1. Pleading for a Clean Heart
The heart that is defiled and heavy with the guilt of sin is miserable. David pleaded with God for a clean heart. God answered David’s plea and He will answer yours too.
Psalm 51

2. Pleading for a Clean Heart Psalm 51
Sin starts in the Heart (Mark 7:21-23)
King David (2 Samuel 11:2; Proverbs 6:25; Matthew 5:28)
Simon the sorcerer (Acts 8:21-22)
Sinful man needs a new heart!
He’ll die spiritually without it! (Ezekiel 18:30-32; Romans 2:3-5)

3. God gives new hearts!
The new heart which God gives will have greater devotion to keeping His law! (Ezekiel 11:19-20; 36:26-27; Ephesians 4:17-19)
Initially, we receive a new heart through a process of faith and obedience (Acts 15:9; 1 Peter 1:22; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11)
Christians receive cleansing when we repent, confess, ask in faith, and TRUST GOD! (Psalm 51:1-10; 1 John 1:9)

4. “But take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts be weighed down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that Day come on you unexpectedly.” (Luke 21:34)

5. “The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart— These, O God, You will not despise.” (Psalm 51:17)