I.　To take God as our habitation, our eternal dwelling place,is the highest and fullest experience of God—Psa. 90:1:

A.　Psalm 36:8 speaks of eating the fatness of God's house anddrinking the river of God's pleasures, indicating that we canexperience the Lord by eating and drinking Him—cf John6:48-58, 63; 7:37; 1 Cor. 10:3-4; 12:13.

B.　According to Moses, the giver of the law and the writer ofPsalm 90, we can also dwell in the eternal Triune God as ourLord—v. 1; 91:9; Deut. 33:27; cf. John 15:4; 1 John 4:15-16;Rev. 21:22.

C.　To dwell in God is to have our living in God (Col. 2:6; 3:3;1 John 4:16), taking Him as our everything; this is deeperthan eating and drinking Him.

D.　Book Four of the Psalms (Psa. 90-106) unveils the saints'deeper experience of God in the identification with Christ, andit unveils God's recovery of His title and right over the earth:

1.　This indicates that our experience of dwelling in Godpaves the way for Christ to come to possess the earth sothat God may recover His title (ownership) and right overthe earth.

2.　Without the saints' deeper experience of God, God has noway to recover this title and right.

E.　"The days of our years are seventy years, / Or, if because ofstrength, eighty years; / But their pride is labor and sorrow, /For it is soon gone, and we fly away"—90:10:

1.　If we take God as our dwelling place, we will realize thatthe span of our life on earth is brief and full of sins andafflictions—vv. 3-11.

2.　We need to dwell in God, living in Him every minute, for outsideof Him there are sins and afflictions—v. 8; John 16:33.

II.　Psalm 91 concerns the saints' identification with Christ inHis taking God as His dwelling place—v. 9:

A.　In their identification with Christ, the saints make Jehovahthe Most High their habitation, dwelling in His secret placeand abiding in His shadow under His wings—vv. 1-9.

B.　This is the genuine oneness with God; here, we are constitutedwith Him, and we and God live together as one.

C.　You and Your in verses 9 through 13 refer to Christ, as provenby the fact that verses 11 and 12 of this Psalm are quoted bySatan in Matthew 4:6 in reference to Christ:

1.　This indicates that in Psalm 91 it is Christ who takes Godas His habitation, His dwelling place.

2.　Thus, not only Moses took God as his dwelling place (90:1),but even the Lord Jesus, while He was on earth, took Godthe Father as His habitation.

3.　Moses, the lawgiver, and Christ, the grace-giver, were thesame in taking God as their dwelling place, as their habitation.

4.　Thus, the saints (represented by Moses) and Christ areidentified as one.

D.　To be identified with Christ is to be identified with Him notonly in His death, in His resurrection, and in His ascensionbut also in His taking God as His habitation.

E.　If we would be identified with Christ in His death, resurrection,and ascension, we need to abide in Christ (John 15:4),and to abide in Christ is not only to remain in Him but also todwell in Him, taking Him as our everything:

1.　We abide in Christ according to the teaching ofthe anointinginwardly and according to the walk of the Lord outwardly—1 John 2:27, 6.

2.　In order to abide in Christ, we must keep God's commandments,God's charges to us, and be those who are submissive to God—3:24.

3.　To abide in Christ, taking Him as our dwelling place, andto allow Him to abide in us, taking us as His dwellingplace, are to live in the reality of the universal incorporationof the processed and consummated Triune God withthe redeemed and regenerated believers—John 14:2, 10-11,17, 20, 23:

a.　The New Jerusalem is the ultimate incorporation of theprocessed and consummated Triune God with the regenerated,sanctified, renewed, transformed, conformed,and glorified tripartite church—Rev. 21:3, 22.

b.　The New Jerusalem is the tabernacle of God, and thecenter of the tabernacle is Christ as the hidden manna;the way to be incorporated into this universal, divine-human incorporation, the mutual abode of God and man,is to eat Christ as the hidden manna—v. 3; Exo. 16:32-34;Heb. 9:4; Rev. 2:17.

4.　We abide in Christ so that He may abide in us by dealingwith the constant word in the Scriptures, which is outsideof us, and the present word as the Spirit, which is withinus—John 5:39-40; 6:63; 2 Cor. 3:6; Rev. 2:7:

a.　By the outward, written word we have the explanation,definition, and expression of the mysterious Lord, andby the inward, living word we have the experience ofthe abiding Christ and the presence of the practicalLord—Eph. 5:26; 6:17-18.

b.　If we abide in the Lord's constant and written word, Hisinstant and living words will abide in us—John 8:31;15:7; 1 John 2:14.

c.　We abide in Him and His words abide in us so that wemay speak in Him and He may speak in us for the buildingof God into man and of man into God—John 15:7;2 Cor. 2:17; 13:3; 1 Cor. 14:4b.

5.　If we abide in Christ by loving Him, by always rejoicing, byunceasingly praying, and by giving thanks in everything,He will abide in us to dispense His riches into us—John14:23; 1 Thes. 5:16-18; John 15:4.

6.　If we abide in Christ, we will bear much fruit to glorifyGod-v. 8.

7.　If we abide in Christ, when He is manifested, we willboldly meet Him and not be put to shame and depart fromHis glorious presence—1 John 2:28; cf. Matt. 25:30.

F.　He, Him, and His in Psalm 91:14-16 refer to Christ; theseverses are a prophecy concerning Christ:

1.　Christ loved God the Father (John 14:31); He has been seton high, exalted to the highest place in the heavens (Phil.2:9-11); and He is now seeing God's salvation in the extensionof His days in resurrection (Psa. 91:16; Rev. 1:18a).

2.　In all these matters we should be identified with Christ;then we will live with Him and love God; thus, we will beexalted, and we will see God's salvation in the extension ofour days.

III.　Psalm 92 shows the issue of the deeper experience of Godin the saints' identification with Christ in taking God astheir dwelling place:

A.　The first issue is that the saints rejoice in the great works ofJehovah (vv. 1-9); when we dwell in God, taking Him as ourhabitation, we see His great works in the accomplishing ofHis economy and rejoice in them.

B.　Before we dwell in God as our habitation, we may be low andfrequently defeated; a further issue of our dwelling in God isthat our horn (fighting strength) is exalted over our spiritualenemies—v. 10; Eph. 6:10-13.

C.　Another issue of our dwelling in God as our habitation is ourbeing mingled with fresh oil, which signifies the consummatedSpirit, who is fresh and present—cf. Exo. 30:23-25.

D.　Still another issue of our dwelling in God, taking Him aseverything in our living in His house, is that we are securelyplanted in His house and flourish in the riches of His divinelife to such an extent that we bear fruit even in old age—Psa.92:12-14.