Christ dwells by the Spirit; surpassing knowledge of Christ; Colossians mystery

Who is the one who dwells in you? Or how is he housed in human beings through faith? Yet John says clearly about God: “By this we know that he is in us: that he has given us of his Spirit.”

From Philippians, on the boasts that are in the law: “Whatever gains I had, these I have counted as loss because of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as refuse, in order that I may gain Christ.”

Why are the things in the law loss and refuse? And what is the surpassing worth of the knowledge of Jesus Christ? The law through Moses proclaimed the true God by nature to those of old, while the mystagogues of the new covenant have announced Christ to the world. But if he is a human as we are — merely common, not believed to be God by hypostatic union with the Word from God — how will faith according to him surpass the faith of the law?

From Colossians: “Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I fill up what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church, of which I became a minister according to the stewardship of God given to me for you, to fulfill the word of God — the mystery hidden from the ages and from the generations, but now revealed to his saints, to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles.”