Ps 69 1 Save me, O God,
for the waters have come up to my neck.
2 I sink in the miry depths,
where there is no foothold.
I have come into the deep waters;
the floods engulf me.
The Psalmist is teaching that scorn is the result any corrupted communication. Gods people are put in a world where everyone gets along by being hardened in our hearts. We have the ability to avoid reacting with emotion toward the ill treatment of people. The Psalms teach that our opposition to evil is not an inward struggle. We are put in a war between God and Satan. Our normal experience in this world is to face evil that is beyond our ability to control. But our natural fall back position is to believe that because God is on our side we have a general trust in our circumstances because we view God as providing us with the safety of innocence. It is easy for us to become religious so that we ignore these evils that exist in the world. But the Psalmist is always complaining that his opposition is too strong for him. So he is complaining in this Psalm about the terrible problem in the culture when it becomes depraved. As the culture grows in evil the power of the scorn inoculates us to the potential for our hearts to grow hard.
You must understand that all anger comes from pain. Here the Psalmist is saying that all emotional pain comes from scorn which is the soil for anger.29 I am in pain and distress;may your salvation, O God, protect me." If every body trust that God deals with anger through the curses of the law then society would be free to roll all their anger over to God in His divine vengeance. They would allow God to be God. The law would be an instrument that prevented the physical pain and the scorn that produces the emotional pain. But the natural man lives in blindness and darkness. He spreads the death of humanism where ever he goes.
You must understand that scorn is not really a psychological problem but a spiritual problem. The Psalms teach that man is born to redefine Gods law. This is called rebellion. The bible says that rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft. In other words its a power that encourages suicide. Its the spread of a spell of death. So scorn is spread by the constant practice of evil communication. This communication is a repetition of encouraging death.This is why the Psalmist describes his inward struggle that is caused by a culture of communication that is godless and insulting.20 Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless;I looked for sympathy, but there was none,for comforters, but I found none.
21 They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst." This is the angle that the Psalms teach about the dangers of the evil that we face. The danger is not the sin we struggle with but the living in the culture of the curse. This is the cycle of scorn that inoculates us of our true feelings of hot anger.
This is why God pronounces curses. Because cures are His view of reacting to the spell of rebellion. The curses are Gods spell to overcome the spell of rebellion and destroy the propagation of scorn in society. 22 May the table set before them become a snare;
may it become retribution and a trap.23 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,and their backs be bent forever.
24 Pour out your wrath on them;let your fierce anger overtake them. " This is why God teaches that He is able to reach down below the worse state of sin and go as high as the most powerful opposition on this earth. You must see that we cannot escape the evils in this world' We would need to go out of the world to escape. But God does not allow any evil to occupy a space in the universe that He does not have control over. The law of God is universal and without opposition. 27 Charge them with crime upon crime;
do not let them share in your salvation.28 May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous."(He is descending here. ) The law curses corruption.With the most evil cultures God is able to overcome the destructive nature of mans curse by the more powerful curse of the law. I call this God going as low as the worse societies and pushing evil down as the curse reigns. You see the freedom for wickedness is to come to no hope. Thats when evil men can rest for awhile.
He has made it so that our personal anger and reaction to evil can be made free in His pronouncements of the curse. We can live in the worse evils of the world and push them down under our feet by the curses of the law. We can be protected from the hardness of men who spread scorn by the curses. We can empty our souls of the poison of scorn and experience our first love by the curses.
for the waters have come up to my neck.
2 I sink in the miry depths,
where there is no foothold.
I have come into the deep waters;
the floods engulf me.
The Psalmist is teaching that scorn is the result any corrupted communication. Gods people are put in a world where everyone gets along by being hardened in our hearts. We have the ability to avoid reacting with emotion toward the ill treatment of people. The Psalms teach that our opposition to evil is not an inward struggle. We are put in a war between God and Satan. Our normal experience in this world is to face evil that is beyond our ability to control. But our natural fall back position is to believe that because God is on our side we have a general trust in our circumstances because we view God as providing us with the safety of innocence. It is easy for us to become religious so that we ignore these evils that exist in the world. But the Psalmist is always complaining that his opposition is too strong for him. So he is complaining in this Psalm about the terrible problem in the culture when it becomes depraved. As the culture grows in evil the power of the scorn inoculates us to the potential for our hearts to grow hard.
You must understand that all anger comes from pain. Here the Psalmist is saying that all emotional pain comes from scorn which is the soil for anger.29 I am in pain and distress;may your salvation, O God, protect me." If every body trust that God deals with anger through the curses of the law then society would be free to roll all their anger over to God in His divine vengeance. They would allow God to be God. The law would be an instrument that prevented the physical pain and the scorn that produces the emotional pain. But the natural man lives in blindness and darkness. He spreads the death of humanism where ever he goes.
You must understand that scorn is not really a psychological problem but a spiritual problem. The Psalms teach that man is born to redefine Gods law. This is called rebellion. The bible says that rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft. In other words its a power that encourages suicide. Its the spread of a spell of death. So scorn is spread by the constant practice of evil communication. This communication is a repetition of encouraging death.This is why the Psalmist describes his inward struggle that is caused by a culture of communication that is godless and insulting.20 Scorn has broken my heart and has left me helpless;I looked for sympathy, but there was none,for comforters, but I found none.
21 They put gall in my food and gave me vinegar for my thirst." This is the angle that the Psalms teach about the dangers of the evil that we face. The danger is not the sin we struggle with but the living in the culture of the curse. This is the cycle of scorn that inoculates us of our true feelings of hot anger.
This is why God pronounces curses. Because cures are His view of reacting to the spell of rebellion. The curses are Gods spell to overcome the spell of rebellion and destroy the propagation of scorn in society. 22 May the table set before them become a snare;
may it become retribution and a trap.23 May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,and their backs be bent forever.
24 Pour out your wrath on them;let your fierce anger overtake them. " This is why God teaches that He is able to reach down below the worse state of sin and go as high as the most powerful opposition on this earth. You must see that we cannot escape the evils in this world' We would need to go out of the world to escape. But God does not allow any evil to occupy a space in the universe that He does not have control over. The law of God is universal and without opposition. 27 Charge them with crime upon crime;
do not let them share in your salvation.28 May they be blotted out of the book of life and not be listed with the righteous."(He is descending here. ) The law curses corruption.With the most evil cultures God is able to overcome the destructive nature of mans curse by the more powerful curse of the law. I call this God going as low as the worse societies and pushing evil down as the curse reigns. You see the freedom for wickedness is to come to no hope. Thats when evil men can rest for awhile.
He has made it so that our personal anger and reaction to evil can be made free in His pronouncements of the curse. We can live in the worse evils of the world and push them down under our feet by the curses of the law. We can be protected from the hardness of men who spread scorn by the curses. We can empty our souls of the poison of scorn and experience our first love by the curses.
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