"The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage."(Psalms 16:6)
David confesses that the Lord is all of his possessions. The total amount of wealth is the Lord, and the total income of life is the Lord. He was confident that he had received such a portion from God.(Psalm 16:5) To put it in Paul's terms, it is the grace of God that I am what I am, and the reason I exist is that Christ is exalted in my body. Paul was a continuation of his life, always realizing and feeling the richness and glory of God's inheritance obtained through the establishment of the spiritual territory in Christ.
He uses David's faith as a type in Romans 4 to explain the example of faith that obtains righteousness. David had a hiding place where his transgressions were forgiven and his sins covered (Psalm 32:1), and in it he kept the secret of obtaining the righteousness of having the Lord always before him and serving him, calling on the name of the Lord, and being saved and placed at the right hand of the Lord.
Because of it, he can enjoy salvation with glad in heart, joy in spirit, and safety in the body.(Psalm16:9) Of course, the future is assured, and he is confident that God will not forsake him in hell.(Psalm 16:10) Regarding Christ as the priest(Psalm 110:4) according to the order of Melchizedek that David saw, the Lord also told the coordinates(Matthew 22:41-46), and Peter also accurately explained this spiritual setting at the time the Holy Spirit came on the day of Pentecost.(Acts 2:34-35) Also, the writer of Hebrews clearly presents to those who seek Him that the coordinates of the Lord is at the right hand of God.(Hebrews 10:12-13) Because the Lord came to this earth, died on the cross for our sins, and rose again, He took those who were predestined before the foundation of the world and took them up to heaven. And he sits at the right hand of God and reigns until the enemy is at his feet.
If we are to have the Lord Jesus Christ always in front of us, we must understand the affiliation and territory from where the Lord has taken us. We have no portion in this world and no inheritance from God in this world. All in vain, in vain, in vain and in vain. Just as a child playing in the playground goes home when its mother calls, when the Lord calls us to come one day, we must leave. But, through the atoning grace of the cross of Christ, we can enjoy the riches of the inheritance that God has given us by calling on the name of the Lord in the designated places where we can ask for the Holy Spirit, who is trying to give us the Holy Spirit. At this point, David confesees and sings that it is the place that has measured with line.
When we come before the Lord, we also make a clean confession. The Lord saved me from sin on the cross and brough me into the Lord. I have been set free from the power of sin and death by the law of the Spirit of life in the Lord. Since the Lord is the mediator between God and me, I call on the name of the Lord earnestry. I become one with the Lord in the Spirit of truth, long for God the Father. Every night my conscience pierces me and instructs me when I deviate from this territory.(Psalm 16:7)
In this way, in the appointed place in Christ, we come to the Lord according to the truth, and as we earnestly call on the name of the Lord, we may have life and gain life and prosper in our soul. Wherever we are, we will live to praise the Lord, because God's inheritance is truly beautiful. It is the beautiful blessing of eating and drinking from the Lord Jesus Christ, being bound by the grace of atonement on the cross, receiving the forgiveness of sins through baptism following his death and resurrection, and becoming one with the Lord through the anointing of the Holy Spirit. It is the alpha and omega of our list of assets of our faith to have a wonderful and amazing feeling and experience that the Lord who is seated on the throne is at the same time my savior of Immanuel in the places measured by the line.
Written by Ptr. Yohan Kim.
Translated by Nancy Chung
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