Blessed Are The Blameless
Psalm 119:1
Blessed are those whose way is blameless,
who walk in the law of the Lord!
Table Questions:
What is someone who is blessed?
What does it mean to be blameless?
Blamelessness assumes there is a standard in which we must judge ourselves under.
This is particularly problematic in our world who is unwilling to subject themselves to any authority
As christians we follow Jesus but aside from a postmodern view of the world there has become a postmodern line of Christianity that can thwart any argument with: “My Jesus would…” or “My Jesus wouldn’t”
Nobody cares about your Jesus
Ultimately this statement is more about your beliefs and is nothing but idolitrous shadow of a magnificent God you don’t know and cant handle. My Jesus very well. Jesus says specifically -
John 14:15
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.”
Even by secular scholars the Bible when compared to other ancient texts is the most accurate text that we have in history and it is not even close.
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Over 40 Authors (For The Screen):
For this to happen and have agreement across all texts is IMPOSSIBLE and would require for a manager to carefully craft across all the authors!
Imagine the people in this room setting out to write out a new religion… imagine the inaccuracy that would take place. You would have to have one person carefully managing each author.
But even more impossible is the amount of cross references within the Bible itself
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almost 65000 cross references!!!
Every phrase is dependant on almost every other phrase. Statistically impossible.
You can start at almost any verse and follow the cross references in an infinite possibilities. This is why you can go into the Bible and find endless depths of truth to nourish your life.
There is nothing even close to this until the invention of the internet in 1983.
If we are subject to authority and the authority has given us the Bible to follow then that means that everyone of us are guilty of breaking the law and going against authority
Hebrews 10
For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
5 Consequently, when Christ[a] came into the world, he said,
“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
6 in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”
8 When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), 9 then he added, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second. 10 And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
11 And every priest stands daily at his service, offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. 12 But when Christ[b] had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
Christ alone is our path to be blameless. He sat down… his work is done. If you have called upon the Lord your sins are taken away.
For all those that walk according to his law and his word
Ps 19:7-11