Psalm 51 - Overcomer - When Nathan the prophet came to David

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Be gracious to me according to Your mercy.</div> <div> 2. Erase my transgression according to the abundance of Your compassions.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v2</B></A><B> </B>- next 2 requests:</div> <div> 3. Wash me from my iniquity.</div> <div> 4. Fully cleanse me from my sin.</div> <div> Both iniquity and sin are singular here referring to David's sin regarding Bathsheba and Uriah.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v3</B></A><B> - </B>A prerequisite for the requests in v2.</div> <div> Lit. For my transgression I know, and my sin is continually before me.</div> <div> ref  <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#ps32_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Psa 32:5,</A> which many, including me, believe refers to the same sin as in this psalm</div> <bR> <div> And my sin is ever before me - My sin as a whole is never out of my mind; it continually oppresses my spirit. I lay it before thee because it is ever before me: Lord, put it away both from thee and me. To an awakened conscience, pain on account of sin is not transient and occasional, but intense and permanent, and this is no sign of divine wrath, but rather a sure preface of abounding favour. - C. H. Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#4" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v4</B></A><B> - </B>David had done great evil in the sight of the LORD (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#2sa12_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">2Sam 12:9-10,14</A>). </div> <bR> <div> How could David say that his sin was against God only? David had committed adultery with Uriah's wife, and then had the faithful hero Uriah murdered. It may be that David knew that God would reward Uriah in paradise and in resurrection. </div> <bR> <div> I am using Paul's inspired translation of the last part of this verse in <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#rom3_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Rom 3:4</A>, which is the same as LXX. This agrees with the previous clause "that You may be justified".</div> <div> The Hebrew text is an infinitive verbal noun "judging" with a 2ms pronoun suffix, "You" or "Your". The 2ms pronoun suffix can be either the object of the infinitive verb "judging You" or the possessor of the verbal noun "Your judging". </div> <bR> <div> How does this justify God in His speaking? I think it means that this proves the truth of what God said about mankind in <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#ps14_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Ps 14, etc</A>, expounded upon in <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#rom3_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Rom 3</A> and in the next verse of this psalm.</div> <bR> <div> How does this cause God to prevail when He is judged? God is judged by human beings and by angelic beings.  </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <B>v5 </B>- I think this means that I was born with a sinful nature. I don't think it means anything immoral about how David's mother begot him.</div> <bR> <div> He goes back to the earliest moment of his being, not to traduce his mother, but to acknowledge the deep tap roots of his sin. - Spurgeon</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="v6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v6</B></A><B> - </B>Though all men are constituted sinners, God has desired and still desires truth and wisdom to be in us and acted upon. ref. <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#jam3_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">James 3:15-18</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="v7_"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#7" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v7</B></A> - Hyssop is first mentioned in the Bible in <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#exo12_21" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Exo. 12:22</A> where it is used as the instrument for applying the blood of the Passover lamb to the lintel, the horizontal beam across the door opening of each of the Israelites' houses, so that the angel of death would pass over them.</div> <div> It was also used to sprinkle the blood on the tabernacle, the book, and all the vessels of service (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#exo24_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Exo 24:6-9; Heb 9:19-21</A>).</div> <div> It is also used for sprinkling the blood on a cleansed leper (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#lev14_2" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Lev 14:4-9</A>) and a cleansed leprous house (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#lev14_48" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Lev 14:</A><A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#lev14_48" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">48-53</A>).</div> <div> Also, hyssop was burned with the red heiffer (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#num19_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Num. 19:1-10</A>) and used to apply the ash-water on the tent, utensils and person defiled by death. (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#num19_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Num 19:14-19</A>).</div> <div> It was the smallest plant that Solomon spoke about (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#1ki4_32" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">1Ki 4:33</A>).</div> <div> It was used as a straw to drink (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#joh19_28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Joh 19:29</A>).</div> <div>  <A NAME="v8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v8</B></A> - bones - ref <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#ps32_5" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Ps 32:3</A> referring to the same sin as in this psalm</div> <div>  <A NAME="v9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#8" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v9</B></A> - ref <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#ps39_13" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Ps 39:13</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="v10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v10</B></A> - lit. and renew</div> <div> "To create" is to bring into existence something that never existed before. "Create" is a great verb in the Bible. Only God can create. I think this prayer was not fulfilled until the New Covenant (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#pro20_9" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Prov 20:9; etc</A>), It was promised in the Old Testament (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#deu30_6" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Deu 30:6; etc</A>). It is ours to pray for and work out as partakers of the New Covenant (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#pro4_23" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Prov 4:23; etc</A>).</div> <bR> <div> He does not say, "Make my old heart clean; " he is too experienced in the hopelessness of the old nature. He would have the old man buried as a dead thing, and a new creation brought in to fill its place. None but God can create either a new heart or a new earth<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" >. - </FONT>Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v11"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#10" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v11 </B></A>- lit.Thy Holy Spirit</div> <div> David had the Holy Spirit as the anointed king of Israel <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#1sa16_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">(1Sam 16:13</A>). In the Old Testament only a few could have the Holy Spirit. In the New Testament the Holy Spirit is poured out on all flesh, all human beings, for them to be born again by the Holy Spirit. (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#joe2_28" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Joel 2:28</A>).</div> <bR> <div> Do not leave me as thou didst Saul, when neither by Urim, nor by prophet, nor by dream, thou wouldst answer him. Thy Spirit is my wisdom, leave me not to my folly; - Spurgeon (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#1sa16_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">1Sam 16:14</A>)</div> <div>  <A NAME="v14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v14</B></A><B> </B>- guilt of blood - Refering to David's murder of Uriah (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#2sa11_14" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">2Sam 11:14</A>). </div> <bR> <div> A great sinner pardoned makes a great singer. - Spurgeon</div> <div>  <A NAME="v15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v15</B></A> - <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#339900" FACE="Arial" >This prayer of a penitent is a golden petition for a preacher, Lord, I offer it for myself and my brethren. But it may stand in good stead any one whose shame for sin makes him stammer in his prayers, and when it is fully answered, the tongue of the dumb begins to sing. - Spurgeon</FONT></div> <div>  <A NAME="v16"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#15" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>v16</B></A> - ref <A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#pro21_3" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"> Prov 21:3</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="v19"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <B>v19 </B>- The burnt offerings in the New Testament age are our offering of ourselves unto Him. (<A HREF="psalm_51_m.htm#rom12_1" TARGET="TRLX_Middle" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">Rom 12:1; etc</A>).</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=355 width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Psalm 51 </B>For the <A HREF="psalms_overcomer.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Psalms practical details of the Godman ">Overcomer</A>. A Psalm through David: When Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bath-sheba.</div> <bR> <div> <I>(tune: 8.8.8.8. </I><A HREF="http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/810" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hymnal.net/hymn.php/h/810"><I>#810 Lord, hast Thou not one word for me</I></A><I>)</I></div> <div>  <embed src="HTMLobj-1158/e0205LordHastThouNot1Word4Me.mp3" autostart="true" loop="true" width="145" height="70">  </div> <div> audio file from <A HREF="http://www.hymnal.net" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.hymnal.net">hymnal.net</A></div> <div>  <A NAME="1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >1 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">1</A>  Be gracious unto me, O God, </div> <div> according to Thy mercy <I>great.</I></div> <div> According to the riches of</div> <div> Thy compassions, my sin erase.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >2 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v2" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">2</A> Wash me from my iniquity </div> <div> and fully cleanse me from my sin.</div> <div>  <A NAME="3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v3" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">3</A> For always my  sin's before me</div> <div> and I realize my transgression. </div> <div> <I> <A NAME="4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></I></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >3 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">4</A>  'Gainst Thee, Thee only, have I sinned, </div> <div> and done what's ev-il in Thy sight</div> <div> that You may be   justified when </div> <div> You speak, when You   are judged proved right.</div> <div>  <A NAME="5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >4 </FONT><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v5" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">5</A> Behold, I in   iniquity </div> <div> was brought forth, and   my mom in sin</div> <div> conceived me.<A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"> </A><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">6</A><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"> </A>Lo,   You've desired truth</div> <div> in the parts <I>of   a man </I>within,</div> <div>  <A NAME="7"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 5 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >and in the hid-den part wisdom</FONT></div> <div> <I>from above</I> You'll    cause me to know.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v7_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">7</A> With hyssop me   purge. I'll become</div> <div> <I>amazingly  </I>whiter than snow</div> <div>  <A NAME="8"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >6</FONT><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"> 8 </A>Cause me to hear gladness and joy.</div> <div> Let the bones You    broke joyful be.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v9" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"> 9 </A>Hide Thy face from   my sins, and blot</div> <div> out all of my   iniquities.</div> <div>  <A NAME="10"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >7</FONT><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">10</A> Create in me   a clean heart, God.</div> <div> Renew a right spirit in me.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">11 </A>Cast me not out   from Thy presence,</div> <div> and Thy Spirit   take not from me.</div> <bR> <div> 8<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >12 Restore to me   the joy of Thy </FONT></div> <div> salvation, and   let a willing </div> <div> spirit sustain   me. 13 I will teach</div> <div> Thy ways to trans-gressors <I>like me</I>, </div> <div>  <A NAME="14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 9 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >and sinners shall   return to Thee.</FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v14" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">14</A> From guilt of blood   deliver me,</div> <div> O God. God of   my salvation,</div> <div> Thy righteousness my tongue shall sing.</div> <div>  <A NAME="15"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#BBBBBB" FACE="Kids board game" >10</FONT><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v15" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">15 </A>Open my lips,   Lord, and my mouth </div> <div> shall show forth Thy   praise <I>sincerely,</I></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">16</A> for You desire   not sacrifice; </div> <div> else would I give   it <I>unto Thee</I>.</div> <bR> <div> 11 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >You'll not be pleased   with burnt-off'ring.</FONT></div> <div> 17 The sacrific-es of God are </div> <div> a broke spirit. A broken and </div> <div> contrite heart, God,  You'll not abhor.</div> <div>  <A NAME="18"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> 12 <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >18 Do good in Thy   good pleasure to </FONT></div> <div> Zion. Build Je-rusalem's walls.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v19" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro">19</A> Then shall You have sacrifices </div> <div> of righteousness, <I>on Your altar,</I></div> <bR> <div> 13<FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > burnt-off'ring, and   whole burnt-off'ring.</FONT></div> <div> Then bulls shall they  offer <I>to Thee</I> </div> <div> upon Your al-tar <I>willingly,</I></div> <div> <I>for a sweet sa-vor unto Thee.</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>------------------</I></div> <div>  <A NAME="eph2_4"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v1" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Ephesians 2:4</B></A> But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us,</div> <div>  5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps32_5"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v8" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Psalm 32:3</B></A><B> </B>When I kept<B> </B>silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long.</div> <div>  4 For day and night thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture was turned into the drought of summer. Selah.</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v3" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>5</B></A><B> </B> I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity I covered not; I said, I will confess my transgressions unto Jehovah, and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="rom3_3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Romans 3:3 </B></A>What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it?</div> <div>  4 May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, "<B>That Thou mightest be justified in Thy words</B>, <B>And mightest prevail when Thou art judged</B>."</div> <div>  5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)</div> <div>  6 May it never be! For otherwise how will God judge the world?</div> <div>  7 But if through my lie the truth of God abounded to His glory, why am I also still being judged as a sinner?</div> <div>  8 And why not say (as we are slanderously reported and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil that good may come "? Their condemnation is just.</div> <div> 9 What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:</div> <div>  10 according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;</div> <div>  11 there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.</div> <div>  12 All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:</div> <div>  13 their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips:</div> <div>  14 whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;</div> <div>  15 swift their feet to shed blood;</div> <div>  16 ruin and misery are in their ways,</div> <div>  17 and way of peace they have not known:</div> <div>  18 there is no fear of God before their eyes.</div> <div>  19 Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.</div> <div>  20 Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin.</div> <div>  <A NAME="ps14_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Psalm 14:1</B></A> To the overcomer. A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They have corrupted themselves, they have done abominable works: there is none that doeth good.</div> <div>  2 Jehovah looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.</div> <div>  3 They have all gone aside, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.</div> <div> <B>53:1</B> To the overcomer. On Mahalath: an instruction. Of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God! They have corrupted themselves, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.</div> <div>  2 God looked down from the heavens upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God.</div> <div>  3 Every one of them is gone back, they are together become corrupt: there is none that doeth good, not even one.</div> <div> <B>143:1</B> A Psalm of David. Jehovah, hear my prayer; give ear to my supplications: in thy faithfulness answer me, in thy righteousness.</div> <div>  2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant; for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.</div> <div>  <A NAME="jam3_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v6" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>James 3:14</B></A> But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.</div> <div>  15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.</div> <div>  16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.</div> <div>  17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.</div> <div>  18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="exo12_21"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v7_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Exodus 12:21</B></A> And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Seize and take yourselves lambs for your families, and kill the passover.</div> <div>  22 And take a bunch of <B>hyssop, and dip it in the blood</B> that is in the bason, and smear the lintel and the two door-posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.</div> <div>  23 And Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.</div> <div>  24 And ye shall observe this as an ordinance for thee and for thy sons for ever.</div> <div>  25 And it shall come to pass, when ye are come into the land that Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service.</div> <div>  26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean ye by this service?</div> <div>  27 that ye shall say, It is a sacrifice of passover to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed their heads and worshipped.</div> <div>  <A NAME="exo24_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v7_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Exodus 24:6 </B></A>And Moses took half the blood, and put it in basons; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar.</div> <div>  7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the ears of the people; and they said, All that Jehovah has said will we do, and obey!</div> <div>  8 And <B>Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant</B> that Jehovah has made with you concerning all these words.</div> <div> <B>Hebrews 9:18</B> Whence neither the first was inaugurated without blood.</div> <div>  19 For every commandment having been spoken according to the law by Moses to all the people; having taken the blood of calves and goats, <B>with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, he sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,</B></div> <div>  20 saying, This is the blood of the covenant which God has enjoined to you.</div> <div>  21 And the tabernacle too and all the vessels of service he sprinkled in like manner with blood;</div> <div>  22 and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.</div> <div>  <A NAME="lev14_2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v7_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Leviticus 14:2</B></A> This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest,</div> <div>  3 and the priest shall go out of the camp; and when the priest looketh, and behold, the sore of leprosy is healed in the leper,</div> <div>  4 then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two clean living birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.</div> <div>  5 And the priest shall command that one bird be killed in an earthen vessel over running water:</div> <div>  6 as to the living bird -- he shall take it, and the cedar-wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water;</div> <div>  7 and he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the living bird loose into the open field.</div> <div>  8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his garments, and shave all his hair, and bathe in water, and he shall be clean; and afterwards shall he come into the camp, and shall abide outside his tent seven days.</div> <div>  9 And it shall come to pass on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair, his head, and his beard, and his eyebrows, even all his hair shall he shave, and he shall wash his garments, and shall bathe his flesh in water, and he is clean.</div> <div>   <A NAME="lev14_48"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A>...</div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v7_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>48</B></A> But if the priest shall come in and look, and behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house hath been plastered, the priest shall pronounce the house clean; for the plague is healed.</div> <div>  49 And he shall take, to purge the house from the defilement, two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop;</div> <div>  50 and he shall kill one bird in an earthen vessel over running water;</div> <div>  51 and he shall take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the scarlet, and the living bird, and dip them in the blood of the bird that was killed, and in the running water, and sprinkle the house seven times;</div> <div>  52 and he shall purge the house from the defilement with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar-wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;</div> <div>  53 and he shall let the living bird loose out of the city into the open field; and he shall make atonement for the house, and it is clean.</div> <div>  <A NAME="num19_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v7_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Numbers 19:1</B></A> And Jehovah spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying,</div> <div>  2 This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring thee a red heifer without blemish, wherein is no defect, and upon which never came yoke;</div> <div>  3 and ye shall give it to Eleazar the priest, and he shall bring it outside the camp, and one shall slaughter it before him.</div> <div>  4 And Eleazar the priest shall take of its blood with his finger, and shall sprinkle of its blood directly before the tent of meeting seven times.</div> <div>  5 And one shall burn the heifer before his eyes; its skin and its flesh, and its blood, with its dung, shall he burn.</div> <div>  6 And <B>the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast them into the midst of the burning of the heifer.</B></div> <div>  7 And the priest shall wash his garments, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterwards he shall come into the camp; and the priest shall be unclean until the even;</div> <div>  8 and he that hath burned it shall wash his garments in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.</div> <div>  9 And a clean man shall gather the ashes of the heifer, and deposit them outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be kept for the assembly of the children of Israel for a water of separation: it is a purification for sin.</div> <div>  10 And he that hath gathered the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even. And it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, an everlasting statute.</div> <div> ... <A NAME="num19_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v7_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>14 </B></A>This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: every one that cometh into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.</div> <div>  15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, shall be unclean.</div> <div>  16 And every one that toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead person, or the bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.</div> <div>  17 And they shall take for the unclean of the ashes of the purification-offering that hath been burned, and shall put running water thereon in a vessel;</div> <div>  18 and<B> a clean man shall take hyssop, and dip it in the water, and sprinkle it on the tent, and upon all the utensils, and upon the persons that were there, and upon him that hath touched the bone, or the one slain, or the dead person, or the grave;</B></div> <div>  19 and the clean shall sprinkle it on the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day; and he shall purify him on the seventh day; and he shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1ki4_32"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v7_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>1Kings 4:32</B></A> And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.</div> <div>  33 And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on Lebanon <B>even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall</B>; he spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.</div> <div>  34 And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all the kings of the earth who had heard of his wisdom.</div> <div>  <A NAME="joh19_28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v7_" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>John 19:28</B></A> After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now finished, that the scripture might be fulfilled, says, I thirst.</div> <div>  29 There was a vessel therefore there full of vinegar, and <B>having filled a sponge with vinegar, and putting hyssop round it, they put it up to his mouth</B>.</div> <div>  30 When therefore Jesus had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished; and having bowed his head, he delivered up his spirit.</div> <div>  <A NAME="deu30_6"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Deuteronomy 30:6</B></A> "Moreover the LORD your God <B>will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants, to love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul,</B> in order that you may live.  </div> <div> <B>Jeremiah 24:7</B> And<B> I will give them a heart to know Me</B>, for I am the LORD; and they will be My people, and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.  </div> <div> <B>Jer 31:33</B> "But <B>this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,</B>" declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them, and <B>on their heart I will write it</B>; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.  </div> <div> <B>32:39</B> and<B> I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me always</B>, for their own good, and for the good of their children after them.  </div> <div> <B>40</B> "And I will make an <B>everlasting covenant with them</B> that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; and<B> I will put the fear of Me in their hearts </B>so that they will not turn away from Me.  </div> <div> <B>Ezekiel 11:19</B> "And I shall give them one heart, and shall put a new spirit within them. <B>And I shall take the heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh</B>,  </div> <div> <B>36:26</B> "Moreover,<B> I will give you a new heart </B>and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and <B>give you a heart of flesh</B>.  </div> <div> <B>27</B> "And I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.  </div> <div>  <A NAME="ps39_13"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v9" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Psalm 39</B></A><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v9" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>:13</B></A> Be blind to me, let me smile again.</div> <div> before I be no more and go hence.</div> <div>  <A NAME="pro20_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Proverbs 20:9</B></A> <B>Who can say, "I have cleansed my heart,</B> I am pure from my sin"?  </div> <div> <B>2Corinthians 5:17</B> Therefore if any man is in Christ, he is a <B>new creation</B>; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.  </div> <div> <B>Galatians 6:15</B> For neither is circumcision anything, nor uncircumcision, but a <B>new creation</B>.  </div> <div> <B>Ephesians 2:10</B> For we are His workmanship, <B>created </B>in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.  </div> <div> <B>Acts 4:32</B> And the congregation of those who believed were <B>of one heart and soul;</B> and not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own; but all things were common property to them.  </div> <div> <B> <A NAME="pro4_23"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v10" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Proverbs 4:23 </B></A><B>Above everything else, guard your heart</B>; for it is the source of life's consequences.</div> <div> <B>Ezekiel 18:31</B> "Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed, and <B>make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! </B>For why will you die, O house of Israel?  </div> <div> <B>Philippians 2:5</B> <B>Let this mind be in you </B>which was also in Christ Jesus,</div> <div> <B>James 4:8</B> Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and<B> purify your hearts</B>, you double-minded.  </div> <div> <B>1Peter 1:22</B> Since you have in obedience to the truth <B>purified your souls for a sincere love of the brethren</B>, fervently love one another from the heart,  </div> <div> <B>1John 3:3</B> And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him <B>purifies himself, just as He is pure</B>.  </div> <div>  <A NAME="joe2_28"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Joel 2:28</B></A><B> </B>"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh; your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions.</div> <div>  29 Even on the male and female servants in those days I will pour out my Spirit.</div> <div>  <A NAME="1sa16_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>1Samuel 16:13 </B></A>Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. <B>And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward</B>. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.</div> <div> <B>14 </B>Now <B>the Spirit of the LORD had departed from Saul,</B> and a harmful spirit from the LORD tormented him.</div> <div>  <A NAME="2sa11_14"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v14" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>2Samuel 11:14</B></A> In the morning it happened that David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it by the hand of Uriah.</div> <div>  15 And he wrote in the letter, saying, "Set Uriah in the forefront of the hottest battle, and retreat from him, that he may be struck down and die."</div> <div>  16 So it was, while Joab besieged the city, that he assigned Uriah to a place where he knew there were valiant men.</div> <div>  17 Then the men of the city came out and fought with Joab. And some of the people of the servants of David fell; and Uriah the Hittite died also.</div> <div>  18 Then Joab sent and told David all the things concerning the war,</div> <div>  19 and charged the messenger, saying, "When you have finished telling the matters of the war to the king,</div> <div>  20 if it happens that the king's wrath rises, and he says to you:`Why did you approach so near to the city when you fought? Did you not know that they would shoot from the wall?</div> <div> 21 `Who struck Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? Was it not a woman who cast a piece of a millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you go near the wall?'-- then you shall say,`Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.'"</div> <div> ...26 When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she mourned for her husband.</div> <div>  27 And when her mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.</div> <div> <B> <A NAME="2sa12_9"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>12:9</B></A><A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v4" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"> </A>`Why have you despised the commandment of the LORD, t<B>o do evil in His sight?</B> <B>You have killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword; you have taken his wife to be your wife, and have killed him with the sword of the people of Ammon.</B></div> <div>  10 `Now therefore, the sword shall never depart from your house, because <B>you have despised Me,</B> and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.'</div> <div>  11 "Thus says the LORD:`Behold, I will raise up adversity against you from your own house; and I will take your wives before your eyes and give them to your neighbor, and he shall lie with your wives in the sight of this sun.</div> <div>  12 `For you did it secretly, but I will do this thing before all Israel, before the sun.'"</div> <div>  13 So David said to Nathan, "I have sinned against the LORD." And Nathan said to David, "The LORD also has put away your sin; you shall not die.</div> <div>  14 "However, <B>because by this deed you have given great occasion to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme</B>, the child also who is born to you shall surely die."</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v11" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Joel 2:28</B></A><B> </B>And it shall come to pass afterward That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh; Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, Your old men shall dream dreams, Your young men shall see visions.</div> <div>  29 And also on My menservants and on My maidservants I will pour out My Spirit in those days.</div> <div> 30 ¶ And I will shew wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.</div> <div>  31 The sun shall be changed to darkness, and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come.</div> <div>  32 And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the name of Jehovah shall be saved: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as Jehovah hath said, and for the residue whom Jehovah shall call.</div> <div> Acts 2:16 but this is what was spoken of through the prophet Joel:</div> <div>  17 'And it shall be in the last days,' God says, 'That I will pour forth of My Spirit upon all mankind; And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, And your young men shall see visions, And your old men shall dream dreams;</div> <div>  18 Even upon My bondslaves, both men and women, I will in those days pour forth of My Spirit And they shall prophesy.</div> <div>  19 'And I will grant wonders in the sky above, And signs on the earth beneath, Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke.</div> <div>  20 'The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the great and glorious day of the Lord shall come.</div> <div>  21 'And it shall be, that everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.'</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Bwgrkl" >;</FONT><B>John 3:3 </B>Jesus answered and said to him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born anew he cannot see the kingdom of God.</div> <div>  4 Nicodemus says to him, How can a man be born being old? can he enter a second time into the womb of his mother and be born?</div> <div>  5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except any one be born of water and of Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.</div> <div>  6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.</div> <div>  7 Do not wonder that I said to thee, It is needful that *ye* should be born anew.</div> <div>  8 The wind blows where it will, and thou hearest its voice, but knowest not whence it comes and where it goes: thus is every one that is born of the Spirit.</div> <div> <B>7:39</B> But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.  </div> <div>  <A NAME="pro21_3"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v16" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Proverbs 21:3</B></A> To exercise justice and judgment is more acceptable to Jehovah than sacrifice.</div> <div>  <A NAME="rom12_1"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></div> <div> <A HREF="psalm_51_l.htm#v19" TARGET="TRLX_Left" TITLE="Psalm 51 Overcomer When Nathan the pro"><B>Romans 12:1</B></A> I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to<B> present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God</B>, which is your spiritual worship.</div> <div>  2 Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.</div> <div> 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.</div> <div> Malachi 1:11 For from the rising of the sun even unto its setting my name shall be great among the nations; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure oblation: for my name shall be great among the nations, saith Jehovah of hosts.</div> <bR> <div>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>