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By Abiding in Christ, the Source of Power, October 2
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye
are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power.
Colossians 2:9, 10
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The Lord Jesus acts through the Holy Spirit; for it is His representative.
Through it He infuses spiritual life into the soul, quickening its energies
for good, cleansing it from moral defilement, and giving it a fitness for His
kingdom. Jesus has large blessings to bestow, rich gifts to distribute among
men. He is the wonderful Counselor, infinite in wisdom and strength; and
if we will acknowledge the power of His Spirit, and submit to be molded
by it, we shall stand complete in Him. What a thought is this! In Christ
“dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete in
him.”
Never will the human heart know happiness until it is submitted to
be molded by the Spirit of God. The Spirit conforms the renewed soul
to the model, Jesus Christ. Through the influence of the Spirit, enmity
against God is changed into faith and love, and pride into humility. The
soul perceives the beauty of truth, and Christ is honored in excellence and
perfection of character. As these changes are effected, angels break out in
rapturous song, and God and Christ rejoice over souls fashioned after the
divine similitude
Jehovah Emmanuel—He “in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom
and knowledge,” in whom dwells “all the fulness of the Godhead bodily”—
to be brought into sympathy with Him, to know Him, to possess Him, as
the heart opens more and more to receive His attributes; to know His love
and power, to possess the unsearchable riches of Christ, to comprehend
more and more “what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might
be filled with all the fulness of God,”—“this is the heritage of the servants
of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.
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The Review and Herald, February 10, 1903
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4
Thoughts from the Mount of Blessing, 57
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