Psalm 51:14-19 ~ Bloodguiltiness

Psalm 51:14-19

Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
15 O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
16 For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

18 Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
build up the walls of Jerusalem;
19 then will you delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.

Jesus has Paid the Price

In the Old Covenant, generations were burdened with the sins of the fathers. And in Psychology, we find this pattern of brokenness is true. When we gather all of our difficulties and put them on the scale - the burden can feel unsurmountable. And why would we ask Jesus - so Wonderful - to burden Himself with us.

There is an Answer. Jesus Christ. The Exact Nature of God.

Every 500 years, remarkable things occur. And seeing what unfolds later is much easier.

Black Plague - 1300s A.D. 1/3 to 1/2 of Europe. Even in China.

Bible being translated into other Languages - 1300 A.D.

Spanish Inquisition - 1400 A.D.

Gutenberg Bible - early 1400's in Latin.

Renaissance - 1300 to 1600 A.D.

Martin Luther - not to charge mankind for forgiveness - "Indulgences" - early 1500's.

The swing of left to right. Moses and Joshua told us to avoid.

Even in the founding of this Nation, people were once held in stockades for trial, for cussing, for being disobedient to parents. This is the fluctuation of not to the right, not to the left.

The Renaissance was an awakening.
Mankind was in transition from serfdom, plagues, freedom, need for God in belief He would care and help. Education. The idea mankind was in His Image. Forgiveness. Hospitalization with bravery. Leaving cities behind walls and belief God would enable mankind to trust in God's Goodness and in the Light of mankind in man.

Mankind in the Middle Ages was literally leaving being left in the soil, the dirt while the Renaissance believed to look up to God. Our heart and soul makes us important to Jesus because God sent us Jesus.

Scripture Repeats.

Luke 5 The Call of the Disciples becomes Jesus helping Disciples to Go forth in God's Light 

and is John 21

Jeremiah knew something of mankind plowing out an existence in farming, just small plots and having the Blessing of God to become proud. Jeremiah and Moses knew mankind and in the Holy Spirit predicted Israel would invent a past and refuse to acknowledge slavery and the Exodus. Preferring to say they were from Edom or Moab. And God would reduce them and raise them in only 70 years.

Jeremiah was placed in David's, now Kings of Judah, Palace prison where God would find a place for Jeremiah to preach the Word of God, to have a future, to be protected and even give Jeremiah a home to look forward to.

Jeremiah could have spent time in bitterness and instead Jeremiah sees the Exact Nature of God in Jesus Christ.

Literally, Jeremiah is left in the dirt of the earth to look up to our Father God to believe His Mercy and Forgiveness will make a Way, Life and Truth.

Jeremiah 31

 “At that time, declares the Lord, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, 

and they shall be my people.”

2 Thus says the Lord:

“The people who survived the sword

found grace in the wilderness;

when Israel sought for rest,

3 the Lord appeared to him from far away.

I have loved you with an everlasting love;

therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.

4 Again I will build you, and you shall be built,

O virgin Israel!

Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines

and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers.

5 Again you shall plant vineyards

on the mountains of Samaria;

the planters shall plant

and shall enjoy the fruit.

6 For there shall be a day when watchmen will call

in the hill country of Ephraim:

‘Arise, and let us go up to Zion,

to the Lord our God.’”

7 For thus says the Lord:

“Sing aloud with gladness for Jacob,

and raise shouts for the chief of the nations;

proclaim, give praise, and say,

‘O Lord, save your people,

the remnant of Israel.’

8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country

and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth,

among them the blind and the lame,

the pregnant woman and she who is in labor, together;

a great company, they shall return here.

9 With weeping they shall come,

and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back,

I will make them walk by brooks of water,

in a straight path in which they shall not stumble,

for I am a father to Israel,

and Ephraim is my firstborn.

10 “Hear the word of the Lord, O nations,

and declare it in the coastlands far away;

say, ‘He who scattered Israel will gather him,

and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock.’

11 For the Lord has ransomed Jacob

and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.

12 They shall come and sing aloud on the height of Zion,

and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord,

over the grain, the wine, and the oil,

and over the young of the flock and the herd;

their life shall be like a watered garden,

and they shall languish no more.

13 Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,

and the young men and the old shall be merry.

I will turn their mourning into joy;

I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

14 I will feast the soul of the priests with abundance,

and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness,

declares the Lord.”

15 Thus says the Lord:

“A voice is heard in Ramah,

lamentation and bitter weeping.

Rachel is weeping for her children;

she refuses to be comforted for her children,

because they are no more.”

16 Thus says the Lord:

“Keep your voice from weeping,

and your eyes from tears,

for there is a reward for your work,

declares the Lord,

and they shall come back from the land of the enemy.

17 There is hope for your future,

declares the Lord,

and your children shall come back to their own country.

18 I have heard Ephraim grieving,

‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined,

like an untrained calf;

bring me back that I may be restored,

for you are the Lord my God.

19 For after I had turned away, I relented,

and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh;

I was ashamed, and I was confounded,

because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’

20 Is Ephraim my dear son?

Is he my darling child?

For as often as I speak against him,

I do remember him still.

Therefore my heart yearns for him;

I will surely have mercy on him,

declares the Lord.

21 “Set up road markers for yourself;

make yourself guideposts;

consider well the highway,

the road by which you went.

Return, O virgin Israel,

return to these your cities.

22 How long will you waver,

O faithless daughter?

For the Lord has created a new thing on the earth:

a woman encircles a man.”

23 Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: “Once more they shall use these words in the land of Judah and in its cities, when I restore their fortunes:

“‘The Lord bless you, O habitation of righteousness,

O holy hill!’

24 And Judah and all its cities shall dwell there together, and the farmers and those who wander with their flocks. 25 For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.”

26 At this I awoke and looked, and my sleep was pleasant to me.

27 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man and the seed of beast. 28 And it shall come to pass that as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring harm, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, declares the Lord. 29 In those days they shall no longer say:

“‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,

and the children's teeth are set on edge.’

30 But everyone shall die for his own iniquity. 

Each man who eats sour grapes, his teeth shall be set on edge.

The New Covenant

31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the Lord. 33 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the Lord: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”

35 Thus says the Lord,

who gives the sun for light by day

and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night,

who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—

the Lord of hosts is his name:

36 “If this fixed order departs

from before me, declares the Lord,

then shall the offspring of Israel cease

from being a nation before me forever.”

37 Thus says the Lord:

“If the heavens above can be measured,

and the foundations of the earth below can be explored,

then I will cast off all the offspring of Israel

for all that they have done,

declares the Lord.”

38 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when the city shall be rebuilt for the Lord from the Tower of Hananel to the Corner Gate. 39 And the measuring line shall go out farther, straight to the hill Gareb, and shall then turn to Goah. 40 The whole valley of the dead bodies and the ashes, and all the fields as far as the brook Kidron,

 to the corner of the Horse Gate toward the east, 

shall be sacred to the Lord. 

It shall not be plucked up or overthrown anymore forever.”

We are in transition again. The Civil War was the end of Slavery. And the ambitions of Farming. We provided Freedoms and Detroit began as an escape of unending and unrewarding small farming. The transition of Industrialization in Detroit never had the hundreds of years to take the swing out of the transition.

We transitioned again in World Wars. And like the First Century A.D. - family was in question. Rites of Inheritance. Business reliable small business to promote the stability of marriage and family. Wars were fought to allow nations to provide for their families. In swing over transitions of costs of Industrialization and poorer nations.

And just as this settled down again after the World Wars, try reading how proudly the 1950 appliances and their engineers and workers hope for a Hope and Future of their products. - We joined the era of Television. The stranger in our midst who had violent crimes, moral crimes, abortion, mafia, comedy, travel, glamor, a careless disregard of marriage and children and family, a new pattern of speech and sloth. We didn't need a piano, board games, small chores, long dinners. Family visits. Leave the Television on during dinner.


The transition occurred again. We needed jobs, bigger houses, more employment, childcare, nursing homes and airplane rides to family to show prosperity.

The transition happened again. We needed less risk. Social Security. Insurance in all forms. Even disability insurance. We needed less need for old age parents.

We transitioned again. Housing could be a scary and risky thing. Nursing homes become unaffordable. College becomes unaffordable. Social media takes care of our need for face to face relationships. And we need the pretense we are all doing well financially. No one says we can't afford to travel to family funerals as older people. No one says what is happening to the debt on young people for college the price of a 30 year home. We have pride. And in this pride we condemn culture on social media. All of us do this.

Risk is everywhere. Jobs, Health, Healthcare, Housing, Debt, Affluence, Image. Family dislocation.
And in this risk, we see wild swings from Left to Right. Caused by avoiding all the Risks.


Enter morbid Halloween is acceptable as humor. But not Ash Wednesday Nationally because this is a condemning and fearful presence.








We are in transition.

How will we have a Holy Lent and Blessed Easter. Our mothers are to provide a career wage as if they have no children. And to parent so well the children do not reflect their mother has a career. Our grandparents are far away. We have less illegitimate birth and more acceptable co-habitation. Do not burden anyone with your idea of Righteousness or Sin.

We are in the midst of a Violent 100 Years.

Marriage is as frail as the Renaissance.
Swings in Information.
The Vast Need of Safety.

We have Affluence.
Temporary Affluence and Pride.

We can take Comfort by this...
We do better than others
Or put on a better show
Having all the eggs in the basket - these 10 years
We are more righteous than most people. So there.

Or We Can Acknowledge the Stress of Left Right and the world in Transition.

Solutions

Answers

Jesus Christ

In the Book of Acts, the world was in Distress. The Roman Empire was crumbling. Violent Crime. Lowered Trade. Marriage laws created family fears. Sex sin. Slave sin. Idol sin.

How will we have Holy Lent, Blessed Easter and Holy Lives.

Ecclesiastes 1:9
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.The

The Kings of The Old Testament are our family relations. The decades of the Scriptures are our decades. The brokenness is our brokenness. This time in our Nation has reasons to rejoice. Racism is put down. Employment is pulled up. Marriage is on the increase. Love. We Love our Children. We change denominations to get closer to the Word of God.

We are in Stress. And God, like the Exodus in Babylon, is pulling us up with Faith.

Forgiveness. Isn't Jesus letting the Disciples be fired for asking Jesus to cause fire to fall on the Samaritans. Luke 9:54. Jesus did not fill out Papers of Termination for them.

Forgiveness. Jesus didn't find other Disciples when the Disciples wanted Jesus to get rid of the Children surrounding Jesus. Matthew 19:14.

Forgiveness. Jesus didn't let go of Peter, James or John when they didn't like Him to talk to the Samaritan Woman. John 6.

Forgiveness. The Disciples didn't flee to the next town when Jesus held the Lepers.

Forgiveness. The Disciples didn't put Thomas out when Lazarus was raised and Thomas said, we are all going to die with Jesus now. John 11.

And what kept Jesus with the Disciples 
in Holy expectation of the coming Easter?

Similar to us having a Holy Lent today?

John 13:34

A new commandment I give to you, 
that ye love one another; as I have loved you, 
that ye also love one another.

Proverbs 10:12
Hatred stirs up strife 
but love covers all sins

1 Peter 4:8
Above all, love each other deeply, 
because love covers over a multitude of sins.

♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †  

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