Justification by faith is describing our status as kings and priest of the Most High. When we are saved we are freed from the bonds of sin because we are definitively sanctified. The Psalms teach that our view of ourselves is argued from our position as already enjoying the identity that we will have in eternity. The curses are implemented to keep these other lesser images into recreating the old life in us. The old life was our being controlled by guilt, fear,shame, worry etc.
Salvation is described in the Psalms on the standard of a personal relationship with Gods king. If we are gonna have a claim to our inheritance, all the promises in Gods covenants and Gods declaration of innocence because of Christ work on our behalf then we are gonna trust in a communication of these images that is an imaginary reality to those who not believers. Why would we lower ourselves to the communication of process Christianity that teaches us to have possibilities of being back under the power of the curses? If we have been freed from the curse by Christ substitution atonement and ascension of absolute control then it would be as foolish to let a non believer tell us who we are as a blind man telling us where to go.
In this way Gods salvation is like our constitution. If we do not know who we are as citizens then our ignorance will only harm our practical lives. This is how God has communicated to us in constitutional words. He has given us gifts that are in the words of law-the pronouncement of death on the guilty who are not under the atonement, the covenants- that pronounce blessing on us in waring with the curse, and the decrees that are promises to work all things for our good and for His glory. These are written declarations for us to have on our lips at all times. It would be wise for us to start acting like kings instead of using fleshly methods in our preservation.
God has established His kingdom. He has not really opposed the kingdoms of the world through force. God doesnt need any man to fight His wars. Gods judgements are absolute at all times. There is no power that even comes close to Gods judgements. God doesnt win through opposing. He simply pronounces judgement and destroys. It is an imagination to think that we are essential in opposing evil. Our opposition is shown in the course of history as all the kingdoms of man become obsolete. Do not put confidence in the flesh...I repeat ...do not put confidence in the flesh but in Gods declarations that are absolute. We have chained the curses to the pulpit and look at all our cultural destruction that we must overcome now.
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