Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Psa 111:7 The works of his hands are faithful and just; all his precepts are trustworthy 8 They are steadfast for ever and ever, done in faithfulness and uprightness."  The question is. If God moves history through redemption then how can He be just and faithful to His people? How can God be redemptive if He turns the world upside down and takes back the riches of this world? He answers this question by reasoning that every one in the world is completely dependent upon God and therefore must face His eternal justice. 


All men are silenced before God because He does not lower His justice to act redemptively. Since the wicked become rich in this word by theft God must always be justified in His response. The Psalmist is not saying that God's justice is mysterious. Rather this justice has been revealed in the very words that the world have no time for. You see that the Psalmist is responding to the plight of God's nation who must endure the injustice of the world. The wicked curse God by ignoring the axioms. In cursing God they are judged in the righteous pronouncements. As God's people pronounce the eternal curses they are storing up wrath for the wicked.  Gids people are victims of the theft of the wicked.

God has created all things in order to govern the earth by graciously providing for all of man's needs. God who is free has provided man the freedom to rule the earth through His word. Instead of pronouncing God's ruling ability the wicked use God's gifts in an unjust way. Because God rules the world through word to creation He has reestablished man's authority in pronouncing His justice in the law and curses. The Psalmist is ruling over the wicked in this pronouncement.

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