Ash Wednesday 2022 – Take Your Garbage To The Curb
March 2, 2022
- Harold Long
- Ash Wednesday
- 1 John 1:8-9
- 1 Peter 2:9
- Exodus 19:6
- Psalms 51:1-17
- Revelation 1:6
- Ash Wednesday
- Ash Wednesday 2022
- Character Defects
- Confession
- Father
- Good Deeds
- Holy Spirit
- Jesus
- Jesus-Centered
- Lent
- Shortcomings
- Sin
- Son
- Spiritual Exercises
- Spiritual Principles
- Step Five
- Take Your Garbage To The Curb
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Psalm 51:1-17 / Common English Bible
For the music leader. A psalm of David, when the prophet Nathan came to him just after he had been with Bathsheba.
51 Have mercy on me, God, according to your faithful love!
Wipe away my wrongdoings according to your great compassion!
2 Wash me completely clean of my guilt;
purify me from my sin!
3 Because I know my wrongdoings,
my sin is always right in front of me.
4 I’ve sinned against you—you alone.
I’ve committed evil in your sight.
That’s why you are justified when you render your verdict,
completely correct when you issue your judgment.
5 Yes, I was born in guilt, in sin,
from the moment my mother conceived me.
6 And yes, you want truth in the most hidden places;
you teach me wisdom in the most secret space.[a]
7 Purify me with hyssop and I will be clean;
wash me and I will be whiter than snow.
8 Let me hear joy and celebration again;
let the bones you crushed rejoice once more.
9 Hide your face from my sins;
wipe away all my guilty deeds!
10 Create a clean heart for me, God;
put a new, faithful spirit deep inside me!
11 Please don’t throw me out of your presence;
please don’t take your holy spirit away from me.
12 Return the joy of your salvation to me
and sustain me with a willing spirit.
13 Then I will teach wrongdoers your ways,
and sinners will come back to you.
14 Deliver me from violence, God, God of my salvation,
so that my tongue can sing of your righteousness.
15 Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will proclaim your praise.
16 You don’t want sacrifices.
If I gave an entirely burned offering,
you wouldn’t be pleased.
17 A broken spirit is my sacrifice, God.[b]
You won’t despise a heart, God, that is broken and crushed.
Footnotes
- Psalm 51:6 Heb uncertain
- Psalm 51:17 Correction
Hello Kingdom Family,
Welcome to our 2022 Ash Wednesday message titled “Take Your Garbage To The Curb.” In our time today, we unpack Psalm 51:1-17, and what it means to take personal inventory, confess our junk, and move our garbage to the curb, where the “Holy Garbage Collector,” named Jesus, can remove your garbage forever. Jesus can’t haul off our garbage if we aren’t willing to bring it to the curb.
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Shalom,
Team Hill-Tran
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