In today’s Global Broadcast, Asher deals with a very difficult subject: Humility, Holiness and Broken-heartedness in the light of sexual sin among spiritual leadership.
Psalms 51:10-12, 17
Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me away from Your presence, And do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, And uphold me by Your generous Spirit.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, A broken and a contrite heart—These, O God, You will not despise.
After David is confronted in his sin by the prophet Nathan, he recognizes the severity of his sin before God. In the fear of God, he realized that what he had just done jeopardized the entire kingdom of God in the earth. His sin was made public, exposed in all of its depravity. God had to expose it because He needed to move forward the plan of God despite David’s sin.
In the past year, so many ministries are dealing with allegations of sexual sin across the world. Here at Tikkun Global, we believe in covenantal relationships. We want to handle these situations correctly, judiciously. But with all of our good intentions for the right process, we simply have to come to the place where we are broken-hearted over all of it. It’s disgusting; there is hurt, there is sin, there is dysfunction on every level. And we need to stop, and deal with it before God.
In Ezra chapter 9, after the victorious return of Israel from the exile, right in the middle of rejoicing, Israel had to deal with the sexual sin of the leadership. Ezra responded by plucking his beard, tearing his shirt and weeping over the sin of his people. Only after deep repentance were they able to walk through the judicial process of what to do about it in chapter 10.
WATCH today as Asher contrasts the sexual dysfunction of the lineage of David and the righteous response of Miriam as she maintained her purity in the midst of an evil generation and became the mother of Yeshua.
We live in an ungodly world. All of us have to choose holiness over the love of, or even friendship with, the world. We need to walk in humility, in holiness, in broken-heartedness before the living God in order to be righteous vessels in the earth.
