What It Feels like to Be Forgiven (3 of 6)
Series: Summer Psalm
Jim Perdue
Psalm 32:1-11
Intro/Attention
This is our third sermon in a series I'm preaching entitled, Summer Psalms. We're looking at a few selected Psalms for several weeks here in the summer. Today, I want you to turn to Psalm 32 and I want us to think about What It Feels Like To Be Forgiven. READ TEXT
*Edward Snowden is behind the biggest leak in the history of the National Security Agency. In May 2013 this twenty-nine-year-old caused an uproar by releasing information on the scope of government surveillance. It turns out that the NSA keeps a record of every phone call we make and looks into our lives at a level we had not imagined. This started a national conversation about privacy because we now know there is no such thing as anonymity. If we want to keep our privacy, we have to go off the grid, pay cash for every purchase, stay off the Internet, and not use a cell phone. Even then cameras will see us, and face recognition software might identify us. But the best efforts of the NSA are nothing compared to God's complete knowledge. The NSA has only had their technology for several decades. But three thousand years ago the psalmist said, ''You discern my thoughts from afar'' (Psalm 139:2). This is a problem because all of us sin-even if we have been Christians for many years. In fact, as we grow in Christ, we begin to see sin in our life that we had never noticed before. The Apostle John writes, ''If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us'' (1 John 1:8). God sees it all. This is why forgiveness is one of the greatest blessings we could imagine. The God who knows all our sin will forgive all our sin. Having your sins forgiven is better than having your student loans paid off. It's better than having a ticket taken off your record. When God forgives you, he wipes the record clean-all of it.
The psalm should probably be interpreted in connection with Ps ...
Series: Summer Psalm
Jim Perdue
Psalm 32:1-11
Intro/Attention
This is our third sermon in a series I'm preaching entitled, Summer Psalms. We're looking at a few selected Psalms for several weeks here in the summer. Today, I want you to turn to Psalm 32 and I want us to think about What It Feels Like To Be Forgiven. READ TEXT
*Edward Snowden is behind the biggest leak in the history of the National Security Agency. In May 2013 this twenty-nine-year-old caused an uproar by releasing information on the scope of government surveillance. It turns out that the NSA keeps a record of every phone call we make and looks into our lives at a level we had not imagined. This started a national conversation about privacy because we now know there is no such thing as anonymity. If we want to keep our privacy, we have to go off the grid, pay cash for every purchase, stay off the Internet, and not use a cell phone. Even then cameras will see us, and face recognition software might identify us. But the best efforts of the NSA are nothing compared to God's complete knowledge. The NSA has only had their technology for several decades. But three thousand years ago the psalmist said, ''You discern my thoughts from afar'' (Psalm 139:2). This is a problem because all of us sin-even if we have been Christians for many years. In fact, as we grow in Christ, we begin to see sin in our life that we had never noticed before. The Apostle John writes, ''If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us'' (1 John 1:8). God sees it all. This is why forgiveness is one of the greatest blessings we could imagine. The God who knows all our sin will forgive all our sin. Having your sins forgiven is better than having your student loans paid off. It's better than having a ticket taken off your record. When God forgives you, he wipes the record clean-all of it.
The psalm should probably be interpreted in connection with Ps ...
There are 12420 characters in the full content. This excerpt only shows a 2000 character sample of the full content.
Price: $5.99 or 1 credit
