Saturday, July 14, 2018

Ps 40 8 I desire to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart."
Gods elect are implanted with new desires through salvation These desires rise up in the elect according to the law of God. When God created all things, the order and symmetry of the creation was the visible display of the success of the desires of God. Gods creation brought about the establishment of His perfect kingdom. Through Christ work then, this kingdom is reestablished in Gods elect.
The desire to do Gods will is united with the human desire for success in this life. The corruption of all things enslaves man to desire the destruction of the creation. Man is unable to desire the good that complies with Gods law and pleases God. Man must be implanted with the perfect law of God in order to reestablish the unity of the soul. The implanted law of God reestablishes the original identity of man as his own sovereign. Gods law reorders all reality by establishing in man the circumstances of Gods perfect kingdom. Gods perfect word that is pronounced by Gods people are the kingdom desires that cannot be thwarted.
The positive and negative desires of the corrupted man are contained in the pronouncements of the law, covenants, curses, decrees, statutes and promises.In salvation the human desires are united with the new desires. But the human desires can only be successful by being consumed in the new desires. The human desires of food, relationships, personal safety and stability are made successful as they are consumed in the pronouncement of creative law of God who reorders the corrupted circumstances. Man is unable to will what is good without the pronouncements consuming the corrupted desire. The ability in man to do good is only accomplished in the containment of Gods perfect pronouncements of the blessing and cursing.
The Psalmist teaches this in pronouncing the desires of God as the expression of his own success.40 14 May all who seek to take my life be put to shame and confusion;
may all who desire my ruin
be turned back in disgrace.
15 May those who say to me, "Aha! Aha!"
be appalled at their own shame.
16 But may all who seek you
rejoice and be glad in you;
may those who love your salvation always say,
"The LORD be exalted!" The pronouncements of blessing and cursing are the legal justification in overcoming all opposition. The pronouncements are the mirror of Gods sworn testimony as Gods elect unite their desires with God to accomplish His covenant promises to His own hurt.
Gods elect overcome all opposition by pronouncing the blessing and the cursing upon all opposition that resulted from the fall. This implanted law of God is the gift to Gods elect to use as a weapon in overcoming destruction. The context of the trials that we face as Gods people are only good when we pronounce the curses in order to push them down beneath our feet. Trials originate from the fall. They are destructive in themselves. God pronounced death to corruption in order to establish the success of blessing. All corruption is brought under the power of Gods curses. The reality of human ability is in the pronouncements of the blessing and cursing. Gods order in renewal has been established in the legal justification of His covenant. The pronouncement of His law unites our new desires with Gods in order to promote the purpose of the law , which is given for the defense of Gods people.

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