The Word of God, Christ in Me

Here's 1 Colossians 1:25-27...

"Of this church I was made a minister according to the stewardship from God bestowed on me for your benefit,

so that I might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God,

that is,

the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations,

but has now been manifested to His saints,

to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles,

which is Christ in you, the hope of glory."


…so that I [Paul] might fully carry out the preaching of the word of God.

What is the “word of God” Paul is talking about?

The mystery which has been kept secret until now.

What is the mystery?

Christ in me, the hope of glory.

So how does Paul define the word of God?

It is Christ in me, the hope of glory.

I’m not a Greek scholar, but I know English pretty well. The way this phrase is punctuated implies that I am the hope of [God's] glory. If this text is translated correctly, we’ve been looking at ourselves wrongly for centuries.

Borderline heretical statements aside, Paul clearly implies that the word of God is not a book, but the revealed secret that Christ is already walking the earth…in me.