Ps 38 15 I wait for you, O LORD ;
you will answer, O Lord my God.
16 For I said, "Do not let them gloat
or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips."
Ps 6 8My eyes are dimmed with sorrow,
worn out because of all my foes."
Ps 102 9All day long my enemies taunt me;
in their rage, they make my name a curse.*
130 7 "O Israel, put your hope in the LORD ,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption".
There are seven penitent Psalms. Each of these Psalms opens up with a
two fold confession. There is a confession of sin and a compliant of a
physical injury. Both of these corruptions are interchangeable. The two
fold confession is part of the entire Psalm in which we also find the
teaching of the curse. These Psalms are teaching a very important
principle in understanding our relationship to the law of God. Just like
the Psalms teach that the law is not just a standard by which mankind
is to act but its also an instrument that is redefined by the wicked in
order to create a culture of godlessness. Here the Psalmist is teaching
us the proper way to communicate the teaching of the corruption of the
saint as a instrument to promote blessing.
Not only have we been forgiven of all of our sins but we have been saved from using the law of God as our personal instrument to curse others. These doctrines of grace are not steps to achieve in order to gain some kind of grace but they are like a fence that is put up in order to guard the covenant of blessing that God has established. In a system where you divide these doctrines and speak of them as individual principles that are parts that make up a whole you wont be as dogmatic about the need of seeing the spirit of the whole doctrine in each individual doctrine. This is why the bible describes this view of corruption in the context of the voice of the curse. In other words it is just as important to know the biblical context of the corruption as it is to be able to apply it in the context of blessing.
The point is that the teaching of justification of a saint is made clearer by applying the pronouncement of the curse as the foundation of the human inability. Without a proper understanding of human inability you will have the wrong application of justification by faith. Because justification is the foundation of the pronouncement of the governing creation of God through pronouncing the covenants, curses, promises, commands, decrees and statutes. Justification is not really the foundation of personal devotion that is expressed in praise or prayer. In these penitent Psalms we find an expression of a personal complaint about the corruption of sin that is the foundation of kingdom pronouncement. The Psalmist does not find relief of his anger,fear and guilt in forgiveness but in the legal eternal pronouncement of the curse.
Not only have we been forgiven of all of our sins but we have been saved from using the law of God as our personal instrument to curse others. These doctrines of grace are not steps to achieve in order to gain some kind of grace but they are like a fence that is put up in order to guard the covenant of blessing that God has established. In a system where you divide these doctrines and speak of them as individual principles that are parts that make up a whole you wont be as dogmatic about the need of seeing the spirit of the whole doctrine in each individual doctrine. This is why the bible describes this view of corruption in the context of the voice of the curse. In other words it is just as important to know the biblical context of the corruption as it is to be able to apply it in the context of blessing.
The point is that the teaching of justification of a saint is made clearer by applying the pronouncement of the curse as the foundation of the human inability. Without a proper understanding of human inability you will have the wrong application of justification by faith. Because justification is the foundation of the pronouncement of the governing creation of God through pronouncing the covenants, curses, promises, commands, decrees and statutes. Justification is not really the foundation of personal devotion that is expressed in praise or prayer. In these penitent Psalms we find an expression of a personal complaint about the corruption of sin that is the foundation of kingdom pronouncement. The Psalmist does not find relief of his anger,fear and guilt in forgiveness but in the legal eternal pronouncement of the curse.
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