Ps 106 34 They did not destroy the peoples

as the LORD had commanded them,

35 but they mingled with the nations

and adopted their customs.

36 They worshiped their idols,

which became a snare to them.

37 They sacrificed their sons

and their daughters to demons.

38 They shed innocent blood,

the blood of their sons and daughters,

whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,

and the land was desecrated by their blood.

39 They defiled themselves by what they did;

by their deeds they prostituted themselves"

In the Psalms, idols are dead things that are a result of the marked fall. When man sinned, God cursed the human race and magnificent creation. Idols are despicable because they cannot produce the essential conditions of spiritual renewal. The curse of sin and extensive corruption brought about the spiritual death of the human race. Idols are produced by spiritually dead people. A person born in sin cannot transform their spiritual condition. The solitary way that a person can escape the prison of producing idols is to be renewed and made spiritually alive.

The dead sinner worships idols by developing distorted images. Before the created foundation of the world, God declared all things into necessary existence. God remains the lone person who breathes life into His creations. Everything that God created is a comprehensive description of lively images. God's divine revelation is a thorough description of the reality of all the necessary things. He is the only Person who can reasonably describe His creation according to its genuine value. This is why the Psalmist says that God's divine revelation is like precious gold and silver. His exact description of all things is breathing life into elaborate creation. The revelation of God is the only standard in this world of ideal images. Because sin inflicted death on the human race, God had to breathe life back into the spiritually unresponsive person. The Psalmist sufficiently describes this new birth as implantation of the sacred word of God. When God saves a person, he is no longer dead. God breathes life into a person by implanting the entire revelation. The elect of God is no longer in bondage to the imaginative power of lifeless things.

A person implanted with the entire revelation of God in this life and eternity will grow in his understanding of God's revelation. The elect cannot be cursed with death. But the world and the creation continue to produce dead images and proliferate cursed images. Any time man redefines God's law, he is describing a dead image. Our considerable opposition is not just our moral failures but they are warring with the wicked redefined images. We only have one weapon to exercise our control over the power of the curse as it is presented to make us return back to its control.  

The Psalmist says he will not even have the description of the idol on his lips. The inspired prophets urged the prosperous nation of Israel not to scarcely handle the unclean thing. If we do not measure everything by the word of God, we can willingly believe things that cause guilt, sorrow, shame, and fear. These functional attributes are all cursed dispositions that were disarmed when we were made alive in Christ. God has delivered His law, covenants, curses, decrees, statutes, and promises in pronouncements to dominate the curse. The entire world is under the control of the curse. We speak the pronouncements to control the entire cursed world. The Psalmist is no talking about the dangers of idols in our temporal relationship to them, but our cognitive ability to war against the spiritual dangers as we compare the factual knowledge with the sacred word of God.

We have been implanted with the word of God. We have been made completely new. The word of God is not new knowledge but constantly renews us by irresistibly reminding us who we are. The pronouncements work beyond our intellectual understanding to create the conditions of the kingdom of God. We pronounce the eternal decrees and the future glory visits our present experience. We pronounce the curse and we resolutely push the destruction under our feet. We pronounce the covenant-law and God's fearful retribution consumes our personal anger. We pronounce the promises and we experience a child Father relationship in the protected identity of blessing. The word of God recreates our unified view of ourselves and the world. These authoritative pronouncements can never be exhausted. As we speak them, we vicariously experience spiritual conversion.