”Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David. For I will harm you no more, because my life was precious in your eyes this day. Indeed I have played the fool and erred exceedingly.”“ I Samuel 26:21 NKJV
a. I have sinned: The last time Saul was in this situation he was overcome with emotion. His feelings seemed right but his life was not changed (1 Samuel 24:16-21). This time there is something cold and mechanical about Saul’s words. The words seem right but the feelings aren’t there.
b. For I will harm you no more…. Indeed I have played the fool and erred exceedingly: It seems– both from the “feel” of the verse and Saul’s subsequent actions – that Saul wasn’t repentant but only regretful, bitterly realizing that once again David got the better of him. His words in 1 Samuel 26:25 express this also: You shall both do great things and also still prevail.
i. “The Apostle makes a great distinction, and rightly, between the sorrow of the world and the sorrow of a godly repentance which needeth not to be repented of. Certainly Saul’s confession of sin belonged to the former; while the cry of the latter comes out in Psalm 51, extorted from David by the crimes of after years.” (Meyer)
ii. Morgan on I have played the fool: “In these words we have a perfect autobiography. In them the complete life-story of this man is told.”
I Have Sinned!
Pastor Robert of Calvary Tucson has said, if you claim you don’t sin you are a liar!
”for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,“ Romans 3:23 NKJV
(Meyer) “The Apostle makes a great distinction, and rightly, between the sorrow of the world and the sorrow of a godly repentance which needeth not to be repented of.”
Can you say, I have sinned with godly repentance?
Psalm 51 is biblical example of a prayer with godly repentance!
Blessings
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