Christ in the Fullness of His People

Christ is fully God and fully man. He is God man, and His blood washed saints are simply an expression of Himself in the fullness of His people. Therefore, the authority and power they exercise are simply delegated. Such privileges are available to the Body as they fully submit their own wills to His will and are constrained by the leading of His Spirit. “…He is the head of the body, the Church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence” (Colossians 1:18).

The Son of Man is the glorious and wonderful fulfillment of Jacob’s ladder. No wonder Jacob called the place “ Bethel ’, for this is the House of God of which we speak, even the Body of Christ. The Head is in heaven, but the Body is upon earth, and according to the Scriptures the Head hath sent forth the celestial hosts as ministering spirits, ministering upon the Son of Man, this “ new man,” that Paul speaks about, “created in Himself of twain” (Ephesians 2:15-18). It is Christ in the fullness of His people. The heavens are now open to His people, the Body, even as it was to Him, the Head, there at the River Jordan that eventful day.

If we ask the question as to when and how we come into this glorious place, the answer is certainly by faith. We claim it in His Name. In actual experience any honest hearted child of God will admit that the heavens have not yet been opened to him, and that he does not dwell in that place beyond the veil where Jesus, our forerunner “is for us entered” (Hebrews 6:20).

Now we have a priesthood ministry on this earth. Revelation 1:5-6 says: “…Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father.” Also the Lamb, “hast made us unto our God kings and priests, and we shall reign on the earth” (Revelation 5:10). Honestly, we are not yet beyond the veil, in the heavenlies. We have not yet entered unto our priestly ministry in full, nor do we reign as kings, but as Jesus came to the river Jordan and set the Pattern, just as surely shall the true Body of Christ follow the Pattern. Hebrews 6:20 says that He is our forerunner, indicating that we are to follow Him into the Holiest.

By faith we enter into that place now, but in actual experience this is still ahead of us. How far ahead I cannot say, but I feel that it is very near. Already the Body of Christ is nearing maturity; dispensationally the water of Jordan is the figurative waters of death. There must be a dying out, a complete death to self and old ways, so that we might be brought into our inheritance. Those who have ears are hearing the call to repent of our religious hypocrisy and forsake that which is dead and turn unto life, to the way of the living God. Submit to the Word, and to the ministry in the earth. This is what will bring the Body out of Jordan unto a glorious freedom and victory that is yet to be experienced.

All these experiences must come by an act of the grace of God. You cannot think, believe, work or even pray your way in. However, one can pray, believe and be ready for Him when He comes to His people. When He comes in visitation, we must follow Him into the wilderness, where He can prune our branches so as to make us bring forth fruit in our lives. It is the fruit-bearers who shall come into this glorious place in God, in the Body of Christ.