The Glory and Fullness of Jesus

1 John 4:16-17 AMP
We have come to know by personal observation and experience, the love which God has for us, and have believed with deep, consistent faith. God is Love, and the one who abides in love, abides in God, and God abides in him. In this union and fellowship with Him, love is made perfect among us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment with assurance and boldness to face God and not fear judgment; because as Jesus is, so are we in this world.

As Jesus is, so are we in this world, says scripture.
Jesus sits at the right hand of God. He is a priest and advocate for us. He is the propitiatory sacrificial lamb that took away our sin. He is the righteous Son of God. And God has “imputed” to us the very Righteousness of Jesus. The believer is the one, for whom Jesus has met every demand of God’s Law. So, we have nothing to fear... in life, nor in departing this life. My concern is not to prepare for death and judgement, but to live for Christ. 

Paul’s prayer in Eph. 3:14-19 is,
For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth (of His love), and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. ~NIV
Love is the Glory and Fullness of Jesus.
God is Love!  1 John 4:8 

Love is the great dynamic of the gospel. It is power, passion, and zeal. To know the Love of Christ is a spiritual force which far surpasses any level of education “about” Him. Paul’s prayer in Eph. 3 is my prayer. And he continues in chapter 4 with exhortation to unity, and he speaks of ministry gifts for the perfecting of the saints and for the edifying of the body of Christ ...to completeness,  until we all come to the unity of the faith and to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature (complete likeness) of the fullness of Christ. Eph. 4:12-13   

Eph. 1:22-23 says, And He put all things under His feet, and gave Him to be head over all things to the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills all in all.

The Greek for fullness is Pleroma (Play’-ro-ma); "the full complement, as that which fills a ship to capacity... the passengers, the crew, the cargo - EVERYTHING. In the New Testament it is the body of believers as that which is filled with the presence, power, and the riches of God and of Christ. 
It is also the believers themselves who fill the Body.
Rom. 11:25 says, For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
The last Gentile will complete the Body of Christ. 

John 1:14, 16 says, we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. And of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.

The grace of God leads to more grace from God. God’s love is compassionate which allows Him to be merciful. God’s grace allows Him to forgive. God's mercy held back the awful judgment that our ungodliness deserved. By His mercy, God’s grace was exceedingly abundant with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. 1:14. 

Matt. 13:12 says, For whoever has, to him more will be given, and he will have abundance.
Abundance of Grace! God’s grace was exceedingly abundant says Paul. David said, “My cup runneth over.” Grace brings us the wonderful blessings of godliness that we could never deserve or achieve. And it comes to us with two things... Faith and Love, and the GREATEST of these is Love.

 John 17:22
And the glory which You gave Me I have given them, that they may be one just as We are one: I in them, and You in Me; that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that You have sent Me, and have loved them as You have loved Me. 

2 Corinthians 3:18
And we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.

We behold (as in a mirror) the Glory of the Lord, which is certainly His Divine Righteousness in us. How does one define the Righteousness of the Lord? The Righteousness of Jesus can be defined as His “perfection” in all that He did according to the will of God, but that in itself is no small study.

A feeble definition of Glory could be compared to the description of a flawless diamond... splendor, brightness, magnificence, excellence, absolute perfection, manifested in brilliance. And THAT is what has been imputed to us. This is no small tenet of religion. This is the reality of born-again believers. 

Our Father in Heaven, Lord and Savior... by Your grace we are saved. For us to have been given the Righteousness of Jesus because You love us is something we will be eternally grateful for. By faith we receive it, and in love we thank You. His faithfulness has accomplished it. Our God is faithful. You keep Your promises and mercies with them that love You and keep Your commandments. You have called us to the fellowship of Your dear Son Jesus our Lord. As we grow in Your grace, may we be ever abounding in faithfulness and love to You, our Father and the Lord Jesus, in Whose name I pray, Amen.