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Christ our Sanctification: Fullness in Christ

because in him the whole fullness of deity dwells in bodily form and you have come to fullness in him who exists the head of all leaders and authority (Colossians 2:9-10)
We think of Christ being the head as authority over all things, and this is true but also Paul uses the word head to refer to the source in which we grow. "You have come to a fullness in him which is the head" refers to maturity and bearing fruit, which is wholeness, lacking in nothing, in our souls.
... existing fullness in him who exists the head... (Colossians 2:10)
Look at the sunflower in the picture. What you see is the growing seed head. The seeds within the head mature and ripen, gradually changing from green to brown or black indicating their fullness of growth, readiness to harvest. As the seeds develop, they accumulate nutrients and oil through the head. From germination (also called metamorphosis) to seed production, each step plays a crucial role in growth. 

Christ is the head of all believers (1 Corinthians 11:3). When Christ rose, all things were placed under his feet, and he was placed the head of the church (Ephesians 1:22). And the church, which is his body, is to be the "fullness" of the one who fills all in all (Ephesians 1:23). So, we see this idea that the church has this purpose to fill or bring to a fullness the body. To grow into fullness each individual seed in the head, who is Christ.
both to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge so that filled to all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19)
So, Christ is the head of the church to fill all to a fullness.* Christ died and ascended on high and was placed head of the church so that all are "filled to a fullness in him. " In the church the purpose of truth in love, is so we grow up into fullness, "grow up in every way into him who is the head, Christ" (Ephesians 4:15). Any who rejects this truth rejects God's eternal purpose in Christ, and the head of the Church. Christ ascended on high and was placed the head of the church so that he would fill all (Ephesians 4:10). Fullness in Christ is the purpose of the gifts given to the saints for the work of ministry, which is to build up the church...
... until we all come into being built up in oneness of faith and the knowledge of the Son unto mature adulthood to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ (Ephesians 4:13)
Seeds maturing, coming to fullness in the Head. Christ came in the fullness of the Father (Colossians 2:9). A fullness of grace and truth (John 1:14). And we are to come to fullness in him (Colossians 2:10). To fill all in the church Christ gives gifts to men for the work of ministry to bring the body into fullness. The stature (which is defined as the quality or status or measurement by growth, development, or achievement) in which we can measure this fullness is to "mature adulthood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ" (Ephesians 4:13).

We see in Ephesians that God had eternally purposed in Christ a plan (that now he has made manifest to us) for the "fullness" of the time to bring together all in Christ (Ephesians 1:9-10). And that Christ had been appointed head of the church which is his body, "the one filling all in all." So the church is to bring into fullness the body which we later see in Ephesians 4, explained as maturity into the fullness of the image of Christ. In between (this appointing of Christ head of the church who fills all and who ascended on high to give gifts to men to build up the church into the fullness of Christ) we see Paul use this idea of rooting and grounding so to be filled to fullness.
... both to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge so that filled to all the fullness of God (Ephesians 3:19)
Paul again is praying for the church that God would grant them the strength to grasp this wisdom from the riches of his glory so that they would be filled to the fullness of God. First, good soil for growing deep roots is needed, "ruling power in the inner man through the Spirit, Christ dwelling in your hearts through faith, rooted and grounded in love, so that you have strength to grasp..." (Ephesians 3:16-18). Second, this ruling gives strength to grasp the love of Christ that exceeds boundaries and human understanding and for what purpose? "so that filled to all the fullness of God." This growth stage in his surpassing love, is how we endure, overcome the thorns, and grow into maturity, thus love endures.*
and existing fullness in him who exists the head of all... (Colossians 2:10)
When the fullness of time had come God sent forth his son, born of a woman, born under the Law to redeem those under the Law so we might receive adoption as sons... and because we are sons he sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts crying Abba Father! So existing no longer slaves but a son, now, if a son also an heir through God (Galatians 4:4-6). We are fruits of a new creation in Christ.

Paul writes his goal was that their hearts would be encouraged and knit together in love so they would be filled with all the riches of full assurance of understanding to the extent of the knowledge of God's mystery, that Christ, in whom exists all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge... so no one could lead them astray... (Colossians 2:1-4). "Let no one rob you of your prize! Willing in self-abasement and worship of angels, which visons puff up in empty notions by his fleshly thinking and not holding fast to the head, from which the whole body nourished and held together through its joints and ligaments grows of a growth of God" (Colossians 2:18-19). How important is our growth so we become mature, having the mind of Christ!*
Therefore, just as receiving Christ Jesus the Lord walk in him, rooted and built up in him and established in faith just as taught... (Colossians 2:6-7)
Have you been taught this in Christ? Without a proper foundation of rooting in faith and love, being built up and established in Christ, children will remain children and easily be led captive through philosophy and empty deceit and traditions of men according to elemental principles of the world and not according to Christ who is the head in whom we come to a fullness (Colossians 2:8-9). The gifts Christ gives is to mature children so they are no longer tossed to and fro in human cunningness and deceitful scheming but grow up into him who is the head (Ephesians 4:13-16). Otherwise we do not hold fast to the head.
... nourished and held together... grows of a growth of God (Colossians 2:18-19).
To hold fast to the head is to be nourished and held together growing from a growth that is from God (Colossians 2:19). This growth brings us into a fullness of God. James writes this is the purpose of endurance within the trial, to mature us so that we are whole, lacking in nothing (James 1:2-6). God will supply our earthly needs but what is precious in the eyes of God is more valuable than silver and gold, it is riches from his grace and glory that conform us to the image of His Son, in whom he eternally purposed a plan for the fullness of time. 
now, you exist from him [God], in Christ Jesus, who became our wisdom from God, and these righteousness, sanctification, and redemption (1 Corinthians 1:30)
For we have received of Christ's fullness, "for that of his fullness we all received grace upon grace" (John 1:16). God set him up as head so we would be filled to fullness in him. As such we are rooted and grounded and established and built up in him, so we know who we are and who he is, according to the purpose God set forth in Christ. We grow in knowledge of him into fullness, taking into our hearts as we understand he is the beginning and the end, the alpha and omega, the beginning of wisdom and knowledge from God.* 

We look unto Jesus in whom God had a plan before he created the world, an eternal purpose which he has made manifest to us, that in Christ we have been blessed, with redemption and righteousness and sanctification. The same way we received Christ we walk in righteousness and redemption, and in the same we receive these we receive sanctification in Christ, being built up and established in faith, until we reach the fullness of Christ. This is what God planned when making known his wisdom that righteousness, sanctification, and redemption be in Christ. And through the wisdom of God in Christ, that it would be made known to our soul, a fullness in Christ. Oh, that the soul prospers and grows into the fullness of God in Christ.

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