The Psalmist is teaching that God has taken care of all of our troubles by giving us the answers in His word. He is the only one who has the answers to all of our problems because He controls life and death. Every thing that God says is backed up with His ability to recreate life out of death. God is the only one who can command the end of our sorrows by silencing all of our opposition. Who can judge evil and corruption effectively, and His Vengeance is beyond our understanding. He blesses us with gifts that are too good for us to imagine. In order for God to claim that His word is all we need, He must be absolute in backing it up. This is why God is not like man.It is a fact that all men are pragmatic in their speech. The truth is that every man experiences the loss of physical and spiritual strength as they age. The question is, can we trust someone whose life is fleeting? You see that the entire value system of the world is built upon surviving the inevitable slide into physical death. Man's needs are greater than the profits of the world. This is why all earthly governments end in debt that brings about hunger and death. The truth is that man has no control over the massive suffering of the human race. We are all indebted to saving a sinking ship.This is why there is only One person who can reverse the course of His people's lives who are headed in the direction of the culture. So God has contained our lives by speaking the law, covenants, curses, statutes, decrees and promises in the plan of redemption. This redemption was pictured in the daily animal sacrifices of Israel.The physical markers of the old testament worship were reminders that Gods axioms could reorder the entire world to save Israel. But the problem was because the people did not know the axioms they destroyed the culture by planning to overthrow Gods word. Every time they sacrificed the animal they were motivated to speak the axioms. But they began to sacrifice without understanding the law, covenants, curses, statutes, etc. God was demonstrating, through the sacrifice, His control over life and death, and proving that He was the only one that could be trusted to defend the people.The people stopped calling on God for help, and instead began to trust in the words of fallible humans. God had already done the work of overcoming all lawless nations through His law. They had not offered the sacrifices under the authority of the curses, but instead as reminders that God saves His people. The Psalmist says they trusted in their own strength by focusing on the outward forms of the sacrifices. However, the sacrifices were only meant to be reminders that God brings the entire nation to the line of blessing and cursing. By offering the sacrifices, they were not detesting the sins of the nations as God intended. As a result, God says He will tear them to pieces like the animal because they did not detest the sins of the nations. He backs up His word with physical representations of the sacrifice.
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