Acts 2 28You have made known to me the paths of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence. 33Exalted to the right hand of God, he has received from the Father the promised Holy Spirit and has poured out what you now see and hear. The baptism of the Spiritis also a seal of protection. That Christ has risen from the dead and baptizes the saints. He is comparing the eternal life with the death of David. The Holy Spirit not only gives us this immediate assurance but He empowers us to go in a direction with the assurance that we willhave success.Ez 14 22Yet there will be some survivors-sons and daughters who will be brought out of it. They will come to you, and when you see their conduct and their actions, you will be consoled regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem-every disaster I have brought upon it23 You will be consoled when you see their conduct and their actions, for you will know that I have done nothing in it without cause, declares the Sovereign LORD ." God decrees whatsoever comes to pass. God does not have hot anger. He is all action. When the scripturesays that God is angry He simply lets man go His own way. Before the foundation of the world God determined all the good and bad actions of men.God description of history is simply prophecy speech. We are comforted when we speak the Psalms when we are threatened orAnd if we still believe that all Holy Scripture is ‘written for our learning’ or that the age-old use of the Psalms in Christian worship was not entirely contrary to the will of God, and if we remember thatOur Lord’s mind and language were clearly steeped in the Psalter, we shall prefer, if possible, to make some use of them. What use can be made? You cant cut the curses out of the Psalms.as Dr Moffatt translates it, ‘Thou art my host, spreading a feast for me while my enemies have to look on.’The poet’s enjoyment of his present prosperity would not be complete unless those horrid enemies (who used to look down their noses at him) were watching it all & hating it.This may not be so diabolical as the passages I have quoted above; but the pettiness and vulgarity of it,especially in such surroundings, are hard to endure." How can we trust God to defend us if He overlooks His judgements and gives our enemies a chance to argue against His law?, ‘and of thy goodness slay mine enemies’. Even more naively, almost childishly, Psalm 139, in the middle of its hymn of praise throws in (v. 19), ‘Wilt thou not slay the wicked, 0 God?’ —as if it were surprising that such a simple remedy for human ills had not occurred to the Almighty." If God created man with the glory to rule creation by applying the law then to endure opposition would take away the glory of Gods creations. He makes no sense. The law is goodCs Lewis- Worst of all in ‘The Lord is my shepherd’ (Psalm 23), after the green pasture, the waters of comfort, the sure confidence in the valley of the shadow, we suddenly run across (v. 5) ‘Thou shalt prepare a table for me against them that trouble me’ — or,