Wednesday, October 30, 2019

The Psalmist turns away from the earth and focuses on God. He understands when he approaches God that he has received  the promises for himself. The main points of his petition are laid out in this Psalm that explain his approach in all the Psalms. God has provided us with benefits of our salvation. God deals with us according to His word. So the Psalmist reminds God of His promises to forgives,heals, redeems  crowns and satisfies.These promises are not steps to God but the Psalmist appeals to God according to his present experience. We are always in need of forgiveness, healing, redeeming and being crowned but in this life there are pressing issues that we address because God wants us to be honest.  God wants to listen to us explain our problem and the pain we are experiencing. These benefits or dealings of God meet all of our needs in order for us to return to our identity in the covenant of creation. We must be forgiven, healed of our maladies, redeemed in our work and crowned with authority.  In the Psalms the authority is turned upside down. God crowns his people with love and compassion because we must take care of the poor and feeble.

We know that in pronouncing the law, covenants, curses, statutes, promises, decrees and statutes we are appealing to God for these needs to be met. So the Psalmist reminds us that these benefits are given to us by grace.. Our salvation is in Gods hands.He is working out our salvation. He reminds us of the history of Israel when God delivered His elect out of Egypt.6  The LORD works righteousness
and justice for all the oppressed.7  He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel:The Psalmist always uses Gods righteousness and justice as metaphors for the success of His axioms.God had to satisfy the law in order to provide us with the benefits of our salvation. He has turned the law away from us. Now the law provides us with the confidence that God will never fail in working through the axioms. If the provisions were worked out in God then the promises are sure. This is why  the Psalmist pronounces the law because it provides him with the confidence that God will work on His behalf.God works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

The Psalmist does not appeal to God because he is a successful king. The ways of God come through supernatural means. In this sense we do look for a sign from God.86 17  Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me." We are required to speak the axioms and not become complacent in our pre supposition. We live our lives receiving illumination on a daily basis. The Psalmist is not looking for a sign in thinking he is acceptable to God. He is speaking the axioms and the sign becomes public.

The reason that God calls the nation of Israel the oppressed is because when God cursed the earth it is always moving toward lawlessness. So God turns the societies upside down by cursing the wicked. Just like we are crowned with love and compassion so God must always deliver a people who are being oppressed by the wicked. We must speak the curses so that we are able to help the people who are being abused.

The Psalmist is saying  that Moses was the only man who God confided in. God shared His reasons with Moses and performed the miracles in front of the people. Now instead of God speaking directly to His servants, He speaks to us by illumination of His axioms. If God intervenes in the history of the Israel ,then all of our circumstances are directly caused by Gods intervention.

 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever; When we are saved we become a child of God. Our Father is the judge. When we were under the condemning power of the law we were cursed. God had no mercy on us. But when we are in covenant with God , He pities us. In other words , when we were under the law we hated God. We curse our neighbor and worked to destroy all that was good in society. But as Gods people we were given an understanding that we are sinners and we cannot work to destroy all that is good. So God now says you see my child?, how pitiful he is because of his weakness and sin.

So now we are caught in the world that is cursed. Every time we suffer the effects of the curse we can complain that God is treating us with anger. This is why the Psalmist says that God will not harbor anger and treat us according to our sins. If God has done all  the work in Himself then , how can He be angry with the people who have been saved by His perfect work? The Psalmist says that God will not treat us according to the worse sin of rebellion toward Him. He has removed all of our rebellious acts as far as the east is from the west. Now we have this chain that is taught to us in that  God will forgive, heal, redeem , crown  and satisfy us. The axioms are contained and cannot lead us out of this chain of promises.The only way to be forgiven is by appealing to God through His covenant promise. The only way to be healed is to appeal to God according to His promised unfailing love, The only way to be redeemed is to appeal to God according to Christ satisfaction of the law, The only way to to be crowned is to speak the law and the curses as the king. The only way to be satisfied is to rule the earth when God unifies our circumstances.

We have confidence to speak the axioms because we are coming to a Father who knows  that we are dust.14  for he knows how we are formed, he remembers that we are dust." Even if we have fallen into sin our own contrition will not satisfy Gods demands. There is not hope of being saved than the sheer mercy of a Father who pities our best efforts. If we are counting our sins and trying to show our sorrow our Father looks at our best efforts with pity. He is NOT IMPRESSED. When we confess our sins we must come to understand but for the grace of a Father who pities me were i to be condemned like the wicked.

15 As for man, his days are like grass,
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
  the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
But from everlasting to everlasting
the LORD's love is with those who fear him,
and his righteousness with their children's children-
18  with those who keep his covenant
and remember to obey his precepts.

You see if God were adding up our sins or holding us to count the expense of His grace then we could get something from Him because of something we have. But the Psalmist shows us how terrible is  the plight of a sinner. There is not hope for the wicked. God has made the decision before He created the world to curse the wicked. If there was something in us that could make God like us then He would not be nice in cursing the wicked. But the Psalmist is saying there is only one reason that we are not cursed. Its because God pities us like a Father His children . So He has provided His children with speaking the worse curses against the wicked to show us that we must never count our sins. We are only righteous because it is strictly Gods salvation. 

   
  

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