Having studied this short psalm in detail, by the grace given to me 'according to measure of the gift of the Christ' I conclude:
that the psalm can only be understood by the Son who of God has become wisdom. (1 Co.1:30). What I mean by this is that Jesus Christ is the Word become flesh. So a believer can enter into the truth by Christ 'by whom all things consist'. So without the discourse of "I am the door" given in the Gospel of John Ch.10 the Psalm 23 is incomplete. It is what the Word component does. David confessing 'The Lord is my Shepherd' and Jesus declaring "I am the good shepherd" hold together because the Word was with God and also the Word was God.
By the same token the verse, " In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." cannot be fully understood without digesting the significance of this verse,"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."(Re.21:1). The Spirit is restating the first verse in Genesis from the standpoint of " Christ in me". St Paul writes,"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."(2 Co.5:17)
Parallelism is what man says with his one leg standing in the world of the body while his other leg has no reach to stand on the world of the Spirit. The controversy of faith and faith with works, epistles of St Paul and James with regards to justification and faith are a case in point.
For this reason without letting Jesus Christ who stands and knocking heaven is merely a controversy for the busybodies who ever learns while their understanding is ever deserting them. It is thus hireling has scattered the flock of Christ because the flock is not theirs and they have not come by the door in the first place. They may call themselves as Pilgrim Fathers or any other. Without 'Christ in me' I am sounding cymbal.
Having studied this short psalm in detail, by the grace given to me 'according to measure of the gift of the Christ' I conclude:
that the psalm can only be understood by the Son who of God has become wisdom. (1 Co.1:30). What I mean by this is that Jesus Christ is the Word become flesh. So a believer can enter into the truth by Christ 'by whom all things consist'. So without the discourse of "I am the door" given in the Gospel of John Ch.10 the Psalm 23 is incomplete. It is what the Word component does. David confessing 'The Lord is my Shepherd' and Jesus declaring "I am the good shepherd" hold together because the Word was with God and also the Word was God.
By the same token the verse, " In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth." cannot be fully understood without digesting the significance of this verse,"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea."(Re.21:1). The Spirit is restating the first verse in Genesis from the standpoint of " Christ in me". St Paul writes,"Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."(2 Co.5:17)
Parallelism is what man says with his one leg standing in the world of the body while his other leg has no reach to stand on the world of the Spirit. The controversy of faith and faith with works, epistles of St Paul and James with regards to justification and faith are a case in point.
For this reason without letting Jesus Christ who stands and knocking heaven is merely a controversy for the busybodies who ever learns while their understanding is ever deserting them. It is thus hireling has scattered the flock of Christ because the flock is not theirs and they have not come by the door in the first place. They may call themselves as Pilgrim Fathers or any other. Without 'Christ in me' I am sounding cymbal.
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