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THE CONTRITE (BROKEN) SPIRIT IS BORNPsalm 119:75b 1. It is born of God. The contrite spirit comes from God. Let us not make the mistake of ascribing the credit for brokenness to Satan. Satan is rather the father of hard rebellion. Who broke Jacob in Genesis 32:25? It certainly was not Satan. It was the Lord! Satan buffets us to make us hard. God permits the buffeting in order to break us and make us tender! Psalm 119:51 2. The contrite spirit is born-not in the heart of one who is out of fellowship with God-but rather, in the heart of one who is basically right with God and therefore despised and derided by those who are not. It is only the upstream, against-the-tide Christian who ever knows brokenness. Job is an illustration of this truth. Job 1:8 So is Joseph. Genesis 37:6, 7, 9-11; 42:6 Joseph was right in the prophecies he made as a young man. He was "right" before god, but he was not broken before god. Brokenness is God's method of adding the dimension of grace to the law-keeper's life. Brokenness has grace for its lesson and mercy for its theme. Broken people become mercy-oriented people. Psalm 51:1 Psalm 119:54, 104b 3. The broken spirit is born in the heart of one who is "horrified", outraged by sin-especially the sin of those who "profess" to know God's law but actually "forsake" its principals. The contrite spirit is created in the heart of a person who breaks or grieves over double standards, hypocrisy, spiritual decay and erosion. Psalm 119:54 4. the contrite spirit is born when a believer continues to sing even when it seems that he is a "pilgrim"-alone and isolated. The contrite spirit exists in the heart of a person who can honestly say,
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