2020.04.22 - Abide (911)

2020.04.22 - Abide

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

3:44 PM

1.     What Is Abidingmptes

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

                          i.         Dwelleth -  OT:3427 yashab (yaw-shab'); a primitive root; properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry: KJV - (make to) abide (-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell (-ing), easeself, endure, establish, fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit (-ant), make to keep [house], lurking, marry (-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set (-tle), (down-) sit (-down, still, -ting down, -ting [place] -uate), take, tarry.

1.     To sit down - not to be running after other things, but in pursuit of God alone

2.      To settle - to make a home, to make a place, to be calm in our spirit

3.     To marry - not to just date God but to make a righteous commitment to Him

4.     Habitation -  to move into a place where visitation is not enough, but to desire Him in our inward parts, to want Him more than anything else

5.     Remain - to not come and go

                        ii.         Secret place - OT:5643 cether (say'-ther); or (feminine) cithrah (Deuteronomy 32:38), (sith-raw'); from OT:5641; a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense): KJV - backbiting, covering, covert, disguise [-th], hiding place, privily, protection, secret (-ly, place).

1.     Possibly the Holy of Holies

a.     Only priests could come it was so sacred

b.     Jesus tore the veil so that you and I could come

c.     Came only with a sacrifice (perhaps of praise)

d.     Place where the Glory of God rested above the ark between the wings of the Cherubim

2.     Possibly the "Clift of the Rock" 

a.     Exodus 33:22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen. KJV

3.     Such as in 

a.     Exodus 11:7 But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that the LORD doth put a difference between the Egyptians and Israel. KJV

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b.     Exodus 12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.  KJV

                       iii.        Abide - OT:3885 luwn (loon); or liyn (leen); a primitive root; to stop (usually over night); by implication, to stay permanently; hence (in a bad sense) to be obstinate (especially in words, to complain): KJV - abide (all night), continue, dwell, endure, grudge, be left, lie all night, (cause to) lodge (all night, in, -ing, this night), (make to) murmur, remain, tarry (all night, that night). 

                                      1.         We are to be The Bride of Christ - the biblical word for the state we are in at this point would be espoused

a.     Matthew 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.KJV

                                                                  i.         NT:3423 mnesteuo (mnace-tyoo'-o); from a derivative of NT:3415; to give a souvenier (engagement present), i.e. betroth: KJV - espouse. 

1.     NT:3415 mnaomai (mnah'-om-ahee); middle voice of a derivative of NT:3306 or perhaps of the base of NT:3145 (through the idea of fixture in the mind or of mental grasp); to bear in mind, i.e. recollect; by implication to reward or punish: KJV - be mindful, remember, come (have) in remembrance. Compare NT:3403. 

                       iv.       Shadow -  

                                      1.         OT:6738 tsel (tsale); from OT:6751; shade, whether literal or figurative: KJV - defence, shade (-ow).

a.     OT:6751 tsalal (tsaw-lal'); a primitive root [identical with OT:6749 through the idea of hovering over (compare OT:6754)]; to shade, as twilight or an opaque object: KJV - begin to be dark, shadowing.

                         v.       Almighty - OT:7703 shadad (shaw-dad'); a primitive root; properly, to be burly, i.e. (figuratively) powerful (passively, impregnable); by implication, to ravage: KJV - dead, destroy (-er), oppress, robber, spoil (-er),utterly, (lay) waste.

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