Christ should have the Preeminence in our Personal Universe: give Him the First Place!

According to God, Christ occupies the first place in both the old creation and the new creation; Christ should have the preeminence in our personal universe, and we should give Him the first place in all things. What a wonderful, all-inclusive, extensive Christ we have! He is preeminent in everything; even in the Godhead, the […]

Christ is the Preeminent One in the Triune Godhead and in God’s Exaltation of Him

Christ has the first place in God’s economy; Christ is preeminent in God’s economy, for everything God wants to do is related to Christ and is focused on Christ. Oh, what a Christ we have! Do we see such a Christ? Do we enjoy such a Christ? The all-inclusive, extensive Christ has the preeminence in […]

God’s Intention in His Administration is to Give Christ the Preeminence in All Things

God’s intention in His administration is to give Christ the preeminence in all things, that is, to cause Christ to have the first place in everything (see Col. 1:15, 18). In Colossians Paul writes concerning this principle of Christ being preeminent; he says that Christ is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of […]

Being in the Light to Enjoy Christ as the Good Land flowing with Milk and Honey

The purpose of God’s calling is to bring His chosen people into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive, extensive Christ, typified by the good land flowing with milk and honey; Christ is our allotted portion in the light. All the riches of the good land typify the unsearchable riches of Christ in different aspects as the […]

God’s Will is that we Know and Enjoy Christ, Estimating Everything According to Him

God’s will is that the all-inclusive, extensive Christ be our portion, our life, our constituent, and our peace; we should estimate and evaluate everything according to this all-inclusive, extensive Christ. Furthermore, we need to be infused, saturated, and permeated with the all-inclusive, extensive Christ until in our experience He is everything to us. Amen! If […]

God wants His All-inclusive, Extensive Christ to become our Everything for the Church

God wants that His all-inclusive, extensive, and preeminent Christ would become our everything for the church, the Body of Christ. The Christ unveiled in the book of Colossians is the all-inclusive, extensive, preeminent One, the centrality and universality of God’s economy; God wants to work such a Christ into us so that we may enjoy […]

Seeing a Revelation of the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ and Continually Enjoying Him

The will of God for us – as revealed in Colossians – is that we know the all-inclusive, extensive Christ, experience Him, and live Him as our life. The great will of God for us, His people, doesn’t have to do merely with minor things such as our job, our marriage, our house, our car, […]