04.05. Part 5
Getting To Grips With The Fullness Of JESUS CHRIST
Part 5 The fullness of JESUS CHRIST [YESHUA the MESSIAH] manifested – by the HOLY SPIRIT - in our inward parts, is the definitive basis for our growth and function in GOD.
And, this is so, given that:
The fullness of JESUS CHRIST defines the Body of MESSIAH. And His Fullness is appointed to fill all in all [Ephesians 1:22-23, NASB]
Colossians 1:19-20 [NASB] declares that: < 19 … it was the Father’s good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him [YESHUA], 20 and through Him [YESHUA] to reconcile all things to Himself, having made peace through the blood of His [YESHUA] cross; through Him [YESHUA], I say, whether things on earth or things in heaven. >
We have all received the fullness of JESUS CHRIST [John 1:16, NASB]
Colossians 1:17 [NASB] declares that: < 17 He [YESHUA] is before all things, and in Him [YESHUA] all things hold together. > The manifestation of the fullness of CHRIST JESUS into our inward parts is a revelation from the bosom of the FATHER [John 1:18; John 1:16-18, NKJV]. This revelation is opened and developed by the HOLY SPIRIT into our inward parts [John 16:14; 1 Corinthians 2:10]. What is revealed of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST is perfected and completed into our inward parts by the HOLY SPIRIT, so that we are each created in JESUS CHRIST [Ephesians 2:10]. The fullness of JESUS CHRIST revealed into us is the Mystery of CHRIST revealed. The Mystery of CHRIST is CHRIST in us the hope of glory [see Colossians 1:26-28, NKJV; 1 Corinthians 2:7]. The outcome of the revelation of the Mystery of CHRIST is that we unfold as Epistles of CHRIST [see 2 Corinthians 3:3, NKJV] who can operate as Ministers of CHRIST [see 1 Corinthians 4:1] and Ministers of the New Covenant [see 2 Corinthians 3:6]. The ultimate intent is that we will actualize all function in thought, word, deed and relationship – in and by and through the fullness of JESUS CHRIST. The communication of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST into us is in the substance [Greek: ‘hupostasis’] and witness [Greek: ‘marturia’] of JESUS CHRIST - worked into our inward parts, by the HOLY SPIRIT. The substance and witness of JESUS CHRIST defines our call and our every function that gives expression to our calling.
Hebrews 11:1 (KJV) instructs us that: < 1 … faith is the substance [Greek: ‘hupostasis’] of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. >
We are called to set our hope on JESUS CHRIST – with perseverance and constancy [Romans 5:1-5]. When we set our hope on JESUS CHRIST, the substance of our hope will be of Him.
1 John 3:3 tells us that when we set our hope on JESUS we are purified as He is pure! And, this comes about because the substance of JESUS CHRIST is pure! The witness – the functional evidence of our faith - unfolds from the substance of hope [which is faith] perfected and completed into us by JESUS, the Author and Finisher of our faith [see Hebrews 12:2 a]. The witness that unfolds from the substance of YESHUA’s Fullness is called “the Amen, the faithful and true Witness, the Beginning of the Creation of GOD” [see Revelation 3:14 b]. This faithful and true Witness is expressed in Spirit, Water and Blood [see 1 John 5:10 a, 8, NKJV]. This faithful and true Witness that operates in Spirit, Water and Blood [see John 19:30; John 19:34] is alive in every born-again Christian.
Spirit, Water and Blood, is the [Rhema] Witness of the [Logos] Word of the Cross, the power of the risen CHRIST operating in our inward parts, by the HOLY SPIRIT [see Ephesians 3:20; 1 Corinthians 1:18, NASB].
Hebrews 1:3 b tells us that the LORD JESUS upholds all things [for fulfillment in the FATHER’s will] by the Rhema Word of His Power. Ephesians 3:20 declares that GOD will give us exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we ask or think according to the [Rhema Word of YESHUA’s] power that works within us.
We can now understand that we have an operating system in our inward parts defined exclusively in the fullness of CHRIST JESUS that operates by the HOLY SPIRIT. The call of YESHUA in each one of our lives opens and develops in us, in this functional witness that is a living and growing actualization of the fullness of JESUS CHRIST. Amen!