95-Disputations on Psalm 1:1 and the Blessed Man

By M.A. Petillo, D.Th., D.Min., & Reformed Baptist Preacher

“How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stand in the path of sinners, nor sit in the seat of scoffers.”  (Psalm 1:1 NASB).

1.     The blessed man is chosen by a holy Triune God.

2.     The blessed man is the man of God in Christ.

3.     The blessed man is the true Christian.

4.     The blessed man does not habitually sin as reprobates.

5.     The blessed man is someone forgiven and cleansed by Christ.

6.     The blessed man is a true Christian who loves his enemies,

7.     The blessed man is a true Christian who has the fruits the Spirit.

8.     The Christian is the blessed man who demonstrates his faith.

9.     The Christian is someone who has true faith in the Triune God.

10.                        The Christian is someone who loves all of God’s creation.

11.                        The Christian is someone who loves the Holy Spirit.

12.                        The Christian does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly.

13.                        The Christian does not strive in the sinfulness of sin.

14.                        Habitual sins for the ungodly are sins of no repentance.

15.                        The lost engage in the counsel of the ungodly.

16.                        The counsel of the wicked is the way of reprobation.

17.                        Reprobation is a choice of a holy Triune God unto wrath.

18.                        A holy Triune God changes damnation into election for His chosen in Jesus Christ.

19.                        The path of the sinner is not the path of Christ.

20.                        The path of the wicked is chosen by a holy God unto justice.

21.                        The wicked are not forced to engage in reprobation.

22.                        The counsel of reprobates is like Cain, Esau and Judas.

23.                        The blessed man is about the imputed merit of Jesus.

24.                        There is no such thing as the blessed man without imputation.

25.                        The gift of the Spirit of imputation of Jesus’ unified righteousness is the very crux and essence of the only merit that stands before the Father of lights.

26.                        The scoffers are proud reprobates who hate a holy Triune God.

27.                        The proud are reprobates who hate the Cross of Jesus Christ.

28.                        The counsel of Herod, the scribes and Pilate are head reprobates.

29.                        No one is greater than Jesus Christ who is the Head of the Church in everyway and anyway.

30.                        The blessing of the Spirit is spiritual rebirth.

31.                        The blessing of the Spirit is imputed merit of Jesus.

32.                        The blessing of the Spirit is the gift of the grace of faithful repentance.

33.                        The blessing of the Spirit is past holiness and a process of the holiness.

34.                        The blessing of the Spirit is past realization of child of God companionship with the living Triune God.

35.                        The blessing of the Spirit is the future glorification of the sinless unified merit of Jesus Christ that is the dominance of the Spirit in a conquering way that transcends eternity yet it is contained in eternity as the white robes of Jesus Christ.

36.                        The blessed man is not a reprobate man.

37.                        The reprobate man is not the blessed man.

38.                        The prosperity of the reprobate is for their blindness unto eternal condemnation because they value earthly things over eternal things.

39.                        The scoffers come when a holy Triune God does the incredible.

40.                        The proud are reprobates who hate the innocence of God.

41.                        The blessed man is about the incredible life of Jesus Christ.

42.                        The blessed man is about the incredible Cross of Jesus Christ.

43.                        The blessed man is about the incredible resurrection of Jesus.

44.                        True Christians stand in Jesus Christ and His robes alone.

45.                        The reprobate cannot stand before the Father in their ways.

46.                        The robe of Jesus is how someone is right before a holy God.

47.                        The people of God are forensically declared right through Jesus Christ because of His perfect life and death.

48.                        There is a seat for the scoffers and a seat for the Christian.

49.                        The seat of the scoffer is a way of wicked persecution.

50.                        The seat of the Christian is the seat of holiness.

51.                        There is no throne of Satan by God’s approbation but by the will of his fallen creatures to implement tyranny.

52.                        The seat of Satan is to renounce the throne of Jesus Christ.

53.                        At the throne of Jesus is where He fights for His children.

54.                        At the throne of Christ is where He intercedes for His people.

55.                        The voice of God is over everything that moves.

56.                        Nothing happens without God’s permission.

57.                        There is God’s Triune spiritual presence over all things.

58.                        God is an active God though sinners unjustly scoff at Him.

59.                        The walk of the Christian is ordered by a holy Triune God unto mercy for the glory of Jesus Christ.

60.                        The counsel of the wicked is ordered by a holy Triune God as the first cause without approbation but establishment of the approbation of justice for the glory of His Son as Judge at the Last Day in defiance of the rebellion of His fallen creatures that are objects of His terror designed for the residence of hell.

61.                        All the pre-converted elect are temporary reprobates.

62.                        A holy Triune God changes the destiny of the temporary reprobates who are pre-converted elect sinners to election unto mercy because everyone is born in original sin as the family of Adam.

63.                        For the proud reprobate there is no proud thing that possess.

64.                        The proud reprobates are destined to hell where they are kings of destruction in the blackness of darkness of the flames of hell.

65.                        The counsel of reprobates is hell itself because God has worked out His purpose to everlasting justice who possess not the imputed white robes of Jesus Christ.

66.                        Christians walk with Jesus hand-in-hand to heaven.

67.                        Reprobates walk hand-to-hand with the father of lies.

68.                        The father of lies controls the counsel of reprobates.

69.                        The counsel of reprobates sometimes decides the doom of saints.

70.                        Did sinners kill Jesus?  Did sinners have greater power than Jesus to kill God in human flesh?  He has the sovereign authority to lay down His life and take it up again.  It was His Father that put Him to death to save the sinners who nailed Him to the Cross.

71.                        The blessed man is about the Bible alone.

72.                        The blessed man is about Christ alone.

73.                        The blessed man is about faith alone.

74.                        The blessed man is about grace alone.

75.                        The blessed man is about to God be the glory alone.

76.                        The blessed man is about peace with God through Jesus.

77.                        Jesus stands in the bridge between the Father and His people.

78.                        Jesus does not stand to approve of sin but to have it punished upon Himself at the Cross of Himself to bring all of His people to Himself.

79.                        The saints should not approve of the path of sinners.

80.                        The saints ought to be about holiness.

81.                        The Christian is to be about godliness, morality and purity.

82.                        The atonement is limited to His people but unlimited in its application to His people in its benefits.

83.                        The Father’s design is the blessing of His Son.

84.                        The Son’s work is to honor the Father’s design.

85.                        The Spirit comes from the Father and the Son to apply redemption from the Son in the Father’s design.

86.                        The work of the Triune God is the gift of His hand.

87.                        The Father’s invisible Hand shapes us into conformity to His Son by the Spirit’s work because of the choice of His good pleasure.

88.                        The path of Peter was glory with his brother Andrew but it was not with the wicked, ungodly or reprobate sinners.

89.                         The blessed man is about faith in the Cross of Christ.

90.                        The blessed man is not of a self-righteous merit of someone else but only the merit of Jesus Christ imputed by the gift of faith.

91.                        The path of sinners was never under the approval of a Triune God but He destined it to bring about the counter of justice.

92.                        No blessing comes from Satan or fallen angels but evil.

93.                        True blessings come from the Triune God, His elect angels and people because of God’s holy pleasure.

94.                        The reprobates are not precious in the sight of God at death but awaiting the horror of retribution for everlasting destruction.

95.                        The elect are the blessed even at death but are most precious in the sight of a holy Triune unto His glory of Jesus unto mercy.