Outline #1

The Vision of the Riches of Christ (1)

I. The Unsearchable Riches of Christ as the Gospel
Ephesians 3:8 To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you for a share of the allotted portion of the saints in the light; Deuteronomy 8:7-10 7 For Jehovah your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of waterbrooks, of springs and of fountains, flowing forth in valleys and in mountains; 8 A land of wheat and barley and vines and fig trees and pomegranates; a land of olive trees with oil and of honey; 9 A land in which you will eat bread without scarcity; you will not lack anything in it; a land whose stones are iron, and from whose mountains you can mine copper. 10 And you shall eat and be satisfied, and you shall bless Jehovah your God for the good land which He has given you.

II. The Riches of Christ in the Processes of the Triune God

A. God
Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street. Psalms 36:8-9 8 They are saturated with the fatness of Your house, And You cause them to drink of the river of Your pleasures. 9 For with You is the fountain of life; In Your light we see light. John 4:10, 14 10 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, Give Me a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water. 14 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water gushing up into eternal life. John 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately there came out blood and water. Romans 10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord is Lord of all and rich to all who call upon Him;

B. The Word
John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. John 1:18 No one has ever seen God; the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has declared Him. 1 John 1:1 That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we beheld and our hands handled, concerning the Word of life Ephesians 6:17-18a 17 And receive the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which Spirit is the word of God, 18 By means of all prayer and petition, praying at every time in spirit

C. Life
John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 11:25a Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life Colossians 3:4 When Christ our life is manifested, then you also will be manifested with Him in glory. Romans 5:10 For if we, being enemies, were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more we will be saved in His life, having been reconciled,

D. Light
John 1:4 In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. John 8:12a Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying, I am the light of the world Matthew 4:16 The people sitting in darkness have seen a great light; and to those sitting in the region and shadow of death, to them light has risen.

E. The flesh
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. Romans 8:3 For that which the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God, sending His own Son in the likeness of the flesh of sin and concerning sin, condemned sin in the flesh, Hebrews 2:14-15 14 Since therefore the children have shared in blood and flesh, He also Himself in like manner partook of the same, that through death He might destroy him who has the might of death, that is, the devil, 15 And might release those who because of the fear of death through all their life were held in slavery. Hebrews 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our weaknesses, but One who has been tempted in all respects like us, yet without sin.

F. The tabernacle
John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and tabernacled among us (and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only Begotten from the Father), full of grace and reality. Colossians 2:9 For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily Revelation 21:3 And I heard a loud voice out of the throne, saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will tabernacle with them, and they will be His peoples, and God Himself will be with them and be their God.

G. The Lamb
John 1:29 The next day he saw Jesus coming to him and said, Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! Exodus 12:5-7 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it at twilight. 7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. Hebrews 9:12 And not through the blood of goats and calves but through His own blood, entered once for all into the Holy of Holies, obtaining an eternal redemption. 1 Peter 1:19 But with precious blood, as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot, the blood of Christ; Revelation 22:1 And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb in the middle of its street.

H. The Spirit
John 1:32 And John testified saying, I beheld the Spirit descending as a dove out of heaven, and He abode upon Him. 1 Corinthians 15:45b the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. John 14:17a Even the Spirit of reality

I. The house
John 1:42 He led him to Jesus. Looking at him, Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; you shall be called Cephas (which is interpreted, Peter). 1 Peter 2:5 You yourselves also, as living stones, are being built up as a spiritual house into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Timothy 3:15-16 15 But if I delay, I write that you may know how one ought to conduct himself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and base of the truth. 16 And confessedly, great is the mystery of godliness: He who was manifested in the flesh, Justified in the Spirit, Seen by angels, Preached among the nations, Believed on in the world, Taken up in glory.

J. The heavenly ladder

Genesis 28:12 And he dreamed: There was a ladder set up on the earth, and its top reached to heaven; and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. John 1:51 And He said to him, Truly, truly, I say to you, You shall see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.

K. The temple
John 2:19-21 19 Jesus answered and said to them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up. 20 Then the Jews said, This temple was built in forty-six years, and You will raise it up in three days? 21 But He spoke of the temple of His body. Ephesians 2:21-22 21 In whom all the building, being fitted together, is growing into a holy temple in the Lord; 22 In whom you also are being built together into a dwelling place of God in spirit.