Daily Bible Nugget #277, Psalm 119:133

The Nugget:

Psalm 119:133 Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.

My Comment:

Saints pray to be conformed to the Scriptures (The New Topical Textbook, subtopic under the main heading “The Scriptures,” page 240).

The Psalmist prayed that his steps would be directed by God’s Word. He likewise prayed for God not to let any iniquity or sin have dominion over him. If a person reads and studies the Bible prefaced by a prayer such as this, God will indeed answer and provide direction for life and spiritual strength to defeat temptations to sin (Psalm 119:11).

How needful or practical is this information for the lives of believers today?

There is evidence in Scripture that we might be falling short of the glorious privileges God through our Lord Jesus Christ and His Sacrificial-Priestly Atonement has provided for us in this life, in the here and now.

Is the sacrifice of Christ, and the shedding of His blood on the cross, of any greater value and effect for believers in this life than the animal sacrifices of the Levitical order of the past?

Scripture tells us quite bluntly that the Levitical sacrifices of the blood of animals “can never take away sin” (Hebrews 10:4, 11).

Is the blood of Christ any more efficacious?

Man-made theologies (particularly Calvinism and the Penal Satisfaction Theory of the Atonement) tell us that it is impossible to live above sin, to experience holiness, in this life. Calvinists, and no doubt others, place holiness into the future, something to be experienced after death in the next life.

But that is not what Paul taught in 1 Thessalonians 5:23.

Calvinists (and many others) teach the doctrine of imputed righteousness. In my further study of the Bible, I am coming to believe that the doctrine of imputation is a false doctrine, even heresy. Like the idea of propitiation, it has no proper place in the Bible. This mistaken salvation vocabulary or terminology crept into our Bible translations at the time of the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformers were surely used of God to start the Reformation. But the Reformation is not over yet. The Protestant Reformers did much good, but they unwittingly accepted the salvation vocabulary of the Roman Catholic Church and left it in our Protestant Bible translations. The Protestant Reformers were likewise not well-informed or well-taught about Bible prophecy. In other words, much has been learned since the time of the Protestant Reformation about these Bible subjects.

It is time to call a spade a spade. It is time to stop accepting error as if it were the truth. It is time to challenge blatant heresy, and label it for what it is.

The Psalmist prayed that his steps would be ordered or directed by God’s Word. He further prayed, “let not any iniquity have dominion over me” (Psalm 119:133).

Was the Psalmist mistaken in his prayer? Or are some of us mistaken in our theology such that we could not pray such a prayer in the light of what Christ has accomplished for us by means of His shed blood?

The Greek text of the New Testament verse, Ephesians 1:7, expresses not only the idea that we have forgiveness of sins through His blood, but the actual removal of sin–a fact consistently hidden in most English translations, perhaps in support of a very popular but mistaken theory of the Atonement.

For those who desire to DIG DEEPER into this subject:

(1) Consult the cross references given in Nelson’s Cross Reference Guide to the Bible on page 633 for Psalm 119:133.

(2) Consult the cross references given in The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge on page 677 or in Logos 5 Bible software for Psalm 119:133.

(3) Lacking access to those two resources, consult the cross references for this passage as I have developed them as given below:

Psalm 119:133. Order. T#1097, T#1713. ver. +Ps 119:5, 9, 45, 116. Ps 17:5. +*Ps 32:8. *Ps 37:23. 40:2. *1 S 2:9. Pr 16:29. 20:24. Je 10:23. Da 5:23. my steps. ver. Ps 119:45. Ps 17:5. 121:3. in thy word. ver. +Ps 119:10, 11, 50, 116. let not. ver. Ps 119:10, 11. *Ps 19:13. 51:12. Lk 22:40. +*Ro 6:12-14. 7:23, 24. have dominion. Jn 8:36. Ro 7:21. Ga 5:17.