Knowing And Experiencing The All-Inclusive, Extensive Christ
Opening Word of the Prophesying Meeting
Message Two
Knowing and Experiencing the All-inclusive, Extensive Christ as the Good Land— Our Allotted Portion
Reading the verses in each day.
Reading the main points in the outlines.
Pray-reading the verses:
Col. 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light.
2:6-7 As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, Having been rooted and being built up in Him…
Word of Appetizer
As Paul was writing…chapter 2 of Colossians, he was considering the picture of the good land in the Old Testament, why is this good land as a type of the all-inclusive Christ?
There is a suggestion of this in 1:12, where Paul says that Christ is the portion of the saints. Then in 2:6 Paul tells us to walk in Christ. This implies that Christ is the land, the territory, the realm, in which we may walk. Furthermore, his reference to being rooted in Christ in 2:7 also indicates that he was thinking of the good land. In order to be rooted in Christ, He must be our land, our soil.
Spiritual Burden
We can walk in Christ as our living land and absorb Christ as our rich soil, in which we have been rooted, so that we may grow with the elements that we absorb from the soil and be made full in Him in our experience.
Concluding Word of the Prophesying Meeting
The Revelation of the Truth
Christ as the preeminent and all-inclusive One is the allotted portion of the saints.
The purpose of God’s calling is to bring God’s chosen people into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive, extensive Christ, typified by the good land flowing with milk and honey.
We can walk in Christ as our living land and absorb Christ as our rich soil, in which we have been rooted, so that we may grow with the elements that we absorb from the soil.
The Experience of Life
Milk and honey, which are the mingling of both the animal life and the vegetable life, are two aspects of the life of Christ—the redeeming aspect and the generating aspect; God’s word is milk for us to drink and honey for us to eat; By enjoying Christ as the land of milk and honey, we will be constituted with Him as milk and honey.
Psa. 119:103 How sweet are Your words to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth! Honey restores the stricken ones, whereas milk feeds the new ones.
Practice and Application
We must eat God’s words to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the good land in His redeeming and generating aspects.
We must take time to enjoy the Lord as the all-inclusive land so that all the elements of Christ as the rich soil may be absorbed into us for us to be made full in Him in our experience.
If we would absorb the riches of Christ as the soil, we need to have tender, new roots; We need to forget our situation, our condition, our failures, and our weaknesses and simply take time to absorb the Lord.
Using Key Verses to Have a Bird’s-Eye View over the Whole Outline
Key Verses (1)
Col. 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light.
Gal. 3:14 In order that the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
I. Christ as the preeminent and all-inclusive One is the allotted portion of the saints
- The allotted portion refers to the lot of the inheritance, as illustrated by the allotment of the good land of Canaan given to the children of Israel for their inheritance.
- The New Testament believers’ allotted portion is not a physical land; it is the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit.
- The riches of the good land typify the unsearchable riches of Christ in different aspects as the bountiful supply to His believers in His Spirit.
Key Verses (2)
Col. 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light.
Exo. 3:8 And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, to a land flowing with milk and honey…
1 Pet. 2:2 …Long for the guileless milk of the word in order that by it you may grow unto salvation.
Psa. 119:103 How sweet are Your words to my taste! Sweeter than honey to my mouth!
II. The purpose of God’s calling is to bring God’s chosen people into the enjoyment of the all-inclusive, extensive Christ, typified by the good land flowing with milk and honey
- Milk and honey, which are the mingling of both the animal life and the vegetable life, are two aspects of the life of Christ—the redeeming aspect and the generating aspect.
- We must be “in the light” in order to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the good land in His redeeming and generating aspects.
- We must eat God’s words to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the good land in His redeeming and generating aspects; God’s word is milk for us to drink and honey for us to eat.
- By enjoying Christ as the land of milk and honey, we will be constituted with Him as milk and honey.
Key Verses (3)
Col. 2:6-7 As therefore you have received the Christ, Jesus the Lord, walk in Him, having been rooted and being built up in Him…
Col. 2:12-14 Buried together with Him in baptism, in which also you were raised together with Him through the faith of the operation of God, who raised Him from the dead. And you…He made alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our offenses; wiping out the handwriting in ordinances, which was against us;…and He has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross.
III. We can walk in Christ as our living land and absorb Christ as our rich soil, in which we have been rooted, so that we may grow with the elements that we absorb from the soil
- Colossians 2:8-15 presents a full description and definition of Christ as the soil in which we do not lack anything; as we take time to absorb Him as the all-inclusive land, the facts in these verses ( all the fullness of the Godhead, the Head of all rule and authority, the killing power, causing us to be buried, be raised up, vivifying us, the wiping out of the handwriting in ordinances)become our experience.
- We must take time to enjoy the Lord as the all-inclusive land so that all the elements of Christ as the rich soil may be absorbed into us for us to be made full in Him in our experience.
Prophesying Topics—Twelve Topics per Week
D1
T1 The experience of the children of Israel in the good land typifies our enjoyment of Christ today (Deut. 8:8-9)
(Please illustrate that the land is the figure of the all-inclusive Christ, a type of Christ as everything to us. )
T2 Christ is the allotted portion of the saints (Col. 1:12; Gal. 3:14)
(Please illustrate that the New Testament believers’ allotted portion is the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit.)
D2
T1 Two aspects of the life of Christ—the redeeming aspect and the generating aspect (Exo. 3:8)
(Please illustrate that milk and honey, which are the mingling of both the animal life and the vegetable life.)
T2 A share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light (Col. 1:12; 1 John 1:5)
(Please illustrate that we must be “in the light” in order to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as the good land in His redeeming and generating aspects.)
D3
T1 Barley loaves and fish signify Christ’s smallness in order to be the life supply to us (John 6:9, 57)
(Please illustrate the two aspects of the life of Christ signified by loaves and fish.)
T2 God’s word is milk for us to drink and honey for us to eat (1 Pet. 2:2; Psa. 119:103)
(Please illustrate the spiritual meaning of milk and honey.)
D4
T1 Christ is the rich soil in which we have been rooted. (Col. 2:6-7 )
(Please illustrate the expression “having been rooted” in verse 7 implies that there is soil.)
T2 Absorbing Christ as our rich soil (Col. 2:9-10)
(Please illustrate the main points of Colossians 2:9-10.)
D5
T1 From Colossians 2:11-13 we see the growth with the elements that we absorb from Christ as the soil (Col. 2:11-13, 19)
(Please illustrate the main points of Colossians 2: 11-13)
T2 From Colossians 2:14-15 we see the growth with the elements that we absorb from Christ as the soil (Col. 2:14-15, 19)
(Please illustrate the main points of Colossians 2:14-15.)
D6
T1 From 2 Corinthians 4:16 we see the growth with the elements that we absorb from Christ as the soil (2 Cor. 4:16)
(Please illustrate with experiences that if we would absorb the riches of Christ as the soil, we need to have tender, new roots.)
T2 Taking time to absorb Him, to assimilate the rich elements from Him as the soil (Matt. 14:22-23; 6:6)
(Please illustrate with experiences that if you take time to absorb the Lord, you will be able to testify that in Christ you have no lack.)
