity. 359 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,800 We can even get confession wrong. 360 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:49,360 In the book of 1 Corinthians, the apostle Paul says 361 00:18:49,360 --> 00:18:53,360 that there are two kinds of grief, not this one yet, Nate. 362 00:18:53,360 --> 00:18:57,200 There are two kinds of grief that we can respond to sin with. 363 00:18:58,800 --> 00:19:01,280 Says that we can respond with godly grief 364 00:19:01,280 --> 00:19:03,360 or we can respond with worldly grief. 365 00:19:05,040 --> 00:19:06,880 And he says of godly grief and worldly grief, 366 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:10,960 godly grief produces a repentance that leads to salvation 367 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:15,960 without regret and worldly grief produces death. 368 00:19:18,320 --> 00:19:20,960 There's two ways to grieve over our sin, 369 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:23,680 godly and worldly. 370 00:19:24,480 --> 00:19:25,920 And the difference between these two 371 00:19:25,920 --> 00:19:28,480 is pretty much illustrated by any person 372 00:19:28,480 --> 00:19:30,320 who gets caught breaking the rule 373 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:32,880 and you guys all know them, maybe you've been one of them. 374 00:19:32,880 --> 00:19:36,240 And the apologies, man, they certainly sound identical. 375 00:19:36,240 --> 00:19:37,120 I'm sorry. 376 00:19:37,120 --> 00:19:39,600 Right, I'm sorry, but at a heart level, 377 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:41,280 they could be galaxies apart. 378 00:19:42,480 --> 00:19:46,720 One could be saying, really, I'm sorry because I got caught. 379 00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:52,320 I'm sorry because now I have to be in grief 380 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:55,920 and I'm sorry because now I must deal with the fact 381 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:57,760 that my sin's been exposed. 382 00:19:57,760 --> 00:19:58,600 Yes. 383 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:04,880 I'm sorry because now my day is over. 384 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:08,240 Because now my day's inconvenience, 385 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:11,120 my week's inconvenience, I've lost opportunity. 386 00:20:11,920 --> 00:20:15,520 Me, me, me, I, I, I. 387 00:20:16,400 --> 00:20:19,840 I'm upset that I have to now face consequences. 388 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:22,400 That's worldly sorrow. 389 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,640 Worldly sorrow is self-centered. 390 00:20:25,640 --> 00:20:27,680 It thinks supremely of the effect 391 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:31,040 that the consequence of sin has on oneself. 392 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:32,240 Look what it did to me. 393 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,240 But there is another kind of grief, another kind of sorrow, 394 00:20:36,240 --> 00:20:39,280 and that's called godly grief or godly sorrow. 395 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:41,920 And godly sorrow or grief recognizes first 396 00:20:41,920 --> 00:20:44,480 the relational effect that sin has. 397 00:20:45,920 --> 00:20:50,560 It recognizes that in sinning, I've wounded someone else. 398 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:52,880 I've wounded the Father's heart. 399 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,520 I've rebelled against perfect goodness. 400 00:20:57,520 --> 00:20:59,360 I've grieved the Father's heart. 401 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:02,240 And it focuses on whatever is necessary 402 00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,480 to repair relationship. 403 00:21:04,480 --> 00:21:06,560 How do I get back? 404 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:11,560 How do I restore the salvation and the reconciliation? 405 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:13,040 How do I restore the relationship 406 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:15,760 that I once had with my God 407 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:19,760 that this sin has fractured or pulled apart or torn apart? 408 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,720 Godly sorrow is us wanting relationship with God 409 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,520 at all costs and not thinking about the consequence 410 00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:28,360 to ourselves. 411 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:29,400 Whatever that may be. 412 00:21:32,360 --> 00:21:35,160 Worldly sorrow leads to death, but godly grief 413 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:38,560 leads to salvation. 414 00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:41,840 And in verse two, David writes this. 415 00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,480 He writes, how joyful is a person 416 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:47,960 whom the Lord does not charge with iniquity 417 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,400 and in whose spirit is no deceit. 418 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:55,160 In the New American Standard Bible, 419 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:56,520 it translates that same passage. 420 00:21:56,520 --> 00:21:59,080 How blessed is a person whose guilt 421 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,240 the Lord does not take into account. 422 00:22:02,840 --> 00:22:05,880 And in whose spirit there is no deceit. 423 00:22:07,720 --> 00:22:10,920 Truly, this would be a blessed person, yes. 424 00:22:10,920 --> 00:22:14,280 God not taking into account, yep, that would be awesome. 425 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,720 But what on earth in Psalm 32 426 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:19,240 in whatever year that was written, 427 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:21,160 what on earth got into David 428 00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:23,240 to make him think that was even possible? 429 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,240 What on earth made him think that God 430 00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:26,920 would ever do something like that? 431 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:32,600 It's an outlandish speculation, it's bold. 432 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:38,200 That'd be like me saying, man, blessed is the person 433 00:22:38,200 --> 00:22:40,200 whose guilt the California Highway Patrol 434 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:43,000 does not hold against him as he goes flying down 435 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:46,120 Highway 50 at 87 miles an hour weaving in and out of traffic 436 00:22:46,120 --> 00:22:47,080 right past the cop. 437 00:22:48,360 --> 00:22:49,320 That would be blessed. 438 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:54,040 But fat chance, highly unlikely. 439 00:22:54,040 --> 00:22:56,520 And yet David makes his bold proclamation. 440 00:22:56,520 --> 00:22:58,120 How blessed would that be? 441 00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:02,840 How awesome, how joyful would that person be? 442 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:06,280 And it's awesome because the Bible 443 00:23:06,280 --> 00:23:09,160 is full of cross references in quotes 444 00:23:09,160 --> 00:23:11,080 and they become so helpful in understanding 445 00:23:11,080 --> 00:23:13,960 how the Bible is to be read. 446 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:15,160 And this is one of those, 447 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,360 I'm gonna read it for you, 448 00:23:16,360 --> 00:23:19,320 is to be read, and this is one of those. 449 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,880 Left alone, this Psalm 32 is like, 450 00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:25,000 wow, that's really pie in the sky fancy thinking there, 451 00:23:25,000 --> 00:23:27,880 but probably not gonna happen. 452 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:32,040 But then the apostle Paul grabs it. 453 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:36,360 He grabs that verse out of Psalm 32, 454 00:23:36,360 --> 00:23:38,360 and writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit 455 00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,760 which breathes new life into that scripture, 456 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:43,960 he plops it down right in the middle of Romans. 457 00:23:43,960 --> 00:23:45,560 Right in the middle of Romans chapter four 458 00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,320 where he's talking about Abraham, 459 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:49,960 and was Abraham justified by works, 460 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:53,080 the things he did by keeping the law, by obeying, 461 00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:54,920 or was Abraham justified by faith? 462 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:57,400 Right there in the middle, he drops this scripture. 463 00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,040 He says, what then shall we say? 464 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,840 Abraham our forefather according to the flesh, 465 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,960 for if Abraham was justified by works, 466 00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,800 he has something to boast about, but not before God. 467 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:14,680 For what does the scripture say? 468 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:16,360 Abraham believed God, 469 00:24:16,360 --> 00:24:19,320 and it was reckoned to him as righteousness. 470 00:24:19,320 --> 00:24:20,920 Now to the one who works, 471 00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,400 his wages are not reckoned as a gift, but as his due. 472 00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,280 You work, you get paid. 473 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:27,480 That's not a gift. 474 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:30,600 And to the one who does not work, 475 00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,320 but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, 476 00:24:33,320 --> 00:24:36,200 his faith is reckoned as righteousness, 477 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:40,200 restored relationship with God, the perfect and holy God. 478 00:24:41,280 --> 00:24:44,600 And then Paul says, so also David pronounces 479 00:24:44,600 --> 00:24:48,440 a blessing upon the man to whom God reckons righteousness 480 00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:49,960 apart from works. 481 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:54,120 Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven 482 00:24:54,120 --> 00:24:55,720 and whose sins are covered. 483 00:24:55,720 --> 00:24:58,040 Blessed is the man against whom the Lord 484 00:24:58,040 --> 00:25:00,440 will not reckon his sin. 485 00:25:02,520 --> 00:25:04,760 And then we begin to see, oh my goodness, 486 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:08,000 it's not so outlandish. 487 00:25:08,000 --> 00:25:09,640 It's not so crazy talk. 488 00:25:10,960 --> 00:25:13,840 You mean there is a way in which God will not count 489 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:15,320 iniquity against a person? 490 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,800 He will not count sin against a person? 491 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,800 And Paul says, yes, in fact, 492 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:24,200 it is on the same basis that Abraham, 493 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,120 who received a special revelation from God 494 00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:28,840 to come and go into the land, 495 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,120 and God would do certain things through him and his family 496 00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:34,400 that ultimately led in Christ, and Abraham believed. 497 00:25:34,400 --> 00:25:35,720 And Abraham was before the law. 498 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:37,920 The law wasn't even there for him to obey. 499 00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:41,200 And yet in his belief, it was reckoned to him. 500 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,840 It was credited to him as righteousness. 501 00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,440 It was righteousness by faith alone. 502 00:25:50,120 --> 00:25:52,480 It was righteousness by grace alone. 503 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,560 It was a gift on the basis of belief. 504 00:25:57,760 --> 00:25:59,320 It was by grace, through faith, 505 00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,600 that Abraham received it from God. 506 00:26:01,600 --> 00:26:04,120 And we find in the New Testament that in Christ, 507 00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:09,120 this offering, this offering to be reckoned to God right. 508 00:26:09,120 --> 00:26:11,560 To be reckoned to God right. 509 00:26:12,760 --> 00:26:16,280 Not on the basis of doing right or wrong, 510 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:18,960 but on the basis of faith alone by grace. 511 00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,320 That Christ is actually offering that to the whole world. 512 00:26:24,800 --> 00:26:26,880 Abraham had this special revelation from God, 513 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:28,720 and he began to walk in it. 514 00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:30,520 And yes, he became a nation, 515 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:32,840 and some within that nation also put their faith 516 00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:34,720 and hope in Christ, in God, 517 00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,160 in the same way that Abraham had it. 518 00:26:36,160 --> 00:26:38,720 And so they also were reckoned righteous. 519 00:26:38,720 --> 00:26:41,480 But in Jesus, it blew the doors open. 520 00:26:41,480 --> 00:26:43,440 And said this offer, this offering, 521 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:46,200 is actually for the whole world. 522 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:49,480 And so David in Psalm 32, 523 00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:54,920 knowingly or unknowingly, was ultimately referring to Jesus. 524 00:26:56,520 --> 00:27:00,280 He saw this is within God's character. 525 00:27:01,440 --> 00:27:03,400 For whatever it is, however he had experienced, 526 00:27:03,400 --> 00:27:04,800 he was a man after God's own heart, 527 00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:06,640 his time in prayer, his time in worship, 528 00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,920 his study of the Torah and his understanding of who God was. 529 00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:11,560 He came to the conclusion, 530 00:27:11,560 --> 00:27:14,240 this is the kind of God that I'm worshiping. 531 00:27:14,240 --> 00:27:16,320 He's the kind of God who in the end 532 00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,400 values faith over works. 533 00:27:18,400 --> 00:27:21,320 In the end values trust, trust in him. 534 00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:24,560 Loyal love to him. 535 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,520 And he just might do this crazy thing. 536 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,880 He just might count someone righteous, 537 00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,640 not on account of the law, but by faith. 538 00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:38,360 That's the kind of God. 539 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:42,160 Not that he imagined, he experienced. 540 00:27:44,880 --> 00:27:48,120 And Paul just takes that from Romans 541 00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,880 and continues to stretch that idea out 542 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,200 in Second Corinthians when he says this. 543 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:56,280 He says, therefore, if anyone is in Christ, 544 00:27:56,280 --> 00:27:58,440 he is a new creation. 545 00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:02,760 The old has passed away, behold, the new has come. 546 00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,640 All this is from God who through Christ 547 00:28:05,640 --> 00:28:08,800 reconciled us to himself and gave to us 548 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:11,800 the ministry of reconciliation. 549 00:28:11,800 --> 00:28:15,720 That is, in Christ, God was reconciling the world 550 00:28:15,720 --> 00:28:19,720 to himself, not counting their transgressions against them, 551 00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:21,200 or the trespasses against them, 552 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:25,360 and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation. 553 00:28:25,360 --> 00:28:28,080 And so we are ambassadors for Christ. 554 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,440 God making his appeal through us, 555 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:35,440 we beseech you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 556 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,960 The door's open, kicked open by Christ. 557 00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:44,440 This crazy fantastical idea that somehow 558 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:46,320 was planted in the heart of David 559 00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:50,360 and written in the words of Psalm 32 is reality. 560 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:52,520 God is not counting trespasses, 561 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,240 God is not counting transgression 562 00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:58,160 against the sinner anymore through faith. 563 00:28:59,560 --> 00:29:03,080 So my final thoughts from this passage today, 564 00:29:03,080 --> 00:29:05,240 and I'll bring the worship team up to close this out, 565 00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,440 we're gonna close out with communion, 566 00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:12,440 is that on the cross, Jesus took all our sin, 567 00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,080 transgressions and iniquities. 568 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:22,080 And for a Roman crucifixion, a Roman crucifixion, 569 00:29:22,080 --> 00:29:24,480 the guilty was stripped naked, 570 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:28,320 they were totally exposed, 571 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:31,800 and it was intended to be that they would be mocked, 572 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:35,120 that they would be ridiculed, that they would be spit on, 573 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,680 that they would be cursed, 574 00:29:38,000 --> 00:29:39,520 because it was not just about the death, 575 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,800 but it was about the shame in the death. 576 00:29:42,800 --> 00:29:46,520 There was nothing more shameful than a Roman crucifixion. 577 00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:49,440 And at the very beginning, 578 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:53,600 at the end of that first verse in Psalm 32, 579 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:57,920 it says, how joyful is the one 580 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,760 whose sin is covered, 581 00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:04,680 whose sin is covered. 582 00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,520 And on the cross, Jesus was totally uncovered, 583 00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:15,360 completely uncovered, subject to ultimate shame, 584 00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:19,360 exposed, and what he went through 585 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,400 is exactly what the sinner deserves. 586 00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:28,360 We deserve, you and I, to have all of our hypocrisy, 587 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:33,720 all of our self-centeredness, all of our rebelliousness, 588 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:37,360 completely uncovered and shamefully exposed 589 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,560 for everyone to see. 590 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:43,560 That's what we deserve. We have all sinned and fallen short 591 00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,680 of the glory of God, but the Bible says 592 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:54,560 that Jesus went through all of that for us. 593 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:58,560 He was exposed so that we could be covered. 594 00:31:01,400 --> 00:31:05,400 He was laid bare, subject to shame, 595 00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:10,400 the shame we deserved, so that we could be welcomed in 596 00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:13,640 as sons and daughters of the King. 597 00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:17,640 What an exchange. 598 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,640 There's an old hymn that reads, 599 00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:27,640 and can it be that I should gain 600 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:30,080 an interest in the Savior's blood? 601 00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:34,080 Died he for me who caused him pain, 602 00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:39,000 for me who he to death pursued. 603 00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:45,120 Amazing love, how can it be 604 00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,280 that thou, my God, should die for me? 605 00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,920 We have to see our sin for what it is, 606 00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:56,240 but it doesn't stop there. 607 00:31:56,240 --> 00:31:59,840 You and I get to turn and look at Christ for who he is. 608 00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:01,320 It's something that struck me in worship 609 00:32:01,320 --> 00:32:02,920 as we were preparing, and as the worship team 610 00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,480 will lead us in just a second. 611 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:06,360 And maybe I'm gonna go ahead and release, 612 00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:07,880 as the worship team leads, I'm gonna lay out 613 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:08,920 the elements of communion. 614 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,480 We're not gonna do as our typical one 615 00:32:10,480 --> 00:32:12,160 where you take it back to your seat 616 00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:14,280 and we receive it together, but instead, 617 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,880 we've brought out the good old altars here, 618 00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:20,320 dusted them off just for you, 619 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,840 and your creaky old knees for me. 620 00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:26,400 And what I would encourage is while we're leading worship, 621 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,400 while they're leading worship and singing over us, 622 00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:32,120 whenever you feel comfortable and wind kinda clears out 623 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,560 and there's room for you, come and grab some elements 624 00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:36,880 and just spend a moment at the altar. 625 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:40,880 Something that I realized as I was worshiping is 626 00:32:40,880 --> 00:32:43,480 to look to the cross, you have to lift up your head. 627 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:46,440 You can't see the cross on the ground. 628 00:32:46,440 --> 00:32:48,040 You have to lift up your head. 629 00:32:49,280 --> 00:32:50,920 You have to look to the cross. 630 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:53,240 You have to lift up your head. 631 00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,320 And our heads down, well, heads downcast, that's shame. 632 00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,200 But to look to the cross is to lift up our head. 633 00:33:01,080 --> 00:33:04,280 Just remember that Christ lifted up our head 634 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:08,120 when he went to the cross and paid the ultimate price for us. 635 00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:22,120 How can it be that you, my God, should die for me?