There are many reasons to love the Bible, the 66 books of the Bible. There are many reasons to love God's word. One of the many reasons, in my opinion, to love God's word is because it deals with reality. It tells us the way things really are rather than flattering us and telling us that we are good people by nature, it deals with the reality of sin and James, for example, says that we all stumble in many ways; and so the Bible confronts us with our sin and gives us a means to deal with it and yet it tells us that we stumble in many many ways. In the passage that I read earlier from 2 Samuel 12, we saw God confronting David with the reality of his sin with Bathsheba and also with the murder of Uriah. Those are very flagrant sins that are easy to recognize. But let me remind you as we come to Psalm 51, of Psalm 50 which we studied just two weeks ago, to realize that there are multiple ways that the Lord addresses us and convicts us of sin. In Psalm 50, the Lord called his people to repent of their insincere worship. He convicted them of external formality, just going through the motions when they came to be before him and to present their sacrifices. He convicted them of life hypocrisy, in one sense, gave a head fake to Scripture. They were actually rejecting God's instruction and living life in a very sinful way and so Psalm 50 ends on a rather poignant, a very strong call to repentance without a complete resolution of the issue that it raises. Well, it's very interesting that as you just read consecutively through the Psalter, to find Psalm 51 right as the next text that a Jew would read as he goes through the Psalter after...
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Don Green
Wash Me Now That You've Sinned Truth Community Church
Don is the founding pastor of Truth Community Church in Cincinnati, Ohio. He holds Master of Divinity and Master of Theology degrees with highest honors from The Master's Seminary.  Â
He had previously served as an elder at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California....
