I want you to turn to 2 Samuel
chapter 12.
I hope that visitors will not try to
judge O.M. on the basis of one
night.
After you read about twenty different pieces of
literature, ten books, and come to five conferences,
then you can evaluate what it's all about.
I'm not going to read about the sin
of David.
I think we all know the story.
He was up on the roof one day,
instead of being out in the battle, and
a very beautiful woman, Bathsheba, came out to
bathe on the other roof, and he saw
what he should not have seen, and he
fell into immorality with this woman.
He called Uriah back because he thought that
would cover up.
When you sin, the temptation that the devil
always brings is try to cover up.
The trouble is when you start covering up,
you'll find that later you may have to
cover up what you've covered up, and it
never ends.
You'll also find that sometimes it doesn't work,
and it didn't work because Uriah the Hittite
had no intention that night of even going
to bed with his own wife.
So he slept outside and went back to
battle.
David was frustrated in how frustrating sin can
be.
And so he sent the word that it
should be arranged for Uriah to be killed
in battle.
And everything went off according to schedule, a
fantastic plan.
And David thought he was free, and it
seemed he was free, except there was a
man named Nathan.
Nathan, one of those men who refused to
be a people pleaser, even a king pleaser,
who refused to keep his mouth shut when
it seemed so convenient to do so.
Nathan, a man fearless, a man who loved
his king, but who loved his God even
more.
And so we pick up in 2 Samuel
12, the scene where Nathan came to David.
Oh, how very, very careful he went about
his approach.
Notice the last word in chapter 11.
And when the morning was past, David sent
and fetched her, Bathsheba, to his house, and
she became his wife and bear him a
son.
It seemed so wonderful for David, everything he
dreamed about.
For him, that day, he had received everything
he wanted, everything he dreamed about, everything he
planned.
His life had become dominated by this one
lust.
And God had been laid aside, and this
one thing, this woman became the one dominant
thing in his life.
And he had her.
But there was one simple problem, and it
says right there in God's Word.
But the thing that David had done displeased
the Lord.
Oh, beloved, if you and I would only
realize that in the long run, the only
thing that really counts is to please God.
In the long run, at the end of
your life, the one thing that's going to
matter is whether you have pleased God or
not.
You know, God loved David.
Because he loved David, the very first verse
of chapter 12, God is in action.
Not Nathan, God.
Notice, and the Lord sent Nathan.
And tonight, God is wanting to send you.
God is looking for men, for women who
will be available, who will be accessible, who
will be fearless, and will go wherever he
wants them to go, even into the most
difficult situation you could dream of, to rebuke
a king.
I wonder how many Englishmen have ever sat
down and wrote a letter to their queen.
I almost did, and she's not my queen.
I wish she was, in some ways.
I can just see some of you penning
off a letter to the queen.
You probably wouldn't even know how to address
her.
There's a lot of Americans, unfortunately, who don't
even know where she lives.
There's some that are not even sure of
her name.
It's an embarrassing thing.
And so the Lord sent Nathan unto David.
And he came unto him and said unto
him, There were two men in one city,
the one was rich and the other poor.
See, he's telling a story.
And King David just falls into this trap,
as if he had never heard a story.
The rich man had exceeding many flocks and
herds, but the poor man had nothing, save
one hue lamb, which he had brought and
nourished up, and it grew up together with
him and with his children.
It did eat of his own meat and
drink of his own cup and lay in
his bosom, and was unto him as a
daughter.
There came a traveler unto the rich man,
and he spared to take of his own
flock and his own herd to dress for
the wayfaring man that was come unto him,
but took the poor man's lamb and dressed
it for the man that was come to
him.
Of course, I'm sure in a minute you
realize what he's talking about.
But David didn't.
He was probably too caught up with all
that had happened in those days.
David's anger was greatly kindled against the man.
He said to Nathan, as the Lord liveth,
the man that hath done this thing shall
surely die.
He literally brought the axe down upon his
own neck.
And he shall restore the lamb fourfold, because
he did this thing and because he had
no pity.
And I would say this must have been
one of the most tense and one of
the greatest moments ever recorded in the Bible.
David filled with anger, saying that this man
should be judged for what he did with
this lamb.
Nathan standing before him.
Then those powerful words come out in verse
7.
Nathan said to David, Thou art the man.
You can imagine the arrow that must have
sunk deep, deep into the soul of David
at that moment.
He was never the same again.
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I
anointed thee king over Israel.
I delivered thee out of the hand of
Saul.
And I gave thee thy master's house and
thy master's wives under thy bosom.
Gave thee the house of Israel and of
Judah.
And if that had more to little, I
would moreover have given unto thee such and
such things.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandments of the
Lord to do evil in his sight.
Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the
sword.
Thou hast taken his wife to be thy
wife.
And hast slain him with a sword of
the children of Ammon.
Now, therefore, the sword shall never depart from
thine house.
Because thou hast despised me.
And hast taken the wife of Uriah the
Hittite to be thy wife.
Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will raise
up evil against thee out of thine own
house.
And I will take thy wives before thine
eyes and give them unto thy neighbor.
And he shall lie with thy wives in
the sight of this sun.
For thou didst it secretly, But I will
do this thing before all Israel and before
the sun.
And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned
against the Lord.
And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also
hath put away thy sin.
Thou shalt not die, O beloved.
As many times as I've studied this passage
of Scripture, it rings like a great echo
into my soul.
We see this terrible sin of David.
We see that God condemned it, brought Nathan
to rebuke him and to bring him to
repentance.
Not to throw him out of the kingdom.
Not to knock him out.
But to bring him to repentance.
And though there was a reaping described in
verse 10 through 12, and often there is
reaping, I've been reading about Solomon and how
Solomon took the lives of some of the
other sons of David.
And all of you know the great story
of Absalom.
So much David did.
Yes, you as a believer can sin.
Corinthian believers, many of them were in sin.
But no believer can sin and get away
with it.
No believer can sin and get away with
it.
The Bible says, Whatsoever a man sows, he
shall reap.
Praise be to God for the reality of
instant repentance and the fruit that comes from
it.
And this is really the subject that's on
my heart tonight.
This great theme of repentance for the believer.
After all that God said, Nathan only uttered
six words.
That's all he said.
There was no groaning.
There was no self-pity.
There may have been involved.
But there were just six words.
I have sinned against the Lord.
And young person, if you would learn those
six words, it would revolutionize your life.
I have sinned against the Lord.
You'd think there'd be so much more he'd
have to do to get forgiveness.
Surely he would need some counseling.
Surely he would need to get some kind
of long-term self-pity penance program.
Maybe there's someone here that would say, Oh
my, didn't he visit a priest and, you
know, didn't he have confession?
No.
Just those six words.
I have sinned against the Lord.
Well, then you'd think Nathan would really come
in with a lecture.
This would be time for a lecture.
This would be time to really, you know,
really jab.
Yeah, you sinned, David.
That's right.
Boom, boom, boom.
Oh, I've seen evangelicals do that.
I know the elders that have done that.
You've sinned.
That's right.
We warned you.
No, we don't see that here.
We simply see these amazing words.
Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath
put away thy sin.
Thou shalt not die.
Immediately, the mercy of God breaks through like
a thunderclap.
The reason many Christians are defeated, the reason
many Christians are not living a victorious life,
is they've never known this truth in the
depth of their being.
Instant forgiveness.
Mercy.
Why, to me, it seems that mercy is
almost hovering over David, just waiting to fall
the moment he'll say the word, the moment
he'll let his heart break, the moment he'll
say, Lord, I'm guilty.
I've sinned.
A clap of God's mercy comes upon him.
Your sin's gone.
Beautiful.
Oh, so many messages we've heard here at
this conference.
So many challenges.
We feel beaten down.
We feel guilty.
Maybe after what Peter has said tonight, further
sinful areas have been revealed, maybe false motivation.
Someone came to me this morning with a
copy of my book, Pseudo-Discipleship.
Said he's read it through five times.
It's just about finished him.
He saw his false motives.
He was ready to go home, but he
broke through because he saw that God is
a God of mercy.
He's not here firstly tonight, our great God,
to hit you or to make you feel
guilty or to get you into the pit
of self-pity or to get you to
cry or to get you to just make
a whole series of vows or promises.
He's here because He wants to drop a
rain cloud of mercy on you if you'll
just admit that you've sinned, if you'll just
confess and repent.
And He is going to be ready to
do that every day this year.
And the blessing that God wants to give
you this year, every day, will be missed
if you don't learn what it is to
repent quickly, even quicker than David.
Because God now has given us someone greater
than Nathan, His Holy Spirit.
I'm sure I would be accused of typology
like no one else if I dared say
that Nathan was a type of the Holy
Spirit, so I won't say that.
But certainly it is the work of the
Holy Spirit today, since Pentecost, to convict of
sin.
And that's what Nathan did, and in short,
we know the Holy Spirit was present in
that day as well.
And you are going to discover, I believe,
after being at this conference and feeding on
the Word and hearing so many messages, that
that Nathan within you is going to be
stronger than ever before.
That's why OM is so dangerous.
It would have been better in some ways
that maybe you didn't come.
Because from now on, more than when you
came to this conference, you're going to feel
the conviction.
After all these messages, after getting into the
Word of God, after these discussion groups, after
all this fellowship, I believe you're going to
sense the convicting hand of the Spirit more
than ever in your life.
And if you don't understand this secret, it's
not a secret, it can undo you and
you'll just end up at the end of
this year more guilty, more beaten down than
you ever were.
Some of you have come to this conference
and you've been hearing the messages and they've
been going into your heart, but somehow because
you haven't understood the reality of repentance, the
reality of instant mercy, of God's love, His
willingness to forgive you immediately, completely, you're wallowing,
wallowing in guilt, wallowing in self-pity, wallowing
in human effort to overcome your failures.
You're gritting your teeth and you're saying, I'm
going to be a disciple at any cost.
I'm going to learn to claim souls.
I'm going to learn to do this and
to do that.
I'm going to become strong.
I'm going to be a disciple.
I'm going to learn a victorious life.
No, no, it's not the way.
The way is to get on your knees,
say, Lord God, I have sinned against thee.
Mercy.
I'm going to say something that's going to
shock some of you, contradict something I've said
a hundred times.
Here it is, I don't believe in a
victorious life.
I don't believe in a victorious life if
what you mean by that is that we
come to a level and then on it's,
oh, you know, victory, victory, victory, prayer life
and soul winning and no more falling into
the pit.
God has taken me on the abundant life.
No, I have never met anyone up there
who wasn't so loaded with pride he needed
to get down on his knees immediately.
I do believe in a victorious life if
by that you mean fellowship with the living
God, total cleansing from sin through the blood
of Christ and a life of growth which
includes knowing what to do when you sin.
And if your victorious life theory doesn't include
knowing what to do when you sin, then
you don't have anything.
You've got a dichotomy.
Do you know how to repent?
Have you repented of anything today?
No.
You mean you've gone all day and you
haven't sinned against the Lord, nothing against the
Lord, everything perfect, everything just fine, just like
Jesus all day long.
Is that the way you live today?
Oh, how I would love to get to
know you.
Certainly whoever marries you will be very fortunate.
No need for repentance.
The Bible says all have sinned and fallen
short of the glory of God and if
anything you've done today is short of that
standard, then you've fallen.
I have hardly known a day in my
Christian life when in one way or the
other I didn't have to repent.
It doesn't have to be a big fanfare.
It wasn't very big here.
Six words.
And I'm sure you can do it without
even pronouncing words verbally.
But I find that constantly during the day
I have to say, Lord, you're right, I
was wrong.
Forgive me.
An unkind word.
What do you do about it?
What do you do with unkind words?
The Bible condemns them.
What do you do about it?
Do you just pass them by, Oh, I
didn't mean that, Lord.
I didn't mean that, Lord.
Is that what David said?
Or do you say, Oh, well, Lord, you
know, that's me.
That's my temperament.
I'm glad you accept me that way, Lord.
Is that what David said?
His temperament was lust?
Beloved, I believe that most or many of
our problems come from the fact that we've
never learned this secret.
We've never learned to simply admit that we've
sinned, that we've failed the Lord.
The Lord also hath put away the sin.
Thou shalt not die.
We don't see this only in the life
of David.
We see the same thing in the life
of Isaiah.
When Isaiah had his command or his commission,
he had done no evil thing in particular.
You all know that in Isaiah 6.
He hadn't committed immorality.
He hadn't done some horrible thing.
And yet he prayed to God and when
God revealed Himself, he fell down and said,
Woe is me, a man of unclean lips.
He repented, just like David.
Many times, beloved, we need to repent.
Not because we have done some specific large
outward sin, but because with our mind and
our heart, we have sinned.
That doesn't mean temptation, but it means that
we've gone on from just being tempted to
playing with that sin.
Of course, the results were great.
There was no great discussion.
It just says in verse 14 here, Be
it because by this deed thou hast given
great occasion to the enemies of the Lord
to blaspheme, the child also that is born
unto thee shall surely die.
There was no discussion because in verse 15
it says, Nathan departed unto his house.
And the Lord struck the child that Uriah's
wife bare unto David and it was very
sick.
David therefore besought God for the child.
And David fasted and went in and lay
all night upon the earth.
The elders of his house arose and went
to him to raise him up from the
earth, but he would not.
Neither did he eat bread with them.
And it came to pass on the seventh
day that the child died.
Now I like this because it keeps the
balance.
Because some people think, well, if God is
so merciful and so forgiving, man, there's no
great problem if I do sin.
So when a big temptation comes in, the
devil tries to use that.
He thinks, well, boy, I really want to
do this.
And I know it's wrong, but I know
God will forgive me.
Look how he forgave David.
I would never want to go through what
David went through.
Seven days of torment, watching his little baby.
That meant so much to him, praying, fasting,
weeping.
Heavens were closed and when the reaping effect
of sin comes in, all the prayer in
all the earth will not move God.
And God is a God of judgment.
Do not think that in the New Testament
He does not judge sin.
I had a young couple many years ago
who came to repentance in one of my
meetings.
They were not married, but they had committed
immorality and they repented and they came to
Jesus Christ.
But that didn't stop the birth of the
baby and all the suffering they went through
as a young couple.
Sin is terrible.
And one of the reasons I believe we
need to keep such short accounts with God
in the area of our mind, in the
area of our heart, is because if you
keep short accounts, you'll never get where David
got.
Never!
So the work of God will not be
blasphemed because of something you did on your
team.
And it can happen.
I know a Christian youth work that was
wiped out of one city after another because
workers sinned as David sinned and the whole
work was brought into jeopardy and wiped out.
Wiped out!
But if you and I will keep short
accounts that whenever we sin with mind, whenever
we sin in the area of lack of
discipline, we'll never get where David was.
Never!
Where should David have repented?
Where?
Up on the roof!
If he had only repented on the roof,
none of this would ever happen.
God was ready to forgive him on the
roof.
Sure he had lusted, he had thought every
vile thing in his heart, but God was
waiting, wanting to forgive, but no, he had
only repented.
You see, David went one step further.
David went to a step that you should
never have to go to as a believer.
He had to be called forth and the
sin had to be pointed out to him
by a man.
He could have repented.
God must have been tugging at his heart,
of course.
But he hardened his heart.
He went further on and further on.
And so God had to send a prophet,
had to send Nathan to speak.
Now, we leaders in O.M. oftentimes are
very slow to speak.
And in this movement, you can get away
with murder.
You can break all the social rules.
You can go downtown.
You can slip out of here any night,
slip down, see a porno film and be
back here.
Nobody will know.
Don't think it ever happens.
I had a Bible school student come to
me, broke down and wept.
He said, I've been with prostitutes and homosexuals
almost every weekend in my Bible school, one
of the biggest schools in North America.
I want to tell you the hypocrisy in
the double life can go very, very deep.
And you could be sitting here tonight and
know that you're worse off than David was,
right here.
But oh, may you come to repentance before
you're caught.
Years ago, we had a man in O
.M. got in sin.
The Lord convicted him, but his heart was
hardened.
He thought he could get away with it.
But due to a whole series of events
that I can never explain, I ended up
right absolutely in the middle of that situation.
And he broke in two.
No, he repented.
He didn't really mean it and it was
all a big mess.
May God show us the danger of playing
around with sin, the danger of allowing a
sinful thought to go beyond the seconds in
your mind, the need for keeping a short
account when we look in Revelation.
We find this word repent again and again.
In chapter 2, remember therefore from whence thou
art fallen and repent and do thy first
works or else I will come unto thee
quickly and will remove thy candlestick out of
his place except thou repent.
And through all these letters, and I haven't
got time now, we find that word again
and again.
The letters to the churches.
Repent, repent, repent.
And Jesus once said, except you repent, you
shall likewise perish.
No, that seems to refer to the unconverted.
We know the principle is universal.
We know the same thing to the Laodicean
church.
What sin was God pointing out to the
Laodicean church?
Was it immorality or drunkenness?
No.
It was the sin of a lukewarm heart.
You say, what?
You mean I've got to repent because my
heart's lukewarm?
Do you know what you're saying, Mr. Burwer?
I have to repent all day.
Maybe so.
The word says pray without ceasing.
I find it difficult to come on prayer
to the Lord without some form of repentance,
some form of breaking.
I'm not interested in operation introspection.
But you know, David could have used a
little bit of introspection if he had, and
had applied what the Spirit told him he
would have never needed a visit of Nathan.
There's nothing wrong with taking a look within
if the Holy Spirit is pushing, if the
Holy Spirit is speaking.
But like Mary McChain said, for every one
look itself, ten looks at Jesus.
Instant, immediate repentance.
And so the Laodicean Christians were guilty of
lukewarmness.
They were also guilty of being increased with
goods, thinking they had a need of nothing.
And yet as it says in verse 17,
being wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.
What did God say?
Nineteen, as many as I love I rebuke,
and chasing be zealous therefore, and repent.
Repent.
Sometimes this repentance is purely a private thing.
Private sin, private repentance.
Sin involving a few, confession involving a few.
Public sin, public confession.
Unless it's something that is going to break
the rule of love, which is the rule
and the roof and the foundation of all
that we do.
Do you want to get through the OM
year?
Then learn to repent.
Having trouble in your marriage?
Anybody?
Not getting on so well in the home?
Did you base your marriage on this secret
of repenting immediately, instantly?
Oh, how hard that is in the marriage.
I remember in Italy under the intensive crusade
in 63.
My wife and I, some friction came.
Some unkind words came flying out of my
mouth.
Some unkind words came out of her mouth.
She went into one room, I went in
the other.
I said, Lord, if she comes to me,
faces up, I'll also admit that I was
wrong.
She was in the other room.
She said, Lord, I don't know exactly how
she said it, but the same principle.
If he comes and apologizes for that terrible
things he said, then I'll also admit it
was partly my mistake and we'll work this
thing out.
You could spend your whole life in those
rooms.
Is there anybody here tonight waiting for someone
to come to you?
There's been mutual sin, but you're waiting for
them to come to you.
You feel that they sinned more than you
did, so they should come to you.
No, no.
You go to them.
Maybe you'll bump noses in the hallway.
And I believe that if we don't learn
what it is to repent, we've had it.
Last week, last Thursday night, at this time,
every leader, every coordinator in this movement, some
of us flat on the floor, some with
tears, were repenting and crying out to mercy
for our sins against you.
And I believe that's the only reason God
has spared us as leaders.
We failed.
We've not been the leaders we should have
been.
We've not been the pace setters.
We've not set the pace in prayer and
evangelism, in loving you, in giving our lives
for you, and our only hope every year
is repentance.
A cloud of mercy came upon us.
And that's why we're back this week.
No other reason.
You haven't got a group of clever leaders.
You haven't got a group of dedicated leaders.
You haven't got a group of apostles.
You've got a group of sinners leading this
movement.
We've learned by His mercy to repent, to
seek His mercy daily, to repent when necessary
daily, if necessary hourly, if necessary every minute.
Oh, so many times I've had to go
to some brother and apologize, repent.
May God open our hearts.
May we learn to repent.
May we learn to repent quick.
The moment something happens, an unkind word on
your team, why wait till tomorrow?
Why wait till you feel better?
Why wait till you read the Bible?
Why wait till the whole thing gets spread
around the team and becomes an ugly situation?
Repent on the spot.
Say you're sorry.
That's what's kept my wife and I together
because we've never lasted in our separate rooms,
never more than ten minutes.
She's raced to me or I've raced to
her and we just put our arms around
each other and I said, look, I'm sorry.
I don't know why you ever married me.
I'm a miserable wretch.
I'm a sinner.
Forgive me, please.
And she cried and I cried and hallelujah,
the blessing.
How do you think leaders stay in this
movement together with me?
You ever try to be on my team
when things get moving quick and the pressure's
on?
What do you think I'm some little angel?
Ooh, isn't it wonderful here?
I get excited.
I get frustrated.
I get nervous.
And when I'm in that situation and I
open my mouth, it's always generally something completely
stupid.
If it is sensible in its content, it's
probably ridiculous in its pitch.
And so the way we stay together and
pressed on together is by repentance, by seeking
one another's forgiveness, by going to a brother,
phoning him.
I've phoned people long distance.
Oh, I'll never forget in 63, Jonathan called
me from Paris.
I never have had sanctification on the telephone.
It's my worst weakness because I'm always thinking
of how much it costs and so I
forget all the flowery words and just down
to the point, get this phone call over
as quick as possible.
I've cut people up in phone conversations on
every continent.
And maybe to some of you like me,
you don't find a victorious life quite your
cup of tea.
You don't find holiness exactly your blend.
You find yourself failing and falling and saying
ridiculous things.
Like David, and I would ask of you,
repent, repent, repent, be it a hundred times
a day.
Unkind words, unkind action, so many things.
The only way, repentance.
Six words, I have sinned against the Lord.
Not against O.M. If you go out
and break a social rule that you've agreed
to keep, the big problem isn't with O
.M. We're not that convinced about some of
these rules ourselves.
We're just trying to take the root of
the least number of problems.
But if you have agreed to keep them,
and you break them, you stand before the
Lord because you're being dishonest.
And I'm not concerned whether you kiss some
first little girl on the corner.
But I'm concerned about honesty, and I am
concerned about her being deceived.
And a kiss can be one of the
most deceitful of all things in life.
Because when you kiss her, she may be
much more sensitive than you.
And you say, well, I love you.
I believe you may be the one.
And if she's an evangelical girl, you've just
ignited a bonfire that will take months to
put out.
You can go play somewhere else.
She's hurt.
You say, well, that's not the sin of
David.
No, it isn't.
But the principle is the same.
Dishonest.
Deceit.
Making a serious thing in the plan of
God into a game.
The love game.
It's not the love game.
It's the lust game.
It was never meant to be a game.
Repent.
Oh, I know.
You can be on OM.
Everyone thinks you're doing fine, and you hit
the porno shop on the corner, and your
eyes stick like you were reading a Bible
verse.
Any young men have this problem lately?
Oh, you know, you're not supposed to take
a second look.
There's something there.
Something there.
Oh, you wouldn't do any of these things
outwardly, but just to let the mind feed.
To let the mind feed.
It's something satisfying.
I know.
Because I've done it.
And I'm still not free from it, and
I've not met more than 10% who
are.
What's the answer?
To destroy all the porno shops?
No.
You'll produce it in your own mind sitting
in a prayer meeting.
The answer is repentance.
No, I just thank God for the times
He forgave me so many times, of so
many sins, especially in the mind.
And I believe that if you fight the
battles in the mind and keep short accounts,
then you'll never get into the mire and
into the mess that brings so much reaping
as David got in.
But if you give up in the mind,
you'll soon be giving up in all the
other areas.
No, God will forgive you.
The reaping process will set in, and it
could ruin your ministry.
It could ruin your ministry.
I beg of you, and I don't have
more time, learn the secret of repentance.
Anything that your Nathan, the Holy Spirit, touches
your heart about, from His Word, from another
brother, from a circumstance, repent.
Put it straight and accept God's immediate mercy,
total forgiveness.
Don't wallow in the pity, the puddle of
pity.
Don't start eating on the guilt.
Self-pity is only a twisted form of
self-love anyway.
But receive His forgiveness, His grace, His mercy.
Get up and go on rejoicing in His
forgiveness, in His grace, in His love.
I don't think in this conference I've said
anything quite as important as this.
Jesus is waiting.
Open arms.
Calvary the blood.
The decision is yours, and it'll be yours
every day.
You're going under pressure.
You're going into front-line combat, and it's
gonna be hot, and it's gonna be hard,
and you're gonna wiggle, and you're gonna wanna
get out of it sometime.
And the answer is His mercy.
Will you take it?
Let us pray.
O Lord our God, we thank You for
Your mercy.
We thank You for Your cleansing.
We thank You for this great illustration and
story, this true story in the Old Testament
of David.
And we thank You for the Nathans You
send our way.
We thank You for Your Holy Spirit that
convicts of little things, of big things.
And we cry out, Lord, teach us to
repent.
Teach us to repent quick.
Teach us to lay hold and to believe
You for Your mercy and Your forgiveness and
for Your cleansing.
O Lord, we thank You for this true
way of victory which keeps us pressing on
and yet which deals realistically with sin when
it makes its dirty way in.
O Lord, teach us to repent on the
roof before the sin gets in the house.
Teach us, Lord our God, to keep short
accounts, to not let things get past the
battle of the mind or at least the
tongue, that we may not blaspheme Thy work,
that we may not bring into scandal Thy
work and cause the enemies to blaspheme.
O Lord, teach us the way of mercy.
We pray in Jesus' name.
Amen.