IF WE ARE GROUNDED IN THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY G-D AND MEDITATE ON IT DAILY AND ALLOW THE RUACH HaKODESH ( Holy Sprit) to Teach us directly or through Anointed Teachers we can become immovable and always abounding in the work of Messiah YESHUA!! NOW THANKS BE TO AVINU MALKEINU WHO ALWAYS CAUSES US TO TRIUMPH IN MESSIAH! ( As We Abide in Messiah The True Vine) HALLELUYAH !! AMEN!🙏🏻
Im confused. We were always taught that god was unconditional love. This had defined strings attached. So it comes off to me as more of a business transaction. Im just trying to make sense of things that dont sense lately. When i read this in the bible it actually chilled me. So you trade your full heart and trust and devotion. Basically your soul for safelty from your enemys? And rejoice and beg to have him bring back captivity? That part really got me. Nobody really says much about that part tho. Im more confused than when i started reading the bible for myself instead of other peoples interpretation like jesus said to.
Enduring Word Team: Yes, this Psalm provides a great contrast between the Old and New Covenant. God's grace and love are unearned and almost always entirely undeserved, but there is no verse which states God's love is explicitly (or entirely) "unconditional" or "without conditions." And as we see in this Psalm written under the Old Covenant, forgiveness and blessings were in some sense very conditional: on the sacrificial system of atonement, and on Israel's continued obedience to the covenant, God's promise to Abraham and his descendants. This may account for the transactional nature you may be perceiving. Thankfully, Christ paid the ultimate price as the perfect sacrifice, and the New Covenant gives us proper reassurance that "God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8) And that, "This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." (1 John 4:10) 📖 From David Guzik's Enduring Word commentary on Psalm 125: enduringword.com/bible-commentary/psalm-125/ *Do good, O LORD, to those who are good:* - One of the primary features of the Old Covenant God made with the Israelites at Mount Sinai was the principle of blessing their obedience and cursing their disobedience. Here, the singer simply prayed that God would fulfill that aspect of the covenant and do good for those who are good. i. The amazing greatness of the revelation of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that God did good for those _who are not good._ We remember that in due time Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:6) and God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8). ii. *To those who are upright in their hearts:* “The ‘good and upright in heart’ are they who stand steady in every change of circumstances; who complain not of God’s dispensations, but, believing everything to be best which he ordains, adhere to him with a will entirely conformed to his, in adversity no less than in prosperity.” (Horne) b. *As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways:* Under the Old Covenant there was blessing for the good, but many curses for the wicked. The singer pictured these workers of iniquity being led out of the land in exile. i. “…who are not faithful; who give way to sin; who backslide, and walk in a crooked way, widely different from the straight way of the upright, yesharim, the straight in heart; they shall be led forth to punishment with the common workers of iniquity.” (Clarke) ii. “The psalmist uses a vivid image to describe half-hearted adherents to the people of Jehovah: ‘they bend their ways,’ so as to make them crooked…. ‘Those crooked, wandering ways’…can never lead to steadfastness or to any good.” (Maclaren) iii. *The LORD shall lead them away:* “It is important to notice the difference between the writer’s prediction of God’s sure judgment on the wicked and his petition for blessing on the righteous. He does not need to ask that the wicked will be judged, because their judgment is certain, sometimes sooner than either we or they expect!” (Boice)
Im sorry. Please forgive this confusion. What im getting from this is, the lord will protect you from your enemys that he sent? Like the mafia? You need to bow down and give your most precious to him, so you will be protected from.....him? Thats fearbased? Theres notbalot of room for love when fears in the room. Oh, he just wants your trust and devotion and worship. I didnt hear much love here. Ok im going to go cry and talk to my grandma. Whos passed on but the only thing that will comfort me. Im cold to my bones. Everybody is ok with this? I bet i get called evil and a devil worshipper for being horrified by this. Is this what they call a crisis of faith?
Pastor Lance replies - It may be a crisis of faith - hard to say without talking face to face. It sounds as though maybe you've had a recent loss and are hurting from that. Please forgive if that's a mis-read on my part. I don't want to add to the burden you're already bearing. The grief of loss can be crushing. It can move us to question how God can be good and loving when we are in such intense pain. It doesn't seem fair. In truth, it ISN'T fair. Death and loss where never God's will. But they came because He honors the choices we make. Death is the result of sin. Our world is broken. The Gospel is the story of how God made a way for our broken world to be healed, without turning us all into robots. Praying for you.
Thank you for pointing out the Old Covenant versus the New Covenant. So awesome! God bless you.
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IF WE ARE GROUNDED IN THE TRUTH OF THE WORD OF ALMIGHTY G-D AND MEDITATE ON IT DAILY AND ALLOW THE RUACH HaKODESH ( Holy Sprit) to Teach us directly or through Anointed Teachers we can become immovable and always abounding in the work of Messiah YESHUA!! NOW THANKS BE TO AVINU MALKEINU WHO ALWAYS CAUSES US TO TRIUMPH IN MESSIAH! ( As We Abide in Messiah The True Vine) HALLELUYAH !! AMEN!🙏🏻
Many promises are conditional, some general. This is conditional, and it is not only the confidence in God, but the removal of fear.
Perfect Love casts out all fear ! Fear causes us torment ! Those that have fear and torment have not been made perfect in love!
Love conquers all
Im confused. We were always taught that god was unconditional love. This had defined strings attached. So it comes off to me as more of a business transaction. Im just trying to make sense of things that dont sense lately. When i read this in the bible it actually chilled me. So you trade your full heart and trust and devotion. Basically your soul for safelty from your enemys? And rejoice and beg to have him bring back captivity? That part really got me. Nobody really says much about that part tho. Im more confused than when i started reading the bible for myself instead of other peoples interpretation like jesus said to.
Enduring Word Team:
Yes, this Psalm provides a great contrast between the Old and New Covenant. God's grace and love are unearned and almost always entirely undeserved, but there is no verse which states God's love is explicitly (or entirely) "unconditional" or "without conditions." And as we see in this Psalm written under the Old Covenant, forgiveness and blessings were in some sense very conditional: on the sacrificial system of atonement, and on Israel's continued obedience to the covenant, God's promise to Abraham and his descendants. This may account for the transactional nature you may be perceiving.
Thankfully, Christ paid the ultimate price as the perfect sacrifice, and the New Covenant gives us proper reassurance that "God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8) And that, "This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins." (1 John 4:10)
📖 From David Guzik's Enduring Word commentary on Psalm 125:
enduringword.com/bible-commentary/psalm-125/
*Do good, O LORD, to those who are good:*
- One of the primary features of the Old Covenant God made with the Israelites at Mount Sinai was the principle of blessing their obedience and cursing their disobedience. Here, the singer simply prayed that God would fulfill that aspect of the covenant and do good for those who are good.
i. The amazing greatness of the revelation of the gospel of Jesus Christ is that God did good for those _who are not good._ We remember that in due time Christ died for the ungodly (Romans 5:6) and God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8).
ii. *To those who are upright in their hearts:* “The ‘good and upright in heart’ are they who stand steady in every change of circumstances; who complain not of God’s dispensations, but, believing everything to be best which he ordains, adhere to him with a will entirely conformed to his, in adversity no less than in prosperity.” (Horne)
b. *As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways:* Under the Old Covenant there was blessing for the good, but many curses for the wicked. The singer pictured these workers of iniquity being led out of the land in exile.
i. “…who are not faithful; who give way to sin; who backslide, and walk in a crooked way, widely different from the straight way of the upright, yesharim, the straight in heart; they shall be led forth to punishment with the common workers of iniquity.” (Clarke)
ii. “The psalmist uses a vivid image to describe half-hearted adherents to the people of Jehovah: ‘they bend their ways,’ so as to make them crooked…. ‘Those crooked, wandering ways’…can never lead to steadfastness or to any good.” (Maclaren)
iii. *The LORD shall lead them away:* “It is important to notice the difference between the writer’s prediction of God’s sure judgment on the wicked and his petition for blessing on the righteous. He does not need to ask that the wicked will be judged, because their judgment is certain, sometimes sooner than either we or they expect!” (Boice)
This is the basic meaning of the psalm . We can elaborate on this as the Spirit helps...
Im sorry. Please forgive this confusion. What im getting from this is, the lord will protect you from your enemys that he sent? Like the mafia? You need to bow down and give your most precious to him, so you will be protected from.....him? Thats fearbased? Theres notbalot of room for love when fears in the room. Oh, he just wants your trust and devotion and worship. I didnt hear much love here. Ok im going to go cry and talk to my grandma. Whos passed on but the only thing that will comfort me. Im cold to my bones. Everybody is ok with this? I bet i get called evil and a devil worshipper for being horrified by this. Is this what they call a crisis of faith?
Pastor Lance replies - It may be a crisis of faith - hard to say without talking face to face. It sounds as though maybe you've had a recent loss and are hurting from that. Please forgive if that's a mis-read on my part. I don't want to add to the burden you're already bearing.
The grief of loss can be crushing. It can move us to question how God can be good and loving when we are in such intense pain. It doesn't seem fair. In truth, it ISN'T fair. Death and loss where never God's will. But they came because He honors the choices we make. Death is the result of sin. Our world is broken.
The Gospel is the story of how God made a way for our broken world to be healed, without turning us all into robots.
Praying for you.