Our Father Intervenes

[00:00:00] All right, let's go to Psalm number 38, Psalm 38 tonight, Psalm 38. [00:00:14] And we will read the whole psalm tonight. It's only not that long. [00:00:22] Psalm 38, verse number one. The Bible says psalm of David to bring to remembrance. What's interesting, I don't know exactly why David entitled this psalm to bring to remembrance. [00:00:37] I don't know why. But once you read it, once you read does get your wheels turning a little bit when you know the content of the psalm. Why would David want to remember this? In other words, this event in David's life was not a pleasant event, Right? [00:00:56] And he did two things. [00:00:59] He wrote a psalm about it to remember, and he wrote a psalm. That's the first thing. And the second thing is he wrote a psalm in order to remember. He didn't just write a psalm to commemorate it, but he wrote a psalm specifically. He entitled it to remember. So this what we see here. And maybe at the very end we'll circle back around to this truth and is David did not want to forget, apparently the things that he learned in this psalm that are expressed in this Psalm, verse 1. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. [00:01:38] For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. [00:01:42] There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger. Neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. [00:01:49] For mine iniquities are gone over mine head as an heavy burden. They are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness I am troubled, I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long, for my loins are filled with a loathsome disease. And there is no soundness in my flesh. [00:02:09] Everybody see what I'm saying here, that this is not exactly the best point, the high point in David's life. Continuing in verse 8. I am feeble and sore broken. I have roared by reason of the disquietness of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before Thee, and my groaning is not hid from Thee. [00:02:28] My heart panteth my strength faileth me. As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore, and my kinsmen stand afar off. [00:02:42] They also that seek after my life lay snares for me. And they that seek my hurt speak mischievous things and imagine deceits all the day long. [00:02:50] But I as a deaf man heard not, and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth. Thus I was, as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs. For in thee, O Lord, do I hope thou wilt hear, O Lord, my God. [00:03:08] For I said, hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. [00:03:18] For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity. I will be sorry for my sin. [00:03:28] But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong, and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied. They also that render evil for good are mine adversaries, because I follow the thing that good is. Forsake me not, O Lord. O my God, be not far from me. [00:03:46] Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation. [00:03:50] Would you pray with me? Our Father, as we come to your word. Psalm 38, we want to remember this thing that David sought to remember by writing this psalm here. And I pray, Father, that you'd bless our time in your word. [00:04:03] Give us a heart and ears to hear and a heart to understand, eyes to see. Lord, help us to focus our attention on what your word says. And please, Lord, fill me with wisdom and understanding to know what things I should say to help your people, Lord, because we definitely need your help. And I pray that you, by our study of this psalm, that you would spare us, Lord, of these things that David is writing about. Because, Lord, you know that we are. [00:04:32] We tend to fall into this kind of trouble that David is in. So, Lord, help us, help us to be obedient, help us to be faithful, help us to love you, help us to follow you. [00:04:45] And we commit this time to you in the Word here in Jesus name. Amen. [00:04:51] Now, as you can see in this psalm, David is grieved. [00:04:55] And it doesn't take, you know, it doesn't take much to. To understand. I mean, it's fairly obvious on its face what kind of grief David is dealing with. So let's just skim through these things. Look at verse three. David's suffering is physical, right? In other words, there's a lot of psalms that we've been through already, through these first 37 Psalms, where David's suffering was primarily maybe mental or emotional or spiritual in nature. But David's suffering is physical in nature. He's describing. Look at all these physical words, verse three and verse number seven, he says, there's no soundness in my flesh. You see that? [00:05:35] Verse number seven. He says, my loins are filled with a loathsome disease. You see that? [00:05:42] And there is no soundness in my flesh. That's his body. Verse 3, he speaks of his no rest in his bones. [00:05:51] Bones in Scripture is always a reference to the physical part of man. Verse number five, My wounds stink and are corrupt. [00:05:59] Verse number five, his wounds, his flesh, his body. [00:06:03] I mentioned already in verse number seven, his loins. Verse 11. Look at what it says. My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore. [00:06:11] So David's sick. Some people think he's sick with like some sort of. Some, some. Some kind of boil, some sort of infection that is causing a smell. It's pretty gross. It's pretty gross. So David's suffering is physical, but that's not all of the suffering. So we're going somewhere with this. But oftentimes when you're suffering physically because the human being is tripartite, everybody familiar with that word, it means made in the image of God. God being the Father, the Word and the Holy Ghost. These three are one God. You know, at baptism, like we did on Sunday, we baptized people in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost. At Jesus baptism, there was the Father speaking from heaven, the Son being baptized, the Spirit of God descending like a dove. So you have the Trinity showing up in different places. And God said, we're made in his image. In the same way. We are body, we, we are soul, we are spirit. And you can't neatly divide those three parts. They're all integrated into one individual. [00:07:20] And so sometimes when you have afflictions in your body, it affects your inner man, also your soul, your spirit. Now, if you want me to give you a nice dictionary definition of soul and spirit help you, that's a little above my pay. Well, it's actually a lot above my pay grade. People have been arguing about that for a long time. [00:07:43] But definitely whenever you have an internal problem, it affects your physical man. And whenever you have a physical problem, it often affects your inner man. Because we're all. We're one individual, and those three parts of us are integrated. And that's exactly what's happening to David. And sometimes, sometimes the Lord, when we have an internal problem, the Lord reaches out his hand and touches something physical because he knows that that touch is going to reverberate through our whole person. [00:08:18] So David's suffering is physical. What we've already seen, it's also internal. Verse 4, he talks about an heavy burden. Now, unless he has a backpack on and he's carrying something around, this burden is probably internal, right? It's on his heart. [00:08:35] Verse number Six. He describes how he is troubled. Verse number six. He says that he is mourning. [00:08:42] He is mourning all the day long. Verse number eight. He says, I am feeble and sore broken. Common language used for the heart, right? Verse number eight. He refers to the disquietness of my heart. [00:08:58] Verse number 10. My heart once again notice the inner man. My heart panteth. [00:09:04] Verse number 17. He speaks of his sorrow. All of those are inward things. So you have both things. Here's what's happening. [00:09:11] David is having trouble. He has some sort of disease or illness of some kind, and it's causing him a lot of trouble. He's in pain physically, but that's not all. He's also in pain. Inwardly. He's also sorrowing. He's also troubled and mourning, and he feels a heavy burden. Again, these things go together. [00:09:34] But why? [00:09:37] That's always the question. Whenever we have trouble, whenever we have sorrow, we always ask, why? Why? And, you know, if there's some sort of, like, cold or flu going around and. And we get it. We don't usually ask why. We think, well, I probably went to church and shook somebody's hand and didn't use hand sanitizer or washed my hand or whatever, we don't question it. But when we have an ongoing kind of ailment in our body, sometimes that does cause us to ask, why. What's wrong? Is something wrong? [00:10:06] David's not asking that question. He's already asked that question, gotten the answer. [00:10:11] Look at this. What are the causes of David's grief? [00:10:15] It's very, very clear. Verse 1. Look what it says. O Lord, rebuke me not in thy wrath, nor neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure. [00:10:25] Verse 2. Thine arrows stick fast in me. [00:10:29] God is shooting arrows at David. [00:10:33] You know what? That's the modern equivalent of shooting somebody with a gun, right? [00:10:38] God's shooting at David. [00:10:40] Verse number two. Thy hand presseth me sore. Verse three. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger. God is angry with him. [00:10:49] Neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. Now, notice this, David. [00:10:56] God is angry with David. [00:10:59] And he asks God. He asked the Lord in verse one, not to chasten him in anger, not to deal with him in hot displeasure. That's what it says. Hot displeasure in the heat of the moment. [00:11:11] Now, here's the thing. As a parent, the reality is God still did, because in the next verse, he says, you're angry. So God was dealing with David in anger. All right, we'll come back to that. In a minute. But here's what I want you to see is we can look to the Lord and His example here, but you got to be careful with anger. [00:11:32] Now, God exercises His anger always in holiness. [00:11:37] So even in his anger, he always operates in holiness. How many of you have ever heard of the term righteous indignation? [00:11:48] That is the biggest excuse for a human being to vent his anger and thereby sin against God, right? We call it righteous indignation. But what it actually is, it's human anger. Finding an expression and having what we feel like is an excuse to let it out, right? But the problem is we're not God. And so the Lord tells us that the wrath of man. You all know this verse, worketh not the righteousness of God. So listen, if you're angry, don't do anything, because you are this far. We are this far from sinning because we're not the Lord. And our anger is not holy. And its expression is not holy like it is with the Lord. Our flesh, our carnal nature, finds that and uses that as an excuse to do things we should not do. And the Lord warns us, so be careful of that. So especially when in this case, the Lord's dealing with one of his children, if you will. Right? He's dealing with him in anger. But I suggest you don't do that. [00:12:58] I suggest that you don't deal with your children in anger because it's not going to end up pretty. [00:13:05] And so the first thing I want you to see the causes for David's grief is he has done something. [00:13:11] David has, acknowledging the fact that he has done something to provoke God's anger. So whatever that is is not good. [00:13:19] In other words, it's David's fault. Verse number three, he says, he names it. He says, neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. Verse 18 says the same thing. Look at verse number four. Verse four says, for mine iniquities have gone over mine head. Verse number five, he says, my wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. [00:13:40] So this kind of suffering we read here, external, internal, is a bit different than the other kinds of suffering we've seen David talk about in the Psalms up to this point. [00:13:55] Because in the other Psalms, David is often suffering because of his enemies, or he's suffering sometimes because of illness of some kind or different things like that. But in this case, David is suffering because of his own. [00:14:11] What that means is that David is rebelling against God. He is living in disobedience to God. And here's the key and it has gotten to the degree that he is not listening to God's voice, to the point that the Lord feels it necessary to stretch out his hand and touch his body to awaken him from this stupor of sin that he is in. Because, as I said, when the Lord does that, even though it's just physical, it ripples through our body and into our person, and it awakens the inward part of us also. And that's what David is describing. So David is in such a state of rebellion that God can't just talk to him and correct him. The Lord has to actually touch him and correct him. And David, at this point that this psalm is written, David understands that it's his fault. [00:15:14] This is not natural suffering, although we know that's the thing. [00:15:18] This is not persecution. [00:15:20] This is his refusal to repent. [00:15:26] Does God sometimes bring physical suffering upon his people when they rebel against him? Is that a thing? [00:15:33] Is that a thing? [00:15:35] It is. [00:15:38] Now, the Lord doesn't resort to this in his first. [00:15:41] As his first line of correction. He doesn't immediately take us out to the woodshed when we disobey him. And all of us in here that have a relationship with God as our Father, our Heavenly Father, know the way he deals with us. You've stepped out of the way enough to know the way he deals with you, right? [00:16:02] You know that. You know, if you listen to him when he corrects you lightly in that still small voice, it's okay. [00:16:09] But if you persist, and if I persist in rebellion, he is going to turn up the heat. [00:16:17] You think of the church at Corinth. You know, some people might say, well, no, that's the. That's the Old Testament. God's not angry with people now. This is the New Testament. That was the Old Testament. That's true. [00:16:28] Let me read you this verse. [00:16:32] Hebrews 10. That's the New Testament. Verse 30 and 31 says this. For we know him that hath said, vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again the Lord shall judge his people. [00:16:49] So the vengeance being spoken of is not the vengeance of the world, it's the vengeance upon his people. [00:16:57] And then it follows with a verse that we could use to describe the Lord dealing with people outside. [00:17:03] But it's actually not referring to that. It's referring in the context to his own people. [00:17:09] It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Hebrews 10:31. [00:17:16] That's not fear of judgment of the lost, although that's certainly true. He's talking about his judgment of his people, people who live in rebellion. And David is. And we see that in the Old Testament, but we see it also in the New Testament. [00:17:30] When God's people, who are his people, live in rebellion to him, it is not beyond him to judge them and to touch their physical body. [00:17:45] In Corinth he did because they were misusing the Lord's supper. Remember that? He said, many are sick and sick. [00:17:52] Many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep. That means they're dead because they lived in rebellion to God and would not heed his correction. [00:18:06] You see, our Lord knows that physical suffering has a way to snap us out of our persistent unwillingness to listen to his voice. [00:18:21] Right, let me just, let me just divert here a second. Because the Lord is the example when it comes to parenting our children because there is no greater father. [00:18:33] Right? [00:18:34] How does the Lord deal with us? [00:18:36] He corrects us verbally. And if we listen, then all is well. [00:18:41] But if we do not listen to verbal, you know, subtle correction, then he turns up the heat and sometimes actually has to put hands. Put. Put some hands on. [00:18:54] And that's exact. That's exactly the. That's what I would recommend with those of you that have children or will have children. [00:19:01] You know, I have seen a tendency among parents. [00:19:06] I'm trying to think beyond the Josephs and Pams who have children, but I'm also trying to think of people who probably will have more children, right? Hopefully. And people who hope to have children. And there's probably more in those three categories than there are people that have grown children in this room right now. [00:19:26] And that's a good thing. [00:19:28] But there's an unhappy philosophy that floats around in churches like ours, and I call it a spank happy philosophy. [00:19:46] And to be honest, it afflicted us for a little while. There was a time when our children were little that we had this idea that somehow a spanking was the go to method of correction and the first method of correction. [00:20:03] But that's not what the Lord does. [00:20:06] The Lord always corrects. He starts small and he increases the intensity as needed. But some parents have been taught that spanking is the be all, end all, and love doesn't matter. And verbal correction and instruction don't matter. If you just have a problem, you just whip it out of them. Well, that's not what the Lord does. [00:20:29] So if we follow his example, we will use the rod when necessary. But the rod should be something after we've exhausted all the other means. [00:20:38] And what you'll do if you do that as a parent, what you'll find is that you'll develop a good relationship with your child. And when you do have to use the rod, it'll be more effective. It'll be more. Again, we're just following the example of the Lord here. [00:20:55] So David is in trouble with the Lord. The Lord is angry with David. Now, we know that God's anger is not the same toward David as it would have been toward everyone else. We know that there's a difference in quality in the way God. For instance, if you had a judge was sentencing a criminal, a judge might be angry because he's in the place. [00:21:21] He's the agent of the state to execute judgment. Right? So he might be angry. And you've probably seen videos or a TV show or something like that where the judge is angry. But that anger is different than an anger that a mother or father might have toward his or her child. When the child is rebelling or being disobedient. Yes, in both cases it is anger. But you would agree that the quality of the anger is different. [00:21:46] And so it is with the Lord now. Yeah, he's angry. And when you sin and you persist in rebellion, and this is a common misunderstanding, I think we do wrong when we mischaracterize this. When we live in rebellion against the Lord as his child, is the Lord disappointed? Yes. Is the Lord saddened? Yes. But that's not all he is. [00:22:10] We characterize the Lord as we. We've disappointed him and we saddened him. But you listen, you're a parent, right? [00:22:17] Many of you in this room are parents. When your child disobeyed or rebelled or smarted off to you or slapped their brother or their sister, did you feel just sadness and disappointment? [00:22:32] No way. [00:22:34] You know what? I felt anger at my child. Yes. [00:22:42] And the Lord does here. [00:22:45] So we've mischaracterized the Lord and we think, well, in other words, God's a softie. And truth is, he's a lot bigger softy than we are. But we think that he's a softie and he's just like, oh, he's just. He's so disappointed in you. He's so sad. Well, it could be that he's angry because the scripture says that. And the scripture says that that anger then spurs the Lord to rebuke verse one, to chasten verse one, to shoot arrows at his servant, verse two, and to press him in verse two. [00:23:26] Now, is this what I'm saying? Is this outside of the bounds of Scripture? Is it in there it's in there. [00:23:31] The Lord's anger causes him to do this, but his anger is not punitive but corrective. [00:23:41] Why did the Lord shoot his arrows at him? It says in verse two, the arrow stuck. You know, you think of an arrow is usually barbed. [00:23:47] It's like, and you can't just take it out, you know, God has our number, doesn't he? [00:23:53] Does not God have your number? [00:23:57] Right. He knows how to get your attention in such a way that you can't just pull the arrow out. [00:24:03] It's stuck fast. [00:24:06] He knows how to get our attention, does he not? [00:24:12] You see, and this is, you know, Psalm 23, we've already studied. It says, thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Right? The rod sometimes used for correction of the sheep. [00:24:26] Why does the rod comfort us? [00:24:31] It's because, first of all, we know that we're rebellious against God at times and disobey him sometimes persistently. [00:24:39] But the comfort comes from the reassurance that God, because of his faithfulness, will never stand by while we rebel against him and disobey. He's not going to do that. [00:24:58] God intervenes and opposes our disobedience. [00:25:06] Parents, we do a great harm to our child by letting them get away with rebellion and disobedience. [00:25:16] We're revealing not a heart of love, not a heart of love, but we're revealing that we're unwilling to intervene and we're actually doing harm to our children by letting them get away with things for which they should be opposed. Right? [00:25:40] That's not good for our children. That's bad. That hurts them. You know, and most of the time when we let, let's be honest here. Those of you that have had kids, that have grown up, is there not a strong temptation to just not deal with things that really should be dealt with? Now, I'm not talking about being spank happy. I'm talking about dealing with things that should be dealt with. There's a strong, there's a strong urge to let it go just because we're tired. [00:26:10] Right? [00:26:11] How many of you have felt that our parents have felt like, eh, is this again. [00:26:19] I have definitely felt that. [00:26:23] But here's the encouragement I want to give you as a parent. The Lord doesn't do that. [00:26:27] Of course, he has one up on us in that he doesn't tire. But. And we do, and that does affect it. But the Lord doesn't stand by and let us live in disobedience and rebellion. He loves us too much and is too faithful to just stand by and let us do it. [00:26:48] And so as parents, so must we be that faithful right. [00:26:53] God corrects and God brings sorrow in order to bring David to repentance. And. And that is God's faithfulness. Psalm 119:75. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. [00:27:12] What you don't see, though, is you don't see God intervening and opposing the world in its pursuit of sin and rebellion and disobedience. You don't see that they do it and. And are unhindered. Not so with a child of God. He's just not going to do that. [00:27:30] Now, God does oppose sin in the world by means of law, his law, by means of the conscience, by means of the human government. God uses those things to restrain and oppose the sinful tendencies of man. But what you don't often see now, on occasion you do when the Lord's doing something in somebody's life, especially as it relates to the Gospel. But what you don't often see God do is personally intervene when someone's rebelling against him, someone who doesn't know him, not his child. You don't often see that. [00:28:03] You always see it with his children, but you don't often see it with the world, the personal intervention. But in this chapter, in this psalm, what do you see? This is not law. This is not conscience. This is not human government. No, no, no, this is not that. This is God personally stepping in, touching David's body. Wake up, guy. [00:28:26] Wake up. You're not going to continue doing this until David finally gets down to verse number. [00:28:40] Verse number 17. [00:28:43] For I am ready to halt, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I will declare mine iniquity. [00:28:51] I will be sorry for my sin. [00:28:53] This change occurs, starts at verse number 15. [00:28:57] He mentions hope. [00:28:58] Up until verse 15, he's been nothing but complaint. And he understands. He's complaining because of what he did, and God is unhappy with him. But when you get to verse 15, it changes. It pivots. And now David is saying, he. He has hope in the Lord. You know why? Because this is what sorrow has brought him to. [00:29:17] Physical sorrow, mental, emotional, spiritual sorrow, inwardly has brought him to the place of repentance. [00:29:27] It's brought him to the place of repentance. [00:29:32] Now look at what it says in verse number 18. For I will declare mine iniquity. I will be sorry for mine, my sin. [00:29:41] I was reading Spurgeon. I thought what Spurgeon said, and this was good. I'll summarize it. He says this, being sorry for your sin does not atone for your sin. And you know, people believe this. Now, they never say it like that, of course, but they'll say things like this, I said I was sorry. [00:30:00] Well, that doesn't atone for your sin. We could be sorry to God all day long, but sorrow is not repentance. [00:30:09] Sorrow could never take away our crime against the Lord. Right? That required the blood of Christ. [00:30:16] But even as a believer, sorrow is not the same as repentance. [00:30:22] But it does, as we see here, it does do something that is indispensable. You know what sorrow does? Remember suffering. [00:30:31] This is the order for those of you that want to alliterate. [00:30:35] Sin, suffering, sorrow. [00:30:40] And then we get to the R. Repentance, sin, suffering, sorrow. The sorrow prepares the heart. It can't take away the sin, but it prepares the heart to come to God who can, in a way that is right, in a way that is ready to repent with the right disposition toward the Lord. [00:31:06] I want to read you this verse to close. Actually, we can just turn there. We got a minute. We can just turn there. We're just about finished. 2nd Corinthians, chapter 7. [00:31:15] If you would look at 2nd Corinthians, chapter 7, 2nd Corinthians, chapter 7, verse number 10, 2 Corinthians 7:10 says this. For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the world worketh death. Death. [00:31:54] The context of this verse is not salvation in the sense of salvation from sin, believing in Christ. That's not the context of this. If you read the context, this is referring to the sorrow and repentance of this church who had sinned against God or this someone in the church rather. And all that had went on with this, with all the things related to this church. [00:32:18] Notice in verse number 10, Godly sorrow worketh repentance. So sorrow is not equal to repentance. Sorrow is an emotion, okay? Sorrow is not bad. Sorrow is good if it's the godly kind. [00:32:32] You know, Esau had sorrow, but Esau's sorrow was not to repentance. [00:32:38] Feeling bad over a thing that you have done, likely because you were caught or because of the shame it brought or the pain and suffering it brought. That's not the right kind of sorrow. Godly sorrow is different than repentance. So sorrow is important as a preparation. It prepares the heart for repentance, but it is not the same as repentance. Verse 10, Sorrow also precedes repentance. It goes before repentance because the preparation of the heart is needed before you come to God with it. [00:33:11] Verse 10. Once again, godly sorrow leads to repentance. For godly sorrow worketh repentance. So sorrow is the thing, is the catalyst that drives us to the place of repentance. This is why the Lord in Psalm 38 touches David, because by touching him, it's going to give him sorrow and the sorrow. Once he connects the sorrow with his sin, it'll lead him to repentance. That's why he does it. [00:33:48] And then you see verse 10. For Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation, not to be repented of. [00:33:54] Once there's sorrow, the godly kind, then there can be repentance. And repentance is different than sorrow. Sorrow is an emotion. Repentance is sometimes hard to define, to be honest with you. [00:34:08] But in this case and in our case, repentance is this, I'm done. [00:34:17] Repentance is I'm done. [00:34:19] David, because of this sorrow in his life, he's sick, physically sick, he's emotionally sick. He is, he's, he's. He's down. He knows God is unhappy with him. And, and finally, by the end of Psalm 38, you get to the end and David's basically, I'm paraphrasing. [00:34:37] David says, I'm done. [00:34:42] I will confess mine iniquity. [00:34:45] I will be sorry for my sin. I'm done. See, because repentance, you might say, is an act of the will. [00:34:53] Repentance is something that you might say, choose to do, if that's maybe a good way to put it. [00:35:00] It's that change. [00:35:02] See, a person can be sorry and then have every intention to do it. There's, you know, the prisons are full of people who are sorry that they're in prison, but have every intention of doing it again the moment they get out, straight back to it. [00:35:19] That's not godly sorrow. Godly sorrow is the guy sitting in prison feeling sorry for himself because and knowing that he brought it on himself, and then saying, when I'm out of here, when I get done, I am never going back to it. [00:35:35] That's the repentance part. [00:35:38] And the last thing I want you to see in verse 10, or actually is back in Psalm 38, rather, he says, I will confess mine iniquity. Repentance, all always involves confession to God and when needed, to man, I wouldn't give you, as the old timers used to say, I wouldn't give you a plug nickel For a person who said that they repented and were sorry but would not name the thing that they had done. [00:36:10] That's not real. David said, I'm sorry. I'm done. [00:36:16] I'm confessing Lord, I did it. And this is the thing I did. [00:36:21] That's when you know you're in the repentant. You're in the area of repentance. [00:36:25] Let's pray together.