Blessed is he whose transgression has been forgiven

Let's go to the Book of Psalms chapter 32. Today I want to share with you a Psalm that has great potential to bring us a little closer to God. Next week we are going to be celebrating Father's Day here in the United States and perhaps many are already preparing by buying things for dad, things like that, but I think it is always good to keep in perspective that our heavenly Father also needs to be celebrated and recognized in our lives and our presences, and today I want to talk about a Psalm where King David has a very interesting dialogue with God that I think shows us a little about the very intimate relationship he had with God .

I want us to read that Psalm, Psalms chapter 32, you can read it if you look it up in your Bible, but the Word of God says: “Blessed is he whose transgression has been forgiven and his sin covered. Blessed is the man to whom Jehovah does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit; Whereas yesterday my bones grew old in my moaning all day because by day and by night Your hand was aggravated on me, my greenery became in dryness of summer; My sin to you and did not cover up my iniquity. I said: I will confess my transgressions to Jehovah and You forgave the wickedness of my sin, that is why every saint will pray to You in the time in which you can be found. Certainly in the flood of many waters, they will not reach him; You are my refuge, you keep me from anguish, with songs of liberation you will surround me; I will make you understand and I will teach you the way you should walk, I will fix my eyes on you;"

“Do not be like the horse or the mule without understanding that must be restrained with a halter and with a bridle, otherwise they will not come near you; There will be many pains for the wicked, but mercy surrounds him who hopes in the Lord;

It is a very beautiful, very profound Psalm that has a very interesting background, and before we go into what I believe God has for us today through this Psalm, we are going to talk about the Book of Psalms in general.

Many of us know that the Book of Psalms is a collection of 150 poems written by different people that express a variety of emotions, it is one of the most sentimental Books of the Bible where one finds themes of love and adoration for God, sadness because of sin, dependence on God in the different circumstances of life, we also see the theme of the battle between fear and trust in God, and walking in God in the midst of a dark path.

The Book of Psalms is a Book where for years, centuries Christians have gone there in search of hope, in search of encouragement. In general, when one feels bad, when one feels overwhelmed by sin, by the problems of life, one sort of goes to the Book of Psalms to look for a word of hope, a word of encouragement, and it is very interesting perhaps to realize I realize that the Psalms connect so much with us because they were written by people who were in situations where the only hope they had was to cry out to God and sometimes when we find ourselves in situations like this we turn to the Psalms because they have that same healing effect. give us that hope, that encouragement that encourages us to continue one more day knowing that our story does not end as in the midst of the situation we are in, but that we know how it ends.

Oh, this particular Psalm, Psalm 32, is considered one of seven penitential psalms, and generally the term penitential is associated with borrowing psalms, which are hymns where members of a congregation or where the individual person is confessing their sins and you are allowing yourself to appeal to God's merciful character to experience His mercy.

However, when one looks at Psalm 32 specifically, one realizes that more than a penitential Psalm where the psalmist is asking forgiveness for his sins, where the psalmist is broken, in pain, the psalmist is rather thanking God for having forgiven his sin, is a psalm that despite being considered a penance where one goes to ask for forgiveness for my fault, for my sin, all this, this psalm is different because it is a hymn of thanksgiving where King David is thanking God for forgiving him.

We see an example in this psalm of how the psalmists shared their deepest sorrows and their feelings with God directly without the need for any intermediary. Psalm 32 is a testament to the joy one receives from experiencing God's forgiveness knowing that one does not deserve to be forgiven, that it is by grace that one is forgiven. It is a liturgical dialogue between King David and God, a dialogue that began alone and then manifested itself in the presence of other people who were with King David, and it is an invitation to confess to God so that we too can experience this exuberant joy that King David experienced at being forgiven, and Psalm 32 also teaches us that if we come to God with hearts of confession He hears us and He forgives us.

Something very interesting about this psalm is that many people who study the Bible connect it with Psalm 51 and it is a psalm that we are going to read later, and Psalm 51 is a psalm that King David wrote immediately after being confronted by the prophet Nathan after having sinned with Betzabé, everyone knows the story a little bit that King David fell in love with a woman he saw bathing in a pool and then he wanted to sleep with her, he slept with her and she got pregnant, then like to try to cover his sin he manipulated a battle strategy and put this woman's husband in the line of combat so they would kill him, so they killed him and everything and then this kind of happened without anyone noticing but he did know what he had done, so Psalm 32 is like a response to what happened in Psalm 51.

And look at what it says in Psalm 51 verse 13, these are the verses that David wrote as promising God that if He forgave him this is what he was going to do, then in Psalm 51 from verse 13 David told him to the Lord: “If you forgive me then I will teach transgressors Your ways and sinners will turn to You; Deliver me from homicides oh God, God of my salvation, my tongue will sing Your justice; Lord, open my lips and my mouth will publish Your praise."

David was saying to God: Lord, if You forgive me for what I have done, I am committing myself before You that I am going to speak about Your goodness, I am going to speak about Your infinite mercy, I am going to write psalms and praises to Ti, then Psalm 32 is a result of this prayer that he made.

But so that you have a slightly clearer idea of the vocabulary that is being used in these two psalms, I want us to read Psalm 51 as well so that you can see the difference in tone in the two psalms. In the first Psalm, 51 David is asking for forgiveness and in Psalm 32 he is giving thanks to God, look what Psalm 51 says, he tells him: "Have mercy on me, O God according to Your mercy, according to the multitude of Your mercy, erase my rebellions, wash me more and more of my wickedness because I recognize my rebellions and my sin is always before God", this was a sin that was tormenting him, despite the fact that most of the people had not found out what he had done, he did have it in mind.

And he said to him: "Against You, against You alone, have I sinned and done evil in Your sight, so that You may be recognized righteous in Your Word and held pure in Your judgment, behold, I have been formed in wickedness and in sin." my mother conceived me, behold You love the truth in the intimate and in the secret you have made me understand wisdom. Purify me with isop and I will be clean, wash me and I will be whiter than snow, make me hear joy and gladness and the bones you have crushed will recreate; Hide Your face from my sins and erase all my wickedness, create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me; Do not drive me away from You and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Return me the joy of Your salvation and noble spirit sustain me; Then I will teach transgressors Your ways and sinners will turn to You; Deliver me from homicides oh God, God of my salvation, my tongue will sing Your justice; Lord, open my lips and my mouth will publish Your praise because you do not want a sacrifice that I would give, you do not want a holocaust."

"The sacrifices of God are the broken spirit and the contrite and humiliated heart You will not despise, O God." These words contain the heart of King David, a heart of a person who was finally sorry in view of what he had done, but he was sorry, perhaps he thought that the Lord would not forgive him but even so he prostrated himself before God and told him He opened his heart because God knows everything, but he simply wanted to talk to God as a son to a father, and he resolved not to be overwhelmed by the sorrow of his sin, but after experiencing the joy of God's forgiveness, he began to thank him. to God and that's when we begin to see what happened with Psalm 32.

Look at what verse 1 of Psalm 32 says, it says: "Blessed is he whose transgression has been forgiven and his sin covered." Do you see how the subject changes? In the first Psalm 51 he is crying out for pity and mercy, he is asking: Lord forgive me, Lord have mercy on me, but once he already experienced God's forgiveness there is no more reason for him to feel slighted by God but to now he is saying: "Blessed is he whose transgression has been forgiven and his sin covered" "blessed is the man to whom Jehovah does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit" a spirit that is transparent.

"While I kept silent, my bones grew old in my moaning all day, because Your hand was heavy on me day and night, and my greenery became in the dryness of summer." Verses 1 and 2 of Psalm 32 establish the theme and highlight why David feels blessed.

The word blessed means happy, extremely happy, an exuberant proclamation of those who experience God's forgiveness, the word blessed is also translated as blessed, so in Psalm 32 he is saying that the reason he considers himself a blessed man is because he has been forgiven by God and the reason for his inner happiness was found in this.

He felt blessed because his sins had been forgiven and it is very interesting to see here that the bliss or blessing in King David's life was not necessarily associated with material well-being but rather with the certainty that his life was under the care of King David. and God's protection.

I believe that this is why perhaps poor people, even though they may not have many comforts in life, can also experience the genuine blessing of God, they can feel blessed and blessed because true happiness is not found in material things.

Today, if one looks at Facebook, Twitter, the Internet or even speaking for people, one realizes that the only reasons why they feel blessed is for material things. You always say you are blessed when you get a scholarship to college or get an apartment or get a raise at work, when you have a wonderful family, good health, great children, a vibrant ministry in the Church, and one bases the blessing on those things that are seen, but I believe that the blessing that King David is talking about here goes much beyond that.

King David was the King of a nation, he had at his disposal whatever he wanted: money, places, everything, what didn't he have? It's like, he didn't need anything. However, in this Psalm what he is saying is that the reason he felt blessed and blessed is because he had experienced God's forgiveness. It is very interesting to see how a person who has so many things can feel empty because their joy, their fullness, is not found in these material things that can happen.

The problem with this is that when we base our happiness, our feeling of being blessed on these kinds of material things that don't necessarily lead us to God.

When our needs are met, one really doesn't need God. Usually one comes to God when one is in the middle of a problem, one always comes to God to ask for things: Lord guide me, Lord help me, Lord bless me and when we are telling him to bless us we do not have in mind that he forgive us, we want to may he bless us by giving us something that perhaps will accommodate us a little.

I am not saying that material goods are bad, not at all, I think so, that a house, a car, a job, a study, all these things are blessings from God, but the deeper meaning of God's blessing is not understood. it stays there, it is deeper, it goes much further than that, and that is why perhaps people who do not have a house, do not have a car, do not have things feel deeply grateful to God because they feel blessed to know that God is with them and that their happiness does not depend on these things.

In the New Testament in the Bible there are 112 references to the words bless, blessing, blessed and the interesting thing is that none of these biblical quotes talks about material prosperity. I'm going to read some passages quickly, you don't have to look them up, but just so you can see more or less what this is about.

In Matthew in the passage of the beatitudes Jesus is saying to all the people who were present: Blessed, the word blessed is supposed to mean blessed, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, blessed are those who mourn, blessed are those who suffer persecution because of justice, blessed are you when you are reproached for My sake” there is no reference to material possessions.

Look what Luke says: “Blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it”, okay? so one is blessed. In Romans 4 the apostle Paul says: "Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered." Paul is quoting in the New Testament the passage from Psalm 32 that we just read and we are going to talk about it a little later, see what James says: "Blessed is the man who endures temptation" and in Revelation he talks about: “Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on”, “Blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the Lamb”.

In none of these passages in the Old or New Testament is there an indication that blessing is necessarily connected with material prosperity or with perfect circumstances in life, on the contrary, one sees that here the Lord is saying that blessed, blessed, happy are these people who suffer because of the Gospel, are the people who cling to the Lord in any circumstance. Being blessed refers to those people who receive God's favor and grace despite their life circumstances.

In David's case, his joy was not found in knowing that he had been forgiven by God even when he did not deserve it and perhaps, I think that we should develop an understanding that material blessings are good but they are temporary, they are things who stay here

The Bible tells us that in the midst of these circumstances, the difficult circumstances of life, we can be blessed and the poor can experience these things. A healthy family, material prosperity and good health are wonderful gifts for which we can thank God and we should thank God for these things but these are not the main blessings of God, God wants us to delight in the knowledge that we have been forgiven.

In verse 1: "Blessed is he whose transgression has been forgiven and his sin covered." The reality is that all these things that surround us, a good job, a house, a car, those things can change at any moment. You can have the best job in the world but if your health fails you stop working.

How many of us know people who at some point in their life were fine, had all their stuff covered? Perhaps many of us, before coming to this country, enjoyed good titles where we were and when we came here we suddenly found ourselves cleaning floors or washing bathrooms, doing things that have nothing to do with what one did in one's country, that does not mean that one is not blessed because the blessing of God is not contained in a job or in a social condition, the blessing of God stays with one wherever one goes regardless of what one is doing, so we have to base our stuff on it.

Now, David says: "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven" what does the word transgression mean? The word transgression is a synonym for rebellion and sin, so he is saying: Blessed is he whose rebellion, whose sin has been forgiven.

A definition of transgression says that it is a violation of a precept, a law or a statute, it is a transgression that one does intentionally breaking the law, which is what he did; he knew that what he was going to do with this woman was not right. He knew that trying to fix the situation by having this woman's husband killed he knew that it was even worse and he still did it, and what was the result? that he had no peace in his heart until he confessed his sins and experienced the power of God.

Psalm 32, as I said before, is a Psalm to which the Apostle Paul in the New Testament refers. When the Apostle Paul in Romans chapter 4 says: "Blessed are those whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered" he is quoting this Psalm 32, and he is speaking of the Old Testament highlighting that King David was an example of a person who had been justified through faith and not through works; he is saying: God's forgiveness is not earned by the good things one does.

David, he didn't try to do good and say: okay, how am I going to fix this situation? I am going to give money to the poor, I am going to help the family of the Lord that I killed, I am going to do this, no, he did not leave with that, he simply asked God for forgiveness and the justification is found in that, not in the works that one can do, because otherwise the people who had more money could cover their sins distributing money, doing charitable works, doing all the time of good, but it is not about that, it is about simply coming humiliated before the Presence of God.

Paul reminds us that we too can have this experience of God's forgiveness if we humble ourselves. Now, knowing that true blessings are found in God's forgiveness, that God wants to forgive each one of us, our task is to keep this in mind and remember it.

Since the Old Testament God has made himself known to His children as a God who wants to forgive them because He knows that we are going to continue failing, while we are here on Earth we are going to continue failing, with our words, with our deeds, let's go to fail, God is aware of that but He wants to forgive us.

Look what He said to Moses when he was handing him over. You remember when God gave the ten commandments to the people, right? the tables, which Moses lowered and then found a disaster in the town, he broke the tables and then raised new laws for the people again as a second chance, look what Moses said regarding the character of God at that time, he He said in Exodus: "Jehovah, Jehovah, strong, merciful and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in mercy and truth, keeping mercy on thousands, forgiving iniquity, rebellion and sin" this was the character of God, This is how Moses knew God, this is how God made himself known to all people in Israel, and this is how God wants to make himself known to us. More than as a God who wants to give us material blessings, he wants us to recognize him as a God who is great in mercy.

David considered himself blessed because he knew that the Lord had forgiven him and God's forgiveness is not something we should take lightly but I believe that we do take it lightly, we do not meditate on the greatness of God's forgiveness and when we do not meditate on the greatness of God's forgiveness in our lives, our walk with God becomes a cheap grace that is a grace that we take for granted and simply do what we do because we know that God forgives us and no longer we are sorry for God's forgiveness.

We have gotten used to the fact that we have been forgiven and it is as if we should not even thank God for this, this is why it is easy for us to fall for gossip, a little white lie, steal the pens from the office, there are like minor things that one does daily because one simply feels forgiven by God and it's not something like that big, and we only thank God when God gives us material things, but when was the last time you sat at home to Thank God not for a raise, not for clothes, not for your health, but for the fact that God has forgiven you? It is very easy to thank God when God gets us out of a problem but it is very difficult to remember where God has gotten us from spiritually.

Sometimes we believe that the fact that one day we made the prayer of faith and we converted, we forgive ourselves is enough and that's it, we don't have to think about it anymore, but I think that God does want us to keep in mind that He He forgave us, yes, saved by His grace but it is a constant thing because daily we fail.

I want to read a passage in Luke chapter 7 verse 36 that illustrates a little the attitude of two characters regarding God's forgiveness in their lives. If you can go with me to the Book of Luke chapter 7 verse 33, I'm going to try to illustrate what I'm trying to say with this story, okay look what it says here, this is the story of a sinner who anointed the feet of Jesus.

It says: "One of the Pharisees asked Jesus to eat with him" he invited him to his house, the Pharisees were the religious leaders, and he says: "and having entered the Pharisee's house he sat down at the table, then a woman of the city that was sinful when it knew that Jesus was at the table in the Pharisee's house brought an alabaster jar with perfume, and standing behind Him at His feet crying, it began to water His feet with tears and wiped them with her hair, and kissed His feet, and anointed them with this perfume; When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself: if he were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman it is that is touching him, that she is a sinner.”

“Then answering Jesus said to him: Simon, I have something to tell you, and he said: oh! say teacher; A creditor had two debtors, the one owed him five hundred denarii and the other fifty, and not having the means to pay, he forgave both of them, tell me which of them will love him more."

“Responding Simon said: I think that he to whom he forgave more; And He said to him: Rightly you have judged, and turning to the woman he said to Simon: Do you see this woman? I entered your house and you did not give me water for my feet, but she has watered my feet with tears and wiped them with her hair. You did not kiss me, but since I came in she has not stopped kissing my feet, you have not anointed my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfume, for which I tell you that her many sins are forgiven her because she loved much, but He to whom little is forgiven, loves little. And to her he said: your sins are forgiven you.”

This story to me is an illustration of a grateful heart that recognizes that it has been forgiven and wants to express its gratitude to God. For this woman, knowing that she could go before Jesus and kiss his feet, she did not mind perhaps spending all her savings on this alabaster jar, kissing God's feet, anointing them with her tears, but nevertheless the Pharisee she knew the Scripture, that he walked upright before God when he saw Jesus as if he was not moved, as if nothing was wrong with him because he was already saved, and he did not even think about his sins and I think that many of us behave like that at times; The more time we spend in the Gospel we think that we already know everything, yes, God saves us, God loves us, this is what that is and we no longer have the need to prostrate ourselves before the feet of Jesus Christ.

That is why you are generally new people in the Gospel who are the people who break the most, the people who come the most because for them it is fresh in their mind: wow God forgave me my sins, this is something great, this is something that this cannot be taken lightly, this is something that cannot be taken for granted and they are the people who are willing to go and seek that moment of intimacy with God, and this is what Jesus is saying to these people in this chart. Now, when one realizes how sinful we are and how much God has forgiven us, we have no choice but to simply prostrate ourselves before the Lord and thank Him for forgiving us.

Let's go back to our passage in Psalm 32, look at what verse 2 says: “Blessed is he whose transgression has been forgiven and his sin covered, blessed is the man to whom the Lord does not impute iniquity and in whose spirit there is no deceit. ” The word deceit here refers to those people who try to deceive God by covering their sins and at the same time deceive themselves, and deceive the people around them, they are people who are neutralized in realizing that they they live in sin and it doesn't even affect them anymore, and they live a life where they deceive themselves.

David tried to deceive himself by not confessing his sins before God, the people did not know what David had done but he knew and God did know, and it is very interesting that David knowing that God is omniscient, that God knows everything He knows it, yet he felt the need to confess his sins.

He could have said: well God knows that I did this but He knows my heart, He knows that I am sorry, I move on and nothing has happened, but no, he did not experience God's peace and forgiveness until he confessed with his mouth what he had done.

Look what he said in verse 3: "While I kept silent my bones grew old in my groaning all day." Here we see the loss of vitality in the force, the loss of inner peace that David had and perhaps that was one of the ways that the Lord was trying to use so that David would then come to himself and say: it is that I have to confess my sins

There are people who think that sometimes God allows trials to come into our lives because we are very comfortable, because we are not spending enough time in prayer so the Lord says: Very well let me send you something else so that you remember that you have to depend on me and not from your own strength, from your own achievements.

Look at what verse 5 says: "I declared my sin to you" in other words, I recognized, right? I recognized my sin, "and I did not hide my iniquity, I said: I will confess my wickedness to the Lord and You forgave the wickedness of my sin." We are blessed when we confess our sins and decide to walk in integrity before God and before men.

We are blessed when we refuse to live fooling ourselves and what do I mean by fooling ourselves? Each one of us knows what he struggles with, we all have different struggles. Perhaps for some it is: I like gossip because it entertains me and I am not hurting anyone with it, you have a problem with lying or greed, or pride, they are light things that perhaps one sees as very normal but more than that things maybe there are other darker sins that you have in your life and you know what they are.

How does one live deceiving oneself when one fails to acknowledge those sins and bring them before God in confession and repentance? It is often easy for us to surround ourselves with people who rejoice in our achievements, with people who support us in everything, with people who perhaps when you share your struggles with them try to cover the sun with a finger and tell you: look no. Don't worry about that, it's not that big of a deal, but I think that we should surround ourselves with people who enjoy our achievements and our things more than ask the difficult questions and tell us: how is your relationship with God? When was the last time you prostrated yourself before God and thanked him because he forgave you, or when was the last time you prostrated yourself before God to ask forgiveness for your sins?

No one asks those kinds of questions. Usually one: oh, they gave you a car, a promotion! Oh, when do we go around, when do we go to your house? but rarely do people say: okay, when are we going to your house and are we going to pray for you? We are going to bless your house, these are things that we have to think about.

David acknowledged his sin and God forgave him the iniquity of his sin. Verse 1 when he talks about confessing: "Confession means affirming our intention to abandon sin so that we can follow God faithfully." Confession has to do with repentance, it is not simply confessing sin simply by verbalizing and externalizing it. When one confesses sin one needs to give up that sin.

Look what the Bible says in First John 1:19, it says: "If we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness" this is in the New Testament. Look, let's see verses 8, 9 and 10 of First John, look at what First John 8, 9 and 10 says: "If we say that we have no sins, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us, if we confess our sins He is faithful and just to forgive our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. IF we say that we have not sinned, we make Him a liar and His Word is not in us.”

Confessing sin is supposed to free us for us to enjoy a more intimate fellowship with God, a relationship with God without any shame, no need to feel ashamed.

Some Christians don't understand how confession of sins works, they feel guilty and confess their sins over and over again and find it difficult to accept God's forgiveness in their lives. Some Christians believe that God forgives them when they confess but that if they at some point die with a sin without having been confessed, they are going to get lost, these people do not understand that God wants to forgive us, that God allowed His Son to die in the cross so that He could offer us that forgiveness, He used God in our place so that He could offer us this forgiveness.

We don't need to confess all the sins of our past over and over again and we don't need to fear that God will reject us if we don't keep our lives perfect before Him. I think many people don't come to God's ways because we sell a image that one must be perfect to be within a Church, that one cannot sin, that one cannot fail and that is a lie. What differentiates us from sinful people outside the Church is that we are repentant sinners, just like them, they are sinners, we are sinners, the difference is that we have repented and they perhaps need to repent, and we don't we can be a hindrance by pretending that our lives are perfect, that we no longer need forgiveness. We have to be vulnerable and let people know: I am just as sinful as you are, the difference between you and me is that I come before God and I try to ask God for forgiveness, and I try to change, because it is not just apologize out loud.

True confession involves a commitment to stop sinning. When King David confessed and repented of this sin he did not do it again. He said: I never go back to bed with a woman who is not my wife, what I have done is serious, I have to repent and get out of it, and that is the principle that we must follow. When we confess any sin we must try not to do it again whatever it is.

When we confess our sins we are doing three things, number one: we are agreeing with God that we are going to turn away from those things, number two: we are making sure to bring these things before God and number three: we are acknowledging our tendency to sin and we are forced to depend on the power of God.

When one confesses one's sins to God one is not acknowledging it but one is saying: Lord help me not to do it again, and we have to pay attention to the small things because perhaps you say: I am not an adulterous man, I am not him unfaithful to my wife, I don't steal, I haven't killed anyone, okay but what about those comments that one makes week after week criticizing other people? that is gossip, that does not please God.

When was the last time you regretted talking about someone behind their back? And if you regretted doing those things, did you fall into the same thing again a few months later or are you trying not to fall into the same thing again? When was the last time you regretted having those conversations that don't build?

The point of repentance and confession of sins is that one realizes what one is doing wrong and one tries to change, because if one does not try to change it is useless to repent.

Look at what it says in verse 6: "For this every saint shall pray to You in the time in which you may be found", the word "for this" shows us that it is a lesson for every saint, every Christian regarding the need to offer confessional prayers at the time when God can be found, when can God be found? now, at any time one can come before God and offer prayers of repentance, this was what King David was sharing.

When King David wrote Psalm 32 he was in an audience with other people and he was declaring that he felt blessed, he felt grateful that God had forgiven him and he was encouraging people to confess their sins to him. God, not necessarily in a public audience but with God and that they try to repent, and that they change their way of being.

I think what we can learn from King David in this psalm is that David recognized his sin and his tendency to do evil. He recognized that sin was a rebellion against God himself because he knew he shouldn't do certain things and yet he did them. I believe that this is why David is recognized in the Bible as the man closest to God's heart because David's lips did not tremble to confess his sins before God, to prostrate himself before God.

David was a strong man who did not need anything but nevertheless when he was with God He humbled himself and said: I am Your son, I am nothing and that is the way things are, he spoke openly with God, many times we we say: ah but it is that God knows, God knows, yes, God knows but He wants to talk to you.

For those of you who are parents, maybe you can relate to this when you know your child has done something and you kind of wait to see if your child is going to tell you, and the child acts crazy or acts crazy and you: When are you going to tell me, when are you going to tell me? how do you feel when your son finally comes and tells you what he did, what is his impulse? Your first impulse may not be to punish him, it is to forgive him, but perhaps you say: well, but I have to correct it because there are consequences, and this is what God did with King David. The child who was the fruit of that act died, okay? God forgave him but his son died, sin brings consequences.

When one repents, God forgives us and one can be sure that God forgives us and it is like someone who says: clean slate, but there may be consequences of what one does. The good thing about walking in Christ is that we do not face the consequences alone, we face the consequences with God, and He says: I will punish you but I will be with you, that is what God told Moses.

When God was calling Moses out He did not tell him: Everything will go well for you, He did not tell him everything will go wrong, He told him: I will be with you, if things go well for you I will be with you , if things go wrong for you I will be with you.

Today we are going to celebrate the sacrament, communion and I want us to take the sacrament today in a different way. I want to invite the ushers to get ready and to distribute the elements of the sacrament and I am going to ask Pastor Samuel to help us as well, but I want us to take a few minutes where you are in your seat to think and reflect on the things that we have done this week or perhaps in the last few months that we have not yet taken the time to bring before God.

When we take the sacrament we are supposed to be reflecting on what God has done in our lives and I want today as King David went before God, prostrated himself and confessed his sins that we confess our sins too, in silence there where you are, before God before taking the sacrament, and I invite you not to do this today and not do it again, I invite you to do this, try to do this weekly at home.

Each one of us knows what you are struggling with, no one knows your heart better than you and God, but it is that heart that God wants to approach in the silence of your heart, in the silence of your home, He wants you to come before God week after week and tell him: Lord forgive me, help me to change the things that I need to change, that we can confess our sins so that we can say as David said: blessed, happy is he whose transgression has been forgiven and his sins covered, who we can experience that joy that God forgives us no matter what one does.

Perhaps for David having committed adultery and having murdered a man was the greatest thing and he said: I do not have forgiveness from God, but he prostrated himself before God regardless and asked for forgiveness, and God forgave him, then brothers: no There is such a big sin that God does not want to forgive us, He simply wants us to come before Him, open our hearts, ask for forgiveness and ask for His help to change what we need to change.

And if you are here today and you have not yet had time to make that prayer of faith to ask the Lord to come into your life, to forgive you, to help you change so that you can start living in a different way and go from the group of unrepentant sinners to the group of repentant sinners, I invite you to say that prayer there in your seat, it is something between you and God, and if you say that prayer later you can find me or anyone from the Pastors, to the ushers, to anyone in this Church and tell them: I want to start living in a different way, I want to start a new life with Christ, how can I start to do that? Christian life is a life that is lived in community, not to judge each other but to help us get closer to God every day.