BELIEVERS’ INHERITANCE IN CHRIST! - PART 4.

 EVERYDAY IN THE WORD!

TUESDAY MAY 03, 2022.

SUBJECT: BELIEVERS’ INHERITANCE IN CHRIST! - PART 4.

Memory verse: "And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.” (John 1 vs 16.)

READ: Colossians 2 vs 8 - 10:

2:8: Beware lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to Christ.

2:9: For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily;

2:10: and you are complete in Him, who is the head of all principality and power.

INTIMATION:

In the passage we read today, the apostle Paul asserts Christ’s deity. “In Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead bodily” means that all of God was in Christ’s human body. When we have Christ, we have everything we need for salvation and right living. The character, essence, attributes and deity of God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were representatively manifested through Jesus. 

Those who are in Christ are spiritually complete for God’s eternal purpose to create beings with characters that are fit for eternal dwelling. Therefore, the saints of God are the completion of the work of God in the creation of all things. All those who have responded to Jesus by receiving, believing, and obeying the gospel, have received the fullness of what He offered on the cross. In Him are all spiritual blessings that refer to our salvation. 

Therefore, those who are born again into Him, enjoy the saving grace of God that supplies the fullness of what Jesus offers through His atoning sacrifice. Those who are in Christ have responded to the grace of God by immersion into Christ in order to receive forgiveness of sins. Those who are immersed are born into a realm of grace wherein they work in response to God’s grace. 

Obviously, few Christians seem content within themselves. Most Christians feel a strange and often hard-to-identify inner vacuum occasioned by circumstances of life, which gives them an uneasy sense of incompleteness. Christ fills that vacuum! As Jesus’ Person is fully divine, so we, united by faith with Jesus, find personal fulfillment in Him. Do not look at circumstances but rather look up to Him that controls all circumstances!

We are the fullness of Him, and are in Him, having come to fullness of life in Christ. The full power and presence of God have taken up residence in the mind and heart of the believer. You are a new person, equipped for life and satisfied in God. You, also, are filled with the Godhead—Father, Son, and Holy Spirit—and reach full spiritual stature in the knowledge and revelation of Him. And He is the Head of all rule and authority (of every angelic principality and power). He is not only equal to God, He is God, and is supreme over all creation, including the spirit world.

He is the same Jesus we are complete in, and also His fullness. He is not only our fullness, but we are His fullness also. The word, "fullness" comes from a Greek word that is almost untranslatable: "pleroma," which means "completeness," "perfectness," or any other synonym that suggests fullness. 

It is for this reason that Jesus said, “....Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, “You are gods”? (John 10 vs 34). Yes, He called us gods, to whom the word of God came, because we are agents of God’s revelation and Will, and the Scripture cannot be broken (See John 10 vs 35). We are the sons of God in a unique and unparalleled relationship of oneness with the Father in Christ.

It was for this reason that the apostle Paul thanked God in Colossians 2 vs 14, for His triumph over Satan for us; "But thanks be to God, who always lead us in triumph in Christ," and “gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ” (First Corinthians 15 vs 57). That is the Hallelujah chorus of the new creation, and it never becomes real until we begin to confess it, begin to tell to the world what we are in Christ.

Paul said you need this knowledge, "that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light." Colossians 1 vs 10 - 12).

In Hebrews 9 vs 12, the Scripture reveals to us that this is an Eternal Redemption. Not just a redemption for the hour in which it was done, but that Satan is as much defeated now as he was when Christ arose from the dead; that he is as much a subject to the Name of Jesus as he was when Jesus conquered him.

As you start today in the newness of life, take some risks—God will guide you, Give more generously—God will supply. Love more freely— God will energize you. Say “can do” more often—God will amaze you.

Prayer: Abba Father, I am Your fullness, and is complete in You. Endue me with the spiritual wisdom and understanding of my inheritance in Your works, and the complete knowledge of God, that I may walk worthy of You, fully pleasing You, strengthened with all might, according to Your glorious power, and being fruitful in every good work, in Jesus’ Name I have prayed, Amen.

PRAISE THE LORD!