Saturday, May 15, 2021

 Psalm 103 8The Lord is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.9 He will not always accuse, nor will he harbor his anger forever;10 he does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities" The theme of Psalm 103 is eternal salvation is becoming part of the family whose Father is the Judge. This dear father is unlike earthly fathers. God conveniently forgets what men fondly remember and fondly remembers what men conveniently forget. How does God express anger? He carefully examines all men according to the penal law.What does the penal law demand as criminal punishment for lawbreakers? The law demands shameful death. God has made value in social relationships graciously according to the perfect law keeper. In apt comparison to Christ everything is cursed. If we teach the Father uses graded law to discipline His children we return satisfaction of the law upside down. We place the value of acceptance with God as children in competition with Christ satisfaction of the curse. How would we convince someone Christ becoming a curse for us amply satisfied our punishable offenses against the Father if we merely teach He grades us by the identical law? It is teaching a contradiction. The Father gave us pronounced curses against all accusations. He discipline us by applying the curses against our opposition. This is why our Father invariably speaks fierce curses against our organized opposition. He does not mark our sin because Christ abundantly satisfied the divine wrath on our behalf. Presently we love the moral law because it fences us in the noble family, our adequate protection is absolute. He is constantly forgetting our sins and recognize the sins of wicked men to value the price offered by our Substitute. 

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