Cleanse Me From Secret Sins
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 2/5/2012 PM |
Text: | Psalm 19:12,13 |
Psalters: | 24, 201, 384, 41 |
Preparatory to the Lord's Supper |
- My sins.
- David speaks of two kinds of sins.
- ?Secret? are hidden or concealed sins from ourselves (not unknown to others).
- ?Presumptuous? are arrogant or proud sins which we deliberately and consciously commit.
- This teaches us that the number and depths of our sins and sinfulness is beyond our understanding (Jer. 17:9).
- Our depravity and sins are great in number, in severity, in horror ? beyond our ability to know.
- As long as we are sinners, we will not be able to see their ugliness.
- He makes two requests concerning his sins.
- First, ?cleanse me.?
- It means to be innocent or free, exempt from punishment or obligation.
- That we do not know about a sin does not relieve us from being punished.
- This prayer for forgiveness must be prayed constantly.
- And ?let them not have dominion over me.?
- Sin can rule or have dominion over one, exercise dominion over one.
- Deliverance from sin?s threatening dominion is by way of leaning on Christ and on grace.
- David received God?s answer: ?then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.?
- The ?transgression? is here the punishment for rebellions. The ?great? one is the ultimate punishment which is forever.
- God?s answer to our praying this prayer is that He declares us innocent and thus free from eternal punishment.
- To be ?innocent? is to free, clear and clean and thus unpunished because we are guiltless.
- To be ?upright? is to be complete, finished, or whole.
- The result is that we walk before God with a good and quiet conscience.