Salmos 51

Salmos 51

Trapp - “To my great grief and regret, my conscience twitteth me with it, and the devil layeth it in my dish.” Sin [02403] (Chattat/chattath) means miss the mark or to fall short of the divine standard; to err and wander. It means wrong, iniquity, sin. Chattat, like it's NT counterpart (hamartia), means to miss or fall short of the mark, which ultimately is the will and plan of God as revealed in Scripture. Sin is whatever misses the will of God for man doctrinally or morally. The result of chattat/chattah is that man misses the goal God has for him by failing to observe the requirements of holy living and thus falls short of spiritual wholeness. We are all sinners. We all miss the mark, and none of us are perfect nor will we ever be perfect in this life. This is why Christ had to die for our sin so we might have His righteousness (see 2Cor 5:21). Chattat can be an offense against man (1Sa 20:1 Ps 59:3, Ge 31:36 which also has word pesha') but more often represents an offense against God, and is found mainly in the historical and prophetical literature. It is interesting that even pagan Pharaoh recognized his sin against Jehovah and against Moses (Ex 10:16 where sinned = verb chata, 02398), and ask Moses to intercede with God to "remove this death from me." (Ex 10:17) We get a word picture of the meaning of miss the mark by the use of the related verb chata' (02398) in Judges 20:16 where we read that "Out of all these people 700 choice men were left-handed; each one could sling a stone at a hair and not miss (Lxx = examartano [ex + hamartano] means to miss one's aim, to err, to sin.)." The Hebrew verb chata is used 221v in in OT and is translated "sin" 55x and "sinned" 87x (First use = Ge 20:6, 9). In a different context, chata is used in Pr 19:2 to describe a man in a hurry who “misses his way” (Pr 19:2ESV) Chattat is translated by the Lxx here iwith the noun hamartia which describes a departure from doing what is right, especially as it relates to God's standard of righteousness. Just Like David - The elderly woman didn’t like the way her pastor prayed each Sunday morning, so she told him. It bothered her that before he preached he would confess to God that he had sinned the week before. “Pastor,” she said, “I don’t like to think my pastor sins.” We’d like to believe that our spiritual leaders don’t sin, but reality tells us that no Christian is exempt from the burdens of the sinful nature. Paul told the believers at Colosse to “put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature” (Col 3:5NIV). The problem is that sometimes we don’t do that. We yield to temptation, and we’re left with a mess. But we are not left helpless. We have a pattern to follow for restoration. That pattern comes from the heart and pen of King David, whose sin demonstrated the sad consequences of succumbing to temptation. Look closely at Psalm 51 as David owned up to his sin. First, he flung himself at God’s feet, pleading for mercy, acknowledging his sin, and trusting in God’s judgment (Ps 51:1-6). Next, he sought cleansing from the One who forgives and wipes the slate clean (Ps 51:7-9). Finally, David asked for restoration with the Holy Spirit’s help (Ps 51:10-12). Our sinful ways can sap our joy And isolate us from the Lord; Confession and repentance, though, Provide the way to be restored. —Sper Repentance clears the way for us to walk with God. Call it Sin - A professional baseball player was suspended from the team when the coach learned that he was addicted to cocaine. He told reporters that his drug abuse wasn’t his fault; he had the disease of chemical dependency. This approach is understandable— even if it is inaccurate. Some people may indeed have a genetic predisposition to addiction, but we aren’t facing our problem if we won’t accept responsibility for the choices we’ve made. It’s easier to say, “I’m sick,” than it is to say, “I’m wrong.” That’s the trouble. What may appear at first to be the easiest way out may eventually leave us in a worse condition. Unless we acknowledge that a problem may also be rooted in a sinful choice we’ve made, we will never enjoy the healing we can receive by being forgiven. On the other hand, if we are willing to admit that we did wrong—that we sinned—we can be forgiven by God and by others. By admitting that we have failed, we qualify for the spiritual deliverance that only God can give, and this is a vital part of our healing. Jesus died to pay sin's debt, Forgiveness to bestow; But if we try to make excuse, His grace we'll never know. —DJD If you make an excuse for sin, your sin won't be excused. Psalm 51:4 Against You, You only, I have sinned And done what is evil in Your sight, So that You are justified when You speak And blameless when You judge. BGT Psalm 50:6 σοὶ μόνῳ ἥμαρτον καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιόν σου ἐποίησα ὅπως ἂν δικαιωθῇς ἐν τοῖς λόγοις σου καὶ νικήσῃς ἐν τῷ κρίνεσθαί σε LXE Psalm 51:4 Against thee only have I sinned, and done evil before thee: that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged. KJV Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. NET Psalm 51:4 Against you– you above all– I have sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. So you are just when you confront me; you are right when you condemn me. CSB Psalm 51:4 Against You-- You alone-- I have sinned and done this evil in Your sight. So You are right when You pass sentence; You are blameless when You judge. ESV Psalm 51:4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment. NIV Psalm 51:4 Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are proved right when you speak and justified when you judge. NLT Psalm 51:4 Against you, and you alone, have I sinned; I have done what is evil in your sight. You will be proved right in what you say, and your judgment against me is just. NRS Psalm 51:4 Against you, you alone, have I sinned, and done what is evil in your sight, so that you are justified in your sentence and blameless when you pass judgment. NJB Psalm 51:4 Against you, you alone, I have sinned, I have done what you see to be wrong, that you may show your saving justice when you pass sentence, and your victory may appear when you give judgement, NAB Psalm 51:6 Against you alone have I sinned; I have done such evil in your sight That you are just in your sentence, blameless when you condemn. YLT Psalm 51:4 Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned, And done the evil thing in Thine eyes, So that Thou art righteous in Thy words, Thou art pure in Thy judging. GWN Psalm 51:4 I have sinned against you, especially you. I have done what you consider evil. So you hand down justice when you speak, and you are blameless when you judge. BBE Psalm 51:4 Against you, you only, have I done wrong, working that which is evil in your eyes; so that your words may be seen to be right, and you may be clear when you are judging. RSV Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done that which is evil in thy sight, so that thou art justified in thy sentence and blameless in thy judgment. NKJ Psalm 51:4 Against You, You only, have I sinned, And done this evil in Your sight-- That You may be found just when You speak, And blameless when You judge. ASV Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, And done that which is evil in thy sight; That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, And be clear when thou judgest. DBY Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done what is evil in thy sight; that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, be clear when thou judgest. BHT Psalm 51:6 lükä lübaDDükä Hä†ä´tî wühära` Bü`ênʺkä `äSîºtî lüma`an TicDaq Büdobreºkä TizKè büšop†eºkä NIRV Psalm 51:4 You are the one I've really sinned against. I've done what is evil in your sight. So you are right when you sentence me. You are fair when you judge me. RWB Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. WEB Psalm 51:4 Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done {this} evil in thy sight: that thou mayest be justified when thou speakest, {and} be clear when thou judgest. Against: Ge 9:6 Ge 20:6 Ge 39:9 Lev 5:19 Lev 6:2-7 2Sa 12:9,10,13,14 Jas 2:9,11 evil: Ge 38:7 2Ki 17:17 21:6 Lu 15:21 thou: Ps 50:4,6 Lu 7:29 Ro 3:4 when: Ac 17:31 Ro 2:5 Rev 15:3,4 16:5 Rev 19:11 Ps 19 Related Passage: 2 Samuel 11:27 When the time of mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house and she became his wife; then she bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD. EVERY SIN IS AGAINST GOD'S HOLINESS! Against You, You only, I have sinned Yes he had sinned against Bathsheba, Uriah, their families, his family, his kingdom, and in a sense even against his own body (1Co 6:18+), but even when the wickedness is perpetrated against someone else, the act is ultimately rebellion against God’s commands. In 2 Samuel 12:13a+ " David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” When David says "you only", which sounds somewhat exclusive, what is the idea he is conveying, because David clearly sinned against Bathsheba and Uriah? Even when a sin is perpetrated against someone else, the act is in the final analysis rebellion against God’s laws and instructions. (Leviticus 5:21). A son...is brokenhearted in that he has broken the heart of God. -- Adrian Rogers Adrian Rogers says SIN "soils the souls. It saturates the mind. And here is the third thing it does: It stings the conscience. Look in Ps 51:4: “Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in Thy sight.” (Psalm 51:4) Now here David is conscience-stricken. Here David is not crying out against the punisher. He’s crying out against the sin.....If all you’re afraid of is the punishment for your sin, I doubt that you’ve been saved. If you’re a child of God, when you sin, you don’t weep primarily because you’re going to get punished. You weep primarily because you have disgraced your God. “Against thee, thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight.” “O God, I’m so ashamed. I sinned against you. Not only, God, did I break your law; I broke your heart.” (ED: SEE DEVOTIONAL BELOW) You see, that’s the difference between a slave and a son. A slave, when he disobeys, fears the whip, his master’s lash. But a son, when he disobeys, if he’s a loving son, fears his father’s displeasure. And he is brokenhearted that he has broken the heart of God. Does your sin bother you that way? When you sin, do you say, “O my God, my God, I sinned against you”? It stings the conscience. (See transcript - not exactly the same but close) THOUGHT - Does sin break your heart, after the passing pleasures have passed (Heb 11:25+)? Beloved, when what breaks God's heart, breaks your heart than you are well on your way to becoming a man or woman after God's own heart! Trust me, no tortures which the poets feign, Can match the fierce, the unutterable pain He feels, who night and day, devoid of rest, Carries his own accuser in his breast. JUVENAL Here David gives us a "working definition" of the heinousness of sin as that which is "anti-God"! Although it may seem basic, this truth is one which seems to have escaped so many of God's saints. We seem to forget He is holy so that even our "little" willful sins are big in light of His perfect holiness and hatred of sin. Although it is not popular to study the doctrine of sin, I would submit that there are few doctrines more needed by the modern evangelical church. As I have been discipling men using the sins in David's life (2Sa 11, 12), I have been amazed at their surprised reactions to the power of sin and the divine affront of their sin -- against a holy God Who sees every transgression, iniquity and sin. Nathan confronted David with the heart piercing rebuke that "You are the man!" and went on to rehearse the favor from God which David had come to take for granted and the punishment that God would allow because of His sin. As a result of this reproof, David's sense of guilt and conviction overwhelmed him and gave birth to his short but powerful and sincere confession… "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has taken away your sin; you shall not die. (2Sa 12:13) Kent Hughes Comments: The grand deterrent to Joseph’s sinning (Ge 39:9) was the awareness that God sees all and that a sin that no one knows about, committed behind locked doors in a dark room, is actually done in the presence of a holy God. Joseph believed this. And I am convinced that the personal realization and conviction of this truth is the strongest deterrent to sin that there is. King David invoked it after the horror of his own sin ravaged his soul: “For I know my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me. Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight” (Psalm 51:3, 4a). (Beginning and Blessing Preaching the Word) Derek Kidner comments on David's self-abased outlook "Notice the immense contrast here to the self-absorbed outlook of 2 Samuel, where David’s only question was, in effect, ‘How do I cover my tracks?’ Now it is, ‘How could I treat God so?’ His complete acceptance of God’s verdict (Ps 51:4b) is matched in the New Testament by the penitent thief (Luke 23:41) (Borrow Psalms 1-72 : an introduction and commentary) Roe - David goes right back and points out that his basic sin was against God. Why would that be true? Why is it that any sin , no matter what, is essentially against God? That is true for Christians. But even for non-Christians sin is still against God. What determines if something is sin? Who is the standard of sin? God. Anything that is less than God's character or violates God's will or in any way his creative order is sinful, whether society recognizes it or not. God did not design a sinful world, "...As through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned.." [Rom 5:12] is the Scripture. God designed a world that was perfect [at least in the endemic area] and was to be perfect through the creative and responsible ruling of man as he went out in God's power to carry out God's assignment. So when we sin we violate God's moral order. When we sin, we deliberately tell god, "Stick it in your ear." So true confession does what? What did it do here? David confessed for the purpose that God might be what, "...justified when Thou dost speak, and blameless when Thou dost judge." True repentance says, "You are right and I am wrong. Whatever you choose to do, you are right. You are just." False repentance justifies me. We rationalize, "You really shouldn't punish me totally, God. I am an Irishman. A violent temper goes with my race. We are known for tempers, for getting in fights. That is just part of me." or "I have a strong sensual nature, God, and you shouldn't blame me for Bathsheba. I am a Latin Jew." Rationalization does not justify God, it justifies me, "You don't have the right to punish me all the way, God. It wasn't really all my fault." On the other hand, true repentance says, "Against Thee, Thee only, I have sinned...and done what is evil in Thy sight." In that way I am choosing to justify God instead of myself. When I justify myself, I am not asking God to forgive my sin, I am asking him to excuse it. I can find no place in all of Scripture where God has made provision for excusing sin. However, there is total provision for forgiveness of sin. So God is not being mean and trying to win the argument when he demands that you justify him. That is the only way to forgiveness. Spurgeon…Against thee, thee only have I sinned. The virus of sin lies in its opposition to God: the psalmist's sense of sin towards others rather tended to increase the force of this feeling of sin against God. All his wrong doing centered, culminated, and came to a climax, at the foot of the divine throne. To injure our fellow men is sin, mainly because in so doing we violate the law of God. The penitent's heart was so filled with a sense of the wrong done to the Lord himself, that all other confession was swallowed up in a broken hearted acknowledgment of offence against him. (Psalm 51) And done what is evil in Your sight - This must have been a painful declaration to make, recounting that the all-seeing God had watched his evil deed with Bathsheba and against Uriah! Proverbs 15:3 says "The eyes of the LORD are in every place, Watching the evil and the good." Hebrews 4:13 says "there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with Whom we have to (give an account)." THOUGHT- Oh, to be able to keep the truth of this passage at the forefront of our mind the next time we are sorely tempted to sin against our loving Father! Amen.