Ps 12 1
Help, LORD, for the godly are no more; the faithful have vanished from among men.
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Everyone lies to his neighbor; their flattering lips speak with deception.
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May the LORD cut off all flattering lips and every boastful tongue
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that says, "We will triumph with our tongues; we own our lips--who is our master?"
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"Because of the oppression of the weak and the groaning of the needy, I will now arise," says the LORD. "I will protect them from those who malign them."
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And the words of the LORD are flawless, like silver refined in a furnace of clay, purified seven times.
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O LORD, you will keep us safe and protect us from such people forever.
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The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men. This Psalm is teaching that there are two kinds of communication that are in opposition to one another. God has created and order all events in this world by His word. When we come to God we come to Someone who is can be trusted because there is nothing that can thwart His word which is spoken to us through His covenant. Gods covenant is shown as faithful because it is given to us in a complete document in which the words are held together by a single thread. His word is so powerful that it reorder all of reality. Since we are gifted in salvation with these words of creation that reorder all reality we are able to oppose every enemy at the point of being as successful as God is able to redefine our image. The answer to all of our problems comes when God corrects this miss understanding by thwarting all the opposition to His substitutionary work on our behalf.
This Psalm is teaching that God created the world with perfect personality and interaction. His word is complete from the beginning of time to the end. It is purified seven times. It withstands the heat of the opposition in the sense that it destroys all the intents of man in redefining His word. This description is kind teaching that we are made by His description of us as the only secure language that we can trust. We are in a sense all that we are in a world that is totally unified in the total description of Gods creative and re-creative word. All of our success is dependent upon the success of Gods holistic description of us.
When the Psalmist faces evil it is in the attempt to redefine Gods recreation of us. You will find that God communicates on a level that is more detailed that His revealed word. All of these pronouncements like the law, curses, covenants, etc are given to us in light of His ability to oppose the heat of the opposition that is mysterious to us. So you see these terrible storms that create devastation in societies. You see the heat in the power of Gods word in the mysterious level of destruction. God speaks in the storms that show His personal presence in how he over turns the culture. He has spoken this mysterious destruction to show that His judgements are sure and steadfast. This kind of mysterious destruction is present in us in the curses of the law. Everything that opposes us is only real as it can be view with the wisdom and the eternal foresight of the perfect order in unifying Gods purposes as He defines judgement. This is why there is freedom in finding mystery because our experience with sorrow and all the cursed effects in this world are powerless when we experience Gods terrible response in His destructive curses.
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