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    Psalm 1: Separating the Righteous from the Wicked

      

    The Righteous

    1. WALK: Walks not in the ungodly's counsel, avoids the path of sinners (to avoid temptation) and does not sit in the seat of scoffers

    2. THOUGHT: Delight is in the law (the character of God), meditates 24/7

    3. RESULT: tree by rivers that is fruitful, prosper, leaf does not wither.

    The Ungodly - reap "the grapes of Sodom."

    1.  RESULT: Chaff - blown away, unsubstantiall oerusg

    2. "Shall not stand in the judgment" - to stand is to last, to endure.

    Chaff is lightweight and of no value

    Matthew Henry's Commentary

    They are like chaff, of no worth at all in God’s account, how highly soever they may value themselves. Would you know the temper of their minds? They are light and vain; they have no substance in them, no solidity; they are easily driven to and fro by every wind and temptation, and have no stedfastness. Would you know their end? The wrath of God will drive them away in their wickedness, as the wind does the chaff, which is never gathered nor looked after more. The chaff may be, for a while, among the wheat; but he is coming whose fan is in his hand and who will thoroughly purge his floor. Those that by their own sin and folly make themselves as chaff will be found so before the whirlwind and fire of divine wrath (Ps. 35:5), so unable to stand before it or to escape it, Isa. 17:13

    Bottom line is this: those who are godless are of no worth to God. Eli's sons Hophni and Phinehas too the best portions of the sacrifice for themselves, had illicit sexual relations and were supposed to be priests!

    What does God esteem?

    "Now the sons of Eli were sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD." (1 Sam 2:12)

    Belial = worthlesness, of no esteem, lawlessness, wicked and worthelss.

    2 Cor 6:15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?

    2 Cor 6:16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

    [Note: back to Eden pre-Fall: And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. (Genesis 3:8)

    2 Cor 6:17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you,

    Separation comes at Judgment but it also comes before judgment, by those who willingly subject themselves to the Lord and call Him Sovereign. We come out from the midst of unbelievers to be a holy nation, and royal priesthood. But leaving, exit, is a choice, and human agency must be exercised wisely.

     

     

     

    Tags » Judgment Psalm 1 Psalms; Separation; Sodom;
    • 16 September 2012
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