Ps 85 10 Love and faithfulness meet together;
righteousness and peace kiss each other.
11 Faithfulness springs forth from the earth,
and righteousness looks down from heaven.
12 The LORD will indeed give what is good,
and our land will yield its harvest.
13 Righteousness goes before him
and prepares the way for his steps."

This is the ultimate unity of heaven and earth. This is describing what happened in Christ death and resurrection. We must understand that the events of this earth are never limited by the perfect experience of the unity of God. The Psalms are laws, covenants , curses, promises and statutes that control the kingdom that dwells in our hearts. Our problem is that we limit God by our view very small view in our time sequence.. We actually think that the world is like God. You see God is eternal. He existed in eternity before the world was formed. God describes everything in one view. He is not limited by the progress of time. He sees the beginning from the end. Now listen , in Gods view all things are justified by His cursing and blessing. This is what brings all things to unity.
You see here that love is in the heavens and faithfulness is on the earth. Now listen God made the earth for mankind. He gave the earth and its valuables for us to use and rule over. But the problem is that we are subject to the opposition of sin and corruption. The truth is that we can do nothing without God. We are absolutely dependent upon God. We cannot survive without love from heaven united with faithfulness of His creation. His gifts to us are dependent upon His sustaining and ordering all things. Our problem is that we really do not believe there is a legal pronouncement from heaven on the laws that sustain all things. We are looking to mankind to create the health and the moral structure that gives us peace. But the truth is that God orders all things because He must justify Himself as the perfect Governor.
The Psalmist is declaring the basis of his confidence is in the legal justification of God that prevents the universe from destroying all mankind. The bases of God unifying His work of sustaining all things and providing all things is that God covenanted with His elect to provide for His people with the promise that He would be subject to the harm of man if He were not faithful!!!!!Here the Psalmist is declaring that when he pronounces the laws, covenants ..etc that He experiences the total unity of God legally perfect kingdom that reorders all things in this sin and corrupted world. So he can pronounce the perfect kingdom that is the only hope of finding unity in this world and perhaps experience it in actually in the future as we live under the governments of this world. When the works of God are united with our present experience then we experience the ultimate unity and pleasure of this world.

Ps 69 26 For they persecute those you wound
and talk about the pain of those you hurt."
This Psalm teaches us the cause of all pain. Pain comes from sin and corruption. The very presence of corruption is something that cries out against us. It is like someone presenting a case against us. We must understand that pain is the worst enemy and most personal enemy that we must endure. Pain is a universal problem that is common among all men.
All men possess the law of God. We naturally describe the violation of the law of God in terms of a physical or spiritual pain. All men face a problem when explaining the opposition according to the limits of pain. No matter what we face in this world and the focus we put upon that object it is always put in the language of the weight of joy or pain. So pain can be a stigma to us. Its not the pain that we fear the most but its being under the control of the pain. So all of us understand the power that pain can exercise over us. This is why we use pain as a way to judge the value of everything in this world.
Just think about this. If we experienced no physical or psychological pain in handling the things and relationships in this world then we be free of the control that limits us from exploring our purpose. The truth is that because pain is entwined in our communication as a threat to us we experience the opposition to our full potential.The more that pain influences our culture the more timid we are in reaching our full potential.
We were not made to experience the process of death that results in pain. Our familiarity in experiencing pain is the reason that we inflict pain on others. Pain is like a disease that keeps us from our full potential. The problem is that we lower God to the person who must use pain as we use it. But instead of God being controlled by pain, He is in control of pain.
We must understand that when Adam sinned God cursed all men. This brought about corruption that brought pain into the world. But God never used pain like we use it. God took care of pain as fast as it was introduced to man. God had to destroy sin ,corruption and pain by a substitute. From the very beginning when man sinned God pursued man in the garden to redeem that sin and pain. Now listen to me. God does not inflict pain. Pain is a result of sin. The problem is that we bring God down to our experience and put Him under our control by thinking that pain can only be dealt outside of redemption. God has destroyed pain by His death. This is why we call salvation going from a state of bondage to being set free. God saves us from using pain to accomplish our purposes. He destroys pain in the curse.
And here the Psalmist is complaining about the wicked who are still in bondage to pain. In other words they talk about the pain of the elect in order to inflict the pain of guilt. He describes this as bondage to scorn. In order for the Psalmist to be free from this attempt of the wicked to put him into the bondage of that scorn the Psalmist uses the curses to free himself. You see the presence of pain is the reason that we promote violence in this world. It is the cause of murder. The bondage of pain is so destructive that God had to die in order to destroy it. There is only one way to be free of the culture of the miss use of pain and it is to put it to death in the curse.

November 28, 2016 ·

Ps 31 23 Love the LORD, all his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but the proud he pays back in full."
We must make a distinction between an unbeliever who is unable to please God and a believer who possess the same inability but has been given the nature of God in order to overcome sin and corruption. This is why in the bible a saint is technically not a proud man. Here are some very clear examples of what I am saying. 36 11 "May the foot of the proud not come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away." The Psalmist is employing a figure of speech called alteration. So we can interchange the wicked and the proud.Here the Psalmist calls and unbeliever the "proud"
We must understand that as long as we are in this body we share some of the same traits as the wicked. We struggle with the same sins. But the difference is that we no longer are identified with the wicked. It is impossible for us to be righteous and then fall again and become unsaved. So the bible makes this clear distinction so that we are not confused about our eternal salvation.
Let me say this . I have memorized these Psalms and meditated on them for 30 years. After you employ them you begin to understand the importance of the difference the names in appealing to God on behalf of His covenant people. Now do not take this personal but you must understand that anyone who has grown to this point knows how immature a person is who has not gone beyond just a superficial word study. There is a difference between using the Psalms so much that they are a second language and doing a cross reference study.
We cannot be named a proud man because when the Psalmist speaks curses against the enemy He employs the name of the enemy as "proud" .94 2 Rise up, O Judge of the earth; pay back to the proud what they deserve." Now this is very serious and we must look closely at the teaching of the curse. Because most teachers avoid the teaching of the curse that puts these names in their proper context. Because the teaching of the curse lays down the clear lines that we would not see if we were looking at these words pragmatically. Its easy to take a word out of the context and use it flippantly.
Now let me talk about the relationship between justification and sanctification. Because theologians do not employ the curses as the Psalmist does they do not see how important the state of righteousness is as opposed to the state of death. Its like any teaching. You can be influenced by the predominate teaching of the day which is armininism and Catholicism and still understand the doctrines of grace. This is how a teaching can be warped so that we cross the lines of soverign grace. In my opinion because I have memorized the curses and blessings I believe that it is very easy for a person to interpret something and not understand the emotional bias that he uses in the teaching. We must understand that there is no substitution for advancing in this life by knowing the words enough to understand them like we use our English. In the christian faith what we do not know is our propensity to put our own opinions into our form of speech ... The christian life is a focus on words. Its scrutinizing the words so that we can correct the continuous self talk that we repeat that is false. This life is replacing our own patterns of thought and speaking every word under the authority of the bible.
You must understand that the Psalms teach us to challenge our own self talk. This behavior is absolutely essential in understanding and applying the bible. A person who is schooled in this discipline is like a professional in understanding the problems with people who are infants in their use of scripture. You can get to the point where you do this discipline for hours a day and you can see identify the areas where a teaching is causing the problem Teaching is self talk and self talk is the view we learn about our reality.. A person who uses the Psalms learns a totally different way of viewing the different parts of life. We learn to take a situation and put it through the Psalms ..in pronouncing in order to take the disjointed parts of our the experience and unify everything around us. After many years we are like a cartoon character who depends upon the special powers that we get from our pronouncements so that we cannot exist without the discipline. We would lose the high view that we get from the discipline.
I apologize for my propensity to always correct someone.. Its a habit of mine to hear an expression from a person and turn it over as part of the mediation in the Psalms..Its very hard for me to keep from processing the teaching without a very intent focus. My wheels are always turning so to speak.I have an excuse because my mother was a Newton...i come from a family where everyone is employing as many ideas..reading things about people etc...its what made me hungry for knowledge

Ps 84 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor;
no good thing does he withhold
from those whose walk is blameless".

The Psalmist always begins to reason from the ultimate view that God could make all things right in this world by speaking them into existence. We must understand the God is able to overcome all other wills. This is why it is so easy for us to limit our potential by thinking that God is limited by the system of doctrine or the view that we have of relationships in our experience with other people. We must understand that when God created us ,He mades us like Himself. We are creators.
We get pleasure in making things from our ability to view and image in our minds. One of our greatest pleasures is to be free to imagine something that is beyond our normal experience in this world. We are not just physical beings. But we connect with others in a spiritual way. We teach ourselves by the words that we use to describe other people and our own experience. We place limits on our view that are not legitimate. Some people have never learned that the Spirit of God uses the word of God to help us rise above the limits of this world to experience the beauty and power of God. We must learn how to go from word to mystery. Because when we experience mystery we begin to develop a sanctified imagination. The reason that the christian faith comes to us as a negative and constraining experience is because we are living through someone else experience. We will never understand Christian freedom when we limit how God uses us by what other people teach us. The pleasure and positive influence in this life comes from true self knowledge.
This is why interpreting the scriptures and applying them correctly is a life long examination. Because we naturally bring God down to our own level. We must see how constrained the natural man lives. The Psalms teach that the expression of total freedom is the description that God has about the purpose for which He created all things. In other words God enjoys devising, creating and sustaining all things. The spiritual world has not limits of Gods willing and acting. We must understand that our salvation was receiving the implanted word of God. That is the fullness of God. The implantation is the revealed word that describes who we are and what Gods purpose in our lives is. But it is also the residence of all the mysteries of God. So this is why the Apostle prays that we might know that wisdom and love of God that is beyond our understanding. Here the Psalmist is depicting our spiritual world in the kingdom of God in which God sustains and emanates Himself in this legally perfect kingdom to cause us to dwell in the warmth and the light of this mysterious reception of His favor.

Ps 131 1 My heart is not proud, O LORD ,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.
2 But I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
3 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD
both now and forevermore."
The purpose of meditating on Gods law, decrees, curses, promises and statutes is to find rest for our souls. Before the fall man did not experience tension. Tension is the result of opposition. When man sinned we became corrupted in body and soul. There is no part of us that is free of opposition. We are opposed by guilt, shame, sorrow, and fear. We suffer physical pain. But in the Psalms everything that exist can be described in words. All reality is described perfectly by God because God designed it and created it. The perfect description of Gods creation is spoken in pronouncements of Gods law, covenants, curses, promises and statutes.
The corruption is the disjointed and disordered communication that we experience as pain. This is why we as corrupted beings are complicated. If we could have a continuous explanation from God as we face the pain of this disorder then we would experience rest which is an ability to lean on God. But because we are unable to know a detailed explanation of the reasons and the remedy against the opposition then we must learn to live with a incomplete record that is given to us in Gods revelation. In order for us to experience spiritual rest we must learn how to roll all of our troubles and pain over to God.
Some people teach that we simply tell God what we are experiencing and give it to Him. You can program a robot to act in a certain way but self governing beings act by desire and not a bare choice. There are a lot of meta physical actions that we perform before we actually do the act. This is why God has made us like Himself. Because God has designed the things He created and spoke them into existence from nothing. So we are dependent upon the order and unity of all things as the foundation of our spiritual health. So we are very complicated because the corruption that oppose us is both understandable and mysterious. We are naturally made to create as God has created. When we are frustrated by disorder we are opposed as creators.
You see God experiences pleasure in that creative activity. So our hopes and self fulfillment are frustrated by the opposition to our purpose in creating. If we were able to know and understand the corruption as God understands it then we would experience the unity as creators. When we experience this unity we feel in control of the creation.
But God has not left us in total mystery. He has given us the outline of His description in creating all things. We need perfect communication in order to know our purpose and to experience unity of being. God has given us words that are communicated as if they are spoken to us.The words are used by the Holy Spirit to reorder our desires and thoughts so that we experience unity of being.God has made us to think and speak. The law , decrees, covenants , statutes etc are spoken in the form of pronouncements. God create all things by pronouncing them into existence from nothing. This is why we are naturally gifted to recreating the disorder by speaking the pronouncements. So the recreation in our use of the pronouncements is speaking unity into reality.

We must understand that the ultimate reality is only understood by God. Because God is the only one who is free to do as He wills. God is absolutely free. All other wills can be thwarted. But the real reality is that God created us like Himself. But because our wills can be thwarted we do not have the ability to see reality without some kind of bias. So every persons view of reality is their own view.
This is why that disunity exist in the world. If everyone were able to be completely free they would need to do as they will as God has created them. If everyone were able to do as they will with the fullest expression of their gifts and attributes then the world would be the highest pleasure and appreciation of the exercise of the gifts that answered everyone else gifts. There would never be a reason to thwart someone else will. We must understand that God created us to express our will without opposition. The frustrations of all human beings is the inability to have the freedom to be soverign. I mean a little soverign.
Before sin entered the world man enjoyed the ability to desire, will and act without confusion. But when sin entered then man was made unable to choose good. Now here is the thing...when man is saved that old will is destroyed. Calvin says that the old will in the personal sense in not destroyed. In others words to totally annihilate the will would be to create a robot. But the evil that reigned in man that made him unable to choose good died in Christ. And the will that was under the dominion of the evil desire was destroyed.
This is why mans view of himself and his understanding of God is described in the Psalms as the righteous desire. Any one who has memorized the book of Psalms and meditated for 35 years knows that the desire is the central part of the expression of the law that God implanted in the elect. In other words unless the law is successful in dethroning evil and corruption then we are all hopeless and ruled by the curse. We must understand that just as Gods curse is the weight of the law that prevents man from being as evil as he possibly could be, so the reality that we live in is a wrestling and overcoming the desire of the wicked. Evil is not a mystical force but it is the actions of evil men who get what they desire.
We must know what we desire and we must be able to express our desires to God. Our desires are only real as they are formed by Gods law, covenants, curses, statutes and promises. Now listen...the only true self knowledge is pursuing our desires until they are satisfied. You must understand that the Psalms are written to prosecute our success by our desires. If a persons desires are thwarted then its the same as being a non person. The Psalms teach us how to get what we desire by communicating the gifts. law etc.
We must understand that these gifts are pronouncements that unite our identity with our success. The number one reason that people are not successful is the confusion they have of themselves and their purpose. When we are saved our problem is not that we have too high of a view of ourselves. Because the very fact that we are saved is that we have self knowledge because we know we are sinners. Our problem is that we have too low of a view of ourselves .We do not actively use Gods word to unite our desires with our purpose. The Psalms are pronouncements and human expressions of frustrations of the thwarting of the desire. But the central experience of Christian pleasure is in the desire. So we can focus on the desire and find pleasure that is not determined by anything in this world. If God is free because His will cannot be thwarted then He is pleased to grant us success as He is successful

God acts in all circumstances by His creative word .No matter how hard men seek to change the world ,they cannot achieve it by their actions. There is nothing that transpires in this world unless God decrees it. Now listen ...we are Gods creation. Our physical and spiritual being is a collection of God speaking the smallest atom into existence. We cannot even breath without God speaking it.
God has decided to recreate every future circumstance by His spoken word. His words prophecy future events. Because there are no events that come into realty that are different from the war between good and evil. Evil is always the same and good is always the same. The arguments between constitutional governments and rebellious nations have always been the same since before the foundation of the earth! Because Gods creative word never violates His law ,covenants, statutes, curse and promises. Never!

When we speak Gods covenants as pronouncements we are prophesying future events. I prophesied this present political struggle 15 years ago. I have been pronouncing this event for 30 years.The event is Gods law that becomes clear as the vehicle to awaken our nation so that once again there is a clear choice between Gods law and the evil corruption that man has achieved. Now listen our feelings of worth and success are tied to finding the revealing of Gods law that smashes the corruption of the nation. We are never done until the eternal judgement. But for me it will be an answer to thirty years of pronouncing. The life that I feel will be like being shocked by the breath of God if Trump wins... I will gain a new level of confidence in pronouncing....