{"id":395,"date":"2017-01-09T03:49:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T03:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=395"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:08:40","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:08:40","slug":"to-never-be-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"To Never Be Moved (Psalm 15)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"min-width: 150px;\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.sermonaudio.com\/player\/a\/115172126547\/?dark=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>A Psalm of David.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>1\u00a0 LORD, who? may abide in Your tabernacle?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Who? may dwell in Your holy hill?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The prescription of life before God requires instruction.\u00a0 This is a song of hope and instruction.\u00a0 It takes the form of positive teaching and negative teaching, those things we are to do, and those we are not to do.\u00a0 It may have been part of a temple or tabernacle liturgy.\u00a0 Words used to encourage those bringing offerings, those living normal lives, dealing with daily problems.\u00a0 It is divided into three parts.\u00a0 The question, Who and the answer which follows in four verses.<\/p>\n<p>The word abide ( \u05d9\u05b8\u05d2\u05a3\u05d5\u05bc\u05e8), is used of an alien, one who inhabits a location temporarily, who is a stranger to the location.\u00a0 This is the state of all men before God, who only entered the Holy of Holies with blood, and but for a moment were before the mercy seat of God.\u00a0 The location of the Tabernacle and the Holy Hill were Mount Zion, where David upon conquering the Jebusites built the City of David and brought the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant to that place.\u00a0 The Tabernacle like the Temple after it were also temporary locations.<\/p>\n<p>Following a series of Laments this song points to the 14 before it.\u00a0 For Psalm 1 teaches us the LORD knows the ways of the righteous and perishing of the ungodly.\u00a0 Those who love His law, who delight in Him. \u00a0Zion is the most Holy place, the place of the Saviour Psalm 2, the place from which the Savior comes Psalm 14.<\/p>\n<p>In this Psalm, we are asked to reflect upon the character of those who can enter in to the presence of God, to seek His mercy, justice and righteousness.\u00a0 In all this the covenant relationship of the individual is assumed, and so the adoption of the individual who is able to come.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>2\u00a0 He who walks uprightly,<br \/>\nAnd works righteousness,<br \/>\nAnd speaks the truth in his heart;3\u00a0 He who does not backbite with his tongue,<br \/>\nNor does evil to his neighbor,<br \/>\nNor does he take up a reproach against his friend;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We see in verses 2 and 3 the Decalogue summarized.\u00a0 To walk uprightly is to honor God, to respect His name, and keep the law.\u00a0 Those things which we actively do positively.\u00a0 We love God with all our heart and mind and soul and strength.\u00a0 Deut. 6:5; 10:12; 30:6; Matt 22:37-40.\u00a0 When we honor God we demonstrate uprightness of heart, our actions are righteous in Christ, and we speak the truth to one another in love, even when it is uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, we do not slander, lie, or esteem our words as those to be thrown out easily to be tread under foot as though they are of no worth.\u00a0 We do no evil toward our neighbor but seek what is good for our neighbors Phil 2:3-5, and so keep the Golden Rule Matthew 7:12, even as Christ taught us.<\/p>\n<p>We know from the epistle of James (Chapter 3), the sins of our minds lust and mouth are among the most common to all people, and our thoughts sometimes leave our mouth before we have the thought to not say them.\u00a0 While evil against our neighbor can be more than words, the idea is to keep our hearts and minds focused on what is good, truth, hope, love, compassion.\u00a0 Those things which are produced by the Holy Spirit, the Fruit of the Spirit for against such there is no Law Gal 5:22-23.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>4\u00a0 In whose eyes a vile person is despised,<br \/>\nBut he honors those who fear the LORD;<br \/>\nHe who swears to his own hurt and does not change;<br \/>\n5\u00a0 He who does not put out his money at usury,<br \/>\nNor does he take a bribe against the innocent.<br \/>\nHe who does these things shall never be moved.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As we come to v4, we see and continued development in answer to the question WHO?\u00a0 The text presents two possible translations.\u00a0 First, <strong>\u201cThe righteous is rejected and despised in his own eyes\u201d<\/strong>, this would correspond with placing one\u2019s self beneath the needs of others.\u00a0 But the contrast is very clear from the second part of V4, the righteous honors those who fear YHWH.\u00a0 So we must answer the question of how the righteous can despise or find contemptible those who are rejected.\u00a0 Our answer comes from the words for vile and despised.\u00a0 A proper understanding of the contrast causes us to see those who are rejected by God.\u00a0 The righteous fears YHWH, swears to his own hurt and does not change, or turn from doing what is right, true, in line with his practice of life, works of righteousness, and a pure heart before God.\u00a0 Such despised and rejected men as those who seek only ungodly gain and the cost of truth, trodden under foot goodness and truth.\u00a0 Such as those who mistreat the poor.\u00a0 The conclusion is for those who reject all evil they shall never be moved.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Psalm of David. 1\u00a0 LORD, who? may abide in Your tabernacle? 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