Ps 9 4 For you have upheld my right and my cause;
you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
The Psalms teach that our understanding of God determines how we view ourselves. How we view ourselves is how we react to the circumstances of life. This is why 80 percent of our problems come from a wrong view of God. There is only one problem in life. Every person lives in the world of their own minds as their experience in community and the use of the things in this world. This is why the Psalmist is using the logic that if God is absolutely sovereign then the Psalmist has control of the success in his life. This is why we Calvinist cannot accept any description of God that is false. The only way that a person can live in his own skin is to describe God in the orthodox according to the system of Calvinism.
The truth is that everyone swears that he remains neutral in his judgements about himself and others because he is not dogmatic about his beliefs. But the Psalmist teaches that all men live in the imagination of their own minds by the ignorance of their belief. The system of theology is a description of the quality of life and not a set of rules that a person can apply. In other words if God reveals the truth about who He is then it is backed up with the threat of death if it is not confessed. Because God has made us to describe the truth about who He is and who we are in the perfect revelation of His word. The Psalmist is proclaiming that he has confessed the laws, decrees, covenants, curses and promises as his reality of who God is. This is his "cause"
But the Psalms employs his imagination when he thinks about the work that God has done in giving him success as the king. 1 F19 I will praise you, O LORD , with all my heart;I will tell of all your wonders.2 I will be glad and rejoice in you;I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. This name of God as the "Most High" is speaking about the God who wins all the battles in this world. If you could picture this world that is inhabited by men who are little gods because they are corrupted by being born in sin. Every man is born to be his own sovereign. The problem is because sin has alienated man from God , he views every thing in the world under his control.
The teaching of pride in the scriptures is not talking about an attitude but a way of life that is under the power of the "curse."You see we believe that a persons doctrinal position is not two sides...that being that there are some situations in life were he is under the control of the curse and other situations where he is saved from the curse. But we believe that true salvation is explained in life and death terms. In other words every thing that we believe about God and His existence in eternal life is the exact defense of our survival. He is saying as God is sovereign so my survival and success depends upon confessing that I am successful as God is sovereign. These confessions of the law, decrees, covenants , curses and promises are final pronouncements of the reality of the existence of all things. We live in the confidence that these confessions are the reality that we are orthodox and obedient to God as Most High.
you have sat on your throne, judging righteously.
The Psalms teach that our understanding of God determines how we view ourselves. How we view ourselves is how we react to the circumstances of life. This is why 80 percent of our problems come from a wrong view of God. There is only one problem in life. Every person lives in the world of their own minds as their experience in community and the use of the things in this world. This is why the Psalmist is using the logic that if God is absolutely sovereign then the Psalmist has control of the success in his life. This is why we Calvinist cannot accept any description of God that is false. The only way that a person can live in his own skin is to describe God in the orthodox according to the system of Calvinism.
The truth is that everyone swears that he remains neutral in his judgements about himself and others because he is not dogmatic about his beliefs. But the Psalmist teaches that all men live in the imagination of their own minds by the ignorance of their belief. The system of theology is a description of the quality of life and not a set of rules that a person can apply. In other words if God reveals the truth about who He is then it is backed up with the threat of death if it is not confessed. Because God has made us to describe the truth about who He is and who we are in the perfect revelation of His word. The Psalmist is proclaiming that he has confessed the laws, decrees, covenants, curses and promises as his reality of who God is. This is his "cause"
But the Psalms employs his imagination when he thinks about the work that God has done in giving him success as the king. 1 F19 I will praise you, O LORD , with all my heart;I will tell of all your wonders.2 I will be glad and rejoice in you;I will sing praise to your name, O Most High. This name of God as the "Most High" is speaking about the God who wins all the battles in this world. If you could picture this world that is inhabited by men who are little gods because they are corrupted by being born in sin. Every man is born to be his own sovereign. The problem is because sin has alienated man from God , he views every thing in the world under his control.
The teaching of pride in the scriptures is not talking about an attitude but a way of life that is under the power of the "curse."You see we believe that a persons doctrinal position is not two sides...that being that there are some situations in life were he is under the control of the curse and other situations where he is saved from the curse. But we believe that true salvation is explained in life and death terms. In other words every thing that we believe about God and His existence in eternal life is the exact defense of our survival. He is saying as God is sovereign so my survival and success depends upon confessing that I am successful as God is sovereign. These confessions of the law, decrees, covenants , curses and promises are final pronouncements of the reality of the existence of all things. We live in the confidence that these confessions are the reality that we are orthodox and obedient to God as Most High.
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Ps 29 2 Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name;
worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness".
This Psalm was imprinted in my soul because I went through 6 hurricanes in my time living in Florida. I memorized this Psalm in the 80s and would wonder why the Psalmist compared the voice of God to a storm. Ive always been a person since I began to memorize scripture to resist the uprising of emotions within myself by using the control of my mind on my meditation. We struggle the most with our emotions when we face a huge disaster. Its very difficult for us to experience illumination when the events around us are being pull apart. So the Psalmist is saying that the disasters of nature are meant to cause us to focus on Gods word over the urge to be consumed by the disaster.
He is saying that every thing that is created on this earth is spoken into reality by God. Before the foundation of the world God planned and predetermined everything that would exist in time. God created every thing as a display of His glory. But its hard for us to find a redeeming value in a disaster. But the truth is that even the smallest event in our lives that is created by God is just as miraculous as the experience of a big disaster. Because there is no event that happens where God is out of control. Because God orders events for the purpose of displaying all of His attributes.He is saying when you observe these disasters you are observing the absolute control of God over something that seems to us to be out of control.
This is why the Psalmist teaches that all of Gods creation is speaking.In other words it is showing forth the character and purpose of God in its beauty and its function. But it is always communicated to us in our language.But in a storm we experience the mysterious power of God that we cannot explain. Its a test to us to trust that God is in control even tho our lives are threatened by the potential to be consumed in the storm. This is difficult for us because we do not naturally experience the pronouncement of death in the law as the death of whatever opposes our success.
Every thing that God creates is a perfect explanation of His law. All that God does is in perfect order and symmetry. Every created moment is original and holistic. The Psalmist is using a disastrous event to teach us the voice of God. This disaster consumes everything in its path. The Psalmist says that the result of the effects of the disaster is strength and peace. 11 The LORD gives strength to his people;the LORD blesses his people with peace"..The Psalmist is saying that our experience in salvation is hearing the voice of the law that is turned away from us. In other words the voice in the storm removes everything that destroys our peace. I experienced this in the Andrew. After the terrible hurricane went through Miami ,everything that produced noise all the way down to the humming of the electrical wires was silenced. So the event had to be so big that it removed the sound for miles and miles. The voice is powerful enough to remove those sounds that we cannot control.
He is saying that the voice of the law that curses destruction is able to go beyond our ability to create rest.The voice of the curse is the universal sound of a storm that holds all men under the power and control of God. It is a spiritual emanation of the terrible response to the potential in man to destroy himself and the earth by fire. The voice of death that brings hopelessness frees man from the constant tension that the law produces. It is the only voice that the elect share with the wicked. But the for the elect the voice of the curse is their sure defense while the wicked experience dread and hopelessness. The Psalmist is saying that we are being sustained in this world by the mysterious power of God to withhold the sting of the curse that is embraced in this world in the culture of death. Our salvation is as mysterious as God ordering our lives as He created every event from the beginning of time to work out in our time for our good.That voice of the law gives us this mysterious power to live in rest and peace like a storm that blows away all the sounds of the opposition.
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