95-Disputations on Psalm 1:6 and the Way of the Righteous and the Way of the Wicked

By Dr. M.A. Petillo & Reformed Baptist Preacher

“For the LORD knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.”  (Psalm 1:6 NASB).

1.     The righteous are righteous by Another who is Jesus Christ.

2.     The wicked are wicked by their own fault and rebellion.

3.     There is a practical righteousness that is foredetermined.

4.     There is a Spirit-led righteousness as a non-meritorious demonstration that is the gift of His Triune Hand.

5.     There is nothing that surpasses the life and death of Jesus Christ alone that is the higher, greater and superior divine righteousness than any righteousness that ever will or could ever be because it is the alien unified merit of Jesus Christ alone in how someone is right with a holy God that demands His Son as the ultimate standard of the grounds for justification by faith alone.

6.     We are God’s workmanship that is a gift of His Hand.

7.     The workmanship of God is His saints in friendship with Him.

8.      The fellowship of the saints is the way of the righteous.

9.     Friendship with the world is the way of the wicked.

10.                        The way of the wicked will perish because it is not the way of Jesus because Jesus is the only Way.

11.                        Friendship with the world is enmity with a holy God.

12.                        A holy God sets the steps of the way of the righteous.

13.                        God is in control of the wicked for the meaning of justice.

14.                        There is meaning in all things whether for mercy or justice.

15.                        The way of the righteous is the way of the Spirit.

16.                        The way of the righteous is obedience to the Ten Commandments and over 1,000 New Testament Commandments.

17.                        The way of the wicked are subject to a civil obedience that merits the cause of the sin of their damnation as an instrument of eternal destruction.  Its not that we are saying direct civil goodness is not welcome but it is that it cannot justify before the Father.

18.                        The Lord knows the names of His elect children because He has embraced them as friends according to His all-wisdom.

19.                        The wicked merit hell by everything they do because everything is meticulously tainted with eternal sinfulness of sin.

20.                        No sinner who is a reprobate can merit heaven.

21.                        No sinner who is a reprobate can cooperate with a holy God.

22.                        No sinner can justify their sin with God’s justice as an excuse to sin but rather to establish the denial in exalting God’s justice against sin not to further sin but to damn it in disaccreditation of rebels of reprobation with the meaning of justice.

23.                        Wicked people will suffer worse than saints in Christ.

24.                        There is a suffering unto reprobation.

25.                        There is a suffering unto election.

26.                        There is no suffering in the way of righteousness that adds to Jesus Christ but Jesus has the unequaled suffering as the eternal God-man in behalf of His elect people alone.

27.                        The suffering of reprobation will increase unto destruction.

28.                        The peace of the reprobate is not a true peace.

29.                        The comfort of the reprobate is not a true comfort.

30.                        God is patient with reprobates even knowing their outcome.

31.                        The outcome of the reprobate is the place of eternal hell.

32.                        Eternal hell is the place where sinners absorb the fury of God.

33.                        The way of the righteous is justification by faith alone in Christ alone.

34.                        Is the justice of God by the wicked tyranny?  By no means!  Where is the darkness of tyranny in a holy Triune God of light that is the essence of holy innocence that knows nothing of the partaking of the darkness of the very essence of sin?

35.                        The way of the Spirit is upon the elect.

36.                        The Spirit does not always strive with the reprobates.

37.                        The Spirit is able to come upon the reprobates but not indwell them as a regenerate person who has the Spirit of Christ.

38.                        The Christ of the Cross welcomes every kind of destruction for the way of righteousness to Himself at His Cross in behalf of His elect people.

39.                        The Christ of the Cross welcomes the gift of His Spirit to His chosen ones who carry the gift of the Father that brings tears of joy to the Triune Majesty that is all about His honor according to His good pleasure.

40.                        Satan is upon the pathway of the way of the wicked.

41.                        The reprobate keep God on their lips with “Lord, Lord” without knowing Him but merely speaking words without oil in the lamps (the Spirit of God).

42.                        There is no higher righteousness than imputation.

43.                        Imputation is not a fiction because Jesus’ righteousness is real.

44.                        The real righteousness of Christ alone covers His people.

45.                        No practical righteousness can ever take the place of Jesus.

46.                        No righteousness can ever add to Jesus.

47.                        Jesus is the reason the Father accepts us by His Spirit.

48.                        The choice of God determines the way of the righteous.

49.                        The choice of God turns reprobates over to the way of the wicked.

50.                        If God is all-wise, what accusation could there be against Him?

51.                        If God is all-innocence, what charge could be laid against Him?

52.                        If God is all-righteousness, what lie resides within Him?

53.                        Is there a sin in the Being who is the essence of Triune Light?

54.                        Is there darkness is the Triune Majesty when He is all-good?

55.                        If God is all-good, why do you accuse Him of evil?

56.                        If there is evil, do you not suppose there is a good reason for it by a all-wise God allowing it to happen and determining it for the honor of His justice with partaking of the sin of rebels?  The sinner’s reason is sin but God’s reason is different.  God’s reason is for the Son’s mercy for His elect sheep but also for the Son’s justice for the damned.  You see, God does not glorify sin but the fallen second cause glorifies sin.  So, then, who is at fault?  The fallen race of Adam and fallen angels who establish His justice, but if they establish His justice, what else would a holy God do with the sinfulness of sin for those He chose to damn, but what if God remembers mercy in judgment to honor the Cross of Jesus with the intention to save whomsoever He is pleased?  The point is He never honors sin but He honors justice or mercy.

57.                        Does a holy God participate in the sinful darkness of the way of the wicked?  By no means! 

58.                        He does not partake of the darkness of the sinfulness of rebels in rebellion to a holy innocent God. 

59.                        How does the way of the wicked happen?  God is controlling it to work out for their doom and the honor of His fury unto justice.

60.                        Why does He cause the way of the righteous?  God causes the way of the righteous because He wants to fellowship with them now and in glory for the honor of His merciful kindness unto His eternal compassion for the Name’s sake of Jesus Christ.

61.                        If a good God did not have justice would He be good?  By no means! 

62.                        Why then do you hate a just God? 

63.                        Do you suppose your hatred of a just God is the sin of your nature and the violation of His innocence?

64.                        Jesus endured all redemptive pain for His elect alone at His Cross.

65.                        Do you violate His innocence to establish His Cross?  Stop and remember the life of Jesus!

66.                        Why do you use God’s gift of His Cross to bring Him to sweat drops of blood again but shouldn’t you use the Cross to ascend to the joy of obedience even though that also is soiled with great sin?

67.                        The wicked accuse a good God of evil but God will judge the wicked for the Day of Evil.

68.                        The Day of Justice is appointed for the Day of Evil.

69.                        The way of the wicked will lead to the place of hell.

70.                        The appointed Day is the Last Day where wrongs will be righted.

71.                        There is no justification by death for the way of the wicked.

72.                        There is no righteousness from the wicked that is how someone is right with a holy God. 

73.                        Do suppose a supremacy civil goodness is before imputed unified righteousness?  How far away are you in your low view of divine righteousness that is only through the Son!

74.                        Why do you exalt works of satisfaction above imputation of the highest righteousness through Jesus Christ? 

75.                        You have failed to understand that you are soiled in the sin that qualifies you for hell right now in even your best deeds, but instead you wonder why you are so good when the humble man would wonder why a fallen human race was not born in hell.

76.                        Why are we not born in hell because of original sin and actual transgressions?  Think no further than the goodness of a holy Triune God in His divine patience in working out His plan, purpose and design of all things.

77.                        The way of the reprobate is predominately suicide because we see Old & New Testament examples of reprobation unto suicide.

78.                        The pre-converted elect will get to God’s foredetermined time and place by His Spirit to be born again no matter what even if they despair to suicide because a good God will bring them back if He has purposed to save them later on because all things are possible with Jesus for He is truly kind, good and compassionate.

79.                        Suicide for the reprobate is meant for eternal destruction.

80.                        God bringing a sinner back from suicide for the pre-converted elect is meant for a future glory in honor of Jesus unto mercy.

81.                        Eternal destruction is for the way of the wicked.

82.                        The ways of the wicked do not have forgiveness of sins.

83.                        The forgiveness of sins is meant for the elect people of God.

84.                        There is no suicide anymore for God’s elect even if self-harm is done because glory is secured by the Son.

85.                        The ways of the wicked do not have spiritually rational thoughts.

86.                        The ways of the righteous possess a biblical rationalism.

87.                        Imputed righteousness is a gift of the eternal Son.

88.                        Imputed righteousness is the only way to be righteous.

89.                        Future glorification is all about unified imputed merit to honor Jesus in the complete domination of the Spirit to exalt Jesus Christ in justification by Christ alone that means glorification by Christ alone without disregarding the design of the Father by the work of the Spirit.

90.                        God rescued Adam and Eve with coverings after the fall that was a picture of the covering of Jesus Christ in His imputed merit.

91.                        Past glorification means we are a child of God because of the work of the Son by the intervention of the Dove of God through the plan of the Father where previously we were children of wrath by nature.

92.                        Wickedness is in our nature but that does not excuse it.

93.                        Excusing sin is with no regard for holiness.

94.                        Sin is in our best deeds but honor God in all gray areas.

95.                        The Way is Jesus Christ because the Father is pleased with none else because the Son is His well-beloved, the eternal Son forever, as the only-begotten God-man, the Incarnate Second Person of the Trinity, that no other way compares, because He is the unique Son of God, Son of Glory, Lord of Glory.  Amen to His name!