Other Scriptures will show how, unfortunately, in our hands the Habitation has become corrupted until at last we read that judgment must begin at the House of God. Thus in this chapter we have a threefold presentation of the Church. The Church is viewed as the Body of Christ, composed of Jewish and Gentile believers united to Christ in glory, thus forming one New Man for the display of all that Christ is as the risen Man, Head over all things. For let us remember that the Church is not only "one Body," but it is "His Body," as we read, "the Church which is His Body." And as His Body it is "the fullness of Him." It is filled with all that He is in order to express all that He is. The Church-His Body-is to be the expression of His mind, just as our bodies give expression to what is in our minds. Then the Church is a growing Temple composed of all the saints of the whole Christian period wherein sacrifices of praise ascend to God and the excellencies of God are displayed to men.
El hombre sólo es un instrumento en las manos de Dios, un instrumento del Espíritu Santo enviado de lo alto. Él es quien gobierna, que guía, que actúa; pero lo hace con el fin de enviar el testimonio de la gloria del Hijo del hombre a todos los hombres, hablándoles de las obras maravillosas de Dios en la lengua del país dónde habían nacido, para atraer sus corazones por una gracia que descendía hasta ellos, con el poder que allí se manifestaba, y, al mismo tiempo, de afirmar los derechos del último Adán en gracia sobre todos los hombres.