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The Second person of the Divine Trinity was made Christ by God in eternity past. This One is God's Anointed. In time, He came
to accomplish the eternal plan (economy) which God had purposed for the expression of Himself. God desires that this Christ,
His embodiment, be the centrality and universality in His eternal plan and that He would have the preeminence over all things
in both creation and redemption, transcending all things. This Christ whom He established emptied Himself, laying aside the
form of God and taking the form of a slave, and was found in fashion as a man, living a humble human life on earth. At the
end of His human life, this Christ of God went to the cross, accomplished God's eternal redemption for us, the sinners, and
released God's eternal life. He also resurrected from the dead and was transformed from God's only begotten Son to God's firstborn
Son. Furthermore, in resurrection He became the life-giving Spirit to enter into the believers, making them God's new creation
and His members, constituting His Body. He became the life, the element, and the Head of the Body. In this way the Triune
God has obtained a corporate expression in this universe. In the coming kingdom He will be King and will reign with the overcoming
saints over the coming world. Later, in the new heaven and new earth, He will be the centrality and universality of the New
Jerusalem and will be the mutual dwelling place of God and man to be the full expression of the Triune God in eternity.
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