The Book of Acts | John The Baptist

Guarding the Gospel of Grace

Well, hello and welcome to the apologetic dog where it's our heart's desire to guard the gospel of grace. And so if you find the apologetic dog logo and you see first Timothy 6 verse 20. That verse is where Paul is telling Timothy and all Christians to guard the deposit that's been entrusted to you.

And if you continue to read the verse it says and avoid irreverent babble pagan philosophy that tries to rival the knowledge of God. Especially the gospel of grace God must in his word Tell us what truth is.

Paul goes on to tell Timothy and avoid Contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge. Where do we get knowledge? Where do we get truth? Well, the God of truth reveals himself to man. And so God has done this especially in his word.

God has especially done this in the incarnation of Jesus Christ. So thank you so much for tuning in. I bet you didn't expect a late Saturday night live stream. I've really enjoyed studying the book of Acts and so I just want to be able to share with many of y 'all that have supported the apologetic dog and would just would like to be a part of This ministry and so thank you so much for all of your support.

I will say I'm having a studio at home. Occasionally the wifey likes to come in and leave me a little surprises. Thanks, babe ball babes. So, thank you so much, I want to give everybody a little bit of time to tune in we got Adam Carmichael one of the mods here at the apologetic dog.

Said welcome everyone. I don't think so much for tuning in. Before I dive in with some of the announcements here at the project dog I also serve as a pastor and elder at 12 five church. We're the only reformed Baptist in Jonesboro and We really try to partner with Evangelical churches those churches that preach the the gospel of grace.

And so we have Reformed brethren in our Presby circles. We love y 'all even though we're going to talk to you about the covenant of grace and covenant works. We love y 'all and so if you're in the Northeast Arkansas area and you're looking for a reformed Baptist Church.

Please come check us out. Like I said, we're the only one in the area, but we don't want to be snooty we want to lock arms with other churches that preach the gospel and I'm looking forward to preaching at a church tomorrow in Lepanto.

So we get to just since we're a plurality we get to love on other churches and help out where we can. And so Adam Carmichael and I he serves as a deacon at 12 five church. We just got back from Going to Main Street downtown Jonesboro where they're having a gay Pride festival and me and a group of men were able to just have some really good gospel centered conversations.

And it's no doubt that God has 12 five church in our downtown area where a lot of that stuff is prevalent. So just keep us in purse. We never want to win arguments for the sake of being right and looking down at people.

No, we want to share with them truly. What love is we see this the phrase love is love that don't tell us anything. But the God of love the God of truth the God of peace He has sent his one and only son to die for us to die for those that would put their faith in him.

That is love. So anyway, it was a pleasure getting to do that. And so we're kind of getting in a little bit late this evening, but thank you all for tuning in. So my first announcement, I just want to kind of piggyback last time if you were able to catch this live stream I have a debate coming up.

I believe it's August 23rd with the fishbone. We're gonna be debating his water baptism necessary. Necessary for what? Well, if you go over to Marlon's channel at the gospel truth We're talking about is baptism necessary for all of your sins to be forgiven past present in future.

You don't want to miss that debate coming up. It's gonna be it's gonna be a good one. I'm sure it's gonna be lively. It's gonna be four people I too want to debate and so me and the fishbone get to team up on this one Marlon's channel.

So I wonder if I've been able to do a handful of debates on there. And so I've lost count at this point how many that is but speaking of debates I have another debate coming up in February where I get to be a part of this open air Theology conference in February at Tullahoma, Tennessee, and so last year I got to speak at this conference.

It was on why Calvinism I got to speak on the sovereignty of God and suffering and so Jeffrey Rice this time was like Jema. How would you like to debate and I said I love debating. So I'm looking forward to this.

Unfortunately, I have to tell you that I had a debate challenge a couple weeks ago with for Aaron Gallagher. Hey, he didn't get back to me. He said he would. But hey debating is not everyone's cup of tea.

And so this Debate challenge is essentially projected and that's okay because coming up in a couple days I'm gonna have Trey Fisher on the apologetic dog and we're gonna issue Another debate challenge and so this conference is about a believer sanctification so you can kind of see here in the graphic.

It's talking about war Flesh versus the spirit and so we kind of want the debate the last event of the conference to reflect on a believer sanctification so perhaps the debate will be something like can a blue believer lose their Sanctification or not.

The answer is no if you're truly regenerated, then you will be sanctified by the Spirit to the day of redemption. And then or we may we may phrase it a little bit differently where I could take the affirmative that God will Necessarily complete a believer sanctification something like that.

So if you have any suggestions, yeah John says bummer. I'm taking that to mean bummer that Aaron Gallagher Unfortunately said he's not interested. I didn't say that. He just didn't reach out to me at all Trust me tried messing it messaging him a whole lot without like being annoying, but I just wanted some clarity.

I get it. We're not all debaters. Some of us are meant to just be podcasters and there's nothing wrong with them. But yep bummer. But that's okay. It wasn't meant to be and that just means that God has somebody else in store and I cannot wait to tell y 'all in a few days.

Maybe on Monday that me and Trey tell you who I'm going to be calling out next. Oh, we got Justin Stasny out there. Thank you for tuning in, sir Bow wow, whoa, that's what I'm talking about. Justin Stasny is also a member at 12 -5 Church.

Thanks so much. Oh we have the man Wesley Watkins, how are you, sir? Wesley's a member at 12 -5 and he actually led our Evangelistic group at 12 -5 to go downtown to share the gospel with all the people part of the the gay pride festival.

And so might have Wesley on one of these days to talk more about his heart of evangelism got to have a lot of really good talks just a couple hours ago and Another thing is we were able to have a big group go into downtown.

But we also had a group at the church praying for us as well. So pretty incredible. Thanks so much for tuning in Wesley. Well else is out there. Hello. Hello. Thank you for joining us. And yeah, if you'll have Anything that you would like to add just please send it in the side chat.

Thank you for joining us. So, yep be on the lookout for the conference coming up in February in Tennis, Tullahoma, Tennessee. I plan on having a booth this time and hope to have a couple mics where I get to interview people.

And I'm really looking forward to that. So you don't wanna miss it and I'm back. Let's see here. Well, this kind of brings me next on my list. I've been really enjoying. Well, it's been about a week or so got to talk just the entry introductory verses to the book of Acts.

The Prologue to Acts and the Continuity with Luke

Let's see here. We didn't make it too far last time. But the book of Acts I think in some ways is very neglected. And it's so good. It's the narrative of the acts of the Apostles that are in dwelt by the Holy Spirit with that God is sovereignly Guiding and building his church.

And so that's exactly what Jesus told us in In Matthew's gospel that he would build his church and the gates of hell would not prevail. All right. Hello, thank you so much for tuning in. Appreciate it.

Appreciate it. So I do want to continue our studies through the book of Acts, but you must be warned I go at the pace of Anthony Rogers. So that means a snail's pace, but my heart in the matter is I want us to glean as much as possible From God's Word and I want to give you all a chance in the side chat to ask questions.

And to challenge me and I let people know it's not stump the chump. And what I mean by saying that is it's not hard to stump the apologetic dog. We're all growing in our sanctification. We're all growing if we're in Christ and the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

So I just want to be able to share with you all my findings how I see the Word of God coming together in such beautiful harmony and like I said, I just want to start in the book of Acts and so here in these opening verses is The prologue to the book of Acts last time we talked about the author.

So the opening words here in the first book. Oh Theophilus we mentioned how Theophilus means friend of God and This is actually has a connection so this says the first book we we talked about how there is a strong connection to the gospel of Luke and how the early church always has seen Luke as the author of that gospel and then necessarily so The book of Acts and so please go check that out.

We talked about the writer Luke in relation to Theophilus who's a friend of God but in all reality if you're in Christ, you are a friend of God like Abraham like Theophilus name means and so this is written for us.

For us to learn and learn truth and those opening verses of Luke's gospel. It talks about how he gave an orderly account so that we as Christians, even though he's talking to Theophilus Theophilus that we might have certainty in the things that God has revealed to us.

So I want to review Kind of these opening verses in the book of Acts in the first book Oh Theophilus I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach until The day when he was taken up after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit He goes on to say to the Apostles whom he had given He presented himself alive to them after his sufferings by many proofs appearing to them During 40 days and speaking about the kingdom of God and while staying with them He ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem But to wait for the promise of the Father which he said you heard from me for John Baptized with water, but you'll be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now so this is like I said the kind of the opening prologue and There's so many points that I actually do want to take time to unpack.

But in kind of verse number two until the day when he was taken up this is alluding to Jesus's ascension now if you're familiar with the tail end of the Gospel of Luke and Continuing in the narrative of the book of Acts, then, you know there's a lot more details coming up about the Ascension and so I want to table that for this time because we're gonna get into that as we go more in to acts chapter.

And so when it says after he had given commands through the Holy Spirit to the Apostles whom he had chosen. Well as we're gonna see later in Acts chapter 1 we're gonna see another apostle was chosen to replace Matthias and so like I said, we're gonna circle back to a lot of these main points because Luke is setting up things here a number of points that have been touched on already in the the Gospel of Luke and he's gonna continue to expound upon in the rest of this Book of Acts.

So thanks so much for tuning in. Thanks so much. Okay, we already have an off-topic question. So I'm gonna come back to that. So verse 3 this is something that I will probably cover in next live stream when we Open up the book of Acts again because Jesus presented himself alive so think resurrection to them the Apostles and over 500 eyewitnesses after his suffering by many proofs appearing to them during 40 days and this is the key I want you to be thinking about and Speaking about the kingdom of God my goodness, I may do a two or three part series on the kingdom of God because this is kind of Crucial to understanding.

This is a theme in Luke's writing. And so I really do think next time we'll spend time unpacking the kingdom of God and we will firstly go back To Luke's gospel. He mentions it so many times and I believe Early in Jesus's ministry in Luke's gospel.

He says that this was the purpose in which he was sent to preach the kingdom of God. And so kingdom of God we're gonna get into this but it's essentially talking about salvation and everything that that entails.

So I'm getting really excited about that so verse 4 While staying with them. He ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. So this will integrate very well with the kingdom of God the Holy Spirit's work as we're gonna get into that and it's gonna tie in to the baptism of John the Baptist when Jesus was baptized and Christian baptism, so I want us to hang on to that phrase as well probably be an entire live stream in and of itself.

But he says to wait to the Apostles for the promise of the Father. Which he said Jesus said you heard from me for John Baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.

And so the more I was thinking about this about what to mainly focus on this live stream is it's John the Baptist John baptized with water and the reason why I want to take time to Unpack this is because John is alluded to very briefly later on in the book of Acts and John's ministry is so foundational to understanding how he was paving the way for Messiah.

And so I want us to kind of spend some time and unpack this so I would like for us to do a deep dive In looking at John the Baptist and so this is also a good time to ask questions in the side chat. And so I'm really excited about this.

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And so if you don't mind, please do that if you've ever benefited from the apologetic dog ministry one day one day I talked about this with Adam Carmichael all the time is I would love to be able to do Apologetics full-time and just to serve as a pastor at twelve five church.

What's up, Jared? Thanks for joining us man Jared will be Helping me on a road trip tomorrow as I travel a few towns over to preach at a a church that we are Partners with at twelve five and so keep us in prayers looking forward to traveling with Jared.

Thanks for tuning in Barada. Okay, now we got a little bit of an audience. So, like I said, if you're just tuning in John the Baptist is what I would like to spend the majority of our time this evening because he baptized and Everyone knows acts 238 that you must repent and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins and by doing so receive the gift of the Holy Spirit and I'm I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit but acts chapter 2 is where that is found and and The context there is a Jewish audience and so some people maybe our Presbyterian brothers, they see a strong connection and replacement if you will of baptism and Circumcision and we love as reformed Baptist.

We love the doctrine of circumcision and all that entails but we differ and as a reformed Baptist we differ with the Church of Christ thinking that Baptism is the means or the instrumentation of how a person has their past sins washed away and What I want to contend for is in Acts chapter 2 that is a Jewish Covenantal Context and there is something that is the nearest antecedent to Christian baptism and it's not circumcision.

It's John's baptism. So this is really important to understand John in the New Testament Has such a developed theology about who Jesus is what the atonement looked like what the day of the wrath What the day of wrath looked like as well and he was a preacher of repentance.

And so since we already talked about How the writer of Luke and Acts are the the same human author, which is Luke I want us to consider Luke chapter 3 as Our main text talking about John the Baptist, so I'm gonna kind of start in verse 2 but before I do I want to take some time to maybe look at y 'all's questions in the side chat or Any comments you may have?

Dineen says off-topic question. I'll allow it this time. Can someone who denies Jesus is our Sabbath rest and says we need to keep the Sabbath? Still be To be considered a brother in Christ. Good question Dineen let me know.

Are you talking specifically like about the seventh-day? Adventists let me know if you have somebody else in mind, but I'm just gonna take this as maybe the seventh-day Adventist because I Believe well for one the seventh-day Adventist or a restorationist group.

They come out of the early 1800s along with the Church of Christ and the Mormons and I think one of the fatal flaw is the say the seventh-day Adventist with how they deal with the Sabbath is they add Works to the gospel of grace.

I'm actually I've had a few different conversations and they will they will demand Remember in the the Fourth Commandment Remember to keep the Sabbath. Holy you Protestants are forgetting the Sabbath and it's like, okay.

Well, the the Sabbath is Ceremonial in nature and points to Jesus. That's why I'm Matthew chapter 11 the writer of Hebrews and chapters 3 and 4 talks about how Jesus is our Sabbath day rest. It's not a day a yoke of bondage like the Pharisees twisted into and Force it on to Christians to observe and if you don't observe it, then you're not saved.

And so unfortunately, I Do not see the seventh-day Adventist as brothers in the faith. I think they have crept in unawares. I have an apologetic book Walter Martin and the kingdom of the cults. The seventh-day Adventist slipped his radar and he did not necessarily list them as a cult.

He definitely enlisted all of the criteria to be on guard for Cults and I believe it's Ellen G white as they're basically infallible Prophetess she had so many revelations from God and so forth. But is that does that let's see here and make sure I answered it.

Can someone who denies Jesus is our Sabbath rest and says we need to keep the Sabbath? Yeah, it's just it it adds to the gospel of grace and they miss a fundamental teaching of The scripture as a whole that the Sabbath points to Jesus like you're talking about.

So let me know. Let me know if I answered that or if I did the whole Tap dance around it. It's not intentional. Let's see here. I asked for more information, but he wouldn't answer so I don't know any more than what is in my question.

Thanks for answering. Welcome. Anybody else out there before we? Dip into Luke chapter 3. Let's see, oh. Okay, we do have Question. If I don't pronounce your name, it's because I'm scared that I'll miss Pronounce it.

Hello. I have a question about acts 15. Is there a possibility for questions on a chapter? Maybe not being studied today. Yes, it's possible. Does it mean I'll get to it? Something to be thinking about.

Scholarly is when I will be teaching on the kingdom of God soon here in Acts chapter 1. That's alluded to twice right because as we look into the context you pull it up here. So you see this question.

So when they had come together, they asked Jesus Lord. Will you at this time restore the kingdom? To Israel. I Just want to let the cat out of the bag and let you know that I hold to what is called covenant theology and I grew Up dispensational and I'm not saying that in like a mean condescending way.

I just do not hold that perspective anymore. And so I cannot wait to unpack the kingdom of God. I don't think anything was put on hold. I actually think Jesus answers that question with the next verses and it actually ties in acts 15 so thank you for your question.

But acts 15 will actually be a big talking point. Probably the next live stream when I talk about the kingdom of God. Hey, if you do have any questions about any other verses in the book of Acts just send them my way.

Yes, Adam Carmichael says Yes, bro. Now. I'm old TT. I believe Adam goes by the tatted theologian. Let's see here Bob from Canada, maybe help me understand what you're saying. What's your bread-and-butter?

Hustle dog if you're asking me kind of what's the. The thought of. The idea and heart and mission behind the apologetic dog. It's definitely embedded in first Timothy 20 is defending guarding the gospel of grace.

And we do that by warring against pagan philosophy. We do that by Exposing contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge. Thank you for tuning in. Now that okay that being said let's go oh, oh. Sorry, my oh my my bread and butter well, I serve as a pastor and elder at twelve five church in Jonesboro, Arkansas and So currently that is part-time.

The church is so gracious. And doing that and they've made it known that well scripture teaches us that we as a church are to pay A laborer worth his wages especially those of double honor those that labor and preaching and teaching and so my church's heart is to Have me on full-time.

But I serve in a plurality of elders and as I've communicated to the other leadership in the church is hey. Let's wait and God's timing until and until when that can actually take place. We're a church plant.

And so we're just three years old, but God has been so gracious. With all of that and so my bread and butter. Also, I'm a full-time Chaplain with a hospice agency and so that's why we get random live streams late on Saturday night because I'm trying to squeeze it In but Bob from Canada.

Thanks so much for asking that that bread and butter. Okay, thank y 'all. Okay, so yeah let's let's dive into Luke chapter 3 because I want us to talk about John the Baptist and the reason why when I will be Cross-referencing with all the synoptic Gospels because when you do a deep dive study into John the Baptist, he's actually everywhere.

Until the law and the prophets until John meaning he is the last prophetic voice on the scene of kind of the old Covenant paradigm paving the way for Jesus and so since we're gonna see a lot of continuity between Luke and Acts Luke chapter 3 look with me starting in verse 2 where the Word of God came to John the son of Zechariah.

That's important. We need to keep in the back of my mind son of Zechariah in the wilderness and he went into all the region around the Jordan proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

We got to stop now, I will I do plan on reading through at least verse 18. But we got to take it in chunks. Because already right here. There's so much that I want to unpack. And feel free to ask questions along the way and I will I will post those so something that immediately grabs my attention is We read about John preached Forgiveness of sins now, he also talks about a repentance for the forgiveness of sins.

And so I want us to talk about all this. What is the forgiveness of sins entail what it looked like in the Old Testament? Hint hint the forgiveness of sins has all always been by grace through faith in the in the promise of Jesus Christ.

So the Old Testament Saints were looking forward. I want us to look at that I want us to consider what the Old Testament says about the forgiveness sins, but they were looking forward To the coming Messiah what he would accomplish at Calvary and all Christians today.

We are looking back putting our faith in Christ repenting truly from the heart, right? We're gonna get more into that as well, but we put our faith in all of what he did and accomplished so something else in the immediate context is Zachariah is is the father to John the Baptist.

And so with that being said in Luke chapter 1 there was a prophecy that Zachariah gave and it's really important because in This prophecy. It's so many allusions to the Old Testament he wasn't saying anything new other than that we're gonna see that the prophetic voice of Isaiah chapter 40 a voice crying out in the wilderness to make the paths of the Straight for the Lord was going to be his son.

So I do want us to consider this. As we're talking about this concept of repentance for the forgiveness of sins Zacharias prophecy in Luke chapter 1 says and his father John the Baptist father Zachariah was filled With the Holy Spirit and prophesied saying blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he has visited and redeemed.

So keyword redeemed this is talking about salvation. He has redeemed his people and raised up a Horn of salvation a horn talking about being mighty and strength ready for battle for us in the house of his servant David as He spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of old that we should be saved, right?

God was with his people saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us to show the mercy promised to our Fathers and to remember his holy covenant. We see this covenantal language of the promised Covenant of grace the covenant of peace in which we'll have a perfect mediator the oath that he swore to our father Abraham to grant us that we being delivered from the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear in holiness and Righteousness before all of our days and this is interesting.

So this is kind of the new information that Zacharias prophesying and you John the Baptist child will be called the prophet of the Most High for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways to give knowledge of Salvation to his people and this is something else I want you to make note of in the forgiveness of their sins because of the tender mercy of our God.

Whereby the Sun rise shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death. To guide our feet into the way of peace. Okay, so you could probably hear a number of the Old Testament allusions from the Psalms from the prophets of old.

But I want you to see here Zachariah is talking about how his son will prepare the way for the people to have Salvation for their sins to ultimately be forgiven. Is that fair? Is everybody trekking with me so far?

Just Justin Stasny. What are you saying up there? He's a beard old spokesman maybe. Oh, yeah, that's I wish that I wish that were my bread and butter. Okay, so as we're talking about Zacharias prophesying That John is about to prepare the way go before the Lord and prepare his ways.

And so when we're going back to Luke chapter 3, I want us to understand that John is not preaching Anything new he is just calling the people of Israel to get ready. He's calling them to repentance which we're gonna kind of develop that word out what that looks Internally and what it looks like as repentance is bearing fruit and working out.

But something I want us to keep in mind is this idea for the forgiveness of sins. This is rooted in the Old Testament and John the Baptist knows that. So with that being said I also want to mention this in Matthew's parallel account of the forgiveness of sins.

It actually says that the people as they were coming to be baptized by John. They were Confessing their sins and to me. This is a beautiful connection because if you're looking at the the gospel writer Matthew and Luke they're saying the same thing John is preaching.

Maybe we can go ahead and look at verse 18 the one that will kind of conclude with. Checks out. So with many other exhortations John preached the gospel good news to the people and so the gospel is all throughout the Old Testament.

And essentially at the core of the gospel is the good news that you can have Forgiveness of your sins and as we're gonna look at in the Old Testament, this would involve Confessing your sins to God Almighty.

Repenting meaning in your heart. You are changing no longer trusting in yourself. But you're trusting in God to make provision and for him to ultimately forgive your sins and so the forgiveness of sins understand that this is looking to God and this would involve Confessing your sins to him and as I was thinking about kind of giving you a backdrop.

To John the Baptist he would have in mind Moses the writings in the prophets and so when we say the writings we're talking about the kind of the prophetic literature some of the poetic things. Psalm 32 is a psalm of King David.

Very famous psalm. In fact, I would say this psalm along with the Psalm 51. These are psalms of repentance now remember Luke Chapter 3 we're talking about repentance for the forgiveness of your sins. Okay, and so Psalm 32 is a good place to show what repentance looked like in the Old Testament.

And I don't have the verse in front of me. Actually, I want to Want to tell you a really good verse the first time repent is mentioned in the Old Testament. And I looked this up I thought oh, this is actually a good functional way to understand how repentance always works first Kings chapter 8 says yet if they turn their heart in the land to which you have been carried captive and repent and Plead with you in the land of our Captors saying we have sinned and have acted Perversely and wickedly and so that's first Kings chapter 8 verse 47, but in that one verse Repentance is talking about a heart issue okay, so as we're getting into what the forgiveness of sins has always looked like Forgiveness of sins is always coupled with repentance.

And so in the the New Testament Metanoia the changing of the mind we understand that this Hebrew root roots also entails a Volitional heart change and so changing your mind changing the disposition of your heart is no longer Looking inward to yourself.

But looking to God looking to his promised Savior in the the Holy Covenant the covenant that is to come. And so that's a little bit of the backdrop in the Old Testament. I do want to read Ezekiel 18 because what's under what's what's crucial to understand in repentance is a turning away From sin.

Oh my goodness. I've seen people on the internet. They they think that baptism is a work that you do and I think they're confusing Repentance, which is a category of the heart with bearing fruits of repentance.

Which is talking about works and so when Jesus says in Mark 1 15 repent and believe the gospel for the kingdom of God. Salvation is a hand. It's talking about a heart that no longer is trusting in self, but trusting in the things of God.

Like I said this matches Ezekiel 18 that says therefore I would judge you all house of Israel every one of you according to his ways declares the Lord repent and Turn from all your transgressions. Lest your iniquity your sin be your ruin.

And I could I could probably illustrate a number of other places even in the book of Acts. That repentance is a heart that no longer wants to pursue after Sin and when your hearts change when your heart is changed to looking to the Lord his provision in Jesus Christ.

Well, that is going to affect how you work out your salvation with fear and trembling. And so your life will look different because you live to the glory of God. And so we're talking about repentance in Connection with the forgiveness of your sins.

And so one of the best places to add here is Psalm 32. Hello Rosemary thank you for Joining us. So I look with me at Psalm 32 psalm of David blessed is the one whose transgression is Forgiven whose sin is covered.

So remember we're talking about the forgiveness of sins. Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts. No iniquity in whose spirit there is no deceit. Okay now We're gonna continue on but these two verses David is telling us how to have your sins forgiven.

And so we will actually go back to that in a moment some of you in the side chat. I already know where I'm going with this. I'm sure but David continues to express what? Repentance looks like that inward heart that is turning away from sin turning away from loving sin and living life.

For me and turning and looking and trusting in the Lord David says for when I kept silent my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long broken over sin. For day and night your hand was heavy upon me.

My strength was dried up as by the heat of the summer. I Acknowledge my sin to you write a confessing of sin 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.

Therefore let anyone who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found surely in the rush of the 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. 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 a mule without understanding which must be curved with a bit and bridle or Will not stay near you.

Many are the sorrows of the wicked but steadfast love surrounds. Don't miss this. The one who trusts in the Lord. Okay, and I'll read verse 11 here be glad in Yahweh and rejoice. Oh Righteous, right. Those that are just in his sight shout for joy all you upright and heart.

And so this Psalm kind of going full circle though David is talking about the one who puts their trust in Yahweh the one who knows all things and sees all things and promised to send us a savior. Okay, so I want you to connect this because this is a this Psalm shows us how individuals Old Testament had their sins forgiven and notice King David was Confessing his sin.

That's what happens when a heart is Convicted of their sin before God who is holy holy holy, right? What did the Prophet Isaiah who was a prophet probably seen as the most? Holy man walking the earth at that time when he was in the presence of God in Isaiah chapter 6 He said I'm a man of unclean lips that dwells in a people of unclean lips.