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Christ in 3-D

Introduction

My wife and I lived for about six years in the beautiful state of Colorado.  We bought a home there that was on a hill and had a very breathtaking view.  We had many windows in our living room and dining room and from that vantage point you could see three mountain ranges and two valleys.  It was a wonderful panoramic view of the area and each window in that room gave you a little bit different aspect of the surrounding scenery.

One day I was sitting in my living room just enjoying this beautiful sight and I exclaimed to the Lord that it was an awesome view.  I sensed that He replied in my spirit that it was indeed a spectacular sight and then He asked me a question;  “But do you want to see the real panoramic view?”  I somehow immediately knew exactly what He was asking.  He was asking if I wanted to see the true panoramic view of His Son.

My reply was: “Yes, of course Lord!  I want to see that glorious view!”

Well, it wasn’t long after that conversation with the Lord that we lost our internet business that we had for the last thirteen years.  And it wasn’t long after that when we lost the very same house that had that wonderful view.  And it wasn’t long after that when the Lord sent us to a really weird place called Gainesville, Florida!  And God used us and several others to plant a church in that place.  And there it was, the first window in that real view of the panoramic Christ.  And what a wonderful window it was.  A framework or expression of this gloriously panoramic Lord!  A Lord who is bigger and more vast than any of us could have ever imagined.

And then we witnessed many other “windows” into this vast Christ in places like Rapid City South Dakota, and Gainesville Georgia, and Cincinnati Ohio, and Nashville Tennessee, and

Oklahoma City Oklahoma.  We even had the wonderful privilege of helping to build the frames for these windows.

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I have said it many times that our Christ is too small.  Of course, this doesn’t mean that Christ Himself is small, but rather that our sight or vision of Him is too small.  Our sight of Him is obstructed by many things such as mental filters, religious agendas, and our

own backgrounds.  God wants to strip away these things so that we can see His Son directly and clearly.

“For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which exists among you and your love for all the saints, do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might which He brought about in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.”

(Eph 1:15-23)

Here Paul prays for the believers that their spiritual eyes may be opened or enlightened so that they will know something.  Notice with me that you must first see in order to know.

Spiritual vision or sight must precede spiritual knowledge.  God’s goal is for us corporately to know this gloriously full Christ.  But before we can know Him, we must first see Him.

The word “know” here is a very deep word in the original language.  It means a very deep, intimate, and experiential knowledge.  To know by interaction and personal encounter.

Obstructions to Clear Vision

As I said before, there are things that can get in the way of us clearly seeing the Lord and His purpose.  These can be called filters, agendas, and backgrounds.  They will hinder or completely obstruct our vision of the full complete Christ.  There are many such filters, but let me give you one example from the scriptures.

“From that time Jesus began to show His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. Peter took Him aside and began to rebuke Him, saying, "God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to You." But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but man's." Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”

(Mat 16:21-25)

This is a perfect example of a filter.  Peter had a mindset and an agenda that could be referred to as the “messianic kingdom”.  This was the idea that the messiah was coming to setup a physical and political kingdom on the earth and would be defeating the Romans in order to accomplish this agenda.  That’s all Peter could see.  That was his filter.  And Jesus dying on the cross was not part of that agenda!  So Peter rebuked the Lord.  Wow, what an oxymoron that is!

Notice with me what the Lord’s response to Peter was.  He calls him satan, says get behind me and then tells Peter something that strikes at the heart of us all.

“But He turned and said to Peter, "Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on God's interests, but man's." Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. "For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.”

(Mat 16:23-25)

Peter had set his mind on man’s interests and not on God’s.  Jesus calls this attitude and mindset satanic!  This is what a filter does.  It sets our minds on man’s interests (mainly our own!) and not on God’s interests.  It blinds us to God’s purpose and the core of that whole thing is the self life.  The root of all filters, mindsets, and agendas is the self and that must go to the cross.  If we are not willing to yield to the Lord’s work of the cross in our lives then we will never see a Christ who is without limits.  Our vision of Him will always be very limited and restricted.

Brothers and sisters we desperately need a new filter.  We need a new agenda…

God’s agenda!

He (the Father) sees everything through the “filter” of Christ and Christ alone.

The Multi-dimensional Christ

In less you have been living in a cave for the last several years, I’m sure you have noticed how popular 3-D movies have become.  Just about every action movie is now in two formats; 2-D and 3-D.  Of course, you have to pay extra to watch a 3-D movie and wear those funky looking glasses.  Personally, I don’t like 3-D movies or those glasses.  And it seems to me that some of those movies are made especially for 3-D and the camera does really corny things like showing the actor pointing the end of a spear repeatedly into the camera!

Why is it that you think people are attracted to these kinds of movies?  It’s very obvious isn’t it?  They want more “realism” and depth to their movie watching experience.  In a world when many things are so shallow, we are desperately seeking more depth in our lives.  This is especially true in the religious world (aka Christianity).

A Shallow Christ

We not only have a very small Christ, but we also have a very shallow Christ.  He is very one dimensional in our eyes.  You could even say that He is a very “flat” Christ.  He looks really good on paper!  And we know Him as a “words on paper Christ”.  That is, we “know” Him via an intellectual book study assimilation.  We really don’t see Him as three dimensional.  We really don’t see Him and experience Him as a Person.  So, how do we see Him in the depths?  How do we see Him in 3-D?

We need to put on the 3-D glasses!  That’s the only way you can see a movie in 3-D.  You need special “equipment” to see a movie in 3-D.  You need special 3-D glasses.  In

Ephesians chapter one Paul prayed that the saints would be able to see Christ by wearing 3-D glasses.  He prayed that they would have a special kind of eyesight to see the fullness of Christ in all His glory and in all of His dimensions.  That we would have the right kind of lense.  That the eyes of our hearts (souls) would be flooded with light.  That equipment is your own spirit.  For it is only by spirit and truth (reality) that you can see and know this many splendored Christ (Jn 4:24).  You can only see Him by spirit and life.  This is the only filter that will work for this kind of eyesight.  Any other kind of filter will bring nothing but ideas, concepts, distractions, “things” and “its”, and not this Christ.  For our Christ is not a flat screen kind of Christ!  He is not a one dimensional kind of Christ!

The Dimensions of Christ

“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His

glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love,

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.”

(Eph 3:14-19)

Here Paul is praying that the saints in Asia Minor would learn to use their 3-D glasses.

“ to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man…”

He is asking God to enable the saints through the Holy Spirit inside of their inner man.  The inner man is the deepest part of you.  It is your human spirit (Rom. 8:16).  When we are saved, His Spirit comes to live inside of your spirit and the two become one (1Cor. 16:17; Eph. 5:31,32).  This is your special equipment to behold Him.  This is your pair of 3-D glasses!  You cannot see Him in His fullness with the limited equipment of your mind, emotions, and will.  God is Spirit and you can only see Him and experience Him in spirit.  Now He lives inside of you.  This is a great mystery!

“may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth…”

The Breadth

Notice with me that Paul lists four measurements here; breadth, length, height, and depth.  But aren’t there only three dimensions in this physical world?  Yes, but it takes a fourth to even make an attempt at describing this glorious Christ.

The breadth refers to the spaciousness of Christ.  It is the overall bigness or vastness of Christ.  It’s the total dimensions or measurements all added together.  For example, if you added the length by the width of a room in your house you would have the total square footage of that room in your house.  The breadth is the totality of Christ.  It is the sum total of all His dimensions, riches, attributes, aspects, works, and accomplishments.

How spacious is this Christ?  You will have the wonderful opportunity to explore the answer to that question for the rest of eternity.  The scientists tell us that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate.  It is always expanding and it is always expanding at an increasing speed.  My question is; “what is the universe expanding into?”  If it is always expanding and it is even getting faster, where is it going?  No one seems to have an answer to that question!  But yet God has already told us that all things were created in Christ (Col. 1:16,17).  When God created the universe, where did He create it?  Before creation there was only God.  Nothing else existed.  So where could He create?  Inside of Himself!  This means that there is still a lot of territory to cover.  In fact, the universe (and us) will never get to the end of Him.  He is without beginning or end.  He is without boundaries and borders and limitations.

The breadth is the sum total of all dimensions.  There is a beautiful picture of this in the Old Testament.  It’s called the Canaan Land.  Of course, the physical land of Canaan is very limited but that is just a shadow of the reality of Christ.  He is our incredibly vast Canaan land!  And we as the church, the body of Christ, the ecclesia, have the wonderful occupation of exploring and discovering and experiencing the unsearchable riches of Jesus Christ.

The breadth is the latitude and longitude of Christ; the massive sphere of Christ.  How much room is there in Christ?  There is so much room (space) that we need to adjust to it.   I have a good illustration of this.  We have a dog named Roxie.  We have learned by having this dog that dogs need to learn to adjust to their space.  Since one of their instincts is to protect, they will feel the need to protect the amount of space they are in.  If you give them a whole house to protect, by leaving them alone in a house, it will be very stressful for them because they will feel that they need to protect all of that space.  But if you give them just one room at a time then they are alright.  That’s the way that God deals with us relating to the spaciousness of this 3-D Christ.  He limits us to one room at a time.  When we adjust to this “room” then He enlarges the space so that we can occupy more of Christ.  It would be too much for us to be introduced to this massive Christ all at once.  And if He gives us a

space and then wants to expand it and we do not move on, the space we have occupied will become very rotten and smelly.  His goal is for us to occupy the fullness of Christ.  Please understand that I am speaking both individually and corporately here.  When God says it is time for us to occupy more space in Christ, then we need to move on to higher and deeper ground in Him.  If we don’t it causes all kinds of problems such at spiritual stagnation and stunted growth in His life.

The Length

What is the length of Christ?  It is the measurement of a line.  Imagine if you had a string.  The length would be the measurement from one end to the other.  But what if the string had no end?  What if the string was a circle?  There is a beautiful scripture that pictures this for us:

“As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.”

(Psa 103:12)

Isn’t that a beautiful description of His all-inclusive grace and forgiveness?  The strong implication here is about the distance between east and west.  How far is the east from the west?  The answer is: infinity.  The idea of east and west only makes sense within the

context of a one-dimensional plane.  For example, a map can show us east and west.  But this does not compute in the three dimensional world of our planet.  The planet is a globe.  Therefore, when you travel around it you are traveling along a circle.  How can east and west touch around a circle?  They can’t.  East can never touch west within the context of three dimensions.

What an unlimited Lord we have!  What a three dimensional Christ!  There is no end to Him.  There is no east and west in Him because He is All!  He told us that He is the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last.  And He is everything in between.

Height and Depth

These two measurements or dimensions go together.  Height and depth, up and down go together.

The height is the altitude, the elevation, the summit, the peak, the pinnacle, the apex, the ceiling, the crest, the zenith.

When I think of height and depth I can relate them to things I know and have experienced here on the earth.  There are creatures that live in the height and live in the depth.  In the height we have the birds of the air.  In the depths we have the fish and sea creatures.  Notice that with both of these types of creatures that they are equipped to function in their respective realms.  The birds have wings.  They have no arms.  They can come down to the ground but they are very limited in what they can do on the ground.  If you look at this creature it is very apparent that they were created for the air.  The same is true of the sea creatures.  They are specially equipped to live in the water.  They have gills that enable them to breath under water.

Where is the height of Christ?  It actually has a name in scripture.  It’s called the heavenlies, or the heavenly places.  And where are those heavenly places?  They are in Christ!

“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ”

(Eph 1:3)

According to Paul, all of our spiritual blessings are in the heavenly places and the heavenly places are inside of Christ.  Wow!  What a Christ!  What a Lord!  How high is this Christ?  I don’t know but I do know that the highest places (heavenly places) are inside of Him.  The highest places that exist are actually inside of this unlimited Person.  So all of our definitions and descriptions of height fall short (no pun intended) in Him.  This Christ has

a stature (height).  The word “stature” in scripture has two meanings.  It means the measurement of height and the measurement of maturity.  So the stature of Christ is both the height and maturity (or perfection) of Christ.

“until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ”

(Eph 4:13)

Here Paul explains that God’s goal is that the Church would attain to a mature man, to the measure of the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ.  The maturity and spiritual height of Christ is to be expressed through a vehicle; the church of the living God.  The same fullness which belongs to Christ Himself is to be shown and expressed through His Body.  What an awesome thought!  I will share more about that later.

What about the depths?

“To me, the very least of all saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unfathomable riches of Christ”

(Eph 3:8)

This word “unfathomable” is very interesting.  It also has two meanings.  The first meaning is to understand.  So if you were to tell someone that you cannot ‘fathom’ that, it means that you cannot understand it.  It is intellectually too deep for you.  The second meaning is a measurement of depth.  Fathoms are a way to measure the depths of the ocean.  Of course, now they probably use radar, sonar, computing, etc. to measure the depths of the ocean.  But it used to be that they would measure by a tool called a sounding line.   This is a rope or chain with a heavy weight on the end that had measurement marks all down it to

measure the depths.  It would have to be an incredibly deep place for them to not be able to add up the fathoms.  It would be “unfathomable”.  It would be too deep to measure.

The riches of our Christ are unfathomable!

Boy, do we need the 3-D glasses to see this Christ.  We need special equipment to scale the heights of Him and dive into the depths of Him.  But guess what?  You already have this special equipment.  It’s called your spirit.  And He lives inside of your spirit.

“Therefore it says, "WHEN HE ASCENDED ON HIGH, HE LED CAPTIVE A HOST OF CAPTIVES, AND HE GAVE GIFTS TO MEN." (Now this expression, "He ascended," what does it mean except that He also had descended into the lower parts of the earth? He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things.)”

(Eph 4:8-10)

Soaring the heights and diving into the depths.  But what if there was a creature that could do both at the same time?  What if there was a creature that could live in heaven and on earth at the same time?  Wouldn’t that be something?  In the gospel of John chapter one Jesus makes an incredible statement:

“Nathanael said to Him, ‘How do You know me?’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.’   Nathanael answered

Him, ‘Rabbi, You are the Son of God; You are the King of Israel.’ Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.’  And He said to him,  ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see the heavens opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.’"

(John 1:48-51)

Here, Jesus calls Himself the true Jacob’s ladder.  In Genesis 28 Jacob had a dream of the heavens opening and a ladder coming down with angels ascending and descending.  He called that place Bethel which means the house of God.  It is the first time that phrase is used in the whole bible.  Here in John, Jesus is telling Nathanael that He is the true ladder or gateway from heaven to earth.  And that this gateway is found in the place referred to as the house of God.

Jesus also told His disciples in John 7 that He was currently in a place where they could not come:

“Therefore Jesus said, ‘For a little while longer I am with you, then I go to Him who sent Me. ‘You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come.’ The Jews then said to one another, ‘Where does this man intend to go that we will not find Him? He is not intending to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks, is He? ‘What is this statement that He said, 'You will seek Me, and will not find Me; and where I am, you cannot come'?" Now on the last day, the great day of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, ‘If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink. ‘He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.' But this He spoke of the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”

(Joh 7:33-39)

Notice with me that He is not telling his disciples that they will not be able to go where He is going (future tense).  He tells them that they cannot go where He is right now, present tense!  Then He explains how this is possible.  It is made possible by God placing His Spirit inside of a human being in his innermost place.  Here again, this is your equipment for knowing and experiencing a Christ without boundaries, borders, horizons, or limits.

Sisters and brothers, we can live in both realms at the same time.  We can function in heaven and earth at the same time.  We are the creature that can live in two realms at once!  We are the new creation where Christ Himself is the door or gateway to both the seen and

unseen realms.  This is tremendous!  The gateway to the heavens is located inside of the house of God which is the church of Jesus Christ.  The Door Himself lives inside of us so we already have the equipment to function in this way.  We are in the heights and in the depths at the same time.

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace

you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus”

(Eph 2:4-6)

This is a view of the panoramic Christ…  the 3-D Christ.

Sharpening Our Focus

I would like to repeat the fact that we must see Christ before we can know Him in any depths.  That’s why Paul prayed in Ephesians chapter one that we would have our eyes enlightened or flooded with light.  We see that we may know.  And God has specially equipped us to be able to see and know His Son by giving us the Spirit and placing Him in our human spirit.  That’s why Paul writes about living in the spirit, walking in the spirit, and praying in the spirit.

There is a scene in the movie The Matrix that is very revealing.  It’s after Neo dies and is resurrected by a kiss from Trinity.  He stands up in the hallway and now he can see the Matrix.  He can see the computer code and realizes (by seeing it) that it’s just a computer program and not very “real” at all.  Now he can defeat the agents because he sees the truth and the truth sets him free from all of the restrictions of fear and doubt.

“Therefore we do not lose heart, but though our outer man is decaying, yet our inner man is being renewed day by day. For momentary, light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory far beyond all comparison, while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal.”

(2 Cor. 4:16-18)

Do you understand here what Paul is looking at?  He is not looking at the seen but instead is looking at the unseen.  What is he focusing on?  On what is he gazing?  Is he gazing at this physical world?  Or is he setting his sights on something most people can not even see?  One of the goals of my life is to live focusing on the unseen and not on the seen, temporal things.  This means a passionate (basically obsessive) targeting of that which is eternal and not the temporary.

Faith is seeing the unseen

“Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.”

(Heb 11:1)

We walk by faith, not by sight.  That means that to walk in the spirit it means that we do not let the seen (physical things) determine the way we live.  We live (walk)  according to Christ, according to the heavenlies, according to the spiritual realm, according to the kingdom, whatever phrase you want to use.  Why do we walk this way?  Because the things that are unseen are more real than the things which are seen.  I’m not saying that the physical realm is not real.  It is real; but just barely.  It’s as real as a shadow.  A shadow is real, but just barely.  The shadow only exists to show us that there is a substance.  The shadow points to the substance.  The focus is to be on the substance, not on the shadow.   And yet, how many of us have been living in the shadows?

I don’t know about you, but I no longer want to live in the shadows.  I want to live in reality and substance, not just in the shadows.  I want to experience Christ, not just study Him

like some kind of intellectual pursuit!  I want to “know” Him in that way.  But in order for that to happen, I first need to see Him.

The Heavenly Vision

There was a man once who received a vision (a way of seeing) that came from another realm altogether.

“So, King Agrippa, I did not prove disobedient to the heavenly vision”

(Act 26:19)

This heavenly vision absolutely apprehended this man Saul.  It grabbed a hold of him!  It possessed him!  It completely took hold of him!  It was not just some passing phase or fleeting fad.  It radically changed this man’s life.  In fact, it so much affected him that he could stand before a worldly king and proclaim to him that he had not been disobedient to this heavenly vision.  Do you see that?  This vision was something for Paul to be obedient to.  It was a governing vision!   It governed his whole life.  This was a man who was under a vision.  He was obedient to that vision.  It was a vision of the Christ.  The whole Christ!

The Head and the Body, the Bridegroom and the Bride, the Vine and the Branches, Foundation Stone and all the living stones, the One New Man.  The New Humanity!

And did Paul have to pay a price for this heavenly vision?  Oh yes!  He paid a terrible price for this vision.  Just look at his back.  Look at the back of Paul of Tarsus.  He was whipped three times.  He as stoned once and left for dead.  He was ship wrecked three times and spent one day and night in the ocean.  He was betrayed by his own countrymen, and on and on it goes. And yet, he would say that all of this was just a “momentary light affliction producing an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison.”

But what did he mean by “this eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison?”  What is that weight?  We have to look at another letter of his to find this out.

“But whatever things were gain to me, those things I have counted as loss for the sake of Christ. More than that, I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ”

(Php 3:7-8)

This eternal weight of glory is the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord.  And Paul said that he counted all things as loss for the sake of gaining this Christ.  He counted everything as rubbish that he may gain this Christ.  Whatever things were gain to him, he now counted as loss for the sake of Christ.  This was for the sake of gaining a new view.

This new view is the panoramic 3-D view of this risen, glorious, exalted, ascended, eternal Christ!

This is the view of the surpassing value of knowing Him deeply, intimately, by personal encounter and experience.   This is the view of knowing Him not only individually but also as the corporate Body of Christ.  But how do we gain this glorious view and this wonderful knowing of Him?

By losing everything !!!

We gain Christ by counting all other things as rubbish!  And yet we are very quick to jump on that bandwagon.  “Oh yes Lord, we will lose all for You and Your purpose!”   We say this but yet our life still stays in tact.  You cannot “gain” Christ to any deep degree and still keep your own life intact:

"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. "He who loves his life loses it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it to life eternal.”

(Joh 12:24-25)

God has a way of putting His finger on things in your life.  One of my favorite authors is T. Austin-Sparks.  He has a particular term that he uses to explain this and he calls it coming onto His ground.  Leaving your own natural ground, and coming upon His own ground.  The ground of Christ.

“We take our own ground before the Lord and are surprised that the Lord does not lift us right out of our own ground and put us into a better position, but He never does.  We shall stay there forever if that is our attitude.  The Lord’s word to us is: “Forsake your own ground and come on to My ground.  I have provided a Heavenly Man who is full of all that you need; now come on to that ground.”  It does not matter what you are, or what you are not.”      The Stewardship of the Mystery  - T. Austin-Sparks

If we are to fully see and know this vast, glorious Christ it will take us being willing to lose our backgrounds, religious agendas, filters, dreams, interests, and our natural life itself.  It will take us seeing from a new vantage point and a new perspective.  It will take us learning to use our spiritual 3-D glasses (our spirit) to see and know this full bodied, multi-dimensional Christ.  And it will be together with the saints, in His Body, that we will know Him and experience Him fully.

“ … so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.”

(Eph 3:17-19)

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