The whole is greater than the sum of all its parts.
When Christ was on Earth, to the one who is fixiated on Jonah He said of Himself that “A greater than Jonah is here.” And Christ is greater than Jonah because He is greater than all the prophets combined. Christ is the fulfillment and the conclusion of everything they had to say.
Of Solomon Christ said that “a greater than Solomon is here”. And He was greater because Christ was Heir of the promise that Davids Son would be King. Solomon did not fulfill that promise but Christ did.
Christ said “In this place a greater than the temple is here”. And we know Christ is the true temple eternal in the heavens constructed with invisible attributes. He is the temple of the living God and He proved this by saying “destroy this temple and I will rebuild it in 3 days” speaking of His body.
To the lady at the well who asked “are you greater than our father Jacob who dug this well? Christ showed that not only was He greater than Jacob, but even the well was a prophecy of Christ who said “if you knew who you were talking to, you would ask and I would would give you the waters that well up to everlasting life”.
Christ being greater than the law said of the Jews “If I had not come and spoken to them, they would have no sin, but I have spoken to them and now they have no excuse for their sin” showing that He was the author of the Law because the law defines sin. Meaning Christ was on Mt Sinai at the burning bush to speak the law. Not only did He speak it but He is it. It was a reflection of His righteousness as He said “Behold the volume of the book (in its totality) is written of Me (speaking of the Old Covenant). I have come to do your will oh God” speaking to the Father of expiring the law. “He takes away the first to establish the second”. (Hebrews 10.9)
When the jews came to arrest Christ they asked are you? He said “I am” showing that He was the same “I am” Moses talked to when He asked who was sending Him. ” And God said to Moses, “IAM that IAM.” Showing that the Father and the Son are indistinguishable from each other.
Christ is whatever He wants to be and whatever you need,e be it a greater than Jonah, Soloman, the temple or whatever. He is “The fulfiller of all these things”. All things are made new “In Christ” in this way. They are set up in the spirit of our minds. The place of our transfiguration. They are re-assembled inside ourselves to be operational and active today.
You see whatever hope or fixation anyone ever had of God was fulfilled “In Christ”. There was an invisible fulfillment of what they thought they needed. And in each case He was standing right there. Even as the disciples were in a panic as their boat rocked. And when they received Christ into their boat? “They were immediately where they wanted to be.” Not in the boat, but “In Christ” not a physical thing but an invisible reality. You see the boat was still in the storm so that didn’t change. It was the understanding that changed. He is the change that guides us through the storms in life who is greater than the boat and the water. The boat is our carnal vessel and the waters is the flow of life, the waves are the things that make us wonder where He is.
If you think about it, everything about God is invisible. Everything that is visible is a byproduct of the 6 days of creation and is thereby distinguishable different. The distinguishably different realm is Holy, and Holy means invisible.
All things were made by His invisible Word. “God said let there be… and it was so. From Hebrews 11.3 “By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible”. So
why is it we put our trust in the tangible like the disciples did with the boat?
The point is Christ came to expire all the tangible things that people trust in, especially all the personal safety nets and gods of this age. So whatever you put your hope in can only be done when the object is from Christ.
All things are hidden “In Christ” because they are not carnally seen or assimilated”. And for those of us who know? We are hidden in Christ too? We see our inheritance here. Where? In Christ. And because it is invisible it is easy to hide it in plain sight. This is why “The Kingdom of God is at hand”, because it is hidden “in Christ”. And you can only see these things if you have entered in. Are you “In Christ”? How do you know? I mean I know when I am in my home. I know when I am at the beach. I can see it. How do you know you are In Christ? You see the things that are there.
For the elect, we see what is here. Just as John was on a Hell hole island called Patmod, and simultaneously “in the Spirit on “The Lords Day” at the same time. Showing we can be here and there at the same time also.
Attention: If you are in limbo waiting for a second coming you cannot perceive what we are talking about because the 2nd coming is an expectation of a carnal fest to appease your man. In doing so you deny Him for He is standing right here. He says “Behold I stand at the door and knock, to them that open up I will sup with” and “lo I am with you throughout the ages”.
You see when Paul said “Old things have passed away, all things have become new” speaking in past tense. Not future tense like the next Jesus but “old things have passed away”. This is what that means. You just haven’t learned to realize it yet.
If we don’t learn how to expire these articles in the heavens of our minds they become idolatrous notions that keep us out of the invisible “Kingdom of God At Hand”. If you are waiting for a physical Jesus to bring you physical things you have been robbed of what we are talking about. You cannot have the gift of God in Christ and an expectation of getting the gift at a second coming at the same time.
And whatever your fixation may be? A greater than that is Christ because “the sum of all the parts is greater than the parts” and “in him dwells the fullness of the godhead body”. Christ is the conclusion in the consummation of all with the law and the prophets and the apostles had to say. This is why Paul learn to say, that we are built up a habitation of God in the spirit founded upon the apostles in the prophet Jesus Christ the Chief cornerstone.
The concepts we saw in Jonah and Solomon and the law and the prophets broken down in however you can define or describe them, they have been fulfilled “in Christ” because yes the sum of all things is greater than the breakdown of all it’s parts, and that’s what all the law and Prophets was, past tense.
It was a breakdown of the invisible into carnal concepts only for our understanding of who God is. That is what all scripture is for. To make visible the Invisible For you to interact with the living God. God is “Eternal Immortal and Invisible, the only wise God”.
And since all things are new “in Christ” because he is the sum of all these things, anybody and everybody who’s looking for a person a place, thing or a feast or an article or any one of these things in their various combinations is looking to the wrong things because all things have their fulfillment in Christ. This is why Paul could say “old things have past away, and all things have become new” (past tense) because the New Covenant being instituted, is based around a better Covenant with better promises because the New Covenant is not the breakdown but a collection of all these things. It is the Gathering Together in one all things in Christ that were broken down and dispensed over time in the old Covenant era now extinct.
Once again the sum of all things is greater then each one of its individual parts and Christ is the collection of the Godhead body. He is complete in Him. With Him giving us these things, if we accept them then we too are complete in Him and need no other form of completion. The Son said “it is done” and it is done.
All lower-level carnal fixations of things of God are just detainment centers if you cannot expire them in your mind. So with each one of these affixiation Christ claimed each one of them. Not one iota or one jot or one Tittle would be left undone for a second coming. To the Pharisee he said I AM! Claiming the I AM on Mount Nebo with Moses. To the same group he said Abraham rejoiced to see my day and saw it and was glad showing that “The Lord’s Day” was something Abraham was a part of. To Nathaniel he was the Christ the son of the Living God because Jesus saw him under the fig tree. Nathaniel was amazed because only the man called the branch could do that thereby expiring the prophecies of Zechariah, being the embodiment of him who is invisible. Being the word that became flesh temporarily but flesh is not as natural composition. When he rode into Jerusalem on the foal of a cult he was claiming to be Shiloh. To John the Baptist he was introduced as the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the world. And in so doing he expired all the previous regulations and rituals with that old Covenant. When Christ was on the cross it was the temple in Jerusalem that was ripped to top and bottom showing its usefulness expired and became unprofitable and unusable. To the woman at the well he said “the time that is coming now is” showing the time that is coming is a Timeless piece insertable anywhere, everywhere to anyone, all the time to the one who has faith. For the time that is coming now is because the time that is coming always was.
Christ departed not to the father till all these things were raised up in himself. For even as he said to Mary, Mary I am the resurrection showing that anybody who’s looking for a carnal Resurrection is looking for a part of the whole and not accepting the whole. A future resurrection of the carnal body to be with a physical God is just a religious mindset that detains those from moving forward into “spirit and truth, for the Father seeketh such”.
So for those who know that Elijah has come if they are able to receive that and they learn that they are able to receive very many things. How about you? And for those of us who know we can receive everything for “all the promises of God are yes and amen in Christ”. He is the place of fulfillment of all things. And because he is the place not being a place on Earth but a place in the spirit, this is why we associate with his death through baptism that we can associate with his life, his newness of life and need no other Resurrection. If this were not true Paul would not say “since we are risen in Christ, meaning you have your Resurrection, seek the things that are above”. This is what we do. We take all the elements and artifacts and set them NOT before us for a fulfillment on Earth of a future time, but we raise them up in our understanding and expire them in our thinking, in the spirit of our mind so that “the time that is coming now is” for us.
The main point here is whether it was Solomon or Jonah or the temple or whatever they were looking to that was greater than Christ never going to do a future fulfillment. Of the woman at the well who said “I know when the Christ comes he will tell us all things”. Christ said to her “I am He, and he did come and he did tell us all things. He never alluded to another land or another city or another Earthen Temple. He never spoke of any Kingdom but “the Kingdom at hand” already open for busy.
“All the law and the prophets were till Christ” now there’s nothing left to say. And as Yahweh, the Lord was seen with Moses whom he asked what his name was in the Lord said “I am…”Meaning, fill in the blank, I am that too. Did he not say to the Pharisees I am. One and the same the Fulfillment of all things.
The sum of all these things, is to collect these things in ourselves so that in us God will be greater than the parts. We then expire the verse that says “greater works shall you do”. And so we do. The only thing that isn’t expired is the invitation to enter in. This is now the Gospel.
Yes even now “The Kingdom of God is at hand.