PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 51:11 take not your Holy Spirit from me. Some scholars argue that here David asks God not to remove the divine anointing for kingship (compare note on 1 Samuel 16:14). But the whole tone of this psalm is that all persons are sinners and need God’s mercy. The psalm intends to keep the entire congregation from ever presuming on God’s grace. It does not teach that believers may in fact lose the Holy Spirit.

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