Psalm 32
August 15, 2021
preached by Pastor Ryan Bouton
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Time of Reflection Quotations

“Our sins have been put away. To use the language of the Scriptures…they are completely removed, put behind God’s back, blotted out, remembered no more, and hurled into the depths of the sea.”

~Jerry Bridges (1929-2016), American author, speaker and staff member of The Navigators

“When saints sin, they know they are not sinning against law but against love.”

~D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsh minister and medical doctor

“To even get near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert. Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call ‘humble’ nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.”

~C.S. Lewis (1898-1963), prolific writer and Christian apologist from Britain

“There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.”

~Richard Sibbes (1577-1635) Anglican author and theologian

“That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an inspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, ‘Thou art my refuge.’”

~ George McDonald (1824-1905), Scottish author, poet and minister

Sermon Passage

Psalm 32 (ESV)

¹  Blessed is the one whose transgression is forgiven,
whose sin is covered.
²  Blessed is the man against whom the Lord counts no iniquity,
and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
³  For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away
through my groaning all day long.
⁴  For day and night your hand was heavy upon me;
my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah
⁵  I acknowledged my sin to you,
and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah
⁶  Therefore let everyone who is godly
offer prayer to you at a time when you may be found;
surely in the rush of great waters,
they shall not reach him.
⁷  You are a hiding place for me;
you preserve me from trouble;
you surround me with shouts of deliverance. Selah
⁸  I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
⁹  Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding,
which must be curbed with bit and bridle,
or it will not stay near you.
¹⁰ Many are the sorrows of the wicked,
but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
¹¹ Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, O righteous,
and shout for joy, all you upright in heart!