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Introduction
Introduction:
Attention:
Attention:
"I need a do over.”
Ever had one of those days?
Maybe one of those weeks…years?
HOWEVER, this year, the Carolina Tarheels are less than stellar.
Sure, the football team is winning, but don’t forget about our NCAA violations.
And yes, the bball team is ranked (was) but don’t forget about PJ Hairston’s marijuana and speeding issues!
Bet Williams/Fedora wish they could have a “do over,” don’t you?
What you are saying is, I need “a clean slate.”
Need:
Most of us wish we could have a do-over!!! Marriage / Job / Parenting / Finances / School
We need a great big bottle of WHITE OUT.
But we probably would all agree we ALSO need a DO OVER spiritually.
Question: “What do you do when you need a do over?”
TURN TO
Background Information
David & Bathsheba incident ()
Nathan’s confrontation of David ( – “You are the man!”)
David’s response ( – “I have sinned.”)
Bridging Sentences
Bridging Sentences
Textual Idea: In this penitential psalm, David confessed his sinfulness to God AND sought God’s restoration.
Textual Idea:
In this penitential psalm, David confessed his sinfulness to God AND sought God’s restoration.
Sermon Idea: When you need a do over, you go to God for restoration!
Sermon Idea:
When you need a do over, you go to God for restoration!
Interrogative: What is the process of God’s restoration?
Interrogative:
What is the process of God’s restoration?
Transition: Our text reveals 4 steps in God’s restoration plan.
Transition:
Our text reveals 4 steps in God’s restoration plan.
Body
Satisfaction
Division 1 Statement
Division 1: OH ME!
OH ME! God’s restoration begins with recognition of sin (v 1-4).
God’s restoration begins with recognition of sin (v 1-4).
Explanation
§ Explanation
V. 1 – “Be gracious to me” – a plea for forgiveness
V. 3 – “For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me”
Transgression (stepping over boundaries)
Iniquity (altogether wrong; can’t excuse it, condone it, apologize for it)
Sin (missing the mark of God’s stand.)
V. 4 – “Against You, You only, I have sinned and done what is evil in Your sight”
Sin can be against oneself () // Against a neighbor // Always agt God
**He accepts his fault.
Doesn’t blame ignorance, depression, or unruly passion.
Doesn’t plead that Bathsheba was ½-responsible.
Doesn’t accuse Uriah of neglect.
He did this!!!
Illustration
§ Illustration
Man calls it an accident; God calls it an abomination.
Man calls it a blunder; God calls it blindness.
Man calls it a chance; God calls it a choice.
Man calls it a defect; God calls it a disease.
Man calls it an error; God calls it an enmity.
Man calls it an error; God calls it an enmity.
Man calls it a fascination; God calls it a fatality.
Man calls it an infirmity; God calls it an iniquity.
Man calls it a liberty; God calls it lawlessness.
Man calls it a luxury; God calls it a leprosy.
Man calls it a mistake; God calls it a madness.
Man calls it a trifle; God calls it a tragedy.
Man calls it a weakness; God calls it willfulness.
Man calls it a weakness; God calls it willfulness.
Billy Sunday (American evangelist, 1862-1935) -- “I’m against sin,” he said.
“I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, and I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist.
I’ll butt it as long as I’ve got a head.
I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth.
When I’m old and fistless and footless and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition.”
Argumentation
§ Argumentation
1 Sam 11:27 – “When the time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son.
BUT the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.”
– “When the time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son.
BUT the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the Lord.”
– “There is no one greater in this house than I am, and he has withheld nothing from me except you, b/c you are his wife.
How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?”
– Prodigal Son, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.”
– Prodigal Son, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.”
– Prodigal Son, “Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in your sight.”
V. 4b – “So that You are justified when You speak, and blameless when You judge.”
– “So that You are justified when You speak, and blameless when You judge.”
Say, “Oh me!”
Application
§ Application
Recognize your sin! {5 times “my” in vv.
1-3}
Suppose instead of turning off the gas, I blew it out.
Then when we were choking, instead of opening windows…we just sprayed cologne/perfume.
The fool principle of trying to overcome the poison of gas with perfume will noy work.
The next day would be a visit to the coroner’s office!
We have to first recognize/acknowledge the real issue.
Look in the mirror of God’s Word (like a bathroom mirror shows our faults).
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