NEVER THE SAME: Confessing Your Way Out of the Pit; Psalm 51

Psalm 40:1-3 From the Pit of Destruction to the Rock, Jesus!

When God Confronts and Convicts: 2 Samuel 12:1-15

Hold God In the Highest of Esteem!
Agree, Immediately!

The Way of Saul! 1 Samuel 15:12-24

¬ You Practice Partial Obedience, while pretending Full Obedience
¬ You Give Yourself Full Credit for Your Seemingly Spiritual Victory.
¬ When God Confronts You Say: “It isn’t So!”
¬ You Blame Someone Else for Your Rebellion:
¬ You Substitute Sacrifice for Obedience. Psalm 40:6-8 1 Cor 13:1-3
¬ Downplay Disobedience, When God calls it Like Witchcraft

Confessing Jesus as Lord, While believing That God Raised Him from the Dead, Finds Our Way Out of the Pit of Lostness.

Ephesians 2:1-10

Confessing Your Sin Finds Freedom from the Pit of Sin’s Power

David:

Psalm 32:3 When I kept silent about my sin my body wasted away Through my groaning all day long. 4 For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was drained away as with the fever heat of summer.

Confession Wrought out of A Godly Sorrow Produces Repentance:

Romans 2:4 Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the Kindness of God leads you to repentance.

2 Corinthians 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to the will of God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation but the sorrow of the world produces death.

Psalm 51:

1) An Appeal to the Glory of God: (1-3) Exodus 34:7-9

Lovingkindness: To Deal Kindly With: Covenant or unchanging Love, 1 Corinthians 13 Love: Grace, Mercy and Favor of God: it Never Ceases It just keeps coming

By His Loving Kindness,

– We enter His House: Psalm 5:7
– We are Never Shaken – Psalm 21:7
– Our Sins are not remembered Ps 25:7
– We Are Saved: Ps 31:16
– We Are Preserved: Psalm 40:1
– God Meets us and we look triumphantly on our foes: Psalm 59:10
– God Answers Us with His saving truth: Ps 69:13
– We Are Delivered: Psalm 109:26
– We Are Comforted and Revived: Psalm 119:76
– He Hears Our Voice: Psalm 119:149
– We Have Abundant Redemption: Ps 130:7
– Creation was Made
– He accomplishes what concerns you Psalm 138:8
– He Teaches us the way to Walk: Psalm 143:8
– Iniquity is Atoned For Proverbs 16:6
– He Has Compassion on Us Is. 54:8
– He draws us to Him: Jeremiah 31:3

– His Lovingkindness is better than Life: Psalm 63:3
– His Lovingkindness is New Every Morning: Lamentations 3:19-26

Micah 6:8 He has told you O man what is Good and what does the Lord require of you. But to do Justice, to love Lovingkindness and to walk humbly with your God.

2) An Awareness and Confession of His Own Depravity

That Knows You Deserve Judgment: 4
That takes Full Responsibility: 4 –
That Understands Your Personal Guilt
That Understands Your Absolute Depravity & Propensities to Sin. 5

Luke 5:8 And when Simon Peter Saw, He fell down at the feet of Jesus and said, “Depart from Me for I am a sinful Man, LORD”.

3) A Genuine Belief that Only God Can Change & Transform.

From the Inside Out. 6
From Dirty to Clean from the Corruption to Purity: 7

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins He is faithful and Just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

From an Impure Heart to a Clean Heart. 10
From A Faltering Spirit to a Steadfast spirit 10

4) A Prayer Faith for Restoration:

The Presence of the Lord 11
The Power of the Holy Spirit 11
The Joy of Your Salvation 12

Psalm 16:12 In Your Presence is Fullness of Joy and at Your Right hand are pleasures forever.

5) A Confession of Faith for Total Restoration and Transformation

To Teach Transgressors His Ways 13
To See Sinners Converted to Him. 13
To Declare the Praise of Our Great God. 14

Confessing His Word Brings Life, Assurance and Victory:

2 Corinthians 4:13 But having the same Spirit of faith, according to what is written, “I Believed, therefore I Spoke,” we also believed .therefore we also speak.

We Speak what we believe: We Believe Jesus: We Speak Jesus. We Believe His Word: We Speak His Word.