Psalms 51:10

Psalms 51:10

Three things must happen before anything can be created. The Spirit of God must move upon the face of it, the word of God must speak to it, and the blood of Christ must wash it.

I. If you wish to be God's children indeed, the Holy Spirit must work in your heart. As the Spirit moved over the face of the waters, so must the Holy Spirit move in your heart. The Holy Spirit is often compared to water, because water makes clean.

II. The Bible is the word of God. When God made the world, He spake with His mouth. Now His speech is in the Bible. In Ephesians 5:26 we read, "That He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word" that is, the Bible.

III. And Jesus Christ, we know, must cleanse us too. "The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin."

IV. Suppose you have a clean heart, will it keep clean? Here comes the beauty of the text. It says, "Create in me a clean heart, O God;" and the next part says, "Renew it" "Renew a right spirit within me." This is what we want every day. If clean today, it will be dirty to-morrow. Therefore we must say, Renew it over and over again. "Renew a right spirit within me."

J. Vaughan, Children's Sermons,1875, p. 229.

References: Psalms 51:10. Spurgeon, Sermon's,vol. ix., No. 490; Ibid., Morning by Morning,p. 305; E. B. Pusey, Parochial Sermons,vol. ii., p. 181.