The first section of Psalms has been called the Genesis Psalms.

They help us to realize that every good thing begins with God.

The Psalms provide a roadmap for the journey ahead.

In them, we learn to bring every emotion and

experience of life into the presence of God. Join Scott Pauley now as we study God's word together.

It was D.O. Moody that said, if you want to stay right with God keep short accounts of sin with God

in other words don't let it mount up but on a regular basis every day throughout the day

confess your sin to the Lord stay right with God we think of repentance as what happens when a person

comes to know the Lord as their personal

Savior. They repent of their sin and by faith they receive the Lord Jesus. That's true, but

that is not the end of repentance. That is simply the first time they have repented. No, I would

suggest to you that the Christian life in many ways is a life of repentance. That I've repented

much more since I've been saved than

I did when I got saved. Why? Because the Lord keeps showing you things in your life for which

you need to repent, things that you need to bring to God and confess to the Lord.

We've come to the first of what is referred to as the penitential Psalms. They are powerful

psalms. They're scattered throughout the book of Psalms, and Psalm 6 is the first of them. Listen to the

heart cry of the psalmist, O Lord, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasing me in

thy hot displeasure. Have mercy upon me, O Lord. For I am weak,

O Lord, heal me, for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed, but thou, O Lord, how long?

Return, O Lord, deliver my soul. Oh, save me for thy mercy's sake. For in death there's no remembrance

of thee, and the the grave who shall give

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