Friday, January 4, 2019

 Ps 75 10I will cut off the horns of all the wicked,
but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up."

The Psalmist is teaching that God is always just. Since God has created the earth and it has been corrupted because of sin, He must always remain just because He has justified Himself in behalf of His elect. So we must understand that our view of justice being enacted is not as good or bad as the reality of Gods ongoing enforcement. This is why the Psalmist teaches that all of the rewards and punishment on this earth is decreed by God in His eternal counsel.  8In the hand of the LORD is a cup full of foaming wine mixed with spices; he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to its very dregs." The Psalmist is teaching that Gods moral standard is never violated. When God cursed the earth, He made man personal responsible by receiving the consequences of his choices. When man fell into sin God cursed the creation. God punishes in the environment of the curse. In other words those who are cursed have a pox on their lives. The pox is not God piling on. The pox is simply by man being unable to choose  the good he receives the consequences of each choice. He receives the eternal consequences.

He is saying that God does not rise up with emotions and react to the fall. God simply responds by acting with perfect justice and equity. So the world is not order perfectly by a God in reactions of emotional extremes, but it is enforced unity and stability. So all things are order by reasonable descriptions. All things are brought into existence in order to argue that God is God. We can say that all things come into existence by Gods spoke word. The Psalmist is saying that this natural order is created by God speaking in the expressing of unity and order by the law, covenants, curses, statutes, decrees and promises. The one desire of all creators that must be satisfied is Gods desire of stability  that is created by the axioms. When the Psalmist says that God pours out the drink , it is the reasonable defense of Gods purposes that are ordered by the axioms.

So we can say that all the descriptions of praise, glory, stability, joy, must be expressed with both the positive and negative axioms. In other words if we are to distinguish between a merely emotional reaction and conviction it must be experienced in the pronouncements of the axioms. The context of joy is both positive in the promises, decrees, law, and statutes and the negative pronouncements in curses. In order for feeling to follow the mind it must be through the pronouncements. So we say that praise is orthodox by distinguishing the sorrow from the curse and the sorrow that curses the curse. Y God orders all things by the law overcoming corruption in the pronouncement of death.And the wicked enforce corruption by redefining the law.  God overcomes the corruption by the law cursing the curses of the wicked. We see here that Gods activity in sustaining the standard of justice in cursing the curse is enforced by the pronouncements in cutting off the horns of the wicked. So we see that joy is experienced by pushing the curse beneath our feet in the pronouncement of the curse. We are guided by convictions and not emotion.    

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