In His Christ to head up all things

Isa. 66:1
Thus says Jehovah,
Heaven is My throne,
And the earth the footstool for My feet.
Where then is the house that you will build for Me,
And where is the place of My rest?
That is His Temple and that is the Church.
Amen.
Sending love ❣️ to all brothers and sisters in Christ.

The Head and Center of All Things

In the divine economy Christ is the Head and center of all things. Ephesians 1:22 says, “And He subjected all things under His feet, and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church. ” God has seated Christ at His right hand in the heavenlies, subjected all things under His feet, and made Him Head over all things to the church. The headship over all things has been given to Christ as a gift from God. This does not mean that God gave Christ to the church as a gift; it means that God gave Christ a gift—the headship over all things. According to this understanding, a great gift was given to Christ by God, and this great gift was the headship over all things. The little word “to” in Ephesians 1:22 signifies the identification and oneness of the church with Christ, Christ is the Head over all things to the church, which is His Body.

Ephesians 1:10 says, “Unto a dispensation of the fullness of the times, to head up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth, in Him. ” We have seen that God has made Christ the Head over all things. Through all the dispensations of God in all the ages, all things will be headed up in Christ in the new heaven and the new earth. This will be God’s eternal administration and economy. The Greek word rendered “dispensation” in this verse may also be translated “economy. ” The economy, or dispensation, which God purposed in Himself is to head up all things in Christ at the fullness of the times.

The entire universe is under Christ’s heading up. However, many things are still in a state of collapse because the process of the heading up of all things in Christ has not yet been completed. At the economy of the fullness of times everything will be headed up in Christ. Nothing will continue to be in a state of collapse, and nothing will fall. In Christ God will head up all things. The following stanzas from Hymns, #981 speak of this:

In His Christ to head up all things
Is our God’s economy;
Taking Christ as Head and Center,
All is one in harmony.
Christ as Head will be the Center;
God within will be the Light;
Christ enthroned, with God, His substance,
Will fulfill His heart’s delight.

Ephesians 1:10 indicates that in the divine economy Christ is not only the Head of all things but also the center of all things. Christ is the center for the heading up of all things in Himself. We may use the hub of a wheel as an illustration. The hub is the center of a wheel in which all the spokes subsist. If the hub were removed, the spokes would collapse. The hub is the center for the subsistence of the spokes. We may say that as the center of all things Christ is the “hub” of all things; in Him all things subsist (Col. 1:17).

THE CONCLUSION OF
THE NEW TESTAMENT
MESSAGE 24 (LSM)

Light is a ruling power that causes all things to be in oneness and harmony (Rev. 22:5; Eph. 1:10). Light being a ruling power is the thought of Hymns, #981.

Heading up all things in Christ, we, all saints, are one in harmony because Christ is our life and our content. Let us take Christ as Head and center, so that we will be His expression. Amen, hallelujah!

Alabado es el Señor por la Iglesias que es Su cuerpo, Cristo todo reunirá

Satan hath himself injected
Into man all things to spoil,
Bringing darkness and corruption
God’s eternal plan to foil.
Christ has come, Himself imparting
Into man as life to save,
That the pow’r of death and darkness
May no more all things enslave.

26*
(РС438, А981)
ОКОНЧАТЕЛЬНОЕ ПРОЯВЛЕНИЕ
ХРИСТОС ВОЗГЛАВЛЯЕТ ВСЁ

1. Божий замысел извечный —
Во Христе возглавить всё;
Со Христом — Главой и Центром
Всё — в согласье, всё — одно.

2. Как Глава Он будет Центром;
Будет Светом Бог внутри;
Царь-Христос с природой Божьей
Божий замысел свершит.

3. И как жизнь и содержанье,
Он возглавит в свете всё;
Как сосуд Его, святые
Славу выразят Его.

4. Враг вселился в человека,
Чтоб творенье осквернить,
Божий замысел извечный
Тьмой и тленьем поглотить.

5. Но как жизнь Христос-Спаситель
В человека Сам вошёл,
Тьмы и смерти власть разрушив,
Всё в свободу Он привёл.

6. Как Глава, чрез Тело, церковь,
Всё Христос объединит;
Всё со всем Он соразмерит,
Свяжет вместе и сплотит.

7. Так Христос Своим главенством
Будет всё объединять;
В свете, что являет церковь,
Всё единым сможет стать.

8. Где Христос — Глава и Центр,
Там в согласье всё придёт;
Через свет Христова Тела
Всё свободу обретёт.

9. Тленья, смерти, тьмы не будет —
Им исчезнуть суждено.
Всё от этих уз навеки
Будет освобождено!