1-31-2016 weekly message

Meditation of the week: Psalms 51:1-19

Main scripture: Psalms 26:1-12

Subject: The spiritual prayer pleased by God

           King David was chastened by the LORD God, for he killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and took his wife to be his wife; the sword never departed from his house. Afterward, upon hearing the message of the sin committed by him from prophet Nathan, he made a prayer of repentance as cutting his bones saying:

“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.

Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.

For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me….. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. …. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.

Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.”(Ps. 51:1-3,5,9-11)

             The days when David lived were under the law of God. In the heart of man, there were thirteen different kinds of evil thoughts as Jesus said unto the Pharisees such as evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. When David understood, he committed adulteries, fornication, theft and murder at one time without any consideration, he had become to understand that he was conceived in sin in his mother’s womb.

              At that time, the LORD God anointed with his Spirit unto the prophet and kin as David so that they may be able to do Lord’s work. The LORD God took away his Spirit from Saul, the first king of Israel, for he not repented his sin. he was possessed by the evil spirit afterwards. Remembering the case of king Saul, he might ask the LORD not to take away the Holy Spirit from him. He also asked the LORD to cleanse him from his sin, and to create a clean heart within him, and to renew a right spirit in him.

                  After wards, he served the LORD God with all his heart no more sinning at all as testified by the LORD God:

“Because David did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.”(1King 15:5)

                In the Spirit of God, he made supplication asking the ministry that shall be done by the Lord Jesus Christ, the Messiah of Israel as well as the Savior of the world a thousand years later. Of this, Apostle Paul testified unto the Hebrews how the prayer of David had been fulfilled unto them:

“But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.

For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead , and works to serve the living God?

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.”(Heb. 9:11-15)

               Yeah! As David asked the LORD God with sincere repentance, the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ shed through his death took away the sin of the world(John 1:29), and his blood purifies all sins in the conscience of them that believe, and create a clean heart within them. Apostle Paul testified unto the saints of Ephesians saying, they were sealed with the Holy Ghost so that the Spirit may not leave them at all until the day of Christ when they are to be clothed with immortal as well as incorruptible body:

“In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”(Eph. 1:13-14)

               After sincere repentance, David was able to do right things before God for his whole life. In the same manner, the born again Christians who repent to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and receive the remission of sins also could do right things before God through the dwelling of the Holy Ghost within them. In the prayer of David done after repentance, we are able to find his totally changed life. Searching his prayer, we may be blessed though examining ourselves.

                He began to pray unto the LORD to judge him of his faithfulness trusting in him thoroughly. He also spoke unto God not to slide anymore. Yeah! We should be able to ask the Lord to judge our behaviors.

              He also asked the LORD to examine him, and to prove him; and try his reins and his heart. As iron is to be hard, he also wanted to make his heart strong through the trial done by God.

                He spoke unto to God of his life walking in his truth; and he attributed all things to his lovingkindness. Apostle Paul testified unto the saints in Rome saying the children of God are led by the Spirit of God(Rom. 8:14). In other word, he was talking about them that walk according to the truth spoken by the Holy Ghost. Apostle John also spoke unto the children of God saying,

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”(3John 1:4)

                 David spoke of his blessed life saying, I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with dissemblers, and have hated the congregation of evil doers; and will not sit with the wicked. As the blessed in the first chapter of Psalms, he did not walk in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful (Ps 1:1).

               He always published with the voice of thanksgiving unto the LORD God telling of all the wondrous works of the LORD. In the other psalm, he testified of the wondrous thing to be done by God in the future saying, “As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.”(Ps. 17:15)

Through the Holy Ghost, he testified of the mystery for himself that shall be changed as the Lord Jesus Christ when he appears in the day of Christ. Apostle John also testified of this mystery:

“Behold, what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.”(1John 3;1-3)

             Apostle Paul made the same testimony as John in the Holy Ghost:

“Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.”(Phil. 3:21)

“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”(1Cor. 13:12)

             David spoke unto the LORD saying, he has loved the habitation of his house, and the place where his honor dwells. Since the Holy Ghost came to the earth in the name of Jesus, and built the church of God, the house of God is the body of Christian first of all. Apostle Paul testified of this mysterious truth:

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.”(1Cor. 6:19-20)

               Then, where is the place where the glory of God dwells in this age? The glory of God is presented where the Lord Jesus Christ is presented. Apostle John testified of the glory of the only begotten Son of God:

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.”(John 1:14)

             The Lord Jesus Christ of the glory of God testified of the place where he shall be in the world saying, “For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.”(Matt. 18:20)

Yeah! Whenever we gather together in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ in worship service or bible study, the Holy Ghost which came in the name of the Lord Jesus appears in the glory, and give us the spirit of wisdom and revelation, and enlighten our eyes of understanding.

And he will forgives our sins upon our confession, and comfort in the midst of our tribulation, and strengthen our infirmities. David confessed that he loved such kinds of time. We are to be blessed through loving such time in the congregation of the church.

             David concluded his prayer saying his foot stands in an even place in the midst of doing right things blessing the LORD in the congregations. We also shall be able to stand in the even place with peace blessing the Lord Jesus with rejoice with the congregations in the church. Amen! Hallelujah!