can be posed very simply. To which Old Testament promises is Christ heir? Is he an Israelite? Is he the offspring of Abraham? Is he the heir of David? The answer must be, “No matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ” (2 Cor. 1:20). Now to which of these promises are Christians heirs in union with Christ? Theologically it is hard to resist the answer “All of them.” After all, “in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and you have been given fullness in Christ,