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NASB | Psalm 51:11 Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Psalm 51:11 Do not cast me away from Your presence And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. |
Bible Question: A dear friend once admonished me to be careful when leading people (in worship) with the popular worship song "Create in me a clean heart". Can someone give me a good explanation that I might use regarding the idea (in this context) of God "taking His Spirit away"? |
Bible Answer: ? This admonishment from your friend sounds like the result of having to defend an unscriptural doctrine. He/she did not like that way the psalm was written and felt compelled to change it. This should have been a warning to him that they might have a wrong doctrine. The TRUTH does not need defending. I will sing and pray Psalms 51 as written and admonish anyone that would tell me not to that THEY should be carful that they are defending a man made doctrine. And if you don't think the Holy Spirit can be taken from a man then you do not have a healthy fear of God. If David had not of repented he would have ended up like Solomon sacrificing to false gods. New Testament christians can end up going back to what they were if they do not repent of sins that they are convicted of. Get rid of this strange idea that OT truth is false. Truth is eternal Truth never changed The Law and the Prophets did not become an untruth after the Cross The Law and the Prophets are understood in a fuller measure as a result of the Cross. The Jew is not bound to the ordinances of temple worship after the fulfillment of these things in Christ (the gentile never was) but the Truths that the temple worship were pointing to are eternal. The truth that the wages of sin is death is both a new testament and OT doctrine. No the Holy Spirit did not leave David, and it does not leave us if we have the heart of David and repent when convicted. But if David did not repent the Holy Spirit would have left. If a new testament saint hardens their heart and whispers peace and safety to themselves (with the help of the enemy) and refuses to repent of such things as fornication then they will eventually become apostate. But, you say this cannot happen, they will always eventually repent becuase they are born again and cannot stay in that miserable state. And to that I say amen, that is why you know them by their fruits. The saved repent. If one refuses to repent and dies in that state they are not saved. |