Psalm 16:2, 3PSA 16:2-3
Psa. 16 expresses the perfectness of Messiah's dependence on Jehovah, shown in His humiliation here on earth (Heb. 2), and His vindication in resurrection (Acts 2). So, while a divine person, yet taking the place of a servant, His soul said to Jehovah, "Thou art My Lord: My goodness extendeth not to Thee." It is the expression of His self-renunciation as man, which was in truth His moral glory. (Compare Mark 10:17-27; Luke 18:18, 19.)
On the other hand, He said, "To the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all My delight." This He expressed in His baptism, when He thus fulfilled all righteousness and identified Himself in grace with the godly in Israel. As man, He did not exalt Himself, but gave the entire glory to God. This was not in austere distance from the despised remnant who bowed to the testimony of John the Baptist, but graciously entering into and sympathizing with their true place before God. "He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one." Bible Witness and Review