The Dread of Broken Fellowship with God: Psalm 51 by Dr. Rod Mattoon

Scripture

• Psalms 51

About this sermon

One of the great misconceptions about getting your own way and living sinfully is that you will have fun, a good time, and be happily fulfilled. You will have lots of friends and be popular. If the prodigal son could come back from the grave, he would loudly and firmly say that such conclusions are a lie and lead to very painful consequences. Samson would offer a big “Amen” to this false thinking, too. Understand that living a carnal, ungodly life is expensive and its effects are expansive. They tend to last long and get bigger. * Sinful choices will take you farther than you want to go. It is a slippery slope that heads downward. * Sinful choices will cost you more than you want to pay or even what you expected to pay. * Sinful choices will lecture you more than you want to hear or learn. * Sinful choices will keep you longer than you want to stay and its effects will last longer than want them to last. Looking at Psalm 51, we find the dread, desperation, despair, discouragement, and depression that are attached to sinful living like a leech that hooks itself onto the body of person. David realized that the choices he made were foolish. * He traded his integrity for immorality. * He trounced the tranquility he once enjoyed for turmoil and trauma. * He trashed his closeness with God for temporary thrills and the trouble that followed. David was haunted by what he had done. His sins were ever before him (vs.3. The Hebrew word for "ever before me" comes from the word tamiyd {taw-meed'} which also means "to stretch out." David's disobedience was stretched out in full sight of the Lord and in his own mind and memory. He was grieved over what he had done and probably was thinking, "How could I have been so stupid! What was I thinking!" He said, “Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.” What does this mean? We will explain this in this 34-minute message which was preached on Wednesday night, September 7, 2022, at Lincoln Land Baptist Church.

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