Saturday, May 12, 2018

Ps 33 9 For he spoke, and it came to be;
he commanded, and it stood firm.
10 The LORD foils the plans of the nations;
he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever,
the purposes of his heart through all generations."
The Psalmist teaches that all reality is governed by Gods law. God orders time by speaking it into existence. He governs time with perfect justice and equity. One word that is spoken is a description of a lawful reason of its existence. So he is teaching that when God speaks the creation into existence it is the same thing as commanding a perfect response of that thing. We say that God gives the ability to obey His commands.
We must understand that God works in ordering all things according to His knowledge and power. The gulf that exist between our knowledge and Gods, demands that we must seek Him for the ability to rest in His sovereignty. We are totally dependent upon God. The Psalmist compares this perfect order of God to salvation or deliverance. You will find in the OT narrative that Gods commands to His remnant are followed by a decree that they will do what He commands. The apostle teaches that our works are created by God in His eternal counsel.
Gods order in creation is the witness of His swearing to His own hurt if He does not uphold His covenants. All real reality is the order of Gods perfect word. So the Psalmist describes the creation as a continuous communication of Gods perfect law. It is the evidence of Gods commands being spoken in law, covenants, curses, statutes, decrees and promises. The Psalmist expresses his dependency on God in pronouncing the law, covenants etc. Just as God speaks the creation into existence so we must flee from self confidence by showing our dependence upon Gods pronouncements.
God requires perfect obedience to His commands. When God created all things He perfected the end for which they were created. Just like we can depend upon the foundation of Gods perfect order in the working of creation so we can be completely confident on Gods perfect law of liberty that dwells in us. The reason that God cannot share His work with any man is because God is the only one who controls life and death. In this way we are not depending upon God as if He were rationing out His strength. But we must flee from ourselves by pronouncing the blessings in growing up and the curses in growing down. We can only be confident in the gifts of Gods love, peace, etc in the defense of the curses and the success of the blessings. So the Psalmist expressions of his heart in praise, thankfulness, victory, and glory are founded upon the practice of speaking all the pronouncements. In other words his expression of praise come from the holistic use of the pronouncement's that contain the recreation.

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