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Originally Posted by aron
... by faith we see One who lives and abides in the Father's word. We see One who expresses the Father to such an extent that when we see Him we see the Father, and through this Obedient Son we prodigals can hear our Father calling us home.
...Hebrews chapter 1 says that God is speaking to us in the Son. Not, unfortunately, Mr. Lee; and not aron, not Luther, not David. God is speaking to us in the Son. And this Son is speaking to us, among other places, in the Psalms.
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I was reading various "spiritualized" versions of Psalm 61 recently. "Lead me to the rock that is higher than I" is well known. Many songs are being written, and many blogs holding forth. But in this holding forth in story and song I notice a trend in one or two ways. First, the singer is singing to God. "God you are my high rock and my shelter from the enemy". So he/she is repeating the psalm verbatim and largely ignoring or bypassing Christ. Second, the interpretation will transpose Jesus Christ with the OT JHWH: "Christ is my rock and my redeemer." All well and good; we remember Paul said that "Christ was the rock" in 1 Corinthians 10, for example. And, also well known is John Chapter One's "The Word [who] was God... became flesh" means to us that Jehovah God in heaven came to us on earth in our Saviour Jesus Christ.
Okay, fine; but did you ever notice in the NT (in Hebrews, or the Gospels, for example) that the Son was speaking to the Father using the words of what they called 'scriptures' and we call "The Old Testament"? Did you ever consider that the words in the Psalms are perhaps not only fallen man's words directed at or towards Jehovah and/or His Christ, but also Christ the Son's words to His Father? In other words, Paul saying "the word of Christ" is not
our word about, or regarding Christ, but rather
Christ's word about, or regarding His Father? That it really is the Son, in the midst of the assembly of the redeemed, speaking and singing words of praise to His Father and our Father, to His God and our God(Heb. 2:12; John 20:17)?
Jesus Christ the Man on earth spoke the words of the prophets and the psalms and the law
to His Father. And He obeyed them. He lived them out. He became the reality, He became the "Word... made flesh". Even in the words of weakness, penitence and failure, such as in Psalm 51, Jesus comes alongside in both His speaking blood and His sending Paraclete.
This living Jesus is right in front of us, depicted plainly in the words of anointed and God-seeking men. If we dismiss them or ignore this testimony as "natural" or "fallen" we risk great loss. Again I ask, who are you going to pay attention to, the words of Lee, or the words of Christ? Who are you going to look to, the "interpreted word" now merchandised, or the Living Word made flesh, and now coming to us straight from the throne in heaven?
Let that word from heaven "dwell in you richly" and "sing praises to the Father" and see what happens. Don't let Witness Lee cheat you by dismissing it as merely the word of fallen man with his natural concepts. I would rather dismiss Lee as guilty of his own charge. I argue that Lee's interpretation is the fallen and natural word.