Those
who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures
forever. As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the Lord surrounds His people
both now and forevermore. Psalm 125:1,2
Mountains?
And the Lord like the mountains? What is that? It is fortification, it is
strength, it is protection. And what is the point of fortification if there is
nothing against which to be fortified? Away back in Old Testament times, when
the people came into the land, the remarkable thing is that they occupied the
higher places more than the lower. You will find that their towns, cities and
villages are almost all of them upon some high place; the reason being that
their enemies, who had chariots and horses, had their strength on the level, in
the plain, but they could do nothing with chariots and horses against
mountains. And therefore the safety, security and fortification of the Lord’s
people was by being on high places.
That
is a parable. If the enemy can get you on to his level he has beaten you. So he
must pull you down, he must get you down, he must get you to accept something
less than God’s full place and mind for you, and then he will undo you. That is
what he has done with the church, speaking of the church now in very general
terms. He has pulled it down to this world level; he has reduced it to the
level of things here, and he has absolutely disintegrated it, broken it up and
divided it and robbed it of its power. The church which is revealed to us in the
New Testament is always on high ground.... In Ephesians, it is “in the
heavenlies in Christ Jesus.” It is a great power to be on high ground, it is a
great defensive, protective factor; the enemy can do little with you if you
keep up there and refuse to come down. Nehemiah found that to be so, when they
said, “Come down and let us confer”; and he said, “I am doing a great work so
that I cannot come down” (Neh. 6:3). It is a principle operating.
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