Broken

- Pastor Rusty - Oct. 22, 2024

“1Have mercy on me,a O God,

according to your steadfast love;

according to your abundant mercy

blot out my transgressions.

2Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity

and cleanse me from my sin!

3For I know my transgressions,

and my sin is ever before me.

4Against 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.

5Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,

and in sin did my mother conceive me.

6Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,

and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.

7Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;

wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

8Let me hear joy and gladness;

let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

9Hide your face from my sins,

and blot out all my iniquity

10Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and renew a rightb spirit within me.

11Cast me not away from your presence,

and take not your Holy Spirit from me.

12Restore to me the joy of your salvation,

and uphold me with a willing spirit.

13Then I will teach transgressors your ways,

and sinners will return to you.

14Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,

O God of my salvation,

and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.

15O Lord, open my lips,

and my mouth will declare your praise.

16For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;

you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.

17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;

a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

18Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;

build up the walls of Jerusalem;

19then will you delight in right sacrifices,

in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;

then bulls will be offered on your altar.” Psa. 51

King David wrote this psalm after Nathan the prophet confronts him about his adulterous relationship with Bathsheba and the subsequent murder of Uriah her husband. “Then David confessed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan replied, “Yes, but the LORD has forgiven you, and you won’t die for this sin.” 2 Sam. 12:13 NLT. The guilt and shame of his sin must have been eating David up. Without a doubt the prophet loved the king and no doubt was angry with him for these actions. The prophet had said, “Thou art the man!” When David confessed to Nathan that he had sinned against the LORD, Nathan tells him that the Lord had already forgiven him.🤔 This has always stood out to me. Most translations simply render that “the LORD has put away your sin.” I believe this is why in the 51st Psalm, David never asks for forgiveness.🤔 He believed the prophet when he told him the LORD had forgiven him. But what he did ask for was to be cleansed, washed, purged, have a new heart created within him, renew a right spirit, don’t remove me from your presence, take not your Holy Spirit from me, restore the joy of your salvation, uphold me, and deliver me from bloodguiltiness (because of Uriah). Then he declares that he will not offer sacrifices for his sins (this is a biggy considering this is the Old Testament), but rather a broken heart and contrition would be his sacrifice.

Sometimes forgiveness is not what your looking for but rather a deep cleanse.🤔 “Purge me with hyssop and I will be clean, wash me and I will be whiter than snow.” Hyssop was used in the rite of cleansing for lepers (Lev. 14). Don’t let anyone rob you from brokenness. It seems that modern christianity is hell bent on destroying the basic Christian experience of simply being broken.🧐

I had a dream. And in that dream I was standing outside of Clay Nash’s house at Eagles nest there in Arkansas. Clay Nash was there along with Tim Snider, Chuck Davis and a few others. There was a wall about ten feet high running the full length of the property on the west side. There was a double steel door in the wall that was painted primer red. It stood open and people that were on the other side of the wall were pour through the opening. I recognized two of them, they were family members on my dad’s side of the family tree. One of them had passed many years ago. A voice said to me, “redeem your family bloodline.” And I woke up. Since then, I have experienced some unusual encounters in prayer. In one prayer session I was taken in the spirit up high and was looking over the hills to the south of Branson towards Arkansas. I began to see words written in bold letters rising up over the hills. They were the words, Adultery, Murder, Hatred, Violence, and others. I could tell these had gone back hundreds of years. I began to weep and repent for my bloodline's role in these things. This has happened on different occasions now. One well meaning Christian thought to help me seeing that I was broken over these things by sharing how I wasn’t supposed to be torn up over this. But I thought don’t rob me of this, this is an assignment I didn’t choose but I will indeed carry it and fulfill it to the best of my abilities. You may choose the shallow end experiential pool of Christendom, but for heaven’s sake don’t try to rob me with shallow theology of limited experience.

“Father, if indeed your heart can be broken, then indeed break our hearts with the things that break yours. Allow us to feel your brokenness as well. In Jesus name Amen!” Pastor Rusty

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