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with Jesus Christ. They lead a person down a series of questions about external activities, inward motives and secret lusts: “Have you ever stolen anything?” “Have you ever lied?” “Have you ever looked upon a woman to lust after her?” After just a few minutes of questioning, the interviewee realizes that sin pays the wages of death (Rom. 6:23), that everyone has sinned (Rom. 3:23), and that the smallest deviation from God’s standard of holiness is a slippery slope down which you begin to fall, and from which without His grace and mercy through identifying with Christ as your Savior, you will not recover. A SLIPPERY SLOPE is an idea or course of action which will lead to something unacceptable, wrong or disastrous.
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into his feelings‘ and rattles off a series of perceptions on how much better the lives of the unrighteous are: they’re not in trouble or plagued like other men, pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment, their eyes bulge with abundance, they have more than the heart could wish, they speak wickedly concerning oppression, they set their mouth against the Heavens and their tongue walks through the earth. (vs. 4-9, paraphrase) He says the LORD’s people ask, “How does God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?” (vs. 11) Asaph is struggling. He wonders if he’s been living righteously in vain. His life is not like these evil people’s…he’s under God’s chastening all the time and can’t get away with anything. This causes him great pain, vexation and distress. (vs 13-16) “Until I went into the sanctuary of God. Then I understood their end.” (vs. 17)
You have destroyed all those who desert You for harlotry.
28 But it is good for me to draw near to God;
I have put my trust in the Lord God,
That I may declare all Your works.
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