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Psalm 91 here, again the word of God.

The life-giving Inspired and infallible word.

He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my Fortress, my God in him, I will trust

surely he shall deliver You From The Snare of the Fowler And from the perilous pestilence, he shall cover you with his feathers and under his wings, you shall take refuge his truth.

Shall be your shield and buckler, you shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at Noonday, a thousand may fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand.

But it shall not come near you only with your eyes.

Shall you look and see the reward of the wicked?

Because you have made the Lord, who is my rest, my refuge, even the most high your dwelling place.

No evil shall befall.

You nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.

For he for he shall give his angels charge over you to keep you in.

All your ways in their hands.

They shall bear you up.

Lest you dash your foot against a stone.

You shall tread upon the lion and the Cobra, the Young Lion and the serpent you shall trample Under Foot because he has set his love upon me.

Therefore, I will deliver him.

I will set him on high because he has known my name.

He shall call upon me and I will answer him.

I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor him with long life.

I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.

so ends the reading of God's word, may he bless it and also now the preaching

children, if you remember last week, we looked at Psalm 87 and in that song the psalmist speaks of God and God's people as Living in a city.

Living in a city that God built.

and this time,

the psalmist speaks of God.

As providing protection for his people.

So children, I want you to draw another picture.

And here's the picture, but I want you to draw.

First, a city, draw a picture of a city.

And then I want you to draw a picture of a wing kind of like the wing of a of an eagle or a bird covering that City.

So it might be easiest if the city is a circle.

But you can draw whatever kind of City you like with a wing providing covering and protection for it.

The theme of this song is abiding.

In the presence of God.

I, so we're going to look at it first and what it means.

To abide in the presence of God, and then we will look at several benefits that flow from it.

and so, for our first point, We're going to call this sitting with God.

Look again at verses 1 and 2.

He who dwells in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my Fortress.

My God in him.

I will trust.

Now perhaps you're wondering, why are we calling this first point?

Sitting considering that sitting is found nowhere.

In these first two verses.

Well.

If you like to scribble in cross-references, I'm going to give you a cross reference.

If you notice in verse one, where it speaks of he who dwells that word, dwells in the Hebrew, is also translated as sits in another place.

Specifically Psalm 1 The one, the man is blessed who does not sit in the seat of the scornful.

Until the psalm is here and they sort of contrast to what the song was.

Previously was saying he says that he who dwells or he who sits in the presence, in the secret place of the most high abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

So what does it mean then to sit or to dwell?

Does he have in mind a literal moving into this secret place of the most high, a literal building a house, or pitching a tent, so that we live there, each and every day.

Well, in a certain sense, that's what he means, but not in a strictly literal sense.

Remember, Psalms are poetry and with poetry, there is a license to use words outside of their normal usage.

And so in this case, when he speaks of dwelling, he is referring to this habit of wanting and Desiring and loving to go into the secret place of God.

The secret place of the most high And if you think about in the history of the Old Testament Church, what would that secret place have been?

what is the secret place to which The average Israelite was unable to go and buy average.

I mean, anyone outside of the high priest, so it doesn't matter if you're a king, if you're a farmer, if you're a blacksmith, you are unable and not allowed to go into what is called the holy of holies.

And so in a certain sense that when the psalmist speaks of he who dwells in the secret place he is, he has in mind this enjoyment of going and being in the presence of God And we know from our New Testaments from the gospel accounts that even the holy of holies that Veil that separated the holy of holies from the rest of the temple was torn in two from the top down signifying for us.

That everyone not just the high priest, but everyone now has free access and ready access to this Most, Holy place to the secret place of the most high.

The psalm is in describing the one who dwells in the secret place, he doesn't only have in mind, the high priest, but he has in mind, all those who look forward to and who love gathering in the temple or in the Tabernacle, with God's people to worship God.

We have to remember, we have to remember that the Psalms were written for the corporate Church, they were written for a corporate community.

And so while we as individuals may seem them and juicing them, we have to remember and keep in mind that there is an inherent corporate aspect to the Psalms but also when we have references to like the secret place and many commentators understand that's as I was referring to the temple.

That Temple worship even under the old, Covenant also carried with it, a very corporate nature so that we can't get away from the fact that dwelling in the secret place means not only enjoying the worship of God, but enjoying it, loving it, and looking forward to it along with all of the things that go with corporate worship.

It means enjoying corporate worship for who you're worshipping with enjoying corporate worship for who it is that you're worshipping for the encouragement that we gain.

That means that we take corporate worship with all of its particulars and we enjoy it and we will look forward to it.

Then we desire it.

Not just the fact that we get to come and worship God as private individuals.

Put on the song That's goes on and he says that he who dwells or he who sits in the secret place shall abide?

Under The Shadow.

Of the Almighty.

No. when it comes to reading our Bibles, Sometimes we have this idea that we should not be critical and there's a sense in which that is true and there's a sense in which that is false.

So we should not be critical in the sense that we don't want to come questioning, whether everything that we read is actually true.

But at the same time we want to be critical and we should be critical in the sense of investigating and wanting to know more why certain words are you.

So like why would the song Miss go and in the first part of verse one, speak of dwelling in the secret place of the almighty and then turn around.

And use as a consequence of dwelling abiding.

What's the significance there?

Well, think of it like this.

The one who goes and who dwells, he regularly surrounds himself or herself with the teachings of gum, which then means by, by merely being there.

On the one hand, there is this combating of worldly, ideologies and worldly principles, worldly philosophies that are taking place simply by coming under the teaching of the word.

Being in the presence of God dwelling there and Desiring to be there.

Results in.

Results and are being sustained are being kept our abiding in the face.

the to put it another way, the more that we send the easier it is to send I'm so the more that we worship the easier, it is to Worship in the less that we worship.

The harder.

It is to worship the more that we are with someone or with some people, the easier it is to be with them.

And so what he is saying is that the one who makes this his regular Hobbit, who makes dwelling in the secret place, the habit of his life and then becomes easier for him.

Tidwell and to abide in that but he's going Beyond just this general idea of dwelling in a biting.

He sang, the one who dwells in the secret place, a b in a particular location, namely under the shadow of the Almighty.

So, what does he mean by he abides?

Under the shadow of the Almighty?

We actually have numerous examples of this throughout the Old Testament, think for a moment of David, and if you haven't read the books of 1st and 2nd, Samuel I will I will offer in summary fashion.

A way in which these two books while talking primarily about the same person or drastically different.

The picture of David in 1st, Samuel is almost of one who cannot send.

Now we know it's not really that he cannot send but if you were to read first Samuel and you were to take your understanding of who David is as a person and us who he would be as a king and you were to drive that only from 1st Samuel, You will walk away with this conclusion, that David is the most righteous example of a king that could possibly exist.

And then you turn the page to 2nd Samuel and it starts off really good.

He starts off.

He is a defender of the Lord's anointed when when people bring reports that I slew kingsoul Davis responses to execute them because they dared to think that they could touch the Lord's anointed.