Psalm 25:11 For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my iniquity; for it is great. God's principal aim is to bring us all to feel that our iniquity is great. I. DAVID DECLARED THAT HIS WAS GREAT. What is it that makes our sin great? 1. Against whom it has been committed. 2. That it is offence against most just and equitable law. 3. That we who owe so much to God should sin against Him.Think of the number of your sins and the lack of all provocation. We have sinned for sinning's sake. And we have gone on in sin after we have known and felt the evil of it. II. THERE IS A PLEA IN THE VERY GREATNESS OF OUR SINS. The pith of the whole text lies in the words which we forget to quote — "For Thy name's sake." The confession is an argument now. There is a valid plea here. If salvation were by merit, then the least offender would get off best. But it is all by grace; and hence the greater the pardon, the greater the glory of that grace in bestowing it. ( C. H. Spurgeon.) Parallel Verses KJV: For thy name's sake, O LORD, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great.WEB: For your name's sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great. |
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