The Stature of the Fullness of Christ
“Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ. (Eph 4:13)
Background
In 2022, the Lord called us to the Ancient Landmark. He called us to stay and remain within the boundary and to walk within His patterns. The season realigned our focus on the core mandate of revival as a major strategic build-up towards TACEF at 30. We committed ourselves to the pursuit of the vision as articulated in Isaiah 58:12, “to rebuild, repair,
raise up and restore paths.” We also mobilized the household for institutional revamp to support the pursuit of the vision by recalibrating how we build with a strong emphasis on creating the right spiritual atmosphere (a God-filled ambiance across our fellowships), intentional sonship (raising the next generation through consistent discipleship), stewardship /service (clear focus on deliveries, task ownership, personalized responsibilities, and accountability) and systems (structures and way of work that will outlive time).
When the Lord calls His people to stay or abide with Him or remain within a boundary, He is seeking a new level of engagement and communion. When Jesus called His disciple unto Himself, He wanted to make something out of them. He wanted to pour all of Himself into them so that they could become like Him in all things. Every call to stay leads to divine making. Every invitation to remain with the Lord produces a thoroughly furnished destiny. Every call to abide within His landmark releases a generation that carries a complete expression of the personality of Christ. Every call to abide with Jesus causes us to mature and grow up unto Him in all things and attain the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
The Rationale – A generation full of activities but with the absence of the fulness of Christ.
This urgent call to seek to measure up to the fullness of Christ has become even more critical in these last days. We live in a world full of religious and spiritual activities but empty of Christ. Few have a form; some are half-baked, while many are empty of the Lord they proclaim and profess. We live at a time when Christ is absent, even when Christianity appears to be blossoming like never before. We have more gatherings but less expression of Jesus. There is an apparent scarcity of God’s presence. It seems the full expression of Christ is blurred or fading. While we appear to be busy with several spiritual activities, there is so much emptiness of Christ in our gatherings. The accurate expression of the life of Christ is disappearing from the lives of believers. Many lives are not measuring up in the conveyance and carriage of the essence of Christ. We lack the fullness of the stature of Christ.
- While many are being promoted on the altar, Jesus is being demoted in the hearts of men.
- When the church appears to be getting populated, the consciousness of heaven and eternity are disappearing in our time.
- When we have become so loud with the use of technology and social media, the voice of Christ remains unheard in the hearts of many.
- While everyone seems to have a platform on social media to preach, run prayer networks, and prophesy on people, the platform that expresses the fullness of Christ through genuine salvation, consecration living, and heaven-conscious living is collapsing and disappearing in our time.
This situation calls for a new measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.
The essence – Only His fulness can bring true revival.
True revival is not about the noise or shouts. It is not about the hype and excitement. It is about “the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ” that is available and accessible to convict men of sin, draw men into intimate fellowship with God, break the yoke of the world, dethrone the power of hell, and prepare each believer for heaven. Every true revival is a pursuit of the fulness of Christ, when our hearts, thoughts, imaginations, lifestyles, and aspirations are full of Christ.
True revival brings the fullness of Christ into our homes, church, and society. We cannot do much with the half measure of Christ we are trading with in our generation. True revival takes us from the partial or incomplete expression of God into His full manifestation in all things. True revival changes our desire and focus on pursuing the totality of Christ – His cross, the sacrifice, and the service. True revival is about Christ increasing in all things and each of us becoming fully formed in the character and personality of Christ.
A true season revival is a season of refreshment when all we seek is that Christ be fully formed in each and all of us. It is a daily and continued pursuit. It is a sustained longing and heart cry of “Jesus only, Jesus ever….”
The Charge – a call for the pursuit of the fulness of Christ in our hearts, local churches, and society
- We need the fullness of Christ like never before. We cannot do much with an absent Christ. We cannot go far with a half or a quarter full life to pursue the move of God in our time.
- We cannot amount to much with a bleak, leaking, and diminished expression of Christ.
- We need His fullness in our hearts to fully manifest the fullness of Christ in our local church.
- We need the fullness of Christ in our Christian walk to accelerate the work of rebuilding, repairing, raising up, and restoring paths.
- We need the accurate measure of His fullness for Jesus to take His rightful place in our society.
- We can only pursue true revival when each of us is filled and full of Christ – full of His nature, His person, purpose, and power.
Beloved, we cannot go far with empty and half-filled lives. It takes a life of fulness of Christ to represent Christ in the crooked and perverse generation. This generation will disregard, ridicule, and dust off any half-baked and incomplete expression of Christ. It takes lives that are full and filled with Jesus to have an overflow that can pour forth the immeasurable dimension of Christ, which will draw all men unto Christ and make the kingdom of this world to become the kingdom of our God and of His Christ.
Indeed, true revival is the pursuit of the fullness of Christ in our lives. It is time to seek “the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ”.
As we gather at the 2023 convention, we are seeking the FULNESS OF CHRIST.
As we fellowship together at this annual feat, we are seeking Christ to be fully formed in us, as we encounter the fullness of His grace, spirit, blessing, and power to become like Him in all things.
For of His fulness have we all received grace for grace!
