In God’s ways and wisdom the Apostle Paul became the medium for the communication of three distinct revelations. The greatest of these is first alluded to in 1 Corinthians 12:12: “As the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is [the] Christ” —“the Christ”! I am not supplying the definite article there without reason. It is so given in the Greek text. “By one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit” (vs. 13). “So also is [the] Christ.” What does that expression, “The Christ,” mean there? It means that the union of the members of the body with the ascended Head is so real that the whole looked at together — the body, Head and the members — are regarded as one and so are called “the Christ.” The mystical “Christ,” then, comprehends the Head in heaven and the members down here on earth. Paul in that first chapter of Colossians said that he had received a double ministry. The first part of that ministry was connected with the gospel, and Paul’s gospel always connected man with the glory, as he calls it in the fourth chapter of 2 Corinthians, “The glad tidings of the glory of the Christ” (vs. 4 JND). Why was that? When Paul preached the gospel, he did not stop with telling sinners that Christ died for them and by receiving Christ they would get their sins forgiven. Paul preached that the gospel was of such enormous purport and power, that the man who received Christ not only received forgiveness of sins but became attached to the Man in glory — connected with that One up there. Yes, he goes further in this doctrine and sees the believer seated in the heavenlies in Christ.