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How do you know that your repentance is real?

If true, biblical confession always leads a person to a transformed life, what exactly is it? Is your Christian life not the same vibrant, dynamic, victorious one that it used to be? Do you pretend that everything is OK, when deep down you know that something is missing? Perhaps David’s penitential psalm can help you. Here, the famous ‘man after God’s own heart’ asks for God to create in him a new, clean heart. Why? What did he mean by that?

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00:00 Trailer

01:25 Introduction

07:53 IV. THE APPEAL FOR INWARD RENEWAL

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have you lost the joy of your salvation?

it takes a miracle to transform our sinful heart

God does not want you to go on like this

Have you ever been unsure whether or not your confession of sins is genuine? / The only way for us to know if our confession is genuine is…

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Have you ever been unsure whether or not your confession of sins is genuine? The only way for us to know if our confession is genuine is that we are not merely content with forgiveness. What do we mean by that?

when i was a little boy, i did not know how to swim… i fell into the deep end and i almost drowned… i remember very clearly it was not sufficient for me to have my head above the water… i want my entire body to be out of the water… i want my body to be where i was BEFORE i fell into the pool… he would not want to exchange ANYTHING for that restoration. he would never have anything less than that restoration

Perhaps there was a time you were living a victorious Christian life. You were serving God zealously. You were enjoying every moment of Christian fellowship. Reading the Bible was such a delight to you. Then all of a sudden, you find yourself having no joy, even when you engage yourself in all these spiritual activities. You may be wondering, ‘What is happening to me?’ Perhaps there's a particular sin that you have been harbouring in your heart.

let us search our hearts this morning.. have we lost something more valuable to us? have we lost the joy of our salvation? perhaps you feel most dejected because of some sin, and no one knows, but God knows. you find yourself drifting further and further away from God… you cannot say, it is well with my soul.. because som ething is missing. no more joy…

take COMFORT and be of good cheer, because God does NOT want us to go on like this.

For the Psalmist to use the same word create - bara - create in me a clean heart, he was asking for nothing less than a miracle.

Why is the transformation of our hearts a miracle?

If you want to create something clean, pure, and righteous, you cannot use anything that is already there, which is contaminated, deceitful, desperately wicked, and has nothing good in it. It has to be a creation out of nothing, a new creation. That is why it takes a miracle to transform our sinful heart, and only God alone is able to do that.

money cannot bring us joy, we cannot command joy… it does NOT WORK LIKE THAT. we can ONLY cry out to him and ask him to restore us… our GOD IF FAITHFUL. he WILL answer our prayers.

It would be very foolish for you and me to say, … I will put within myself this clean heart or I will give myself a new spirit. I will cause myself to change and be transformed.’ No man can do that. No amount of human efforts can ever accomplish that. Only God alone. That was the reason why David prayed, "Create in me a clean heart.”

if you are a Christian you know the joy… words cannot express it, it is unspeakable… we would not want to exchange anything for it in the world. not money, nothing… to lose this joy is most devastating… we would do everything we can to be restored to this joy…

pastor goes further at the start. quite descriptive…

so it’s strange for a believer to say, “well i’ve confessed my sins, i’ve received forgiveness. that’s good enough”. surely that’s not good enough…

that is the only kind of life we want…

there are some people who have this mentality…

true confession will lead to true repentance and the subsequent true restoration will come

have you ever been unsure if your confession is genuine? … the only way for us to know if our confession is genuine is…

something has been robbed away from us…

david seemed to have lost EVERYTHING BECAUSE OF SIN.. that was the lowest point of his life…

perhaps you once had joy

not exact wording…. but i know it ends with perhaps there is a particular sin you are harbouring in your heart

for the psalmist to ask create in me a clean heart - he was asking for nothing less than a miracle

it would be very foolish to say… i will cause myself to change and be transformed. no man can do that. no amount of human effort can ever accomplish that. only God alone…

david was talking about God’s continual blessing on his life…. we may lose the continued blessing that God had showered upon our lives because of SIN.

john calvin who believed in the eternal security… said that david did not really need to pray such a prayer…

the reason david prayed this is because when the believer falls into sin… he would be so devastated. so troubled. so anxious in his heart that he would spontaneously cry out TAKE NOT thy holy spirit… so david was talking about the inability to LIVE A HOLY LIFE

one pastor gives the illustration of the filly of the holy spirit… glove… until the glove is filled with the hand…

in our humanness in our emotions that is what we feel, even though it is impossible

the point was answering why David said take not thy spirit from me

… every aspect of our lives are affected. we may pretend that everything is alright. we may put up a happy demeanour. but within our hearts know there is no more joy.. once we confess and repent of our sins, we will be speaking for a renewed spirit

the vast majority of people think that the way to have joy to have a good time is sin. actually the opposite is true… if you continue in your sins, your sins will remove every good thing from you… you may still be participating in… but there will be no more joy in your worship, fellowship, prayer, giving. the joy has been robbed away from you because of sin. you are just going through the motion

pastor goes further at the start. quite descriptive…

so it’s strange for a believer to say, “well i’ve confessed my sins, i’ve received forgiveness. that’s good enough”. surely that’s not good enough…

that is the only kind of life we want…

but in ONE SINGLE MOMENT you blew your testimony away because you behaved in such an unchristian way… or maybe you have been given the privilege to serve God in a certain capacity… but you don’t want to face the struggles(?)… you are afraid. you find yourself drifting further and further away from God… you cannot say, it is well with my soul.. because something is missing. no more joy…

take COMFORT and be of good cheer, because God does NOT want us to go on like this. money cannot bring us joy, we cannot command joy… it does NOT WORK LIKE THAT. we can ONLY cry out to him and ask him to restore us… our GOD IF FAITHFUL. he WILL answer our prayers.

you know what God did? he USED DAVID to serve as king for twenty years! even israel was blessed by David….

so if you cry out to Him, he WILL FORGIVE. he will CLEANSE you. “i want to have that same experience, that unspeakable joy when i first came to know you…”

God will restore that joy. do you believe him? you must believe him. he is faithful