We must understand that God does not share in our successes. He is the one who has accomplished everything, and all of this is because of the truths that we understand in the law, covenants, curses, statutes, and decrees. God has created the world by speaking the axiom, and He has given us them so we can overcome all opposition. Everything we do and say is according to the eternal decrees God has laid out in His counsel. These are the kings' decrees, petitions, and cries. Christ's death and resurrection established the words of God as having authority. All corruption has been destroyed because the cross has authority of the Kings word establishing God's decrees in His eternal counsel and going forward into the future judgment. We have genuine reality in the axioms.Axioms are absolute statements which cannot be ignored or suggestions. They are the language that God used in His eternal counsel when He decreed whatsoever comes to pass. This language always works in our defense. The Psalmist describes our defense as a rock. There is no power strong enough to thwart the curses. They are the rock the smashes the opposition. If the curses were not absolute then there is something in this world that has not been identified with Christ death. Christ has destroyed all opposition and has put all things under His feet. We are identified with Him and share in His authority. If there was anything that can thwart us then Christ is not our complete substitute.If God's work in sustaining salvation was not complete, then we would not have a foundation to stand on. We would not have a fortress to hide. If Christ had not obtained a complete salvation, the axioms of salvation could not be trumpeted over the land. If the axioms of salvation do not go out from us and do as they are pronounced, according to God's direction, then salvation is not complete. Thank God we have a sure foundation, fortress, and horn of salvation!When David describes the weapons of war, we may misunderstand how he is describing them. The Psalms are not a book to teach war tactics. The Psalms teach us how to be delivered by using the principles of warfare as the soldier uses his weapons. The deliverance described in the Psalms has already been accomplished through God. We must not add to God's salvation! The weapons are eternal and omnipotent. These principles are promised to God's saints who are weak and without hope in this world. The Psalmist calls upon God in wisdom through the holistic cries of the principles of warfare and he is delivered.It is important that we learn the purpose of pronouncing the axioms, which is to understand that we do not contribute to our own salvation. If man could contribute to obtaining salvation, then the axioms would be man's promises. However, we need absolute curses, promises ,covenants, decrees, and statutes. If we can question the success of the axioms then we are wasting our time in pronouncing them. The majority of men who scoff at pronouncing would convince us that we cannot trust God. You see the world loves to describe a powerful God but they will not agree that He is who He is by His axioms!If we do not put our trust in God's word, we will instead put our trust in our own interpretation of His word. This will lead us to cherry-pick the parts of His word that we like, and to try and make God fit into our own description of Him. However, the law, covenants, and curses are too wonderful and too awful for us to accept in this way. We must begin to feel unworthy of speaking them in order to distrust ourselves. We must learn how unworthy we are to speak in such extreme terms.
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