Psalm 51:1-19 KJV
1 To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came unto him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba. Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.
2 Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
3 For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me.
4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest.
5 Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me.
6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
7 Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
8 Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
9 Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.
10 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
11 Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
13 Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.
14 Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
15 O Lord, open thou my lips; and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise.
16 For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
18 Do good in thy good pleasure unto Zion: build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
19 Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifices of righteousness, with burnt offering and whole burnt offering: then shall they offer bullocks upon thine altar.

The knowledge that we sin against God and against people is probably the worse fate our human minds endure. David was faced with a crime of humanity as a king. He committed adultry with another man's wife, and then sent the man to the frontline where he hope he would die, so he could keep the man's wife. No clue what type of soldier Bathesheba husband was, but that does not change the fact the King sinned. David is praying to God in the Psalm to purge him with hyssop. Meaning to purge his heart from sin and healed by the Holy Spirit. Hyssop being a type of medical ointment, but spiritually the physical does not work and it only an allegory or picture of the work of the Holy Spirit. What I talking about a child spanked for a crime remembers not to do it again, and a crime of the heart correct by God is far greater correction. What unclear is in King David case after confronted by the prophet did he continue to keep company with Bathsheba or did he put her away into isolation? Something are not spoken about, yet we know Bathsheba had more then one child by King David. Solomon would become king after all. One might say crime committed was punished, but it had to be purged from his heart, from his mind, from his being. It needed correction so it did not happen again and again.

It is easy to put on the face of repentance, but hard to deal with repentance if one never admits it. Admission of guilt, to understand the sin, to really take it to the core of the heart? To understand that very nature of our guilt, is to understand the very nature of our humanity and sinfulness that does not please God. For our spirit to be contrite, to be sorrowful, remorse, and not with elation of praise. God loves to praised, but he rather we repent from sin first. The first sacrifice one of repentance of guilt. The asking to forgive of sin. What if every worship service began with repentance and ended with Praise, would the church be in shock. Purging the service before the song and dance.

David was a perfect king in the eyes of the people, yet when word leaked out about David sin, it would rock a nation. After all it was one of his own soldiers he had killed, because he found the man's wife beautiful to the eye. The lust of his flesh took over his common sense of the situation. Those that say it could not happen to me, I would say you have no reality of the human sin nature. It may not be adultry you will commit, but it will be something that will grieve your own soul that you realize your true humanity and the guilt within your heart. My hope for everyone is they never commit a sin that grieves them in the way it grieved David. All sin and all fall short of the glory of God, the scripture declares in Romans. Yet do we really grasp the depriavity of some sin, that is like crossing a line with God to the point his wrath is then poured out. God's pours out his wrath on David. David would loose the very son that was conceived in their union. He would almost loss his palace temporarily and would loose also his son Absalom in his rebellion against him. Yet he keep the throne intact, and face the people of Israel, and some were disappointed in him, that he lost popularity with the people.

What is the point of the issue? Why experience guilt for anything? Why repent of our human nature God created us with decision of choice, why be punished? As an adult our guilt seems less and less, only to find ourselves being what less mindful how we effect others, or more mindful how our lives effect one another. We do what we want to do attitude, who really cares and why is something I do sin if I enjoy it. Is that not the mentality of the world we live in today. If you are raised in church continue into adulthood do we have the mentality of I am guilty, let me go to the altar and straighten it out with God. The world sees it and says, I do not get it. Yet David sin, the world did get, for even heathen understood it. Being not the king, the guilt of the king is he not only stole a man that was in the military's wife, but he has him killed by placing him on the frontlines where he would most likely be killed, no matter what type of soldier he was, and this is a criminal offense, that won't be punished because he is a king.

There is crime in humanity that one is guilty of, and other crime of humanity that seems like a person is still perfect, or not really in trouble for that sin, because most people do it from time to time. Does God even care? I been craving a reese piece sundae, something I can not get where I live, because we do not have that restuarant in my area, I have craved it for over twenty years from time to time. Now if I went to one of those restuarant and ate reese piece sundae until the counter closed, would I be guilty of gluttony? Or just splurging on ice cream. Now in reality I am not a big eater, I would have to fast first to eat ice cream morning to dark, and then, the ice cream would probably melt before I could eat it all, even if the restuarant brought me a new one only when I finished the first one. Now is the sin, the lust of the ice cream, or when I actually take the first bite of the sinful desert and do not quit? It almost like asking how many licks to the center of the toosie roll pop? The world will probably never know. Why because most bit trying to get to the tootsie roll, no matter how hard they try not too.

Sin in itself might seem tasty, might even seem like what harm would it do? What one day of ice cream binging going to do, but add calories to my hips. Or add to my uncontrol desire for more the next day until I am sick of the ice cream, and want no more. I am in truth not that insane to eat more then a bowl of ice cream, but it is a point that shows desire can out weigh common sense of the situation. David's common sense gave him the desire to kill. David's desire for a woman made him total insane to his lust of his flesh, that he did what was necessary to have Bathesheba even when it meant he would have her husband killed. That when God sent Nathan the prophet to speak to David in a riddle about sin. When Nathan the prophet explained the sin, David rented his clothes, went behind the door upon hearing his baby was dying and repented to God by himself. He talked to God about his sin, and his remorse, asking for forgiveness. See David killed an innocent sheep of God's, just like Cain killed Abel.

Cain was not a child of God, David was righteous because he believed God. His sin of the flesh was corruptible and destructible, not worthy to build upon, to let it fester, to let it reach any further into the world of sin. Cain believed in God but his works were dead, not a person of faith. David had works of faith. David postrated himself to the floor and wept, until the servant knock on the door and told him his son was dead. Then he rose up and took his son death as a punishment and would grieve no more.

They acknowledge and repentance of sin does not need to be a show, but for David his servants knew about it, not by choice, but because they were on scene within the palace. His plead to God was if anything be unclean in his heart, that by his Spirit God would purge him and cleanse him from sin. No longer his repentance necessary to remain because God had chastised him and corrected him, and would continue to do so over sin in his life. He faced public scorn as well, not just God's judgment but he was king, so no judgment beyond his son trying to rip the kingdom apart. Absalom would hang by his hair of his head, because his locks got tangled in a tree.

This Psalms is a poetic illustration of the heart of David when he confronted and repented. We all repent and fall before God over sin, sooner or later in our life. Sooner or later we understand God's great love for his people, when he forgives our sin. Some sin like King David had consequences, other sin is overlooked, and we only turn away from the sin. Why is sin corrected because it reaches a point our heart is becoming so wicked our lust, our actions are perverted from the ways of God. David seemed to have no other issues after the event. However it no longer scarred David's heart God word had cleanse and heal him through faith. When our sin reaches a point where we need God to show us he loves us by sign or proof of our salvation, and he gives it, we must then remember we are his child and anything we do all we need to do is repent of it and pick up and move forward away from the sin. God is honored by our repented heart, He loves it more then our sacrifice to him. He wants to be the life haltering decision in our world that is seeped in sin. He wants us to choose his way over the ways of the devil. His desire is for us to choose his ways because his ways are best.

Dear Heavenly Father, keep our feet in the path of righteousness, and in the pathway of a contrite heart before you. Help us to live a life pleasing to you. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Continual Scripture Study: 1 John 1:7-10 KJV
7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10 If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.