The Assembly of Christ

God created all things for His glory when He called into existence this world and the vast system of the universe. His object was that unto the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, or angelic hosts. He should make known by means of the Church what the Apostle calls "His manifold [all-various] wisdom." (Eph. 3.) In other words, He reserved in His own bosom this master-piece of divine wisdom— this chiefest of all revelations. This Church shows His all-various wisdom which comprises without distinction, poor sinners, associating them with Himself, and attaching them to the Lord Jesus Christ in a living, organic, intimate unity. The saints on the earth become linked up and one with the glorified Christ, the head of the mystic object.
In Matthew's gospel we find the first historical mention of this wonderful truth. It is not given to us in Mark, Luke, or John. I think it appropriate that it should be so, because in Matthew we have the dispensational character of truth.