Christ is the one reality of all

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Christ is the one reality of all,
Of Godhead and of man and all things else;
No man without Him ever findeth God,
Without Him man and everything is false.
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All types and figures of the ancient time,
All things we ever need, both great and small,
Only are shadows of the Christ of God,
Showing that He must be our all in all.
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All things are vanity of vanities,
Christ, the reality all things to fill;
Though everything we may enjoy and own,
If we’re devoid of Christ we’re empty still.
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Christ is our real God, our real Lord,
Christ is our real life, our real light;
Christ is our real food, our real drink,
Our real clothing, and our real might.
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Christ also is the one reality
Of all our doctrine and theology;
And all our scriptural knowledge without Him
Is just in letter and is vanity.
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Christ, the reality of time and space,
Christ, the reality of every stage;
Christ is the one reality of all
Thru all eternity from age to age.

Copyright Living Stream Ministry. Used by permission.

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James Smith

Mansfield, Ohio, United States

This hymn is packed with truth, but the focal point is Christ as the one reality. You must know what reality is. A good definition is “the world or the state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notional idea of them. ” When we believe in Christ we get a dose of reality. That is knowing God subjectively. This is based on John 14:6. Christ is the way we come to know God. Without knowing God and His purpose we can only live a vain life. We take this all in by faith. We do not want to go to the end of our life and realize this.


John Tinger

Methuen, Massachusetts, United States

Christ is the One Reality of all things both great and small, through all eternity, from eternity past to eternity future.

Christ became the life giving Spirit, who is the Spirit of Reality indwelling our spirit.

The more we are in spirit and set our mind on the Spirit, the more He will guide us into the reality of expressing Christ as our everything in the church life. Praise Him - the Wise Master Builder of the Church!


Benjamin Lee

Anaheim, CA, United States

Christ also is the one reality

Of all our doctrine and theology;

And all our scriptural knowledge without Him

Is just in letter and is vanity.

Christ, the reality of time and space,

Christ, the reality of every stage;

Christ is the one reality of all

Thru all eternity from age to age.


Glory Jung

Anaheim, CA, United States

Because the universe with the billions of things and persons in it was created for the purpose of describing Christ, He, in revealing Himself to His disciples, could easily find in any environment something or someone to serve as an illustration of Himself -Col. 1:15-17


Yohan Yosed

Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines

Every shadow functions to point as into the reality of every positive thing in the universe.

He must be our all in all.

He is the reality of all our necessities.

Let us hold Him as the Head.

All our shadows..."but the body is of Christ"

(Col. 2:17)


Patience

Baltimore, MD, United States

Without Christ all is vanity all is empty.

Without Christ we all will fall .

So Let’s gain Christ.


Jim How

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

Christ IS the one reality. Amen!

Although we may speak many words each day, much of our speaking may not be for Christ. Thus, we need to learn how to speak for Christ. We need to learn how to prophesy, how to speak Christ as the reality. The first line of Hymns, #496 says, "Christ is the one reality of all." This indicates that our speaking of anything other than Christ is not real. When Christ is the content of our speaking, our prophesying is real. Whatever we speak in the meetings must be Christ. We need to learn to speak concerning Christ, to speak for Christ, and to speak forth Christ to others. We all need to learn how to prophesy in a proper and real way.

In [Col.] 2:18 Paul warns us to let no one purposely defraud us of our prize. Our prize is the full enjoyment of Christ. Even those of us who have been in the Lord's recovery for many years do not have the full enjoyment of Christ. We have been defrauded of this. Through seeing the vision of the all-inclusive Christ, we are being brought back to our prize. If we see this vision, no one will be able to defraud us of the full enjoyment of Christ. When we have this enjoyment, we realize that Christ is our reality. A stanza from a hymn on the experience of Christ as reality expresses it this way:

Christ is our real God, our real Lord,

Christ is our real life, our real light;

Christ is our real food, our real drink,

Our real clothing, and our real might

Hymns, #496

Since Christ is such a reality to us, we should live by Him, not by culture.

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