Eph 3:19; Pleroma Tou Theos cont...

Paul's prayer for believers to have capacity from Bible Doctrine in their souls so they could be filled full by God.

In the context of our study of the mandate for believer's prayer in the PPOG. . Phil 4:6; 1Thes 5:17;

We are now considering Paul's prayer request the believers come to the place where they could be"filled up with the fullness of God" found in Eph 3:19; as part of Paul's intercessory prayer for believers to be empowered to advance in the Spiritual life. Eph 3:16-19;

We have looked at the Doctrinal Content that a believer would have in their soul which would enable this to occur.

Only the wealth of the glory of light and power, only the incomparable living and spiritual fullness of divine empowering, and complete provision from God revealed in his word, makes the production of believers possible.

In Eph 3:16-21, Paul goes out of his way to express in his prayer as extravagantly as possible for believers to receive God's provision for them in association with TLJC.
Believers are regarded as children of God chosen before the foundation of the world, Eph 1:4, 11. to receive an inheritance layed up for them in eternity past.

Believer's confident expectation of Glory is based in their cognition of the reality that they are already seized by this new reality of the coming kingdom. It rests on the reality of the Spirit of God ruling within them. For this Spirit is the sign of the invading and victorious world of God, Eph 1:13f; Eph 4:30;

All salvation, and all confidence regarding the believer's future, is placed, not on human achievement, but on God's grace Eph 2:8), on the power of God which works in believers and which enables them now in this present age to live in the power of the Omnipotence of God in heaven Eph 2:6

This fullness [pleroma] of God is reached, not because believers have worked up to it in some way, it occurs because believers have been filled up with with and have permitted the Word about TLJC the Annointed to reside copiously in their thinking Col 3:16; and as a result they have come to a complete confidence in God's love 1John 4:16-18; and the knowledge of the love of Christ Eph 3:19; that surpasses the knowledge that can be reached by any intellect or imagination of the natural human nature.

Eph 3:20-21;

v20 Now to the One who is able far beyond all things to do 'exceedingly abundantly or infinitely more' than that which we 'keep on asking or 'have always wanted' or are imagining or more than 'we could ever imagine when we are imaging' according to the inherent power that is effective in us (Bible Doctrine + Filling of God the Holy Spirit)

He is able to do all—above all—abundantly above all—exceeding abundantly above all.

The power of Christ, like the love of Christ, is beyond human understanding or measurement

Paul is using every word possible to to try to convey to believers the immensity of the infinite power that God has made available to believers in TLJC.

This is the power that was demonstrated by God in the Old Testament Psa. 62:11, which was given to TLJC, Matt. 28:18; and which He has passed on to believers, Acts 1:8;

The Holy Spirit releases this resurrection power of TLJC Eph 3:16; into our lives through Bible Doctrine 1Cor 1:18;Rom 1:16; 1Cor 1:23-24;

God is Glorified in time as believers appropriate Christ's power through Bible Doctrine and the mentorship of God the Holy Spirit and he is free to convey supergrace blessing to believers in satan's world.

But we must always remember that this divine ability is only available in human inability. 2Cor 12:9; to those who wait on God Isa 40:29-31;

v21a To Him the glory
in the church (as the local classroom were he is glorified when believer learns his Word and advances to spiritual maturity and the capacity to receive the supergrace blessing God desires to convey.
and in Christ Jesus ( by believers being in union with the strategic victor in the angelic conflict by Faith alone in Christ Alone and by their advance in the spiritual life by the manifestation and magnification of TLJC by the PMA of Bible Doctrine)
in all generations of the unique Church age forever and ever.

God has predetermined from eternity past to display his Glory through manifestation and magnification of TLJC in the weakness of human beings Rom 8:29-30; Rom 9:23;

(God is glorified when he is free to convey to believers the SuperGrace blessings that were set aside for them in eternity past because they have capacity to receive them due to the "at home residence of TLJC in their soul")

What believers receive from God by their living inside the PPOG in time glorifies God and also provides the basis for the eternal glory which will be conveyed to them in

eternity.



In his book Christian Suffering on pages 136-139 R. B Thieme Jr wrote regarding the believer's Maximu Glorification of God.


God is glorified by the believer in spiritual maturity.



There are two stages in the maximum glorification of God by the believer on earth. Both are exclusive privileges of spiritual maturity.



1. God is glorified when the believer attains SPIRITUAL MATURITY, At this point the believer begins to receive distribution of the ESCROW BLESSINGS that God created in eternity past.

2. God is glorified when the mature believer passes EVIDENCE TESTING. Every Church Age believer belongs to a unique plan designed by God in eternity past. The objective of this plan includes blessing for the believer "beyond all that [he can] ask or imagine" (Eph. 3:20).



God is glorified by distributing these blessings to the believer in time. The first thing God ever did for us as a means of glorifying Himself, was to create the believer's blessings before He created the believer. "Before the foundation of the world" (Eph. 1:4);



God the Father tailored fabulous blessings specifically for each individual Christian and, as it were, deposited those blessings in escrow.



Worthy of praise and glorification is God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who [the Father] has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ. (Eph. 1:3);



God's plan for blessing the believer may be compared to an escrow contract. An escrow is a deed, bond, or other agreement by which one person conveys some form of property to another person. Rather than being conveyed directly, however, the property is deposited with a third party, to be delivered when the intended recipient fulfills certain conditions set forth in the terms of the escrow agreement.



Just as an escrow agreement has three parties, so also Eph 1:3; mentions three parties: God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the believer.



God the Father is the grantor. In eternity past He created each believer's blessings for time and for eternity and deposited them with



Jesus Christ, who acts as a depositary or escrow officer.



Each believer is the grantee of an escrow contract from God.



The distribution is contingent on the believer reaching spiritual maturity by living inside the PPOG in time.



Everyone who believes in Christ, is the grantee of blessings that stagger the imagination. However, part of divine wisdom is the principle that capacity for blessings must precede the conveyance of blessings.



God, therefore, designed the protocol plan to produce that capacity which makes the distribution of blessings meaningful, enjoyable, and glorifying to God.



Blessing does not begin at spiritual maturity. As part of His logistical grace policy. God has designed a system of lesser blessings which He distributes during the entire earthly experience of the believer.



This means that logistical grace is not simply a vehicle for sustaining the believer's life on earth but is a system of providing undeserved blessing whose enjoyment can be surpassed only by the ultimate distribution of escrow blessings for time. Furthermore, whatever capacity we have for blessings in time is far exceeded by our escrow blessings for eternity.



Between the logistical blessings of spiritual childhood and early spiritual adulthood and the escrow blessings of the eternal state is this fantastic grace provision of God for the believer who executes His plan, purpose, and will by the attainment of spiritual maturity.



Obviously, God is glorified when any believer executes this plan, and as a sign of His pleasure He conveys escrow blessings for time. The path to these magnificent blessings involves undeserved suffering. These blessings come through suffering as well as through prosperity.



The believer who attains spiritual maturity is classified as a winner. The question arises as to what happens to the escrow blessings of the Christian who is classified as a loser, the believer who fails to attain spiritual maturity.



To illustrate the biblical answer to this question, we again return to the analogy of the escrow agreement. In the state of Texas, escrow contracts are irrevocable. From the date the contract is signed, the property in escrow cannot be retrieved by the grantor, and the contract cannot be canceled. Likewise, the believer's escrow contract with God is irrevocable (1 Pet. 1:4). Rom 11:29;



The only reason a believer's escrow blessings are not delivered is their failure to fulfill the conditions of the escrow agreement. The only condition the believer must fulfill is to advance to spiritual maturity. Believers who fail become spiritual losers.



The loser's escrow blessings still belong to them irrevocably, but they will remain undistributed, on deposit in heaven forever as a memorial to lost equal privilege and opportunity and as a monument to the eternal bounty of God's grace. Psa 76:10;



While believers cannot lose their salvation, they can lose the conveyance of escrow blessings for time and eternity.



Escrow blessings are called "spiritual" in Eph 1:3, not because they are ethereal and intangible, but because God is emphasized as their source (John 4:24a).



Escrow blessings may include material prosperity and temporal success as well as invisible impact and the spiritual strength of maturity itself. The characteristics of spiritual self-esteem, which are strengthened in spiritual autonomy, become stronger in spiritual maturity and constitute fabulous blessings in the inner life.



In addition to this marvelous stability and capacity of soul, Jesus Christ as the depositary commences with the conveyance of escrow blessings for the mature believer's life on earth.



A treasury of blessings for time and eternity has your name on it. Your personal blessings are irrevocable, "imperishable, and undefiled and will not fade away"; neither you nor anyone else can cancel them (1 Pet. 1:4).



The location of the deposit is "in the heavenlies"; no repository could be more secure (Eph. 1:3).



The date of the deposit is "before the foundation [creation] of the world"; no other fortune has an older heritage.



The depositary is Christ; no one could be more personally interested in delivering your blessings to you.



The creator and grantor of your blessings is God the Father; there is no greater giver. He [God the Father] who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how will He [the Father] not also with Him [Christ, the escrow officer] freely give us all things [our escrow blessings] (Rom. 8:32;



Because God is glorified by blessing the believer, the purpose of the believer's life is to receive escrow blessings.


Eph 3:21

In our prayers we need to be praying as Paul did:
for strength in our thinking by means of the power of God the Holy Spirit,
for the at home residence of TLJC in our thinking by means of Bible Doctrine,
to know the love of Christ which goes beyond knowledge, for spiritual comprehension,
and for God to build capacity in our souls so that he can fill us up with the highest and best that he wants to convey to us which he put on deposit for us in eternity past.

The plan and purpose of God exceeds our wildest dreams. It reaches beyond anything that any believer can ask or think (Eph 3:20). “O the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out…. For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen!” ( I believe it) Rom 11:33,36;