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a body. If I were to say, “Are you in Christ?” You’d be thinking
about your own self, and probably not the whole Church. Yet, in
the book of Ephesians, God is not talking about the individual.
He’s talking about the group. God’s people. His Body. As an
individual, I know 100% of God is in my heart. Not some of God.
He’s all there. God doesn’t chop Himself up and give us each a
little bit. Every Christian has 100% of God in their heart. That’s
too big for anything but faith. But it’s the teaching of the word of
God.

Though, every Christian has the fullness of deity in him, there is a
way that only the Church, can radiate/express Him. You and I are
tiny individual parts of an enormous entity. The ocean can’t flow
through your garden hose. The sun can’t shine through a
flashlight. That’s what Jesus meant when He said, “Greater
works will you do”. It’s hard to build a building with one brick or
play a concert with a flute.

Here’s how it works practically. God opens the scriptures, and He
shows you Christ according to your own hunger and capacity. He
gives you exactly the revelation you need to take you forward. He
does the same for me. That revelation you have of Christ may be
different than the revelation I have. It may be different than
Christian A’s, and different than Christian B’s. His revelation is
restricted by our capacity. Because we are all unique, we
experience God in our own unique way .

When we first moved into this building, there were cut glass door
knobs that look like diamonds. I took one, and hung it in the
window of my study. When the sun hits it, my study becomes
psychedelic. A rainbow room. Sometimes I spin it. Wow, it looks
amazing! In one place it’s so bright, I can’t even look at it. I’ll
stand in another spot, and it looks green. Somewhere else, red.
And somewhere else, blue. Every look from a new perspective
gives differing results. New patterns of radiance and glory.

I realize that’s a poor illustration, but it’s something like that with
the Body of Christ. It’s something like that with the Church.