To God Be The Glory

Do you believe in the once saved always-saved plan? That once you 
have asked Jesus Christ to forgive you of your sins and prayed the 
sinners prayer… ‘Father, I know that I am a sinner and at this very 
moment I ask for forgiveness of my sins and invite Jesus Christ into 
my heart and soul. Come into my life Lord Jesus at this very moment 
and may I live a Christ like life from this moment and forevermore’….
that you are automatically saved? 

What if you did something so bad that society condemned you to be 
banned from them forever and to death? So bad that your own family 
disowns you.

His name is King David and as a young man he wasn’t ready for God 
To change his character for he did not recognize that he had any 
faults. King David prayed: 
Psalm 26:9-11,

Sweep me not away with sinners, nor my life with 
bloodthirsty men, men in whose hands are evil devices, 
and whose right hands are full of bribes. But as for me, 
I walk in my integrity; redeem me, and be gracious to me.

Do you know the difference between one on the street and one locked 
up in jail? By the grace of God it was not I. But King David did not see 
it that way, King David saw that he was above the others, the sinners 
with their evil ways and full of temptations who were not like King 
David, who approached God on King David’s own merit, “I walk in my 
integrity.” 

It was not until King David had done something awful that he and his 
family must live with for the rest of their lives…. In fact, their lives 
were never and shall never be the same forever. It was then that King 
David saw the light of himself.

King David fell in love with a woman named Bathsheba and he 
murdered Bathsheba’s husband. In his sorrow for his actions David
turned to God. Open your Bible to Psalm 51, A Psalm of David, and 
let’s examine this Psalm together.

King David asked God to forgive him for what he had done and to 
totally wash him clean of his sin, while admitting that he had sinned. 

In his admission of guilt to God, King David asked God to pass 
judgment on him…for God is a fair God who recognizes we are born 
into this world with the desire of temptation do to our inheritance of 
the original sin from Adam. 

Psalm 51:1-3

Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast 
love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my 
transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, 
and cleanse me from my sin! For I know my 
transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.

King David then admits that he knows he has not only sinned against 
the man he killed, the dead mans family, King David’s family, but also 
he, King David…sinned against God. 

Sinned against God and in his sin, asking to be cleansed and made 
pure once again, irrelevant of what society may pass judgment on him 
and what he, King David, will have to live with in his secret heart which 
is that which one has within them that only they and God know what it 
is, and King David will have to live with it until his death. In this 
knowledge, King David asked to be cleansed of his sin and to live in 
happiness in his life and within the eyes of God.

Psalm 51:4-9

Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that 
which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy 
sentence and blameless in thy judgment. Behold I was 
brought forth in my iniquity, and in sin did my mother 
conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward 
being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart. 
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me 
and I shall be whiter than snow. Fill me with joy and 
gladness; let the bones which thou hast broken rejoice. 
Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 

In our lives, we are born sinners and our natural nature is to please 
ourselves rather than God and King David was no exception and if we 
are humble in our sins God recognizes that humbleness irrelevant of 
how serious our sins may be. 

Have you ever felt stagnant in your faith, as though you were just 
going through the motions? Has a sin in your life ever driven a wedge 
between you and God, making God seem distant? King David felt 
this way.

I have asked people to give their testimony and received the standard 
answer, WHO ME? NOT ME, NO WAY AM I GOING TO GET UP THERE 
AND SPEAK. WHY ME GOD? WHY NOT THEM?

But when something happens, something life changing, they do not 
think twice about giving their testimony for they want the world to 
hear from their lips what has happened in their life.

Maybe it’s the forgiveness of God for a sin, God’s healing touch, a
heart mended, peace within ones self that has been missing…? 
Something though, makes one who has been touched by God want 
to share their testimony without any hesitant or fear. Maybe it is 
being delivered from blood-guiltiness that is the sentence of death.

Psalm 51:10-15

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and 
right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy 
presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me. Restore 
to me the joy of thy salvation, and uphold thee with a 
willing spirit. Then I will teach transgressors thy ways, 
and sinners will return to thee. Deliver me from blood-
guiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation, and my 
tongue will sing aloud of thy deliverance. O Lord, open 
thou my lips, and my mouth shall show forth thy praise. 

For God the Father wants us to confess our sins to Him, God the 
Father does not want us to hold onto our sins for when we hold onto 
our sins we fall into a downward spiral of destruction. 

In our lives we can never please God by our outward actions, no
matter how happy we may appear if our heart attitude, if we are not 
broken, if our heart isn’t right our lives aren’t right. 

God the Father says come to me my child, come to me with your 
broken and contrite, repentant, heart. For then and only then is God 
the Father pleased when we repent and while the world may not 
always be open, God is always open to our repentance. And in our 
repentance the walls around us may be rebuilt and healed, our moral 
fibers, so that our bad behavior will not influence another.

Psalm 51:16-19

For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a 
burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased. The sacrifice 
acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and 
contrite heart, O God thou wilt not despise. The sacrifice 
acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and 
contrite heart, O God thou wilt not despise. Do good to 
Zion in thy good pleasure; rebuild the walls of Jerusalem, 
then wilt thou delight in right sacrifices, in burnt 
offerings; then bulls will be offered on thy altar. 

In our lives, God will heal the brokenness within us when we admit to
God our brokenness for Jesus taught that:

Matthew 5:4, 

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be 
comforted."

If there is something in your life that is bothering you, at this very
Moment…give it up to God. He’s big enough to take it on!

When we give it up to God then and only then may one have inner 
peace and healing for great is the reward of God’s forgiveness. 

Isaiah 55:6-11

Seek the Lord while he may be found, call upon him while 
he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the 
unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, 
that he might have mercy on him and to our God, for he 
will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your 
thoughts, neither are my ways your ways, says the Lord. 
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my 
ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your 
thoughts. For as the rain and snow come down from 
heaven, and return not thither, to heaven, but water the 
earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to 
the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be 
that goes forth from my mouth; it shall not return to me 
empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, 
and prosper in the thing for which I sent it.

To God be the glory because in God our sins can be forgiven, our 
broken hearts and spirits healed, our lives to have meaning and 
purpose. All we need to do is ask God for forgiveness. irrelevant of 
when or how big our sin is…and God will forgive us. 

Let us pray, 

Why should I feel discouraged? Why should the shadows come? Why 
should my heart feel lonely and long for heaven and home? When 
Jesus is my portion a constant friend is he. His eye is on the 
sparrow and I know he watches over me. Father God from 
your promise to us we give thanks, Isaiah 55:12-14, For 
you shall go out in joy, and be led forth in peace; the
mountains and the hills before you shall break forth 
into singing, and all the trees of the hills shall clap 
their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up 
the cypress; instead of the thorns shall come 
up the cypress trees; and it shall be to the 
Lord for a memorial, for an everlasting 
sign which shall not be cut off. Thank 
you Father for this assurance of 
everlasting life that will not be 
cut off when we admit our 
sins and our given 
everlasting life in 
your name. 
Amen 




Forgiveness!


08/06/2006JWM



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