Fullness of Christ

God reconciled us "as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself" (Eph 1:5). Christ "loved the church and gave Himself up for her" (5:25). Therefore "through Him we both have our access in one Spirit to the Father" (2:18). We are now "fellow citizens with the saints, and are of God's household" (:19). As a result "God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name" (Php 2:9). It is so that Christ "will come to have first place in everything" (Col 1:8) and "for all the fullness to dwell in Him" (:19). "All things have been created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together" (:16-17). Christ "ascended far above all the heavens, so that He might fill all things" (Eph 4:10). There is "one Spirit . . . one Lord . . . one God and Father of all who is over all and through all in all" (:4-6).

Hoping in Christ is "to the praise of His glory" (Eph 1:12) and through suffering "we may also be glorified with Him" (Ro 8:17) which "is to be revealed in us" (:18). It is grace "which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved" (Eph 1:6) "to make you stand in the presence of His glory" (Jude 24). He "called us by His own glory" (2Pe 1:3) and "of His fullness we have all received" (Jn 1:16). It comes through "the true knowledge of Him" (2Pe 1:3) and Paul prayed that "the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and a revelation in the knowledge of Him" (Eph 1:17). Then "every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father" (Php 2:11).

God has "blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ" (Eph 1:3). "His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness" (2Pe 1:3). Consequently Paul asked them "to walk in a manner worthy of [your] calling" (Eph 4:1) also stating "you were called in one hope of your calling" (:4). Furthermore, be "diligent to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace" (:3) "until we all attain to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man" (:13). "We are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even "Christ" (:15) to "the stature which belongs to the fullness of Christ" (:13). We "also are being built together into a dwelling of God" (2:22) which is "the building up of the body of Christ" (4:12) by "being fitted together" (2:21). "To each one of us grace was given" (4:7) "until we all attain to the unity of the faith" (:13).