“ you hold to My teaching, you are really My disciples. you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Recap For this series we are asking questions What is the that Jesus is teaching in this passage? We have been studying the book of In Ephesians 1:15-23 Jesus teaches us about , , and . How do I to the truth? How do I in freedom? The conclusion to Paul’s prayer in Eph. 1 these two questions. The Fullness of Christ We hold to the truth and we walk in freedom by being of Christ. (Col. 2:10, Eph. 3:19) Plērōma: that is included in a collection and that is or in something. As Peter puts it: to become partakers of the ___ nature (2 Peter 1:4) One must face the fact that all the talk about His [God’s] love for men, and His service being perfect freedom, is not (as one would gladly believe) mere propaganda, but an appalling truth. He really does want to fill the universe with a lot of loathsome little replicas of Himself—creatures whose life, on its miniature scale, will be qualitatively like His own, not because He has absorbed them but because their wills freely conform to His C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, p.38 **How do we become full of Christ? ** Jesus Himself answers this question in By Jesus. By Jesus’ teaching. There is only one way to do this, we must spend time in the Word. Notes: