Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Today, we'll continue listening to Paul preach through selected Psalms.

And in this sermon, Paul teaches that when we see our sin before us, like King David does in Psalm 51, we are on the road to true heart change.

Here's Paul with a message titled, Confession is a Grace.

Well, as we begin this morning, I want to ask you to do two things.

The first I want to ask of you a moment of personal reflection.

And here's my question.

Are you committed to change?

No, I don't mean changing your finances or your job.

Or you'd like a more durable lawn, or change in your diet?

Are you committed to personal change?

You see, we would say this about the gospel.

The gospel teaches us that the power of sin has been broken

by the work of the Lord Jesus Christ, but the presence of sin still remains and is being

progressively eradicated. So if you want to wonder what God's agenda for you is right here,

right now, you can say it in a word, change.

He is actively continuing his work of transformation in you. So your agenda for yourself

should be change. Now that means this.

That means that you must be committed to something that for many of us is hard.

It's confession.

Confession is the God-ordained portal to change.

In confession, I own personal responsibility for my words and behavior without excuse and without

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