Sorry Not Sorry : week 4

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

Face The Music

Psalm 51

Week 4 word or phrase : Forgiveness

When you apologize you can't just throw a grenade like, "I'm sorry."

You must ask, "will you forgive me?"

That gives the power back to the person you're asking forgiveness from.

This Psalm that David wrote was written 20 years after Saul's death.

It's the time of year when the king goes to battle. David was the king, and he did not go out to battle.

David liked to take a lot of naps. So David was sleeping.

David was primed for disaster to strike.

This is where he sees Bathsheba bathing.

He couldn't help that he saw this, but the problem was that he gazed. 

Success has destroyed people that suffering has made stronger.

David's strength was he was passionate. David's weakness was that he was passionate. 

Bathsheba is pregnant.

Uriah is called home, in hopes that he will sleep with his wife and think the child is his.

Uriah refuses to go home. He slept on David's porch.

David decides to get Uriah drunk.

Uriah sleeps on the porch again.

David decides to have Uriah killed. 

Uriah carries his own note of execution to Joab. 

Joab sends Uriah and a team on the mission and they're all killed.

David marries Bathsheba. 

David thinks he's gotten away with what he did.

"The thing that David did displeased the Lord."

Your life can be a success on earth but a failure in Heaven at the same time.

Nathan is telling a story about a lamb being slaughtered.

David was a shepherd so this story made him upset.

David said, "the man shall surely die."

Nathan said, "you are the man."

David realized what Nathan was saying and said, "I have sinned."

He fully owned what he had done. 

There was no trace of blame being shifted.

Responsibility, regret, remedy : it was all there - Psalm 51

Psalm 32 was written after Psalm 51 

Four takeaway truths : 

1. Apologizing can be costly, but it's even more expensive not to.

There are consequences.

There's embarrassment.

There's a taking off of your mask.

We resist the urge to apologize to save face.

The price tag to not apologize is spendy.

"When I held this all in, my bones grew old." David

There is a physical cost to holding sin in.

The majority of doctor's visits are stress related.

There is an emotional toll of refusing to apologize.

Spiritually there is a cost.

It's better to have egg on your face than a kink in your soul.

2.  To see things clearly try your sorry on someone else.

Nathan knew there was a deceitfulness to sin.

We are really good at self-deception.

If we were to see it on someone else, wouldn't it look uglier?

Imagine someone else saying your apology to you.

When it comes out of us, we give ourselves a lot of slack.

3. Your past will haunt you until you let Jesus put it behind you.

David said, "my sin is always before me."

The only way to have a clean heart is to have a bent knee.

Ask God to forgive you & He will forgive you. 

Instead of running from our sin we must run to the One who can forgive us.

4. God wants to turn your sin into a song!

God can use your sin to bless others.

Your story can help others to not make the same mistakes!

God can turn your mistake into a melody.