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and the Paul Tripp app. This week, Paul explores the significance of Hyssop in Scripture

and reflects on living between the already of Christ's redemptive work and the not yet of

complete deliverance from sin.

Here's this week's Wednesday's word.

Last week I wrote about Hyssop and how this little shrub features prominently in two locations in Scripture,

when the Israelites used it to paint the doorposts with blood during the Passover in Egypt, Exodus 12,

and when the soldiers gave Jesus sour wine on a sponge during his execution, John 19.

But there's one more prominent inclusion of the word that should catch our attention.

It's found in Psalm 51-7, Quote,

Purge me with Hyssop, and I shall be clean,

wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow."

It seems like such a strange, detailed request for a plant

from a man who's in the middle of confessing his life-altering and life-ending sins of adultery and murder.

Hissop might have some medicinal qualities, but not enough to bring back Yoriah from the dead or heal the grieving heart of Bathsheba.

So why Hyssop? David is confessing between the already and the not yet of Hissop, blood, and sacrifice.

Already the blood of the first Passover had protected Israel from death

and made their exodus to freedom and land of promise possible.

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