Christ is All and in All in the New Man: we need to Take Christ as our Person Today

According to Colossians 3:10-11, in the new man Christ is all the members and in all the members, for the Christ who dwells in us is the constituent of the one new man, and for the new man we all take Christ as our person for the one new man so that He makes decisions in us and we speak the same thing with one mouth and with one accord. Amen!

The new man is truly God’s masterpiece, but it has to yet come into being among us today. Christ is the Creator of the one new man as the masterpiece of God.

God’s intention from the very beginning, when He created the universe and when He formed man to be in His image, was that He would gain a corporate man to express Him and represent Him.

The new man is the poem, the masterpiece of God; this man was created through Christ’s death and resurrection.

On the negative side, Christ terminated in His flesh all the negative things in the universe, including Satan, sin, the flesh, the world, the old creation, and the ordinances of the law. Then, He created the new man in Himself, with Himself as the essence, element, and nature of the one new man.

First, the natural man was crucified with Christ, and then, through the crossing out of the old man, Christ imparted His divine element into us to cause us to become the masterpiece of God’s work – the one new man.

The new man is an absolutely new item in the universe, a new invention of God.

We as the church are the masterpiece of God’s work; we are a poem expressing God’s infinite wisdom and divine design.

Our wise God wants to obtain a wise exhibition of all that He is and has done, and He made Christ wisdom to us from God to be our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

For our past, Christ is our righteousness. For our present, He is our sanctification. For our future, He is our redemption.

As wisdom to us from God, Christ is fully redeeming, transforming, and glorifying our entire tripartite being with His divine life so that we may become the wise exhibition of all that Christ is.

What a glorious destiny we have!

Now we need to enter into the reality of the one new man in our Christian life first by seeing that Christ abolished in His flesh the law of the commandments in ordinances.

All the regulations regarding living and worship which have divided the nations have been abolished.

We need to let Christ abolish these in us so that we are flexible and willing to go along with others, even to let go of our natural and cultural pride.

For the church as the one new man, we need to let the peace of Christ arbitrate in our hearts, to which we were called in the one new man!

In the New Man Christ is All the Members and In All the Members: He’s the Constituent of the One New Man!

One particular aspect of the church as the one new man is that in the one new man Christ is all the members and He is also in all the members, as seen in Col. 3:10-11.

We put on the new man, which is being renewed unto full knowledge according to the image of Him who created him, where there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all.

The Lord does not leave us in the dark concerning the one new man and what it means to be the one new man; the Bible is clear that Christ is all the members and in all the members in the one new man.

No matter what kind of person we are, no matter what is our background and culture, only Christ is the constituent of the one new man.

The Christ who dwells in us is the constituent of the one new man (Col. 1:27; 3:11). There is no natural person in the one new man.

No matter what kind of person we are, as far as the new man is concerned, there’s room only for Christ and not for any kind of natural person.

Our national background, our cultural upbringing, and our race or nationality, all these are crossed out when we are in reality the church as the one new man.

In the new man Christ is all and in all; He is all the members and He is in all the members.

Christ Himself is the new man – He is the Head of the Body and also the Body of the Head, the one new man (1 Cor. 12:13).

We all are part of the one new man, but we are the new man in reality only when we realise that Christ is all and in all in the new man.

This word “all” in Col. 3:11 refers to all the members who make up the one new man. Christ is all the members of the one new man, and He is in all the members.

Just as the members of our body are us, and we are expressed through every member of our body, so Christ is in all the members of the Body, and He is also all the members of the Body. This means that we need to become Christ.

We need to take Him both as our life for the life of the Body of Christ and as our person for the one new man.

We need to realise that, when we come together as the church, the one new man, our background and culture are crossed out, and we are not Germans, British, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Romanian, or any other nationality: we are just Christ!

Because Christ is in all the members of the new man, there is no possibility, no room, for any natural person in the new man!

In the new man there’s no room for any race, nationality, culture, or social status; in the new man Christ is all and in all.

No matter what kind of person we may be, no matter what our background is, and no matter what is our status in society, as far as the new man is concerned, we all are nobodies and only Christ is the person.

In the one new man there is only one person – the all-inclusive Christ (Col. 2:17; 3:4, 11).

Every believer in Christ needs to become Christ, for Christ dwells and lives in every believer in Christ.

As we take Christ as our life and person, we become not only the Body of Christ but even more, the one new man with Christ being all and in all.

Since Christ is all and in all in the new man and since we are part of the new man, we are part of Christ. Each member of the church as the one new man is a part of Christ, and each member is Christ.

Lord Jesus, cause us to see that in the church as the one new man Christ is all and in all! Hallelujah, Christ is in all the members and Christ is all the members of the one new man! Praise the Lord, in the new man there cannot be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, free man, but Christ is all and in all! Amen, Lord, become our all today. Live in us today. We take You as our life and as our person for the church as the one new man. May we realise that, no matter what kind of person we are, we are nobody as far as the new man is concerned, for Christ is all and in all in the new man! May we see that Christ is everything in the new man, for He is all the members and He is in all the members of the new man. Hallelujah, Christ is in us and we are in Christ! Praise the Lord, since Christ is all and in all in the new man, we are part of Christ, and He is in us! Amen, Lord, may we all take the all-inclusive Christ as our life and person today!

For the New Man we all Take Christ as our Person and Speak the Same thing with one Mouth

How can Christ be all and in all in the new man? It is only by us all taking Christ as our person for the one new man (Eph. 2:15; 3:17).

When we take Christ as our person, He becomes all and in all to us and together we become the new man.

As the Body of Christ, the church needs Christ as its life; as the one new man, the church needs Christ as its person.

When we take Christ as our life, we can live Christ and be members of the Body of Christ, functioning in our measure in and for the Body.

When we take Christ as our person, He becomes all and in all in the new man.

Christ is in all of us as one person; therefore, we all have only one person (Gal. 2:20; Eph. 3:17).

If we are to have the practical existence of the new man, the total person of the old man must be put away, and we must live by our new person, taking Christ as our person (Rom. 6:6; Gal. 2:20; Eph. 4:22-24; 3:17).

It is a fact that our old man has been crucified with Christ; this fact needs to be applied in our daily living by us taking Christ as our person for the one new man.

We need to live a life in the new man by taking Christ as our person, with Him as the One making all the decisions in us.

Every day we make decisions, from small decisions to big decisions. From the time we wake up in the morning, our whole day is spent making decision after decision.

Even the time we wake up is a decision we make. When we take a shower, eat, prepare, get dressed, go to work, do chores around the house, relax, and do so many things, we all make decisions.

To take Christ as our person is to let Him be the One deciding things in us. We need to check with the Lord and let Him decide things in us, allowing Christ to be the decider of everything.

How we spend our time, what we read, where we go, who we talk to, what we listen to, and what we watch – we need to come to the Lord again and again and take Him as our person, letting Him be the decider in us.

When we take Christ as our person and let Him decide everything in us, we will have a sweet family life and a pleasant church life.

This involves us seeing the vision that we are the one new man where Christ is all and in all.

Once we see that we are a part of the one new man, we will not be able to decide things merely by ourselves; rather, we will check with the Lord and also check with other members in the Body.

We need to see that we are a corporate Body and a corporate new man.

We need to realise that both our living and our moving are corporate, so we need to take Christ as our life and person (1 Cor. 12:12; Rom. 12:4-5).

In particular, we need to take Christ as our person for the one new man in our speaking. Romans 15:6 says that we speak with one mouth, 1 Corinthians 1:10 says that we speak the same thing, and Ephesians 2:15 speaks of the one new man.

In the one new man we speak the same thing with one mouth with one accord.

How can this be? How can the church with millions of members speak the same thing with one mouth? This seems to be impossible, at least humanly speaking.

But in the local church we need to practice taking Christ as our person and speaking with one mouth, even speaking the same thing, the one thing, with one accord. Amen!

The reason we speak different things is because we have more than one person; if I take myself as my person and you take yourself as the person, we speak different things, and there’s no one new man. Oh Lord!

When there’s more than one person, there are many ideas, and there are many opinions. But thank the Lord that we can take Christ as our person in our speaking!

We don’t have a policeman among us in the church life but we have Christ as our person! He is my person and He is your person; the Christ in me is the same Christ as in you, and we speak the same thing, for Christ speaks the same thing!

Each one of us is absolutely free; at the same time, none of us has the freedom to speak what we want because within us there’s another person, Christ.

We may want to say something, but Christ within us bothers us and gives us a feeling not to say anything; we simply say, Amen!

When we want to speak again, the Lord bothers us again, and we say, Thank You, Lord! We all need to practice taking Christ as our person for the one new man.

In the past there were too many mouths because there were too many people. Now we all with one accord speak with one mouth the same thing simply because we all take Christ as our person.

May we let Christ decide everything in us. May we let Him speak in us.

Although we are many and come from many places, we all have one mouth, and we all speak the same thing; this is because we all are the one new man having only one person (Eph. 2:15; 4:22-24; 3:17a; Rom. 15:6; 1 Cor. 1:10).

Amen, may we be those who exercise our spirit today, be strengthened into our inner man, take Christ as our person, and live in the reality of the one new man!

Lord Jesus, we take You as our person for the one new man. Thank You for being our life for the Body of Christ and our person for the one new man. Oh Lord, You are in us; we take You as our person. You are our person, Lord! May we realise that, for the practical existence of the one new man, the total person of the old man must be put away, and we must live by our new person! Amen, Lord, we want to live a life in the new man by taking Christ as our person! We open to You, Lord, and we let You be the One making all the decisions in us. May Christ be the decider in all things. Save us from making decisions by ourselves. May we see that we are a corporate Body and a corporate new man and that both our living and moving are corporate! Amen, Lord, we take You as our person in our speaking! May we all as the new man speak with one mouth the same thing for the glory of God! Hallelujah, in the new man there is only one person, and we all speak the same thing with one mouth!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ricky Acosta in the message for this week, and portions from, Collected Works of Witness Lee, 1977, vol. 3, “One Body, One Spirit, and One New Man,” chs. 5 and 7, as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Experiencing, Enjoying, and Expressing Christ (2) (2024 December Training), week 22 (msg. 10), The Creator of the One New Man as the Masterpiece of God.
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  – On the cross ordinances slain, / That He might form just one of twain. / Reconciling us to God, / Thus on the serpent’s head He trod. / He breaks down the middle wall / As upon His name we call; / On the cross ordinances slain, / That He might form just one of twain. / For this cause Your Person, Lord, / We take and stand in one accord; / All the members self forsake, / And of the Body-Christ partake. / We in Christ as one new man / Now come forth to take this land. / For this cause Your Person, Lord, / We take and stand in one accord. (Hymns #1230 stanzas 2 and 3)
  – In spirit mingled, we are one, O Lord, / The human and divine in one accord; / Yet Thou must have a proper faculty / That all Thy glorious personality / May be expressed. / So, Lord, I give my heart to Thee today, / That it may be Thy home in every way, / A place for Thee to come and settle down, / And all Thy grand recovery work to crown / In one new man. (Hymns #1179 stanzas 4-5)
  – Not the person spiritual / In an individual way, / But the corporate life expressed / Will Thy heart’s desire display. / Members separate and detached / Ne’er express Thee perfectly, / But Thy Body tempered, built, / Ever shall Thy fulness be. / Build me, Lord, with other saints, / Independence ne’er allow, / But according to Thy plan / Fitly frame and join me now. / In experience not my boast, / Nor in gifts would be my pride; / For Thy building I give all, / That Thou may be glorified. (Hymns #839 stanzas 4-5)