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Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
Psalm 77:13 KJV
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Our Sin
Psalm 51
English Standard Version (ESV)
Create in Me a Clean Heart, O God
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet went to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
4 Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.34 And calling the crowd to him with his disciples, he said to them,
“If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it…
38 For whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
Titus 1:16 They profess to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.
2 Timothy 2:
If we have died with him, we will also live with him;
12 if we endure, we will also reign with him;
if we deny him, he also will deny us;
13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful—God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, 26 and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
John 13
English Standard Version (ESV)
Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end…
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’
If you know our Lord’s commands, ‘blessed are you if you do them.’
And if not blessed for obedience to our Lord who died for our sins on the cross…
IF not blessed, then cursed. (May God have mercy on your soul.)
One of You Will Betray Me
21 After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you,one of you will betray me.”
22 The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke.23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ side, 24 so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. 25 So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?”
You believe your sin is against me; but your sin is the adultery of Judas.
I gave her time to repent, but she refuses… – Revelation 2
John 15:12 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Ephesians 5
English Standard Version (ESV)
Walk in Love
Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
2 And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us,
a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Walk as children of light
9 (for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true), 10 and try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.
11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.
Wives and Husbands
22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her, 26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word, 27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
31 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight…Forgive us, Lord
by the fragrant offering of the Blood of Your Cross.
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Hear my prayer
12 “Hear my prayer, O Lord,
and give ear to my cry;
hold not your peace at my tears!
For I am a sojourner with you,
a guest, like all my fathers.13 Look away from me, that I may smile again,
before I depart and am no more!”HEAR my prayer… my cry… see my tears. Is this sentiment at all familiar?
I am a sojourner with you. I have no place here. The welcome of this guest is worn thin and all my ancestors have passed this way, yet not remained.
Look to me, Lord.
I’m NOT smiling here.
WHY?
Surely my journey through this life has some purpose. Show me, before my journey is finished and I am no more.
Yes, we are sojourners – travelers though time in a timeless creation of Almighty God.
Why should the Lord look away from one who just lives for a blink of an eye in His eternal timelessness?
3 My heart became hot within me.
As I mused, the fire burned;
then I spoke with my tongue:4 “O Lord, make me know my end
and what is the measure of my days;
let me know how fleeting I am!
5 Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths,
and my lifetime is as nothing before you.
Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait?
My hope is in you.
8 Deliver me from all my transgressions.
Do not make me the scorn of the fool!Transgressions? (Now there’s a word you don’t hear on the news.) What’s a transgression?
pesha` – transgression, rebellion
rebellion even against God; guilt of transgression; punishment for transgression
Am I a rebel against the Cross of Christ Jesus?
Oh, Lord!
10 Remove your stroke from me;
I am spent by the hostility of your hand.
11 When you discipline a man
with rebukes for sin,
you consume like a moth what is dear to him;
surely all mankind is a mere breath! SelahSurely all mankind is a mere breath!
Consider again, the Lord’s rebuke,
The refining fire of His righteousness.
It is the Lord who rebukes. The Lord our Father disciplines His children. (Do not look upon us in Your wrath, O Lord.)
It is the Lord who corrects the sins of His loved ones. The Lord corrects mankind for our sinful nature. It is the fire of the Lord’s love which burns away our unrighteousness. It is the Lord who consumes our iniquity like a moth caught in the flame. A man or a woman is perverse and depraved; our iniquity and guilt deserve the punishment of our iniquity before a God and Father who IS Holy.
How will a child of the Lord endure the wrath and punishment of Almighty God? Selah.
“Hear my prayer, O Lord,
and give ear to my cry…“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death…
“My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
“My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”
46 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”
