Salvation comes from God

62 1b my salvation comes from Him. 
Here the Psalmist is making a distinction that man cannot save , only God can.  Ps 146 3" Do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save." The Psalmist believes that all problems must be overcome by being delivered by God. No problem is too small or too big. This is how the Psalmist distinguishes between disrespect and honor. Only God can make us honorable because only God can provide what we need by doing an act that silences our foes. 143 12 "In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant". This plea is in the context of using the Psalms to exalt God and oppose his the opposition. The Psalmist is a spiritual warrior and is a professional in using the law, decrees, curses and promises in prayer to obtain mystery. Just like when Jesus was flogged by professional soldiers in the Roman army who knew how to torture the prisoner through practice. So the Psalmist obtains this mysterious rest by pouring out his heart to God and opposing through the curses.  62 8" Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge. "Selah"And on the other hand as a warrior who opposes 69 24 Pour out your wrath on them; let your fierce anger overtake them. God is our Rock18  31 For who is God besides the LORD? And who is the Rock except our God?" This salvation that comes from God is to deliver us physically and spiritually from all opposition. 46 The LORD lives! Praise be to my Rock! Exalted be God my Savior!47 He is the God who avenges me, who subdues nations under me,48 who saves me from my enemies." The salvation that we receive from God is very simple. We just appeal to His unfailing love. Which is not just being saved in the event but its hearing the salvation. 13 5" But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation.In this grammar construction unfailing love and salvation are interchangeable. 31 16 Let your face shine on your servant; save me in your unfailing love." The Sovereign Lord is the Lord of glory who appears in the most trying part of the battle to lift us out and save us. He shines His glory and the enemy is destroyed. Let your servant see this glory and be saved. 35

 We do not just  receive salvation one time but it is also ongoing. Salvation is spoken to us as we are begin delivered.  35 3 "Brandish spear and javelin against those who pursue me. Say to my soul, "I am your salvation." We long to be delivered and God answers our prayers.  But in answering our prayers He gives us Himself. Our spirit cries out Abba Father and He testifies with our spirit that we are the children of God. This is in the context of us having already received all that Christ has obtained. In this Psalm we experience a conversion or a revival. When the event is united with Gods purposes our desires are heightened. When God comes in this way we feel like co- heirs with Christ. 9 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.7The 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." This is the Kings Psalm expressing his thankfulness that God has made him king over the earth.

I will continue on this Psalm...there will be no pragmatism. 

We trust in God alone.

 Ps 62 1 My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him.What does the Psalmist mean when He rest in God? First he reasons that he has been saved into a Family in which God fights the Psalmist battles. Ps 21 1 O LORD, the king rejoices in your strength. How great is his joy in the victories you give!2 You have granted him the desire of his heart and have not withheld the request of his lips. "Selah"3 You welcomed him with rich blessings and placed a crown of pure gold on his head.4 He asked you for life, and you gave it to him-- length of days, for ever and ever. 5 Through the victories you gave, his glory is great; you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty. The Psalmist first of all wants to be respected. The only way that he can be respected is to be protected. Here the Psalmist is saying that its Gods battle and victory. Ps 20 7 Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. The Psalmist has been saved into Gods kingdom. This kingdom is represented by Gods name. The Psalmist is saying that he is only successful because God is upholding His own name. The Psalmist can be confident that Gods kingdom has already been established. 
The second reason is that when we are saved our old will is destroyed. In place of our old will we have a new set of desires. Speaking of himself the Psalmist declares Ps 21 2 You have granted him the desire of his heart and have not withheld the request of his lips. "Selah"What is this desire? To condense this teaching it is that we would be successful and overcome all opposition. In the same chapt 21 he goes on to express his desire 5 Through the victories you gave, his glory is great; you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty.God has given us a desire that reflects Gods desire...
27 8 My heart says of you, "Seek his face!" Your face, LORD, I will seek. In this context he is saying when we face opposition our new desires overcome all opposition 140  8 do not grant the wicked their desires, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, or they will become proud. "Selah" So the Psalmist is saying that Gods kingdom has been established in our hearts and we express it in our desires in prayer. This kingdom has already been established so that we rest in the protection of Gods law and we are seen as being obedient. We rest by desiring to overcome all opposition because of the simple fact that we are protected by Gods upholding His own name. I will continue on this Ps 62

God crowned man with glory

The God of all glory created us as a being.
He exists in eternity as the Sovereign Trinity.

His eternal breath made man an eternal soul.
He made man in His image to make him transcendently whole.

God made mans soul with mind, will, and emotions,
He enjoyed a peaceful unity, void of any commotion.

But the soul’s peaceful existence was interrupted,
When the body of sin entered, all its faculties were corrupted.

The mind, will, and emotions, were thrown into sins prison,
To appear before The Sovereign Judge for His final decision.

The heavenly soul’s existence was cast away,
Now hells eternal fury put the soul in dismay.

A created being became en-caged.
His mind now darkened, his will in bondage, his emotions took center stage.

On the surface of his being, his emotions were unbridled,
But the mind took control; its darkened depths were unrivaled.

His emotions only clouded the depth of salvations plea.
The darkened mind perceived the raw data and not the Trinity.

With the soul in jeopardy it made a willing plea,
For the souls will is the most attractive of the three.

The soul wills to be set free, but only by works you see.
For self will blinds the soul of making Christ his only plea,

Its self dominance that leaves the soul in an unhappy state,
For it is faith in Gods grace, the mind must embrace.

For my mind has always been in the Potters hand.
Every thought is molded according to His sovereign plan.

A willing to do right is a freedom in my soul.
For I have freedom to depend on the Holy Spirits control.

And, O the sweet emotions that are now my minds pleasure!
They inflame my soul with life, for His good pleasure.

O Holy Spirit, who hovers over creation,
Illuminate my soul’s desires for your work in my salvation.

The kingdom of obedience through unifying grace

When we are regenerated we are given the eternal life of God. God speaks life into us. This is what the bible calls a new creation. But Gods eternal spoken word is all one. In this sense God has ordained whatsoever comes to pass in His eternal counsel by His spoken word. God sees the beginning from the end in one view. So Gods eternal life that is implanted in our souls is unified as a new kingdom that dwells in us. This is why we believe the bible is like a chain that connects each word ....held together so that it cannot be separated. In this way one word is the spirit of all the words. If we are regenerated we receive the total of eternal life. I mean as God has simplified salvation so that we are not consumed.

But in order for regeneration to be given as a gift someone had to meet the requirements of the law. Because the consequences of sin is death. Someone had to live the standards of the law and die in place of those who are regenerated. If God has decreed whatsoever comes to pass then everything in our lives has been created by His word from eternity past. This means that Christ had to act in our place in obeying the law and doing the works of God as Someone who has already visited the steps we take before we take them. What people do not think about is how important it is to be free to act rather than just acting for acting sake.

This is what regeneration did for us.  Before we were regenerated we were obligated to sin and rebel because we were our own god. We were bound to the curse like someone who is locked up in chains. But when we are regenerated we become free to act. The reason is that Christ has met the requirements of the law as if ever action that we do is added up to meet the requirements of the law, because without Gods acceptance of Christ working for us we would be under the power of condemnation rather than acceptance. This is what it means to obey. Given freedom to choose and not having to be scrutinized to the point where we are always being accused. The apostle said that it was not I who do it but the grace of God in me. He is saying that he no longer is under the power of the curse so that the freedom that he experiences is what unifies his natural desires with Gods desires. The grace or freedom unifies His experience.

In Gods presence we rest

I believe that we should experience the life of God as being without tension. I am not a Buddhist. I do not believe that we can eliminate all thoughts and get into a state of nothingness. Which is their definition of being without tension. But I believe that Gods presence is mysterious. Our experience of Gods mysterious presence is not being able to define it. The question is Does God respond to our simple asking or does He draw near because we become like Him as He created us by the work of His word in our hearts? Does His word realign our souls and unite our desires with Gods desire?

If we believe that the word is a creative tool in drawing near to God then it acts as a cleansing agent to remove the dirt of corruption and expose our soul. This is what the Psalmist meant by God searching our hearts. In the manner that we view the world and react to our circumstances in processing our desires is compared to a deep well whose depths cannot be reached, we find that Gods likeness to us goes beyond the depth of our desires. He has given us His mysterious desires in His word that are beyond our like desires as a mirror to wash our souls. When we pray as thinking thoughts after God His desires consume our desires. His anger , love, pity, pleasure etc consume our anger, love, pity, pleasure etc so that we experience mystery. We cannot describe this experience.  So that the more that we expose ourselves to Gods emanations the deeper we experience something that we cannot explain. This is what the bible describes as Gods rest. Its an experience without tension.  

God's covenant protection

There are two sins that I am overly zealous to avoid. These two sins almost always end up in long term suffering. These two sins are at the heart of destroying the confidence the Psalmist has in presenting his argument and knowing that God will give him what he wants. These two sins divide a persons life and create divided desires. Its hard for God to meet a persons desire if it is divided because God is obligated to protect the helpless. He must protect the helpless from the violence.

God has made institutions to prosper under one desire. One of the sins that divide a person is breaking covenant. The reason that breaking covenant is so difficult is because being divided as a person is really experiencing inward violence. When we are faithful to our covenant we are viewed by God as one nature. God creates unity through upholding His law in blessing the unity of one nature. Its not difficult to be united in marriage because God has established His kingdom by upholding His law in which He creates the boundaries that keep the family safe.

Its almost like salvation. We do not do anything to keep our salvation. So its easy for us to take our salvation for granted. Salvation is both very simple and very complicated. The one thing that makes salvation so successful is that we are motivated by the very simple things to experience freedom. And this is like marriage. We are already united and protected by God upholding His law. But the danger is looking in other places to enforce covenant unfaithfulness. You know you take God for granted and your coasting along and you become suspicious that its so easy to get Gods favor. And you begin to get your desires met by other things that the world offers. This is what is so difficult about living the christian life. People do not appreciate its simplicity. They do not see that salvation giftedness is to create a protection against the violence that is in the world. Most people have never learned to hide from the violence by living within the simplicity of a covenant keeping God. So they are always experiencing boredom and thats when they get tempted to embrace the curse or violence. Breaking covenant is receiving violence into our private lives.

The other big sin is what we allow our children to hear and see. I believe in christian freedom and that means we are not allowed to control other people. But I do not believe this relationship is the same with children. A child can be in one situation that can affect his life for 30 years. Its the only relationship where I see the teenagers behavior and I blame the parents for the rebellion. There is no other kind of relationship that we are allowed to blame someone for another persons problems. And there is no reasonable excuse for a teens rebellious behavior. Family is the only institution where being with the person in the family on a daily bases is more important than what we do in the relationship. God has made it so simple that the adults views are caught by the children simply by being infected with the parents philosophical virus. But the children cant catch the parents virus if the parent is not around. I dont understand why people want to go outside to find rest when its naturally designed by God as covenant protection. Why let the sorrows of the world divide us and then we cannot get our desires because God is obligated to protect the helpless?

Scripture alone is the only authority

Hes talking about the third use of the law here. This teaching here in my opinion has been the source of a lot of misunderstanding and abuse. Its one thing to say that the Bible stands over us as the rule for conduct and quite another thing to say that the one who speaks the Bible has the same authority as long as he is speaking the bible correctly. But this is not the teaching of the bible.

There are other ways the law is used in the bible then just the condemning voice in bringing someone to salvation and a guide to live by. It is not taught in the bible that the law speaks obedience. So to put obedience as in the comparison to the curses is just bad hermeneutics. The law only speaks death. When we are talking about the law producing change as is an instrument that disarms the flesh because it kills any desire to meet its requirements. Rom 7 9 Once I was alive apart from law; but when the commandment came, sin sprang to life and I died. 10 I found that the very commandment that was intended to bring life actually brought death.What this is saying here is when we are saved we died to the condemning power of the law. We no longer are under the voice of the curse. The law no longer condemns us to death. Because we stand in grace we died to the law.

And by this we are no longer related to each other as a school master. We are only in the position of counselor who is only as successful as the closeness of the relationship. The law guides us because it deals with us on how we are related to God and man. Not really on whether we burned the dinner.

  James 1 27 Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.2 5Listen, my dear brothers: Has not God chosen those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom he promised those who love him?

6 But you have insulted the poor. Is it not the rich who are exploiting you? Are they not the ones who are dragging you into court?

The scripture is both simple ...speaking the gospel and rather complicated...learning and applying doctrine. There really should not be a problem in understanding the gospel. And really it doesnt take very long to learn the basics of the whole counsel. All of the problems that arise are from what we focus on as important and how we apply it. One of the purposes of the Psalms was to use it in the worship service. You will find a specific order of teaching and how the words from the teaching are used to describe the two groups of men. When you read the historical accounts they are written as an example of what is taught in the Psalms. The historical accounts are not really a time line of events but they are for Theological teaching. When you come to the nt the Psalms are the most quoted book because they are a little bible within the whole bible. 

The Psalmist uses the law in other ways than a guide or a source of conviction. He uses the law as a weapon of war. And you find this paralleled in the NT when it says that the word of God is a sword.  So there are ways to use the law in meditation and prayer that teach us about the laws power that we would not know if we did not apply ourselves to using the Psalms in prayer. It could be said that if we are not skilled in understanding the voice of the curse that we would be childlike in our understanding of our using the law correctly. After many years in the Psalms I find that the law is not an instrument to be taken lightly. 

This is why the curse of the law is really directed at anyone who uses it in a violent way. A person who does not understand his own authority.  This is why I make the distinction about the law being our guide as having full authority and not the teacher. Because the bible is self authenticating. It really is a book in which we focus on the gospel and that provides us with the only successful way to obey. It frees us and we obey. There is no man who has this kind of authority.