Friday, March 27, 2020

Ps 73 3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked."
The Psalmist is teaching that our sole hope of being secure in this world is encountering God. If we enjoy God then we are consistently receiving a blessing. Therefore, the question is why is it that we feel so self-conscious in this world. Why do we feel inferior in a heathen world that was created and sustained by God? And the satisfactory answer is because of sin and official corruption that undoubtedly exist from the humble beginning of time. When Adam fell into sin, he began to redefine Gods word. The human race began to devastate the world by developing a culture of violence. Through much generation an evil society evolved. Therefore presently we are born in a world that has been turned upside down. Instead of considering security through the order established by law, covenants, curses, statutes, decrees and promises we face a hidden agenda of threats and violence that haul us into alliances with little gods. God has spoken through the axioms with foresight we would face a full world of danger. We properly apply the effective defense and the successful offense to shield ourselves from the political dangers of this upside down chaotic world. Understand that the pervasive presence of evil is critically compared to the presence of leaven. In the old testament if you were to eliminate the threat of destruction from your dwelling go throughout the house and remove the most microscopic particle of leaven. You would meticulously clean the house from top to bottom. He is teaching that the presence of evil in this world makes it impossible for us within ourselves to prevent the appearance of evil. Because we must interact in a society turned upside down then we are always in danger of the accusations from our side of the interaction. The problem is that we may not purposely make an alliance of evil with the wicked, but we cannot avoid the appearance because we may be deceived. In the incarnation Christ had to live among wicked men without aligning Himself with their wickedness. We have been declared righteous in Christ. We have been released from being marked with the appearance of evil as sinners by the lawful pronouncement of the axioms. Because the violent world was turned upside down the evil is rewarded and good is unjustly punished. The rich profit by unjust means.  God has created us to rule the earth, we naturally want to prosper in this world. And because we interact with the wicked, we cannot prevent being examined by our connection in our business. Since the world is turned upside down we must use evil to sufficiently advance our own prosperity. God has provided the ability to exploit our own weakness for our own good by pronouncing the curses. Hence, we have control over our sin and moral weakness by using the conscious guilt and the sorrow to express our genuine anger in the righteous curse. We cannot sweep the leaven out of the house by our particular strength. We must pronounce the axioms to remove all the present particles. God has communicated the ability to pronounce death on all opposition. We are wholly successful by the process of renewal. We prevent our own envy in pronouncing the axioms.


















 

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