Ps 28 3 Do not drag me away with the wicked,
with those who do evil,
who speak cordially with their neighbors
but harbor malice in their hearts.
4 Repay them for their deeds
and for their evil work;
repay them for what their hands have done
and bring back upon them what they deserve."

Most religions focus on mans attitude in repentance. Men think that the bible puts repentance in the context of the spirit of fervency. They will say that sin is one one side and repentance is the proof of the evilness of sin. In two line we are taught that repentance is a gift of God but under sanctification it is a work.This is the problem with two line. It says that repentance through grace is one line and repentance through works is the other line. These two are in direct opposition to one another. We are taught that this is a contradiction. This can influence everything that is taught. Its sort of like Bob Carol Ted and Alice.Its ok to commit adultery as long as you talk about it with your marriage partner. If they both cancel each other out then there is no real repentance. Its not settled ...it is outside of Gods work. This is why I have never written in the fashion of faith that is contradictory. Because I believe that pragmatism is the last man centered focus that dies. I actually put the curses back into the doctrines of grace.
So here in this Psalm the Psalmist is teaching that when we are saved we are given a gift. It is the gift of knowing that we are sinners. Do you realize that the repentance that was preached in the Nation of Israel was to comfort Gods elect? Because anyone who did not see themselves as a sinner could care less about the call to repentance. It was only the elect that set the standard of acceptable citizenship under the law of God. It was a confession that would eliminate lawlessness from the world through a legal war. Why would the Psalmist express his human wishes in this Psalm instead of coming to God through the repentance? Why would the Psalmist blame the wicked for being a road block to eliminating judgement from Israel? He is saying dont let me go where my neighbor is going. Instead please send him there so we can enjoy national unity.
We must understand that the Psalms teach that if we know that we are sinners then we can show our faith by appealing to God for being unfair in treating us like the wicked when we struggle with pain from our weakness. That our sin as Gods elect is looked on as weakness and not a curse. You see the reason that we are gifted with the ability to know that we are sinners is because we cannot be deceived when we pronounce the curses. We cannot be consumed in human hate. The thing that seems to be the most vulnerable to us is to our most advantage.The motive to use everything negative about us as fuel in our prayers and worship is denied by focusing on the fervor and contradictory ideas about repentance.

Ps 8 5 You made him a little lower than the heavenly beings F18
and crowned him with glory and honor.
6 You made him ruler over the works of your hands;
you put everything under his feet:
7 all flocks and herds,
and the beasts of the field,
8 the birds of the air,
and the fish of the sea,
all that swim the paths of the seas.
9 O LORD , our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
This Psalm is teaching that before the worlds were created God planned the beginning of time to the end. The creation is evidence of Gods majesty from eternity past. In other words everything that ever comes into existence created according to the standard of eternal powers and beauty. We see the visual beauty but the designing and the creating was beyond our understanding. In Gods majesty we must accept the descriptions of all the things that He created as within our own small view. So we must be able to distinguish the truth in drawing a line between mystery and fact in describing our motives. In other words we can exaggerate the words and create a false image by our reaction.
The great battle of the garden was not between man and God. But it was between God and Satan. Man was Gods prized creation. We must always keep in mind that we are not the center of this battle. This Psalm is teaching that man got caught in the middle of the battle between the Creator God and the avenger. So we are not born in a world where man is god. We are born in a world where we are caught in between the war of Satan and God. Man is just a son of Satan.
We are taught that God was always in control , even when man fell into sin. Because man is defined by the Second man. I do not believe there was ever a time where the creation was threatened with extension. In other words God did not have to act in response to total destruction. But the great dividing that was part of the opposition of Satan was destroyed and unified by Gods free will in response to the sin in the garden. I mean that God even preordained sin and the right to rule over sin by willing it and the overthrow of it without opposition.
When we think about the strength of sin and the inability of man to overcome sin in himself we must always exalt Gods free will in our salvation. Because if at any time God would respond to the disaster of the fall then He would not be free. In order for God to be free every thing that is ever created must be unified or God would not be free. The only reason that we are saved was because it was ordered by God to bring all things into unity that we cannot understand. Our confidence then is in Gods free choice of us . If God were not free to choose then we are in bondage. In this sense there is no other reason from any one that can move us.
So really salvation cannot really be described in our emotional attraction to the objects of our love. Because perfect unity is found when the blessing meets the cursing. Salvation is the blessing coming from God and the cursing opposing our salvation. So Gods choice of us is what brings the blessing and the cursing together. This is what God preordained to keep the foundation of the majesty of His creation. So we can see that God had absolute control over all things when the opposition came together with the purposes of God in the Cross..the Cross united every thing going backward as well as forward. Because the blood of bulls and goats could not atone for sin. So the ot salvation and the nt salvation are unified.

Ps 86 11 Teach me your way, O LORD ,
and I will walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart,
that I may fear your name."
The Psalmist is teaching that we are being renewed on a daily basis. When we are renewed we are being changed to be more like Christ. This change is taught in the Psalms as being converted. But at the same time we were completely converted when we were saved. So the Psalmist is pronouncing the complete change in order to unite his vision with Gods activity. So he says "give me an undivided heart" that is united with 12 I will praise you, O Lord my God, with all my heart;I will glorify your name forever.13 For great is your love toward me;" He is teaching that we go through change by being converted. There are conversions that we go through that so small we do not realize they are happening and there are conversions that we experience that are testimonies.
Our hearts are being more and more enlarged as we experience Gods eternal love. But we are frustrated and opposed by our corruption. We are taught that we are saved and righteous in Christ but we are also being saved or delivered. He calls this future salvation as a word of salvation or a testimony of conversion. This is why he prays 86 17"Give me a sign of your goodness, that my enemies may see it and be put to shame, for you, O LORD, have helped me and comforted me". So the Psalmist is distinguishing between these secret changes and the outward change.
We must understand that the Psalmist teaches that we are all born into a world where wicked men and self righteous men have planned the evil that is in our world. We must acknowledge that the evil is preventing us from these outward testimonies. In Ps 59 the Psalmist is complaining about the evil that prevented the Israelite from taking part in the first Passover. He is saying that Israel was prevented from the Passover because of the presence of Idol worshipers that were in their cities. So the second Passover was a testimony that God had removed the idol worshipers.
We must understand that all the circumstances that we find ourselves in are created by God. Our experiences are always under the power of God who allows or forbids. All human frustration comes from being anxious and restless in the circumstances that we find ourselves in. We are taught in the Psalms that all reality is Gods pronouncement of allowing and preventing. We think that the lean and slow times are from our sins .On the other hand we think that the active and successful times are from our abilities. But the Psalmist practices pronouncing the law, covenants, curses, and promises as the future word of salvation.
No matter what we go through or how we relate our experience with our failures and successes we cannot change the way that God decrees everything in our lives.Our problem is that we do not believe that the world is moved by God allowing and preventing. We must understand that God decrees everything as it relates to our potential of being in danger. He is not really trying to enforce moral change in us. Because the Psalmist is teaching that we are already righteous before God. God does not need to force us to be righteous. Its hard for us to learn that we are no longer in a relationship with God as a school master. We go from total rebellion against God in our former life to being in danger of harm from the world. The Psalmist is describing the process of renewal that answers our hope as moving from one testimony to another. He is saying that sometimes when we think that we are only turning our wheels is when God is hiding us from danger. And when we are successful God has removed the opposition. So the Psalmist is always looking for the testimony that allows the success from the deliverance from the opposition.Ps 86 11 Teach me your way, O LORD ,and I will walk in your truth;

Ps 36 9 For with you is the fountain of life;
in your light we see light"

The Psalmist teaches that Gods attributes and displayed are order in creation.  ⁵ Your love, O LORD , reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep." So we believe that all reality is spoken by God from nothing. If God designed and created the universe then there is no other reason or word that can be outside of Gods work. So even our vocabulary consist of boundaries that were given by God. So we say that even our words are borrowed from God. Everything that we are and have is dependent upon God. This is why the Psalmist says that truth is only true by how God views it. "In your light we see light." We believe that our faith is built upon pre suppositions.

A lot of people describe their ability to listen to another view as being neutral. They believe that they can view life by being totally objective. But this is not true.   Every man will swear that he is teaching the truth. There is no man who is able to teach different from what he does. He would need to have two minds. You ask a person why he does what he does and he will give you a reason that represents the belief that he would die for. So you can see there is a million trillion views of the truth.But there is only one person who is able to act perfectly according to the truth.

This means that in order for someone to be consistent in his claims he must know everything. He must be intimately involved with the smallest particles and the most hidden events.  There is nothing that is hidden from him and nothing that he does not understand. So  we would say that when we describe the truth there are two areas that give us the proper perspective of our interaction with others. The first area is that God has revealed Himself in clear and understandable truth to man. The second way is that God knows the truth that is mysterious and hidden from us. But we must understand that Gods mysterious truth does not contradict His plain understandable truth.

We must understand that even tho we understand the gospel , yet it is not true because we describe it. The gospel and the revealed things do not need us to prove they are real. So the Bible truth is set apart from all explanations because it self revelation. The Bible is true because it is reality. The Bible is the only book where the event that has already happened was planned before the foundation as if it had already come into time and space. All the words of scripture are prophetic. This is why God says that His law ,covenants, curses, promises ..etc are the building stones of His creation and recreation. So God says that the expanse of the heavens are like His love. And the expanse of the sky is like His faithfulness. You see there is nothing around us that has not happened that was not preordained by God speaking.

So the Psalmist pronounces the law, covenant etc as the declaration that it is an exercise of "in Your light we see light." This experience is both understandable and mysterious. So we are required to know that which is revealed. Every person has the responsibility to know enough to not be deceived. God has not left us with a dissociated doctrinal system. He has given us a system that is holistic. In other words one doctrine is the foundation and logic of the next doctrine until it explains the end times. So all the doctrine is tied together by a string. So we should be able to identify the inconsistencies in listening to others. But questions is does that fulfill all of mans needs?

You see it is true that we can have a peaceful quality of life by understanding the doctrine as a holistic truth. But the bible says that God is much bigger than our set of doctrines and our ability to identify that false teaching. The apostle prays that our understanding might be enlightened. That we may know beyond our ability to understand. So in this sense our growth in Christ is reaching to the height of mystery and finding more mystery. Its like an athlete who is training for the Olympics. He trains every day for hours and hours and then he does his craft in the Olympics that takes thirty minutes.He actually spends more time training than he does in performing. This is the way that are made to seek and know God. Because Gods revealed word causes us to think and ask questions. It opens our minds and our imaginations. This is how the apostle prayed . He was praying that we might know by revelation a greater understanding. This is what happens when we apply the Psalms in prayers. We experience something greater than we ever imagined.  In you light we see light..we experience your beauty and power.      

Ps 143 1 O LORD , hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous before you."

The bible not only teaches that God has died for sin but that He died for the heinousness of sin. He leaves our salvation open on our sin side because He does not keep a record of our sins. Ps 143 If you, O LORD, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand?" He is saying here that there is forgiveness with God. The "forgiveness" in the context of the law turned away from His elect as a curse to the wicked.143 2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,for no one living is righteous before you." in the context of 143 12 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;destroy all my foes,for I am your servant". "No one living is righteous before you" is drawing a line between the righteous and the wicked. The apostle addresses our responsibilities in the spirit of singing Psalms. The motive for obedience is in ability to keep the opposition on a leash.{In the context of deserved judgement or the heinousness of sin} So this is why the Psalmist argues that the reason that God will grant him grace is because the wicked are a lot worse. He is arguing from the greater to the lesser. So where sin abounds grace much more abounds. Or if God excused the wicked He would need to apologize to the elect.25 7 Remember not the sins of my youth and my rebellious ways;according to your love remember me,for you are good, O LORD . " Remembering is more than forgetting the sin but its erasing the memory and justifying the curse against the former accusations.(" remember me , for You are good" ) God never judges on a sliding scale. God always curses or blesses. So when the apostle teaches on the fear , righteousness, obedience or justice is is always in the context of our justification being the leash that keeps the opposition under the curse of the law.143 2 "for the wicked are not righteous before you"

Ps 12 1 Help, LORD , for the godly are no more;
the faithful have vanished from among men.
2 Everyone lies to his neighbor;
their flattering lips speak with deception."

God has established His law in creation. Gods order and symmetry that provides the success of His eternal government is the law that orders everything that relates to everything else. We can simplify this by saying that every man understands governing. Every society is defined by self government. If each man could act according to the law of God that is implanted in his heart then he is related to others in a national government.
But when sin entered man began to redefine Gods law. 2Everyone lies to his neighbor;" When man changes the law he creates violence and destruction. 5 "Because of the oppression of the weak" But God does not view the governments of this world in a pragmatic way. At all times God pronounces judgement upon the wicked who oppress by illegal language and creations.5b I will now arise," says the LORD.3 May the LORD cut off all flattering lips " " cut off" is sending them outside the city for judgement.
The Psalmist is describing the law of God as an instrument of purity. If you can think of it like this. You heat gold and as it becomes liquid the impurities come to the top. This is comparing the perfect judgement of Gods word that purifies the city of the wicked. What the Psalmist is saying that Gods curses are yea and amen.
Its pictured like this. The Psalmist is petitioning God to reorder every scheme that has ever been devised. In other words Gods word purifies all of the schemes of man that create the deception that is in the culture as a result of the redefining of Gods word from all generations. The Psalmist is saying that when he pronounces the Psalms as the law , decrees, statutes, curses, covenants and promises he is opposing that communication that has in its force and illegality as potential of destroying that city. This process of meditation is the heat of the word separating the impurities or schemes for judgement."5 I will protect them from those who malign them."6 And the words of the LORD are flawless,
like silver refined in a furnace of clay,
purified seven times.

There is no one who believes something that he will not die for. Because knowledge cannot be pragmatic. Although there are pragmatic ideas in the world, it only exist because there remains ignorance due to the human inability to know all things. But this mixture of knowledge and mystery in ones view is predetermined by God. We can only escape what is harmful to us through revelation or illumination. So the defense of truth is more than just based upon our confidence that we know the truth. Whatever knowledge we have always rises up to the level of life and death. The bible is all that we need to live a life of Godliness. This means that the revealed knowledge is a shorten version of all the knowledge of God. In other words both the shortened version and the exhaustive version are going in the same direction. There is no such thing as two equal lines of truth. We have enough revealed knowledge to escape death and embrace life. But what we believe is always under the obligation of our survival in this world. We receive life or death by our doctrinal description. This is what the bible means when it makes a distinction between the righteous curse and the wicked curse. The bible teaches that if we belong to Christ we receive every pure description or doctrine as if it is defining the kingdom that we belong to. Even tho we are ignorant at some point yet the principle of Gods kingdom is that if we understand the smallest truth we understand the whole truth. Because the Spirit of one word contains all Gods ideas. We are able to be ignorant but fully able to express Gods curse to its fullest. And we are able to receive Gods absolute blessing. We must understand that a person believes truth about themselves in which the blindness that their ignorance represents is the inability for them to embrace life. And for us the ignorance represent our inability to embrace the curse.