False teachers at Colosse were saying, as they still do in our day, that our Lord Jesus Christ was not “God ... manifest in the flesh,” but only a created being. But God tells us that “in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,” that He “is the head of all principality and power,” and that “He is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He might have the preeminence.” And it is in this blessed and glorious One, who “sitteth on the right hand of God,” that we are complete. The forgiveness of our sins is “complete in Him,” “in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.” Our justification is “complete in Him,” for “by Him all that believe are justified from all things.” Our acceptance before God is “complete in Him,” “to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the beloved.” And our access to God is “complete in Him,” “by whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand.” Of ourselves we must say that “I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing.” But in Him “dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily,” and “ye are complete in Him.”
“Complete in Him,” how rich I am,
Standing before God in Christ,
Freely forgiven for His sake,
Accepted and loved likewise.
1 Tim. 3:16; Col. 2:9; 1:18; 3:1; Eph. 1:7; Acts 13:39; Eph. 1:6; Rom. 5:2; 7:18.