Scripture Reading: Psa. 90—92
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Psalms Book 4 (Psa. 90—106) unveils the saints' deeper experience of God in the identification with Christ and God's recovery of His title and right over the earth:
A
Title refers to ownership, and right refers to all God's rights over the earth.
B
Without the saints' deeper experience of God in the identification with Christ, God does not have a way to recover this title and right.
C
Our experience of dwelling in God paves the way for Christ to come to possess the earth that God may recover His title and right over the earth—Rev. 10:1-2.
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When we experience the Triune God to the degree that we take Him as our dwelling place, we have the deeper experience of God:
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"O Lord, You have been our dwelling place / In all generations"—Psa. 90:1:
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Our house, our dwelling place, is the Triune God as our Lord.
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To take God as our dwelling place is the highest and fullest experience of God.
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If we take God as our dwelling place, we will realize that the span of our life on earth is short—90:3-12.
B
"In My Father's house are many abodes…I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I am coming again and will receive you to Myself, so that where I am you also may be"—John 14:2-3:
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By His coming the Lord Jesus brought God into man to live as a man on earth; by His going He brought man into God, causing man to be one with God and enabling man to live in God.
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The Lord Jesus went to the cross to accomplish redemption that He might open the way and make a standing for man, that man might enter into God; this standing, being enlarged, becomes the standing in the Body of Christ—Rom. 12:4-5.
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The Lord is in the Father, and He wants us also to be in the Father—John 14:10-11, 3; 17:21:
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Through His death and resurrection He has brought us into Himself.
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Since Christ is in the Father, we are in the Father by being in Him—14:20.
C
"Your life is hidden with Christ in God"—Col. 3:3:
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The only life that can be hidden with Christ in God is the divine life, the life of Christ; this life has become our life—v. 4.
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Because our spiritual life, which is Christ, is hidden with Christ in God, God in the heavens should be the sphere of our living.
D
"Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him and he in God"—1 John 4:15:
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God the Father sent His Son as the Savior of the world (v. 14) that men may believe in Him by confessing that Jesus is the Son of God, so that God may abide in them and they in God.
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In preaching the gospel, we should tell others that if they believe in the Lord Jesus, confessing that He is the Son of God, God will come into them to abide in them, and they will abide in God; this is the highest preaching of the gospel.
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Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God becomes one with God in the divine life and nature.
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Through Christ we enter into the Father to participate in His love and light—1:5; 4:8, 16.
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If we are identified with Christ, we will be one with Christ in His death, in His resurrection, in His ascension, and in His taking God as His dwelling place—Psa. 91:9:
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The history of Christ is the experience of the Christian, and the experience of Christ is the history of the Christian—1 Cor. 1:30; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 2:5-6:
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All the spiritual experience of the Christian is already true in Christ; it has already been experienced by Christ, and what we have is only an entering into His experience.
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We enter into Christ's history; we do not make one of our own.
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"Christ is my hope of glory, He is my history: / His life is my experience, for He is one with me" (Hymns, # 949).
B
If we would be identified with Christ, we need to abide in Christ; to abide in Christ is to dwell in Him—John 15:4a.
C
In the identification with Christ, we make Jehovah the Most High our habitation, dwelling in His secret place and abiding in His shadow under His wings—Psa. 90:1-9.
D
In the identification with Christ, we are under the keeping care of the angels, and we tread upon the enemy—vv. 11-13.
E
In the identification with Christ, we set our love upon God; we are set on high by Him; and we see His salvation in the extension of our days—vv. 14-16.
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Psalm 92 is a picture of those who experience God in a deeper way in the identification with Christ by dwelling in God and taking Him as everything in their living in the house of God:
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They rejoice in the great works of Jehovah; their horns are exalted by Jehovah; and they are anointed, or mingled, with fresh oil—vv. 1-10.
B
They flourish like the palm tree; they grow like a cedar in Lebanon; they flourish in the courts of God; they bring forth fruit in old age; and they are full of sap and green—vv. 12-14.