Daily Bread

Ephesians 1:23 - "Who is His body the fullness of Him that fills all in all."

The church is able to be the fullness of the Lord Jesus Christ because of the fullness of the Holy Spirit that has been given. The Greek word 'pleroma' designates that which is filled up and overflowing. This same word is used in John 1:16 which declares of all the saints "And of His fullness have all we received." It is also used of the believer in Ephesians 3:19, "that you may be filled with all of the fullness of God." And again in Ephesians 4:13, "come to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ." All fullness dwells in Christ and Christ dwells in us (Colossians 1:19, 1 John 4:4; 3:24; John 14:23). Those who would relegate the function of the Holy Spirit and the measure that was given to the apostles solely to the first century church have no basis to do so. In fact, scriptures such as these emphasize that the same revelation and measure of the Spirit is available to all for all time (John 14:16; 16:13-15; Colossians 1:26; Galatians 3:14; Luke 11:13; Acts 2:39; 11:15-16; 15:8-9).

Blessings,
Pastor Mark Spitsbergen
www.abidingplace.org