Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon
Morning and Evening with Charles Spurgeon

April 7 | Evening

3 min
•Apr 7, 202612 days ago
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Summary

Charles Spurgeon delivers a devotional reflection on Psalm 51:14, examining David's confession of sin regarding Bathsheba and Uriah. The episode emphasizes the importance of honest acknowledgment of sin, genuine contrition, and the assurance of God's forgiveness through Jesus Christ.

Insights
  • Authentic confession requires naming sins honestly rather than using euphemisms or minimizing language
  • Genuine repentance involves both verbal acknowledgment and sincere emotional contrition of heart
  • God's role as 'God of salvation' provides assurance that forgiveness is available to those who genuinely seek it
  • True gratitude for forgiveness naturally overflows into praise and worship
Companies
Crossway
Production company that produces the Morning and Evening podcast series
People
Charles Spurgeon
Delivers devotional commentary on Psalm 51:14 and themes of confession and forgiveness
Quotes
"Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins."
Charles Spurgeon
"What God sees them to be, that you should work to feel them to be, and with an honest open heart acknowledge their real character."
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"The 51st Psalm is the photograph of a contrite spirit."
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"Who can mute their praise in light of such a mercy as this?"
Charles Spurgeon
Full Transcript
April 7th evening Deliver me from blood-guiltiness, O God, O God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing aloud of Your righteousness. Psalm 51 verse 14 In this solemn confession, it is helpful to observe that David plainly names his sin. He does not call it manslaughter, or speak of it as an imprudence by which an unfortunate accident occurred to a worthy man, but he calls it by its true name, blood-guiltiness. He did not actually kill the husband of Bathsheba, but still it was planned in David's heart that Uriah should die, and David was before the Lord responsible for his murder. Learn in confession to be honest with God. Do not give fair names to foul sins. Call them what you will. They will smell no sweeter. What God sees them to be, that you should work to feel them to be, and with an honest open heart acknowledge their real character. Observe that David was evidently oppressed with the heinousness of his sin. It is easy to use words, but it is difficult to feel their meaning. The 51st Psalm is the photograph of a contrite spirit. Let us seek to display the same brokenness of heart, because no matter how excellent our words may be, if our heart is not conscious of the held deservingness of sin, we cannot expect to find forgiveness. Our text has in it an earnest prayer. It is addressed to the God of salvation. It is his prerogative to forgive. It is his very name and office to save those who seek his face. Better still, the text calls him the God of my salvation. We bless his name, in that while we are still going to him through Jesus' blood, we may rejoice in the God of our salvation. The psalmist ends with a commendable vow. If God will deliver him, he will sing. Actually, he will sing aloud. Who can mute their praise in light of such a mercy as this? But note the subject of the Psalm. Your righteousness. We must sing of the finished work of a precious Savior, and the one who knows this forgiving love the best will sing the loudest of us all. This has been Morning and Evening, a production of Crossway.