The word bodily points to the physical body that Christ put on in His humanity, indicating that the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Christ as the One who has a human body. Christ is our God above all things and is worthy to be praised with well-speaking of adoration, respect, and desire.Ĭolossians 2:9 says, 'For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.' This verse reveals that in Christ the man dwells all the fullness of the Godhead. This is our blessing Him to praise Him with our adoration. We have to speak well of Christ as God to tell the whole universe what He is. We adore God with our respect to Him and our desire for Him. The word blessed here means praised, well spoken of, with adoration of respect and desire.

We must be clear that Christ is God over all, which means that He is above all the created things, and He is blessed forever. Amen.' The Jehovah’s Witnesses have a subtle, evil, and satanic way to distort this verse. Romans 9:5 says, 'Whose are the fathers, and out of whom, as regards what is according to flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. In John 20:28 Thomas said to the resurrected Christ, 'My Lord and my God!' The Gospel of John proves strongly that the man Jesus is the very God (1:1-2 5:17-18 10:30-33 14:9-11). John 1:1 says, 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.' Then verse 14 says that 'the Word became flesh.' The Word is Christ as the definition, explanation, and expression of God. GodĬhrist is God, who is the source of all things and especially the source of the divine life that flows out for its dispensing into God’s elect as their life and everything (John 1:1, 14 20:28 Rom. The New Testament unveils Christ in His perfect redemption through His death judicially and in His complete salvation by His life organically for the carrying out of God’s eternal economy. The further revelation of Christ concerning His all-inclusiveness in the Gospel of John is in addition to the items in the Old Testament unveiling the all-unlimitedness of Christ in God’s commission to Him, as God’s anointed One, for the universe, for fallen man, and for God’s kingdom.

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