listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous before you."
The bible not only teaches that God has died for sin but that He died
for the heinousness of sin. He leaves our salvation open on our sin
side because He does not keep a record of our sins. Ps 143 If you, O
LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?" He is saying here
that there is forgiveness with God. The "forgiveness" in the context of
the law turned away from His elect as a curse to the wicked.143 2 Do
not bring your servant into judgment,for no one living is righteous
before you." in the context of 143 12 In your unfailing love, silence
my enemies;destroy all my foes,for I am your servant". "No one living is
righteous before you" is drawing a line between the righteous and the
wicked. The apostle addresses our responsibilities in the spirit of
singing Psalms. The motive for obedience is in ability to keep the
opposition on a leash.{In the context of deserved judgement or the
heinousness of sin} So this is why the Psalmist argues that the reason
that God will grant him grace is because the wicked are a lot worse. He
is arguing from the greater to the lesser. So where sin abounds grace
much more abounds. Or if God excused the wicked He would need to
apologize to the elect.25 7 Remember not the sins of my youth and my
rebellious ways;according to your love remember me,for you are good, O
LORD . " Remembering is more than forgetting the sin but its erasing the
memory and justifying the curse against the former accusations.("
remember me , for You are good" ) God never judges on a sliding scale.
God always curses or blesses. So when the apostle teaches on the fear ,
righteousness, obedience or justice is is always in the context of our
justification being the leash that keeps the opposition under the curse
of the law.143 2 "for the wicked are not righteous before you"
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