THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD Part XI THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT ...

evelation of God’s will and power, individual manifestations of the
PLEROMA (fullness). These mediatorial beings were considered to
contain some of the influence of the Pleroma, a measure of the fullness,
but none could contain ALL the Pleroma fullness, for the Pleroma was
the SUM TOTAL of the divine power and attributes. Thus, in all classes,
when the Pleroma was distributed and issued through various beings it
was diluted, changed, and darkened by foreign (earthly) admixture. The
beings through whom the Pleroma was expressed were only partial and
blurred images, merely deceptive caricatures of the original, broken
lights of the great Central Light – God.”
Paul claims that IN CHRIST the TRUE PLEROMA is found: that
He as the Son of God has all the plenitude of the Godhead in Him, in full
measure and running over! Let us read this in the Amplified Bible: “For
it has pleased the Father that ALL THE DIVINE FULLNESS – the
SUM TOTAL of the divine perfection, powers and attributes – should
dwell in Him permanently. For in Him the whole fullness of Deity
continues to dwell in bodily form – giving COMPLETE EXPRESSION
to the divine nature” (Col. 1:19; 2:9). This brings us to another most
wonderful and enlightening declaration. Hear it! “And He has appointed
Him the universal and supreme Head of the Church, which is His body,
THE FULLNESS OF HIM Who fills all in all – for IN THAT BODY
lives the FULL MEASURE OF HIM Who makes everything
complete… and YOU ARE IN HIM, MADE FULL… in Christ you too
are filled with the Godhead!” (Eph. 1:22-23; Col. 2:10). The point here
is that since the true PLEROMA, all the fullness of God, dwells
permanently in Christ Jesus, if we are IN HIM, all that divine
PLEROMA becomes ours. Whatever perfection is in God, in His
knowledge, power, strength, might, wisdom, love, holiness, this fills up
to the full our measure of capacity. The King James version says: “For
in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead bodily… and ye are
complete IN HIM.” The word “complete” is the Greek word PLEROO
which is the root from which is derived PLEROMA. Thus, Paul is
saying that CHRIST IS FULL of the Godhead and IN HIM we are
MADE FULL to the very same measure. The Greek text does not say
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