Into the All Sufficiency of Christ #2 - Fulness — Ed Miller

Good morning, gentlemen. I'll ask you to open please to 2nd Corinthians chapter 2 as we come to the study of God's Word. There is a principle of Bible study that is absolutely indispensable. Whether you come individually or whether we come corporately as we're doing this morning.

That principle we cannot take for granted. And that indispensable principle is total reliance upon God's Holy Spirit. Now really our whole worship service was the application of that principle. I mean we sang it and we prayed it and I know in our hearts.

We long that God would show himself. We do need a revelation of this revelation. He has hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge In our Lord Jesus in the neat that he tells us where he hides it and then as he reveals Christ He reveals all of those treasures of wisdom and knowledge.

Let's just pause a moment and ask him who dwells between the chair of him to shine forth our father. We do thank you again this morning. For the opportunity we have to wait now before thy spirit. We know Lord this Bible is like our Lord Jesus, it's human and divine.

And we would ask you Lord to buy your spirit. Unveil our Lord Jesus Christ to our hearts. Show us him we pray. Deliver us again. We would ask you from all of man's ideas. We thank you in Jesus name very briefly.

The Bondservant’s Heart and the All-Sufficiency of Christ

Let me just touch on some of the things we looked at yesterday, and then we'll Pick up with where we left off. 2nd Corinthians 4 5 is the text around which these thoughts rotate. We do not preach ourselves but Christ Jesus as Lord and ourselves as your bond servants for Jesus sake to know the Lord Jesus as Undisputed Lord and to become a bond servant to one another.

That's a mighty miracle of God. We just don't decide to do that one day. From now on I'm going to serve my fellow man. It doesn't work that way. It's a mighty miracle of God and Though there are many things that are imperceptible in the way God deals with us.

Because he's going to deal with us differently. We are all different and there's an infinite variety in God in the way he deals with us. Yet there is a process that we can see that we can perceive and Though he deals with us differently yet.

There's a certain sameness about broad foundational principles. That God must burn indelibly in each of us. If we're to understand some of these basic ways of God. As I suggested last night the Holy Spirit selected the Apostle Paul as the only complete model of the Christian life see we needed one model someplace a complete model and so the Holy Spirit has given the Apostle Paul as The safeguard against any incomplete model of Christ, there's no question we can learn many things from everyone who knows Christ and We can go into the Bible and study those Bible Saints and learn from their lives and see Christ in their lives in areas in certain areas.

But there's only one the Apostle Paul that gives us the complete balance. The New Covenant life and God has given us that so we need to study Paul and we need to study him in 2nd Corinthians. Because 2nd Corinthians is where the Apostle unveils his own heart.

He just bears his heart by studying 2nd Corinthians and the life of Paul. We see the process by which God creates a bondservant's heart. Bondservant to God a bondservant to men. We're studying that process.

We're looking at that process and I suggest until that takes place in our life. We'll never fully understand chapter 4 and verse 5. This is what God needs to do in us. Last night. We looked at that first principle which is based on chapter 1 verses 8 to 11 in Order to become that bondservant that heart bondservant of God and men.

Emptiness: Pressed Beyond Paul Into Christ

God must press Paul beyond Paul and into the all-sufficiency of the Lord Jesus. God must take him beyond the line and beyond all of his thresholds and Into the presence of God himself. Now God's not cruel.

To push and to push and to push to the limit and beyond the limit. Because God knows what's on the other side of that line. And I'll tell you brothers. There's glory there. Some of you have been over there and you know, what's on the other side of that line.

We ended up last evening with the Apostle Paul having been pressed beyond the limit. And now he stands on the other side of himself. He's passed through death. He stands on the other side of Paul and in the all-sufficiency of the Lord Jesus.

He's died to Paul. He's died to the world. He's even died to the mercies of God that drew him from the world. And as he stands on this other side. This is what we'd like to look at this morning. His eyes are open wide in amazement and his mouth is open wide in amazement.

Because of what he sees on the other side of the line. Of course, I'm referring to Our Lord Jesus Christ alone in all of his beauty and all of his glory. In order all of his adequacy and all of his self-sufficiency.

Fullness: Filled With Christ

If the first principle is emptiness in Order to become a bond servant. You must be emptied of yourself. Then this second principle must be fullness. It's not only enough in order to become the servant of God and man.

To be taken beyond myself. But I must be taken into the all-sufficiency of Christ thoroughly empty of myself. Thoroughly filled to the brim and flowing over on all sides at all times. With the Lord Jesus Christ, that's where Paul is now all right, this then becomes the second step in the process of God creating a bond servant a heart slave to God and to man.

Paul describes for us What he sees. The glory of living on the other side of the line. The glory of living on the other side of the threshold. And I'm going to describe for you in Paul's words what he saw.

I Don't know where you are in your relationship with God. If you've been over the line even a little bit and then back and forth seems like sometime we do that. We go back and forth if you've been over the line.

You are going to recognize some of the things that Paul saw that I'll describe. If you haven't been over the line, and there's that possibility in the group this size. Then you might be puzzled at some of the things I'm going to say and some of the things that Paul saw and claimed to see.

And I'd ask you to weigh these things before God if they're not of God scrap them if they are. May God burn them indelibly into our lives now is on the other side of the line. On the other side of Paul on the resurrection side.

Not only is his vision transformed, but his views are transformed from this point on in the record. The Apostle is never the same again. Once he's crossed over that line. He'll never be the same again now he sees everything in Christ Jesus and related to Christ Jesus.

Everything's changed not just some things. Everything's changed on The other side of that line everything is changed now obviously in a short session like we have. We don't have time to look at everything.

Three Transformations After Crossing the Line

What was changed? Let's look at everything. I'm not qualified to give you that anyway, and we don't have time to look at everything. But may I suggest that from chapter 2 14? Through chapter 3 The Apostle mentions at least.

See every sermon's got to have three points in a poem at least three things That have drastically changed just from the vantage point of being over the line and I'd like to show you those three things that Paul mentions and I think it'll be clear as you see how all these things fall into focus.

In the light of the all-sufficiency and the adequacy of the Lord Jesus to verse 14. Thanks be to God who always leads us in his triumph in Christ and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.

A Lot of you brothers shared with me yesterday that you've been through Corinthians recently or are going through it a second Corinthians and. So because of that I've made a few alterations in my note.

And I'm going to take for granted that you know some of this background. And I'm not going to take the time to do some of the donkey work. I'd planned to do. So I hope you were telling me the truth about that if you're all experts in this book.

Victory Is Christ Himself

The first thing that changed for Paul on the other side of the line or one thing a basic thing that changed. Was his whole concept of victory. His whole idea of victory as Paul stood on that other side of the line on the other side of Paul.

He saw victory verse 14 be to God who always Leads us in his victory. He saw victory in Christ. Not some of the time. Not most of the time. Not pretty nearly all the time, but he saw something you've never seen before victory.

100 all the time verse 14 who always Leads us in his victory. The same verse says in every place in Every place always at all times in every place. Let me back over the line a little bit when Paul stood in Paul.

And I'm talking about after he had gone down the road in Christ quite a ways when Paul stood in Paul on The other side of the line he believed in victory. He'd come a long way since Christ first saved him.

He was no longer among those who believed. That you had to trust yourself for victory. You see the Apostle Paul wouldn't get up and say in order to have victory you got to have a quiet time every day.

He'd come beyond that. It's seen that victory did not depend on Paul. He saw that victory did not depend on his own faithfulness. His ability to suppress sin or to resist the devil. He had come beyond the legal system.

But even before God pressed him over the threshold. The Apostle had realized he was no match for the world for the flesh for the devil. He knew that he had to trust God for victory. Paul before he got over the line knew he had to pray.

Knew he had to trust God to seek the Lord. To seek deliverance he knew that. And that's before he crossed the line. You know you need to understand what he saw before if you're going to see the change.

Here's what he believed before he crossed the line. In order for me to have victory in my life I Must come before God and know that victory is a gift from God and in simple faith I Must claim from God his victory.

It's a gift of God. That's what he used to believe before he crossed the line. When he got over that line He no longer believed that and never believed it again after that. Paul's idea of victory when Paul stood in Paul Was that I must trust God for victory and I must claim it from God and God's going to give me that gift and if I don't claim it.

I don't have it. There's nothing in me that can give me victory. God must give me victory if God doesn't give it. I don't have it. But even with that view If you would suggest Paul in every place All the time do you have that?

He wouldn't be able to say yes, not all the time had to be seasons of failure seasons of doubt defeat and wipe out. Even if you just stick to the record in 2nd Corinthians. In chapter 1 8 he's despairing in 2 13.

He's anxious. In 7 6 he's depressed in 12 1. He's proud in 12 13. He's sarcastic. That's just 2nd Corinthians. When Paul stood in Paul, he never dreamed. Whatever victory was that he could have it all the time.

Not when he was shipwrecked not when he was scourged not when he was in stocks and not when he was in prison and not When he had the thorn in the flesh. Not when he was being oppressed by the legalists and all all the time really.

But now God has pushed Paul and Paul has come on the other side and Paul has died and Paul saw himself as a dead man. And one of the first things God does is open his eyes to victory. What it is? And Paul saw in that moment that victory was not a gift that God gives to his children When they trust him.

It's not that at all. He saw victory. Wrapped up in a person Jesus Christ himself. As Paul gazed at Christ it all became so clear. Now listen brothers Paul discovered that God never intended For Paul to have victory.

That's what he saw on the other side of the line. So often we think about victory as if it were some thing as if God gives his son and something else called victory. We speak of it this way. I have victory over this in my life.

I have victory over that in my life. We pray Lord. Give me victory over this. Give me deliverance over this area of my life. Set me free. But on the other side of the line things be Again to come into focus for the Apostle Paul.

And Paul saw that he was not. Only not expected to have victory all the time. He discovered exactly right brother I read your lips. He was never expected to have victory anytime. Not even for a lonely moment.

It's a great thing for Paul to learn that God didn't expect him to have victory over lust victory over pride and victory over selfishness. Victory over his anger and over his laziness and his procrastination and his bitterness and his strange thoughts and his unbelief.

And his addictive habits. See, that's what Paul used to think when Paul lived in Paul, but now Paul was on the other side of the line. And he saw something very wonderful. He saw that the Lord Jesus had victory over everything he saw that Christ was the victor and The only victor and he had perfect victory over the world the flesh and the devil.

He had perfectly overcome the lust of the eyes and the pride of life and the lust of the flesh. And as Paul looked at the Lord Jesus and as he began to fill the landscape of his heart He saw one who had no trouble at all.

Keeping his tongue. He had victory over his tongue. And he saw one who had no trouble at all with bad thoughts or strange thought. Jesus had perfect victory. No trouble with binding habits. Jesus was victorious over anxiety.

Jesus was victorious over fear. Jesus had a forgiving spirit. Jesus was not selfish. Jesus was perfectly victorious. And I'll tell you it made a big change in his life when he saw this. Jesus has victory and I have Jesus.

You see the difference. Jesus has victory and I have Jesus. And in that moment Paul had one of the greatest deliverances of his life. Because he was delivered from victory as a thing delivered from deliverance.

And he took his eyes off of victory. And he began to see himself in Christ all in his trial thing brand-new and so wonderful for him. So liberating it wasn't really new in words. He had heard the words before but suddenly he became alive to the reality to the truth.

John 16 33 says the same thing. I'll start it you finish it. Be of good courage be of good cheer. You shall overcome the world. He doesn't say that. Be of good cheer. I have overcome the world it's his victory.

Later, he wrote in Romans 8 37. We overwhelmingly conquer through him. And the Apostle had his eyes opened to who the overcomer was and to who the victor was. And so Paul began to see himself in Christ Jesus.

Sharing everything he was and everything he had. You know, it's amazing to me. No Christian would ever dream that he has a righteousness of his own. We would all say oh no, no, no, I'm righteous because he's righteous in Christ.

I'm righteous. I have no righteousness of my own. No Christian would ever dream to say I have a wisdom of my own. He's made unto us wisdom. Sanctification holiness. We have those things in Christ Jesus.

No Christian would say I have a glory of my own. We share his glory. But somehow when it comes to victory We think we have a victory of our own. How glad Paul was? When he began to see That I share his victory.

There's only one victorious person in all the universe brothers, and it's our Lord Jesus Christ. He is victory. He alone is victory. This is a silly illustration, but I think it illustrates the point.

We have a brother that comes to our Bible study. Who has an English sports car manufactured by British Leyland. Cute little car called a triumph. Now, how would you feel if a Friend of yours who won one of these sports cars you could be as poor as a mother Hubbard's dog.

And he comes up in this sports car and he says let's go for a ride. You ride through town you see your friend. You're in this sports car. Well verse 14 says that the Lord Jesus also has a triumph. It was silly.

Give me a break. Thanks be to God who always Leads us in his triumph in every place. Hey, I'll tell you that was great news to the Apostle Paul because he finally put his flesh mobile aside. It was constantly breaking down.

Anyway Jesus in his grace kept fixing it up for him. But finally he crossed the line and he became a passenger in God's triumph. And he began riding all over town. And he was set free from this idea that I have to ask God for victory.

He began to see Christ as the victorious one and he began to understand what it means to share his victory. Not that God's going to give me victory not that God's going to give me rest. God has the rest and I enter into his rest not a rest.

He gives a rest. He has. Is God completely at rest? About what you're facing right now. Enter into that rest. See his rest entering into his victory. Oh, it was the first thing the Apostle saw and what a change it made in his life.

And every time he began to live after that He was set free from this whole idea that I need to claim some victory for God over this or that in my life. It's all done cutting his life up into a pie. God's dealing this area.

God's dealing that He began to see himself out of Paul and in Christ Jesus and all the all-sufficiency of that revelation the adequacy. To see him alone. Well another thing changed when he was over the line.

Ministry as the Fragrance of Christ

Verses 14 to 17. Let me read them again thanks be to God who always leads us in his triumph in Christ and Manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of him in every place. We are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.

To the one an aroma from death to death. To the other an aroma of light from life to life. Who is adequate for these things? We're not like many peddling the Word of God. But as from sincerity as from God.

We speak in Christ in the sight of God. His whole concept of ministry changed. When he stood over the line. Let me illustrate it from a very common illustration in Roman life. We're quite removed from this and so I think a little background of hell.

It was called the Roman triumphus. And it was very very common in the days of Rome. It was a celebration of parade. That was held in Rome after Roman victory. Some of the historians have described what it looked like.

Let me give you Josephus description of this Roman triumphus. Now there were four parts to this parade. I Won't give you the first. Obviously that's my point. You got to save that for the end and come pounding in with it.

See let me start with the second thing in the parade and Then we'll look at the parade, and then I'll give you the first thing and I think you'll get the illustration. This military parade. The second thing in the military parade was the Roman general.

He was not first he was second. This is the one who led the army Into the battle and had the victory. Of course he'd be on his white horse, and there'd be laurels and pomp and musicians around them and so on the Roman general and then behind the Roman general.

There would be the proud soldiers, and they would be in their full dressed uniforms. Fully arrayed. They'd also be on horses. They'd have their shields and they'd have their swords and their armor guards and so on and.

And then on foot behind the Roman soldiers would be the prisoners of war and Many times they'd be naked Shamefully exposed to the people and they would be marching behind as sort of the trophies of the victory of this army and Then the last would be of course the crowds of people they would be lining both sides of the street.

Jeering at the prisoners of war. Praising their gods for the deliverance and so on and so the commentators Understand that Paul was probably referring to that Roman triumphus there. And they say the Lord Jesus also has a triumphal procession.

He has his soldiers. He has his prisoners of war. He has those crowds that are praising him. Some commentators think that Paul is saying Christians are like soldiers and we're following Christ. Christ is the general.

He's led us into victory and we marched behind him. We're the soldiers. And others say no. That's true. There's a sense in which we're soldiers, but in this picture We're the prisoners of war. We're the captives.

We're the trophies of his grace. Christ has conquered us and we're the ones that are in chains his bond. Servants if you will coming in behind. I don't know if you're familiar with the New English Bible, but their translation of this Who constantly leads us about as captives in?

Christ's triumphal process. You see it from that translation. We're the captives Jesus has conquered and we're trophies of his power. But I'm going to suggest that the Apostle Paul saw something different.

He's not likening the Christian to a soldier yet. There's a place for that and he's not even likening the Christian to the prisoners of war that are being dragged in. Though that's also a truth. Who led the parade you see the runner would come in? from the battlefield and Would announce to incense sprinklers That the victory had been won.

And these incense sprinklers according to the historians would begin to go through the town and the idea was they were worshiping their gods. They were praising their God and it would just spread this incense in Thanks to their gods for the victory that their army just had.

And of course as the people Became familiar with that smell as they would smell this incense. They would understand they had a victory and they'd all come out and they'd wait for the parade to come in.

The incense sprinklers were the forerunners who prepared everybody for this great parade. And I suggest That as Paul stood there on the other side of the line He saw himself as an incense sprinkler. Verse 14 Manifests the sweet aroma of the knowledge of him in every place.

Verse 15 we are a fragrance of Christ to God. Among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. Paul's whole idea of Christian ministry changed here. He saw that the perfume the fragrance the aroma.

Was Christ himself. Verse 14 says it the sweet aroma of the knowledge of him. Christ himself. Verse 15. Did anything be clearer than this? We are a fragrance of Christ. NIV says to God the aroma of Christ.

See the Apostle Paul saw the simplicity and the beauty of Christian ministry. He saw that it was just a person who was so filled with Christ that the smell of Christ just went up to God. And everybody around could smell that Would enter into that aroma that his life was a fragrance.

You see that was all new to the Apostle Paul because when Paul stood in Paul Christian ministry Christian service soul winning missions. Reaching out to others was a goal. That was a goal to him. And all of a sudden he saw that ministry was a byproduct and not a goal.

What a tremendous revelation for him to see that the whole direction of Christian service had changed for him. Before it was ministering on the people and meeting their needs and doing for one another and helping people and assisting them.

Now all of a sudden he saw as he stood there across the line in Christ Jesus. That ministry has to do with the joy of God's heart. Ministry has to do with satisfying him. And Christ was a fragrance to God.

Among men what a difference that is you see verse 15 of Christ and any changing of that orders legalism. That's God's order. And the Apostle saw that God was pleased when his life was just filled with the smell of Christ the fragrance of Christ and it satisfied the heart of God and.

Then others smell now in that Roman triumphance. It was the same smell, but it had two different effects. When the crowd smelled it, they said praise God we won. When those prisoners of war smelled the same smell.

They said we lost that's death for us. See and then you know where they were taking the prisoners of war. They were taking them up for public execution. And he did it right in the city square in Rome.

And so when they smell that incense to them. It was a savor of death unto death. But to others it was a savor of life and when the Apostle began to see that and began to understand that His whole life began to be transformed.

And he knew in his heart that he'd never be the same and from now on all he would do is be filled with Christ. And satisfied the heart of God. People would smell that. And some would smell it and say praise God for such a man on the earth.

Others would smell it and say away with such a man from the earth savor of life savor of death. John chapter 12 when Mary poured that pound of costly perfume. She had no idea about ministering to men.

She just wanted to minister to God. She wanted to satisfy the heart of Jesus. She understood ministry. But John chapter 12 verse 3 says that the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume one designed for them.

But as a byproduct. They became participants in that. Trying to enter into the joy brothers of Paul's heart as he stood there On the other side of Paul and in the all-sufficiency of Jesus. How his heart thrilled to be delivered from victory as a thing and Knowing now that he was in Christ Jesus.

Jesus had victory he had Jesus. I Can't fly the airplane flies. I'm in the airplane. I fly he was in Christ Jesus. What a thrill he had to be delivered from Christian service as a goal and To realize that all he had to be was a fragrance of Christ to God and that would become a ministry no longer what he had to do in order to reach and minister.

But now it was a matter of being in a right relationship with him. I'm amazed that so many Christians struggle with some of these truths. And I wonder perhaps if it's because they have not been Beyond the line.

Because on the wrong side of the line, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense when you stand in yourself. It just makes a lot of sense that I've got to trust God to give me something called victory.

When you stand in yourself. It makes a lot of sense that I got to carry a burden of the world and I'm Responsible to go out and to minister to do this and that. But once you cross that line Everything begins to fall into place.

Possessing All Things in Christ

And I'm going to skip over a lot here because Paul saw many other things as he stood in Christ Jesus transforming revelation. He saw that he possessed all things in Christ. See. Paul didn't lose anything.

By being pressed over that line God gave it all back but this time in liberty. He received all those things back the same way Abraham received Isaac back. All things were in Christ. And now Paul, he did not lose his life by being pushed over the line.

He found his life By being pushed over the line. He didn't lose his will by being pushed over the line. He found his will. Everything was returned in Christ at last. It didn't matter to Paul whether he was hungry or full whether he was prosperous or afflicted.

Whether he lived in comfort or whether he was suffering. Because his contentment was now in Christ Jesus. He was his satisfaction. He was adequate. Not only Did he possess all things in Christ, but though even more wonderfully He possessed Christ in all things.

He didn't possess a house and a car the business and clothes. He possessed Christ in a house Christ in transportation Christ in clothes. And Paul saw himself as a rich rich rich over that line. When he had nothing He possessed all things in Christ.

When he had everything He possessed Christ in all things. What could be greater. It's exciting to read of some of these discoveries that he made. Let me just share one more and we'll be done. He not only got a new view of victory.

The Veil Removed: A New Bible

He not only got a new view of Venice of ministry. But as he stood there God gave him a new Bible. Chapter 3, please. Let me just read a few verses. Having therefore such a hope verse 12. We was great boldness in our speech.

But not as Moses who used to put a veil over his face. That the sons of Israel might not look intently at the end of what was fading away. Their minds were hardened. Until this very day at the reading of the Old Covenant the same veil remains unlifted.

Because it's removed in Christ. But to this day whenever Moses is read a veil lies over their heart. Whenever a man turns to the Lord the veil is taken away. Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is There's Liberty.

But we all with unveiled face. Beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord are being transformed into the same image. From glory to glory just as from the Lord Spirit when Paul stood in Paul. The Bible was a veiled book.

It's a closed book all facts all information. It's the philosophy of life. Academic scholarship time we tend to forget that Paul was a theologian before he crossed the line. He's a tremendous theologian.

He knew all about prophecy and he knew about angels and he knew about spiritual gifts and he knew about doctrine and history. In the background of Israel. If he'd have stood up and preached he could have give a tremendous sermon on the cross on the atonement on the nature of God missions.

The Holy Spirit the inspiration of scriptures, but was all death. The Bible said it was death. With all the shell is all external. Just a veneer just the outside. He didn't get beyond the sacred page just facts just knowledge.

And the more he studied the prouder he became because knowledge puffs up when Paul stood in Paul. He was a master of a dead book. He's a theologian. He was a scholar. He was the expert on the Bible. He had a veil over space veil over his heart veil over the book.

But now he's on the other side of the line verse 16 whenever a man turns to the Lord the veils taken away. And now the same book, but this time he comes with an unveiled face. And this time he doesn't come to study marriage or to study family or to study doctrine or to study the local church or to study evangelism or the end times or stewardship or even The bondservant's heart he doesn't even come to study that in fact.

He doesn't even come to study Genesis or Exodus. Or Matthew or Mark or Luke? Because the goal of Bible study is not Bible study, and he's begun to see that. He's not trying now to study faith or surrender or repentance or the Trinity.

God gave him a new Bible, and he saw that coming now with an unveiled face. He could see the glory of the Lord. Could see God himself and all of a sudden he wasn't studying Matthew to know Matthew. He was studying Matthew to know God.

They wasn't studying Isaiah to see Isaiah. He was studying Isaiah to see God to see the glory of God. Brand-new Bible and that whole thing became alive and his heart began to burn in him as he began to see Christ in the scriptures.

Tremendous new Bible nor is that all because in verse 18 every time he saw Christ He was transformed into that same image from one degree of glory to another. This was so wonderful for Paul he begins to see now.

Things are going to be different when I begin to live. He's my victory forget victory. He's my victory. I'm going to live in Christ and ride in his trial. He's my victory. Everything was different for Paul now no more ministry per se from now on I'm going to be filled with Christ.

Satisfy the heart of God and let others smell it if they want to. Glorious change now. He says from now on this books alive. I'm coming to this book to know God. I'm coming to see Jesus. And as he came to this book every time he saw Christ he was changed transformed and he began to think back about all those changes that had come in his own life because he was more disciplined and he tried harder and he He began to understand that any change that comes into his life.

That didn't come by the revelation of Jesus Christ was an unreal change. Angels that come. When we begin to see Christ in the book and so Paul had this whole new concept. It was a new dimension. It was a new life on the other side of the life.

He wasn't sad that God pushed him over the line. It was glory to him because now God had given him this new Bible. Someone might say well, what exactly do you mean when you say I'm going to see Christ.

I've never really seen Christ in the Bible. Yes, you have if you're saying You had at least one revelation of Christ. One day the Holy Spirit. However, he did it in your life brought you to the place where you saw Jesus as the Lamb of God.

That takes away the sin of the world. And what happened when you saw that brothers were you changed? Oh man. New creature in Christ, you know, some people think that's the end of it now. I Saw Christ as my Savior.

I'm saved. I'm going to heaven. I'm not going to hell there are unlimited revelations of Christ in this book. The same way you came as you received Christ. So walk in him the same way you saw him as lamb and were transformed.