Wednesday, July 17, 2019

Ps 57 I am in the midst of lions;I lie among ravenous beasts-men whose teeth are spears and arrows,whose tongues are sharp swords.The Psalmist is teaching that evil started in the garden when the serpent redefined Gods word.  Gen. 3 Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God really say, 'You must not eat from any tree in the garden'?" It was a direct contradiction since God said that they could eat of every tree except one tree. The violence was not a direct threat. It was concealed in one sentence whose purpose was to destroy mans authority of ruling the world through Gods word. The war between good and evil is a war of two kingdoms. This is why the serpent is described as being crafty. He is gonna speak with the intent to destroy our confidence in Gods axioms. 

The genesis account teaches us that God created all things according to the order of words. There is nothing identical in the creation. So God created the difference in all things with a purpose of describing them in the more complex language of His axioms.God has given us the axioms as the outline of His more extensive knowledge so that we can recreate the disorder that was introduced by the Serpent. Self knowledge is an understanding the axioms and being led by God through specific applications to our lives as we are illuminated by the Spirit. We are in a cosmic war with the devil who pronounces violence in warring with our pronouncements of the axioms. The axioms are not written as arguments to establish the truth but as pronouncements to silence the redefinition of Gods word. When we destroy the false ideas then we learn to hide in the axioms. We depend entirely on a source that is not in this world.  
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Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Ps 51 6 Surely you desire truth in the inner parts you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. What does David point to when he is confessing his sin? He points to his redeemed self? Does David say that he is responsible for knowing truth? No he says that God teaches wisdom. This Ps is given to us by the Holy Spirit in order to practice christian repentance. He acknowledges that he sinned against God. Then he purposely takes the focus of of himself by making brave demands. He could have made some resolutions. But the rest of the Psalm is asking God to repair his sin. How can he be so demanding when he violated the law of God? Why not just say i will avoid that sin? David is asking God to give him the ability from experiencing being clean. 7 Cleanse me with hyssop,wash me, Why not I know sin brings sorrow? Let me hear joy and gladness If your the offender you cant ask someone to make you happy. Completely dependent repentance!9 Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity. I thought God disciplined David with a life of family struggles. But here he is asking God to erase the memory.10 Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me." People say if you memorize these prayers and pray them to repentant it is not genuine. But that is false. David could have given God a list of things he would do to change. But he has the gull to ask God to create a pure heart. Now if the words of the prayer were not for repeating then why would the Psalmist write repentance with creative words? Because repentance really is changing us by recreation!11 Do not cast me from your presence take your Holy Spirit from me.David had traitors put to death for the same sins! Yet he has the mustard to pray that God would not take the seal of the king. 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. I thought there was no reason to be confident if we did not turn from the sin. But there is no promise in Psalm 51. Instead he has the gull to ask God to create the will to turn from sin. hmmmmmm 13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,and sinners will turn back to you. After David raddles off a bunch of demands he says that if God does these things then he will be an example of repentance to others. WOW 15 O Lord, open my lips,and my mouth will declare your praise. 16 You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it;you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. This is amazing right here. David says God does not want his attempts to make it right! David is cursing the self righteous by telling God that he will continue to focus on pronouncing the axioms. He is a true prophet. He is arguing for the covenant and holding the self righteous responsible for the crimes. OUCH 18 In your good pleasure make Zion prosper; build up the walls of Jerusalem. Then he prays if God accepts his meditation then the city will turn to God.

Sunday, July 14, 2019

Do you feel unloved? The King pronounces love to you 146 the LORD gives sight to the blind, the LORD lifts up those who are bowed down, the LORD loves the righteous. Do you feel rejected?94  For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance. Do you need to be protected?145 The LORD watches over all who love him, but all the wicked he will destroy. Does the state of the world trouble you?let them sing before the LORD, for he comes to judge the earth. He will judge the world in righteousness and the peoples with equity Are you afraid you will not have food and provision? 104 These all look to you to give them their food at the proper time. 111He provides food for those who fear him; he remembers his covenant forever. Are you timid and angry? Christ prays this for you. You can pray these words.143 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies; destroy all my foes, for I am your servant. The Psalms are filled with pronouncements for every thing we experience.
There are two problems that we will not overcome in this world. The Psalmist complains that because he sins his longings can never be satisfied. 9 All my longings lie open before you, O Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you. 8 I confess my iniquity; I am troubled by my sin.The second problem is that we cannot avoid striking deals with the wicked."12 Those who seek my life set their traps,those who would harm me talk of my ruin; all day long they plot deception". The majority is dependent upon a minority in this wicked world. We cannot be completely loyal because we further the success of sin in buying and selling.
 Acts 10 25As Peter entered the house, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet in reverence. 26But Peter made him get up. "Stand up," he said, "I am only a man myself." Authority is not given from a position but in relationships.1 King 3 1 Solomon made an alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt and married his daughter. He brought her to the City of David until he finished building his palace and the temple of the LORD , and the wall around Jerusalem.Solomon showed his love for the LORD by walking according to the statutes of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places. 5 At Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said,"Ask for whatever you want me to give you." Solomon takes the kingship from David and the first major political decision was to make a treaty with Egypt and marry an idol worshiper. Then God appears to him and says "Ask for whatever you want me to give you." In the end God salvation depends on God and not our repentance.

Saturday, July 13, 2019

Re 4 2At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven with someone sitting on it. The Holy Spirit leads the christian. He can translate the saint from one place to another outside of time. the Spirit of the Lord suddenly took Philip away, and the eunuch did not see him again, but went on his way rejoicing. 40Philip, however, appeared at Azotus and traveled about..3And the one who sat there had the appearance of jasper and carnelian. A rainbow, resembling an emerald, encircled the throne. John is describing Gods throne as the most beautiful and the highest wealth. He is describing the throne in the covenant creation. God gave us beauty 5From the throne came flashes of lightning, rumblings and peals of thunder. Before the throne, seven lamps were blazing. These are the seven spirits of God. God governs His creation by judging the nations of the earth. Just as we hear thunder and see lightning so God is governing the earth by responding with the heavenly curses upon the wayward nations. The 7 spirits are the personality of the axioms. God connects heaven to the earth by creating all things according to the axioms.Rev 5 6 He had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God sent out into all the earth". Christ as the eternal Son of God and in His incarnation pronounced the axioms in ruling over the nations.7In the center, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back. The first living creature was like a lion, the second was like an ox, the third had a face like a man, the fourth was like a flying eagle. The four living creatures carry out the heavenly curses from heaven upon all wayward nations. The lion is ruling through destroying destruction. The ox is the creation covenant of provision. The face is Gods work to redeem His elect through the incarnation, Eagle-our Father and Judge
14 For the LORD will not reject his people;he will never forsake his inheritance. 15 Judgment will again be founded on righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it." Gods cursing and blessing is the foundation of our redeemed self. The only power in this world that exist in reality is Gods kingdom authority. Freedom of choice is founded upon our redeemed self .When we are not mirroring out redeemed self we are trying to set up a kingdom that is in disorder. The new freedom of choice that is founded upon redemption is not individualistic. God is reordering the kingdom by uniting our free will expressed in the law,covenants, curses, statutes and promises. We are a community that God creates in functioning according to the axioms. Our free choices have the identity of the unity of Gods people