Psalm 51 (Discussion Questions)

1. Was there anything you didn’t understand from the sermon today?
2. What were the mistakes or poor decisions that made David an easy target for temptation and the sequence of increasingly bigger sins?
3. How do you prevent or avoid temptation? What do you recommend to other people versus what you actually practice in your own life?
4. How do you become vulnerable to temptation in your own life? What sins does that weaken your defenses against?
5. Even though David confessed, God still judged him and held him accountable. Have you seen God’s judgement in your life? Have you seen it in the lives of others?
6. What needs to change so you can pursue God aggressively or purposefully? Are you actually going to do it? Be honest with yourself.

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either but right through every human heart and through all human hearts.

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn