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Originally Posted by aron
My issue with WL and the Psalms is this: the Bible shows us Jesus, and Jesus shows us our Heavenly Father. The author of the epistle to the Hebrews had heard of Jesus from those who were eyewitnesses(2:3), and then quotes the OT extensively and says "we see Jesus"(2:9). (S)he sees Jesus clearly revealed there in the text of Scripture.
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Regardless of how LSM spins this, their ministry endeavors to place a layer between the hearers and Jesus, the word of God. They called this intermediary "layer" the "interpreted word." The proof of this, for me at least, came during the recent quarantine, when the "authoritative" source at LSM to decide all discussions was no longer the scripture, but the teachings of Lee and Nee. These teachings were used to place a wedge between Cleveland and Anaheim.
This was no different from the "church of Christ" in my last post, which had successfully used the teachings of their founder to drive a wedge between those who used instruments and those who do not. What exposed that system to me was Paul's exhortation in Eph. and Col. regarding the Psalms. When reading the Psalms, many actually instruct us which instruments to use.
The ministry of the book of Hebrews, however, connected the writer, the reader, the eyewitnesses, the OT, and Jesus together, which then became the New Testament. The author of Hebrews has the goal of mining the OT scripture to "see Jesus," and then bringing the readers into the same "seeing." Witness Lee, to be fair, also attempted this, especially in the early days. Later on, however, he and the Blendeds only had this practice in name only.
Their real goal was to bring you to themselves. Paul knew this danger existed, and warned us of it with many tears in Acts 20.29-31, but most of our leaders were not "watchful," rather they promoted the exaltation of Lee and his ministry mostly for their own selfish gains. Lee's exclusive teachings, like the ones that dismiss many of the Psalms, were in the Apostle Paul's mind "perverse." Paul told us that the reason for these "perverse" or distorted teachings was simply to elevate that minister in order that the saints would flock to him rather than to the Savior.