The Church that is Above All Things

(Eph1:22-23)



God is the Owner of all things (Is44:24).

All things come from Him, they are made by Him and they return to Him (Rm11:36).

Furthermore, He is above all and rules over all (Rm9:5).



Faith is acknowledging Him, and

The life of this faith is being above all things in order to possess them and rule over them.



For man needs all things to live,

His success is determined by how much he has and how good they are, and

Thus, he puts effort to secure and expand them.

Man cannot, however, surpass his limit, that is, death and

In the end all things will be useless.



Adam sinned because he listened to his wife who was deceived by the serpent (Ge3:6).

As a result, he was banished from

The Garden of Eden which was abundant with all things for

He could not rule over it (Ge2:15, 3:24), and

All men lost their authority to rule over all things (Ge3:17-18).



God's work of teaching men how to rule over all things began

When Moses with his rod delivered

The Israelites from their slavery in Egypt (Ex4:17).

After then, God gave them food and drink in the desert for 40 years (Ps105:40-41) for

He is the One who makes all things abundant.



The prophet performed the miracle of filing up

The empty jar with oil and the empty sack with flour (1Ki17:8-16; 2Ki4:1-7),

While the sanctuary reminded them of

The vase with manna inside the ark of covenant, because of which

They prayed towards the sanctuary whenever they faced famine or drought (1Ki8:39).



Jesus said, "Destroy this temple and I will raise it again in three days (Jn2:19), because

Through the death and the resurrection of the temple of His body,

He would make souls abundant for He is the incarnate Word in the beginning and

All things are by Him, all things come from Him and all things return to Him (Jn1:1-3, 14).



While He multiplied two fish and five loaves of bread (Mt14:20),

Filled empty boat with fish (Lk5:6), and raised the dead (Jn11:44),

For Himself, however, He did not seek any miracle (Mt26:42; Mk11:13-14) because

He is above all things and rules over them.

As He died, Jesus said, "It is finished (Jn19:30), declaring that He:

By coming as the Son of Man and entering all things, absorbed all, that is, death into His body, and acknowledged that the Father alone is above all things (Rm8:38-39, 11:36);

Condemned the ruler of death (He2:14-15); and

Sprinkled His blood and made new the souls among all things, and made them abundant (2Co5:17; Rev21:5).



The Father raised Him, and

His resurrection proved that He is not within all things (1Co15:27).



The Holy Spirit came in the name Yeshua to those who

Received His blood and have their souls above all things, above death, and

He gathered them into the church.



Jesus is the Head of the church, and

The church is above all things and

The fullness of Him who fills everything in every way (Eph1:22-23).



The Christian is he who has

Become a member of His body the church (Eph5:30).

Therefore, though he lives in the world, he does not live for all things or under them.

Rather, he lives in the church, which is above all things and rules over them, for

He longs to be lifted up out of all things on the day the Lord returns - that is, rapture (1Th4:17).



O Lord,

Still I have been holding on to my net!

Let me not be tangled with all things and perish with them.

Rather, let me lay down the net and live with the fullness of Him who fills everything and

On the day the first heaven and the first earth fade away

Let me depart from all things forever!

Amen.