Summary
Look at verse 1 of the 30-second Psalm, David writes, Happy, happy, and then he explains the reason for his happiness. And so when we experience God's forgiving word, what a gracious word that is, well, that's really a freeing word, isn't it? For us to confess exactly who we are, that we are by nature's sinful and unclean, that we've sinned against him and thought word indeed by what we've left, what we've done and by what we've left undone. Well, we no longer live the lie with regard to our sinfulness, but we freely acknowledge it, and we confess it, and to speak the truth with regard to our sinfulness. But it is only by experiencing the heaviness of the hand of God's law, that we experience the joy that is ours of forgiveness through the Lord Jesus Christ. David talks about happiness, happiness of forgiveness, happiness that God doesn't hold his sin against him, the happiness of not having to live the lie, but can confess freely the truth of our sinfulness.
Video citations
- "Instruct, Teach, Counsel" 1-10-21 — Let's open our Bibles, please, for our study today to Psalm 32, Psalm 32 for our study. We're continuing our series on resolutions, God's resolutions. And in the 30-second Psalm, in verse 8, is a…