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Drake,

Psalm 1 is not about us, nor about the well-intentioned psalmist, but about Christ. I'm not sure how much more blunt I can be. How is that a "maze"?

Suppose Peter had stood with the eleven, gave a talk to the assembled throng and concluded, "This man, who hoped to avoid corruption, was a vain and fallen sinner, whose grave is with us to this day. Sorry. You can all go home now"? (Acts 2:29)

Instead, he went on, "But he was a prophet and knew that God had promised him on oath that he would place one of his descendants on his throne. Seeing what was to come, he spoke of the resurrection of the Messiah, that he was not abandoned to the realm of the dead, nor did his body see decay. God has raised this Jesus to life, and we are all witnesses of it." (vv 30-32)

It's not about the "godly impressions" of a vain and natural man, nor about you or I striving (and failing) to keep the law. It's about Christ. How could Witness Lee, who could see "Christ" in type and shadow in the details of Noah's ark, not see Him clearly portrayed here? And where in the NT do we see precedent to wave off Christ? No, rather we see invitation after invitation to "see Jesus", made briefly lower than the angels, and then crowned with glory and honor. But Lee instead saw vanity.

And that goes for the ekklesia, as well. In the midst of the ekklesia I (Christ) will lead hymns of praise to Him (the Father). There it is, in plain words, but Lee was set on the "vanity" and "natural" theme, and on he went. I argue that it wasn't the word of scripture that was composed of natural concepts, but rather the word of the expositor. The revelation of Christ isn't lacking, but the expositor is lacking revelation.

Again I ask, where in the NT do we see the OT text called vain, natural, fallen concepts? On the contrary, it was pointed to again and again and again as indicative of the coming Messiah. And now He was come.

But Lee had his "God's economy" to tend to, and unhelpful scripture simply had to go. It wasn't "every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God" but rather only those words which were helpful to the metric at hand. There were books to sell, conferences to preside over. So Lee hurried past. No Christ to be found.