Dig in the Full Riches of Christ

"Therefore let that abide in you which you heard from the beginning. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. And this is the promise that He has promised us—eternal life." 1 John 2:24-25 NKJV

In the Epistle of John, the phrase "from the beginning" means what you are experiencing since you received Christ Jesus as Lord. That release and liberation from fear and confusion has showered you when Christ Jesus comes in you by means of the Spirit through the faith in the gospel of God. It's the Word who was in the beginning and came (incarnated) to the earth, lived among His people, spoke the message of the kingdom of heaven, walked in the land of Palestine, touched the hearts of many, healed the sick, and finally died on the cross, shedding the blood. The Word is Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God the Father, but the Son Jesus Christ has seen Him in the beginning and has manifested the Father who is invisible. 

So, let the Word Jesus Christ abide in you. That is, let the word of God grip [possess] you, your mind and heart and spirit. Then, John says, you also will abide in the Son Jesus Christ and in the Father God. The weakness among many Christians stems out of the lack of understanding of this truth that we abide in the Jesus Christ from the beginning. Many read the Bible mechanically and superficially, so they don’t experience the full riches of the glorious gospel of Christ Jesus. Much worse, so many Christians even don’t read the Scripture at all.

But we shall dig in the word of God until we come to be gripped and enriched by its truth and full riches. We shall read and meditate the word of God until we are filled with the Lord Jesus Christ. If we say that we are genuine Christians at all, we should understand the word of truth thoroughly and completely. That is, we shall act [obey] on what we believe. Jesus says that knowing God is eternal life. “And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” (John 17:3 NKJV)

What an excited life that will be if you have eternal life! As the Psalmist confessed, so also will you confess that you shall not want (Psalm 23:1). What a vigorous and colorful life that will be since that eternal life lives in you forever! Jesus promised to his disciples that he will be with them wherever and whenever. “…and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20b NKJV) Don’t forget that you have eternal life in you. That’s the good news!