Amplified Bible which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills and completes all things in all [believers]. Christian Standard Bible which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills all things in every way. Holman Christian Standard Bible which is His body, the fullness of the One who fills all things in every way. American Standard Version which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Which is his body and the fullness of him who fills all in all.
Contemporary English Version The church is the body of Christ and is filled with Christ who completely fills everything. Douay-Rheims Bible Which is his body, and the fulness of him who is filled all in all. English Revised Version which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all. Good News Translation The church is Christ's body, the completion of him who himself completes all things everywhere. International Standard Version which is his body, the fullness of the one who fills everything in every way.
Literal Standard Version which is His body, the fullness of Him who is filling all in all. NET Bible Now the church is his body, the fullness of him who fills all in all. This nourishment from the word of Christ must come from both personal study of the Bible as well as in congregational Bible studies and preaching in worship services. In order to reflect the holy character of Christ, 1 the word of Christ must dwell richly in each member, 2 each member must become grounded in the truth, and 3 the word of Christ must be allowed to direct all of the actions of each individual member.
As a consequence of being nourished by the word of Christ, each member may learn that certain beliefs they possess or certain behaviors they practice are contrary to the word of God.
Upon learning better through the nourishment of the word of Christ from personal study and from the teaching and admonishing of elders, preachers, and teachers, each member must be willing to change as needed to please Christ. The body of Christ builds up itself in love by the members assembling together to worship God and to provoke one another unto love and good works Heb.
I Corinthians 11, 14, and 16 all address problems the church in Corinth was having with some aspect of worship when the church was assembled for that purpose. In correcting the chaotic abuses of the miraculous abilities in the worship assembly that some were doing, five times Paul emphasizes that edifying the church the body was to be the purpose of the preaching, the singing, etc. I Cor. When a member forsakes the assembly of the church, that member does not receive the edification which occurs in the assembly, and that member does not participate in edifying the other members present in the assembly.
Discussion of the Body of Christ in Colossians :. The same theme is presented here as in Eph. By holding fast onto the head, the body grows in love into spiritual maturity from the nourishment received from the head Christ. God gives the increase. Reference 2 raises an interesting question about Col.
The body can only function as well as its joints will allow and so further emphasizes that no part of the body of Christ, no member of the local congregation is unimportant or not needed. The body will then grow in love Eph. If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling? Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good. Some in the church at Corinth apparently favored certain miraculous abilities such as speaking in foreign languages I Cor.
Paul wrote the first Corinthian letter in part to correct this misunderstanding by explaining that all of these miraculous abilities came from God, not from themselves, and that each gift has a purpose and a value in performing the work that God intended the church to do.
The relevance of this today is that while there are no more miraculous gifts given to members by God, each member of the church has natural abilities which should be developed to serve God.
Everyone does not have the same natural abilities nor do all develop their natural abilities at the same rate, but all members of the local congregation need to use and develop their natural abilities for performing the various works that the local congregation is authorized by God to perform. Elders have God-given qualifications which must be met I Tim. Preachers and teachers have qualifications which must be met II Tim. Men who desire to work in these capacities must develop themselves to meet these qualifications.
Unlike in the first century, there are no longer apostles alive who can miraculously give a man the abilities to perform these functions.
Like parts of a human body organs and limbs , each has a role to perform and the body does not function properly when all of the organs and limbs do not function properly. The body cannot function properly or survive depending on the organ, if an organ is undependable, working sometimes and others times not working, not being reliable in performing its function. Similarly, an organ or limb cannot survive by itself separated from the body.
Referring to the church as a body also emphasizes the unity, concern, and care that each member organ or limb should have for each other. All of the body parts have to work together for the common purpose of keeping the entire body alive. If some or all of the body parts were to start working against each other, the body would not function properly and may die depending on the organ involved.
Similarly, the whole body feels and is sympathetic toward any part which is hurting, feels pain, or is not functioning properly. He descended through incarnation, crucifixion, and death, then He ascended from Hades to the earth, and then to the heavens.
By such a descending and ascending He fills all things. He descended to be a man, and He ascended to be a life-giving Spirit. Now He fills all things — both the universe and the whole earth and even our heart, our physical universe, and our personal universe! The church is the Body of Christ, and Christ is the Head of the church Col, ; ; hence, the church and Christ are one Body, the mysterious, universal great man ; Eph. Christ is the life and content of the Body, and the Body is the organism and expression of Christ see Col.
As the Body, the church receives everything from Christ; therefore, everything of Christ is expressed through the church. Since we are the Body of Christ, we experience a continual transmission. Everything we need, we have from Christ, and we express Him as His fullness. The two — Christ and the church as His Body — are mingled and joined as one, with Christ as the inward content and the church as the outward expression. Thank You Lord for descending through incarnation and death, and then ascending to the heavens to become a life-giving Spirit to fill all in all!
Thank You Lord for making us the church, the Body of Christ, the fullness of the One who fills all in all. Lord, fill us with Your riches until we become Your fullness, Your expression in full, to express You on the earth! Amen, Lord, gain the church as the overflow of the riches of Christ on earth!
We need to see clearly how the church as the Body of Christ has been formed. In Matt. Christ was crucified, died, and after three days rose from the dead, was transfigured to become the pneumatic Christ, the life-giving Spirit, and returned to His disciples, appeared among them, and said, Peace be to you. Then, He breathed into them saying, Receive the Holy Spirit. This was the beginning of the formation of the church.
By going through death and resurrection, Christ became the Spirit whom He prophesied about in John Now the Spirit is ready to be breathed into His believers to begin the formation of the church. Fifty days later, in Jerusalem, as the disciples were praying together for ten days, the Spirit was poured out upon the disciples on the day of Pentecost, and as a result, the church in Jerusalem was formed. Our God has been processed and consummated to become a life-giving Spirit, and now He can breathe Himself into His disciples to be their inward content and life for their essential existence.
Christ first went to the Father, received the promise of the Spirit which is the Spirit Himself and poured out the Spirit; on the day of Pentecost He baptized the one hundred and twenty in the Spirit to form the one Body. By breathing the Spirit into His believers and baptizing them into the Spirit, the Body of Christ was formed once and for all.
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