The sermon centers on Psalm 147:3 and applies the image of healing to hearts broken by sin. Genuine repentance is shown by grief over sin and rejection of sinful pleasures, while worldly sorrow alone is insufficient. God alone grants justification, peace, and restoration, and He does so through Christ, whose blood cleanses sinners. The message combines tender comfort for the penitent with urgent warning to the careless, proclaiming that those truly regenerated and healed by Christ will not finally perish.
Theological center: God sovereignly heals and justifies repentant sinners through the mercy and saving work of Jesus Christ, not through human effort or instruments.
Applications: Repent genuinely from sin · Look to Jesus for salvation · Cry to God for healing · Examine the reality of repentance
Primary texts: Psalm 147:3 · Isaiah 1:18 · Psalm 51:17
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3 THE next verse finely declares the power of God. “He telleth the number of the stars; he calleth them all by their names.” Perhaps there is nothing which gives us a nobler view of the greatness of God than a contemplation of the starry heavens. When by night we lift up our eyes and behold Him who has created all these things. When we remember that He brings out their host by number, calls them all by their names, and that by the greatness of His power not one fails, then, indeed, we adore a mighty God and our soul naturally falls prostrate in reverential awe before the throne of Him who leads the host of heaven and marshals the stars in their armies. But the Psalmist has here placed another fact side by side with t…