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The Penitent’s Prayer

Sermon Text: Psalm 51:1-19

Theme: The repentant sinner may ask for and be certain that he will receive a new, clean heart from God, solely on the basis of the Lord’s abundant mercy to the humble and contrite. 

Structure/points: There is much more to Psalm 51 than David’s private reflection on the Bathsheba and Uriah incident.  In His limitless wisdom, God inspired David to reflect very deeply on the nature of human sin and repentance, on divine mercy and purification.  As much as any of the Psalms, this is an everyman passage.  Every single Christian can understand what David expresses, confesses, and desires here.  Psalm 51 is for the person who sees the dirtiness and corruption of their sins and longs to be set free from it.  And not only does it help us express that wish for true cleanliness, it assures that God hears our cries that we would be entirely saved from our sins. 

  1. The sins of the repentant man
  2. The request of the repentant man
  3. The future of the repentant man

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