The One in Whom All Fullness Dwells
Dec 29, 2014 2018
by Charles Spurgeon
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell. – Col 1:19, KJV
Let it be noted here, however, very carefully, that while fullness is treasured up in Christ, it is not said to be treasured up in the doctrines of Christ; though they are full and complete, and we need no other teachings when the Spirit reveals the Son in us; nor is it said to be treasured up in the commands of Christ, although they are amply sufficient for our guidance; but it is said, “It pleased the Father that in him,” in his person, “should all fullness dwell.”
In him, as God incarnate dwelleth in all the fullness of the godhead bodily;” not as a myth, a dream, a thought, a fiction, but as a living, real personality. We must lay hold of this. I know that the fullness dwells in him officially as Prophet, Priest, and King—but the fullness lies not in the prophetic mantle, nor in the priestly ephod, nor in the royal vesture, but in the person that wears all these. “It pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell.”
You must get to the very Christ in your faith and rest alone in him, or else you have not reached the treasury wherein all fullness is stored up. All fullness is in him radically; if there be fullness in his work, or his gifts, or his promises, all is derived from his person, which gives weight and value to all. All the promises are yea and amen in Christ Jesus. The merit of his death lies mainly in his person, because he was God who gave himself for us, and his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree. The excellence of his person gave fullness to his sacrifice. Hebrews 1:3.
His power to save at this very day lies in his person, for “he is able to save to the uttermost them that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.” I desire you to see this, and feel it; for when your soul clasps the pierced feet of Jesus, and looks up into the face more marred than that of any man, even if you cannot understand all his works and offices, yet if you believe in him, you have reached the place wherein all fullness dwells, and of his fullness you shall receive.
– Charles Spurgeon (from the sermon “All Fulness in Christ”
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