Enjoy the All-inclusive Christ as our Allotted Portion in the Light with the Saints

As believers in Christ, we need to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as our allotted portion in the light with all the saints.

Christ as the preeminent and all-inclusive One is the allotted portion of the saints in the light for our experience and enjoyment, and when we’re in the light and even become light, we enjoy this all-inclusive One to be His habitation and His kingdom. Praise the Lord!

This week we come to week 8 in the HWMR on the matter of labouring on the all-inclusive Christ, and the title for this week is, Experiencing and Enjoying the All-inclusive Christ as the Good Land – a Land in Which We Do Not Lack Anything.

What a Christ we have! In Him, we do not lack anything. He is all we need.

Just as the good land in the Old Testament provided everything to the people of God for them to exist, live, build up the temple of God, and become the kingdom of God to express and represent God, so today the all-inclusive Christ is all we need.

As believers in Christ, everything we need for us to exist, live, be built up as the church, and be established as the kingdom of God is the all-inclusive Christ who is the preeminent One in God’s economy.

God has allotted to us the all-inclusive Christ, and He has given us nothing else apart from Christ.

God didn’t just give us redemption, salvation, sanctification, and transformation; He gave Christ to us as our redemption, and Christ is our salvation, our sanctification, and our transformation.

However, in order for us to enter into the enjoyment and experience of such a One, we need to exercise our spirit of faith and also exercise our heart.

On the side of our heart, we should not have an evil heart of unbelief but rather, be filled with faith in spirit to enter into the enjoyment of this Christ.

On the side of our spirit, we need to exercise our spirit, for faith is in our spirit, and we can partake of the riches of the all-inclusive Christ who is everything to us.

It is easy for us to focus on what we see in our being, in our situation, or around us.

Actually, the world today is bombarding us with “news” and all kinds of things, and it reaches us again and again to usurp us and wear us out.

Even more, Satan works tirelessly to accuse others before us and even to accuse God before us, for he’s the accuser of the brethren and of God.

It seems that everything works together to distract us from the enjoyment of the all-inclusive Christ.

But as believers in Christ, we need to exercise our spirit of faith and refuse to have an evil heart of unbelief.

The Bible says that Christ as the preeminent and all-inclusive One is the allotted portion of the saints in the light, and we believe this.

The Bible tells us that in this good land, we eat bread without scarcity, and we say Amen to this. We want to enter into this experience today in our daily living!

Enjoy the All-inclusive Christ to be Built as the Church and bring in God’s Kingdom

Col. 1:12 says that God the Father has qualified us for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light.

What does this allotted portion refer to? Did God give us a piece of land, as He did to His earthly people Israel in the Old Testament?

The allotting of the good land in the Old Testament is a type of how Christ, the preeminent and all-inclusive One, has been allotted to us as believers in Christ.

We have been given a lot of inheritance, as illustrated by the allotment of the good land of Canaan given to the children of Israel for their inheritance (Josh. 14:1).

But our lot of inheritance is not physical: it is spiritual, and it is a portion of the all-inclusive Christ.

God has allotted to us a portion of the all-inclusive and preeminent Christ to be our divine inheritance for our enjoyment and experience.

Just as the children of Israel in the Old Testament did, we need to labor on this all-inclusive Christ as our God-allotted portion so that we may obtain the rich produce for our existence, living, and building up.

Deut. 8:7-9 speaks of the different riches of the good land; they typify the unsearchable riches of Christ in different aspects (Eph. 3:8) as the bountiful supply to us, the believers of Christ, in His Spirit (Phil. 1:19).

Christ is not only the good land in general; He is and has many unsearchable riches, all of which have been allotted to us for our enjoyment.

Actually, all the unsearchable riches of Christ are in the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, who is with our spirit! Amen!

The children of Israel were redeemed and delivered from Egypt not merely to be brought into a good land but to enjoy the riches of the land, be able to build up the temple as God’s habitation and the city of Jerusalem to establish God’s kingdom on earth.

Likewise we today need to enjoy the unsearchable riches of Christ so that we may be built up to be the Body of Christ, the house of God, and bring in the kingdom of God for His manifestation on earth. Wow!

This is God’s economy, His heart’s desire.

He didn’t redeem us and save us merely so that we go to heaven and be with Him forever; rather, the purpose and goal of God’s salvation is that we enjoy the unsearchable riches of Christ and be filled unto all the fullness of God to be the Body of Christ and bring in the kingdom of God.

When we enjoy the riches of Christ, which are unsearchable and unfathomable, we believers in Christ are built up to be the Body of Christ, the church, which is Christ’s fullness, His expression (Eph. 1:22-23), and which is also the habitation of God (Eph. 2:21-22; 1 Tim. 3:15) and the kingdom of God (Mat. 16:18-19; Rom. 14:17). Wow, Hallelujah!

We have been redeemed and saved by God so that we may enjoy the riches of the all-inclusive Christ who has been allotted to us as our rich portion, with the result that we are built to be the church as the house of God and the kingdom of God.

Christ is our allotted portion, and we need to enjoy Him together with the saints in the light.

On the one hand, we have been rooted in Christ, the rich soil of the good land; on the other hand, we need to walk in Christ, taking possession of the all-inclusive Christ as our God-allotted portion. Praise the Lord!

Just as there was a battle in the Old Testament for the land, for the enemy came in many times to take over the land and usurp it, so today there is a battle for us to enjoy and partake of the good land, the all-inclusive Christ as our God-allotted portion.

May we see that the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit has been allotted to us to be our portion, our divine inheritance (Col. 2:6-7; Gal. 3:14).

May we enter into the enjoyment and experience of this all-inclusive Christ with His unsearchable riches so that we may be built up into the church as the Body of Christ and the kingdom of God.

The blessing of the promised land corresponds to the blessing of the Spirit.

The Spirit is the realization of Christ in our experience to be the reality of the good land.

The Spirit has a bountiful supply for us to partake of and enjoy in our spirit.

This Spirit is unlimited and bountiful. May we enjoy Him and partake of the unsearchable riches of Christ in spirit so that we may be built up in the church as the house of God, His habitation, and as the kingdom of God on the earth.

Lord Jesus, we come to enjoy You today. Thank You, Father God, for qualifying us for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light. Hallelujah, we believers in Christ are qualified to enjoy our allotted portion of the all-inclusive Christ in our spirit today. Amen, Lord, we exercise our spirit today to enjoy Your unsearchable riches. We exercise our right to partake of the riches of Christ in spirit today. Fill us with Yourself. Give us the experiences we need for us to be constituted with the riches of Christ until we become the fullness of God to be the Body of Christ as the habitation of God and the kingdom of God. Amen, Lord Jesus, we want to enjoy the unsearchable riches of Christ so that we may be built up to be the Body of Christ and the kingdom of God. Hallelujah, the bountiful supply of the Spirit of Jesus Christ is with our spirit today to impart into us the riches of Christ and make us the fullness of God, the church as the Body of Christ and the kingdom of God on the earth!

Enjoy our God-allotted Portion of Christ with the Saints in the Light Today

Col. 1:12 adds “in the light” to the statement that we are qualified to enjoy our God-allotted portion.

This means that there’s a specific realm or sphere in which we enjoy the all-inclusive Christ, and that realm is the light.

What is light, or who is light? According to the Bible, God is light (1 John 1:5).

God is the source of light, and He alone is light. Since Christ is one with God, Christ is light (John 8:12; 9:5).

When Christ came, light came; He came as a light to the world, for He was one with God and God was in Him.

In other words, if we want to have light, we need to know that God is light, and if we want to know and receive God as light, we need to come to Christ, for Christ is the embodiment of God as the light.

Christ came to be light to the society, to the whole of mankind, in a definite way.

God is light, and He is embodied and shining through Christ, who is the expression of God as light.

John 1:4 says that, in Him was life and the life was the light of men. Wow.

So the life of Christ is light. Because the life of Christ is Christ Himself as life, when His life comes to us and reaches us, His light comes to us and reaches us. Amen!

When we enjoy Christ as life, we are filled with light, for the life of Christ is light.

When we enjoy Christ as life, we’re full of brightness within, for we have the Lord’s inner shining.

Not only God, Christ, and the life of Christ are light, but also the word of God is light.

Psa. 119:105 says that the Lord’s word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.

The opening of the Lord’s word gives light, imparting understanding to the simple (v. 130).

When we come to the word of God, we receive light, for the word of God contains the element of God, which is light.

When we turn our heart to the Lord and exercise our spirit in coming to the word of God, we receive the divine light.

The source of the Bible is God, who is light; the words of the Bible are the shining of light.

When we come to the word of God day by day, we can testify that the word shines on us as light.

Sometimes we may just read the Bible according to our daily Bible-reading schedule, and the Lord’s word shines on us.

We may have read that portion of the word many times, but there’s a new light, a new discovery in the word of God that shines on us and illuminates our inner being.

We all can testify that this has happened to us many times, for the word of God is light, shining on us and enlightening us.

Furthermore, as we read the word of God and internalize it by means of all prayer and petition, this word becomes a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.

In our daily living many times we want to do or say something, and the Lord’s inner speaking and shining within us does not agree with it, so we stop.

Many times we feel condemned and accused within because the Lord’s light shines on us through His living word in us and exposes our mistakes, failures, and sins.

So we confess our sins in the Lord’s light, and He is faithful to forgive us and righteous in the blood of Jesus to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (1 John 1:7, 9).

As we enjoy God in Christ through His word and in His life as light, we ourselves as believers in Christ become light (Matt. 5:14).

The divine light saturates us and shines in us and through us, and we cannot remain hidden: we shine!

Our shining, however, is not with our own light but with God as light.

We are luminaries holding forth the word of life in the world (Phil. 2:15).

We are not light in itself; we hold the light, and we shine forth the Lord as light.

God in Christ as the Spirit is the light within us, and we hold this light and shine this light forth.

Finally, in Rev. 1:20 we see that the church is the light, for the church is a lampstand holding forth God in Christ as the Spirit as the light.

The church is a lampstand shining with light (Rev. 1:20; Psa. 73:16-17).

If we want to receive God’s light, we need to come to God in Christ through the exercise of our spirit.

To enjoy God’s light, we need to exercise our spirit to contact God in His word, which is light.

Furthermore, when we meet with the saints, we receive and sense the divine light, for the saints are filled with light, and the church is a lampstand shining with light. Hallelujah!

The lamp is Christ with God in Him as the light (Rev. 21:23), and the church holds Christ as light. Praise the Lord!

Whenever we feel inside that we are in darkness, we need to realize that we need to come to God as the light.

We don’t need religious duties and practices; we don’t need any ordinance or routine.

What we need is to turn to the Lord and enjoy Him as light! In the light, we enjoy Christ as our God-allotted portion.

May we be in the light to enjoy the all-inclusive Christ with the saints!

Lord Jesus, bring us fully in the light so that we may enjoy the all-inclusive Christ as our God-allotted portion! Amen, Lord, we come to You, for You are the light of the world. Shine on us. Shine in us. Enlighten us from within. Infuse us with Yourself. May Your light shine in us and through us. We come to You in Your word to receive and enjoy Your shining. Amen, Lord, Your word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path. Open Your word to us and give us light. We come to You as simple and open persons who need God as light. May Your life within us shine and expose anything of the darkness. Oh Lord, make us light in the Lord! Make us the luminaries in the world, those who hold forth the word of life! May the church be filled with light by holding Christ as the light of the world! Shine in us and shine among us in the church! May we all partake of and enjoy the unsearchable riches of the all-inclusive Christ as our God-allotted portion together with the saints in the light!

References and Hymns on this Topic

• Inspiration for this article/sharing comes from the Word of God, the enjoyment in the ministry, a sharing by brother Ricky Acosta in the message for this week, and portions from, Life-Study of Colossians, msg. 7 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Laboring on the All-inclusive Christ Typified by the Good land for the Building up of the Church as the Body of Christ, for the Reality and the Manifestation of the Kingdom, and for the Bride to make Herself Ready for the Lord’s Coming (2023 Winter Training), week 8, entitled, Experiencing and Enjoying the All-inclusive Christ as the Good Land — a Land in Which We Do Not Lack Anything.
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  – The Good Land as a Type of the All-Inclusive Christ, via, Living to Him.
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• Hymns on this topic:
  – I’ve found the One of peerless worth, / My heart doth sing for joy; / And sing I must, for Christ I have: / Oh, what a Christ have I! … My Christ, the all-inclusive One, / My Christ what shall I call? / He is the first, He is the last, / My Christ is All in all. / Since such a treasure I possess, / My heart doth sing for joy; / And I must sing, and sing again; / Oh, what a Christ have I! (Hymns #510 stanzas 1, 14-15)
  – Lord, Thou art the Land of Canaan— / Elevated, rich and good, / Flowing with both milk and honey / In a glorious plenitude. / By Thy surplus God we worship, / In Thy fellowship we move; / Thus in love we’re joined together / And God’s building we will prove. (Hymns #196 stanza 5)
  – The Church the lampstand is to Christ, / Christ is the lamp with God as light; / The light divine from Christ doth shine, / The Church upholds its glory bright. / The light which shines within the lamp / Is God as life, unique, divine; / The stand must therefore be of gold / To match the glory which doth shine. (Hymns #822 stanzas 1-2)