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Jun 29, 2025

Life Lessons from Hitting Rock Bottom | Summer of Psalms

Life Lessons from Hitting Rock Bottom | Summer of Psalms

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Life Lessons from Hitting Rock Bottom

 

June 29, 2025

Intro to Psalm 51

For the director of music. A psalm of David. When the prophet Nathan came to him after David had committed adultery with Bathsheba.

Psalm 51:1–2

1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. 2 Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.

Lessons from the Fall:

1. Healing starts with the of God.

Romans 5:8–10

8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 

Colossians 1:21–22

21 Once you were alienated from God and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior. 22 But now he has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation.

2. Owning my sin my heart for God’s healing.

Psalm 51:3

For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.

Psalm 51:5

Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.

3. Sin always against God and then moves to others.

Psalm 51:3–4

3 For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me. 4 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.

“We sin against others by doing to them what God has forbidden or by failing to do to them or for them what God has commanded. The commands do not come from others but from God. Therefore, the sin is first and foremost against Him.”
— J.I. Packer

2 Samuel 12:13

Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the Lord.”

Psalm 51:4

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.

QUESTION: When was the last time you were deeply emotional about what your has done to God?

4. Our forgiven past sins can still have .

2 Samuel 12:13b–14
13 Nathan replied, “The Lord has taken away your sin. You are not going to die. 14 But because by doing this you have shown utter contempt for the Lord, the son born to you will die.”
Psalm 51:3
For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
Psalm 51:7–9
7 Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than snow. 8 Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice. 9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.

“The aim of God-sent consequences of forgiven sin is not to settle accounts demanded by retributive justice. The aim of the God-sent consequences of forgiven sin are: (1) to demonstrate the exceeding evil of sin, (2) to show that God does not take sin lightly even when he lays aside his punishment, (3) to humble and sanctify the forgiven sinner.
— John Piper

Hebrews 12:6
“The Lord disciplines the one he loves, and he chastens everyone he accepts as his son.”

5. God offers and even after we fall.

Psalm 51:10–12
10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. 11 Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.

6. True restoration starts inward and always outward.

Psalm 51:13–17
13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you. 14 Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God you who are God my Savior, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness. 15 Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise. 16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. 17 My sacrifice, O God, is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will not despise.
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