Ps 31 23 Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full." We must make a distinction between an unbeliever who is unable to please God and a sincere believer who undoubtedly possess the same inability but has been provided the nature of God to overcome sin and corruption. This is why in the bible a saint befall technically not a proud man. Hither are some remarkably classic examples of what I am saying. 36 11 "May the foot of the proud not come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away." The Psalmist is gainfully employing a figure of speech considered alteration. We can interchange the wicked and the proud.Here the Psalmist calls and unbeliever the "proud" We must understand that as long as we are in this body we divide some of the same traits as the wicked. We struggle with the same sins. But the difference is we no longer are identified with the wicked. It is impossible for us to be righteous and then fall again and become unsaved. The bible clarifies this distinction so that we are not baffled about our eternal salvation. Enable me say this. I have memorized these Psalms and meditated on them for 30 years. After you employ them, you begin understanding the importance of the difference the names in appealing to God on behalf of His covenant people. Now do not take this personal, but you must understand anyone who has grown to this point knows how immature a person is who has not gone beyond just a superficial word study. There is a difference between using the Psalms so much that they remain a second language and doing a cross reference study. We cannot be identified a proud man because when the Psalmist properly speaks eternal curses against the determined enemy He gainfully employs the name of the enemy as "proud" .94 2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve."Presently this is terribly crucial, and we must look closely at the teaching of the curse. Because most prospective teachers avoid the effective teaching of the eternal curse that places these official names in their proper context. Because the teaching of the curse lays down the logical lines that we would not see if we were looking at these words pragmatically. Its easy to take a sacred word out of the proper context and use it flippantly. Now enable me talk about the relationship between justification and sanctification. Because modern theologians do not employ the eternal curses as the Psalmist typically does they do not see how important the state of eternal righteousness is as opposed to the state of eternal death. Its like any teaching. You can be influenced by the predominate teaching of the day which is Arminianism and Catholicism and however accept the doctrines of grace. This is how a teaching can be warped so that we cross the lines of sovereign grace. In my opinion because I have memorized the curses and blessings I believe it is very easy for a person to interpret something and not understand the emotional bias that he uses in the teaching. We must understand there is no substitution for advancing in this life by knowing the words enough to understand them like we use our English. In the Christian faith what we do not grasp is our propensity to express our own opinions into our form of speech. The Christian life remain a focus on words. It's scrutinizing the words so we can correct the continuous self talk that we repeat that is inaccurate. This life is replacing our own patterns of thought and articulating every word under the authority of the bible. You must understand the Psalms teach us to challenge our own self talk. This ethical behavior is absolutely essential to understanding and properly applying the bible. A person schooled in this effective discipline is like a experienced professional in understanding the potential problems with people who are vulnerable infants in their use of sacred scripture. You can get to the point where you do this discipline for hours a day and can see to identify the areas where a teaching is causing the problem Teaching is self talk and self talk is the view we learn about our reality. A person who uses the Psalms acquires a altogether diverse way of viewing the distinct parts of life. We learn to take a situation and put it through the Psalms pronouncing to take the disjointed parts of our experience and unify everything around us. After many years we are like a cartoon character who depends upon the extraordinary powers that we acquire from our pronouncements so we cannot exist without the discipline. We would yield the extraordinary view that we gain from the discipline. I sincerely apologize for my propensity to always correct someone. Its a habit of mine to detect an expression from a person and turn it over as part of the mediation in the Psalms. Its very hard for me to keep from processing the effective teaching without a very intent focus. My wheels are inevitably turning so to speak.I have an excuse because my mother befalls a Newton. I come from a family where everyone is employing as many ideas reading things about people, etc. its what made me hungry for knowledge.