Do you realize the fullness of God dwells in Jesus Christ?
Paul wrote the following to the Colossian believers in reference to Jesus – “For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.” (Colossians 1: 19) In order to refute the false teachers in Ephesus, Paul wrote to the group of believers there who had fallen into false ideas such as marriage should be forbidden and certain foods should not be eaten. They also had been led to believe many myths and were wrongly focused on endless genealogies. From Paul’s letter to the Ephesians we read – “For this reason I too, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus Christ which exists among you and your love for all the saints, do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the full knowledge of Him, so that you – the eyes of your heart having been enlightened – will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe according to the working of the might of His strength, which He worked in Christ, by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all rule and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come. And He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.” (Ephesians 1: 15-23)
Why is it important for us to realize that all the fullness of God dwells in Jesus Christ? Consider what the theologian Wayne Grudem writes – “It is important to remember the doctrine of the Trinity in connection with the study of God’s attributes. When we think of God as eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, and so forth, we may have a tendency to think only of God the Father in connection with these attributes. But the biblical teaching on the Trinity tells us that all of God’s attributes are true of all three persons, for each is fully God. God the Son and God the Holy Spirit are also eternal, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinitely wise, infinitely holy, infinitely loving, omniscient, and so forth.” (Grudem, 269)
It is important to realize who Jesus is because there are many false ideas about Jesus in our world today. If you want to know the truth about Him, you must study His word. He clearly reveals who His is through His word.
We become children of God after we put our faith in Jesus, in what He has done for us. John taught – “There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens everyone. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. He came to what was His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1: 9-13)
REFERENCES:
Grudem, Wayne A. Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine. Zondervan, 2000.
The McArthur Study Bible, 2nd Edition. 2020. Thomas Nelson.
