Sunday, February 5, 2017

Ps 36 1"in your light we see light." The Psalmist is teaching that Gods doctrine must be taught in order to know who God is. God cannot be known by coming to mystery. A lot of people build their knowledge of God like a Buddhist. Buddhist believe that through focus we can achieve the state of nothingness. We are able to get our minds where we have no thoughts. But the christian believes that knowledge of God is not separated from the doctrine of God. This is why we believe that all reality is in God and the only way that we can understand this reality is to confess each individual doctrine as our trust in God. We believe in a confessional reality.
This means that christian fellowship and unity that defines relationships is determined by our confessing together clear doctrines that we agree upon. We cannot even define who we are as christians unless we confess our doctrinal position. When we talk about the whole counsel of God we are always confessing that we hold to the doctrines of grace and Gods absolute sovereignty. According to our agreement on these doctrines is how unified we are in relationships.
In this Psalm we find that Gods kingdom teaches us to confess the truth about the wicked. The Psalm is not comparing our experience with the world. But its teaching that Gods kingdom has been established by His word and we view everything in this world according to the clear doctrines of His word. An "oracle" is our conviction about the world that is based upon looking at the world as we are standing in Gods eternal kingdom. As we are confessing that Gods love and faithfulness are covenantal, His righteousness and justice go higher and lower than this earthly experience, God alone controls the preservation of living things, all true value is in Gods hands and overrules all attempts to devalue Gods creation, and that our lives are in Gods hands just as our corporate confession of the doctrines of grace are that by which we receive eternal life. Upon this practice we judge and over come the world. "God sees" is speaking of God overcoming our opposition through our confession as we are looking back at our lives.

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