Igniting Your Christian Life: Filled With The Fullness of God

In order that, at the end of verse 19, and this is just mind-boggling, in order that you might be filled with all the fullness of God. Now I don’t even know what to say about this. I thought of so many things to say. How do you explain this? I don’t know. I just know that He’s saying here that I, as a Christian, if I follow this sequence, can be filled with all the fullness of God. It’s one thing for me to think about being filled with the Spirit in verse 16, another thing for me to think about being filled with Christ in verse 17, but now to be filled with God.

The Eternal God, the Almighty God, the Creator God, the Sustainer God, the God of the universe, the God who made it all, the God who fills it all, can fill me. Incredible. Incredible. No way to measure it. I don’t even know how to measure it, that somehow God, who fills all in all, could fill me, could come and live in me, and He would all be there. Not just a piece of Him. I’m not a pantheist. I’m not saying He’s everywhere and because I’m somewhere He’s where I am. I’m saying He, in His totality, lives in me.

Incredible thought. All I have to do is start thinking about what kind of a God He is. You know, this concept of fullness is a great concept. God never intended Christians to function on half, you know, half basis. We are to be full, full, full, full. Paul says it over and over and over and over. In Ephesians 1, 23, look at it, he says, the body, the Church, is the fullness of Him that filleth all in all, the being filled with the fullness of God, verse 19. Chapter 4, verse 10, that He might fill all things.

Chapter 4, verse 13, that we might come to the stature of the fullness of Christ. Chapter 5, verse 18, that we would be filled with the Spirit. Do you see? God doesn’t settle for anything less than total fullness. I can illustrate it this way. The word plero, fullness, is a word that is used many times in the New Testament to speak of total fullness. That’s its meaning. A way to illustrate it would be on a scale basis. For example, in the Gospels, it says He was filled with anger, He was filled with rage, He was filled with wrath, filled with malice.

It means that that one attitude is dominated. For example, most of the time we try to keep equilibrium, like we’ve got two things. For example, imagine it this way, happiness and sorrow. And so, we’ll go through life. A little bit of happiness, you know, a little bit of happiness is really nice. Happiness. A little sorrow over here balances us off. Oh, it’s wonderful. We’re having a great time. But we think about it so and so and they’re very sad. We sort of just go back and forth like this, and then Aunt Martha dies, leaves us a hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and whomp on the happy side.

It doesn’t matter anymore about whoever’s sick. We forget that. We’re having happiness. Or our, or our son or daughter decides to marry a wonderful Christian instead of the person they were going with that scared us to death. Way, we’re so happy. See? We are filled with happiness. That’s where pleiro is used. It’s dominant, total dominance. And when you come to the concept of our lives, we go like this. We say, well, here’s the Holy Spirit and here’s me. A little bit for the Holy Spirit, a little bit for me. A little self will, a little Holy Spirit’s will.

But when we’re filled with the Spirit, you see, all of a sudden self is out of the picture and it all falls on the Holy Spirit’s side of the scale. And God doesn’t want to share us with us either. It isn’t a little bit of God, a little bit of us, a little bit of, it’s the fullness of God. It’s the fullness of Christ. It’s the fullness of the Holy Spirit. You see? And God wants literally himself to fill us, so that as Paul said to Titus, we adorn the doctrine of God.

Incredible thought. What kind of a God do we have that wants to fill us? Oh, I was thinking this week about what a God we have. What a God who wants to fill us with his power. Just for example, the choir sang 2 Samuel 23. It reminded of 2 Samuel 22. Look at it for a minute. David’s magnificent song of praise to God. Listen, I want to just describe God to you for a minute in the words of David. And he said, this is David. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, the God of my rock.

In him will I trust. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation. 2 Samuel 22.3 My high tower, my refuge, my saviour, thou savest me from violence. I will call on the Lord who is worthy to be praised. So shall I be saved from mine enemies. When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid, the sorrows of hell compassed me about, and the snare of death came upon me. In my distress, I called upon the Lord and cried to my God, and he did hear my voice out of his temple, and my cry did enter into his ears.

And then the earth shook and trebled. The foundations of heaven moved and shook because he was angry. There went up a smoke out of his nostrils and fire out of his mouth devoured. Coles were kindled by it. He bowed the heavens also and came down, and darkness was under his feet. And he rode upon a cherub and did fly, and he was seen upon the wings of the wind, and he made darkness pavilions round about him, dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

And the Lord thundered from heaven, and the Most High utter his voice. And he sent out arrows and scattered the lightning and routed them. And the channels of the sea appeared, and the foundations of the world were laid bare at the rebuking of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. He sent from above. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy and from them who hated me, for they were too strong for me. What a God! What incredible things! And down in verse 29, For thou art my lamp, O Lord, the Lord will lighten my darkness.

For by thee I have run through a troop. By my God have I leaped over a wall. As for God, his way is perfect. The word of the Lord is tried. He is a shield to all of them that trust in him. For who is a God, except the Lord? And who is a rock, except our God? God is my strength and power, and he maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet like hind’s feet, and seteth me upon my high places. What a great God! This is the God who deems it his will to live in me, to live in you.

Listen to Job. Job in his extolling of the wonder of God in Job 26 and verse 5, Dead things tremble from under the waters and their inhabitants. Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering. He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and he hangeth the earth on nothing. Where once there was nothing. Do you know that? And God stepped out on nothing, and God made something out of nothing. And then he hung it on nothing, and told it to stay there. He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds, and the cloud is not torn under them.

He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it. He hath compassed the water with a boundary, until the day and night come to an end. The pillars of heaven tremble, and are astonished at his reproof. He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through its pride. By his spirit he has garnished the heavens, by his hand he’s formed the crooked serpent. Lo, these are parts of his ways, but how little apportion is heard of him. But the thunder of his power, who can understand? What a God! What a God is our God! And all the while my breath is in me, chapter 27 verse 3 says, and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils.

My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit. God forbid that I should justify you. Till I die I will not remove mine integrity from me. My righteousness I hold fast. I will not let it go. Listen. If God is that great, then I will cling to my righteousness. He goes on to extol the wonders of God in his character in the 36th chapter. So many wonderful things. He says, Behold God is mighty, mighty in strength, might in wisdom. Verse 26 of 36, Behold God is great and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

For he maketh small the drops of water. They pour down rain according to their vapor, which the clouds do drop and distill upon man abundantly. Also, can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle? Behold, he spreadeth his light upon it, and covereth the bottom of the sea. For by them judgeth he the people. He giveth food in abundance. With clouds he covereth the light, and commandeth it not to shine by the cloud that cometh between. The noise of it showeth concerning it, the cattle also, concerning the vapor.

At this also my heart trembleth. And you can go all the way through the end of the 39th chapter of Job, and hear all about God. And when he gets all done, he says, Wherefore God I have heard of thee by the hearing of ear, but now my eye sees thee, and I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Well, that’s a little glimpse of God, and that’s the God that wants to fill you. And that’s the God that wants to enable you, the God that wants to make you powerful, the God that wants to do all the good pleasure of his will through you.

David said no wonder he said it. In Psalm 1715 he said, I’ll be content, I’ll never be satisfied until I awaken thy likeness. See? Inner strength leads to the indwelling Christ, leads to incomprehensible love, which leads to infinite fullness. When God’s love permeates us through Christ, then all of his fullness follows on. It all follows. Thank you for joining us in this exploration of igniting your Christian life, filled with the fullness of God. Until next time, remember to keep the faith, stay strong, and continue to shine your light in the world.

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