Conviction (3 of 9)
Series: Look Up
Dave Gustavsen
Psalm 32
Good morning. Welcome to The Chapel. We are taking the summer to walk through the book of Psalms. It's the original songbook of Israel; it's the longest book in the Bible; it's the book of the Bible that Jesus quoted from most often. But the thing I appreciate most about the Psalms is that they are brutally honest with the full range of human emotions. And today we're going to look at a Psalm that focuses on the emotion of guilt.
My favorite New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote an opinion piece called ''The Strange Persistence of Guilt.'' And he basically says that everybody knows that Western culture is becoming more secular and less religious. That's just a fact. So you would assume that, without so many religious rules and commandments, we would stop feeling guilty so often! Right? Seems logical. But that's actually not happening at all. In the article, he says, ''...people have a sense of guilt and sin, but no longer a sense that they live in a loving universe marked by divine mercy, grace and forgiveness. There is sin but no formula for redemption.'' I think that's so insightful. Even if you remove religion, the human conscience still has a sense of right and wrong, and when we violate that, we feel it. So guilt is still with us! The problem is: now our culture doesn't know what to do with it.
And David wrote Psalm 32 to show us what to do with our guilt. So let's read this together...
1 Blessed is the one? whose transgressions are forgiven,? whose sins are covered.?2 Blessed is the one? whose sin the Lord does not count against them? and in whose spirit is no deceit.
3 When I kept silent,? my bones wasted away? through my groaning all day long.?4 For day and night? your hand was heavy on me;?my strength was sapped? as in the heat of summer.
5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you? and did not cover up my iniquity.?I said, ''I will confess? my transgressions to the ...
Series: Look Up
Dave Gustavsen
Psalm 32
Good morning. Welcome to The Chapel. We are taking the summer to walk through the book of Psalms. It's the original songbook of Israel; it's the longest book in the Bible; it's the book of the Bible that Jesus quoted from most often. But the thing I appreciate most about the Psalms is that they are brutally honest with the full range of human emotions. And today we're going to look at a Psalm that focuses on the emotion of guilt.
My favorite New York Times columnist David Brooks recently wrote an opinion piece called ''The Strange Persistence of Guilt.'' And he basically says that everybody knows that Western culture is becoming more secular and less religious. That's just a fact. So you would assume that, without so many religious rules and commandments, we would stop feeling guilty so often! Right? Seems logical. But that's actually not happening at all. In the article, he says, ''...people have a sense of guilt and sin, but no longer a sense that they live in a loving universe marked by divine mercy, grace and forgiveness. There is sin but no formula for redemption.'' I think that's so insightful. Even if you remove religion, the human conscience still has a sense of right and wrong, and when we violate that, we feel it. So guilt is still with us! The problem is: now our culture doesn't know what to do with it.
And David wrote Psalm 32 to show us what to do with our guilt. So let's read this together...
1 Blessed is the one? whose transgressions are forgiven,? whose sins are covered.?2 Blessed is the one? whose sin the Lord does not count against them? and in whose spirit is no deceit.
3 When I kept silent,? my bones wasted away? through my groaning all day long.?4 For day and night? your hand was heavy on me;?my strength was sapped? as in the heat of summer.
5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you? and did not cover up my iniquity.?I said, ''I will confess? my transgressions to the ...
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