1 (To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David.)

Save me, O Elohim; for the waters are come in unto my soul.

...the personal experiences of the Lord in the days of his flesh.

Very occasionally we get a glimpse of the inner workings of his mind...the Lord, like ourselves, felt the cloud and the heaviness and the bitterness appertaining to this body of sin, and the circumstances to which it stands related in this present evil world.

Those sufferings are not to be confined to the closing scene of his tribulation: the dreadful moment when he was in the hands of a scornful and brutal soldiery, and a spectacle on the cross to the jeering rabble. This was but the climax of his sorrows.

"Save me, 0 my God." Jesus had to be saved... with strong crying and tears he made supplication to Him who was able to save him from death...his afflictions overwhelmed him with sorrow.

If we picture him in the aspect of a continual ecstasy or even a continual calm we make a mistake. He was a "man of sorrows," and part of his sorrow was this "waiting for God." We are tasting the affliction of this attitude. Our whole life is an act of waiting for God.

Seasons 1.49. [abridged]

5 O Elohim, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins [defiled human nature yet perfect character even in thought] are not hid from thee.

Thine iniquity is taken away

To recognise this aspect of Him is very different from entertaining the idea that there was in Jesus Christ any thought offensive to God, or that his character was tainted in the least degree by the corruption to which he was related. Had he passed over the line of injunction

there would have been sin in the sense of transgression, but he did not err even in thought.

The point of the parable in Isaiah[6] is that he who came to do the will of the Father manifested a perfect character in defiled human nature, from which he was ultimately cleansed.

The Temple of Ezekiel's prophecy 5.6.7.

9 For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.

This expresses no mild degree of earnestness. To be eaten up is to be absorbed, engrossed, taken up very much. This was Christ's mental relation to the things of the Father, and it is the standard at which we must aim, reaching which the other result will come.

Seasons 1.49

22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.

Christ was not only a sufferer, but the appointed avenger... even when he returns to the winepress of Yahweh's anger... meekness and righteousness shall not always be under the heel of the proud.

Seasons 1.49

30 I will praise the name of Elohim with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

Praise

There were trespass offerings, but more frequently and more acceptably were peace-offerings, thank-offerings, offerings of firstfruits, and other expressions of gratitude and praise. The worship offered by the four apocalyptic living symbols of the saints is the final and glorious service of the saints:

"Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who art, and was, and art to come. Thou art worthy . Lord, to receive glory and honour and power, for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created."

Seasons 2.24.