The Centrality, Pre-eminance and Supremacy of Christ in All Things

We’re going to take a trip to a place that we’ve never been to because, in fact, it never existed…because it’s not a place. It is, in fact, God Himself before creation, because He is a God without dimension. Therefore, we cannot locate this place. We have neglected introducing one another to Christ as He was in glory before He ever created. He did exist. He was glorious. We also seem not to be aware of all the things He did before He created, and He did many things. Please join me in a place where there are no angels, and there is no dirt, nor earth, nor skies, nor heavens. Join me where there is only the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. Join me in that place where all things are real. Join me in that place before creation.

Join me before there were shadows, types, images, replicas, and replications. Before there were symbols. There existed in the Father, and the Son, and the Spirit: gold. There existed: pearl. And there existed: water. And there existed: food. Only it was not shadow, nor symbol, nor image, nor reflection. For the gold was Christ, and the pearl was Christ, and the water was Christ Himself. The light was Christ Himself, and the sun, S-U-N, was Christ. And the moon was Christ. He was everything, and there was the Father, and there was the Son, and the Spirit.

Nothing but reality, and there were no unreality or shadows. They were having a wonderful time. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit. What they were doing was that they were having church life. There was no law and no legalism. These concepts did not exist. There was absolute freedom. There was no grace. There was no grace. There was peace. The peace was Christ, and they fellowshipped, and the Father was the glory of the Son. And the Son was the glory of the Father. And the Spirit was the One who did the exchanging between them. The Father adored the Son, and the Son adored the Father. In their rich, unobstructed fellowship, in the counsel of the will of the Godhead, the Father decided that He wanted eyes that were not His to see His Son; eyes that were not the Spirit’s to see how glorious His Son was.

So, they colluded together, and they made a decision, and they did some things that you and I can’t understand. First of all, I would say they made a terrible and frightening gamble. And having made an awesome, even terrible gamble, they worked out a plan in which that gamble was no gamble at all. I could spend the next three days trying to explain to you what they did, but I cannot do that because what they did was utterly incomprehensible. But I am going to tell you what they did. They decided that there would be portions of the Son, S-O-N, that would be separated…I use the word very cautiously…separated from the Godhead. Except that’s not possible. Where in the nature of God, everything that is God, and all the riches that are God…be the Father, the Son, and the Spirit…all that is in all of the Father, all that is in all of the Son, and all that is in all of the Spirit is in any part and is in any portion…no matter how small…of God.

Nonetheless, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit chose that in this glorious, bright, brilliant Son, there would be marked off in Him portions of His being that would be given great destiny, great honor, and an incredible inheritance. They were marked off in Him, but nobody knew it except the Father and the Son and the Spirit. Then what did they do? They brought forth the Book of Life. They did this before they created, and they took every name…they took every portion that was marked off of Christ that was Christ…and they gave every portion a name. They gave every portion of Christ that was marked off in Christ, and that was Christ; they gave a name to each part, and then they wrote those names down because each of those portions was life, the very life of God.

They gave each one of them a name. These were wonderful, glorious, and highly honored portions of Jesus Christ, the Glorious One. The Father made a promise that if there is any separation…and in a way there can be, in a way there cannot be…but if there is any separation, these portions of Him that now have names will become His glorious inheritance. They understood that all of those parts were separate and would be separate. Still, the Father, the Son, and the Spirit also understood that all those separate pieces would one day come together and be one, and yet still separate from the Son, yet never separate from the Son. When they had all come together, the Father would give those glorious pieces wonderful, chosen, honored portions back to the Son to be utterly one with Him.

They closed the Book, and it was sealed with the understanding that nothing could change the selection of those portions of Christ to have a wonderful, glorious, and highly honored destiny. They closed the Book with the understanding that nothing could prevent what they had decided to do, and that these glorious, wonderful, destined, and highly honored portions of His being would come back to Him. That was guaranteed in the Book: nothing could prevent it. But the portions that were marked off remained in Christ, and the Father was so impressed that He poured out all of this love upon the Son. He loved the Son before creation, and then they decided to create, so that these honored portions might fulfill their destiny.

Then the moment to create came, but it was halted because several things had to happen first. I cannot tell you what Jesus Christ was like then, but I can tell you this: that when creation came, God put something in this universe that would let us know what Christ was like before creation. Hallelujah. He made sure that when He finally got around to creating, there would be one creature that we would be able to look at and know this was what His Son was like…and that was a little lamb. But that lamb is not a lamb. That lamb is a symbol and a picture of the Lamb, the real one. And the Father slew once and only once, never before and never again. The Father slew His Son, and the Lamb, the real Lamb, was slain before they created. When He was slain, He died, and when He died, all those parts of Him died too, for they were all Him, and for Him, to Him, through Him, but most of all they were in Him. And so, all those honored portions died once, never before and never again, and they were slain with Him.

Then He rose out of death. And when He rose out of death, all the honored portions of His being and all their glory and splendor and perfection rose with Him. They rose once; never before and never again. They were resurrected from death, and death could not touch them. And death could never again touch Him. That happened before He created.

Now, I have to explain the inexplicable. I have to explain that which cannot be explained. I don’t know how to do this. There was a creation that had not yet been created. There was a purpose in that creation that had not been fulfilled, and you and I were in that creation. But we were not in that creation. We are going to get very involved in that creation, though we’re not in that creation. And there’s going to be an end to that creation, an utter, total end to that creation. You’re going to be in the end of the creation, but you’re not going to be in the end of that creation. You’re not involved, and you are involved…and that’s not all. That slaying, those choosings, that creation, that fall, your redemption, a cross in Jerusalem, a resurrected tomb, and a garden, the end of that fallen creation. In mysteries beyond mysteries, He did all of that, and did away with that creation: finished it, sealed it up, and had it disappear and be forgotten. He did that…before He created it. Praise the Lord.

For He finished all things before He created all things. So that when He was slain by His Father before creation, and His wonderful, glorious portions died with Him, He took a creation that had not been created, and a fall that had not taken place, and a cross that had not come, and a Satan that didn’t exist, and a death that had never been known, and the creation of the heavens and the earth that were not yet; He took them all into His being, and He destroyed them in His death, as the Lamb. He took that creation that had not been, and He took it into death with Him before He created Him, and you have to know that this creation that you live in has on the back of its neck imprinted these words: Destroyed Before Created.