Monday, December 21, 2020

The Psalmist is teaching divine salvation is an ongoing process. We go soberly from one deliverance to another. The question is how are we defended so that we are confident that we will be delivered? The Psalmist employs that precise term for God as Rock and secure refuge or high tower.The Psalmist is describing the attempt by the wicked to curse the righteous. This curse is not like the curse of the law. This wicked curse is designed to convince us we are going to lose in hand to hand combat with the enemy. Therefore, the Psalmist gainfully employs the term Rock which is a military term speaking of being faithfully delivered in the most fierce part of the climactic fight. The reasonable term is referencing our most vulnerable organ which is our functioning brain is the most protected by the Rock.

 What is the wicked curse? It is describing us according to their independent state of conscious guilt and shame. God has begun transforming us according to His creative word. The Psalmist sufficiently describes Gods view always from the highest point so that he can observe all of time. Gods description of us is in direct conflict with the wicked man. God regards us graciously according to His blessing. This is why the Psalmist speaks of the wicked cursing God and the righteous. They describe the image of God and His people according to their inability to deal with the curse of sin. In this way that immoral power that prevents them from admitting the truth is controlled by the pronounced curse of the law.

 God develops us as a new creature. He must properly defend us by the fulfilled curse of the law. Our position as new creatures is undoubtedly a commanding position. The bible teaches we are already like Christ but we are still awaiting the thorough renovation. The wicked was cast down into such terrible blindness and powerlessness that they describe their view from the most base instincts. When the Psalm speaks of the wicked blessing in their hearts its talking about flattery. They are speaking approvingly of people for selfish purposes. We describe this as setting you up, so they can wound you. The most base instinct is to intentionally set up everyone to wound them. But that is cursing Gods magnificent creation. And they are merely receiving the eternal curse of the law.

 You see we live vicariously in the remarkable foresight of God who does not deal with us according to our sin and weakness. When we struggle, God has pity on us. He considers our struggle as a weakness because we are provided the ability to always be aware we are sinners. The most noble gift of grace is this gift of moral awareness. If we were unaware of our sin then the curse of the sacred law would not be pleasing to us. The sheer fact that we remain sinners means that we need to be resolutely defended by the Perfect Man. He is saying we genuinely have a Friend with us at all times who is the divine creator, the one who comprehends us better than we know ourselves. He has the eternal foresight to determine the beginning from the end. The Perfect man has given us an Advocate who defends us according to Christ standard of law keeping. Christ took our curse. The Psalmist is teaching that God curses the cursors. Put differently when we are the most vulnerable, God shelters us from the fatal blow. We are consistently completely delivered.
 

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