David – Adultery, Depression, and Forgiveness – Purity 1089

 

David – Adultery, Depression, and Forgiveness – Purity
1089

Purity 1089 07/08/2023 Purity 1089 Podcast

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Good morning,

Today’s photo of a pair of wooden lounge chairs on
the shores of Canandaigua Lake at sunset comes to us from Lisa Warner who
shared this tranquil scene on social media back of June 26^th.  

Well, It’s Saturday and I chose today’s photo because
it just says “Summer” and “Relax” to me and it is my prayer that all who see or
hear today’s message will find some time this weekend to kick back and relax
and enjoy the summer season, weather permitting of course.  In my neck of the woods, I would say that
today is the day to enjoy the great outdoors because it is forecasted to be
sunny and 83 degees, whereas tomorrow’s forecast predicts thunderstorms with a
71% chance of rain.  So siege the day and
when you do take a moment to thank God for the life that you have and the
things you find joy in.   

I wilmyself am sure to get a few walks along a
country road today. My canine friend, Harley, will insist upon it, and have
plans to see a matinee showing of “The Sound of Freedom” but other than that, I’m
not sure where the day will take me but where ever I go I will try to find the
good in it and thank God for it because I know that our experience of joy has
as much to do with our out look on life as it does with the things we see and
experience.   So keep walking and talking
with God and have a great weekend wherever you go.  

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Today’s
Bible verse comes to us from “The Quick Scripture Reference for Counseling” By
John G. Kruis.

(
While Bible verses on various topics of Counseling can be found with a quick
google search, we encourage you to purchase this resource to support the late
author’s work. (https://www.amazon.com/Quick-Scripture-Reference-Counseling-Kruis-ebook/dp/B00CIUJZT2?ref_=ast_author_dp )

This
morning’s meditation verses come from the section on Adultery:

Psalm 32:1-11 (ESV)
¹ Blessed is the one whose
transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
²  Blessed is the man against
whom the LORD counts no iniquity, and
in whose spirit there is no deceit.
³  For when I kept silent,
my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.
⁴  For day and night your hand
was heavy upon me; my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
⁵  I acknowledged my sin to
you, and I did not cover my iniquity; I said, “I will confess my transgressions
to the LORD,” and you forgave the
iniquity of my sin. Selah
⁶  Therefore let everyone
who is godly offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found; surely in the
rush of great waters, they shall not reach him.
⁷  You are a hiding place for
me; you preserve me from trouble; you surround me with shouts of deliverance.
Selah
⁸  I will instruct you and
teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
⁹  Be not like a horse or a
mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it
will not stay near you.
¹⁰  Many are the sorrows of
the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD.
¹¹  Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and
shout for joy, all you upright in heart!

Today’s verses fall under
the 9^th and 11^th point of our counseling reference guide
resource’s section on adultery, 9. “David was depressed before he confessed his
sin of adultery” and 11. “David confessed his sin of adultery, and God
graciously forgave him.   

I have presented the above
passage of scripture with verses 3- in bold because those verses were offered
by themselves to support our resources 9^th point on adultery “David
was depressed before he confessed his sin of adultery” and I was prepared to
just present those isolated verses this morning. 

But after I realized that
our resource references all of Psalm 32 as a support of the fact that “David
confessed his sin of adultery, and God graciously forgave him.”  I decided to share the entire Psalm to kill
two birds with one stone and would cover both points that this passage addresses
in the area of adultery – the fact that this lustful sin can cause depression and
that even though it is on God’s top ten list of things not to do and was a sin
that was to be punished by the deaths of both parties who committed it (Lev
20:10), it is a sin that can be forgiven.  

Even our entertainment
industry and society glorifies “affairs” as exciting and sexy and emphasizes
how extramarital relationships can make one feel powerful and satisfied, honest
portrayals of adultery will show the depression that results from giving in to
this temptation.  

Adultery not only brings
the guilt and shame of breaking one’s marriage covenant, it also can cause one
to be depressed over their personal compromise, the poor state of their
marriage relationship that led to this sin, and the fact that the adulterous relationship
is not sustainable and leads to heartache and brokenness.  

Depression is a natural
consequence of adultery because it is acting against God’s guidance for a good and
holy life that He intends for us to have. Adultery should depress us because it
is a sin against ourselves, the other person in the affair, one’s spouse, and God.  Adultery’s promises of pleasure always results
in pain. 

The pain of adultery can
cause one to harden their hearts but hopefully it would cause one to seek
forgiveness and as David wrote in Psalm 32 – the Lord will forgive the inquity
of our sin when we acknowledge it and confess our transgressions to the Lord.  God is gracious to forgive us our sins when
we confess them repent of them, and put our faith in Jesus.  

Adultery is a sin that
leads to pain and depression but the good news is that it can be forgiven. So
if you or someone you know has fallen into the sin of adultery, don’t persist
in your guilt, shame, and depression, confess it to the Lord, repent of it, and
feel the joy of the upright in heart who decide to trust in and to follow the
Lord in Spirit and in Truth.

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As always, I invite all to go to mt4christ.org where I
always share insights from prominent Christian theologians and counselors to
assist my brothers and sisters in Christ with their walk.

Today we continue sharing from  The Holy Spirit By A.W. Pink.

As always, I share this information for educational
purposes and encourage you all to purchase A.W. Pink’s books for your own
private study and to support his work.  This resource is available online
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A.W. Pink’s The Holy Spirit

12 – The Spirit Enlightening

Enlightenment
Follows Quickening

“Darkness was upon the face of the deep”
(Gen. 1:2)—fallen man’s state by nature. “And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters” (Gen. 1:2)—adumbrating His initial work of quickening. “And
God said, Let there be light, and there was light” (Gen. 1:3). Natural light
was the first thing produced in the making of the world, and spiritual light is
the first thing given at the new creation: “But God, who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the
knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor. 4:6). This
Divine light shining into the mind, occasions new apprehensions of what is presented before it. Hitherto the
favored subject of it had heard much about Christ: “by the hearing of the ear,”
but now his eye sees Him (Job 42:5):
he clearly apprehends a transcendent excellence in Him, an extreme necessity of
Him, a complete sufficiency in Him.

“In Thy light shall
we see light” (Ps. 36:9). This is of what spiritual illumination consists. It
is not a mere informing of the mind, or communication of intellectual
knowledge, but an experimental and efficacious consciousness of the reality and
nature of Divine and spiritual things. It is capacitating the mind to see sin in
its real hideousness and heinousness, and to perceive “the beauty of holiness” (Ps. 96:9) so as to fall heartily in love with
it. It is a spiritual light super-added to all the innate conceptions of the
human mind, which is so pure and elevated that it is entirely beyond the power
of the natural man to reach unto. It is something which the natural heart
cannot even conceive of, but the knowledge of which is communicated by the
Spirit’s enlightenment (1 Cor. 2:9, 10).

A dead man can
neither see nor hear: true alike naturally and spiritually. There must be life before there can be perception: the
Spirit must quicken the soul before it is capable of discerning and being
affected by Divine things in a spiritual way. We say “in a spiritual way,” because even a blind man may obtain an accurate
idea of objects which his eye has never beheld; even so the unregenerate may
acquire a natural knowledge of Divine things. But there is a far greater
difference between an unregenerate man’s knowledge of Divine things—no matter
how orthodox and Scriptural be his views—and the knowledge possessed by the
regenerate, than there is between a blind man’s conception of a gorgeous sunset
and what it would appear to him were sight communicated and he were permitted
to gaze upon one for himself. It is not merely that the once-blind man would
have a more correct conception of the Creator’s handiwork, but the effect produced upon him would be
such as words could not describe.

The Spirit’s
quickening of the dead soul into newness of life lays the foundation for all
His consequent operations. Once the soul is made the recipient of spiritual
life, all its faculties are capacitated unto spiritual exercises: the
understanding to perceive spiritually, the conscience to feel spiritually, the
affections to move spiritually, and the will to act spiritually. Originally,
God formed man’s body out of the dust of the ground, and it then existed as a
complete organism, being endowed with a full set of organs and members; but it
was not until God “breathed into” him the “breath of life” (Gen. 2:7) that Adam was able to move and act. In like
manner, the soul of the natural man is vested with all these faculties which
distinguish him from the beasts, but it is not until the Spirit quickens him that he is capable of
discerning and being affected by Divine things in a spiritual way.

Once the Spirit has
brought one of God’s dead elect on to resurrection ground, He proceeds to
illumine him. The light of God now shines upon him, and the previously-blind
soul, having been Divinely empowered to see, is able to receive that light. The Spirit’s enlightenment commences
immediately after quickening, continues throughout the Christian’s life, and is
consummated in glory: “The path of the just is as the shining light, that
shineth more and more unto the
perfect day” (Prov. 4:18). As we stated in a previous chapter, this spiritual
enlightenment is not a mere informing of the mind or communication of spiritual
knowledge, but is an experimental and efficacious consciousness of the Truth.
It is that which is spoken of in 1 John 2:20, 27, “But ye have an unction from the Holy One, and ye know all things … But the anointing which ye have received of
Him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you.”^[1]

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