45  1 My heart is stirred by a noble theme as I recite my verses for the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer." God created the garden for his chief creation of man and woman. Both of them obtain the glory of God. Gods majesty is displayed by the elaborate creation. God recorded the book of creation for man to read. He constituted civil marriage as a refection of divine majesty. He established a eternal covenant with them to subdue the earth. Every man and women genuinely enjoy eternal power in the authoritative pronouncements of law, covenants, curses, decrees, statutes and promises to obtain a separate government exercising sovereign power in a organizational culture. All marriages undoubtedly remain bureaucratic institutions in ruling over divine creation. The queen is recording the considerable success of the properly governing the wealthy nation. It is a published biography of principal nobility.

 45 2 You are the most excellent of men and your lips have been anointed with grace,since God has blessed you forever."Why is the kings lips anointed? Because God did not authorize physical attributes as the way to typically obtain governing power.God made the private institution of marriage, satisfactorily establishing ruler-ship over the earth through authoritative pronouncements. You find this taught throughout the Psalms. We do not trust in our horses. God created the earth by pronouncing the axioms in sufficiently establishing the order and continuous symmetry. God does not require bodily strength to provide the unity and structure of marriage. Marriage provides the most independent exercise of gifts and spontaneous affection.It is covenant ability contained in natural law. The unique institution that flourishes by creative exploration. God anointed the lips of the king, pronouncing the axioms, constituting the success in the private garden of marriage. AR

Every persons mind is naturally filled with creative ideas. Most people in a resting state will conceive many ideas like voices about things. This resting state of the mind develop logical reasoning. We are passively listening to our conscious minds intentionally blocking the familiar voices habitually thinking about something. Consequently, people seldom experience completed rest. We take my thoughts captive.
Our brains support pathways, like a circuit board of electronics. God caused the earth by thinking and producing the thing. Everything exists, originated from the thought of God. Gods mind remains a vehicle for a thought from the expression of a desire. He sincerely desired, carefully designing graciously according to His creative idea. Every idea was in ideal unity with His desire. But this is not how we vicariously experience the cognitive function of our active minds.

 We think about something naturally requiring active movement to properly obtain it. But God carefully made us like Himself. He delivered cognitive ability to conceive pleasurable ideas put into action. But since we are incapable to instantly translate the conscious thought into the organic material, we do not derive pleasure from our creative minds. Consequently, we reasonably make a list put into appropriate action. Our personal inclination is to merely believe our minds a political vehicle to store knowledge. 

But if God carefully designs everything by sincere desire according to the innovative idea, you think when He reliably produced us like Himself without communicating as social creatures? Therefore, He carefully designed the cognitive function of our minds, speaks to us so we vicariously experience the necessary connection to our specific purpose by the communication of uncritical acceptance. Hence, God has developed us with spiritual minds. The apostle adequately addresses "the spirit of the mind." He is carefully teaching renewed mind through Gods communication of word and Spirit.

Presently this is exactly why God gave a lively imagination. Without our creative imagination could not achieve sacred mystery. We would always be churning the innovative idea in our conscious minds.We would never be capable to genuinely enjoy the desired ends we envision. Our minds rest, when we speak the authoritative pronouncements, vicariously experience the grand illumination of the idea that consumes our intuitive understanding. This conversion is what we dub "sanctified imagination." Our joy gets consumed in His joy, our tendency to experience the odious things are consumed in His righteous indignation and standard weight of corruption in the calm rest of His consuming power. In this effective way we progressively develop deep grooves of eternal life in the complex pathways of our creative minds.

 

 The angels are not created to be redeemed. There is a hierarchy in the angelic armies of heaven.God created myriads of angels.Lucifer the most beautiful angel together with the band of rebels were cast out of heaven when God created the earth. We find the Serpent temping man shortly after God created the garden. I had memorized 12 chapters in the Revelation. When God cursed the earth, He locked up the fallen angels in the Euphrates River that flowed in the garden. It is my understand the fallen angels are released in the judgements of nations. Abbadon is the name of Satan in the old testament and Apollyon in the new testament. Employed the released angels. I believe it is not accurate to be defined as amillennial or post millennial. My position is more of a creation covenant millennial. The locust are released from the pit (Euphrates River) to bring multiple personality judgements on wicked men. Satan, demons and fallen angels are at war with Gods armies of heaven. Man is caught in the middle. This why the Psalmist commands God in the curse of law to destroy the opposition by employing the angels. One angel can destroy an entire army of men. The angels are invisible agents that interact with all earthly events. God employed the angels giving and administering the law. He established the law through angels by a mediator. God administer the curse of the law through angels. Hebrews teach we are surround by myriads of angels who minister to us. The Psalmist compares the power of the angels to lions growing hungry. Through the supernatural pronouncements we employ angels as our defenders against Satan and his children. The Psalmist describes angels as warriors who fight our battles. They protect us from demonic attacks. We manipulate the pronouncements to command the devil to flee from our presence. We dominate the spiritual forces by employing the angels to destroy our opposition.

 God inseparably united man to the earth by natural law. He produced man from the dirt of the earth as the chief agent in governing and uniting the creation. Consequently, divine creation was established in unity by freedom of grace. God caused man the earth to govern.He spoke the law, covenants, curses, decrees, statutes and promises to reasonably describe the unity and symmetry of the gift to man. We appreciate the value of grace by the considerable price of Gods gift. Grace solely represents freedom established by God according to His faithfulness, justice, righteousness. Grace obtains the freedom established by God who is always justified in all things. Grace represents the unity of God who cannot be thwarted.

 

The meta physical pleasure that we experience from our thought life.

Every persons mind is filled with ideas. Most people who are in a resting state will have many ideas ...like voices in the head about somethings they are dealing with in their lives. This resting state of the mind is where we develop our logical reasoning. Whether we are listening to our minds or we are blocking the voices out yet we are always thinking about something. So people seldom experience a mind that is a complete rest. Over the years Ive learned to take my thoughts captive.

Our brains have pathways. They are like a circuit board on electronics. When God created the earth He thought about the created thing and it was created. Everything that exist originated from the thought of God. Gods mind was not just a vehicle for a thought but it was the expression of a desire. He desired it and He designed it according to His idea. Every idea of God was in perfect unity with His desire. But that is not how we experience the function of our minds.

When we think about something it requires us to move in order to obtain it. But God has made us like Himself. He has given us the ability to think something that is pleasurable and experience the idea as if it was put into action. But since we are not able to think a thought and have it appear in the physical realm we do not believe that we can derive pleasure from minds. So our natural way of thinking is to make a list and and put it into action. Our natural inclination is to believe that our minds are just a vehicle to store knowledge.

But if God designs everything by desiring it and designing it according to the idea dont you think that when He created us He did not leave us to think like Himself without communicating to us as social creatures? So He not only designed the function of our minds but He speaks to us so that as we listen we experience the connection to our purpose by the communication of His acceptance. So God has created us with spiritual minds. The apostle calls this "the spirit of the mind". He is teaching that we can have a renewed mind through Gods communication of His word and Spirit.

This is kind of like attrition. You begin to learn your occupation and then you master it and you experience the success like you being pushed along by tail winds. When we meditate on Gods word we experience the effects as going from one conversion to another. When we experience a new conversion then we are developing a habit to further conversion. The apostle says to be converted in you mind.

God has communicate in His word the outline of how He designs the things He creates and recreates, the quality of His desire and the pleasure that He receives in the beauty of the thing. Every thing that God plans is done through His laws, decrees, statutes, curses, and covenants. God acts according to these gifts to put into motion all reality in perfect unity. So Gods view of the end of the thing He creates is the perfect idea according to these gifts that are put into existence and sustained. He is pleased with the idea as if it already existed before it is put into time.

Now this is exactly why God has given us an imagination. Without our imagination we could not achieve mystery. We would always be churning the idea around in our minds. We would never be able to enjoy the ends of the idea that we envision. Our minds rest when we speak the gifts and experience the illumination of the idea that consumes our understanding. This conversion is what we call a sanctified imagination. Our joy gets consumed in His joy, our anger in His, our tendency to experience the cursed things that are consumed in His righteous indignation, and our natural experience of the weight of our corruption in the calm rest of His consuming power. In this way we develop deep grooves of life in the pathways of our minds.

Ps 31 8 You have not handed me over to the enemy

but have set my feet in a spacious place."

The christian faith is a message of grace and warning. But if we fail to describe sanctification according to Gods covenant it can become a message that focuses on mans ability in his performance. But the gospel is not a warning to Gods elect who must hold onto salvation. So the gospel must be described on the standard of Christ obedience and acceptance instead of being reduced to trust in mans power to be saved. Once we begin to make the gospel a bad prophetic message we have stripped it from its ends for which Christ has obtained salvation. We must always be aware in teaching sinners that the glory of the gospel is that it changes us by focusing on imputed righteousness.

It is true that the we are required to exercise our faith and obedience in order to reveal that we possess saving faith. Some people teach that if we have faith then it will be shown by our works. I heard and read this repeated that if we are saved and we have Christ obedience it will automatically translate into our obedience. Can salvation be successful as a one time gift that carries over into christian obedience? Is all the grace given to us when we first receive salvation? Or do we experience grace through transfusion? In other words if the entire amount of grace was given to us as the beginning then technically we could say that saving with will automatically result in works. In other words there is nothing that will oppose our success in showing works. But if the grace is given in each act that we do in a transfusion then we are facing opposition. In other words we need something that we do not have at the time of doing the required act that is strong enough to overcome the opposition. So we can say that having saving faith does not automatically translates into works.

This is what the bible teaches. That faith can be strong or weak. We must understand that grace is not a substance that we get that makes us obedient. Grace is an undeserved favor that is given to us. This is why grace is ability that starts when the corruption dies. Grace is powerful because it is the only reality where recreation comes out of death to sin and corruption. This is why the apostle says Shall we go on sinning in order that grace my increase? In other words we cannot see grace as a substance that opposes sin. Then the apostle says by no means ..we died to sin. in other words the new life starts after every corruption is dead. So grace reality that will never fail in the christian. Because it silences the opposition to Christ. If everything that is corrupt is dead it ends the power of the opposition. So when the apostle is speaking of grace it is the same thing as the curse of the law being successful in overcoming all opposition. We can say grace is killing all opposition.

The problem is that we are unable to overcome anything in our own power because we are still corrupted. We not only need to kill the opposition to Christ kingdom but we must silence the opposition that dwells in us. That is in our flesh. So we can try to obey the law with our own ability. You have examples in the scripture where saving faith did not translate into success. Peter is an example. He possessed saving faith but he denied Christ three times. But even tho Peter was disobedient yet he did not lose his faith. Not because God accepted Peters rejection . But because Christ overcame Peters rejection by taking Peters place and paying the penalty to kill Peters sin. This is the same thing as grace. This is why the Apostle says that there was nothing that he did in himself. It was all the grace of God.

We are taught in this Psalm that God leads us to the spacious place. The Psalmist uses all of these words like grace, unfailing love, faith, refuge and rock as the terms of salvation that are carried over into the nt. He is using these terms by always pointing to Psalm 18 in all the other Psalms. Psalm 18 is describing the great wonders of God in subduing Davids enemies. This Psalm is repeated in the narrative of David more that any other Psalm. Its really a testimony of Davids life.

We must understand that salvation is compared to a battle field in which God has silenced the enemy. God has completely destroyed every person opposing Israel in the war. The picture of salvation is walking in between the bodies and knowing that the war has led to peace and a return to Israel as the glory of God.

In Psalm 18 God comes to the rescue of Israel or they would be silenced. They would be the army that was spread across the battle field. This is what the Psalmist is describing as the life of grace. He is giving us these pictures of Christ coming to our rescue in order for us to perform in the christian as the soldiers performed on the battle field. This is why we miss apply the disposition of the gospel . Because we have taken it from the seriousness of a life and death battle. Its described as half man and half God. We are describing the christian experience outside of the culture that it comes from.Because most people have not fought in a war. So we pray that God will strike us to make obedient. We talk about God bringing us pain to change us. But the Psalmist focuses on salvation being the same as when Israel has fought and they enter the part of the battle where it is in danger of turning in favor of Gods enemies. The victory starts when man is reduced to being destroyed if Christ does not intervene.

This is why the Psalmist says that the success in our christian lives are a result of God being gentle to us in leading us and pulling us out of the pit. Because we fight in our own strength and he comes to us when we have no strength left. Thats the picture of growing. We must understand that grace being the death of the opposition is the entire realm of the kingdom of Christ . There is nothing that we accomplish unless the circumstances of kingdom success are what we are walking into. In Gods kingdom there are no half tries, no sliding scale. Its total destruction and death. This is the life of grace.

 

 

Rom 10 3Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. 4Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

5Moses describes in this way the righteousness that is by the law: "The man who does these things will live by them."

When I was just beginning to grow in my christian life I had an overbearing conscience. A lot of people have problems not feeling guilty when they do something wrong. But mine was the opposite. I could not believe that other people were doing the same things that I was doing that were wrong. I just naturally believed that I was the worse guy in the room.

I dont believe that my problem of believing the best in people was something I had to stop completely. I think there are weaknesses in people that can be used for good. So its not trying to change who we are but using our natural abilities to motivate us to be balanced by Gods word. Everything that we experience , whether it is sin or good must be translated into desires that motivate us so that we use them to mirror Gods and mans reactions in the bible.

When I start to memorize the Psalms I found that thinking the best of people was actually a gift. Because when you think evil or the worse then you go to worry about being a victim I found in the Psalms that David spoke honestly in his prayers to the Lord. I can explain it like this. There a personality disorders Paranoid, Anti social and avoidance, in each person. Every person reacts differently. So I found that David in expressing his problems did it through his disorder. It appears to a person who is not struggle with the same faulty reactions to be acting. In this sense the Bible is teaching us that expressing the sorrow or the pain is the way to overcome it. And this is why we have group therapy. Its a people sitting around in a circle talking about the same problems and being consoled.

But I learned that the Psalms are like the therapy group. In this world everything is put into a program that people follow in order to grow in learning how to over come their different problems. But the Psalms challenge all counsel. Someone could give an answer that everyone accepts but the Psalms are like a micro scope that you view what that person is teaching. So we are taught that its good to express yourself in the disorder that you are plagued with. And we must also believe that all counsel that is applied to a persons life are not absolute.

Another thing I learned over many years of Psalm meditation is that God has gifted certain people with the ability to help us have a more balanced frame of reference. God at different times puts these people in our lives. This is not professional as much as spiritual gifts. We know that it happens when we experience the person as a muse. And when God has done His work then they move on.Most all of the real change in our lives does not come through knowing Gods standard and understanding how we do not measure up to it. The Psalms teach that change always comes through the avenue of our attractions to things that we like.

This is why I spend so much time writing about the value of he curses. It takes a lot for me to become bitter at people. I still struggle with believing that people do bad things like me. Now if someones who struggle with a different disorder did this he would emphasize a different part of the Psalms. This is the book where God does magical things in order to balance the person out. Most people find their weakness as reminders of how bad they are. The only counsel that will help is the Psalms.

When I speak the curses its an advantage that I have a natural bend to think the best of others. Ive found that the people react in total rejection of the curses are the people who have a controlling personality. To a controlling person if there is something out there that is mysterious that controls the good and bad then it seems to be outside of the control of words and people. The hardest thing for some people is to give up control to God. Just offering a perspective that you do not normally hear but is in the bible.

 

Real righteousness in scripture has a price. In the bible there is no black Friday sales on the price of perfect acts of real righteousness. If you tell me that God demands righteousness that is practiced by a man then there are two kinds of righteousness. There are two kinds of salvation.

If there are two kinds of righteousness then man is the judge. It would cause an endless argument on what the acceptable standard of a righteous act and according to every man. So you could demand compliance in a organization as the proof of biblical righteousness and get every person to comply. What you are saying is that the righteousness of the organization meets the standard of the righteousness of Christ or you would create two standards that are equal which is a contradiction. You know that some people live like there are two standards. But they will never admit it.

If there are two standards of righteousness then there are two prices that qualify it as righteous. The whole point of the reality of the biblical righteousness is there is no price that man can pay to get that righteousness. But yet you can qualify by paying the other price even tho is infinitely lower in which there is not consequence of falling short of Christ standard. Now you are playing with peoples conscience because your are making the standard mysterious. There is only one true price. There is only one true value. If there were two different values then Christ is not the only real man.

 

Ps 35 26 May all who gloat over my distress

be put to shame and confusion;

may all who exalt themselves over me

be clothed with shame and disgrace.

27 May those who delight in my vindication

shout for joy and gladness;

may they always say, "The LORD be exalted,

who delights in the well-being of his servant."

28 My tongue will speak of your righteousness

and of your praises all day long."

The Psalmist is teaching something that we must accept. We must submit to all scripture. Every word. This pronouncement is teaching us that a saint has been legally declared innocent. We could say there is only one Person who could pray this without the charge of hypocrisy. Only Christ could be worthy of judging his accusers.

Only Christ is worthy of being blessed by all men. Because He is the only one who acted perfectly in doing the Fathers will. He is the only one worthy of cursing those who do not have His best interest. But the problem is that this is David making this pronouncement. This is someone who does not deserve absolute blessing and other people having his best interest all the time.

You see the problem . We have two different standards of the value of righteousness but both require the same treatment from other people. Now how in the world can we honestly treat a sinner like we are required to love Christ? The only honest answer is that there is only one righteous standard.And that standard for Christ in receiving blame and abuse in desiring to be treated according to His standard of goodness is the same desire that is given to a man. Now think of this.

How can I demand that others treat me like Christ if I am blame worthy? Because the Psalmist is arguing that the righteousness of Christ has been imputed to us. But what good is the righteousness if there is not an equal price? In other words if I said that I was as righteous as Christ but I was treated like a sinner then what good is that righteousness? Its all talk. On the street we say that if you sell something that you claim is new but it has been used then we say that the product does not equal the same price. Why is it in the christian we can play with the values and still think that we are being honest? In other words people on the street use the language more truthful than us. This is the whole point. Its personal not according to the price of man. Its what every God created saint desires.

We must understand that our desires are united with Gods desires. Not in the future, or half in this life and fully implemented in the eternity. No we already deserve what Christ has obtained. Because the consequences of not being treated like Christ is death. This is what he is saying. Its so plain that you must willfully reject it.

 Ps 44 1 We have heard with our ears, O God;our fathers have told us what you did in their days,
in days long ago.2 With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers;you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish."The Psalmist is enforcing the law, covenants, curses, decrees, statutes,and promises as the glorious gospel passed down to countless generations of Gods remnant people. God "planted" the recreated people of the peaceful nation. God has always pronounced the moral axioms in overcoming all organized opposition.

44 3 It was not by their sword that they won the land,nor did their arm bring them victory;it was your right hand, your arm,and the light of your face, for you loved them.

He draws the line of the authoritative pronouncements in swearing our inability of success through earthly weapons. We swear on the words of the covenant in pronouncing the destruction of our opposition. The Psalmist gainfully employs apt metaphors of divine creation as the pronounced success of divine government. (Planted, light, arm and right hand.) We pronounce the unfailing love of God.

 44 4 You are my King and my God,who decrees victories for Jacob." He carefully teaches God fights the successful war with pronounced decrees of the Psalms. He gave the pronounced decrees to quell the satanic conspiracy. God inseparably unites the paternal government of angelic heaven with earthly governments through pronounced law, covenants, curses, decrees, promises and statutes.

 44 5 Through you we push back our enemies;through your name we trample our foes." He is teaching through Gods words of axioms we overcome our foes. We pronounce the law and curses subduing and eliminating our opposition.We carefully examine the violent world through the Psalms. Gods swear to tell the truth to sufficiently establish His name through a everlasting covenant of blood. The Psalmist is carefully manipulating the authoritative pronouncements to sufficiently advance paternal government.  

 44 6 I do not trust in my bow,my sword does not bring me victory;7 but you give us victory over our enemies,you put our adversaries to shame.He typically self reflects to create his world view. My axiom soul says , "I do not trust." He draws the line by swearing to the pronouncements as the way to fight. God has decreed the intentional destruction of satanic opposition. Pronounced the moral law in satisfactorily establishing the statutes. The eternal curses in instantly destroying satanic schemes. The covenants in establishing the foundation of His pronouncement and the promises to forge the future of the kingdom. 

 44 7 but you give us victory over our enemies,you put our adversaries to shame.8 In God we make our boast all day long,and we will praise your name forever." The everlasting gospel is self-revealing. It needs no other means to sufficiently establish its divine authority. The pronouncements are the perfect creation of the kingdom that overcomes the most fierce and formidable opposition. Sufficiently establishing the divine unity of body and soul. The logical experience of pronouncing victory with unity is the ultimate boast in God.

 

 
Psalms 30 I will exalt you, O Lord,for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me.2 O Lord my God, I called to you for help and you healed me."God created us to control the unified earth by the unity of the physical and spiritual. Because of sin, our physical naturally suffers our spiritual; the spiritual suffers the physical in the disorder of the earth and culture. The opposition weighs us down and deprives us of happiness. This Psalm describes God restoring our inward and outward unity by recreation. We speak this Psalm to establish emotional stability. We depend on God for divine secrets that will intentionally make us secure and happy. God controls our satisfactions and enjoyments. 

 29 3 O Lord, you brought me up from the grave; you spared me from going down into the pit." We are under the potential threat of possible death. We suffer spiritually and emotionally when we are legitimately injured. Since we are naturally prompted of death, our sincere hope is always deferred. We are manipulated by death when we threatened with injury. We place our life in Gods hands by pronouncing the axioms. We receive secrets like building blocks as secure ways of thinking in response to the unique problem. We intimately connect our divine illuminations to our unique function of conscious mind and body.

 30 4 Sing to the Lord, you saints of his;praise his holy name.5 For his anger lasts only a moment,
but his favor lasts a lifetime; weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning."
Eternal salvation is favorably receiving everything we naturally lack from God. The Psalmist accurately describes anything that prevents from experiencing eternal happiness and genuine satisfaction as Gods anger. If God typically responded to our emotional recreations, we would be confident and happy. We infinitely need sensitive and responsive. We pronounce the shortened experience of pain and sorrow, lengthening joy and praise. Hope is secured by eternal joy over heartfelt sorrow. When we are emotionally stable, naturally feel unified with the saints. God divinely reveals the necessary secrets that will unify us personally and publicly. The theme of the Psalms is emotional stability. 

30 6 When I felt secure, I said,"I will never be shaken."7 O Lord, when you favored me,you made my mountain stand firm;" when God responds to our emotional experience, we are expanded with energy. He is reflecting when he is filled with joy as the knowledge he is delighted in his own skin. God fills the gentle saints with unbounded confidence. When we are confident, we feel invincible. God created us as free moral agents who regulate the law in ruling over creation. Gods purpose is to adequately develop us confident. This is why Calvin properly says we must know ourselves. We need reflecting this pronouncement.

 Ps 30 but when you hid your face,I was dismayed.8 To you, O Lord, I called;to the Lord I cried for mercy:The Psalmist pronounces the standard practice of the enlargement of his heart. He is constantly expanded. He is brilliantly illuminating the way of enlargement through functional dependence on God accurately describing his active struggles as Gods anger. Gods law is transparent in our defense of the seriousness of cursing the wicked. This is why the polar distance from God is described as anger. Consequently, his struggle is not normal. When we are constantly expanded, our appropriate response to our fierce struggle is pronouncing the Psalms. "I cried for mercy"

30 9 "What gain is there in my destruction,in my going down into the pit?Will the dust praise you?
Will it proclaim your faithfulness? We chase God in pronouncements, but God is pursuing us. When God pursues us, we are expanded with energy and confidence. The Psalmist is articulating the argument, if God shatters the confidence the Psalmist will not allow God the highest praise. If we require God to pursue us, we must maintain a compelling reason. God has hooked the Psalmist on supernatural energy. Who will pronounce your praise?This is the Psalmist continuous argument.   

 30 10 Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me;O Lord, be my help."11 You turned my wailing into dancing;you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,12 that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O LORD my God, I will give you thanks forever"Pronouncing the law, covenants, curses, decrees, statutes and promises are naturally directed to a active life of eternal joy over sorrow. The successful application of the glorious gospel is promptly turning sin and specific weakness into unbounded confidence and eternal happiness. It is transcribed in eternal pronouncements. Continuously turning corruption into eternal happiness. Voicing the opposition through the grinder of the axioms. We build happiness on happiness.

 1 Kings 3 3 Solomon showed his love for the Lord by walking according to the statutes of his father David, except that he offered sacrifices and burned incense on the high places.4 The king went to Gibeon to offer sacrifices, for that was the most important high place, and Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on that altar. 5 At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."This is probably the most stunning contrast in scripture. Solomon was committing a treasonous act against the covenant God established with Israel. He sacrificed on the altar false gods. This offense practiced by other kings was swiftly punished. But look how God responds to Solomon.He offers Solomon anything he desires! It begs the key question Why allows God conveniently overlooks Solomon's blatant idolatry? If God was righteous, not merely did He conveniently overlook the capital sin but graciously offered anything the idolater wanted. There are two logical reasons. One is Solomon undoubtedly remains a official representative of David throne. Consequently, God elect particular corrupt men for a certain task in official history. We must properly understand Gods proactively works the official history of eternal redemption. His work is not dependent on mans decisions but Gods determined choice. It was God who established David who carefully raised his son as wisest king of Israel. It satisfactorily resolves the question, "Was there any one else more qualified than Solomon?" Obviously not. The key point is God is more genuinely concerned about marked success of our work than our sin. The truth is we acquire nothing to offer God. It is eternal salvation, performed by generous gifts, for divine purposes. There is no satisfactory explanation why God would graciously accept sinners in His eternal kingdom other than His choice of us and His work on our behalf.

 2Ps 142 1 I cry aloud to the Lord;I lift up my voice to the Lord for mercy.2 I pour out my complaint before him;before him I tell my trouble." God established the private garden for man.He was completely free of organized opposition. He was not subject to the operational limits of time and space. God carefully designed man for eternal purposes. But the eternal curse brought continuous opposition. Hence, when Christ return the legitimate authority in eternal pronouncements of law, covenants, curses, decrees, statutes and promises, gave man authority to overcome all opposition. We sufficiently demonstrate eternal ability dominating the creation by carefully describing our eternal struggle in legitimate complaints and pronouncing control over inward and outward opposition. When we struggle, tell God as if He does not know.

 142 3 When my spirit grows faint within me,it is you who know my way.In the path where I walk men have hidden a snare for me."Since we do not acquire the perspective of the magnificent garden, we are forced to struggle by the limits of corruption imputed to us. Instead of the Father dealing with us according to our sins, genuine pities our terrible struggle with organized opposition. The truth is if we had access to our native abilities we would always be faithful. ("you know my way")Since grace turned opposition upside down, the greater our sin and moral weakness, the more the Father is moved to graciously grant us extraordinary success.(grows faint)

 142 4 Look to my right and see;no one is concerned for me.I have no refuge; no one cares for my life.
We live face to face with a transparent God. His right hand is the supreme exercise of authority. The Psalmist represent challenging God to generously provide the divine authority over his considerable troubles in properly exercising covenant faithfulness. "God you are faithful, kind and good because the extraordinary power of your right hand is unlimited! Observing my right is filled with trouble! You promised faithfully to quell all opposition!"

 142 5 I cry to you, O Lord;I say, "You are my refuge,my portion in the land of the living 6 Listen to my cry,for I am in desperate need;rescue me from those who pursue me,for they are too strong for me."I fondly remember in the boot camp an officer and gentlemen the army commander wanted Zachs dor. He challenged Zach "give up and go home." The confrontation was so intense Zach exclaimed "I ain't got any where to go!" The Psalmist is proclaiming His only hope in this life is Gods salvation. He has no where to turn. 

142 7 Set me free from my prison, that I may praise your name. Then the righteous will gather about me because of your goodness to me."We are not significant in the kingdom of God until we are completely exposed so that God is moved to deliver us. When we recover ourselves, we will release others.