world; He tasted our second death; He redeemed us by His sacrifice;
but I don’t feel worthy because I have sinned. How do I know that I am
included in His sacrifice? I don’t FEEL like He accepts me!”
Let’s look at an example of a man who knew he was a sinner, for he was
doubly one--an adulterer and a murderer at the same time: David. Yes,
he came within a hair’s breadth of committing the unpardonable sin,
for he prays in Psalm 51:11, “Cast me not away from thy presence, and
take not thy Holy Spirit from me.” He had gone a whole year in
impenitence after committing the foul deeds. Could he ever find
acceptance with God?
(1) He confessed his sin openly, fully, honestly (vs. 3). (2) He
realized that his sin was a re-crucifixion of the Lamb of God (vs. 4),
thus delivering him from the whimpering, selfish fear of getting AIDS
or Herpes, or losing his job, or embarrassment, etc. as the result of
his sin. In the light of the cross, he learned to ABHOR his sin! (vs.
17). (3) He saw that sin permeated every cell of his being and of his
soul (vss. 5, 6). He pleaded no “but” to excuse it even 1%. (4) He
took the absolutely necessary step of believing that God forgave his
heinous sin--at the cost of the shed blood of the Son of God (vss.
7-10). You can’t truly believe in the forgiveness of sins unless your
soul is humbled in the dust by realizing the enormity of sin itself.
(5) David pleaded, begged, for cleansing of soul, not just legal
“pardon” (vs. 10). (6) He realized that the “bloodguiltiness” of his
soul included guilt of the blood of the Son of God (vss. 14, 4;
compare Acts 2:36; 4:14, 15). (7) David consecrated the rest of his
life to missionary, soul-saving work, a new career (Psalm 51:12, 13).
Did he know that God had “accepted” him? Yes; he realized that no
Band-aid could help him; he had been saved from the deepest hell
itself.
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