We begin worship this morning with:
God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
"This mystery" is mentioned also in the previous verse.
the mystery hidden for ages and generations but now revealed to his saints
Paul demonstrated this mystery in the following:
Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
So inmate his relationship to Christ that his own suffering is an extension of Christ's suffering.
But the mystery itself is so beautifully written as:
And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
We are both in Him and He in us, as we are His body, and He is the hope of Glory.
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