and His Body, the church, are one in Him – and we are all complete in Him: for in Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him, Who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
Complete in Him
And the impossible reality in the lives of all who believe in Jesus, is that we are complete in Him, and the divine nature from above, the “DNA” of Christ Jesus is ours by birth and adoption, for we are His precious people; a holy nation – God’s special possession.
Having been, born into His family, gained the wonderful birthright of eternal life, and made complete in Him, we too have a body that is being prepared for us, in heaven.
Being accepted in Christ and complete in Him is the fixed status of all believers. But chose to disbelieve the truth, and you will build up a lie in your mind.
Until we can accept that we are Complete in Him, we will be incomplete.
and because we are in Christ, we have been brought to complete fullness. There is nothing lacking in the Christian, because we are complete in Him.
Complete in Him
Too often however believers try to add something to Christ, as they did in Colossae.
But when anything is added to the finished work of Christ it threatens our purity. We are complete in Him and purified in Him but all additions introduce a pollutant.
Hid in Christ
And it is this... God’s children are 'complete in Him'.
One old saint explained the fact of being 'complete in Him', this way:- First, the Lord Jesus is the source of our Christian life – we were born into Him.
God has made us complete in Him.
that we are Complete in Him, now.
Being Changed
And though we are initially 'complete in Him'..
we walk in newness of life…and you are complete in Him.
It is: by the obedience of One that many shall be made righteous, for in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, and we are complete in Him.
We were born into Him and God has made us complete in Him: if any man be in Christ he is a new creature in Him. 2Cor.5:17.
Slowly we begin to receive and accept what was already ours from our ‘re-birth‘… that: I am complete in Him.
Since we are complete in Him we can never add to that finished work.
Though complete in Him through spiritual birth, maturity grows over time.
Our life is complete in Him.
The little seed embodies in full reproduction – of the life from which it came – and we are similarly, complete in Him, and our life is hid with Christ in God.
Oh, that the God of hope may so supply us with the brimming fullness of Himself – that we will be complete in Him – with all joy and peace in believing – and that we may abound in hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
We are raised in Him (Eph. 2:6); we are complete in Him (Col. 2:10); we are blessed with all spiritual blessings in Him (Eph. 1:3); the entire work regarding us is not done in us but in the Lord Jesus - the Father has done all in His Son.
All the essential essence of Deity inhabits Him in bodily form, The entire fullness of God’s whole nature dwells bodily in Christ, AND YOU HAVE BEEN MADE COMPLETE IN HIM.Colossians 2:9
Scriptural Truth
Don’t be robbed of the scriptural truth that in Christ dwells all the Godhead bodily. You are once for all and forever, in time and eternity – totally complete in Him.
Nothing need be added to what you are in Christ, for you are complete in Him.
Nothing can be removed from who you are in Christ, for you are complete in Him. Our completeness is an unchangeable fact, contained in Holy Scripture.
God’s Gift to Believers
From God’s perspective... if you are IN Christ you are complete in Him.
Complete in Him
God’s Word cannot be broken, and God’s word says, In HIM dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.
All he needs for maturity is encompassed in his new life. All a Christian needs, is in his new life in Christ and he is complete in Him, for nothing can be added and nothing can be subtracted – for Christ is ALL in ALL. He is ALL we need and we are COMPLETE in Him.
Christlike Nature
It is not to be the old ‘ME’ but the new ‘ME’ that has supremacy in the life I live, so that it is not I that lives, but Christ Who in me Galatians 2:20… so that it is not the old sin nature but the new Christlike nature that develops – for ye are in Christ and ye are complete in Him. Colossians 2:10
to allow Him to make us whole and healthy – mature and complete in Him.
You are complete in Him, Who Himself is perfect There is nothing anyone of us can do to make ourselves perfect, for He has done it all – and it is finished.
He sees you as complete in Him now, and He sees you as being completed In Him from this day forward.
Only He can make us whole, and healthy, mature, and complete in Him.
Complete in Him
We were indeed made complete in Him at the conception and birth of our faith.
God, Himself, has made each and every blood-bought child complete in Him. For of Him are ye in Christ Jesus, Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption. 1 Corinthians 1:30
for we are complete in Jesus. We are complete in Him.
Fragile Self
A tiny cornflower seed embodies the life of a cornflower within its fragile self. The little seed contains in full reproduction of the life from which it came. We too are complete in Him – and our life is hid with Christ in God, and like the cornflower seed, all of Christ is embodied within our “new man,” And we will be fully like Him when we see Him as He is.
Godly Living
Not only is our life positioned in Him – it is complete In Him.
God has given us all that we need to live a holy and godly life: according as His divine power, He hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through knowledge of Him, Who called us to glory and virtue. 2 Peter 1:3 If only we believed our life were truly complete in Him – and then, were to act on it.
for we know that the victory is already His, and so we know that the victory is already ours – for we are complete in Him.
Fullness of Godhead
And yet He does not only give us some of Himself – He gives to each of us, His all - for in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily, and ye are complete in Him, which is the Head of all principality and power Col.2:9
Complete in Him
Not only is our life positioned in Him and complete in Him, but He has given us all that we need to live a holy and godly life.
so as we bring into captivity every thought, every imagination, and every word, we know that the victory is already His – for we know that we are complete in Him.
It is in Christ Jesus that all the fullness of Deity resides in a human body, and it is by Him that we who believe, have been made a new creation in Christ and are complete in Him.
We live in a world that idolises self-sufficiency and rejects the eternal truth of the glory of God... and yet we are to find our full sufficiency in Christ - for in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily and we are complete in Him.
As believers, we do not have to succumb to any alternatives because we are in Christ and are complete in Him, for in Him dwells all the knowledge of the Godhead bodily.
For in Him dwells the fullness of the Godhead in bodily form, and through our union with Him, we are continuously and eternally complete in Him, lacking nothing.
He is all we need, He is the One upon Whom all our hope are founded: You are complete in Him, Who is the head of all principality and power.
We were raised up to newness of life and are complete in Him, we have put on the new man in Christ, and we are seated with Him in heavenly realms, and yet we walk this earth and are charged to keep on being renewed in our minds, and to put off the old self with its evil practices.