The Secret Place: Week 3 Notes
Week 3 — Hidden In Christ
The Secret Place- It isn't just a place, but a person. It's a relationship, not a religion.
It's abiding under the shadow of The Almighty- (you have to be close to be in a shadow.)
It's choosing His presence and getting quiet.
God is found in the secret place.
Where it's quiet.
Where it's peaceful.
Without distractions.
The world is loud! Problems want to consumer your thoughts and they will if you let them.
God is our Shephard. He isn't shouting.
3 Ways Gospel speaks:
Audible voice
His word (the Bible)
Still small voice (His Spirit to you spirit)
The enemy treats us the same as he did Jesus AND he quotes scripture!
Matthew 4:5, 6 ...If you be the son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
He quoted psalm 91: 11, 12 to Jesus. He will do the same to us. We should respond just as Jesus did, "It is written" and quoted The Truth.
Matthew 7:24-27 the wise build upon a sturdy foundation of "the rock"- Jesus, The Word. Rains will come to everyone, but those who've built their lives on The Truth will stand.
John 8:31, 32 If you continue in my word then you are my disciples. And you shall know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.
Psalm 91:1-16
Protection is promised:
"Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence" (v.3)
"His truth shall be your shield and buckler" (v.4) — not the absence of danger, but a covering while danger is present. this psalm is not a promise that nothing bad will ever happen.
"You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day" (v.5) Covers every threat!
But even more-so, God has hidden (concealed/covered) us In Christ. The Secret Place is our hiding place, "under the shadow of the Almighty" where Father God is our "refuge and fortress".
The secret place isn't just safety from something — it's a whole new identity and way of living. We can have what the Bible says we can have. Jesus paid the price.
“Therefore, if you were raised with Christ, look for the things that are above where Christ is sitting at God’s right side. Think about the things above and not things on earth. You died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.”
Colossians 3:1-4 CEB
For you died, you were crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20) and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Your standing with God isn't up for renegotiation every time you fail or feel far away. It's hidden — located in Christ, not in your performance.
“Therefore, we were buried together with him through baptism into his death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too can walk in newness of life. If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together in a resurrection like his. This is what we know: the person that we used to be was crucified with him in order to get rid of the corpse that had been controlled by sin. That way we wouldn’t be slaves to sin anymore, because a person who has died has been freed from sin’s power. But if we died with Christ, we have faith that we will also live with him. We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and he will never die again. Death no longer has power over him. He died to sin once and for all with his death, but he lives for God with his life. In the same way, you also should consider yourselves dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus. So then, don’t let sin rule your body, so that you do what it wants. Don’t offer parts of your body to sin, to be used as weapons to do wrong. Instead, present yourselves to God as people who have been brought back to life from the dead, and offer all the parts of your body to God to be used as weapons to do right. Sin will have no power over you, because you aren’t under Law but under grace.”
Romans 6:4-14 CEB
The Secret Place- It isn't just a place, but a person. It's a relationship, not a religion.
It's abiding under the shadow of The Almighty- (you have to be close to be in a shadow.)
It's choosing His presence and getting quiet.
God is found in the secret place.
Where it's quiet.
Where it's peaceful.
Without distractions.
The world is loud! Problems want to consumer your thoughts and they will if you let them.
God is our Shephard. He isn't shouting.
3 Ways Gospel speaks:
Audible voice
His word (the Bible)
Still small voice (His Spirit to you spirit)
The enemy treats us the same as he did Jesus AND he quotes scripture!
Matthew 4:5, 6 ...If you be the son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
He quoted psalm 91: 11, 12 to Jesus. He will do the same to us. We should respond just as Jesus did, "It is written" and quoted The Truth.
Matthew 7:24-27 the wise build upon a sturdy foundation of "the rock"- Jesus, The Word. Rains will come to everyone, but those who've built their lives on The Truth will stand.
John 8:31, 32 If you continue in my word then you are my disciples. And you shall know the Truth and the Truth will set you free.
Psalm 91:1-16
Protection is promised:
"Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence" (v.3)
"His truth shall be your shield and buckler" (v.4) — not the absence of danger, but a covering while danger is present. this psalm is not a promise that nothing bad will ever happen.
"You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day" (v.5) Covers every threat!
But even more-so, God has hidden (concealed/covered) us In Christ. The Secret Place is our hiding place, "under the shadow of the Almighty" where Father God is our "refuge and fortress".
The secret place isn't just safety from something — it's a whole new identity and way of living. We can have what the Bible says we can have. Jesus paid the price.
“Therefore, if you were raised with Christ, look for the things that are above where Christ is sitting at God’s right side. Think about the things above and not things on earth. You died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.”
Colossians 3:1-4 CEB
For you died, you were crucified with Christ (Galatians 2:20) and your life is hidden with Christ in God. Your standing with God isn't up for renegotiation every time you fail or feel far away. It's hidden — located in Christ, not in your performance.
“Therefore, we were buried together with him through baptism into his death, so that just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too can walk in newness of life. If we were united together in a death like his, we will also be united together in a resurrection like his. This is what we know: the person that we used to be was crucified with him in order to get rid of the corpse that had been controlled by sin. That way we wouldn’t be slaves to sin anymore, because a person who has died has been freed from sin’s power. But if we died with Christ, we have faith that we will also live with him. We know that Christ has been raised from the dead and he will never die again. Death no longer has power over him. He died to sin once and for all with his death, but he lives for God with his life. In the same way, you also should consider yourselves dead to sin but alive for God in Christ Jesus. So then, don’t let sin rule your body, so that you do what it wants. Don’t offer parts of your body to sin, to be used as weapons to do wrong. Instead, present yourselves to God as people who have been brought back to life from the dead, and offer all the parts of your body to God to be used as weapons to do right. Sin will have no power over you, because you aren’t under Law but under grace.”
Romans 6:4-14 CEB
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