The Church as the Tale of Christ - Part 2

So when Christ was sent from the Father in heaven to this world, all that was of the Father was in Him.

Everything that mankind was meant to be was revealed in Him. Heaven had come to earth visibly in Christ.

Rather, the Father had come to earth in Christ, and the Lord lived His life by the Father's life within Him.

Yet, even though He had the Father's life within Him, Jesus grew in wisdom and stature on the earth as a man. In other words: progressively. It'll always be the same for us, both individually and corporately.

So looking at this from the perspective of a story, we see Jesus unveil the Father to us, and He does it by living the story of the Father within Him outwardly before those who believed in, and/or followed Him around.

When we hear Christ telling us when He was on the earth that He was the truth, or the reality, this is much of what He was saying, that the story of His life He lived out before them was the story of His Father's life living out within Him and being expressed outwardly before their eyes. It was also being told through His lips and heard in their ears.

The point is a story was being revealed to them in the person of Christ, and it was the story of who the Father was in relationship to mankind, as revealed in the life story of Jesus Himself.

It wasn't an earthly story or a story originating from earth, rather it was a story from heaven, with its origin in the Father.

Part One; Part Two; Part 3
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