Understanding the importance of acknowledging and confessing sin to God.
Recognizing the dangers of downplaying or watering down sin.
The need to confront and deal with sin in order to have a cleansed heart.
The love and forgiveness of God towards sinners and His desire for us to confess our sins.
Baptist Church Daily Devotional. Sorry this was running a little late, but I think anytime we can share the gospel, we should share the gospel. Today's message is dealing with sin. And a lot of times dealing with sin is tough. And we're going to be in Psalms chapter 32 and to bring you today's sermon, our daily devotion. So if you have your Bibles, you can turn there. But I'll read a couple of verses and we'll go right into our daily devotional. So let me start with prayer and then we'll begin. Dear Heavenly Father, I just thank you so much, Lord, for your ways, Lord, and what you teach us, Lord. Lord, I ask you, Lord, to forgive me my ways, my sins, Lord. And I ask you, Lord, to cleanse my heart. I ask you, Lord, to bless this message to those that are listening, Father. I ask you, Lord, to be with them that are sick and inflicted, Lord, that you would bless them and heal them. We ask you, Lord, to just watch over everybody that is listening to me, Lord. I just pray, Lord, that they would have a beautiful day and a beautiful blessing out of this message that we're going to be sharing. In Christ's name we pray. Amen. So, like I said, we're going to be in Psalms 32 today. So, let me read here. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord impudeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guilt, guile. While I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my rotting all the day long. For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me, my moisture is turned into drought of summer. I acknowledge my sin unto thee and my iniquity have I not hid I said I will confess my transgressions unto thee Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin For this shall everyone that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found. Surely in the floods of the great waters they shall not come and nigh unto him. Thou art my hiding place. Thou shalt preserve me from trouble. Thou shalt come past me about with songs of deliverance. I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go. I will guide thee with mine eye. but ye not as the horse or as the mule which have no understanding whose mouth must be held with a bit and a bridle least thou cometh near unto thee many sorrows shall be to the wicked But he that trusteth in the Lord, mercy shall compass him about. Be glad in the Lord and rejoice, ye righteous, and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart. So, it is good to confess our sins to the Lord. And we tend to live in a time that we water our sins down. We call it mistakes. We call it not sin. we just kind of like live in a time in a period that we don want to cause him what it is so I got got a message here that I wanted to talk to you about today and that is, calling sin, sin. You know, don't change the name of it. And I've got some literature here that I've been reading on today. It was from Billy Graham. and it's called Poisonous Frank. It says, Many years ago, a distinguished Methodist minister was preaching on sin. Some deacons approached him afterward and said, We don't want you to talk so plainly about sin. If you do, our people will easily become sinners. cause their sin mistakes if you will, but do not call their mistakes sin. The minister picked up a small bottle and showed it to the group of deacons. The bottle was clearly marked poison. would you like me to change the label the minister asked I can mark the cyanide is this essence or turn it into a thing of peppermint to make you feel better but if you take it you will still die Now, don't you see that the milder you make the label, the more dangerous you make the poison? Talking about sin does not make someone a sinner. The truth is that the last one of us is born in sin. And while some may not think of themselves as sinners, God does. He hears every word we utter and knows the deepest secrets we lock away in the vaults of our hearts The Bible says that God knows the secrets of our hearts And that is in Psalms chapter 44 verse 21 But he loves sinners more than we love sin. and that is why he sacrificed his only son to pay the penalty for mankind's sin which is dead. It was the ultimate sacrifice the righteous blood that flowed from the veins of our Savior of the world. No one loves. No one loved is greater than that. so don't change the name of sin, sin's going to be sin, and he was going on through there like what's going on in the world today far as you know like war situations, it's sin because if you think about it somebody's, it's power, it's pride somebody wants more power somebody wants more money sin You take the drug cartel, right? It's sin. It ain't nothing else. No news is in our multimedia out and about in the news right now. Whatever's bad, it's sin. It's all over the world. so don't change the name of it because it ain't going away when you do change the name of it just like that minister said you could change the label on the poisonous bottle but what's inside still poisons and it's still going to kill you so take what you have in your heart and confess it to God and deal with sin the way you should deal with the sin so that way your heart can be cleansed when you ask for forgiveness. So I hope this message has helped you today, and we'll end in prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, we just thank you so much for this daily devotional, Lord, from brighterdaybaptistchurch.com. We just thank you so much that we have a lot of listeners, Lord, and we just ask you, Lord, to just bless them. I hope they have a great day. In Christ's name we pray. Amen. Thank you.
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