Monday, November 24, 2025

The psalm directs our focus toward Jehovah, the Covenant God—He who commits Himself to His people with everlasting promises. Adonim, the Lord who blesses, sustains, and rules, demonstrates His greatness through both the act of creation and His ongoing care—by His laws, covenants, curses, statutes, promises, and divine decrees. From the very beginning, God fashioned man and woman in His image to reflect this divine majesty and to declare His sovereignty over the earth. Therefore, marriage is not just about physical houses, children, titles, or work; it is fundamentally rooted in God's majestic authority—established at creation through a covenant that remains unbroken. Humanity, gifted with God's creative words, holds the authority to speak life or death—acting as kings and queens over the earth. The psalmist teaches us that this divine majesty—once concealed in heaven—is revealed on earth through the innocence and purity of children. This serves as a prophecy of a remnant—a faithful seed that mirrors God's sovereignty—propagating His dominion from heaven down to earth. How does mankind establish God's government here? It is through praise—not just superficial words of worship, but a comprehensive, wholehearted declaration of divine principles: His laws, covenants, curses, statutes, promises, and decrees. In this spiritual warfare, believers must silence the enemy and the accuser, for the battle is over God's eternal justice versus the false gods of wickedness. By speaking forth these divine axioms, believers defeat the adversary and affirm God's kingdom on earth, bringing to life His original majesty—His design for order and ongoing preservation of all creation. Verses 4 through 6 reveal that mankind, once given dominion, lost it through the fall, becoming cursed and dethroned. Yet, through the coming of the Son of Man, that authority is restored. The weak are empowered as they speak the axioms Christ embodied—His laws, covenants, statutes, decrees, promises, and blessings—thus making God's kingdom a tangible reality on earth. Christ's arrival marks the renewal and re-establishment of God's reign. Instead of the axioms that once pronounced curses, believers now have the authority to declare curses upon the enemy and the accuser—because Christ, our Substitute, fulfilled all divine decrees and spoke creation into existence. His perfect sacrifice, both past and ongoing, guarantees that all our spoken declarations of God's truth are "yes" and "amen." Through Christ, the King, we become heirs of God's eternal kingdom. As the psalmist proclaims, all creation has been entrusted to our authority—only by declaring these divine axioms can we govern with justice and righteousness, reflecting God's original majesty through order and sustaining life.

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