The most miserable man on earth is not an unsaved man. Many unsaved people are having a ball. They living high, wide, and handsome. A lot of fun. Never tell anybody you can’t have any pleasure if you’re not saved. Number one, it’s a lie. The Bible speaks of the pleasures of sin.
Now, the Bible says there for a season, but the Bible speaks of the pleasures of sin. And David here is miserable and he’s saved. He’s a child of God. And he is praying, “God, restore unto me the joy of thy salvation.” The most miserable man on earth is not a lost man. The most miserable man on earth is a saved man out of fellowship with God.
Take your Bibles and turn to Psalm 51. And while you’re turning, may I tell you that the devil does this? The devil will tempt us to sin. And he will say, “You can get away with it. You can get away with it. It’s all right. You can get away with it.” And he is the tempter. And then after you sin, he becomes the accuser.
And he says, “You’ll never get away with it. You’ll never get away with it.” And what he wants to do is to get you off balance, get you out of the will of God, and bring discouragement to you and make you feel that you can never ever again come back. I want to talk to you today about how to come back when you are down.
Now, Psalm 51 is the story of David’s repentance after he had sinned. You know that David committed the sin of adultery and then trying to cover it up, he committed the sin of at the best manslaughter, at the worst coldblooded murder. But this psalm is the psalm of a penitant because not only was David a great sinner, David was a great repentter.
And that’s why I love Psalm 51. Three basic things I want you to think about. The very first thing is this. The capability of sin in the saint. Now what I mean by that is that any of us have the capability to sin. When we get saved that does not mean that we lose our capacity to sin. Many times sin in a saint it is an unexpected opportunity and an undetected weakness.
