Ps 43 1 Vindicate me, O God,

and plead my cause against an ungodly nation;

rescue me from deceitful and wicked men. "

The Psalms teach that when we are saved we are made complete in Christ. We must understand the most important teaching of salvation is the image of a person. The bible is a book of prophecy. The prophecy is a prediction of events that are created by people. But we believe in presuppositions that teach the cause,means and end of images. The bible teaches us about God through a spoken word that describes an image of God. We find the image of God in the face of Jesus Christ. The bible not only teaches that Christ is God revealed in the likeness of humanity but all the images in this world in comparison to the Christ. We are all image barriers.

All the words of scripture are presuppositions that we hold about God and the world. The way that we describe these images is through prophecy. In other words we are to see every thing as it is formed as an image on how it is related to Christ. This is how the Psalms distinguish between the blessing and the curse.

We believe that when we are saved the image miss understanding that we have about ourselves is settle in the image of Christ. This is why we say we are already complete in Christ but not yet. In this sense when we are saved we begin to become like the bible describes Christ is. So we must understand that the blessing is a prophecy about us in our present condition that our future change cannot be destroyed or opposed. In other words the true image is contained in the prophecy of scripture in Christ applying His work to us on our behalf. In the Psalms we find that our salvation is tied to the lawful authority of Gods eternal government. In other words the perfect work of Christ as the law keeper is applied to us as we go from one image to another in the prophecy of scripture. We can no longer be under the prophecy of the curse. You must understand that the whole psychology of the Psalms in pronouncing the curses and the blessings is the legal argument that we are becoming what we already are. So we curse anyone who images us as what we are in our former life under the law and in bondage to sin. The cursed prophecy has ended.

This is exactly what the Psalmist is complaining about here. He is not really complaining about personal guilt or legal accusations. But the Psalmist is talking about the war between the graceless prophecy about us that the wicked describe and the true image we have become in receiving our new image by grace. Our war with Satan and the wicked is a war of who we are in Christ. This makes the war more than a moral one. It is a war of life and death.