Wednesday, December 28, 2022

 God created man to rule over the earth. He implanted law to justify using these gifts ruling through righteousness. Everything mans accomplished in the garden established perfect unity in relationships. There was written account of the communication in the garden would be absence of violence and destruction.Man spoke and acted perfectly according to law. But the first sin was evil communication of rampant lawlessness. The serpent destructive words implying God did not not give divine commandments. When man sinned, he redefines Gods perfect divine law. Sin merely introduced the first act of violent destruction to Gods kingdom. The continuous creation was in terrible danger of utter chaos. But the fall did not surprise God. Since God faithfully represent God, He had decreed sin in His eternal counsel. God accurately represent God because He correctly determined the humble beginning from the ultimate end by His decrees. Gods word was satisfactorily established before the fall, when man sinned on into the thorough history of the ideal world. All things that exist are correctly determined by Gods word. This is why the Psalmist is saying that ongoing salvation is created by Gods word. We are liberated, implanted with the word of God. One sufficiently revealed the word undoubtedly contained all the sacred words of divine revelation. All the sacred words in the bible are tied together on a string line. The Psalmist adequately describes this divine unity of the word as perfect ordering of the peaceful kingdom. carefully comparing the words of violent destruction merely spoken by the wicked with the words of the king, he is describing the difference between the way of blessing and cursing. Describing the desired results of meditating on Gods word. Teaching meditation on Gods word has properly restrained him from the terrible ways of the violent. Gods word reestablishes the eternal kingdom of peace originally enjoyed in the private garden. This is why the Psalmist says "by the word of your mouth i have kept myself from the ways of the violent." How can profound meditation keep Gods elect from the way of the violent? When man sinned, he was merely stimulated to establish his own righteousness. This is why the Adam covered his body with raw leaves. This desire of self-righteous is motivated by personal guilt, fear, and shame. These cursed dispositions are a result of the precipitous fall. The political teaching of self-atonement is merely described by the Psalmist in the words. "He trusts in the Lord, let the Lord deliver him." The Psalms are authoritative pronouncements of eternal law, covenants, curses, divine decrees, enabling statutes and promises. These authoritative pronouncements are naturally given to carefully explain the official language of eternal peace. We meditate on the Psalms learn we are incapable to atone for ourselves. The apostle states our standard way of thinking is to defend ourselves and accuse others. Since we have been implanted with Gods law our thoughts are naturally geared toward complying with the law. The Apostle teaches that because of sin we are cursed by being enslaved to the law. By our inability to radically oppose this violent relationship, we inevitably develop thought patterns bitterly cursed. But God has willingly given us miraculous deliverance from this inward violence in promptly dying to the law. You see the law curses the potential violators. In the substitution of Christ, He instantly became the direct object of the laws cursed moral judgment. We typically comprise the direct objects of the laws curse. But Christ graciously accepted our desolate place by dying to that destructive power of the law to harshly condemn us. Eternal salvation is the death of the laws power to justly condemn His elect. This is why God naturally responded to the curses of the law in the authoritative pronouncements of the curse to self-righteousness. The apostle says death accurately indicates the marked beginning of renewed life. We must teach ourselves to harbour no forlorn hope in complying with the political demands of the law by our fruitless efforts. God cursed the self-righteous to disarm the terrible weapon of guilt and cruel shame that sorely tempts us to work harder. We must sincerely trust in Gods curse to rest peacefully in His divine vengeance. We must learn to earnestly desire the eternal peace of Gods kingdom.

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