Good morning. Let's open this
morning's service with hymn number six from our hardbacked hymnal
number six. Let's all stand together. Come Thou Almighty King, help
us Thy name to sing, help us to praise. Father, all-glorious,
o'er all victorious, come and reign over us, Ancient of Days. ? Come thou incarnate Word ?
? Gird on thy mighty sword ? ? Our prayer attend ? ? Come and thy
people bless ? ? And give thy word success ? ? Spirit of holiness
on us dear ? Come Holy Comforter. Thy sacred witness bear in this
glad hour. Thou who almighty art now rule
in every heart and never from us depart spirit of power. to the great one in three eternal
praises be hence evermore his sovereign majesty may we in glory
see and to eternity love and adore. Please be seated. Good morning. Let's open our Bibles together
to Colossians chapter 1. Colossians chapter 1. It's good to have Mitch and Carla
here with us for the winter. I spoke with Jorge this morning
and he's in a good bit of pain, but he's very hopeful and surgery
went well. The doctor feels good about it.
I told him to be sure to treat his nurse when he got home really
well. She might quit being his nurse. He said he would, but
he's supposed to go home today. Did I say that? So, let's ask the Lord's blessings. Our Heavenly Father, we thank you for your mercy and
for your grace, but we would not presume upon it. without
asking you for it. Lord, we come before thy throne
of grace with great needs. We have a need for the forgiveness
of sin. We have a need to know thee. We have a need, Lord, to have peace with God and Lord,
Thank you that we have an advocate. We pray that your Holy Spirit
would cause the words of our lips and the meditations of our
hearts to praise thee, Lord, that Christ will be lifted up
and that you would bless your word to our instruction and to
our understanding and Most importantly to our faith for Lord, you said
that faith comes by hearing and hearing comes by the word of
God. Lord, I am not able to speak, nor are we able to hear apart
from your grace. And so we, we ask Lord that you'd
be merciful to us. Thank you for Jorge's surgery
and Lord, we pray for your continued hand of healing to be upon him
and to recover him. to his full strength. Lord, we
pray for Robert and Deanna and ask Lord that you would comfort
them and strengthen them in this time. Lord, we pray for Brother
Don and ask Lord for your hand to be upon him in grace and mercy
and strength. And for Jennifer, Lord, we We
are a needy people and Lord, you are a God who delights in
meeting the needs of your children. And so Lord, we have no place
else to go but to thee. And we thank you that you've
caused us to do that. And we thank you that you've
given us faith to believe that you are able. We ask it all in Christ's name.
Amen. You have your Bibles open to
Colossians chapter one. If you'll look with me at verse
19, for it pleased the father that in him should all fullness
dwell. It pleased God to make everything
that we need complete in Christ. When the Lord says that all the
fullness, there they are. When the scripture says that
all the fullness of the Godhead dwelleth bodily in Christ, it's
speaking of his nature as God. The letter of one gets seated
before we continue. We know that the Lord Jesus Christ
is the second person of the triune Godhead, that he is the fullness
of the Godhead bodily, that all the attributes of God are his
by nature. They are His by nature. He is
omnipotent, all-powerful. He is omniscient, all-knowing. He is omnipresent. He is in all
places. He is immutable. And God is the
only one that we can say that about. He's the same yesterday,
today, and forever. He doesn't change. And there's
our hope. He said, I am the Lord and I
change not. Everything else, everything else
changes except for God. And so when the scripture tells
us, when the Lord tells us that it pleased the Father, that in
Him all fullness should dwell, it's not speaking of His nature,
that's His by right. That's His by nature. He is the
uncreated creator and sustainer of all of life. He is the eternal,
infinite I Am. The Father did not have to give
that to Him. He has that just as the Father
has it, and just as the Holy Spirit has it. And so when the
Lord says that it pleased the Father that in Him all fullness
should dwell, He's speaking of His work as our mediator. What He's telling us is that
everything that God requires from us, He is pleased to look
to His Son for, so that the fullness of our salvation Everything,
our righteousness, our wisdom, our sanctification, our redemption,
our ability to stand in the presence of a holy God is found in Christ. And faith on our part is that
gift that God gives to the heart causing us to look to the same
one for our acceptance as the Father is pleased to look to. John chapter 1 verse 16 says,
and of his fullness, all we receive from grace to grace. Now he's
not talking about his, his deity by nature. We're not omniscient. We're not omnipotent. He's talking
about the gifts of salvation that he's accomplished by his
perfect obedience to his father, by his perfect faith. And so
he says, turn with me there to that verse. I want you to look
at it a moment because this really is saying the same thing. John
chapter one, this really is saying the same thing that our verse
is saying. John chapter one, look at verse. Look at verse 16, and of His
fullness have all we received and grace for grace. This fullness,
the fullness of wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
the fullness of salvation, we have received by grace. And it
pleased God to look to His Son that we might have these things. You there in Ephesians, look
at Ephesians chapter 1 at verse 22. Ephesians 1 at verse 22. Well, let's back up. to verse 19. And what is the
exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe according
to the working of his mighty power? This is Paul's praying
for the church at Ephesus. He's saying, I pray that you
would, that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened,
that all wisdom and revelation of Christ would be made to you
and that you would understand what he has done to make us accepted
before God. while he wrought in Christ, or
I'm sorry, which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from
the dead and set him at his right hand in heavenly places. The
Lord Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of God. Having
accomplished the purpose for which he came, the salvation
of his people, the word of God did not return void. He's seated,
he's interceding for us. And it pleased the father to
look to his son, for the fullness of our salvation. And the evidence of this is his
resurrection. Look at verse 21, far above all
principality and power and might and dominion and every name that
is named, not only in this world, but in that which is to come.
and hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be
the head over all things, to the church, which is his body,
the fullness of him, that filleth all in all." Oh, he's the one who fills up. This word fullness, it's complete. and perfection. We have to be complete. We have
to be full. We have to be perfect in the
very sight of God who sees all things and knows all things.
He knows our thoughts before we think them. He knows our words
before we speak them. He knows everything. How are
we going to stand perfect in the sight of a holy God? To be
found in Him. It pleased the Father that in
Him all fullness would dwell. Turn to me, if you will, to 1
Corinthians 1. 1 Corinthians 1. Christ is all in my salvation. Cannot add anything to Him, and
we dare not take anything away from Him. God's pleased. You know, it's, I was thinking
about this thing, but the Lord being pleased. If you love someone,
you're pleased with what they're pleased with. and you delight
in them being pleased. And so, God gives us a love for
Christ. We are pleased with that which
the Father's pleased with. And here's a, look at verse 27 in 1 Corinthians
1. God hath chosen the foodless
things of the world. Here's the qualifications for
salvation. Are you foolish enough in and
of yourself to depend upon the wisdom of God for your salvation?
Or do you think that you have something to offer God in your
understanding and in your knowledge? To confound the wise, and God
has chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things
that are mighty, are you weak enough? When we were yet without
strength, Christ died for the ungodly. That's how weak we have
to be. Lord, I have no ability to save myself. I have no ability
to stand in the presence of God. I need Christ. The base things
of the world, the things that are despised have God chosen. Yay, the things that are not.
God makes you to be a sinner. You despise yourself. You realize
that you're not. Anything that God requires, there's
nothing in you that would recommend you to God. Everything about
you is sinful. That's who God has chosen. To bring to naught the things
that are. that no flesh should glory in
His presence. You see, it pleased the Father
that in Him, in His mediatorial work of redemption, in Him, all
fullness dwells. Everything that God requires
for our salvation, God looks to Christ for. Look at verse 30. But of Him,
and that first Him is speaking of God the Father. But of God
the Father, in electing grace, are ye in Christ Jesus? God chose that particular people
before time ever began and put them, when did we get in Christ?
Well, in the covenant of grace from eternity past, of him, of
God. We've already said God doesn't
change. God didn't have a plan and have to change his plan because
of the fall. God purposed all of this from
the very beginning, and he put his people in Christ. And it's
always pleased the Father that in him all fullness would dwell
for his people. Always that's been the pleasure
of the Father. No flesh should glory it, but
of him, of the Father, are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is
made unto us. So God here again, we're seeing
how the father is looking to Christ for all our wisdom, all
our righteousness, all our redemption, all our sanctification, everything
that God requires for our salvation. God made him unto us, our wisdom,
our righteousness, our sanctification, and our redemption, that according
as it is written, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. If I'm able to stand in the presence
of God, if God is pleased with me, it will be because of Christ.
It'll be because in him all fullness dwells. It'll be because God
has made him to be my righteousness, my wisdom, my sanctification,
my redemption. Let's take these one at a time,
beginning with wisdom. Turn with me to Proverbs 1. Proverbs
1. And we'll begin reading in verse
1. And let's remember what we just
read in 1 Corinthians 1.30, that God made him to be our wisdom. Our wisdom, our understanding,
our knowledge. The scripture says that man will
increase in knowledge and become a fool in his heart before God. In no generation has that been
more true than in our generation. We can, we can get from here
to the moon. We have no idea how to get to
heaven. We can put a cell in a microscope and manipulate the
DNA and we have no understanding of what it means to be a sinner. We can calculate numbers at the
speed of light and we cannot add 2 plus 2 when it comes to
the things of God. The wisdom of man, as smart as
man is getting and as smart as he is, Well, 1 Corinthians chapter
1 says, when man by wisdom knew not God, God was pleased. Here again, we see the pleasure
of God. Well, God was pleased by the foolishness of preaching
to save them which believe. Man by his wisdom cannot know
God. He must have Christ revealed
to him as his wisdom. And so, Christ is our substitute before
God. I suppose that we could say in
a sense that in him we are omniscient. We have all the knowledge of
God because God's looking to him for our understanding and
for our knowledge and for our wisdom. Proverbs chapter 1, the Proverbs
of Solomon. Oh, I think about another time
when God was pleased. You remember when Solomon, the
Lord came to Solomon and said, ask anything you will. Ask for
anything. I'll give it to you. And Solomon
said, Lord, how can I lead these people unless you give me wisdom?
Now, wisdom is Christ. Unless you give, I must have
Christ. If I'm going to have any ability whatsoever to lead
these people. And the scripture says, and the
Lord was pleased. The Lord was pleased with Solomon's
request. Made him the wisest man that
ever lived. And now we have Solomon writing these words about Christ,
about wisdom. The Proverbs of Solomon. A proverb
is a hidden saying. A proverb is something that has
to be revealed. It's a mystery. It is a spiritual
truth hid within a natural thing. And so the Lord gives us understanding. Remember the disciples asked
the Lord, Lord, why do you speak to them in parables? A proverb
is a parable. Or why do you speak to them in
parables? And the Lord said, because it's not for them to
know the mysteries of the kingdom of God. These parables are for
you. These proverbs are for you. Ask
God for wisdom that you have understanding of what's being
said about Christ. And you'll find all of your hope
in him, all of your salvation in him. The son of David, Solomon here
is, he's the wisdom of God in Christ and he's speaking of Christ. To know wisdom and instruction,
to perceive the words of understanding, to receive the instruction of
wisdom, justice, judgment, equity. How can God be just and justify
the ungodly? How can His law be holy and execute
its justice and us not be condemned by it? How can all of that be?
How can I have understanding of who God is? The world doesn't
know these things. These things are a proverb to
them. They are a parable to them. They are a mystery to them. And
all of these things are answered in Christ, in the person of the
Lord Jesus Christ. God made Him. to be unto us,
our wisdom. And in him, all fullness dwells,
everything that we need to know God, which the world knows not
is in Christ. Look at verse four, to give subtlety
to the simple. Oh, men of this world complicate
the gospel. Religion's complicated. It's
confusing. It's convoluted. It cannot be
understood. Men speak out of both sides of
their mouth. They say it's by grace. They turn around and put
you under the law. They say God is sovereign, and
then they make Him dependent upon our will. You cannot make
sense out of religion. But the gospel's simple. It's
Christ. It's Christ. It's simple. And
this is who it's for, to give subtlety to the simple. Lord, I'm too simple-minded to
understand religion. I can't understand all those
things that men, all those theories that men come up with in science
to try to explain the nature of creation and the nature of
man. And Lord, all the philosophies
and the religions and the science of this world, Lord, I'm just
too simple for that. I need you to make the gospel
simple to me. And that's what we're trying
to do right now. God has made Him to be all our wisdom. In Him, all preeminence dwells. And the fullness of God for our
redemption is in Him. Lord, I can't go anywhere else.
I can't go anywhere else but to Christ. If I'm gonna know
God, I must know Christ. Lord, give me Christ or I die. to give subtlety to the simple,
to the young man knowledge and discretion. A wise man will hear. God, in His Word, speaks of all
men as either being wise or foolish. And we do a lot of foolish things,
and we have a lot of foolish thoughts, but in the biblical
sense of the term, to be a fool is to be an unbeliever. And so, there's two different
types of people. There's the fool and there's
the wise. What's the difference? Well, God's telling us right
here, a wise man will hear. A wise man will hear, period.
That's just that simple. There's the difference. They
won't listen. The gospel is foolishness unto
them. But God's given you ears to hear. You wanna hear what
God has to say. You want to know Christ. You want to hear His voice. You
want to follow Him. He's given you ears to hear. The hearing ear is of the Lord. Here's the difference between
the wise and the fool. We are here today to hear. Don't you love what Cornelius
told Peter when Peter came to Cornelius' house? Cornelius says,
we're all here. H-E-R-E, to hear, H-E-A-R, whatsoever
the Lord's giving you to say unto us. We're here to hear. That's why we're here, aren't
we? We're here to hear. What does God say? Not interested
in anything else. The wise man will hear and will
increase learning. He won't just listen one time.
He won't just, you know, take it in and say, well, I'll have
to think about that. No, he will hear and he'll want to hear more
and more and more. He will increase in learning. And a man of understanding shall
attain unto wise counsel. to understand the proverb and
the interpretation, the words of the wise and their dark sayings.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise
wisdom and instruction. My son, hear the instruction
of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother, for they
shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head and chains about
thy neck." Oh, Lord, let that be true of me. You've made Christ
to be my wisdom. The fullness of God. It pleased
the Lord that in him should all fullness dwell. Lord, if I'm
gonna have any understanding of God, if I'm gonna have any
understanding of myself, if I'm gonna have any understanding
of how it is that God is pleased to save sinners, Lord, I'm gonna
have to have Christ for that. I'm gonna have to have Christ.
I can't go anywhere else. I can't go to a school of theology. I can't learn it on my own. I've got to have Christ. Got
to have Him. God made Him to be our wisdom.
It pleased the Lord that in Him all fullness should dwell. Lord, I can't. Men will go to the Bible in order
to understand the fullness of God. And miss Christ. Miss Christ. Am I suggesting that we don't
go? Oh, no. Let us go to the Bible. But in going to the Bible, let
us look for Christ. For in the volume of the book
it is written of Him. Let us not miss Christ. Let us
not be like the Pharisees who searched the scriptures because
they thought in them they had eternal life. These are they
which testify of Christ. So we have to have Christ. This is my son in whom I am well
pleased. Hear ye him. Know what the Lord said? Hear
ye him. Go back with me to first Corinthians
chapter one, verse 30. For of him of the father, are
ye in Christ whom God has made to be unto us all our wisdom,
all our wisdom. If any man. I love that passage
in James. You know, sometimes the prepositions
have different ways of translating them. And the word if in the
Bible oftentimes means also since or when. And so it is in that
passage in James where it says, if any man lack wisdom, let him
ask it of God who giveth to all men liberally. Since we lack
knowing Christ as we ought, let us ask of God. When we lack Christ
as we need, let us ask it of God. Let's ask of God, who gives
to all men liberally and He upbraideth it not. He doesn't hold anything back.
He's pleased with Christ being the fullness of His. of His wisdom
and righteousness. And He's pleased to give His
Son to His children. He's pleased to do that. Not only is he pleased to give
us Christ as our wisdom, but notice in verse 30, but of him
are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us all our wisdom
and all our righteousness. There is no righteousness outside
of Christ. Religion won't give you righteousness.
Going to Sinai won't give you righteousness. The law won't
give you righteousness. Rededicating your life won't
give you righteousness. Reformation won't give you righteousness. Say, oh, I'll just turn over
a new leaf. I'll reform my ways. That'll
give me righteousness before God. What is righteousness? What
is righteousness? It is a right standing before
God. That's what righteousness is.
It's God being able to look at us with eyes that are pure and
holy and not seeing our sin. How can that be? If Christ is
our righteousness, we have none of our own. He's the holy, harmless,
undefiled, separate from sinners and higher than the heavens.
If we're going to be righteous, we must have his righteousness. We must have him. to stand in
our stead before God. It pleased the Father that in
him all fullness should dwell. The Lord tells us in Romans chapter
10, Paul said, oh, I desire for my brethren's sake, he's talking
about the Jews, that they would be saved. That's my heart's desire
before God. For they have a zeal for God,
but without knowledge. They're very religious. They
want to know God. For being ignorant of the righteousness
of God, they go about trying to establish their own righteousness. That's where the unbeliever is.
He's ignorant of the righteousness of God. He doesn't know that
God is pleased to look to Christ for our righteousness. And so
he goes about to establish his own righteousness, not knowing
that Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone
that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile. The
Lord Jesus Christ is our righteousness before God. to be found in Him,
in Christ, not having my own righteousness which is by the
law, but that righteousness which is by the faithfulness of the
Lord Jesus Christ, from faith to faith. You see, our faith,
the faith that God gives us, and it is God-given, faith is
not the cause of our salvation, it's the result of our salvation.
You believe God because God saved you. And our faith is in the faithfulness
of the Lord Jesus Christ. We're looking to Him for all
of our righteousness before God. God has made Him to be that way.
He is the sinless Son of God. The Lord said, you will not come
to me that you might have life. You won't come to me that you
might have life. Why? Because men are content. They are pleased with their own
righteousness. They are. The unbeliever, the
fool thinks that he's got something that he can present to God that
will earn him favor with God. If you or I offered up the best
thought we ever had, the most selfless thing that we ever did,
we'd go to hell for it. I've said this before. There's
enough sin in what we're doing right now to send us all to hell. God's not pleased with us. He's pleased with his son and
he's pleased with those that are found in him. We have no
righteousness. Righteousness means that there's
no sin. If we offered up to God the best
moment of our life, we'd go to hell for it. He's pleased with Christ. In Him, all fullness dwells. Burn offerings and sacrifice
for sins. Thou hast no pleasure. In other words, all the religious
activity that we could do, God says, I have no pleasure. Then
said I, lo, I come to do thy will, O God. And he taketh away
the first, the law, that he may establish the second grace. Oh,
here's our Savior. Nothing that we do is going to,
is going to obligate God in any way. What Christ did, did. It pleased
the Lord, Isaiah 53, to bruise him, to put him to grief. He'd make his soul an offering
for sin. In him all fullness dwells. It
pleased the Lord that our fullness before God will be found in him
as our wisdom, as our righteousness. Now look at the third thing that
the Lord mentions in verse 30 of 1 Corinthians chapter one,
sanctification. Now here's where a lot of times
our reformed friends will err in inserting works into the gospel. We'll say well, yes, we're Christ
is my righteousness and he has to he has to birth us you know
without any aid of me and and Salvations by grace, but now
that I'm saved what do they do they take you back to the law?
They take you bet what they say is that Christ that the God uses
the law to lead you to Christ. That's not true. I It's the love
of Christ that constraineth us, the goodness of God that leadeth
to repentance. It's not the law. The threatenings of the law never
saved anyone. How many times the Lord said
in the Old Testament, look at all these things I did to you,
speaking to Israel. And the more I punish you, the
harder your heart gets. The heart of your heart gets. No, it's
not the threats of judgment and wrath that save men. It's the
goodness of God. It's the accomplished work of
the Lord Jesus Christ on behalf of His people that breaks our
hearts in love and causes us to come before Him in faith. But they say that, well, you
know, Christ The law leads you to Christ, and then once you're
saved, Christ leads you back to the law, and the law becomes
your rule for Christian living. No, it doesn't. No, it doesn't. That's what sanctification...
Sanctification means to be set apart, or it means to be made
holy. And he that sanctifyeth the Lord Jesus Christ himself,
who is our sanctification before God, and they that are sanctified,
set apart, made holy, are all of one. whereby he's not ashamed
to call them his brethren. Be holy, even as I am holy, for
no man can see God lest he be holy. Without holiness, no man
can see God. How am I going to be holy? How
am I going to be set apart? How am I going to be sanctified?
Turn with me to Hebrews chapter 10. Hebrews chapter 10. We'll
begin reading in verse, Verse 9, Then said he, Lo, I come to
do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first that
he may establish the second by the which will we are sanctified
through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
When did God set his people apart? The offering of the body of Jesus
Christ 2,000 years ago on Calvary's cross. So you go back further
than that. You want to look at the mystery of eternity. Christ
is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world. So when
Christ became the surety of His people in the covenant of grace,
we're sanctified. And it pleased God. It pleased
God to look to His Son for our sanctification. For every priest,
verse 11, Oh, notice the Latin. Did I read
the last three words of verse 10? Once for all. No, once for all. That's it.
And every priest standeth daily ministering, offering oftentimes
the same sacrifice, which can never take away sins. But this
man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat
down at the right hand of God for henceforth expecting till
his enemies be made his footstools. For by one offering he hath,
past tense, perfected forever them that are sanctified. Could that be any more clear?
Isn't that glorious? It's not you setting yourself
apart. It's not you keeping the law
or making the law your rule for Christian living. And we love
God's law, wish we could keep it. We are sanctified through the
offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. It pleased the Father that in
Him should all fullness dwell, in wisdom, in righteousness,
in sanctification, and in redemption. What are we going to do to redeem
ourselves? What are we going to do to pay the price? The price
is non-negotiable. It's sinless blood. Sinless blood. That's the price. There's only one that can offer
up that offering. And that's exactly what He did.
He offered himself not to you and me, he offered himself to
the Father. The Father saw his blood and the Father said, I'm
satisfied. Now let me close with one scripture. If you turn with me to Genesis
chapter 33. Genesis chapter 33. Our Bibles. in the English language have
been translated from the original language, you know that, Old
Testament Hebrew and New Testament Greek. And I suppose never has
there been meaning lost in translation more than in the verse I'm about
to show you. And you know the story. Jacob
has left Laban after spending 20 years working for Laban. He has his whole family. He sends
out, he's returning to Israel and he's afraid of his brother
Esau. It's been 20 years now since
he deceived his brother. His brother had made a pact to
kill him. And so he sends the emissaries out ahead of him to
meet Esau. And the emissary comes back and
says, Esau's coming and he's got 400 men with him. And Jacob
divides up all of his belongings, divides up his family, his herds.
He said, well, if I lose one, maybe I won't lose the other.
And he spends all night wrestling with God. Praying at the river
Javik. Oh, what a good place to be.
To have to wrestle with God. He was desperate. He was desperate. He just knew that Esau was going
to kill him. And so he sends gifts. He sends
three waves of gifts to his brother Esau. Cattle and sheep and camels
and wine, and just all these things, he sends them out one
at a time so that maybe by the third time Esau's wrath will
be abated and he'll have mercy on me. Esau finally comes to
Jacob. It's been 20 years. Esau, no
longer angry, hugs his brother. He said, brother, why'd you send
all these things? Why'd you send all these things?
And look at verse nine, Esau said, I have enough. Now that word enough in the original
language is a good translation. It means great. It means much. It means many. And Esau saying to his brother,
brother, I don't need your gifts. I've got plenty. I've got plenty. And so Jacob pleads with his
brother Esau. Look at verse 10. And Jacob said,
Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then
receive my presence at my hand. For therefore I have seen thy
face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou was pleased
with me. Take, I pray thee, my blessings
that is brought to thee, because God hath dealt graciously with
me, and because I have Don't know why the English translators
put the word enough there, but it's a completely different word
in the original language than the word that Esau used when
Esau said, I have much, I have plenty, I've got enough, keep
your gifts. This word means all. It means everything. It means whole. And what Jacob
is saying to his brother Esau is, you got a lot, I've got everything. I've got everything, I've got
all. Sons of Jacob, let the children
of Esau be content with the much that they enjoy in this world. For in Christ, we have everything. All. Total. Everything that God requires.
It pleased God that in Him, all fullness should dwell. All fullness. God requires wisdom, he's my
wisdom. God requires righteousness, he's
my righteousness. God requires sanctification,
he's my sanctification. God requires redemption, he's
my redemption. Brother, take it. And Esau did take his gifts because,
well, look at the next verse. And he said, and he urged him
and he took it. He urged him and he took it. Christ is all. He's all. Let's take a break.