<p>1:22 <i>And He put all things in subjection under his feet, and gave him to us to be head over all things in the church</i>- The Lord's exaltation means that we are to be subject to Him. The Lord Jesus as the head of the body is going to as it were fill His body with His Spirit and direction. For the context here is of the transforming gift of the Spirit to those who are &quot;in&quot; the body of Christ.</p><p>The body of Christ, the ecclesia, is one form of the personal self-revelation of the person of the Lord Jesus. We don&rsquo;t only and solely receive His self-revelation through accepting dogma or doctrine. It comes to us also through the way He mediates His personality to us, His self-revelation, through His Spirit in His body. His fullness is to be found in the church, His body- He fills &ldquo;all believers / members of the church in all&rdquo; (Eph. 1:22,23). I take this to mean that the fullness of His personal character, person, spirit, truth&hellip; is to be found in His body on earth, i.e. the community of believers. Each of them manifest a different aspect of Him. This is the Biblical &ldquo;unity of the spirit&rdquo;- whereby the body of Jesus reveals Him consistently, as a unity, thus binding together all who share that same one spirit of Christ. This is the way to unity- not enforcing intellectual assent to dogmatic propositions.</p><p>All things were put under the Lord&rsquo;s feet because of His exaltation (Eph. 1:22); but now we see not yet all things put under Him (Heb. 2:8; 1 Cor. 15:24-28). The &ldquo;all things&rdquo; matches with Col. 1:18 speaking of the Lord being placed over the church. We are the &ldquo;all things&rdquo;. The great commission has the same thought sequence- because of the Lord&rsquo;s exaltation, therefore we must go and tell all men and bring them into subjection to the exalted Christ. In prospect His body is &ldquo;all in all&rdquo; (Eph. 1:23), but the &ldquo;all in all&rdquo; phase will only be realized in practice at the end of the Millennium (1 Cor. 15:28). It is for us to grasp the height of His exaltation and the fact that it means that potentially, all men, all of existence, is under Him. And then we respond to this by going out and seeking to bring all men under Him.</p>