Study Number 29 EL ELYON - Our Secret Hiding Place.

Psa 91:1  He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

Psa 91:2  I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.

Psa 91:3  Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Psa 91:4  He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.

Psa 91:5  Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

Psa 91:6  Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Psa 91:7  A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Psa 91:8  Only with thine eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked.

Psa 91:9  Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;

Notes: In Verse 1 ‘dwelleth’ comes from the participle of the root verb: to sit. So we could translate this verse, “Sitting in the Secret place of EL ELYON”. So God is the place where our soul rests and settles.

The Secret Place of the Most High. Psa 27:5  For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion [tent]: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Barnes : In the most retired and private part of His dwelling. He would not merely admit him to His premises; not only to the vestibule of His house; not only to the open court, or to the parts of His house frequented by the rest of His family; but he would admit him to the private apartments - the place to which He Himself withdrew to be alone, and where no stranger, and not even one of the family, would venture to intrude. Nothing could more certainly denote friendship; nothing could more certainly make protection sure, than thus to be taken into the private apartment where the master of a family was accustomed himself to withdraw, that he might be alone; and nothing, therefore, can more beautifully describe the protection which God will give to His friends than the idea of thus admitting them to the secret apartments of His own dwelling-place.

Psa 91:9  Because thou hast made the LORD, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation.

Seeing thou hast taken Jehovah, the Most High, for thy portion and thy refuge, no evil shall come nigh thy dwelling; thou shalt be safe in thy soul, body, household, and property, Psa_91:10. Every godly man may expect such protection from his God and Father. A.C.

How was Jesus lifted up?

Php 2:5  Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:

Php 2:6  Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Php 2:7  But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:

Php 2:8  And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Php 2:9  Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

Php 2:10  That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

Php 2:11  And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Notes: These verses show us that Jesus was with EL ELYON and originally equal with HIM. He had the status and supremacy of The Most High God. But He humbled Himself to become low as a man and as a servant of men that He might die in our place. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:

God has seated Jesus at His own right hand far above all.

Eph 1:20  Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places,

Eph 1:21  Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come:

Eph 1:22  And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

Eph 1:23  Which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all.

Jesus is above every authority or power and every circumstance. Every demon principality is far under the feet of our El ELYON, our Lord Jesus Christ.

Applications.

1.      We have found our ‘Hiding Place’. The Blessed Rock of ages who was cleft for me. This is where we need to sit and rest under His Protection.

2.      Jesus now has been Highly Exalted back to where He was. He humbled Himself and we need to have the same mind and attitude. Now He is far above all.