The Psalms are the word of Christ

[aron]

Originally Posted by aron

So when it says that “Jesus, knowing that he had come from God, and that He was to return to God” (John 13:3), was Jesus mistakenly looking back to the house of God? Or rather was He looking ahead?

Jesus was the only One who knew where He came from, and where He was going. The rest of us were lost. He never lost His orientation to the Father. He said, "The Father is always with Me, for I see Him and do His will." (John 8:29)

The others scorned this. No, they insisted, This is a fallen man like us. How can He say that God is His Father? (John 10:33) "Give glory to God - this man is a sinner" (John 9:24). They had lost way of the Father's house, and insisted that this Man was similarly lost. He was a Galilean - didn't they know His mother Mary, and His brothers and sisters? (Matt. 13:56).

To me, it's been similarly discouraging and frustrating to see WL's ministry continually use the text to point to, or orient toward, other things: the church, the 'natural' psalmist, the New Testament believer, and so on, all without seeing Jesus Christ. It is only by seeing Jesus' unyielding orientation to the Father in heaven, that my own orientation gets restored. He is the only way back to the Father's house. But WL put so many other things there, distracting us. We should come to the text, I argue, and "see Him, and live".

Numbers 21:8 The LORD said to Moses, "Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live."

John 1:18 No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.

2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God's glory displayed in the face of Christ.

Hebrews 2:9a But we see Jesus...