Create In Me A Pure Heart • Psalms Week 8

Create In Me A Pure Heart 
June 27, 2021 • Psalms • Week 8
Teacher: Adam Barnett

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We can’t fully comprehend the magnitude of God’s grace until we acknowledge the vulgarity of our sin.

Psalm 51:1-4 NIV

Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are right in your verdict and justified when you judge.

God’s faithfulness is not conditional upon human faithfulness.

Psalm 51:5–9 NIV

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that secret place. Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

Psalm 51:10-12 NIV

Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

Repentance (to be aware of and disgusted by sin):

“For I know my transgressions. Against you, I have sinned.”

Matthew 4:17 NIV

“Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”

Confession (to express remorse and ask for help):

“I have done evil in your sight… wash me… cleanse me…”

Restoration (to receive transforming grace):

“A pure heart… a steadfast spirit… restore me and sustain me.”

Declaration (to witness about God's grace):

Psalm 51:13 NIV

Then, I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you. Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.

Repentance → Confession → Restoration → Declaration

Sin is my condition; Saint is my identity.