0060BS Psalm 32: Confession, Courage, And The Fortress Of Forgiveness

CWM Intro with Drums

CWM Outro with drums

Chapters

• 1:03 The Three Daily Battles
• 2:41 Gratitude And Opening Prayer
• 7:23 Why Psalm 32 Matters
• 9:29 Reading Psalm 32 Aloud
• 11:23 The Cost Of Concealed Sin
• 15:03 Confession, Protection, Instruction
• 19:09 Applications To The Seven Battlefields

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:36

Welcome to your Daily Battle Bible study, the Bible study where we fight three battles Monday through Friday. One, fight to get a humble and grateful heart aligned onto the Lord, checking our griping, our complaining, our entitlements and our petty parties at the door, and we come to him grateful for all the countless blessings and protections that we have, both known and unknown. We come to him humbly. Come to him humbly because he is God and He is holy, holy, holy. And we are not. We are definitely not. So coming to Him humbly is the way God wants us to come to Him, and the only way we can have a good relationship with God. Two, we fight our schedules, ourselves, everything else to deliberately pursue relationship with our Lord and Savior by studying his holy word and through prayer. And we do this by putting him first some amount of time for the day. Checking our phones and our devices and our busy lives and our endless hobbies and endless entertainment and obligations, putting it down to pursue and prioritize Capital H I M, Him. Three, we fight for one another. We fight to by locking our shields of faith together and by praying for one another, praying for corporately for wisdom, discernment, strength, courage, and protection and peace. So again, welcome. This is also an accountability group, right? Meaning this group here. And if you want to join, you can send me a DM, um, whatever, whatever platform you're seeing this in, or comment that you want in, and I'll send you to a place where we can get a DM and we'll invite you to our accountability group. That's where men and women come around and they post what we do for the seven battles every day on there except Sunday. And that's where we hold each other accountable, where we train and um and also have fellowship by investing in one another. So welcome if this is your first time. Please like, subscribe, comment, and share. I want to share this discipling ministry um to reach as many people as we possibly can. So let's get our first um our first battle done. Let's get grateful, dear Heavenly Father. We thank you. We thank you for all of our blessings known and unknown. We thank you for waking us up again this morning and for your protections throughout the night. We thank you for giving us another chance to get it right. Another chance to do life your way and not ours. We thank you so much for your common grace, for your creation, the sun, the moon, the stars, the universe, this earth and everything in it, from the top of Mount Everest all the way down to the deepest trench in the ocean. We thank you for it all. We thank you for all the animals, all the plants. Um, even the insects, Lord, we know. Except for maybe mosquitoes and triggers and ticks, but we know they all serve a purpose, Lord, and we thank you. Thank you for people, Lord. Thank you for the people in our lives. Help us to be quick to forgive, slow to anger. Help us to love each other as you loved us, to love our neighbor as ourselves. Lord, help us to be present with one another, to put down the devices and the multitasking, to look at one another, and to be present in every way. So Lord, we thank you for sunrises and sunsets. We thank you for the sound of children's laughter, children's laughter, and sounds of bird songs in the morning, waves against the shore. We thank you for the smell of fresh mountain air, coffee brewing, apple pie in the oven, honeysuckle. And we thank you for a cool breeze on a hot day or a warm fire on a cold day. Tender touch, a loved one. We thank you for good food and good drink. Didn't have to make it taste so good, but you did. We thank you for that. So Lord, we pray that this time Oh sorry, we also thank you for your divine grace for loving us before we loved you, choosing us before the foundations of the earth, and writing our name into the book of life. Lord, thank you for for loving us when we hated you. So Lord, we pray that this time would glorify you, serve you and only you, and it would please you. We ask that you give us wisdom discernment tonight for the text to pull the meaning the text and the strength and courage to block it out. Psalm 32 tonight. All these things in the name above all names, the king above all kings, Jesus Christ. Amen. Alright, so that's battle number one done. All right. So let's get into this now.

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Shall we good? And now logos.

SPEAKER_01: 7:17

There we go. So Psalm thirty-two, we'll read it and then we'll go through it. Okay. So some things to think about here is that Psalm 32 is written by David, it's labeled as a skill, a teaching psalm designed to impart wisdom and skill for godly living. Boy, do we need that. Setting is most likely after David's repentance from the sin with Bathsheba, 2nd Samuel 11 through 12. Psalm 32 is David teaching the nation what he learned the hard way. Sin tolerated becomes spiritual rot. Confession restores joy and stability. Forgiveness is a fortress. Right alongside Psalm 51. But while Psalm 51 is David crying out in raw repentance, Psalm 32 is David teaching others how to walk in repentance as a lifestyle, is also one of the Apostle Paul's key texts on justification, as we see in Romans 4, 6 through 8. The themes we're going to see is the blessing of forgiveness, misery of concealed sin, freedom of confession, God's protection for repentant warriors, and instruction for righteous living. All right, so without further ado, let's let's read it. Let's go. Got a new cune kune um boar pig, and uh they didn't know how to castrate. So they're out there doing it. I just heard the poor fella screaming for his testicles. God help him. Heavenly Father be with that poor pig. Jesus' name we pray, amen. All right, let's get into the word here. Blessed are the forgiven. 32, Psalm 32, my skill of David. Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered, blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit. For when I kept silent my bones wasted away, through my groaning all day long. For day and night your hand was upon me, my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer, Saylah. I acknowledged my sin to you, and I did not cover my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to the Lord, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin, Sayla. Therefore, let everyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found, surely in the rush of great waters, they shall not reach him. You are a hiding place for me. You preserve me from trouble, you surround me with shouts of deliverance, Sayla. Verse eight, I will instruct you, sorry, I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go. I will counsel you with my eye upon you. Be not like a horse or mule without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stain near you. Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart. So let's go back and go through it in a little more detail. So verses one and two one and two. Blessed is the forgiven word. David opens with battlefield blessing, forgiven, lifted burden, covered his shield of guilt, no deceit, honest heart before God. These are covenant relational and judicial terms pointing to Christ who lifts, covers, and declares righteousness. As warriors, we know a warrior fights clean, hidden rot destroys strength. We don't want to come in with any secrets or any rot. We got to get rid of all of our wounds. Battle. Verses 3 and 4, David describes concealed sin as owens wasting away, groaning all day, God's hand heavy upon him, strength tried like summer draw. This is not a poetic exaggeration. It is spiritual physiology. Sin steals morale, strength, clarity, courage, and readiness. Swaries, we know secret sin is a sniper. It kills silently from within. Confession and immediate mercy. David stops hiding and comes clean. I acknowledge, I did not cover, I will confess. The result? You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Instant grace. No cold shoulder, no probation period, no spiritual hazing. Confession is not defeat, it is reloading. And then six and seven. Protection for the repentant. Repentant warriors gain access to God in prayer, shelter in the flood, songs of deliverance, surrounding protection. Repentance brings you back under the commander's covering. Sins separate you from the commander, and repentance brings you back to him. 8-9. God teaches the warrior. God himself speaks. I will instruct you. I will teach you the way you should go. I will counsel you my eye upon you. And the warning: don't be like the horse impulsive or a mule stubborn. Discipleship requires discipline. Trainability is a virtue. And then verses 10 and 1. The wicked gets multiple sorrows. Repentant gets steadfast love, gladness, shouts of joy. Repentance is the dividing line between sorrow and strength. So some themes we see here. Repentance is a lifestyle, not an event. Forgiveness is a fortress for the believer. Sin's impact on emotional, spiritual, and physical strength. See, it is completely detrimental to us. We also see God's personal instruction to his warriors. We see joy as a weapon and a reward for restored fellowship. So some applications in our seven battlefields. Our daily warrior application: confess quickly and fully, keep no spiritual rot. Family, model honesty, repentance, and restoration at home. Your kids, when they see you mess up, must see you repent. Must see you confess and repent, okay? Witness, recognize that concealed stress weakens the body. Confession strengthens the whole man. Fundamentals, maintain readiness. Spiritual clarity improves tactical decision making. Finances, avoid deceit, shortcuts, and hidden mismanagement. Fellowship, live openly. Confession builds trust and unity within the body. Body of Christ. Fidelity, repentance protects your integrity, secrecy destroys it. So in summary, Psalm 32 is the Warrior's Manual for Repentance. Exposes the cost of hidden sin and the joy of forgiveness. Trains the believer to confess, rise, and re-engage the mission heart. Key takeaways are confession restores clarity, repentance restores strength, forgiveness restores joy, return to the fight, forgiven and fortified. That is Psalm 32. So I apologize for not being on yesterday morning. Um we had a windstorm here in Tennessee, we didn't know about, and um lost our internet, and our cell service has gone from booming 5G to like one bar. So um we couldn't stream, we couldn't do any. We're kind of in the technological black hole all weekend until pretty late this afternoon, actually. So uh or yesterday after and yesterday after and um so yeah, so again, please uh forgive us, you know, technology is what technology is. Um and you know, had we had a good signal. I might have tried it with a cell hotspot, but with uh cell phones lately, it's been or with the cell service around here, it's been pretty sketchy, and I don't know why. But that's it. I really encourage you guys to join our accountability group. If you want to join our uh join our accountability group, text me. Um the DMs, comment, and I'll respond. Or if you're in X, Facebook, um, Rumble, just message me. Um, and we'll get you an invite and get you into the group, and you can start growing in the Lord deliberately. A key part about seven battlefields is you can't just live your life normally that day, and then at the end of the day, be like, How many battlefields that I did? You can do that. That's not the point. This is about deliberate pursuit of the seven battlefields, it's about starting your day with a plan. What you're gonna do in each of the seven battlefields, and then executing that plan, maintaining flexibility to do whatever God puts on your plate, or he might set an appointment with you instead of your planned fellowship. But um, that is the only way that I've been able to do this. And if you just kind of are lying in your bed at the end of the night being like, how many things that I kind of accidentally do? Well, you're not gonna do very well, and you're gonna wash out. So again, start your day deliberately pursuing the Lord, deliberately pursuing your family, um, deliberately pursuing your fitness, deliberately pursuing your fundamentals, deliberately just pursuing your finances, deliberately pursuing your fellowship, deliberately pursuing your fidelity. We'll have the keys to success. So God bless you. Let's pray it out and take it home, find our third battle. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for this text. Thank you for your holy word, your scripture. Give us the wisdom and discernment to pull Psalm 32 and give us the strength and courage to walk it out in our lives. We pray for your protection, peace for this congregation, births be the church, our troops overseas, our first responders at home and our veterans of yesteryear. We pray for our beloved America, that she would turn from her sin, hit her knees, repent and seek your face, that you would see her, heal her, so that we can once again be one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. So now I call for this fellow fellowship to put on the full armor of God, strap on the shield of the faith, to pick up the sword of the spirit, and boldly step forward to join the shield wall, blocking our shields of faith left and to the right, as we march forward, take ground your kingdom, your glory forever. In Jesus' name we pray. Come in. All right, everyone. God bless you. See you tomorrow. Actually, yeah, I'll see you tonight for uh Warrior Church. God bless you. Bye.