Every word that we say is necessary

Rom 6 7 because anyone who has died has been freed from sin.
Rom 7  4 So, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God.

The apostle is saying that when we were saved the voice of the law which is the curse was pronounced upon us as law breakers. But because Christ took the curse on Himself ...He had to be punished for lawbreakers so that He could unite His  work of His incarnation with His death, resurrection and ascension to be worthy to be the absolute judge. It was not just that Christ took our sin upon Himself but that He gave us the ability to enjoy the fellowship as He does within the Trinity and gift us with all the riches that He obtained. In Christ we are brought back to our full strength and ability. The whole point of being united with Christ is  that we would be fundamentally necessary in our purpose in fulfilling Christ purpose in uniting all things for His glory. We go from being condemned by the law to standing with Him in judgement.     1 Cor 2 Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases? 3 Do you not know that we will judge angels? How much more the things of this life! He is saying that we are able to provide solutions so that we prosper as leaders in our cities. The culture is to unify success with a persons natural abilities by always being a person who is part of the solution. Just like the Jews stick together so the nt believers are always promoting the interest of their people. The only other option is to be under the curse. This is what it means to be judges of the world. To put them on a leash.

Now listen to me. We are not teaching that we are so evil that our lives are worthless so that Christ life replaces our lives.  We are saying that all reality is caused by God speaking it into existence. Everything that we say about God has been created and described by God. You cannot separate His word from His image. You cannot separate His Spirit from His word. All the vocabulary that has ever been understood by mankind has originated from God. Gods vocabulary is so far beyond our own that our language is like baby talk. God is the only one who has a perfect perspective of the personality and image from the language that we use in our descriptions. Every word that is spoken by man and by God has value based upon Gods freedom to pronounce blessing and cursing at all times. God describes all things in the absolute truth in dwelling as the eternal judge in which the future judgement has already been pronounced so that all things are absolute at all times as if the future has already been transposed on the present. When the apostle says that we will judge the world he is saying that as we rise up in this mysterious presence of God through pronouncing  the curses and the blessings we are fulfilling our image of the future judgement in which we will stand with Christ. Every thing that we say now is necessary!  

Nothing can thwart Gods power

Ps 44 17 All this happened to us, though we had not forgotten you or been false to your covenant.

18 Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.

19 But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals and covered us over with deep darkness.

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

21 would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?

This Psalm is the prayer of Gods elect for national repentance. When the nation of Israel were unfaithful to Gods covenant they were exiled and made slaves to other nations. A lot of people teach that when God is calling for repentance He is directing it toward His covenant people. But in the Psalms a covenant child is one who stands in a mediatoral before God as a representative of redemption for the nation.  There is never a time where God applies His law in an accusatory fashion toward His own children. In this Psalm we see this clear distinction as we understand the only acceptable words to petition our Father in returning faithfulness to His full substitutionary success in keeping us from judgement. If we were to stray from this disposition then we would be in danger of being cursed ...or being judged by the whole weight of the law. Ive prayed this Psalm for 30 years so that I have not shrunken from living in the full identity of this perfect substitution. 

Again to show you that I am teaching the consistent distinction here as God addresses His people in a national way and speaks of His covenant children as distinct from "his people"60 3 You have shown your people desperate times; you have given us wine that makes us stagger .4 But for those who fear you, you have raised a banner to be unfurled against the bow. "Selah"You have given your people...speaking of those who are circumcised as citizens of Israel and "those who fear you" speaking off  Gods elect within the nation.

And what does Gods elect proclaim? That they"have not strayed from His path." Does this statement mean that Gods people were perfect in all of their behavior? Absolutely not.  In the Psalms there is always a proclamation of moral excellence that is that is put in the context of two kinds of kingdom. In other words in this verse to "lift your hands to an idol" would be to communicate in a way where you show more importance to the thing than to God. This is not talking about being moral as the evidence of faithfulness. Let me show you some other scriptures. In this Psalm that connects perseverance in salvation to Israel destroying all of their enemies is this same distinction.Ps 18 21 For I have kept the ways of the LORD; I have not done evil by turning from my God.22 All his laws are before me; I have not turned away from his decrees.23 I have been blameless before him and have kept myself from sin.....29 With your help I can advance against a troop; with my God I can scale a wall...30 As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him." This is the typical way that the Psalmist proclaims his innocence and his purity. Why does the Psalmist proclaim that he is perfect? There is a consistency that is like a single thread that runs through the whole book.  The Psalms teach that God orders all things by His perfect word. In this way to confess that God has been perfect in the communication that has worked out to the benefit of the elect is to speak of Gods perfect work as evidenced in the elect in His creating and recreating. "The word of the Lord is flawless" 

This is the way that the Psalmist reasons as a representative of Gods creative word. You will see this in Ps 19 where he proclaims that salvation is God being free to speak in creation and in recreation without any opposition that is able to thwart His word. And then the Psalmist acting as Gods creative representative proclaims... 14 May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer." What is the Psalmist saying here? He is proclaiming that all reality in his life is created by God so that according His word the Psalmist is successful. The name of God as Rock is always talking about Gods unhindered power to overthrow all the enemies of Israel in war. As God is the Rock so we go from one deliverance to another according to Gods free acts in overcoming all of our opposition. The identity of Redeemer is that God does not respond to us according to our obedience but only according to His unfailing love. The cause of our overcoming is simply appealing to Gods unfailing love. So the Psalmist is saying that he is always speaking the laws, covenants, decrees, promises and statutes for the purpose of being fully delivered when facing one opposition to another. This is the same petition as Ps 143 12 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant."Our walk is a communication. 

Overcoming our past

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.

7 The LORD reigns forever; he has established his throne for judgment.

8 He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.

9 The LORD is a refuge for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble.

10 Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you.

11 Sing praises to the LORD, enthroned in Zion; proclaim among the nations what he has done.

12 For he who avenges blood remembers; he does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

13 O LORD, see how my enemies persecute me! Have mercy and lift me up from the gates of death,

14 that I may declare your praises in the gates of the Daughter of Zion and there rejoice in your salvation.

15 The nations have fallen into the pit they have dug; their feet are caught in the net they have hidden. 

This Psalm teaches that when our desires are united with Gods desires we experience an eternal kingdom that has no limits of time. Believe it or not when our kingdom desires are frustrated, we are expressing our inability to exercise our own power to have success in having our desires fulfilled. This is seldom taught in the pragmatic age we live in. The Psalms describe the holistic activity of God in working all things for His purpose as the evidence of His holiness.  Gods sees all time in one view. His desire according to His law and covenants is completely successful. The king is saying that when he is frustrated in his desires there is a sense in which past desires are always being redefined in the present in order to experience the holistic purposes of God as He defines His holiness. His desires of anger or joy in the past events are never forgotten. 

There is a teaching that God forgets our sins like He erases them from history. We have this obsession with forgiveness as if our not remembering is what heals us. But this is just a foolish idea. Because everyone remembers their past. And to say that we are able to forget what has happened is to be disingenuous in describing the human condition as if we are able to do things that are not human. If people were honest who proclaim that they are forgiven because they ask for forgiveness then in reality they should be silenced for the rest of their days since the law requires death upon confession. Why is it that we take these biblical concepts and bring them down to a level that we can control. The truth is that as our desires are experienced based upon our history that we are functioning under an obligation that God has given us to fulfill His perfect government that can only satisfy our desires. In this Psalm it teaches the legitimate use of past desires that come up in the present. This is what Ive been teaching for a long time. Its not whether we can forget and deny but its how we can use our desires both from being wronged or from receiving rewards as motives for greater success. 

And you see this in the teaching of the Revelation where God collects our prayers in heaven and they are presented before the altar and they are cast as balls of fire of judgement upon the earth, Here the Psalmist is presenting his past anger in a legitimate way according to Gods government as a motive to to experience freedom and success in the present. You will find this kind of timeless perspective in how he complains about his present suffering. He adds from his past memory of anger or happiness in the sense of increasing the passion in the desire as God sees the events from His eternal perspective. They are always before God in this timeless view. Our rewards come from using the good and bad desires to increase our passion to overcome all opposition and to see the salvation of God.  

The two curses

Ps 62 1 My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.

2 He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

3 How long will you assault a man? Would all of you throw him down-- this leaning wall, this tottering fence?

4 They fully intend to topple him from his lofty place; they take delight in lies. With their mouths they bless, but in their hearts they curse. "Selah"

All troubles in this world are caused by the wicked who rise in power , who redefine Gods word. When the Psalmist describes how he is opposed by these schemes (lies) he uses the word "assault" as a metaphor of being assaulted physically. The redefining of Gods word as spoken by the wicked as God counts each word in experiencing this assault is described in the word "curse". The Psalmist teaches two kinds of cursing. The wicked cursing the righteous and God cursing the wicked.Ps 109 "4 In return for my friendship they accuse me, but I am a man of prayer.5 They repay me evil for good, and hatred for my friendship. 6 Appoint an evil man to oppose him; let an accuser stand at his right hand." Here the Psalmist is distinguishing between a wicked man who uses accusations in order to destroy people and move up the ladder of success and a righteous man of prayer. What does the Psalmist pray? He prays that God will place the whole weight of the law and condemnation upon this man.The Psalmist is simply repeating the words of God that pronounce judgement upon this violent opposition. Now listen! there is no neutral communication in Gods kingdom! Any word that is spoken to redefine Gods perfect kingdom is to speak violence. 

This is why I am so dogmatic in describing salvation as justification by faith being equal to being acceptable to God because of Christ when we are judged by the whole law. If I were to say that there is further work to be done after we are justified then God would need to scrutinize each word that we say and condemn us because of the corruption that is part of our describing. Now listen this is really important. Our confidence in Gods promises is dependent upon understanding that our personal rejection in facing our opposition is the same as embracing the curse. We must embrace this whole package deal in being accepted and supported by the word of God with a kind of impersonal reaction to our opposition. Once we try to explain this judgement in our own anger and experience we fall from grace. God has given us an outlet in the ligament use of the "righteous curse." 

When we divide our experience and seek to address each issue we are pragmatist. When we use pragmatism to define our experience its like throwing water on the good witch . Our defense is using Gods word to unite our experience with His desires. Our whole problem with insecurity is in experiencing disconnection with all that God has created both physical and meta physical. We can only gain more confidence when we unite Gods purposes in the "righteous curse" as we stand free from the condemnation of the law while the wicked suffer under the full weight of the law. We experience the ultimate unity when we worship God as absolute judge or substitute in the back drop of this awful pronouncement that sheds the greatest light upon the goodness of God in all of its colors.

Having regard for the weak

Ps 41 1 Blessed is he who has regard for the weak; the LORD delivers him in times of trouble.

2 The LORD will protect him and preserve his life; he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes.

3 The LORD will sustain him on his sickbed and restore him from his bed of illness.

4 I said, "O LORD, have mercy on me; heal me, for I have sinned against you."

5 My enemies say of me in malice, "When will he die and his name perish?"

6 Whenever one comes to see me, he speaks falsely, while his heart gathers slander; then he goes out and spreads it abroad.

7 All my enemies whisper together against me; they imagine the worst for me, saying,

8 "A vile disease has beset him; he will never get up from the place where he lies."

9 Even my close friend, whom I trusted, he who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

10 But you, O LORD, have mercy on me; raise me up, that I may repay them.

11 I know that you are pleased with me, for my enemy does not triumph over me.

12 In my integrity you uphold me and set me in your presence forever.

13 Praise be to the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

Ive spent a lot of my life working for non profits.  When I was younger and needed some logical instruction that would create a holistic experience in my family this Psalm was absolutely essential in drawing me into a proper disposition that I needed to enjoy the utmost free exercise of my gifts and the joy of seeing others benefit from the value of using them. This Psalm teaches that God values us by creating the circumstances and our desires to be united in enjoying the experience of the highest pleasure that is available on this earth. "he will bless him in the land and not surrender him to the desire of his foes."

The Psalms teach that the principle of Gods government is to defend the weak and helpless. When we are describing the moral equation for serving it is in the context of seeking those things that are most valuable on this earth and avoiding the other things. God has gifted us with all good things both spiritual and physical. This Psalm teaches us the logical way to think about receiving gifts and giving gifts. I do not believe that we can entertain two separate truths that run parallel that are addressing two approaches to how God deals with us and not embrace contradictions. The point is that God values our giving by judging some men as the price for His redemptive success in our lives. At all times Gods judgements are sure and steadfast. There is no time where God has a place in which judgement is suspended. If God were to say that two men who opposed each other in the same place and at the same time in the same purpose in which He was defending both at the same time He would not be dependable. The point of salvation is that God delivers some people out of the judgement that is determined for others.   

The logical philosophy the Psalms teach us about salvation is that there is no other option than to separate men into two states so that God proves that He is a covenant keeping God in defending His promises and His representatives. God commanded Israel to subdue all the nations around them when they entered the promise land. The reason that God judged Israel was because they failed to subdue all the nations. The principle of persevering in salvation is that we are identified as over comers. This NT description of the saints is drawn out of this metaphor for salvation in the OT  command for Israel to subdue the nations. The point is that evil is spread by evil men. The more evil men  flourish in society the more danger..(.the ot compares this to leaven) there is for Gods people. So God shows the value of His defense as the evidence of His love that is the principle cause of our service. When we are defended in this absolute sense then we are free to serve as God subdues our foes. I will talk about how we are to hold some things in private so that we can be most free in public.

Gods government

Ps 30 5For his anger lasts only a moment, but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

6 When I felt secure, I said, "I will never be shaken."

7 O LORD, when you favored me, you made my mountain stand firm; but when you hid your face, I was dismayed.

8 To you, O LORD, I called; to the Lord I cried for mercy:

9 "What gain is there in my destruction, in my going down into the pit? Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?

10 Hear, O LORD, and be merciful to me; O LORD, be my help."

11 You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

12 that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever.

5a" For his anger lasts only a moment"..Whenever the Psalmist speaks of Gods anger, he is describing his experience with physical wounds or ailments that cause him to be spiritual weak. He is saying that when he suffers in this way that his way of opposing this opposition through the pronouncements and curses is Gods medicine , which is Gods anger replacing his own anger and Gods ability to use spiritual Novocaine so that the bad experience is erased from his memory.  This opposition that we experience can be fierce and violent. If we tried to do something to oppose it in our own way then we would cause a lot more pain and we would be trapped by the devil. Some people go down side roads for many years. They never grow in their spiritual exercises. 

5b "but his favor lasts a lifetime" The only way to create deliverance is through the language Spirit and word. This is the philosophy that we advance through Gods word and we proclaim that its not in our own swords or horses. How can we act correctly if we are not participating in the advancement on the organization level? Well we are called to act in a way that is consistent with Gods work. But we never trust in this community of men. Rather we advance by pronouncements, laws , decrees, curses that are on our lips in which we rise to experience mystery. In other words we rise up above the level of mans interaction.  Now listen every person has the ability to be secure and happy in themselves. We do not need each other to be complete in ourselves. But we need each other on a much deeper level. We need the exercise of spiritual gifts. This kind of community interaction is seldom experienced in this day. We can divide the history of the church into high times and low times. When there is very little spiritual conversion there is all kinds of fleshly connections to one another.  He is saying that our normal experience of the christian life is through the eyes of a king who rules over a kingdom. This is like going beyond the description of the present culture and through word reordering the whole christian context. Gods strength is like fighting in a battle and coming out victorious and self confident by not having any opposition. He explains how he feels unopposed in that God through the pronouncements of the laws, curses etc...has subdued his opposition. His favor is a life time!

 8" To you, O LORD, I called; to the Lord I cried for mercy" In this context the Psalmist is using the argument that he experienced freedom so that he was able to change the culture. He is saying " Will the dust praise you? Will it proclaim your faithfulness?" that this is his only focus. He is freed through experiencing mystery. The mystery that he has obtained through praises and curses. This is described in the word "mercy." Mercy is Gods description of this world and His ability to overcome all opposition. Mercy is our receiving a gift according to Gods standard of justice and equity on the basis of Christ work. It is never just a glob of trials mixed with blessings. This is why the Psalmist communicates about Gods governing ability according to Gods standard of acceptance. So we find that the Psalmist is freed from his own limitations by Gods description of making him a king through the work of the perfect king. The Psalmist speaks these words that transcend his own time and culture. These rise to the level of Gods eternal perspective.  

Spiritual transformation

Ive memorized most of the NT, Psalms and Proverbs.  I started to memorize about 36 years ago. I memorized two to three verses a day. It has been a slow transformation from a purely physical and practical view of life to a meta physical creation of the image of Christ through the pronouncement of covenants, laws, decrees , statutes and promises. Every day I experience the blessed unity of the fruit of the Spirit in the sense that the individual descriptions of the fruit are all united in the experience of the perfect image. In this sense there is a blessed interaction on a personal level with a Person who is present in this Spirit. This has been a slow transformation from the word to the reality.

We understand ourselves and the world according to our own view. God has gifted us with His word that has been the cause of all things that exist. This communication of God has been outlined for us so that we can have fellowship with God and with one another according to learned knowledge that has been practiced so that we can gain a greater understanding of ourselves and our world. This outline is the communication that explains the order of creation and relationships. We find this creation of the perfect image in the form of petitions, pronouncements, curses , laws and cries in the Psalms. The bible is a book that is inspired by God so that every word is God breathed. The bible is not a book in which the individual doctrines and principles are disconnected from the other words that explain another principle. But the bible is a book where one word contains the spirit of all the words. We do not seek to divide the bible into morals or principles but we speak the outline so that we create an epistemology in which we change through deliverance. We are actually relearning a completely different vocabulary.
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Unless we learn this vocabulary we will never speak correctly. The bible says that those who do not apply themselves to the words are like babies who are still on milk. In the Psalms the baby is one who is too weak to carry the weight of this perfect image. God has created all things by the word of His mouth. Not only has He created these things but He has ordered all things by His spoken word. If the word was not essential to the success of the christian life then we could be transformed by the any idea that we have of Christ. But the epistemology of change comes from God gifting us with His covenants , laws, decrees..etc. as the agent for our experiencing His creation and recreation. So when we meditate on the Psalms day and night we are actively redefining ourselves and the world that we live in. If all the christian world participate in pronouncing and petitioning God through this perfect outline then we would see Christ kingdom flourish throughout the world. Not just in the christian context but in the governmental.

Our natural level of thinking is weak and ineffective. Our fall back position is to be overcome by all kinds of evil dispositions. To think with the vocabulary that we get from education, parental instruction and occupational learning is to be disingenuous in some way. The only personal communication that erases the corruption that comes through corrupted agents is the word of God. Each one of us are only genuine when we are miss understood in this corrupted system. This is why the Bible only gives one solution to personal salvation. Every person who opposes Gods salvation must be judged and cursed. The avenue of change is through experiencing one deliverance to another. When we pray the Psalms we pray as if there is not other person on the earth. The philosophy of deliverance is that we must be freed in order to be of help to others. I mean freed in the sense that we speak the blessings that rise to the level of real glory and the curses which descend to the level of real spiritual death. Most men are entertaining a fantasy. Any other way to experience freedom is really taking a sugar pill. But to take the real medicine we must know what the experience of mystery is.