What is the great glory of being in Christ?

Being in Christ means all things are yours—whether Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, things present, or things to come—and it is an unfathomable well of wisdom and knowledge. Believers already live in a spiritual dimension beyond the physical.

Les explains that Paul brings the Corinthian controversy over divisions to a head. Whether believers align with Paul, Apollos, or Peter, or face the world, life, death, things present, or things to come, all these are theirs. That is the great glory of being in Christ: an unfathomable well of wisdom and knowledge. Les also points to Ephesians, where Paul prays the believer might be filled with the wisdom of God and know the height, depth, width, and length. He asks his classes how many dimensions that is—four—while we live in three, indicating a spiritual dimension believers already occupy.

1 Corinthians 3:22

Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;

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What is the great glory of being in Christ according to 1 Corinthians 3?

According to 1 Corinthians 3, all things are yours in Christ—whether Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, things present, or things to come. This is the great glory: an unfathomable well of wisdom and knowledge, a spiritual dimension believers already possess.