2Everything that exist was decreed in Gods eternal counsel. God declared all things into peaceful existence graciously according to His eternal law, judicial decrees, comprehensive statutes, curses, and promises. These logical axioms undoubtedly remain not sole ethical standards of exemplary conduct. The desirable characteristics are intimately interwoven into the complex fabric of creation. This means that God views all events graciously according to His sovereign will. He planned and objectively determined the desired outcome of all things in His eternal counsel. The Psalmist teaches God chronicles the history of all the creation appropriately describing the past according to the axioms as the reasonable argument for His eternal decrees. The historical events of time are proof that God acts graciously according to His law to provide the firm foundation so that He can prove His ultimate purposes are consistently successful. The Psalmist is saying Gods works are proof that His extensive testimonies are true. He is teaching the comprehensive statutes are upheld by God according to His credible testimonies or independent judgements. The axioms are also interwoven into the sincere desires of man. God had to contain sin and creative destruction by faithfully recreating all things according to the moral axioms. The fundamental question is, Do we correctly receive a full revelation of salvation or are we left in mystery until the final judgement? How can we trust that God works sovereignty in properly containing the unity of salvation unless the axioms remain creative laws that graciously allow and prevent the historic events of time? And if God has not communicated to us a full salvation then we cannot be responsible for our considerable frustrations. If we are not responsible for our mutual frustrations then Christ cannot adequately provide an accomplished substitute. Consequently, the Psalmist is teaching we are restored to the creation covenant in which we properly exercise our free will according to the axioms. If Christ amply provide an accomplished substitute then we must genuinely have free will to rule over the creation. Gods government is sufficiently revealed in Christ statutory work in looking backward from the incarnation and going forward unto the final judgement. The pronounced exercise of free will is the divine revelation of Gods sovereign salvation. This free will has been sufficiently revealed through the authoritative pronouncements of the King. If the implantation of Gods Law was not sufficiently revealed subsequently, man wouldn't be fully responsible for violating that law. If we are not altogether responsible then, we are forsaken to the judgements of man. If the adjudication of salvation is not according to the law then salvation is mystical. If salvation is mystical then there is no objective standard of free will. God would be unsuccessful if man was not liberated to fulfill his purposes. If God were not fully sovereign then, He would not have the power to overcome the necessary consequences of sin and mutual destruction. And if man were not completely responsible, he would retain no confident hope of overcoming this moral destruction. If man was not responsible according to Gods ethical standard of the law then he would wreck the world. Consequently, God had to decree blessing and cursing in eternity past to eliminate the opposition to the free exercise of His justice. Without justice there would realistically be no free will. Hence, God satisfactorily established His justice and freedom in the authoritative pronouncements. Gods justice is pronounced to establish the continuous line of blessing and cursing so that He could reconcile mans freedom with His divine sovereignty. God has established His lawful government by recreating the events of time through the authoritative pronouncements to faithfully uphold His comprehensive statutes. The authoritative pronouncements cause the determined events conducted into time for either for blessing or cursing.
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