For you hate discipline, and you cast my words behind you.
The Church has always been plagued by hypocrites who reduce religion to empty ceremony, imagining that outward rites alone satisfy God. This psalm cuts hard against that error, exposing how we dishonor His name by confusing ritual with true worship, which is spiritual and consists of prayer and thanksgiving.
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Commenting on Psalm 50:1-23
The Lord turns now to the openly wicked among His people, even in the sanctuary itself. If formalism without heart ruins worship, how much more do open violations of God's law corrupt the sacrifices of the ungodly?
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Commenting on Psalm 50:16
Seeing thou hatest instruction. Profane professors are often too wise to learn, too besotted with conceit to be taught of God. What a monstrosity that men should declare those statutes which with their hearts they do not know, and which in their lives they openly disavow! Woe unto the men who hate the instruction which they take upon themselves to give. And castest my words behind thee.