). Now we, both individually and as a church, are the temple of God. Individually, God dwells in us, and God has promised never to take His Spirit away. Finally, someday we will be in heaven in His direct presence.

For hundreds of years the church has used Ps 100Psalm 100
[100:1]Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!
[2]Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
[3]Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
[4]Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!
[5]For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.

as a call to worship. Yet Ps 100Psalm 100
[100:1]Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!
[2]Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
[3]Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
[4]Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!
[5]For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.

was obviously written with the thought of approaching the tabernacle and the tabernacle courts and gates where the physical manifestation of God resided. There was one place for worship, unlike today ( John 4John 4
[4:1]Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard
that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than
John [2](although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only
his disciples), [3]he left Judea and departed again for
Galilee. [4]And he had to pass through Samaria. [5]So he
came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field
that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. [6]Jacob's well was
there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was
sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
[7]A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said
to her, "Give me a drink." [8](For his disciples had gone
away into the city to buy food.) [9]The Samaritan woman
said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink
from me, a woman of Samaria?" (For Jews have no dealings
with Samaritans.) [10]Jesus answered her, "If you knew the
gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me
a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given
you living water." [11]The woman said to him, "Sir, you
have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep.
Where do you get that living water? [12]Are you greater
than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from
it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." [13]Jesus
said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be
thirsty again, [14]but whoever drinks of the water that I
will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I
will give him will become in him a spring of water welling
up to eternal life." [15]The woman said to him, "Sir, give
me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to
come here to draw water."
[16]Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come
here." [17]The woman answered him, "I have no husband."
Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no
husband'; [18]for you have had five husbands, and the one
you now have is not your husband. What you have said is
true." [19]The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you
are a prophet. [20]Our fathers worshiped on this mountain,
but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people
ought to worship." [21]Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe
me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in
Jerusalem will you worship the Father. [22]You worship what
you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is
from the Jews. [23]But the hour is coming, and is now here,
when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit
and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship
him. [24]God is spirit, and those who worship him must
worship in spirit and truth." [25]The woman said to him, "I
know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When
he comes, he will tell us all things." [26]Jesus said to
her, "I who speak to you am he."
[27]Just then his disciples came back. They marveled
that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do
you seek?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" [28]So the
woman left her water jar and went away into town and said
to the people, [29]"Come, see a man who told me all that I
ever did. Can this be the Christ?" [30]They went out of the
town and were coming to him.
[31]Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying,
"Rabbi, eat." [32]But he said to them, "I have food to eat
that you do not know about." [33]So the disciples said to
one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?"
[34]Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him
who sent me and to accomplish his work. [35]Do you not say,
'There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? Look,
I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are
white for harvest. [36]Already the one who reaps is
receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so
that sower and reaper may rejoice together. [37]For here
the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' [38]I
sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others
have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
[39]Many Samaritans from that town believed in him
because of the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I
ever did." [40]So when the Samaritans came to him, they
asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
[41]And many more believed because of his word. [42]They
said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you
said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and
we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world."
[43]After the two days he departed for Galilee. [44](For
Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in
his own hometown.) [45]So when he came to Galilee, the
Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in
Jerusalem at the feast. For they too had gone to the feast.
[46]So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had
made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official
whose son was ill. [47]When this man heard that Jesus had
come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to
come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of
death. [48]So Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and
wonders you will not believe." [49]The official said to
him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." [50]Jesus said
to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word
that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. [51]As he was
going down, his servants met him and told him that his son
was recovering. [52]So he asked them the hour when he began
to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the
seventh hour the fever left him." [53]The father knew that
was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will
live." And he himself believed, and all his household.
[54]This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had
come from Judea to Galilee. (ESV)

). There was one place where God’s manifested presence resided.

So based on your comments and that of D. A. Carson, in what sense is it proper for us to use Ps. 100Psalm 100
[100:1]Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth!
[2]Serve the LORD with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
[3]Know that the LORD, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
[4]Enter his gates with thanksgiving,
and his courts with praise!
Give thanks to him; bless his name!
[5]For the LORD is good;
his steadfast love endures forever,
and his faithfulness to all generations.

as a call to worship as a church? How do you understand the encouragement to “come into His presence” or “enter His gates…and..courts” In other words, how would you explain the direct use of this OT passage for the church?

I’m also curious as to what passages of Scripture support the statement that we should be ”eager to experience His active, revealed, or manifest presence.”

v11).

However, isn’t there also a sense in which we are responsible to pursue that which the Lord has done for us? That happens in other areas of the Christian life. We have been declared righteous, but we are still responsible for living righteously.

Legally we have access into the presence of God at all times and in all places. Christ has gone in on our behalf having obtained eternal redemption. Through that completed offering, the curtain is open. But then we are responsible for entering in. Not on the basis of any perceived “merit” coming from our worship, but on the basis of His finished work.

He entered in for redemption (fulfilling the Day of Atonement). We now must chose to enter in for fellowship. It is not automatic. If it were, why do we have exhortation “let us draw near…” ( Heb 10Hebrews 10
[10:1]For since the law has but a shadow of the good
things to come instead of the true form of these realities,
it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually
offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.
[2]Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered,
since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no
longer have any consciousness of sins? [3]But in these
sacrifices there is a reminder of sins every year. [4]For
it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take
away sins.
[5]Consequently, when Christ came into the world, he
said,
"Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
but a body have you prepared for me;
[6]in burnt offerings and sin offerings
you have taken no pleasure.
[7]Then I said, 'Behold, I have come to do your will, O
God,
as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.'"
[8]When he said above, "You have neither desired nor taken
pleasure in sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings
and sin offerings" (these are offered according to the
law), [9]then he added, "Behold, I have come to do your
will." He does away with the first in order to establish
the second. [10]And by that will we have been sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for
all.
[11]And every priest stands daily at his service,
offering repeatedly the same sacrifices, which can never
take away sins. [12]But when Christ had offered for all
time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right
hand of God, [13]waiting from that time until his enemies
should be made a footstool for his feet. [14]For by a
single offering he has perfected for all time those who are
being sanctified.
[15]And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us; for
after saying,
[16]"This is the covenant that I will make with them
after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws on their hearts,
and write them on their minds,"
[17]then he adds,
"I will remember their sins and their lawless deeds no
more."
[18]Where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer
any offering for sin.
[19]Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to
enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, [20]by the new
and living way that he opened for us through the curtain,
that is, through his flesh, [21]and since we have a great
priest over the house of God, [22]let us draw near with a
true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts
sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies
washed with pure water. [23]Let us hold fast the confession
of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is
faithful. [24]And let us consider how to stir up one
another to love and good works, [25]not neglecting to meet
together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one
another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.
[26]For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving
the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a
sacrifice for sins, [27]but a fearful expectation of
judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the
adversaries. [28]Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses
dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three
witnesses. [29]How much worse punishment, do you think,
will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God,
and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was
sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? [30]For
we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay."
And again, "The Lord will judge his people." [31]It is a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
[32]But recall the former days when, after you were
enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,
[33]sometimes being publicly exposed to reproach and
affliction, and sometimes being partners with those so
treated. [34]For you had compassion on those in prison, and
you joyfully accepted the plundering of your property,
since you knew that you yourselves had a better possession
and an abiding one. [35]Therefore do not throw away your
confidence, which has a great reward. [36]For you have need
of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God
you may receive what is promised. [37]For,
"Yet a little while,
and the coming one will come and will not delay;
[38]but my righteous one shall live by faith,
and if he shrinks back,
my soul has no pleasure in him."
[39]But we are not of those who shrink back and are
destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their
souls. (ESV)

v22)? Also, James 4James 4
[4:1]What causes quarrels and what causes fights among
you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within
you? [2]You desire and do not have, so you murder. You
covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do
not have, because you do not ask. [3]You ask and do not
receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your
passions. [4]You adulterous people! Do you not know that
friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore
whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an
enemy of God. [5]Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that
the Scripture says, "He yearns jealously over the spirit
that he has made to dwell in us"? [6]But he gives more
grace. Therefore it says, "God opposes the proud, but gives
grace to the humble." [7]Submit yourselves therefore to
God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. [8]Draw
near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your
hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-
minded. [9]Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your
laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
[10]Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt
you.
[11]Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The
one who speaks against a brother or judges his brother,
speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you
judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
[12]There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to
save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
[13]Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go
into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade
and make a profit"-- [14]yet you do not know what tomorrow
will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that
appears for a little time and then vanishes. [15]Instead
you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will live and do
this or that." [16]As it is, you boast in your arrogance.
All such boasting is evil. [17]So whoever knows the right
thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin. (ESV)

v8 says “Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.” This is something that we must do.

Furthermore, as new covenant saints, surely we can cry “show us Your glory” and hunger and thirst for a tangible manifestation of the presence of God. Of course we know by faith He is ever-present. We know He inhabits our praises, but surely we must long to experience - to feel - more and more the taste of His glory in our meetings.