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laughing, too. Sometimes these laugh tracks are played in front of a studio audience. They're not even aware of the fact that they're hearing it come out over a loud speaker system. It sounds for all the world like other people in the studio with them. It's all done just to get the audience into the feeling of laughter. So, you see, joy can be infectious. And as believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, we should want to be "audience sweeteners" as it were, making the sounds of rejoicing. Too often we are hypocritical in the sight of the Lord and before others. Guilt Can Be Removed Now, as we look at verse nine in Psalm 51, we find another petition David makes. He seeks to have the guilt and the stain removed from his life. How we need this, too. He says, "Hide Thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine in– iquities." Have you ever stopped to realize that if God can't see our sins, then we can't see them either? In this way, the guilt can be completely removed. There's an old story you've probably heard before. Doubtless it's apocryphal but it does illustrate a point. It con– cerns a man who is greatly disturbed because his wife has been nagging at him constantly. He commisserated to his friend, "You know, whenever my wife gets mad and upset at me, she always gets historical." His friend laughed at him and corrected, "You've got that a little mixed up. You don't mean that she gets historical, you mean that she gets hysterical." The brow-beaten husband affirms in response, "No, I mean she gets historical. She keeps throwing up the past to me." Well, unfortunately that may be true in certain homes. But God never does that. When our sins have been confessed and when they've been completely cleansed thereby, God's face can no longer see them. It's really tragic, I think, that we're so anxious to se~ ~r at least to hear about the sins of others. I don't know why it is that people have such a morbid curiosity about the trans-
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