Sometimes the preposition, the New Testament uses, is the preposition into, we believe, into Christ.

And this is the fundamental thing that happens to us when we're born again, when we're converted to Christ,

our faith unites us to Him, the Spirit unites us to Him. And in that way, we are bound together.

And underneath all that is the fact that in everything Jesus did, He was representing us.

And because He was representing us, everything He has done is really ours.

None of these things are what we work up in ourselves. All of these things we draw down from our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

He is everything and He fills our nothingness.

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Contrition comes out of a genuine sorrow for having offended God, for having done what we know is sinful.

And that is what David says that he is experiencing. God, my heart is broken.

My spirit has been smashed because you have awakened me to the dreadful reality of my sin.

Throughout the Gospels, we read the command over and over again to repent.

One theologian even said that the Christian life is meant to be one of repentance.

So what does it look like to have genuine repentance?

Welcome to the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind, Nathan W. Bingham.

Yesterday, we heard a message from R.C. Sproul's Life of David series.

Well, today we'll be zooming in on David's repentance with a message from Dr. Sproul's series on Psalm 51.

In this Psalm from the pen of David, we see what genuine repentance looks like.

And this kind of contrition by the grace of God is something that we all should feel whenever we sin against our holy God.

Here's Dr. Sproul.

As we continue now with our study and repentance in Psalm 51,

today we pick it up at verse 14 where David says to the Lord in prayer,

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