Bible Study

The Gift of Eternal Life Berean Bible Study Course

Part IV--The Family Of God / The Body Of Christ

A. Lesson 19--The Nature Of Christ's Body

6. READ: COLOSSIANS 3:1-17

b. Who is all, and in all?

Answer: Christ is all, and is in all, (verse 11).

MORE INFORMATION AND/OR OTHER SCRIPTURE REFERENCES:

• From various commentators: Christ transcends all barriers and unifies people from all cultures, races and nations. Christ occupies the whole sphere of human life and permeates all its developments. Christ has obliterated the words "barbarian," "master," "slave," all of them, and has substituted the word adelphos (brother). Such distinctions are no longer significant. Christ alone matters.

• Each of us has become "the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator," (Colossians 3:10). "For we are God's workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do," (Ephesians 2:10).

  No distinction need be made among the children of God except that they ARE children of God--that Christ is all to us, and that He is in all of us, and we in Him:

  John 17:20-23: "My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also for those who will believe in Me through their message, that all of them may be one, Father, just as You are in Me and I am in You. May they also be in Us so that the world may believe that You have sent Me. I have given them the glory that You gave Me, that they may be one as We are One: I in them and You in Me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that You sent Me and have loved them even as You have loved Me."

• Other Scripture references:

  Galatians 3:26-28: "You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus."

  Ephesians 1:22-23: "And God placed all things under His [Christ's] feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him Who fills everything in every way."