#643 – Appealing to God for Mercy (Psalm 51:1)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 14 May 2019
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Summary
We are sinners who defy God, yet He invites us to appeal for mercy because of His steadfast love.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Psalm chapter 51 verse 1 |
| 0:09.2 | Have mercy on me oh god |
| 0:11.8 | according to your steadfast love, according to your abundant mercy, blot out |
| 0:18.1 | my transgressions. |
| 0:20.3 | Thus begins one of the most beautiful chapters in the Bible and |
| 0:25.2 | a sense Psalm 51 this picture of confession this prayer before God that David |
| 0:32.2 | praise after his sin with Bethion. this prayer |
| 0:32.5 | after his sin with Bathsheba and he starts off from the very beginning just pleading for God's mercy |
| 0:42.0 | appealing to God's steadfast love. He says it three times, have mercy |
| 0:47.3 | on me, oh God, according to your steadfast love, according to your abundant mercy. |
| 0:53.8 | The only way David and his sin can come before God in His holiness, he knows, the only way this is possible |
| 1:02.4 | is because of mercy from God because of |
| 1:05.3 | steadfast love in God according to abundant mercy. He cries out for God to show him that mercy. He cries out for God to show him that mercy and to blot out his transgressions. |
| 1:18.0 | And the beautiful truth of Psalm 51, the beautiful truth of the entire Bible, is that God answers that prayer. |
| 1:27.0 | God, the holy God of the universe, against whom we have sinned. |
| 1:32.0 | We saw in 2nd Samuel, chapter 11, whom we have displeased, |
| 1:37.0 | who we have dishonored, who we have rebelled against, |
| 1:41.0 | who we have defied. |
| 1:43.4 | And as a result of our defiance of him, we deserve judgment from him. |
| 1:49.5 | The clear truth that we see from cover to cover in scripture is that sinners deserve judgment |
| 1:57.1 | before a holy God. |
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