Experiencing the Universally Vast Christ in His Breadth, Length, Height, and Depth

Our Christ is the all-inclusive land; as such a One, He is universally vast to us – He is a good and spacious land, whose dimensions are the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth (Eph. 3:18).

Our Christ is universally vast and spacious; He is both all-inclusive and all-extensive, and His dimensions and the dimensions of the universe for us to enjoy Him and partake of Him, experience Him and be one with Him! Hallelujah!

So day by day and even hour by hour we need to enjoy the marvelous and all-inclusive Christ as the good land, taking God in as grace for our enjoyment.

Our Christ is the good land flowing with milk and honey; He is the embodiment of the processed Triune God given to us as the divine grace for our enjoyment.

Our enjoyment of Christ needs to increase, be enlarged, expand, and fill our whole being and our whole living.

On one hand Christ is the Redeeming One, the One who supplies us daily for our living before God, and the living water to quench our thirst.

On the other hand, however, we need to experience the riches of Christ in the good land by being in the mingled spirit; only when we’re dominated, governed, directed, moved, and led by our spirit can we enter into the full enjoyment of the riches of Christ as the good land.

We shouldn’t be governed merely by the environment; yes, the environment shows us what God wants to do in us, and the environment is sovereignly arranged by God for our transformation, but what should govern and direct us should be our spirit.

Hallelujah for our mingled spirit! We care for the rest in our spirit, for the sense of the Spirit in our spirit, and we want to live in spirit, exercise our spirit, and remain in our mingled spirit, for it is in the spirit that we can enjoy and experience Christ as the reality of the good land.

In our spirit we have a treasure: we have the face of Christ, the glory of God shining in the face of Christ; this treasure we have in our earthen vessels, and our sufficiency is of Him. Hallelujah!

The more we spend time with the Lord to enjoy Him in our spirit, the more we contact the Lord and spend facetime with Him, being face-to-face with the Lord, the more we are infused with Him, the more the divine treasure in us saturates our vessel, and the more we enjoy the unsearchably rich Christ as the good land.

The more we behold the Lord face to face, the more we spend time in the index of His eyes, having His smile shining upon us, the more we have His presence, we are infused with His riches, and we become His duplication – we become full of the riches of Christ for others also to enjoy this exhaustless One!

Not being One-Liners but Experiencing the Universal Dimensions of Christ to have a “Cubical Experience” of Him

Our first experience of Christ is in His breadth; we experience how wide He is, how all-encompassing, how rich and sweet, and how vast He is for us to enjoy.

Then, we experience the length of Christ, and we become a bit more solidly rooted in Him. As we advance in Him, we experience the height and the depth.

The breadth and the length are horizontal, while the height and the depth are vertical; our experience of Christ eventually becomes three-dimensional, like a cube.

As we experience a certain aspect of Christ and we enjoy Him so much in a particular matter, we tend to become one-liners, that is, remain on the same line for a long time.

For example, someone may really like to only read the Bible; he loves the Bible, he has the Bible with him all the time, He reads the Bible again and again, and he is versed in the Bible.

But he may not like to pray, and he may not think that he needs to pray. Such a person is a one-liner.

Another believer, however, may only want to pray; he prays all the time, he opens to the Lord concerning everything, and he spends very much time on his knees before the Lord.

But this one may not like to read the Bible, and the result of his extensive prayer is not an appropriate one.

There’s a story of a particular sister who didn’t like to read the Bible but she really wanted to pray and fast before the Lord, so she did it for seven days straight.

Because her physical condition was deteriorating, the leading brothers came to fellowship with her and help her eat something and also read from the Bible, but she wouldn’t.

Shortly after, the sister died and went to be with the Lord. This is such a tragedy, to have a loving seeker of God who is one-liner to death, not being balanced by others’ experience of Christ.

It is very important for us to experience Christ not only in His breadth but also in His length, not being one-liners but two-dimensional; experiencing Christ only along one line may lead to extremism, while being balanced by more aspects of Christ will keep us safe and balanced.

We do have to read the Bible, meet with the saints, pray, pray over the word of God, fast, and do many other spiritual activities, but focusing on one of these activities to the uttermost will make us extreme, and we cannot experience Christ in full.

What we need is to experience Christ in His universal dimensions; for this we need the church life, so that we may enjoy and experience Christ together with all the members of the Body.

We do have some experience and enjoyment of Christ, and when we come together and share with the saints and receive their portion, we are being balanced in our experience of Him.

What the Lord needs today is not many one-liners but that we all be built together, woven together like a “carpet”, and even have a three-dimensional experience of Christ to experience the cubical Christ.

We need to have a balanced experience of Christ in the church; here in the church life we find that His breadth and length are immeasurable, for Christ is spreading forth, and we come to see that the dimensions of the universe are the very dimensions of Christ.

After we experience the breadth and the length of Christ, we begin to experience the height and then the depth of Christ.

We may think that we first experience His depth and then His height, but actually first we experience His height and then His depth.

The spiritual experiences of the depth of Christ come from and after the experiences of the height of Christ; we first grow upward into Him and then we are rooted.

In our experience of Christ we must go back and forth and up and down so that eventually our experience of Him may be a solid “cube”; when our experience is like this, we cannot fall or be broken. It is good to tell the Lord in our time with Him,

Lord Jesus, we want to advance and go on in our enjoyment and experience of Christ so that we may apprehend with all the saints what the universal dimensions of Christ are! Amen, Lord, save us from being “one-liners”, those who overemphasize one particular aspect of Christ or practice in our Christian life. May we learn to open to the Lord and also to the saints so that we may be balanced in our experience of Christ. Amen, dear Lord Jesus, may we go back and forth and up and down in our enjoyment and experience of Christ so that our experience of Him may like a “solid cube”, three-dimensional! We want to be strong to apprehend with all the saints what the universally vast dimensions of Christ are!

Experience the Universally Vast Christ in His Breadth, Length, Height, and Depth

At the stage of our experience in which we are enjoying Christ as the all-inclusive land, Christ is unlimitedly great to us; He is a good and spacious land, a land whose dimensions are the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth (Exo 3:8; Eph. 3:18).

For us to know these universally spacious Christ as described in Eph. 3:18, we need to first be strengthened into the inner man with power through the Spirit, we need that Christ would make His home in our heart, and we need to be strong to apprehend with all the saints what the universally vast dimensions of Christ are.

First we need to pray that God would grant us, according to the riches of His glory, that we would be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, so that Christ may make His home in our heart through faith (Eph. 3:14-16).

The result of Christ making His home in our heart is that we are strengthened into the inner man, and we become strong to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth are (v. 18).

Our Christ is not just all-inclusive; He not only is full of all the riches of the Godhead that He overflows and He has everything that we ever need.

Our Christ is also all-extensive, and His dimensions are the dimensions of the universe; only God knows the measurements of the universe – we can merely measure the distance from one point to another, but Christ is universally vast!

On one hand our Christ is our good land, our earth, the soil into which we’re rooted, and on the other hand He is also our sun and te morning star.

Even more, Christ is our universe, for His dimensions are the dimensions of the universe; He fills all and in all (Eph. 1:23), and He descended to the lower parts of the earth and also ascended far above all the heavens so that He might fill all things (Eph. 4:9-10). Hallelujah!

Our Christ fills all things, He is not bound by time and space, and He is universally vast in all His riches and His being!

So we need to know how to experience Christ in His breadth, His length, His height, and His depth, so that we may have a “cubical experience of Christ”, being solid believers who are both edified with Christ and built up in the Body with all the saints.

The Bible shows us that our experience of Christ has to be cubical; both in the tabernacle and in the temple, the Holy of Holies was a cube of ten cubits and twenty cubits respectively (Exo. 26:2-8; 1 Kings 6:20).

Christ is the universal cube, and the church life today also is a cube. Eventually, the entire New Jerusalem will be the Holy of Holies as an eternal cube, twelve thousand stadia in three dimensions (Rev. 21:16).

May we be those who live in the church life enjoying Christ with all the saints as a three-dimensional Christ, the One whose dimensions are the ever-expanding dimensions of the universe!

May the Lord open our eyes to see that our experience of Him must be a “cube” and not a line, and may we allow the other members in the Body to balance us in our experience of Christ for our corporate entering into the enjoyment of Christ as the good land.

Father, strengthen us into our inner man so that we may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what the breadth and the length and the height and the depth are. Amen, Lord, may our experience and enjoyment of Christ be a three-dimensional experience in the Body of Christ. Open our eyes, Lord, to see this universally vast and ever-expanding Christ, and strengthen us into our inner man to apprehend this Christ in all His dimensions together with all the saints! Hallelujah, we can corporately enter into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive, extensive Christ whose dimensions are the dimensions of the universe!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by bro. Ed Marks for this week, and portions from, Life-study of Ephesians, msg. 33 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Crystallization-Study of Deuteronomy, week 6, Life in the Land and the Issue of the Land — the Church as the Temple, the Dwelling Place of God, and as the City, the Kingdom of God.
• Hymns on this topic:
  – I take Thy promise, Lord, in all its length, / And breadth and fulness, as my daily strength; / Into life’s future fearless I may gaze, / For, Savior, Thou art with me all the days. (Hymns #575)
  – It passeth knowledge, that dear love of Thine, / My Savior, Jesus; yet this soul of mine / Would of Thy love in all its breadth and length, / Its height and depth, its everlasting strength, / Know more and more. (Hymns #154)
  – O the riches of my Savior! / Who can know their breadth and length, / Or their depth and height unmeasured, / Yet they are my joy and strength. (Hymns #542)