"confession" Tagged Sermons
The series closes with Micah 5 shown to prophesy Christ both explicitly and implicitly, transforming even the most desperate circumstances into occasions of his glory. The return, finally, is to Micah’s own tears and confession of sin in 1:8 and 7:9, a prophet who weeps for Israel even as he proclaims her hope.
Verse 6’s reference to ‘the floods of great waters’ points past Noah’s flood to a final judgment still to come. David and Noah share the same posture of confession before that judgment, not presumption. Verse 7’s hiding place is nothing less than being hidden from that coming judgment in Christ, who is himself in God.
Psalm 32 works on three levels at once: strategically placed within the Psalter, doctrinally loaded with justification by faith alone and the gospel’s extension to the Gentiles, and deeply personal in its confession. Its structure reflects all three, moving from blessing to confession to instruction. None of the three levels can really be separated from the others.