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Christ Is Reality, Not the Shadow – Colossians 2 Teaching (DCLC – July ’86, Part 1)
In this profound message, we are invited to reconsider everything we assume is “real.” Drawing from Colossians 2:16–17, this teaching reveals a staggering truth: what we experience in this world is not the substance—but the shadow. The substance, the reality itself, is Christ.
Most believers spend their lives seeking a personal spiritual experience with the Lord—coming as empty vessels, hoping to be filled again and again. But what if that entire approach is incomplete? What if, instead of trying to have our own experience with God, we are invited into Christ’s experience with the Father?
This message shifts the focus from human need to divine reality.
Here, Christ is not presented merely as Savior in time, but as the eternal One—existing before creation, beyond time, and fully aware of a reality that predates everything we know. When He spoke on earth, He was not reacting in the moment as we do. He was speaking from another realm—one where everything is real, complete, and already established in God.
Food, drink, light, life, rest, celebration—these are not earthly concepts with spiritual meaning. They are spiritual realities that existed first in God and were only later expressed as shadows on earth. Christ Himself is the true food, the true drink, the true Sabbath, the true life.
Even the simplest elements of life—like bread, water, or the Sabbath—are revealed here as reflections of something far greater: Christ as reality itself.
This teaching invites you to step out of striving, out of religious effort, and into something deeper. Not imitation, but participation. Not trying to become something, but entering into Someone.
Instead of asking, “How can I live for God?” the invitation becomes:
“Can I see through His eyes? Can I enter His reality?”
This is not about behavior modification or spiritual performance. It is about seeing Christ as He truly is—and allowing that reality to reshape everything.
Audience: Probably it’s a big rock.
That’s the wrong answer, brother. Come on. No, no, no. Don’t sit down. We’ve got to have a course in divine astronomy. Jerry, what is the moon?
Audience: Jesus Christ.
Amen. Jesus Christ is the moon. Thank you, brother. Jesus Christ is real drink. Jesus Christ is the only food. Jesus Christ is the only thing there is to celebrate. Jesus Christ is the Sabbath day. And when He stepped out of eternity into time, He knew that. He knew. Behold your moon. Behold your Sabbath. Behold your celebration. Behold your food. Behold your drink. Behold Life. That which has always been real. Behold reality. I am the way, the reality, and the life. Hallelujah. Majesty, glory, honor. He knew He was reality.
Now, I’m telling you that this week, whenever we open this, we’re not going to sit here, and I’m going to say to you, “No, brothers and sisters, we see this poor Samaritan on the road, and we find that he’s really needy. And this good man has been robbed and beaten. And this good Samaritan comes along, and this good Samaritan sees this poor, beaten soul and reaches down and helps him. Why don’t you help people? You’re a good Christian. You ought to stop. I’m warning you, when you pass somebody on the side of the road, you’re not a good Samaritan.” Now, boy, that’s a conference on the deeper Christian life, isn’t it? I want you to know if you’ll get your ears open, that’s what you’ve been hearing preached at you most of your life. Now, say amen. It is a humanistic application of good.
Someone has said Christianity, a mild-mannered man, standing up in front of a mild-mannered people, imploring them to be more mild-mannered. No, I am not going to open this book and try to find the objective and tell you that this is what you ought to do. There will be none of that this week. I will open this and say to you, let us look at other realms, and let us see what really is. Let us find that which is, and when we find that which is, what will we find? We will find Him. Now then, if we can just push that one step further, and instead of coming in saying, “Lord, make me a good Samaritan. I just really have been an awful person. Y’all sing just as I am one more time, and I’ll come forward, and I will repent. This is a guilt trip. This is a guilt trip. But oh, brothers, you’re not a good Samaritan. You never have been, and you never will be. And if I were you, again, I’d give that up for Lent, too. There’s only one Samaritan that has ever existed. He’s part Gentile. He’s part Jew. His name is the Lord Jesus Christ.
And if you can just, if we can figure out a way for you to enter into that Samaritan and fellowship with Him and feel the bowels of compassion in Him and the caring in Him and touch that, I am going to believe the Lord will take care of the rest. I will try and try and try again to turn you from a lifelong mindset and seek to bring you into the reality again and again and again. And you’re going to sometimes, you’re just going to plain flat get lost and not understand what’s going on, because something in your basic soulical nature is going to want to get involved and do something and be something. I would have you open that door between two realms and enter into Him and touch Him and become part of Him and be lost in Him and let Him be drink. Let Him be food. Let Him be water. Let Him be Life. Let Him be your celebration. Let Him celebrate inside of you. Let Him celebrate inside of you. Allow Him to rest inside of you and allow you to be lost in Him and find that having been lost in Him, He is rest, and you have fallen into, and been dissolved into, and have ceased to exist in the very midst of rest.
When a new season comes along, just walk into Him and let Him be a season. Just get lost in Him being a season until you learn to simply not be there, brother. Just not be there, sister. And take your place in the place where you’ve been longer than you’ve ever been here. Take your place where you’ve always been, where you were before creation, and where you’re going to be when creation is over. Find yourself lost in God. Praise the Lord.
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