[Music] the Bible tells us that no one is perfect now I have sinned many times and I'm sure you have to but today I want to talk to the person who feels as though their sin is too great for God to forgive I want to speak to someone who feels ashamed because of what they've done and perhaps you're too ashamed to even pray for forgiveness to that person here is what I want to encourage you to do pray the scriptures pray directly from the Bible and there is one Psalm that I want to highlight to
you this is Psalm 51 a psalm of repentance when words fail you when you find your mind is so filled with guilt open up your Bible and pray from Psalm 51 which says have mercy upon me oh God according to your loving kindness according to the multitude of your Tender Mercies blot out my transgressions Wash Me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is always before me against you you only have I sinned and done this evil in your sight that you may be found
just when you speak and blameless when you judge behold I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin my mother conceived me behold you desire truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part you will make me to no wisdom Purge me with hisp and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than snow make make me hear joy and gladness that the bones you have broken May Rejoice hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities create in me a clean heart oh God and renew a steadfast
Spirit within me do not cast me away from your presence and do not take your Holy Spirit from me restore to me me the joy of your salvation and uphold me by your generous Spirit then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall be converted to you deliver me from the guilt of Bloodshed oh God the god of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness oh Lord open my lips and my mouth shall show forth your praise for you do not desire sacrifice or else I would give it you do
not Delight in burnt offering the sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit a broken and contrite heart these oh God you will not despise do good in your good pleasure to Zion build the walls of Jerusalem then you shall be pleased with the sacrifices of the righteousness with burnt offering and whole burnt offering then they shall offer blls on your altar I always used to think that when people said you have to be broken before God that meant that I had to have reached a serious breaking point in my life I thought Brokenness meant you
are so overwhelmed with your problems that you just have to go and cry before the Lord however I've come to understand that true Brokenness is when you are convicted and repentant not because you want to escape hell not because you want your name to be in the book of life but you are convicted and repentant because you realize ize just how much the lord loves you and just how much your sin hurts him that's what I believe to be true Brokenness true Brokenness is going before God you go before him not just to admit your
weakness but you realize just how dependent you are and should be in Jesus Christ true Brokenness is reaching a point where you say my Lord my God I yield I am weak without you I have no strength without you Jesus Psalm 51:17 says the sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit a broken and contrite heart oh God you will not despise and my understanding of this verse is that when you go before the Lord with a broken spirit Spirit when you offer him a surrendered heart that is the only sacrifice acceptable to God this is
something that the lord loves and he will never despise a broken heart and when the Bible says a broken and contrite heart I believe this is a state whereby you see Jesus Christ for all of his love for all of his Purity and you are so overwhelmed by it that you are broken with sorrow for the sin in your life a broken heart is a repentant heart a heart that has been convicted of its sin God loves those who come to him broken with the realization that they have sinned against an all powerful all merciful
all loving father God loves those who come to un broken with the realization that God has been faithful to them he has been gracious to them he has been kind to them even while they were still in sin when you get to the point where your own sin and your own carnal ways cause you to be sorrowful because you have misused and abused the love of the lord well then my friends you have reached a true state of Brokenness dear Lord we desire to live a life that is pure and pleasing to you we desire
to live a life whereby we aren't cycling in and out of sin cleanse us master I pray that the blood of Jesus Christ that precious blood that was shed on the cross at Calvary for us we pray that that it would cleanse us from sin you are a God who is generous in love you are great in compassion father hear our cry today we want to be a people who live lives that please you lives that honor you and obey your word and to do this we need to be empowered by the holy spirit so
that we can resist temptation we hold on to your word in Psalm 103: 11-13 which says for as high as the heavens are above the Earth so great is his love for those who fear Him as far as the East is from the West so far has he removed our transgressions from us as a father has has compassion on his children so the Lord has compassion on those who fear Him Empower us to have victory over sin Lord we are not slaves to unrighteousness empower us to overcome daily this struggle of sin make us clean
vessels ready to serve your kingdom Mighty God in this fight against sin the only thing we can do is to present ourselves to you because your word in Ezekiel 36: 25-27 says I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean from all your uncleanliness is and from all your Idols I will cleanse you and I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you and I will remove the Heart of Stone from your flesh and give you a heart of Flesh and I will put my spirit
within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules Lord we look to you to cleanse us you're the one who can and will give us new hearts hearts that seek you hearts that hate sin hearts that desire your presence alone Lord fill us with your spirit dear God and cause us to walk in your ways and to obey your commands if our hearts have been hardened by sin Lord remove our hearts of stone purify us dear Lord we cannot cleanse ourselves we cannot change our Wicked Hearts but
you can transform us you can renew us you can fill us with the Holy SP spirit and lead us to live transformed lives we bless your Holy Name Lord Jesus for your great love and mercy we can only thank you Lord because you have not dealt with us according to my sins you have not condemned us because of our sins but instead you have called us to repent for the sins I have committed I deserve death but you have forgiven me and offered me Redemption and eternal life I praise you for such love I am
grateful Lord on our own we are incapable of making ourselves pure but by Your Grace by your mercy we can be made clean cleanse us dear Lord thank you for listening to this prayer [Music] amen have mercy upon me oh God according to your loving kindness according to the multitude of your Tender Mercies blot out my transgressions Wash Me thoroughly from my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is always before me against you you only have I sined and done this evil in your sight that you
may be found just when you speak and blameless when you judge behold oh I was brought forth in iniquity and in sin my mother conceived me behold you desire truth in the inward parts and in the hidden part you will make me to no wisdom Purge me with hisp and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than snow make me heal your joy and gladness that the bones you have broken May Rejoice hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities create in me a clean heart oh God
and renew a steadfast Spirit within me do not cast me away from your presence and do not take your Holy Spirit from me restore to me the joy Joy of your salvation and uphold me by your generous Spirit then I will teach transgressors your ways and sinners shall be converted to you deliver me from the guilt of Bloodshed oh God the god of my salvation and my tongue shall sing aloud of your righteousness oh Lord oh open my lips and my mouth shall show forth your praise for you do not desire sacrifice or else I
would give it you do not Delight in burnt offering the sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit a broken and contrite heart these oh God you will not despise do good in your good pleasure to Zion build the walls of Jerusalem then you shall be pleased with the sacrifices of the righteousness with burnt offering and whole burnt offering then they shall offer blls on your [Music] altar for as high as the heavens are above the Earth so great is his love for those who fear Him as far as the East is from the West so
far has he removed our transgressions from us as a father has compassion on his children so the Lord has compassion on those who fear [Music] Him I will sprinkle clean water on you and you shall be clean from all your uncleanliness and from all your Idols I will cleanse you and I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you and I will remove the Heart of Stone from your flesh and give you a heart of Flesh and I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk
in my statutes and be careful to obey my [Music] rules
