The When When King David attempted to cover up his sin, it left him tangled up in his own web of deception.

It seemed like he'd fooled everyone and yet his conscience remained burdened.

I'm sure we can relate to that to some degree.

And today on Truth for Life Weekend, we'll learn why a wounded conscience can actually be a wonderful thing.

Alistairbegg is teaching from Psalm 32 verses 5 through 7. There are only two kinds of conscience that will feel the burden of sin. One is a tender conscience, a tender conscience. But if as time goes by, that tender

conscience continues to act in the wrong way and to resist the implications of wrongdoing, then it loses its power to convict.

Today, when you hear God's voice in your conscience, don't harden your hearts.

That's why it says that.

The other conscience that will bear and respond to the burden of sin is a wounded conscience.

If you have a fracture somewhere in your body, let's say in your knee, then the weight of things and the weight of things

and the weight of yourself or added weight to your body

Will become apparent because you're wounded in your knee. The very weakness there will bear testimony to the weight that has been placed upon you. And in the same way it is a wonderful thing, albeit a hard and

difficult thing, when God comes as he comes to his servant David and he brings his willful

disobedience before him and he confronts him with his systematic attempts at

cover-up and he points out to him that his very conscience

is in danger of being seared and he lays his hand of heaviness upon him, a hand that becomes absolutely unbearable.

Sam 38 in verse 4, another Sam of David in this series, he says,

my guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.

My guilt is overwhelming like a burden too heavy to bear.

Is this a dreadful thing? Is this a terrible thing?

Well, it is in one sense dreadful, but it is at the same time wonderful.

You see, when you or I have a guilty conscience because we

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