Saturday, January 21, 2017
Ps 5 7 But I, by your great mercy,
will come into your house;
in reverence will I bow down
toward your holy temple.
8 Lead me, O LORD , in your righteousness
because of my enemies-
make straight your way before me."
The Psalmist is teaching that prayer should be ordered in laws, decrees, statutes, curses and covenants. Gods elect belong to a kingdom in which God created and sustains it by these pronouncements. When the Psalmist talks about His position in coming to the throne of God, he is under the constraints of Gods government. In other words the only authority in these gifts of law etc is Gods unfailing love. This is why the Psalmist distinguishes the elect from the wicked by the simple statement that they promote violence in redefining Gods law. 6 You destroy those who tell lies;
bloodthirsty and deceitful men the LORD abhors." The problem is much bigger and more disastrous than just a violation of the law. So it requires a pronouncement of death to all those who redefine Gods law. 10 Declare them guilty, O God! Let their intrigues be their downfall. Banish them for their many sins, for they have rebelled against you." You see this is a legal curse upon the wicked. He is laying down some fast principles that give us the reasons that he pronounces curses upon the wicked in the entire book. He is teaching us the order of Gods kingdom.
The basis of his authority is in Gods mercy. Gods mercy , grace, faithfulness, kindness, long suffering, gentleness, and forgiveness is based in His covenant love for His elect. This love is what the only foundation that the Psalmist applies to when he pronounces the gifts. Now listen the Psalmist is establishing his argument that even tho the elect cannot order their prayers in a perfect way under the authority of Gods word yet the object of prayer is to establish Gods righteousness upon the earth. So God had to send a Perfect man who spoke and acted perfectly according to all of Gods law. This is why the elect are implanted with the entire word of God and seen as complete.
God created all things according to His perfect law. Everything that works together works according to Gods law. Gods work is more complex than any man could ever understand. His work is so detailed and complete that the power and the ability would evaporate us in a second. So God gave the Psalmist pronouncements in this book in order to command Gods work in a simple way with the mysterious experience of His power. In this way the pronouncements are like fighting in war. We use them to further be consumed in their affects. The Psalmist describes Gods rest as coming the line between blessing and cursing...being consumed in Gods supernatural power in the pronouncements. Being weened from the world in the mysterious experience. This is the way that God establishes His covenant on the earth. This is the foundation of the success of Gods law.
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