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why Jesus at the very beginning of His ministry began by exhorting men to “repent.” Repent means “to take a new mind.” Jesus said, “Repent (take a new mind): for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Mat. 4:17). When the sons of god arise in the earth their message will also be “Repent! for the kingdom of God is at hand.” Soon, thank God, the NATIONS SHALL REPENT! “And He (Christ, Head and body) shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they LEARN WAR ANYMORE” (Isa. 2:4). The nations of this earth shall indeed “take a new mind” and walk in the light of the Lord. Thus God’s name shall be sanctified in men, His will shall be done in men, and thereby His glory shall be manifested upon men. Therefore, the nature of all the work of the kingdom is SPIRITUAL. The weapons of the overcoming sons of god shall not be the carnal weapons of political power or police action but SPIRIT WEAPONS which are MIGHTY THROUGH GOD. They shall reign in the SPIRIT OF MIGHT, the omnipotent, invincible power of HIS MIGHT. “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and IN THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT” (Eph. 6:10). THE PLEROMA OF GOD The Spirit of Might which belongs to the sons of God is the Spirit of Jesus, for He upon whom the sevenfold Spirit first rested is also called THE MIGHTY GOD (Isa. 9:6). It is only “in Him” that one can become mighty. There is a glorious company of people who, along with Jesus the Mighty God, are termed “the Mighty.” Asaph, the song and praise leader of Israel, wrote of this company in Ps. 82:1 & 6: “God standeth in the CONGREGATION OF THE MIGHTY; He judgeth among the gods. I have said, “YE ARE GODS; and all of you are THE CHILDREN OF THE MOST HIGH.” This company of “the Mighty” in whose midst god stand is none else but those who are “in Christ” who is “the Mighty God” and are thus “strong in the Lord” and “in the power of HIS MIGHT.” 16
We want to take a closer look at this term “in Christ.” We meet this phrase often in Paul’s epistles to the Ephesians and the Colossians. If “Christ in you” is the hope of glory, as the scripture says it is (Col. 1:27), then you in Christ must certainly BE THE GLORY. In Christ! In Christ! Think of the glory of such a thing! “GOD was in Christ,” the word declares. And now – mystery of mysteries – He is saying that His people are also IN CHRIST. Then we are told: “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself,” and now “if any man BE IN CHRIST he is a new creation” (II Cor. 5:17). Certainly he must be a new creation, for he has entered the realm where God dwells. No longer is he of the earth, earthy, but one Spirit with the Lord from heaven. “I in them, and Thou in Me, that they may be MADE PERFECT IN ONE” (Jn. 17:23). This oneness is no unity of doctrine or organization as the man-made church systems would have us think, but individual members baptized into one body and that body IS THE BODY OF CHRIST. Another word common to Ephesians and Colossians is the word “fullness.” The two thoughts, “in Christ” and “fullness,” belong together and are so used often in both books. Let us read in Eph. 1:22-23 and Col. 1:19 and 2:9-10. “And gave Him to be head over all things to the Church, which is His body, the fullness of Him that filleth all in all. For it pleased the Father that IN HIM should all fullness dwell… for IN HIM dwelleth ALL THE FULLNESS of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete IN HIM.” In the above verses the word “fullness’ is translated from the Greek word PLEROMA. As someone has written: “PLEROMA is a term used by philosophy, and borrowed by Paul from philosophic authors. They claimed to know the secret of something that filled up all human deficiency – a plenitude of knowledge and power. PLEROMA is from the root PLEROO which means “to make replete; to cram; to level up.’ The Pleroma fullness was looked upon by the philosophic teachers as the sum total of all the divine powers and attributes. These divine powers and attributes were then issued through beings – the gods, angels, prophets, teachers, etc., all of whom were instruments in the 17
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