Judge me, O LORD , according to my righteousness,
according to my integrity, O Most High.
9 O righteous God,
who searches minds and hearts,
bring to an end the violence of the wicked
and make the righteous secure."
The Psalmist is petitioning God to come to the aid of His elect. He has
been teaching that when sin entered the world it brought violence. You
can almost interchange the word "violence" with "sin". 11 5The LORD
examines the righteous, but the wicked and those who love violence his
soul hates.27 12 Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false
witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.58 2 No, in your
heart you devise injustice, and your hands mete out violence on the
earth.(parallelism) So sin and corruption in heart and deed is the
personality of violence.
When the Psalmist petitions God to judge His people according His justice he is not saying that God will find them perfect in heart and deed. The context of Gods justice is found in the war with the wicked who speak threats. The Psalmist is standing in the place of Gods people and justifying their need for the protection of God. Gods people are never described as violent or threatening. Only in a legal war do they have justification.
The Psalmist is saying that all of the opposition to the saints comes from the sin that brought violence into the world. He is asking God to search the hearts and minds because from the beginning of time the wicked have devised schemes to overturn Gods law and His people. So if God looks at each thought that produced the present opposition to the righteous and judge those plans of the wicked then the saints would overcome all violence. The saints would live in a secure city.
So we must break everything down to communication that works out into plans. If the wicked did not exist then there would be no incident of planning their bad deeds. He is teaching that when the saints struggle we are always at war with a present culture that has been devised by generations of wicked men. And if we were to think of how much power we had to change the course of generations of violence that have created the rules and the pragmatic communication in the society it would be beyond our pay scale. This is the Psalmist frustration. You see he faces an opposition that must be punished on a thought level. This is why God curses law breakers. Because man has no power to reverse the evolution of evil schemes that have taken years to implement. But Gods law was never violated without Gods avenging. So Gods law that curses evil men is always the same even tho it is delayed to the day judgement.
When the Psalmist petitions God to judge His people according His justice he is not saying that God will find them perfect in heart and deed. The context of Gods justice is found in the war with the wicked who speak threats. The Psalmist is standing in the place of Gods people and justifying their need for the protection of God. Gods people are never described as violent or threatening. Only in a legal war do they have justification.
The Psalmist is saying that all of the opposition to the saints comes from the sin that brought violence into the world. He is asking God to search the hearts and minds because from the beginning of time the wicked have devised schemes to overturn Gods law and His people. So if God looks at each thought that produced the present opposition to the righteous and judge those plans of the wicked then the saints would overcome all violence. The saints would live in a secure city.
So we must break everything down to communication that works out into plans. If the wicked did not exist then there would be no incident of planning their bad deeds. He is teaching that when the saints struggle we are always at war with a present culture that has been devised by generations of wicked men. And if we were to think of how much power we had to change the course of generations of violence that have created the rules and the pragmatic communication in the society it would be beyond our pay scale. This is the Psalmist frustration. You see he faces an opposition that must be punished on a thought level. This is why God curses law breakers. Because man has no power to reverse the evolution of evil schemes that have taken years to implement. But Gods law was never violated without Gods avenging. So Gods law that curses evil men is always the same even tho it is delayed to the day judgement.
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