I Was Shapen in Iniquity
Minister: | Rev. Ronald Van Overloop |
Date: | 11/12/2017 AM |
Text: | Psalm 51:5,6 |
Psalters: | 164, 142, 312, 281 |
Sacrament of the Lord's Supper |
- Sin’s beginning.
- All of our actual sins arise from the fact that we are sinners, which is what we became at conception.
- Parents (fathers) transmit a corrupt nature to their children through conception. A corrupt stock produces corrupt offspring.
- Sin at conception implies that unborn babies are real human persons at conception.
- True confession of sin acknowledges our complete helplessness because of our inner spiritual corruption.
- In this we are passive, for it is ours apart from any conscious act or choice on our part.
- Sincere confession of sin acknowledges my sinfulness as well as my actual sin.
- All of our actual sins arise from the fact that we are sinners, which is what we became at conception.
- David refers to his sinful human nature with “inward parts” and “in the hidden part.”
- He declares that His inward man, what he is inside, is depraved.
- Thus David’s confession now includes an admission that he is depraved within.
- “Behold” indicates importance: truth is essential to the Christian and the Reformed man and woman.
- The awareness of this soul depravity is not abstract doctrine, but true confession accompanied by much grief.
- David’s confession makes it clear that he realizes this depravity is total - inside as well as outside.
- This is ultimately the only way to find an answer to sin!
- Unless we see our sin arising out of our corrupt inward parts we will miss true confession.
- But this admission/confession is not to lead to despair.
- Because our need is so great we cast ourselves completely on the multitude of God’s mercies.
- We are to focus on the work of the second Adam, our present representative Head.