27.What is the final outcome of being strengthened with power by God’s Spirit

We are able to be filled with all the fullness of God.

"Filled with all the fullness of God"!

What a word this is!

It is written of the Lord Jesus Christ that He is filled with all the fullness of God:

For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily (Colossians 2:9).

The Lord Jesus Christ, being filled with all the fullness of the Godhead in His Person, is the Revelation of the Father to us. All that God Is, is in the Lord Jesus Christ. All that Christ Is, is in the Father.

The Lord Jesus Christ is the perfect and complete Revelation of God in Heaven and on the earth.

The saints make up the Body of Christ. If the Head is filled with all the fullness of God, the Body must be filled with all the fullness of God if it is to serve the Head adequately.

It is not possible that in one individual the head can be of one nature and the body of a different nature. When we first become Christians we are not fit to serve as the body of our Head, Christ. As we become strengthened with Christ in the inner man and filled with the love of God, we are being prepared to receive the fullness of God that flows down to us from the Head. It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; (Psalms 133:2).

Paul was praying for the saints in Ephesus that they may be filled with all the fullness of God. Is it possible for us frail mortals to be thus endowed by our Creator?

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, (Ephesians 3:20).

The Scriptures are stating here that the saints are to be so strengthened in the inner man, so filled with Christ’s faith, so rooted in God’s love, that they will be capable of grasping and holding the breadth and length and depth and height of the inheritance the Father has designed for us.

The Glory of God being revealed in us proceeds only from the fullness of the Glory of God that is in the Head, Christ, and that flows through Him to the Body—the Wife of the Lamb.

No matter what we can ask, no matter what we can think, God has promised to perform, according to His Divine power that even now is working in us, a work of redemption stupendously above our ability to imagine. We have been born of God. We are His sons. What we will become if we receive Christ totally exceeds any state of glory we can envision at this point in our development.