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Psalm 3:1, 4:1, and 4:4 footnotes decry David's "self-righteousness according to his human concept and for his personal interest", noting his failure in having Uriah murdered and taking his wife Bathsheba.
Psalm 9:3 footnote says "David's concept... is based on the principle of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Nothing in these psalms [9-14] is related to God's economy, to God's interest, to God's kingdom, or to God's plan. Everything is concerning David's personal benefit, personal interest, personal safety, and personal peace. The NT believers... should not take David here as a model."
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Only Witness Lee could see these faults in King David, and for that matter, he could see these same faults in every other servant of God. He was just merciless when it came to the failings of the rest of the body of Christ.
I have found it far too hypocritical for my liking, once I discovered how Lee cared
only for his own
personal benefit, personal interest, personal safety, and personal peace whenever other godly men were forced to point out his own failures at LSM. David, on the contrary, had a genuine repentance, and willingly accepted God's discipline for his failures.
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Originally Posted by aron
Somehow this option never occurred to WL when going through the Psalms, even though the pattern of interpretation was laid out repeatedly in the NT. Instead WL focused on the fact that David was a sinful failure and a hypocrite, and often was writing according to his self-righteous, fleshly concepts.
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I do remember W. Lee pointing out David's failure in apparently citing his own self-righteousness. Funny thing about self-righteousness -- it is so easily visible in others, but never in ourselves. David, of course, was also vindictive and self-righteous when the prophet of God told him a story of what some man did, but how he changed once the prophet pointed out "
you are that man!"
Witness Lee, however, killed all the prophets God sent to him, branding them all rebellious, conspiratorial lepers requiring a life-time quarantine. Even when they pointed out blatant criminal activity in his ministry, he was not going to admit it.