Christ is extensive, even all-extensive, for Christ
Christ is extensive, even all-extensive, for Christ is more extensive than the whole universe. He is immeasurable, limitless. Hence, He is not only all-inclusive, but also all-extensive.
According to the Bible, Christ truly is all- inclusive. In 1932 I first began to see the all- inclusiveness of Christ and to minister along this line. Although Christ's all-inclusiveness is clearly revealed in the Bible, many believers are greatly surprised when they hear us speak of it.
Colossians 2:16 and 17 say, "Let no one there fore judge you in eating and in drinking or in respect of a feast or of a new moon or of Sab baths, which are a shadow of things to come, but the body is of Christ." These verses indicate that Christ is our eating, drinking, feast, new moon, and Sabbath. He is the body, the reality, the substance, of all the positive things in the universe. He is the reality of the air we breathe, of the food we eat, and of the sunshine we enjoy. Furthermore, He is the reality of both the Triune God and of man.
When we teach that Christ is all-inclusive, the reality of all positive things in the universe, some go so far as to accuse us of teaching pantheism. They accuse us of identifying God with the material creation. We utterly repudiate