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The Daily Word of Righteousness
One in Christ in God, #43
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. (John 14:9,10)
Every person who sees the Lord Jesus sees the Father. Men do not need to ask to see the Father or to inquire what the Father is like. We can witness the Father's moral character in Christ. We can behold His works of power in Christ. We can hear His words from Christ. Christ is the perfect spiritual fulfillment of the Old Testament feast of Tabernacles, in that God dwells in Him to the fullest extent.
The destiny of the Church is the attainment of perfect rest in Christ in God. The Day will come when mankind will be able to observe God Almighty through Christ in the Church. Men will see the moral Character of the Father, behold the works of power of His hands, and hear His words—all through the members of the Body of Christ. The Church will be the revelation of God in Christ, and God will find His rest in Christ—Head and Body.
The Church will come down from the new heaven and remain forever on the new earth. Through the Church, God will be approachable to the nations of the saved of the new earth.
In our time, the Body of Christ is the dwelling place among men, the manifestation, of God in Christ. But our sinful flesh muddies the water of eternal life and obscures the "light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ" (II Corinthians 4:6).
We who are members of the Body of Christ (and you, dear reader, may partake of the Glory if you pursue the fullness of Christ) are destined to be filled with the fullness of God in Christ through the Spirit. Just as the Lord Jesus eternally is filled with the Presence, the love, and the Glory of God, so shall we—when we have been prepared—be filled with the Presence, the love, and the Glory of God in Christ.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. (John 17:22,23)
To be continued.