Tuesday, January 12, 2021

God gifts His justified people with humility. Eternal salvation is being implanted with God's Law and Spirit. The Apostle teaches we are sufficiently completed with the fullness of God. Our sin has been imputed to Christ, and we graciously receive His righteousness. In order for us to be completely forgiven God had accepted the atoning sacrifice of Christ on our behalf. The Psalmist teaches that salvation reverses all of the adverse conditions of our relationship of personal enmity with God. Enmity merely comprises the law's active work of harsh condemnation to prove we were cursed. We were covenant breakers who redefined God's Law to overturn God's comprehensive statutes. In redefining God's law we willingly became our own God by threatening our determined opposition. We tried silencing God's judicial decrees by acting as if God did not exist. We delivered mutual promises to convince reasonable people to follow us. We acted as if God's sacred promises were worthless. When we vainly sought to redefine the axioms, we spread violent destruction in the culture. But God did not deliver the saint's authority to take vengeance and annul the destruction. 

God had to uphold the axioms in cursing the redefining of man's personal gifts He fashioned him with. The proud man employs the noble gifts of God to wreck God's peaceable kingdom. The proud man receives the moral consequences of his rebellion. The axioms remain laws that graciously allow and forcibly prevent creating the success of God's kingdom. The axioms adequately define all that we sincerely desire for the good of the world that the wicked vainly seek to overturn. We regulate the world through axioms. God is renewing all things.94  9 Does he who implanted the ear not hears? Does he who formed the eye not sees?10 Does he who disciplines nations not punish? Does he who teaches man lack knowledge?

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