Psalm 32

hey there Antioch family and anyone else
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listening in and you O’Rourke here from
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Antioch Community Church in Northeast
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Minneapolis just wanted to ask a
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question today is there an area in your
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life during this season that God is
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urging you to come to him with an area
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perhaps of sin that he’s revealing in
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your life an area of brokenness that he
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wants you to turn turn to him with and
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bring before him I was reminded of this
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as I was reading recently in psalm 32
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where King David recounts an experience
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where he held his sin within himself
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when he kept his brokenness to himself
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rather than turning to God with it and
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bringing it before God confessing it to
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God and we see in the Bible that sin
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objectively it separates us from our
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Creator from God were separated from God
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by our sin were were under his
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condemnation his wrath because of our
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rebellion but our sin also does
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something within us if we keep it within
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ourselves if we don’t turn to God with
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our brokenness with our sin with our
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pain it rots us from the inside out the
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the gospel the good news of the gospel
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is that God has made a way through
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sending his son Jesus Christ for us to
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through believing in Jesus through faith
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in Jesus and what he’s done on the cross
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and rising from the grave we can be
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freed from our sin we can experience
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forgiveness we can experience true
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cleansing through turning to God but
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listen to psalm 32 as i read this it
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says blessed is the one whose
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transgression is forgiven whose sin is
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covered
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blessed is the one against whom the lord
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counts no iniquity and in whose spirit
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there is no deceit for when I kept
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silent my bones wasted away through my
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groaning all day long for day and night
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your hand was heavy upon me
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my strength was dried up as by the heat
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of summer I acknowledged my sin to you
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and I did not cover my iniquity I said I
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will confess my transgressions to the
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Lord and you forgave the iniquity of my
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sin therefore let everyone who is godly
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offer prayer to you at a time when you
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may be found surely in the rush of Great
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Waters they shall not reach him you are
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a hiding place for me you preserve me
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from trouble you surround me with shouts
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of deliverance I will instruct you and
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teach you in the way you should go I
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will counsel you with my eye upon you be
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not like a horse or a mule without
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understanding which must be curbed with
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bit and bridle or it will stay near to
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you many are the sorrows of the wicked
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but steadfast love surrounds the one who
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trusts in the Lord be glad in the Lord
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and rejoice o righteous and shout for
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joy all you upright in heart so what
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what happens when we keep our sin within
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ourselves when we don’t turn to God when
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brokenness in pain and turmoil is kept
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when with within us either we’re trying
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to hide it or trying to deal with it in
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our own strength or trying to fix it
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somehow or we’re too proud to humble
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ourselves and bring it before God look
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what David says he says my bones wasted
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away there was a wasting there was a
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groaning there was a sorrow within
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himself but when he turned to God when
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he turned his scent turned to God with
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his sins with his brokenness with what
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was going on inside him he experienced
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his forgiveness he experiences a
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covering of his sin a cleansing of his
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sin true joy true freedom being glad in
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the Lord rejoicing shouting for joy
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that’s those are the two options
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available to us we can either keep our
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sin to ourselves and experience the
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sorrow upon sorrow that that leads to
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or we can turn to God with our sin with
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our brokenness with what God might be
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revealing to us in this time in this
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season that he wants us to bring to him
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will you turn to him during this time
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will you pour out what’s going on inside
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you to God he invites you to do that and
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experience a joy and forgiveness and
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cleansing and peace and hope that only
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he can bring through Jesus Christ god
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bless