Psalm 17:13
13 Arise, [quwm] O LORD, [Yahovah] disappoint [qadam] him, [paniym] cast him down: [kara`]
deliver [palat] my soul [nephesh] from the wicked, [rasha`]
which is thy sword: [chereb] KJV-Interlinear
13
Arise, O Lord, confront him, bring him low; Deliver my soul from the wicked
with Thy sword, NASB
God is truth. Truth is the preservative, the sustaining
power, the continuation of life and all that is good.
Rejection of truth is
evil, the policy of Satan. All of the production
of evil is wickedness, and is the decay, the degeneracy, the corruption of life
and all that is. Evil destroys and
never produces anything good. Evil
terminates all that it touches. Evil
never creates anything except destruction and sorrow and suffering and death.
Therefore, arise, is the
call to God, the God of truth. Arise, is
the call to action, to the defense, to the offensive, to stop that, which is
evil, which has no purpose other than to destroy good, and thus destroy itself.
Destroy him and cast him
down, is the call to halt evil, to crush evil to destroy evil and make it lay
down as an enemy falls down in surrender, making all hostilities come to an end.
Deliver my soul, is the
call for safety and protection from evil, from the wicked, from the ways of
this world.
Which is thy sword, is a
reference to the deliverance accomplished by God, for the believer, from
evil.
There is only one way to
escape evil and that is through the power and work of God, which is truth.
Now, you have a choice in
life. You can study the Bible and learn truth, or you can avoid studying the
Bible every day, and default to the principles of evil. There are only two patterns of life, good and
evil. You choose, by means of the
pattern of life that you pursue or live by, on a daily basis.
You cannot will yourself
to choose good, if you do not have the principles or the mechanics for making
that choice. Simply saying it, does not
make it so. Simply acting it out, does
not make it so. Pretending it, does not make
it so.
Your life in good, must
be backed up with the substance of doctrine in your soul and that comes into
your soul by only one way, the daily study of the scriptures. You must be taught through instruction. You must reside in a functioning spiritual
sphere, in fellowship, by means of the regular confession of your sins to God
the Father.
You must be willing to
learn, and be open minded, and willing to set aside your former beliefs until
the Holy Spirit, who is the mechanism of spiritual comprehension, makes truth
clear to you.
You must come to an
understanding of the principles of doctrine, through repeated study and
application of that which you have learned.
And in so doing, you begin to develop wisdom, and that opens up the
whole doorway to orientation to life and to reality, and much, much more.
Doctrine is Gods
sword. Evil is defeated by
doctrine. Doctrine is truth. Evil is defeated by truth. Gods sword is the wisdom learned and mastered
and possessed by means of the study of doctrine.
Good choices can only be
made through the clear thinking of truth.
Discernment can only be accomplished by the understanding of truth. Avoidance of evil can only be accomplished by
the knowledge of truth.
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