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Misc Notes on Psalms
Psalms – Wisdom Literature
Dyrness, Themes in OT Theology, quotes:
Wisdom is the intensely practical art of being skillful and successful in life.
The seat of wisdom is the heart which is the center of moral and intellectual decisions
Wisdom is religion outside of church
Theological character of wisdom:
#. wisdom comes from God
Israel does not keep the law in order to become God’s people, but because they already are!
Van Gameran:
“The main purpose of the Psalter is Instruction in Wisdom.
How do we..God’s people..deal with the reality of the world?
\\ Introduction
Bagdad Chaos Evil Fear
Death
The deaths of UDay and Kousay
Both of these brothers did horrible things
They were truly sinful…in their appetites …and in their actions
Whatever their minds thought to do, they did.
There was no restraining moral force in their lives.
One asks How do people get to such immoral and unconscionable actions?
They did everything that their sinful natures led them to do!
We have all seen pictures of the people celebrating their freedom in Iraq by running through the streets carrying all manner of things that they looted from businesses and government buildings
The Piano from the Sheraton was pushed down the street by two people in broad daylight
Let me ask you a question:
Is the looting in Iraq right or wrong.
Good or evil?
*What we have seen is a totalitarian regime replaced by anarchy.*
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*Where there is no authority, there is anarchy.*
Can I ask you,
Who makes the rules and why should obey them?
*The Totalitarian says*: */I make the rules and if you don’t follow them, you die./*
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*The anarchist says,*
!!! “ There are no rules”
*Our Founding fathers understood that* *virtue is essential to freedom*.
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*Webster’s defines Virtue as :*
*a.*.
conformity to a standard of right
b. Morality
*c.* a particular moral excellence
*People who cannot restrain their own baser instincts, who cannot treat one another with civility *
*are not capable of self-government.*
*John Adams said* *“/Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other” /*
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Without virtue…
A society can be ruled only by fear,
…a truth that tyrants like Sadaam understand all too well.
*So we are left with the need for virtue or morality …for a society to exist.*
But how does one define Morality, virtue or ethical behavior?
\\ Is virtue or morality something that is external to man…a transcendent reality..
…Or is it generated by individuals and circumstances?
This very question has been debated for centuries.
The traditionalist says that in order to have objective, universal ethical principles,
there must be an absolute source,
a transcendent authority.
*But today’s Post Modernist starts with the assumption that the only source of sure knowledge is science…*
*…Nature is all there is…*
Morality is a merely human invention that can be changed to meet changing circumstances in an evolving world.
Ethics and morality have degenerated into relativism,..
with each individual carving out his or her own private truths to live by.
In our relativistic age we have lost the ethical categories of right and wrong.
There is a lack of Moral Compass in our society.
How did we get here?
John Dewey took the natural extension of the Darwinian hypothesis and used it in the realm of both education and ethics.
If Darwinism is true, there is no divine law or transcendent moral order and there is no final authoritative basis for law.
If human beings are part of nature and nothing more, ..
.. then the mind is simply an organ that has evolved from lower forms in the struggle for existence and *its value depends on whether it works.*
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We call this logic PRAGMATISM
The same logic prevails regarding Ethics or Morality.
If human beings are just a result of a primordial mass….
…just a result of chance,
…without purpose,
than the only ethics that are required are those that “work” …
…according to an individual’s definition of what works for him!
Yet- as we live bowed under the weight of trying to make our lives “work”…
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….We have no answer for the Why question…
*/1.
Why am I here/*
*/2.
How am I to live my life?/*
*/3.
How can I be fulfilled in my life?/*
The answers evade us because pragmatism and relativism are based on a morality that is a human invention
..which can provide only questions… and no answers!
However, IF a transcendent God created us for a purpose,
*…We must ask what is that purpose and how must we live in order to fulfill it.
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*Turn with me to Psalm 1*
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*/Ps 1:1-6 Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers.
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*/But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night /*
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*/He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers./*
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*/ Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
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*/Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
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*/For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish./*
\\ Psalm 1 stands as the gateway to the magnificent collection of Hebrew religious verse.
The Psalter begins with a most practical psalm which introduces us to the way in which we may find happiness
The Psalm starts with the word “blessed” which means, “Happy” or “Fulfilled”
Starting with this word is a way of saying that the psalms, and all of scripture, have been given to us for our own good
The Psalmist tells us that there are
*I.
Two Kinds of Men, *
- Blessed, and Wicked
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