Ps 130 7 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD ,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins."
The bible teaches that Christ is the Lamb of God who sits on His throne. This lamb has paid the price so that all things could be renewed by God. The Psalms describe Redemption as God loving us with an unfailing love. Gods unfailing love is the only foundation of our relationship with Him. The Psalms teach that we must approach God according to His unfailing love. This means that we must order our words according to His laws, decrees , statutes, curses, covenants and promises. We are required to have an understanding of who we are approaching, what He has accomplished, the kind of attitude that we must display and the kind of confidence that is necessary to receive all these gifts from God. So when the Psalmist is describing Gods history of redemption it is always written in Scripture according to Gods laws, decrees..etc.
In order for us to know who we are , we must know and be convinced that there are clear doctrines set out in scripture that provide us with the standard that cannot be crossed. Once we redefine what is clearly taught then we worship another god. It is a god that we make up in our own minds. So the question is if we must not cross the line of the doctrines then we are required to be perfect in our knowledge and understanding. So this is why our only confidence of knowing God stands on the foundation of His unfailing love. Because God cannot be known in the fullest sense.
So God has communicated to us in baby talk. God has not left us without enough knowledge to know who He is and to know what he wants. We must understand that God has created all men and implanted His law in their hearts. All men exist by reasoning according to Gods law. So all of these terms of salvation are not just potential actions of God but are rooted in the legal justification of the existence of all things. This is why God establishes the existence of all things according to Himself. Nothing can be described and explained by any other being. God is the only one who knows the beginning from the end. God must justify the actions that result from the ends of all that He has created. This is why redemption is based upon the work of God alone. For all corruption and sin there must be a price that is paid. But it must be paid on the standard of the Perfect man. For corruption and sin to be justified it takes an eternal sacrifice.
We must understand that we who have been given Gods law are frustrated by the inability for us to unite Gods purposes with our judgements. This is why hope is inseparable from Gods unfailing love and His work of redemption. Without a work that unites Gods purposes with His judgements we all would be hopeless. This is why God has not only gifted us with the grace of salvation but He has also gifted us with His revealed word that teaches us to speak to God according to the way that He works out every thing in this plan of redemption . He has not left us to be in the dark and frustrated with our inability to justify the purposes of all things but He is pleased to listen to us according to His laws, covenants etc. So when the Psalmist proclaims that God Himself will redeem us from all of our sins and troubles He is coming to this understanding as he speaks in these pleasing ways. We are not left to just conclude that God is sovereign and we are frustrated.
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins."
The bible teaches that Christ is the Lamb of God who sits on His throne. This lamb has paid the price so that all things could be renewed by God. The Psalms describe Redemption as God loving us with an unfailing love. Gods unfailing love is the only foundation of our relationship with Him. The Psalms teach that we must approach God according to His unfailing love. This means that we must order our words according to His laws, decrees , statutes, curses, covenants and promises. We are required to have an understanding of who we are approaching, what He has accomplished, the kind of attitude that we must display and the kind of confidence that is necessary to receive all these gifts from God. So when the Psalmist is describing Gods history of redemption it is always written in Scripture according to Gods laws, decrees..etc.
In order for us to know who we are , we must know and be convinced that there are clear doctrines set out in scripture that provide us with the standard that cannot be crossed. Once we redefine what is clearly taught then we worship another god. It is a god that we make up in our own minds. So the question is if we must not cross the line of the doctrines then we are required to be perfect in our knowledge and understanding. So this is why our only confidence of knowing God stands on the foundation of His unfailing love. Because God cannot be known in the fullest sense.
So God has communicated to us in baby talk. God has not left us without enough knowledge to know who He is and to know what he wants. We must understand that God has created all men and implanted His law in their hearts. All men exist by reasoning according to Gods law. So all of these terms of salvation are not just potential actions of God but are rooted in the legal justification of the existence of all things. This is why God establishes the existence of all things according to Himself. Nothing can be described and explained by any other being. God is the only one who knows the beginning from the end. God must justify the actions that result from the ends of all that He has created. This is why redemption is based upon the work of God alone. For all corruption and sin there must be a price that is paid. But it must be paid on the standard of the Perfect man. For corruption and sin to be justified it takes an eternal sacrifice.
We must understand that we who have been given Gods law are frustrated by the inability for us to unite Gods purposes with our judgements. This is why hope is inseparable from Gods unfailing love and His work of redemption. Without a work that unites Gods purposes with His judgements we all would be hopeless. This is why God has not only gifted us with the grace of salvation but He has also gifted us with His revealed word that teaches us to speak to God according to the way that He works out every thing in this plan of redemption . He has not left us to be in the dark and frustrated with our inability to justify the purposes of all things but He is pleased to listen to us according to His laws, covenants etc. So when the Psalmist proclaims that God Himself will redeem us from all of our sins and troubles He is coming to this understanding as he speaks in these pleasing ways. We are not left to just conclude that God is sovereign and we are frustrated.
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