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- Turn with me if you would to Psalm 32 this morning, Psalm 32 and reading from the
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- King James. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
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- Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity and in whose spirit there is no guile.
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- When I kept silence, my bones became old through my roaring all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me.
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- My moisture is turned into the draught of summer. Selah.
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- I acknowledged my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hidden. I said
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- I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgave us the iniquity of my sin.
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- Selah. For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee at a time when thou mayest be found.
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- Surely in the flood of great waters they shall not come near unto him. Thou art mine hiding place.
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- Thou shalt preserve me from trouble. Thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance.
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- Selah. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. I will guide thee with mine eye.
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- Be ye not like the horse or like the mule that have no understanding whose mouth must be held in with bit and bridle lest they come near unto thee.
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- My many sorrows shall be to the wicked but he that trusteth in the Lord mercy shall compass him about.
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- Be glad in the Lord and rejoice ye righteous and shout for joy all ye that are upright in heart.
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- Now this psalm if you'll notice at the top if you have this in your bible it says this is a maskill this is the second of 12 psalms that are identified as maskills of David and the word maskill has the sense to it that it is the giving of instruction this is something that David has written specifically to instruct other people and this psalm goes along very much it's very much connected to psalm 51 and I think most of you are aware that the psalms were not necessarily written in the order in which they appear in the bible so psalm 51 if you recall is the great psalm of confession where David confesses after his adultery with Bathsheba and his murder of Uriah the
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- Hittite but he says in that psalm that after he has confessed and has been restored to fellowship with with the
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- Lord he said I am going to teach transgressors your ways and sinners will be converted unto you and this is perhaps a fulfillment of that it's been suggested that David wrote this specific psalm in fulfillment of that promise that this was in written to instruct and so we have this psalm written as instruction and it's it's it's quite it has a lot of impact
