and you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority. (NIV)
10 And it is in union with him that you have been made full - he is the head of every rule and authority.(CJB)
“The greatest tension in the New Testament is between the indicative (what God has already done and what is already true about us), and the imperative (what remains to be done as we respond to God by faith and obedience in the power of the Holy Spirit). You have to know and believe positional truth to successfully progress in your sanctification or you are going to try doing for yourself what God has already done for you.
The balance between the indicative and the imperative is about equal in Scripture, but I have not observed that in our churches. Most preaching I have heard focuses on the imperatives.” Neil T. Anderson ,Victory over the Darkness p 84.
No one on the imperative side would say, your are made full. You are complete. The entire focus of the imperative is about the great distance which remains between now and some future date.
I have been made complete.
I have been made full.
I have been given fullness in Christ.
How does this work? It seems all I see is incompleteness and standards for perfection I cannot fulfill.
To be complete – is to finish, full, acceptable, reformed.
I have been rushing in ………..
The opposite of complete is
Broken
Worthless
Without potential
Sinner
Judgment
Complete and full of his fullness.
Filled with God
One in Spirit with God
Friend
Forgiven
A child is complete when it is born.
It is a child, not fully grown, but complete.
It is not wise yet complete.
It is not mature yet complete.
It does not function as young child yet it is complete.
It does not know language yet it is complete
It does not know the culture of the family or land
It is a child, complete.
And so I am a child of God, complete.
PS: There is a tension here. God says I am blessed and have been made complete. Yet I only know how to live by my old life. This new whole, complete and full life has no footing in my history. Everything I do in this new life is a total surprise to me. It has more surprises than met expectations.
Jesus let every word of every prayer and intercession you prayed for me be released. Every unfulfilled gift, provision and creativity, every blessing, property and invention be released to me and my house.
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