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Jesus said, man cannot live on bread alone, but from every word that proceeds from the

mouth of God. You're listening to Daily Truth.

It is one thing to plead for God to forgive. It is another thing to plead for God to transform.

We must do both in repentance.

David doesn't just ask for forgiveness. He asks to be restored. That is, to be changed. He doesn't just ask that God might clean his record. He does ask these things, to blot out my iniquities. But he does not merely ask for God to clean his record. He does ask these things to blot out my iniquities, but he does not merely ask for God

to clean his record. He asks for God to clean his heart. He's asking to be changed by God,

to be transformed. David recognizes that if God does not change him at his very core from the inside out,

that the sin that he has already committed, even if it were to be forgiven, it is sin that he would

one day commit again, and very likely he would commit far more evil. David is desperate to be changed. And I think that this is very telling when it comes

to gauging whether or not our repentance is true or whether or not our repentance is false.

There are people who hate God that if they acknowledge that God is real, that God exists, that God is holy, and that God

is judge, and they would plead to be forgiven. But only the Christian, only the lover of God

who has first been loved by God would plead to be transformed.

Because in pleading for God to change us, what we're saying is not just God, I want to be pardoned for my sin.

To want to be pardoned is to say I do not wish to experience the consequences and judgments for my sin.

But you cannot want judgment for sin,

but still love sin itself.

But when we ask God to change us,

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