FULNESS VS. FILLED

Saturday 25 January

And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. John 1:16 (NKJV)

to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:19 (NKJV)

And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all Ephesians 1:23 (NKJV)

There are many Christians saying they strongly desire to have an increase of the anointing in their lives. The problem with that is you can’t have more of the Holy Spirit than what you already received at salvation which was in fact, all of Him. ‘Christos’ in Greek is the word for Christ which means the anointed One and His anointing. This speaks of the Holy Spirit who lives in you when you are born of the Spirit.

When you received the Spirit of Jesus to come and dwell in you, you didn’t receive just a part of Him but His whole person. There is a wrong teaching going around that says the Christian only received the Spirit of God in a measure, not in fulness, which adds to the confusion. This is just not true. John 3:34 says:

‘For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God does not give the Spirit by measure.’ Some versions add the words ‘to him’ in italics referring to Jesus, but this is an incorrect rendering.

Question: who are those that have been sent? Answer: every child of God. Let me prove it to you.

‘So Jesus said to them again, “Peace to you! As the Father has sent Me, I also send you’ John 20:21

The word Apostle actually means ‘sent’. This shows that all of us are whom God has sent which therefore means ‘the Spirit without measure’ also applies.

So if we have all of the Spirit, who is Christ, who is the anointed One and His anointing, who is Jesus without limits, then why are we told to ‘be filled with the Spirit’ in Ephesians 5:18?

The answer lies in who constitutes the real you.

2 Corinthians 5:17a says ‘if any man be in Christ he is a new creation’

So who is the man in Christ? Your spirit man. This is the man that got saved and received the fullness of God.

When Apostle Paul says ‘be filled with the Spirit’ he is talking about your soul and body that are not in Christ. This tells us that it is up to us to take the fulness of God in our spirit and through praying in tongues and meditating on the Word, to fill up our whole being; spirit, soul and body with the Spirit of God.

This means all the vast reservoir of salvation can be accessed from our spirit. For example, the health that is in your spirit can be transferred into your physical body. The peace that is in your spirit can be transferred into your mind. Our spirit has the ability to saturate our entire soul and body when we ‘pray in the Spirit’ and meditate.

No wonder Paul prayed in 1 Thessalonians 5:23

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The word blameless is ‘amemptos’ in Greek which means ‘without fault’. When something is said to be ‘faulty’ it has something wrong with it. Paul is encouraging us to use the fullness of God in us to correct every fault in our soul or body. This is our responsibility as the caretakers of our bodies and the gatekeepers of our minds which control our emotions and will.

Remember in Christ you are not your body. You are not your soul. You are a spirit. One Spirit with Jesus. When we walk in this Christ consciousness, continually filling our whole selves with His Holy Spirit, we are able to express the fulness of Christ in us and through us to help others.

APPLICATION

Intentionally set time aside to pray in other tongues to take the fulness from your spirit and begin to fill up every part of your being with Christ.