Ps 9 4 For you have upheld my right and my cause;
you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
5 You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
you have blotted out their name for ever and ever.
6 Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy,
you have uprooted their cities;
even the memory of them has perished. "
The necessary course of our lives is predetermined by the eternal will of God. When Christ rose again, He obtained the secure possession of all necessary things. The continuous history of the world is ordered for His glory. Our previous failures remind us of the logical impossibility for us to go back and perform them over again. Everything that we persistently fail to perform or fall short of performing correctly reminds us of our evident inability to measure up and perform what we compelled the necessary strength to achieve. All of the things and situations that we avoid prove we cannot trust our particular strength to be secure. So all of the comprehensive histories are a display of God graciously allowing and preventing. We never act apart from God ordering it and imparting our sufficient strength.
The Psalmist is saying we can be confident when we prefer what we genuinely enjoy that glorifies God. We scarcely trust in our determined efforts to be better or confident that our enjoyments will be satisfying. We trust that our corruption proves we cannot add anything to our account of good or bad. The unique thing we come to be is because God orders it. We must learn to stop searching for social acceptance but reasonably conclude we failed because we were incapable.
This is why the Psalmist is reasoning that the purpose of the Psalmist life is always complete because God can only fulfill the Psalmist purpose in a perfect kingdom. In Gods kingdom what is corrupt must die and cease to exist.The Psalmist life is ordered by God in destroying all opposition. The only way to destroy all opposition is for God to will whatever comes to pass by allowing and preventing.
Not only does God will all events but He orders all thoughts. So God can cause to remember or forget. God orders all meta physical realities through the law, covenants, curses, statutes, promises and decrees. Everything that we fail to do or that we succeed is willed by God as He speaks the pronouncements so that our corrupted effort are recreated as if we did the wrong or the good in perfect unity. Gods elect live in a recreated universe where they cannot fail. Either by succeeding or opposing. 6 Endless ruin has overtaken the enemy,you have uprooted their cities;even the memory of them has perished.
This is why the Psalmist is reasoning that the ultimate purpose of life is always complete. God fulfills the purpose of an ideal kingdom. In God's kingdom what is corrupt must die and cease to exist. The Psalmist's life is ordered by God in quelling all opposition. The exclusive way to eliminate all opposition is for God to will whatever comes to pass by allowing and preventing.
God orders all the intelligent thoughts of man. Hence, He can cause us to remember or forget. God orders all metaphysical realities through the law, covenants, curses, statutes, promises, and decrees. Everything that we fail to complete or that we succeed is determined by God as He speaks the authoritative pronouncements. Our corrupted effort is recreated as we did the act in perfect unity. He faithfully recreates the universe to prevent the beloved saints from failing. He gave us the empirical law to subdue and overcome all determined opposition.9 6 "Endless ruins have overtaken the enemy. You have uprooted their cities; even the memory of them has perished."
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