Posted by Pastor Brian Cheung | Posted in Devotion In Psalm | Posted on 02-08-2010
Tags: Definition, Iniquity, Sin, Transgression
This psalm is a beautiful psalm that all believers would enjoy to read and to meditate. I would like to look at this psalm from a theological perspective, like most other psalm. Hopefully, through it we can understand more of our sin, iniquity, and transgression.
Commentary:
There are three words about sins that are similar in meanings. These words are sins, iniquity, and transgressions. What is the distinction among them? The original Hebrew for sin is chata; the word means to miss the mark or to fail the duty. It is often as understood as some evildoing. Some Chinese may misunderstand sin as only breaking the coded law of society. Sin actually breaks the ideal of God; at such, it would include the thoughts and the actions. More important, it speaks of the innate errant way of man.
Transgression is the action that oversteps God’s limits. The original Hebrew word is pasa. These limits are set either in the heart of man or codified in the word of God. For example, although a person may not know the Ten Commandment, he/she would intuitively know that murder and lying are wrong. That is why no one can say that they did not know they have acted against God.
Iniquity includes both actions and thoughts. The Hebrew word is aon. It should not be confused with the Greek word, which means age. The word can be understood as the perverseness or wrongness. As such iniquity can be committed in thought as well as action.
Psalm 51:1-2
. The psalmist David was able to distinguish the three words in the first two verses. He asked God to blot out his transgressions. To blot out is to wipe out from memory. What stores in the memory is obviously something done. David committed his sins of sleeping with Bathsheba and killing her husband. These evil deeds were stored in the memory of God. David petitioned God to wipe them out, so he could be renewed again.
. The psalmist David was able to distinguish the three words in the first two verses. He asked God to blot out his transgressions. To blot out is to wipe out from memory. What stores in the memory is obviously something done. David committed his sins of sleeping with Bathsheba and killing her husband. These evil deeds were stored in the memory of God. David petitioned God to wipe them out, so he could be renewed again.David then asked God to wash him from his iniquity, perverseness or wrongness, in verse 2. He made himself like a garment. He has been soiled because of his transgression. He wanted to be clean from his perverseness.
Finally, David wanted to be cleansed from his sin. The deep rooted errant desire needed to be cleansed by God and God only. David made that point clear that sin was innate in us in v. 5.
Psalm 51:5. He said that he was conceived in sin. This was not about either parent committed in adultery. This was about how sin is all men and gets to pass down from one generation to another generation.
. He said that he was conceived in sin. This was not about either parent committed in adultery. This was about how sin is all men and gets to pass down from one generation to another generation.Meditation:
What sin, iniquity, and transgression do we commit on a daily basis?
Prayer:
Dear Heavenly Father, let us examine in our heart and reflect on our deeds so that we do not sin against you. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.
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