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Save us and help us with your right hand, that those you love may be delivered.
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God has spoken from his sanctuary: "In triumph I will parcel out Shechem and measure off the Valley of Succoth.....11
Give us aid against the enemy, for the help of man is worthless.
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With God we will gain the victory, and he will trample down our enemies.
The teaching of salvation is reversed when we are comparing it to Gods view of value. There is nothing that we receive in salvation that can add to our value. Everything that God gives us makes us indebted to Him. When we are describing Gods eternal predestination, it is not really a foundation of our trust but it is through which we overcome all things as the debt increases. This process by which these things of salvation become valuable to us, the more we are indebted to God, is taught in cursing. Everything that is opposed to us both physically and meta physically has been destroyed by death. When Christ died He paid for the consequences of our law breaking by experiencing the effects of the curse. Christ became a curse for us. If Christ was eternally nailed to the cross then the symbol of the curse would be forever present. But Christ overcame the curse by leaving the cross empty or being raised from the dead and ascending to the right hand of the Father. All our enemies are gifts to us as our personal relationship to debt as that by which we overcome the opposition through the debt effects that define the free ness and the value of the gift. In this sense as we descend into the terrible destruction of the opposition we ascend to the effects of Christ victory that does not originate from us.
This is what the apostle meant when He said that we glory in tribulation. Tribulation is simply facing opposition that weighs us down.Speaking of the political opposition to grace the Psalmist says 94 4
"They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers are full of boasting.
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They crush your people, O LORD; they oppress your inheritance" "They pour out arrogant words"- speaking of the state of men in blindness who speak with words that oppose Gods kingdom...the reality of the laws, decrees, curses, and the covenants. "full of boasting"- is a man who is a god unto himself. He opposes the kingdom that God has established through the laws..etc..and he redefines the world according to his absolute law over other people." They crush your people" - any description that oppose God to rule absolutely is speaking violence. The original state of man in blindness is a culture of words that are spoken to oppose God and His people as the cause of all violence both outward and inward in Gods people. They "crush your people" is like being threatened , captured and meta physically and physically harmed. This is why all of teaching of grace and salvation are interwoven as God weighs every word that has ever been spoken in mans horizontal and vertical relationships. Each man is created as a government in which he rules himself and others as his own god or as fully seen in the work of Christ. Each man responds to everything that he experience by either blessing or cursing.
You will see that the wicked "curse" the righteous as a reaction to the opposition This curse is a violent opposition. Speaking of the wicked.. 10 7
His mouth is full of curses and lies and threats; trouble and evil are under his tongue." The wicked mans desires are not fulfilled.112 10" The wicked man will see and be vexed, he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the longings of the wicked will come to nothing".
The righteous speak the curse from the law. This is what the Psalmist means when he says 140 8 do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, or they will become proud. "Selah" But the righteous are a kingdom who rules by Gods creative desires
19 He fulfills the desires of those who fear him; he hears their cry and saves them.
In Ps 139 the Psalmist explains Gods implantation of the seed of His word. He is saying that God design the creation of the lives of His elect before before they were born. The principle of simplicity is swallowed up by complexity is taught in Gods creative hand in searching us out. The Palmist is saying that because God created us like Himself we also are implanted with His creative word. The word is a simplification of His detailed creative word. This is why the Psalmist who has experienced Gods speaking into his life then breaks out into the praise of Gods word that expresses the Psalmist desires that consume the Psalmist experience by the by the baby talk of His revealed word. 16 b All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.17
How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them!18
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand. When I awake, I am still with you.-speaking of meditating in his sleep and awaking in that activity. Then the Psalmist unites his desires with Gods desires as the expression of the natural response of His heart . He says 19
If only you would slay the wicked, O God! Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!"
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