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Christ- the Fullness of God, Part 1 (TMF:2560)

Friday, February 28, 2025
Peace to Live By: Christ- the Fullness of God, Part 1 (TMF:2560) - Daniel Litton
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       Colossians 1:19: “For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell” (ESV). Upon reading this first, the mind’s first inclination is to see the Son as somehow lesser than the Father—for at first glance, it would appear the verse is implying the Son was created at one point in time or something like that. What seems to be the case, since that obviously could not and would not be the matter, it seems that the Apostle Paul is implying that when Christ took on the form of a human, when he became as us, taking on human flesh (the incarnation), that he still remained fully God. In other words, any of the Son’s original God-ness was not lost when he took on human flesh to come into the world. It is interesting that, in Ephesians, Paul calls the church the fullness of Jesus. He says there about after Jesus returned to Heaven, “he put all things 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 1:22, 23, ESV).