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he person of Christ is the loftiest blessings of the child of God. We have
theme, the most thrilling subject been redeemed and forgiven by the work
Tthat the human heart can contem- of Christ, we have an inheritance person-
plate. The words of Thomas Kelly, the ally guaranteed by the indwelling Holy
great Irish hymn writer, come readily to Spirit, and, finally, we have the Father of
mind: “No subject’s so glorious as He, no Glory revealing the wealth of His grace in
theme so affecting to us.” His kindness toward us.
We cannot exaggerate His greatness; we As Paul unfolds this great plan, he
cannot know too much about Him. There moves from our great blessings to the
are many things in this corrupt world that One who has graciously bestowed them.
we could (and should) know less about, He points to the Lord Jesus, and shows
but the knowledge of Christ is a vast res- that the ultimate and final exaltation of
ervoir of delight, an ocean of fathomless Christ began with His resurrection. The
beauty and truth. And so we take up these downward trajectory of His self-humbling
wonderful titles that tell us of our exalted incarnation and the unplumbed depths
Savior and Lord. of His death on a cross were powerfully
reversed. Christ then rose, step by step, in
The Greatness of the Head glorious exaltation. He arose, He ascend-
“The working of his mighty power, ed, He was seated, and now He reigns in
which [God] wrought in Christ, when he incomparable glory with all things under
raised him from the dead, and set him at His feet. His triumph is complete; no
his own right hand in the heavenly places, person, no power is now His rival. He is
far above all principality, and power, and “far above all,” now and for eternal ages.
might, and dominion, and every name All things, that is, with one extraordi-
that is named, not only in this world, but nary exception. All believers in this pres-
also in that which is to come: and hath put ent age, from Pentecost to the Rapture,
all things under his feet, and gave him to comprise the Church which is His body,
be the head over all things to the church, and are seen, not under His feet but under
which is his body, the fulness of him that His headship. God has given Christ to the
filleth all in all” (Eph 1:19-23). Church, the great dispensational assem-
1
Ephesians opens with the incredible bly, as its glorious Head! Joined to Him
in perfect union, associated with Him in
1 Bible quotations in this article are from the KJV His glory and universal dominion, we are
unless otherwise noted. seen to be His fulness. Just as a physical
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