I
pray... that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may
know the hope to which He has called you, the riches of His glorious
inheritance in the saints. Ephesians 1:18
What is Christ’s inheritance in the saints? What are the riches
of the glory of Christ’s inheritance in the saints? It is that the saints are
to provide Him with the means of the universal manifestation of Himself as God
has purposed Him to be. It is a part of the arrangement in those counsels of
the Godhead, that He shall be the central fullness, but that the fullness
should not be manifested, displayed in an isolated way. There would be no
purpose in that, because He could have done that in Deity without incarnation,
He could have possessed the fullness in that way, and that is what the letter
to the Philippians says. He was equal with God, and had all the fullness, but
He emptied Himself. Why? In order that others might be brought into the
fullness, that He might not hold it all for Himself. That is what Satan wants
to do.
The Lord Jesus let go in order to bring others in. The apostle
says, “Let this mind be in you.” If any of you are inclined to stand for your
own rights, on your own ground, to hold things for yourself, you are violating
the very spirit of Christ who let go His own rights in order that others might
come into them and get the benefit. So the inheritance of Christ is this: that
He is made heir of all things, but He can have all things only as He has the
saints, and He gets those “all things” through and in the saints. It is a part
of the arrangement, the agreement. It is not as one isolated unit in God’s
universe, that He is to have everything, but by appointment man-wise, in a
corporate sense, and not only in a personal sense.... The Lord is not satisfied
with His people just being saved, and the Lord is not satisfied that people
should just remain saved. The Lord has fixed this as His goal: the full
knowledge of Him. It is indispensable to the Lord. His inheritance is bound up
with it. The need today is that the Lord’s own people should come into a
knowledge of Himself which they do not possess, into a position in relation to
Himself which they do not occupy; in a word: into the full knowledge of Him.
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