From Confession to Renewal: David's New Heart

He's saying create in me a clean heart. He's saying, god, forgive my sin but fix my sight. Because lord, my heart is what calls me to see what I saw when I saw Yeah. And if you can fix my heart, my heart. Watch this. My heart is the gauge for what I set my eyes on. The heart, the eyes, the hands, and the feet only go where the heart already is. [01:02:40] (52 seconds)  #heartGuidesVision

A young mother was happy to purchase her son a hammer because he desired to be a builder one day. Until one day while she was out shopping, he hammered a hole in the floor. She came home and asked him, did you do it? He confessed he did it. His mother helped him clean up the mess. They took out the trash, but when she walked in, she realized something. [00:52:40] (30 seconds)  #childhoodMistakesLesson

David knows he can't paint over this moment. He needs god to remove the evidence. Some walls are so stained. They're just putting brand new paint on them. Pretty soon, the stain going to come back through. And David said, Lord, I don't need you just to paint over this. I need you to remove this off my record. [00:44:23] (38 seconds)  #removeNotCover

This Old Testament literature here why which David uses when a man in the Old Testament owed a debt, they would write it in a ledger until the man paid his debt. But when the debt was paid, four things would happen. They would write paid in full. They would cross it out in the ledger where it was recorded. And then number three, they would rip the page out of the book. Number four, they would throw the ripped page in the trash. [00:45:01] (33 seconds)  #debtPaidAndThrown

He doesn't fight Nathan. He understands that Nathan is the method and the messenger by which god sent to remind him that he loved him. Hold on. A knock on the door? Prove god loved him? Yes. Because that knock on the door, deacon Washington, was god saying, David, I love you so much that I'm not gonna let you get comfortable and settle in anything that I know I didn't send to you. [00:54:30] (39 seconds)  #correctionIsLove

God sent Jesus Christ as the master carpenter born in Nazareth to fill the holes that our hammers have made in our own lives. Notice, behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. Purge me with hiss up. I shall be clean. Wash me and I shall be whiter than God sent Nathan to knock on his door. It was god's way. Listen to me carefully. Anyone who fights correction will not grow. [00:53:51] (38 seconds)  #correctionLeadsToGrowth

Verse five, he identifies the structure of the nature. He said, god, I ain't got a Bathsheba problem. I got an internal problem. I was born in sin. Yes. Shaped in iniquity. He said, Lord, I was born with a I was born bent. I was born psychologically tore up from the floor. Says I'm I don't need perfume over this. I need a new nature. [00:51:14] (58 seconds)  #bornWithBrokenness

David is saying, lord, I know what I did. I need a new heart because of sin, but I also need a new heart to change how I look at things. We don't hear with our ears. We hear with our heart. That's why it's hard for you to listen to somebody that you got something in your heart against. Preach, boy. That's what I was born to do. [01:01:55] (31 seconds)  #heartChangesHearing