Hebrews 7:26 For such a High Priest was fitting for us, who is Holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and has become higher than the Heavens;
Approximately 1,000 years before Christ was born, David wrote about all the Benefits of being a believer in God. He had committed horrible sins and the Holy Spirit convicted his heart to repent, which he did. God answered David’s repentance with forgiveness. God still forgives today. He has not changed nor will He ever change.
David was obviously a singer. He wrote most of the Psalms which are actually songs. We have the lyrics to the songs but no melodies. Songs and poetry come from within the heart of the writer and as we read Psalm 103 we find the words of a man who is overcome with thanksgiving for the Lord Who has forgiven him of so much.
The lyrics of the Psalm (song) speak to all the Benefits of having been forgiven by God. It’s amazing to think that David wrote these words 1,000 years before Jesus was even born! He wrote this in the days when the people were making daily sacrifices at the Temple for their sins and placing their faith in the annual sacrifice on the Day of Atonement by the High Priest. Perhaps David wrote this Psalm immediately after the High Priest made Atonement for his sins. We don’t know, but he had to have felt in his heart the Forgiveness of God to write this song.
Anyway, David began his song of thanksgiving with praise to the Lord for all the Benefits that were included for people of faith in those days. That is, faith in the sacrifice, made exactly according to the Law, which resulted in Redemption for the people.
Personally, I believe this is why God called David, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after My own heart, who will do all My Will. (Acts 13:22) David committed some pretty horrible sins; the worst. But when he approached God in sincere repentance, God forgave him and set him free from the bondage of all the sin and the iniquity in his heart.
As we discussed yesterday, iniquity is the condition of the heart which causes people to live a lifestyle of sin. Iniquity causes sin to have dominion over us. Due to the sin nature we are all born with, we will all sin at times. That is different from iniquity. Sin requires the Forgiveness of God. Iniquity requires the Deliverance of God.
David knew it was all available to him through his faith in the sacrifice made by the High Priest on the Day of Atonement in the Holy of Holies. We know this to be true due to the Final Sacrifice made by Jesus on the Day of His Crucifixion. You see, Jesus was the Sacrifice, the Holy of Holies and the High Priest. Because of His FINAL Atoning Work on the Cross, we can know the Forgiveness of our sins and the Deliverance of the iniquity in our hearts just like David did. It all comes by way of faith in the Sacrifice.
When we read Psalm 103, we should feel what David felt. We should know that our sins have been forgiven and that we have been delivered from the iniquity in our heart. This feeling; knowing; believing is what results in true faith in the Cross of Christ. Jesus totally fulfilled the Law. As stated above, He was the Sacrifice, the Holy of Holies and the High Priest, all in One. This is what Jesus meant when He said, Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets, I did not come to destroy but to fulfill. (Matthew 5:17)
Jesus paid it all to……….turn the tide………..in your life.
Redeemed! How I love to proclaim it! Doreen
