All Fulness In
Christ
Colossians 1:19
When Paul writes, "It pleased the
Father that in him should all fulness dwell," he means for us to
understand that there is in the Lord Jesus Christ a superlative, infinite,
immeasurable wealth of grace and glory. He is an artesian well of fulness.
Everything is in him.
WHAT A WORD OF COMFORT FOR BANKRUPT
SINNERS! By nature we are all emptiness and vanity; but all fulness is in
Christ. In us there is an utter lack of merit before God, a total absence of
power to gain merit with God, and a complete absence of will to obey God, even
if we had the ability to do so. But in Christ there is "all fulness"!
THERE IS IN THE LORD JESUS CHRIST ALL THE
FULNESS OF THE TRIUNE GODHEAD (Col. 2:9-10). Jesus Christ the Man is the
eternal God, possessing all the attributes of divinity. Obviously, his manhood
is neither eternal, omnipotent, nor omnipresent! Yet,
his manhood is so united with his Godhead that that Man who sits in glory is
himself God. He is "the mighty God!" Still there is more - All the
fulness of the infinite, triune God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, resides in
the body of that Man who died at Calvary and now reigns over all things. Jesus
Christ is God! Jesus Christ is all of God we now know, and all of God we shall
ever know! Jesus Christ is all there is of God! We are trinitarians (I John
5:7). However, all the triune God resides in and is
known only by Jesus Christ, in whom all fulness dwells.
ALL FULNESS IS IN CHRIST AS THE MEDIATOR,
SUBSTITUTE, AND REPRESENTATIVE OF HIS PEOPLE (John
Don Fortner