Psa Msg 9

Truth:
1. David's boasting in his righteousness was in the line of the tree of knowledge, but God's eye and God's wings are in the line of the tree of life.
2. "As for me, in righteousness will I look into You face," Psalm 17:15. David should have said that he would look into God's face because of God's mercy and lovingkindness.
3. God is not good to us because of our righteousness. He is good to us because of His compassion. We need not only His mercy but also His far-reaching compassion to preserve us.
4. God anointed David because of His lovingkindness.
5. We know that Christ is typified by the sun because David refers to the sun as a bridegroom. Christ is the the Bridegroom with the bride.
6. The entire principle of the Bible tells us that God does not want anything from man. What God wants is not a good man, but a God-man.
7. Abel was accepted by God, not because his secret faults and his presumptuous sins were dealt with, but because he realized that he was a sinner.
8. To bless is higher than to pray. A person who blesses people needs a higher status, a higher stature in life.
9. As a king, David blessed his people. As the one anointed by god, he blessed the anointing God.

Life experience/Application:
1. To talk means to open yourself up and release all your opinions. Have we ever had such a talk with the Lord Jesus?
2. All of us have some secret faults which only we know. David also prayed to be kept from presumptuous sins. To be presumptuous is to be bold without consideration.
3. When Christ lives through us, our conduct is not our goodness but Christ.
4. If we stand on our righteousness, we may be able to pray, but we cannot bless. To bless others, we must stand on all that God is. We cannot bless people with our righteousness. We have to bless people with what God is and has.