The Gospel In accordance to David, Section 1 (Feelings on Psalm 15)

If you could question God any problem, what would it be?

How about this one: “Who may perhaps dwell in your sanctuary? Who could stay on your holy hill?” David posed this issue to God in Psalm 15:1.

In other phrases, who is qualified to have personal fellowship with the Creator of the universe? Who is healthy to occur into the existence of God? Or, how can I know whether or not I will go to heaven when I die?

David then answers his own dilemma with a record of twelve demands (Psalm 15:2-5). Just the to start with one particular is more than enough to make me tremble: “He whose wander is innocent.” The 2nd just one would not make me truly feel substantially better: “He who does what is righteous.”

I’m intrigued by the reality that Psalm 15 follows Psalm 14. In the prior psalm, David tells us how sinful we are. “There is no a person who does great, not even a person” (Psalm 14:3). And now he is declaring that to be with God, I will have to be blameless.

Unquestionably this is lead to for worry, if not confusion.

But I imagine there’s a strategy to David’s theological insanity. Could it be that Psalm 14 and Psalm 15 are providing the important that unlocks the doorway to heaven?

Of course, God hates evil and as a result, in our normal sinful state, we have been barred from His existence. Somehow we will have to discover a answer to our sin difficulty. To make issues even worse, not only must we get rid of our sin, God also requires that we be righteous. The standards of Psalm 15:2-5 ended up summarized succinctly by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount: “Be great… as your heavenly father is perfect” (Matthew 5:48).

Yet again, I’m discouraged. How can I be excellent when my heart is “deceitful higher than all issues and outside of heal” (Jeremiah 17:9)?

The answer is uncovered in biblical thought of justification. It very first appears in Genesis 15:6 – “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” Justification is the act of God whereby he declares the responsible sinner to be righteous, even even though he’s not. It is a authorized pronouncement from the courtroom of heaven that we are not only acquitted of all wrongdoing, we are also dealt with as if we have always carried out the proper matter.

David was aware of this instructing, along with the relevant concepts of atonement (or covering) and forgiveness (or pardon) of sin, for he wrote these words in yet another psalm: “Blessed is he whose sin is forgiven, whose sins are included. Blessed in the person whose sin the LORD does not depend in opposition to him and in whose spirit is no deceit” (Psalm 34:1-2).

God are not able to dwell with an unforgiven, unjustified sinner. But He does welcome the forgiven, justified sinner into His existence. The biblical this means of the word “saint” is “holy one particular,” i.e. a individual who has been declared holy by God and thus supplied the perfection of Christ. This is the crux of 2 Corinthians 5:21 – “God created [Christ] who had no sin to be a sin supplying for us, so that in [Christ] we may possibly grow to be the righteousness of God.”

The answer to our sin problem is the loss of life of Jesus Christ. By faith we will have to embrace Him as our sin-bearer and substitute. When I allow for His demise to grow to be my dying, God’s holy wrath versus my sin is poured out on Jesus alternatively of me, and I can then get the items of forgiveness, justification and righteousness.

Isaiah reported it nicely:
“I delight significantly in the Lord my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a gown of his righteousness” (Isaiah 61:10).

It is your need to reside with God each in this lifetime and the future? Then appear to Jesus, for only He can give the gown of righteousness you must don to occur into the Father’s existence.