We belong to a new kingdom
Psalm 9

1 I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; I will tell of all your wonders.

2 I will be glad and rejoice in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

3 My enemies turn back; they stumble and perish before you.

4 For you have upheld my right and my cause; you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.

5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.

6 Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy, you have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished.

7 The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.

8 He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.

9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.

11 Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.

12 For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

13 O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,

14 that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.

15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden.

16 The LORD is known by his justice; the wicked are ensnared by the work of their hands. "Higgaion." "Selah"

17 The wicked return to the grave, all the nations that forget God.

18 But the needy will not always be forgotten, nor the hope of the afflicted ever perish.

19 Arise, O LORD, let not man triumph; let the nations be judged in your presence.

20 Strike them with terror, O LORD; let the nations know they are but men. "Selah" 

This Psalm is one of my favorites. It is a Psalm that I spoken a million times through out my 30 years of meditation. I think we must first of all understand the approach that David takes as he rules over Israel. I think ive presented this accurately throughout my years of writing. But the Bible describes the awful state of man in sin. Because sin has created man as his own god. Man was originally one with all that God created. Man enjoyed fellowship with God and was given rule over the earth. This details of mans original position before the fall is seen in the God- Man. In Christ ministry we see Him controlling the created elements and healing everyone with disease. As Christ walked from one city to another He acted perfectly toward His Father in a face to face relationship. Not only did the exalted Christ work all things together as God but He acted as a man to bring salvation and deliverance through the same creative hand. 

You see this in the Psalms in the usage of the anthropomorphism's. Simply describing God who is a spirit who had no parts in a language that we can understand. These human descriptions are put in the context of describing how God creates something from nothing. And this distinguishes God from man in that every tool that man has, even the language is borrowed from God. When we are talking about the law, it is a distortion to present it as just a tablet of ten things that we are to do in order to prove that we have faith. God cannot act with the hand, arm, feet etc without acting according to His law. So when I say that God has already established His law, I am saying that all things are being held together because Gods law is established through the Psalmist use of these anthropomorphisms.

This is how the Psalmist approaches God in this Psalm. I do not think this is taught clearly but when we are saved we get Gods desires. The desire is "My heart says seek His face...His face I will seek." I do not think we do service to the unity of God when we divide these desires in the elect between righteous and unrighteous. The struggle with desires in the psalms is between the righteous and the wicked.  This description of the new man, which is each elect, is written down in the Psalms in a language that is a creative way that Christ thought , spoke and acted. When we think this way and speak this language it is different from any other cultural language on this earth.We really are not presented as trying to get out of the former kingdom and into the new kingdom by keeping the law or doing certain things but we just adopt this language and we are in this future kingdom. I will talk more about this Psalm.