And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.
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
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness. Celestial intelligences and the spirits of just men made perfect, shall magnify the infallible judgment of the divine tribunal. Now they doubtless wonder at the hypocrisy of men; then they shall equally marvel at the exactness of the severance between the true and the false. For God is judge himself. This is the reason for the correctness of the judgment.
God calls all the earth to witness His judgment, not because the controversy cannot be settled otherwise, but because every son of Adam must learn the true way to worship Him in spirit and truth. When the Messiah's kingdom is established, all nations shall be invited to this evangelical worship and shall give account of themselves to God.
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Commenting on Psalm 50:1-6