The poet prayed for forgiveness again, which shows his inner desire for forgiveness; He specifically mentioned hyssop-although David was not satisfied with external miracles and didn't trust them, he knew that all the etiquette of the law had its important purpose; Sacrifice is a sign of God's grace. Therefore, David is eager to seek evidence of reconciliation with God. So do we. When our faith is weak and unstable, we should seek confirmation from God. What David is praying for here is nothing more than what God will eventually achieve in his life, and it is the essence he points to through external etiquette in front of the church and the people. He set an example for us to learn from. There is no doubt that the precious blood of Christ is what we hope to atone for; However, we are creatures with senses. We look with our eyes and lift with our hands. Only through the comfort of external signs can we get it completely and accurately. Therefore, the hyssop in the Bible is what we call the symbol of the law, which means that our sins are washed away and we are pleased by God. Of course, it goes without saying that the special job of the Holy Spirit is to work in our inner conscience through the blood of Christ, so as to wash away our sins and bring us to the throne of God.
Please make me listen to the sound of joy and joy, so that all the bones you have crushed can rejoice. Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my sins. 8. Let me hear happiness and joy; The bones you crushed will also rejoice. 9. Please hide your face from my sins and blot out all my sins.
In the next two verses, the poet continues to pray for God's comfort. Some people think that the sound of joy refers to praying to send prophets to confirm that their sins are forgiven, which is too narrow; David's prayer is only to seek general confirmation and to know that God has forgiven him. When he talks about his crushed bones, he means that his pain is extremely great and has been greatly reduced now. God's joy revived his soul; He heard the sound of joy, because only God's Word can start to make sinners' hearts beat happily. Without God's promise, any peace is false or unreliable. Some people may be able to get rid of the fear of conscience temporarily on their own, but they are still far from real inner comfort. Even if someone feels safe in numbness, anyone who truly fears God will never be satisfied with this state. The joy that David seeks comes from listening to God's word, because in his word, God promises to forgive our sins and rejoice for us-no matter what fear, danger or pressure believers are in on earth, only his word is the support for believers to move forward, because the spirit of joy will be accompanied by confidence. Verse 9 says, please hide your face from our sins, which means that he has forgiven this sin-the following scripture explains it this way: blot out all my sins. This shows that god is willing to forget our sins, and his judgment comes from his willingness to do so; This also shows that our sins have been purified from precious forgiveness. David repeated this point, and so did we, which shows that David repeatedly prayed for God's mercy because his original grief was so great that the forgiveness he wanted was extremely disproportionate to his sin. If a person prays for forgiveness of sins only as a formality, it means that he doesn't know the terrible crime. Solomon said, "blessed are those who always fear;" If the heart is hard, it will be in trouble. " (Proverbs 28: 14)
Some people will ask, since David learned from Nathan that his sins have been forgiven (2 Sam. 12: 13), why did he resign and pray so urgently? Why didn't he believe Nathan's forgiveness? Or did David provoke God to anger again and not believe the prophet? We know that God will not send angels to tell us the result when asking for forgiveness, as we ask. Didn't Christ say that the sins of the disciples are forgiven (John 20: 23)? Didn't the apostles claim that they were the messengers of Christ and asked us to make peace with God for Christ (2 Cor. 5: 20)? Some people think that David seems suspicious here and lacks confidence in Nathan's statement. There are two explanations for this difficult problem. One explanation is that we can't think that Nathan immediately let David know that God is willing to make peace with him. We know that things recorded in the Bible are not necessarily in strict chronological order; It is very likely that God kept David in the pain of sin for a long time and made him more humble. When David cried out in the poem, there may be no evidence of forgiveness. Another explanation is that David was greatly comforted by the prophet's announcement, but this did not prevent him from reviewing his sins from time to time and thinking of the crown of grace again. No matter how much generous and free mercy God gives us, from our point of view, we should always think about how our actions humiliated God's name and grieve for it. When our faith is weak, we can't fully understand God's mercy for a while. Therefore, it is not surprising that David prayed to God for forgiveness again and again. In fact, unless we are sure that God is reconciled with us, we cannot properly pray for forgiveness. Who can come before God without knowing his father's love? Obviously, because our faith in God's grace is not continuous, our first request is always forgiveness, and we keep asking his forgiveness. To prove this, Calvin quoted the Lord's prayer. The Lord's prayer begins with calling God our father, followed by forgiving our sins and debts. God's forgiveness of sin is complete; However, our faith does not always fully accept his kindness. We always accept it bit by bit. This is because our faith is not firm and we always repeat some prayers; We pray this way, not because we believe that it will gradually soften God's heart and give sympathy, but because the process of obtaining evidence is difficult and slow. David specifically mentioned hyssop here to wash our sins. We should understand that every prayer for forgiveness should directly lead to the sacrifice of Christ, who reconciled us with God. Paul said, "Without bloodshed, there is no forgiveness of sins. (Hebrews 9: 22) "In the Old Testament, all these prophecies point to the future Christ. If sinners want to seek mercy, they must look to Christ who washed away the sins of the dead; At the same time, faith is confirmed by baptism and communion; It is futile to gain God's pleasure, because his imagination can't satisfy his justice, the judge of the whole earth.
10 God, please create a clean heart for me and restore an upright spirit in me. 1 1 Don't abandon me, let me leave your face; Don't take back your holy spirit from me. 12 Please keep me happy and give me a willing spirit to support me. 10. God, please make a pure heart for me! And renew the correct spirit in my heart. 1 1. Don't throw me away from you, and don't take back your holy spirit from me. 12. Please make me regain the joy of your salvation and give me the spirit of freedom to support me.
David prayed to God to forgive his sins and restore the grace of the Holy Spirit. These two kinds of prayers are separate, but sometimes they are intertwined. Themes range from forgiveness of sins to sanctification; David naturally prayed earnestly because he realized that he had lost the grace of the Holy Spirit-in fact, to a great extent, he did. David used the word "creation" to show that he knew that nothing could change him except miracles, and repentance was a gift from God. Sphists believes that people need the help of the gods, and people need the help of grace before and after repentance; However, they left the middle ground to people's free will, and they took away the glory of God. David described what God did here as renewing people's hearts in a supernatural way-summed up as new creation.
David regained the Holy Spirit, and he prayed that God would renew him with an upright spirit. Genesis shows that David admits that we are completely blessed by God-whether we are born for the first time or fall and rebuild later. What he said is not only that our hearts are so weak and need God's help, but also that people must be United with God in order to maintain their pure piety. To prove our complete corruption-otherwise, David would not use the words "give" and "make" here to describe it.
In the next few verses, David made the same prayer and linked forgiveness of sins with enjoying the Holy Spirit. If God makes peace with us, he will lead us to be accepted by the Holy Spirit again. This is his love for his children and blesses them with his own spirit; David showed in his prayers that he felt this love and prayed that he would continue to be accepted by the Holy Spirit. This passage shows that even though many blessings are vague for a while, he has never been completely lost. This also proves that David has never completely lost his former glory, although it seems that he has lost the credibility that a king should have, that is, he did not enforce religious etiquette according to the law and restricted personal behavior. He once fell into numbness and lethargy, but he didn't "have an evil heart" (Luo. 1: 28). Obviously, the words of the prophet Nathan gave David a blow easily, because his spiritual piety was not completely lost. It is true that he needs renewal when he prays, but his understanding of the word renewal has boundaries. An important truth that we are insisting on now is related to this-many people rashly hold a wrong view that voters will completely lose the Holy Spirit because of their deadly crimes, thus being isolated from God-in fact, the opposite is true: Peter clearly tells us, "You are not born again because of the seeds that can be corrupted. 1: 23)"; John also told us clearly that voters would be conservative (1 John 3: 9). No matter how they have lost contact with God, even if it seems that they have annihilated all the sparks, grace will surely rekindle in their spirit. This is not to say that David seems afraid that he will take back the Holy Spirit. For saints, when they fall into sin, they naturally think so, fearing that their actions will make them lose God's grace, and they are anxious about it. However, saints also have the responsibility to firmly believe that grace is an indestructible seed of God, and once planted in people's hearts, it will not be lost. This is what David expressed. Although he was temporarily afraid, because he was a child of God, he knew that what he got according to righteousness would not be lost, and he rested for it.
Save me from the joy of salvation-David can't restrain his sadness until he regains peace from God. David begged again and again, which is completely different from those who are trapped in sin but don't agree. The latter sentence "Give me a willing spirit to support me" corresponds to the former sentence "Don't take back your holy spirit from me"-the wording here is a bit vague, so some people think that the latter sentence refers to the holy spirit, while others think that it refers to people's emotional thoughts (David). Calvin made a Hebrew grammatical analysis here, thinking that it refers to people's emotional thoughts, not the Holy Spirit (although Calvin thinks that there is little difference between the two controversial views, which does not affect the meaning expressed in the scriptures). Another way of saying this is the translation of the word "freedom": Calvin tends to translate it into free, which means "dead liberal". Some people think that the spirit of freedom here should be translated into the will of the king; It is true that David is the king and should have such emotional will. However, Calvin believes that the scripture here should adopt the broad spirit of freedom, expressing that David experienced the burden of guilt after his conscience was bound, praying for joy and willingness (freedom? ) spirit. He knows that this priceless treasure can only be regained through the grace of God.
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Translator: Sisi