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Doctrine of Authority – Lesson 19 of 19: Authority and Life
Professor: Rushdoony Dr. R.J.R.
Subject: Systematic Theology
Genre: Speech
Lesson: 19 of 19
Track: #19
Year:
Dictation Name: 19 Authority and Life
[Rushdoony] Let us worship God. Thus saith the Lord, ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart. Jesus said blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. Let us pray.
Oh Lord our God we come into Thy presence hungering and thirsting after righteousness, after Thy justice. Oh lord the heathen rage and take council together against Thee, and they seek to destroy Thy kingdom and Thy saints. We come to Thee oh Lord beseeching Thee to work in our time, in our midst, in and through us, to accomplish Thy purpose, to bring forth Thy justice, and to make known Thy so great salvation. Bless us this day by Thy word and by Thy Spirit, that day by day we may move in Thee and to Thy purpose, to do Thy will oh Lord. In Jesus name, amen.
Our scripture this morning is from the Psalms, the first Psalm. Our subject authority and life, authority and life, Psalm one.
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
Psalm one is to little appreciated in our antinomian age. It gives the temper to all the Psalms, and it sets forth a fundamental fact, namely that submission to God’s authority means life, while rejection of God and His law means death. Its promises are very clear, that anyone whose delight is in the law of the Lord who meditates in the law day and night is going to be like a tree planted in rivers of water that bringeth forth His fruit in a season. We are promised that if this fits us whatsoever we do shall prosper. Well people don’t like things that plain. Today to many things are programmed for defeat, they go through the scriptures to find all the texts that deal with defeat, and it’s true that there is warfare with this world, that the world is at war against God and therefore will be at war against all who are Godly. But the fact is, it is an uneven war. The forces of ungodliness, of rebellion, are not going to triumph. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. But people prefer to turn the moral universe upside down and are unwilling to say that God has said “whatsoever he (the Godly man) who delights in the law of the Lord shall do, shall prosper.
Well this Psalm makes known how serious our predicament is today. Some commentaries which profess to believe the Bible from cover to cover have actually held that this Psalm gives, and I quote “a distorted statement of the nature of true happiness.” Now that’s rebellion against God, to despise His word. Because the law is praised in this Psalm, hence many commentators insist this Psalm is alien to the Spirit of the New Testament.
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By Pocket CollegeProfessor: Rushdoony Dr. R.J.R.
Subject: Systematic Theology
Genre: Speech
Lesson: 19 of 19
Track: #19
Year:
Dictation Name: 19 Authority and Life
[Rushdoony] Let us worship God. Thus saith the Lord, ye shall seek me and find me when ye shall search for me with all your heart. Jesus said blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness for they shall be filled. Let us pray.
Oh Lord our God we come into Thy presence hungering and thirsting after righteousness, after Thy justice. Oh lord the heathen rage and take council together against Thee, and they seek to destroy Thy kingdom and Thy saints. We come to Thee oh Lord beseeching Thee to work in our time, in our midst, in and through us, to accomplish Thy purpose, to bring forth Thy justice, and to make known Thy so great salvation. Bless us this day by Thy word and by Thy Spirit, that day by day we may move in Thee and to Thy purpose, to do Thy will oh Lord. In Jesus name, amen.
Our scripture this morning is from the Psalms, the first Psalm. Our subject authority and life, authority and life, Psalm one.
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
3 And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.
4 The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away.
5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
6 For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.”
Psalm one is to little appreciated in our antinomian age. It gives the temper to all the Psalms, and it sets forth a fundamental fact, namely that submission to God’s authority means life, while rejection of God and His law means death. Its promises are very clear, that anyone whose delight is in the law of the Lord who meditates in the law day and night is going to be like a tree planted in rivers of water that bringeth forth His fruit in a season. We are promised that if this fits us whatsoever we do shall prosper. Well people don’t like things that plain. Today to many things are programmed for defeat, they go through the scriptures to find all the texts that deal with defeat, and it’s true that there is warfare with this world, that the world is at war against God and therefore will be at war against all who are Godly. But the fact is, it is an uneven war. The forces of ungodliness, of rebellion, are not going to triumph. The ungodly are not so, but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. But people prefer to turn the moral universe upside down and are unwilling to say that God has said “whatsoever he (the Godly man) who delights in the law of the Lord shall do, shall prosper.
Well this Psalm makes known how serious our predicament is today. Some commentaries which profess to believe the Bible from cover to cover have actually held that this Psalm gives, and I quote “a distorted statement of the nature of true happiness.” Now that’s rebellion against God, to despise His word. Because the law is praised in this Psalm, hence many commentators insist this Psalm is alien to the Spirit of the New Testament.