Ps 65 We are filled with the good things of your house, of your holy temple.
5 You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness, O God our Savior.
The hope of all the ends of the earth" The Psalmist is teaching that we are unable in ourselves to satisfy our own needs. Our spiritual health is dependent upon the Gods eternal knowledge and order. We must look outside of ourselves as we face many trials. We cannot depend upon our wisdom and efforts to heal our spiritual and physical injuries. The Psalmist is complaining about his inability to control the power of sin as one sin piles up upon another. 3 When we were overwhelmed by sins, you forgave our transgressions." Before we were saved the law produced guilt in us by the curse. We experienced the negative consequences of the law in our experience of guilt, shame and fear. The destructive power of the curse drove us to despair. God had to expel man from the garden and accomplish the work of redemption in order to restore him as God gifted him with authority over the earth. God had to reestablish His government by acting according to His absolute justice and righteousness.
God created all things to work together in pronouncing divine creation according to His divine law, covenants, comprehensive statutes, eternal decrees, curses and promises. Because of the fall the civilized world was cast into functional disorder. Gods redemption was not only directed toward mans sin and official corruption but it prevented the dethroning of God over all things in Who's actions are always just and right. God had decreed sin and corruption before He produced the world. The sole hope of being restored to our native authority was based in Gods constitutional obligation in the form of a covenant. That realistically being the creation covenant. This is why God has given us His pronouncements to establish His justice and righteous through the words that produced more than a repairing of us when we are injured by sin and corruption. These authoritative pronouncements are spoken according to Gods authority by painstakingly restoring the unity and order in renewing all things. These pronouncements are given in order for Gods people to overcome all sensible and spiritual opposition We are taught that our struggle with sin signals us to the overpowering strength of the curse. This is why the Psalmist does not place his confidence in his own confession of sin. Instead, we see the sin motivates the Psalmist to distrust his own wisdom in speaking the pronouncements. This new discipline of pronouncing the legal arguments to establish perfect justice and righteous consumes the Psalmist despair from never being free of the effects of the curse in this life. Instead of sin adding to the Psalmist despair, he implements the sin to consume the destructive power of guilt and shame in both rising up in the blessing or going down in the curse. Gods perfect justice and righteousness is pronounced in cursing the curse in the use of His ideal law. This discipline of pronouncing that God has established in overcoming all opposition remain the constitutional language that established the order and the beauty of Gods creation. This is why after the Psalmist he accurately states his legal complaint of the power of sin, points to the established order of creation in which God has established His legal authority in the recreation. Through the creation pronouncements the Psalmist is given the extraordinary ability to overcome all opposition as he is led out of himself in the language of God receiving the justified praise that brings about the favor of God. We are responsible to properly speak to God in the logic of the authoritative pronouncements for God to be pleased in receiving the praise that He deserves. The proper extolling of God in the pronouncements bears us home in how we are to relate to God and His creation.5 hope of all the ends of the earth 6 "who formed the mountains by your power 7 who stilled the roaring of the seas 8 where morning dawns and evening fades you call forth songs of joy.9 You care for the land 9 The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain 11 You crown the year with your bounty, In neglecting the pronouncements we do not unite our desires with God to please God in our actions by cheering Him on according to His standard of the creation covenant.AR