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Originally Posted by aron
In Acts chapter 2, Peter showed the Psalmist declaring fealty to God, and God's reward. But the Psalmist failed. Yet Peter realized that the Psalmist had a revelation of God's promise, and was "looking away" unto the promised Christ. Thus the statement of a fallen, feeble human being was actually revelatory of the One who never fell, and who made it fully into glory.
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I'm not suggesting that "He [God] rescued Me [Christ] because He delighted in Me" is a superior reading to Lee's assertion that the feeble sinner David was merely exercising his fallen human imagination. I admit my reading is as ideosyncratic as Lee's was. We have Peter's reading of Psalm 16 in Acts 2; we also have Paul's corroboration in Acts 13, vv 34-37.
But we don't have an explicit NT citation of Psalm 18's "He delighted in me" (v19). What I offer is merely a reading: I see the word "delight" and I remember the NT: "This is My Son in whom I delight." And I consider.
What I object to is not Lee's reading, but an environment in which Lee's reading, his continual ministration on the Word, has become the ground of the church. So if Witness Lee taught, "This word is vain, fallen..." and my soul felt grieved, I had little recourse, under the strong expectation to be "one with the speaking", even if it seemed lacking.