Healing from Sin (7 of 9)
Series: Conversations Through the Psalms
Scott Maze
Psalm 51
Senator John Edwards was the Democrats 2004 nominee for vice president. His political future is currently in doubt as he has admitted to an affair in 2008 with a campaign worker. He had won sympathy during the campaign as his wife had been campaigning next to him as she fought cancer. Calling it a ''very serious mistake,'' Edwards admitted cheating on his wife during her fight with cancer. His web of deceit is now only fully coming to light as he allegedly was planning a wedding with his mistress once he wife's died of cancer. In addition to all of this treachery, the media is now wondering if Edwards is the father of a nineteen month old child. Still, former Sen. John Edwards isn't the only politician to have an affair.
Nor are affairs the stuff of Democrats only. Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an affair while he voted to impeach former President Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky. And Republican Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina also concealed paternity of his child for a generation. Worse still, he breathed out racial segregationist rhetorical fire while he denied the very existence of his African-American daughter. Whether it is the teenage boy who skips town once his girlfriend sees two pink lines in her pregnancy test... Or it is the middle-aged man who offers $300 to his lover to ''put it all behind us,'' the lives of so many of us are deeply marred by the tragic consequences of sexual sin.
Psalm 51 is the story of the clean up after a train wreck - the train wreck of King's David's affair with Bathsheba.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.?2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.?4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is ev ...
Series: Conversations Through the Psalms
Scott Maze
Psalm 51
Senator John Edwards was the Democrats 2004 nominee for vice president. His political future is currently in doubt as he has admitted to an affair in 2008 with a campaign worker. He had won sympathy during the campaign as his wife had been campaigning next to him as she fought cancer. Calling it a ''very serious mistake,'' Edwards admitted cheating on his wife during her fight with cancer. His web of deceit is now only fully coming to light as he allegedly was planning a wedding with his mistress once he wife's died of cancer. In addition to all of this treachery, the media is now wondering if Edwards is the father of a nineteen month old child. Still, former Sen. John Edwards isn't the only politician to have an affair.
Nor are affairs the stuff of Democrats only. Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich was having an affair while he voted to impeach former President Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky. And Republican Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina also concealed paternity of his child for a generation. Worse still, he breathed out racial segregationist rhetorical fire while he denied the very existence of his African-American daughter. Whether it is the teenage boy who skips town once his girlfriend sees two pink lines in her pregnancy test... Or it is the middle-aged man who offers $300 to his lover to ''put it all behind us,'' the lives of so many of us are deeply marred by the tragic consequences of sexual sin.
Psalm 51 is the story of the clean up after a train wreck - the train wreck of King's David's affair with Bathsheba.
Have mercy on me, O God, according to your steadfast love; according to your abundant mercy blot out my transgressions.?2 Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me.?4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is ev ...
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