Title: Sacrifice with a Broken Heart
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Title: Sacrifice with a Broken Heart
Bible: Psalm 51:1-19
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Today, we would like to share a message with you under the title of “Sacrifice with a Broken Heart” through the words of this text.
When people suddenly run into some big problem, they experience that they can't do anything because they're broken.
But if we look at verse 17 of today's text,
“The sacrifices God seeks are a broken spirit,” he says.
People say that it is difficult to worship when their heart is broken, but God is saying that the sacrifice God wants is a sacrifice of a broken heart.
How can that be?
If you understand the words of today's text well, you can understand the reason.
Today's text is a poem confessed when the prophet Nathan came to rebuke David, the king of Israel, for having taken Uriah's wife Bathsheba.
The king of Israel, who was established according to God's will, is now being rebuked by God's messenger because he has sinned.
What is surprising, however, is that a king of the world would have hidden his faults and, rather, imprisoned those who rebuked him or placed them in the position of the lord. There is.
David's fear now is not because of his own sin.
What he fears now is the fear of losing the God who is his King, the fear that God will turn away from him, and the fear that God will leave him and forsake him.
It shows that we, who are saints, are not afraid of anything else.
Since the Lord is not disappearing, the Lord is turning away, the Lord is leaving and turning away, we find David fasting and praying a penitential prayer with tears.
Verse 16 of the main text expresses David's heart well.
“You are not pleased with sacrifices, otherwise I would have offered them. You have no pleasure in burnt offerings.”
For the people of Israel, sacrifice is like life.
But he says that God is not pleased with this sacrifice.
It is said that the most noble and beautiful thing is the burnt offering, which he is not pleased with.
Why?
It is to say that there is no meaning in committing a sin against God and worshiping buried in a form and frame without any repentance.
Therefore, by confessing his sins, David prays that God will not forsake him.
And it has the meaning of accepting the sacrifice as his heart toward God is broken with a broken heart.
But David realizes that the sacrifice that God really wants is a broken heart.
As in John 4:24, the command to offer sacrifices in spirit and in truth has the same meaning.
If we look at verse 17,
“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise”
In the joint translation, this verse is
“God, my offering is only a broken heart, and you do not despise a broken and broken heart.”
Also, in the new standard translation,
“The sacrifice God wants is a broken heart. A broken and trampled heart, God does not despise.”
In this way, the broken spirit, contrite spirit, torn heart, broken heart, broken heart, and crushed spirit all have the same meaning as mentioned in the three Bibles.
A broken heart is the original word for “nishebara,” which means “a heart of regret and mourning so as to break the heart.”
God is pleased with this kind of heart.
What pleases God is a broken heart, a broken heart, a contrite, repentant and humble heart, a thirsty heart, and a low heart.
Those who have this kind of heart are the ones who need the Lord.
Those who need the Lord, those who love the Lord, those who thirst for the Lord, this means that this person is qualified to offer sacrifices.
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So, what kind of person is a person with a broken heart?
First, a person with a broken heart is a person who longs for and thirsts for God.
The Bible calls a person who lacks God's grace and love a broken spirit and a contrite spirit.
Those who are thirsty and thirsty because of the lack of God's presence are those who have a broken heart.
Conversely, a heart without longing for God has no broken heart.
The so-called self-satisfied person.
They say to themselves, 'That's enough, this is enough.'
Such people are called “those who claim to be rich” in the book of Revelation.
The Apostle John, writing to the church in Laodicea, rebukes those who claim to be rich, neither cold nor hot.
And he rebukes them harshly.
This is Revelation 3:15-17.
“I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot; I want you to be cold or hot. Because you are so lukewarm and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth. 1 You say, I am rich and rich. You say you lack nothing, but you do not know that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind, and naked.”
A person who thirsts for God is a person who has a thirst for heart.
Those who dare to confess that they need the Lord.
That is why the psalmist confesses that he thirsts for the Lord as a thirsty deer seeks a brook.
The words of Psalm 42:1,
“As a deer longs for streams, so my soul longs for you, O God.”
In this way, we must become the saints who long for the Lord, and we must become the saints who long for the Lord.
If we become thirsty for ourselves and long for the Lord, the Lord will be pleased with our sacrifices.
Paul said in 1 Corinthians that longing for the Lord produces repentance that leads to salvation.
There are two kinds of anxiety.
There is a creative and vital sorrow, and there is a destructive and destructive sorrow.
Spiritual sorrow, that is, a heart that longs for the Lord as it becomes a broken heart by not longing for the Lord more produces life and salvation.
But worrying about not giving up on the lusts of the flesh is sorrow that leads to destruction.
“Those who have a broken heart and fervently long for the Lord are earnest, zealous, angry, and fearful.”
I hope that you will realize that we must long for God and have a longing spirit so that we can become saints who enjoy God's grace.
Second, a broken spirit is one who hungers and thirsts for righteousness.
In the Gospel of the Mount, the Lord said that blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness and will be satisfied.
What is the kingdom and righteousness of the Lord?
It can be called the word and work of the Lord.
Those who hunger and thirst for the Word, those who hunger and thirst for grace, those who hunger and thirst for the love of the Lord, those who hunger and thirst for work, and those who thirst for the holiness and purity of the Lord are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness.
What are we lacking?
We should not be the saints who care about the lack of things in the world, but we should lack the love and grace of the Lord.
You must be lacking in the word and work of the Lord.
It must be the lack of God's love and my love.
A person who lacks the grace and love of God is called a broken spirit in the Bible and a contrite spirit.
So the prophet Amos said that there would come a time of famine, when food and water were abundant, but the word of the Lord was not heard.
This is Amos 8:10.
“Behold, the days are coming, saith the Sovereign LORD, and I will send a famine upon the land, not a hunger for food, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord.”
Therefore, we must be thirsty for the righteousness of God.
A saint becomes a saint when he follows God's will.
In the name of the Lord, I ask that you not only become saints with your mouth, but also become saints who accomplish God's righteousness by following God's will.
Third, a broken spirit is a person with an inner wound.
He said that the Lord is near to those who have an inner wound.
According to Psalm 34:18,
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
Also, in Psalm 147:3,
“He who heals broken hearts and binds up broken wounds”
is recorded.
The Lord is merciful.
To have a wound means to have a lack, and that hungry soul is so much closer to God that it can be helped by God.
Rejoice if your past is stained with scars.
The Lord loves you more than anyone else.
The Lord comforts us and adds many graces to us.
The Lord loves the wounded especially.
A person with a broken heart is ready to receive grace.
It's because you're an empty soul, because you're a hungry soul.
The Lord pours out abundant grace and love on these needy souls.
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In today's text, David offers a prayer of repentance with tears in his eyes and repentance with fear and trembling that God might forsake him because of his transgression.
And, speaking of God, he confesses that he delights in sacrifices of a broken spirit like himself.
Rather than becoming wealthy ourselves, we must become more thirsty for God's grace, for people, and for mercy, and become saints who long for God's grace and love.
God rebukes those who claim to be rich because of ours, but God overshadows those who confess their needs and wants with abundant grace.
Today, I pray in the name of the Lord that the life of the precious saints will be filled with the full love of God in our thirsty hearts.