Scripture Reading: Deut. 8:7-10; Num. 14:7-8; Exo. 3:8; Eph. 3:16-18; Col. 2:16-17

Ⅰ　

If we would experience and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ typified by the good land of Canaan, we need to pay close attention to the following crucial matters:

A　

The all-inclusive Christ is the center and the circumference, the centrality and the universality, of God's purpose and economy—Col. 1:15-18.

B　

The will of God is that we know, experience, and live the all-inclusive Christ—v. 9.

C　

The portion of the saints is Christ as the good land, the all-inclusive Christ as the life-giving Spirit—v. 12; Gal. 3:14.

D　

We need to be infused, saturated, and permeated with the all-inclusive Christ until in our experience He is everything to us—Col. 2:16-17; 3:10-11.

E　

The all-inclusive Christ is in us, but we need to see Him, know Him, be filled with Him, and become absolutely one with Him—1:27; 3:4.

F　

The more we have the knowledge of the all-inclusive Christ, the more we will appreciate Him and love Him—Phil. 3:7-8.

G　

Satan, the enemy of God, has been doing his utmost to hinder the people of God from enjoying Christ as the all-inclusive One; he will do whatever he can to spoil our enjoyment of Christ as the good land—Col. 2:8, 18.

H　

God's purpose is fulfilled neither by the enjoyment of Christ as the Passover lamb in Egypt nor by the enjoyment of Christ as the manna in the wilderness; rather, God's purpose is fulfilled only when His people experience and enjoy Christ as their good land—Eph. 3:8-21.

I　

We cannot enjoy Christ as the good land without the Body; we must be one with the Body to fight for the land, to possess the land, and to share our portion of the land—Num. 32:1-32; Josh. 22:1-9.

J　

The record in Joshua 22:10-34 about the building of another altar shows us that we must avoid division and that to experience and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ we must be one people, one Body, one universal church—1 Cor. 12:12; Eph. 4:3-4.

K　

As the good land, Christ is ready to be taken and possessed by His believers; however, there is the need for those who are ready to take Him, possess Him, experience Him, and enjoy Him in His all-inclusiveness—Num. 14:6-9, 24.

L　

Because very few Christians, including us, are like Paul in pursuing the all-inclusive Christ in order to gain Him, God needs the overcomers—Phil. 3:8, 12.

Ⅱ　

We need to experience and enjoy the all-inclusive Christ in His unlimited spaciousness and universal extensiveness—Eph. 3:18; Col. 2:16-17:

A　

As typified by the good land, Christ is unlimited in His spaciousness—Exo. 3:8:

１　

The land of Canaan is called a good land, and it is good first of all in its spaciousness—Num. 14:7-8; Exo. 3:8.

２　

The good land was spacious, stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Euphrates.

３　

Christ is a spacious land for us to experience and enjoy in every situation—Phil. 4:11-13:

ａ　

There is no problem that is greater than Christ, and there is no situation that He cannot cover.

ｂ　

Because Christ is unlimited, no matter how great a problem may be or how difficult a situation may be, Christ can cover it.

B　

Christ is not only all-inclusive and unlimited but also universally extensive—Col. 2:16-17:

１　

Christ is the reality of all the positive things in the universe; this makes Him extensive as well as all-inclusive.

２　

The dimensions of Christ are the breadth, the length, the height, and the depth—the dimensions of the universe—Eph. 3:18:

ａ　

The vast, immeasurable Christ is the extensive Christ, the One who is universally extensive.

ｂ　

Christ is our real universe, for His dimensions are the dimensions of the universe.

ｃ　

Although Christ is universally extensive, He is nonetheless our life in a specific, particular, and personal way—Col. 3:4.

ｄ　

If we compare what we have experienced thus far of the extensive Christ in His universal dimensions, it is like comparing a raindrop to an ocean.

ｅ　

In His universal dimensions, Christ is like a vast limitless ocean for us to experience.

C　

The Christ we have received is not a small, narrow, limited Christ but an all-inclusive, unlimited, extensive Christ—2:6:

１　

Such a Christ now dwells in us and is waiting for the opportunity to spread Himself throughout our entire being—Eph. 3:17.

２　

All the room within us should be given over to the all-inclusive Christ.

３　

In order for the all-inclusive Christ to expand within us, we need to be enlarged—2 Cor. 6:11-13.

４　

We should not only exercise our individual spirit but also live in "our spirit," which is universally spacious—Rom. 8:16; Heb. 12:9; Num. 16:22.