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Psalms 15:1-5 ESV
“O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent?
Who shall dwell on your holy hill?
He who walks blamelessly and does what is right
and speaks truth in his heart;
who does not slander with his tongue
and does no evil to his neighbor,
nor takes up a reproach against his friend;
in whose eyes a vile person is despised,
but who honors those who fear the Lord;
who swears to his own hurt and does not change;
who does not put out his money at interest
and does not take a bribe against the innocent.
He who does these things shall never be moved.”
I am going to translate this into New Testament terms. So, according
to the New Testament, it is those of us who, by faith in Jesus Christ, have
been crucified with Christ in death to sin, and who have been raised with Christ
to walk in newness of life in him, no longer living as slaves to sin but now as
slaves to God and to his righteousness, who are being indwelt by the Holy
Spirit of God and who are now our Lord’s temple, his body.
And what is described here should represent our character. Yet,
these are not things that we do outside of faith in Jesus Christ to try to earn
or to deserve our own salvation, for that is impossible. Only by the grace of God,
through genuine God-given faith in Christ can any of us walk blamelessly before
God and do what is right and speak truth from our hearts. And blamelessly doesn’t
mean absolute sinless perfection (see 1 John 2:1-2).
But we should be people of integrity, if our faith in Jesus
Christ is genuine faith. And we should be those who are doing what is right, in
the power of God, according to the will of God. We should not be those who are
practicing doing what is wrong, and what is evil, and what is deceptive, willfully
telling others what is untrue. We should not be people who slander others and
who do evil to our neighbors or who falsely accuse others of wrongdoing.
And, under the New Covenant, we are not to hate those who do
evil, but we should hate the evil that they do, and we should be those who
discern good from evil and who call evil what it is, and who do not turn evil
for good and good for evil. And we should not be giving honor to those who
practice evil, but we should be honoring those who walk in the fear of the
Lord, and who make righteousness their practice, and who are doing the will of
God.
But these days it seems the opposite is true, where the
ungodly are being honored while the godly are being condemned, even within the
gatherings of what is called “church.” But we should be those who are willing
to be condemned and rejected by others in order to do what is right and to obey
our Lord, and in order to share the truth of the gospel of Christ so that many
can have genuine salvation from sin and the hope of heaven when they die.
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Oh, to Be Like Thee, Blessed Redeemer
Lyrics by Thomas O. Chisholm, 1897
Music by W. J. Kirkpatrick, 1897
Oh,
to be like Thee! blessèd Redeemer,
This
is my constant longing and prayer;
Gladly
I’ll forfeit all of earth’s treasures,
Jesus,
Thy perfect likeness to wear.
Oh,
to be like Thee! full of compassion,
Loving,
forgiving, tender and kind,
Helping
the helpless, cheering the fainting,
Seeking
the wandering sinner to find.
O
to be like Thee! lowly in spirit,
Holy
and harmless, patient and brave;
Meekly
enduring cruel reproaches,
Willing
to suffer others to save.
O
to be like Thee! while I am pleading,
Pour
out Thy Spirit, fill with Thy love;
Make
me a temple meet for Thy dwelling,
Fit
me for life and Heaven above.
Oh,
to be like Thee! Oh, to be like Thee,
Blessèd
Redeemer, pure as Thou art;
Come
in Thy sweetness, come in Thy fullness;
Stamp
Thine own image deep on my heart.
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