The word "complete" means to be made full. The Greek actually says, "In Him you are full." When a person truly believes and partakes of Jesus Christ, he or she receives the fullness of Christ.
What is the fullness of Christ that believers receive?
Scripture describes it in several ways:
> Believers receive wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
"But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption" {1 Corinthians 1:30}.
> Wisdom: we understand God, the world, and man: the origin, purpose, and the end of creation.
> Righteousness: we understand the evil in the world, both sin, and death; we know the only way to attain righteousness is through Jesus Christ.
> Sanctification: we have set our lives apart unto God to live for Him and to serve Him.
> Redemption: we have been saved from corruption and death and given eternal life.
> Believers receive the fulness of Jesus Christ's nature. The divine nature of God is actually placed in believers and they become new creatures in Jesus Christ. "Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust" {2 Peter 1:4}.
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