Psalm 19:12
12 Who can understand [biyn] his errors [shagiy'ah]?
cleanse [naqah] thou me from secret [cathar] faults. KJV-Interlinear
12 Who
can discern his errors? Acquit me of hidden faults. NASB
The question is, ‘Who can
identify his own errors?’ Who can
cleanse himself from those errors?’
Without doctrine, no one
can identify that they are full of errors.
Without doctrine, or the laws of God, no one can discern between that
which is right from that which is wrong.
If the world went without
Gods truth in any and every form, then no one would have any standard with
which to even begin to decide what is right and that which is wrong. What you would end up with would be beliefs
of popular consent. That means witches
would burn, and anyone could be declared a witch, and evil would rule.
The jungle laws would
reign, and no one would be safe, ever.
But doctrine and its
revelation began in the Garden with Adam. And even after the fall of man, and
when man was outside of the Garden, then their children, Cain and Abel for
example, knew of the laws of God. They
just had different views of those laws.
Abel had the proper
sacrifice and Cain did not. But they
learned of the sacrifices from God, or most likely they learned of them from
their dad, Adam.
Even after leaving the
Garden, Adam and Eve learned of Gods laws as the Bible tells us that they were
clothed with animal skins. Note here,
that animal skins came from animals and more precisely, they came from dead
animals. And those animal skins were
used to cover the nakedness of man, which is to say the sin of man, which means
that they came from the sacrifices of the animals, which sacrifices portray not
only salvation but also, confession and the restoration to fellowship with
God. They lost that fellowship when they
first sinned and tried to use human efforts (leaves) to cover up their
nakedness.
God had a better cover,
Christs’ work on the cross.
And generation after
generation, came to learn the difference between right and wrong, and those
principles spread throughout the world with the underlying foundation of
truth. All knowledge came from and began
with, doctrine.
The first few chapters of
Genesis, tells us that there were builders, and farmers and shepherds, and
hunters and so forth. Adam and Eves
first set of clothing came from the sacrifices that God taught. Sacrifices that required the use of fire to burn
the animals.
So, all initial knowledge
for humanity, came initially from God in some form. After that, man has used that knowledge to
build even more knowledge and understanding, upon knowledge and understanding
until we have the many things that we have today.
But without Gods word, no
one would have any idea as to their ways in errors. So, who can understand their own errors? No one, unless they have Gods word as a
standard to compare against.
Who can cleanse
themselves? No one.
Sin is uncleansable by
mans own effort.
Man is soiled by sin and
that filth permeates his entire essence, such that man cannot take a long
enough shower or use enough soap, to clean the sin out of every genetic fiber
of his own essence.
And the answer again is
no one can clean themselves.
It takes the supernatural
work of God and doctrine, to clean up the uncleanable.
Salvation provides the
first and initial cleaning away of sin, but after salvation, then people commit
sins again and again, and then it takes doctrine, or the understanding of
doctrine, to keep the cleaning process going throughout ones life.
You cannot function
properly in society if you are filthy of putrid, stench and decay.
Confession is the cleaning
process for removing ones sins and restoring one back into fellowship.
Fellowship is the
spiritual classroom and environment and position before God, wherein the person
can learn and grow and interact with God and life.
When you are in
fellowship, you are in effect standing before God, in His presence as it were,
and functioning within the full operational scope of the spiritual life.
When you are out of
fellowship, then you are out of the presence of God and out of the functioning
spiritual life. All switches are in the
off position.
And therefore, the secret
faults are those errors that even you cannot see unless you possess doctrine,
with which to see them.
You cannot clean up your
own self, by yourself, using your own opinions, philosophies, or beliefs.
Only doctrine that is
known to you, can accomplish that end result of spiritual cleanliness.
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