The all-inclusive Christ we proclaim is the Lord of all, the Judge of all men and even the Judge of the world, and the Lord Jesus, the object of the believers’ faith.
The Lord Jesus is no longer here with us physically on earth, but all genuine believers in Christ are His continuation, His propagation, and His witnesses here on earth to be His living testimony.
We all are the Lord’s witnesses, and even though we have not seen Him with our physical eyes, we have touched Him and seen Him in spirit with our spiritual eyes when He appeared to us at the time of our salvation, and day by day as we see Him in our time with Him.
Just as the apostle Paul, we all are learning to spend time with the Lord, contact Him, enjoy Him, and have His appearing, and we simply witness what He is to us.
Hallelujah, we today live in the continuation of the book of Acts, Acts chapter 29, and we are witnesses of the resurrected, ascended, and all-inclusive Christ as the development of the kingdom of God.
How do we witness Christ? We first need to see Him, enjoy Him, and have His appearing, and then we will simply testify of who He is to us. We need to get into the word of God daily, be filled with the divine truth, and exercise our spirit to touch the Lord as we read His word.
The Christ we see in the Word and in our experience is not only an incarnated God-man or a crucified Jesus, but a resurrected Christ, an ascended Christ, and an all-inclusive Christ.
In the book of Acts we see that the disciples proclaimed a resurrected, ascended, and all-inclusive Christ, with many examples and types of who this Christ is.
Christ is the Author of life the Origin and chief Leader of life, and He came to propagate His life into us.
Christ is God’s Servant, the One who came to do God’s work and His will, and who was resurrected and ascended to be glorified and transformed into the Spirit the blessing of the gospel, which was poured out on the Body of Christ.
The Christ the disciples proclaimed is the Leader and Savior, ruling over all the kings of the world to arrange all things and situations for His chosen people to receive His salvation.
Christ is the Son of Man, the One who knows our weaknesses, sympathises with us, and has the human nature to comfort us.
Christ is God, the Purchaser of the church, the One who shed His own blood to buy the church.
Hallelujah for our all-inclusive Christ, the One who is our portion daily and the one whom we testify!
Today we want to see even more that Christ is the Lord of all, Christ is the Judge of all men, and Christ is the Lord Jesus – the object of our faith. May we know, enjoy experience, and witness this Christ as the gospel to others, so that we may propagate Him on earth for the increase of the kingdom of God.
The All-inclusive Christ we Witness is the Lord of all; with Him there’s no Respect of Persons
In Acts 10:36 we are told that Jesus Christ, the One whom we enjoy and testify, is the Lord of all. He is not only the Lord of the Jews but the Lord of all men, the Jews and the Gentiles.
Christ is the Lord of all men, no matter what race, color, tribe, nation, and kind they are. As long as you are a man, Jesus Christ is the Lord of all.
Hallelujah, in His ascension Christ was exalted by God to be the Lord of all, and now we proclaim Him on the earth.
Christ is the Lord of all the different races and peoples on the earth. With Him there’s no respect of persons, for He is Lord of all, both the Jews and the Gentiles.
He was made both Lord and Christ, and a man – Jesus Christ – is Lord of all. He is Lord of all so that all men may be saved.
He not only died for us, redeemed us, resurrected to become a life-giving Spirit to come into us, and was ascended to the highest place so that He may be Lord and Christ, but He is also Lord of all so that all men may be saved.
Therefore as we call on the name of the Lord and are saved daily and freshly moment by moment, we also announce the gospel of peace through Jesus Christ (this One is Lord of all), so that all men may be saved.
Today is the age of grace, and Jesus Christ as the Lord of all is for us and unto us, so that we may be saved. Praise the Lord!
There are many peoples, many nations, and many tribes, with many races and peoples, but Christ is the Lord of all, and with Him there’s no respect of persons.
Lord Jesus, we praise You as the Lord of all! Hallelujah, Jesus Christ is Lord of all men, and with Him there’s no respect of persons. Lord, we want to know You and enjoy You as the Lord of all, and we want to go out in Your name, one with You, to proclaim the gospel of peace, so that all men would come to know You and believe into You! Amen, Lord Jesus, You are the Lord of all, and we are here to proclaim You on all the earth for the salvation of all men!
Christ will Return to Judge All Men – He has been Designated by God to be the Judge of All
Christ was done away with on a tree by the Jewish people, He was raised on the third day by God, and He was designated by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead (Acts 10:39-43).
Whoever believes into Him today will receive forgiveness of sins and will be saved.
On one hand Christ was raised by God, since He was a man; on the other, He rose from the dead, for He is God.
Regarding the Lord Jesus as a man, the New Testament tells us that God raised Christ from the dead (Rom. 8:11); regarding Christ as a man, we are told that He Himself rose from the dead (14:9).
Christ is both God and man; as God, He rose from the dead, as a man, He was raised up by God. After His resurrection, Christ charged His disciples to solemnly testify that He is the One designated by God to be the Judge of the living and the dead.
Christ has been designated by God to be the Judge of all mankind. In His first coming, Christ is the Savior, the Shepherd, the life, and He became the Spirit; in His second coming, He will be the Judge of all.
The resurrected Christ at His second coming will be the judge of the living before the millennium on His throne of glory (see Matt. 25:31-46; 2 Tim. 4:1). Christ will also be the Judge of the dead after the millennium on the great white throne (see Rev. 20:11-15).
Christ has been appointed by God to be the Judge of all, whether before or after the millennium; He will exercise God’s judgement over all men, over both the living and the dead.
The all-inclusive Christ we enjoy and testify of is the Lord of all, the Judge of the living and the dead, but He can also be experienced and enjoyed as the Redeemer into whom we may believe to receive forgiveness of sins.
Christ is God becoming man, and this Man is to judge the world; He was designated by God in righteousness, and He was proved by God’s raising Him from the dead.
But praise the Lord, today man can repent and believe into the Lord Jesus, and man will not be condemned on the judgement day! The day of Christ as the Judge of all is coming, but before this takes place, man can believe into the Lord to be saved and enter into eternal life!
God, having overlooked the times of ignorance, now charges all men everywhere to repent, because He has set a day in which He is to judge the world in righteousness by the man whom He has designated, having furnished proof to all by raising Him from the dead (Acts 17:30-31).
God designated Christ to be the Judge of all men, and today in the age of grace we can believe into Him and be saved!
This judge doesn’t have to go through any hearing or be approved or voted by man; Christ as the Judge of all was validated by God, for He raised Him from the dead and caused Him to ascend to the heavens.
One day every man, even those who opposed Him as the Judge of all, will be judged by Him.
Lord Jesus, we proclaim You as the Judge of the living and the dead. You were raised by God and were designated to be Judge of all men. We praise You, Lord, and we reverently fear You as the Judge. Thank You for granting us the grace to be saved today by believing into You. Thank You God for overlooking the times of ignorance and charging all men everywhere to repent! We want to be one with You, Lord, to proclaim repentance of sins to all those who are in sin, so that they may enter the kingdom of God and not perish at the judgement seat of Christ!
The Christ we Witness is the Lord Jesus, the Object of our Faith
One of the main aspects of the all-inclusive Christ we witness and proclaim is the Lord Jesus as the object of our faith.
After Paul proclaimed the gospel to the jailer in Phillipa, he told them, Believe on the Lord Jesus, and you shall be saved, you and your household (Acts 16:31).
Here Christ is revealed as the Lord Jesus; as such a One, He is the object of the believers’ faith for the salvation of the believer and his household.
To believe the gospel is to believe in Jesus Christ; to believe is to believe on, to take the ground and stand on, the Lord Jesus to be saved.
When we hear the gospel about Christ, His work, and His all-inclusiveness, we believe into the Lord, and we also believe on Christ; this is to take the ground and the standing on the person of Christ and all that He has accomplished.
The object of our believe is Christ Himself, His person, and all that He has accomplished – these are the constituents of our belief, our faith, in God’s New Testament economy.
Believing on Christ is the ground and standing so that we may be saved. To be saved is to believe on the Lord Jesus, receiving Him as our Lord and Savior (1 Tim. 1:4). Hallelujah!
Who is Christ in His all-inclusiveness? He is the Lord of all, He is the Judge of all, and He is the Lord Jesus, the object of our faith. Oh, that we may know Him and the power of His resurrection, even His ascension, that we may be His living witnesses today!
Praise God, there’s salvation and forgiveness of sins in the name of the Lord Jesus! Christ is the Lord Jesus, the object of our faith, and we can believe on the Lord Jesus to be saved. Amen, Lord, we want to be one with You in Your desire to propagate Yourself and preach the gospel so that many would believe on the Lord Jesus and be saved. Amen, Lord, bring many to salvation as we speak Your word and proclaim the all-inclusive Christ we know, enjoy, and experience! Jesus Christ is Lord of all, the Judge of all, and the object of our faith!
References and Hymns on this Topic
- Inspiration: the Word of God, my enjoyment in the ministry, the message by Minoru Chen for this week, and portions from, The Conclusion of the New Testament, msg. 294 (by Witness Lee), as quoted in the Holy Word for Morning Revival on, Propagating the Resurrected, Ascended, and All-inclusive Christ as the Development of the Kingdom of God (2018 fall ITERO), week 3, Being Witnesses of the Resurrected, Ascended, and All-inclusive Christ.
- Hymns on this topic:
# Lord Jesus, Thou art Lord of all, / With glory ever crowned; / In power and in majesty / Thou art to all renowned. (Hymns #133)
# All people Thou wilt judge one day, / Thy righteousness to all display / By Christ, Thy Son, our Lord; / Yet fast we’ll stand, for none can move, / Thy righteousness we’ll ever prove, / With grace Thou wilt afford. (Hymns #21)
# Though they are slighting Him, / Still He is waiting, / Waiting the penitent child to receive; / Plead with them earnestly, / Plead with them gently; / He will forgive if they only believe. (Hymns #921)
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