<p>12:44 <i>Of a truth I say to you, that he will set him over all that he has</i>- We each individually have this promise of being made ruler over <i>all</i> that Jesus has. The &quot;all things&quot; refers to the believers; a concordance study of these two words gives fair testimony to this. The ecclesia <i>is</i> the body of Christ, &quot;the fullness of him that filleth all in all&quot; (Eph. 1:22,23). Let us pause to exult in this fact; that Jesus <i>exists</i> for no one else except the believers. Each of us is promised by Him that He will make us ruler over &quot;all that he hath&quot;, i.e. all the saints. We will each rule over each other because we will each be so closely identified with the Lord Jesus; yet in another sense there will be a hierarchy of spiritual glory in the Kingdom.</p><p>If we are doing what we have been empowered to do for the household now, then we shall be appointed to eternally do this. The state of perfection in the Kingdom is described as us (the complete church of all ages) having reached, &quot;a perfect man... the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ&quot;, having grown up into Christ, who is the head of the body (Eph. 4:13,15). When the Lord comes, we will each individually be made ruler over&nbsp;<i>all</i>&nbsp;that He has, we will each individually be fully righteous, fully manifesting the Lord Jesus. There seems to be marked connection with the fact (brought out in the parable of the talents) that we will each have&nbsp;<i>all</i>&nbsp;the Master's goods, and the description in the next parable of those goods being distributed between us in this life (Mt. 24:47; 25:15). In the Kingdom we will no longer know partially, as a result of seeing parts of the whole picture; we will see face to face (1 Cor. 13:9,12 Gk.).</p><p>In this life, the servant was &lsquo;made ruler over&rsquo; s.w. the household, his job was to feed his fellow servants. If he is found so doing at the Lord&rsquo;s return, he will be made ruler over literally all that his master owns, &ldquo;all his goods&rdquo; (AV) is literally &lsquo;all that He has&rsquo;. This is a profound insight into the nature of eternity. All that God has will be put under us. God has not subjected the world to come to the Angels but to us (Heb. 2:5). This is because &ldquo;all things&rdquo; are to be put in subjection under the Lord Jesus (Heb. 2:8), and all that is true of Him is true of us. But that being part of Him is dependent upon our serving of our brethren within the household. He is the householder, but we also are, because we are in Him.</p>