PSALMS
CHAPTER 32
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
OBSERVATION
STAGE
Let's take a
look at this chapter in its entirety first to see what we can observe from
it alone within the context of the book of Psalms, and then we will double
back and provide elaboration and corroboration.
The observation
stage is to teach an individual to:
(a) Rely on the
text at hand, because it is entirely faithful and trustworthy as it
stands,
(b) Learn that
individual verses convey immutable truth and are not to be modified,
changed or transformed into something different even from elsewhere in
Scripture,
(c) Help the
individual focus on the text at hand which, by and large, has all the
information necessary to understand what it is saying without going on
unnecessary tangents elsewhere in Scripture,
(d) Help the
individual focus on the context at hand as conveyed by the information
that is readily available in the text at hand - Something elsewhere may be
true, but in the text at hand it's not in view.
I)
[Ps 32:1-5 NAS]:
A)
THE THREE NOUNS IN PSALMS 32:1-2 RENDERED TRANSGRESSION, SIN AND
INIQUITY COVER EVERY KIND OF SINFUL EXPRESSION OF MANKIND
1)
"pesha' "= "transgression"
a)
[Paul, Romans 4:7]:
2)
"hata' " = "sin"
3)
"'awon"
= "iniquity"
a)
[Paul, Romans 4:8]:
B)
COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE FORGIVENESS OF A BELIEVER AT A PARTICULAR TIME OF
PARTICULAR SINS CONFESSED IS IN VIEW
1)
"nasa' " = "are forgiven"
2)
"kasa" = "is covered"
3)
"hashab" = "imputed"
C)
WHEN THERE IS NO DECEIT IN ONE'S HUMAN SPIRIT RELATIVE TO NOT HIDING
ONE'S CURRENT SINS BEFORE GOD, (I.E., THERE IS CONFESSION OF KNOWN SINS
TO GOD) THEN THERE IS COMPLETE AND ABSOLUTE FORGIVENESS OF ALL SINS,
INIQUITIES AND TRANSGRESSIONS AND RESTORATION OF EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL
BLESSINGS - FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD
D)
VERSES 1 AND 2 REFLECT ON HOW BLESSED IS THE FORGIVENESS OF ONES SINS
BEFORE GOD IN WHOSE [HUMAN] SPIRIT THERE IS NO DECEIT RELATIVE TO SINS
COMMITTED DURING A PARTICULAR TIME; I.E., ONES SINS ARE ACKNOWLEDGED/
CONFESSED TO GOD BY A BELIEVER
1)
[Compare 2 Sam 23:5]:
E)
TEMPORAL FORGIVENESS OF A BELIEVER INCLUDES BEING BLESSED WITH AN
EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL WELL BEING - A PART OF THE BELIEVER'S RESTORATION
OF DAILY FELLOWSHIP WITH GOD WHICH OCCURS WHEN HE CONFESSES HIS SINS TO
GOD. THE RECEPTION OF ETERNAL LIFE IS NOT IN VIEW IN PSALMS 32
