The Fulness of The Godhead

ff Let us begin our study of the “Fullness of the Godhead.” This biblical phrase has been a significant bone of contention among the Modalist, the Trinitarians, the Binatarians, and the Unitari- ans. 1 This one scripture causes a lot of confusion, and I believe that we can help clear this up in this brief writing. We are going to start this study in the book of Colossians 1:19, and then we will turn to Colossians 2:9. In both of those vers- es, it seems to tell us that the “fullness of the Godhead” dwells alone and singularly in Christ Jesus. (We prefer to use and will do so from henceforth, his Hebrew name, Yahshua.) Now the reason this is important, we must understand what this verse is saying or else we’re going to get a lot of things confused. I want to ask you a question! If you’re a man, what is it that would make you complete? What is it that would make you exist beyond your natural years or extend yourself beyond yourself ? The only logical way that this phenomenon can happen is when you have Sons. The desire for Sons is intrinsic in the ge- netic code of a male’s DNA. Because, if a man dies without sons, his name dies, his DNA dies, his memory ceases to exist, and in fact, his genetics die; his seed line comes to an end. So, it logical 1. 1 Modalist believe in Jesus Only that the man Christ Jesus was the Father, He is the Son and He is the Holy Spirit. 2. Trinitarians believe in three distinct persons in the Godhead, namely; Father, Son and Holy Spirit. 3. Binatarians believe in the Father and the Son as seperate entities but they believe that both are eternal and existed together from the beginning. 4. Unitarians believe just the Binatarians except they do not believe that the Son of God pre-existed. to conclude; what makes a man complete, what makes a man fulfilled is the re-creation of himself in his sons. Remember this very well and as long as you live! Don’t ever forget this statement of revelatory truth. Yahweh, (now when I say Yahweh that is the supposed Hebrew name of God the Father.) has deter- mined to reproduce Himself in a family of sons that will one day rule the universe on his behalf and in His authority. If you don’t understand what I just stated, then you’re missing out on a great understanding that forever changed my views of God. It is my prayer that this booklet will indelibly place in your mind this eternal truth. It is God’s desire to be made complete! Please read that line one more time; IT IS Yahweh’s DESIRE TO BE MADE COMPLETE !!! I can already hear the collective sigh of confusion that seems to always fill people’s minds when I make that statement; that God desires to be made complete. Naturally, we say, and well-meaningly so, that Yahweh Is Already Complete And Per- fect. My response to you is simply this; God is complete in His person, but He is not complete in His purposes! Not until such a time (and that time shall come) as He has reproduced Himself in a family of sons! I wish for you to underline the word “Family of Sons”! because the Christian Church is guilty of preaching about only One son who would be Jesus Christ! (Henceforth, we will refer to Him by His original Hebrew name Yahshua) As Christian ministers, we are no doubt very adept at preaching on this One and Only Son of God. Every sermon we teach is about Ya h s h u a or somehow related to His person and rightfully so. As He alone is Preeminent among us. But we have failed to preach the purposes of The Eternal Fa- ther?, and those purposes are not only to have “A” son or “One” son but rather, and most importantly, it is the Father’s desire to have a family of sons! Until He has created duplications of Himself ! Until He has re- produced His nature, and His character, and even His very per- son. Until He has built His own image in a family of sons, then His purpose of ruling the universe through His sons will never come to completion as He originally planned, predestined, and intended. In this writing, it is time to find out precisely what the of- ten-used phrase of religiosity “Fullness of the Godhead” tru- ly means. Let us first acknowledge and explain why the word “Godhead” is a horrible, horrible translation of the original Greek word. In fact, the English word Godhead should not be in your translated Bible. Why? Several reasons. First, it is very suspect how that word “Godhead” found its way in your English Bible because the truth is, as you will soon see, it should not be there. I will address this issue later in this booklet after we have established a layer by layer foundation. Before proving that point, let us for the sake of “here a little, and there a little” principles of biblical education, let us recapitu- late what we have already learned. Yah’s desire is to reproduce Himself, to be complete, to fulfill Himself by multiplying Himself in a family of sons. When we now say the “Fullness of God” or the “Completion of God” or “Ev- erything that God is,” is bodily and singularly can be found only in the one man, the Son, Christ Jesus; we have sadly missed the mark and failed to understand the entire beauty of the message of the “Fullness of God.” We have oversimplified a very complex concept for the sake of thinking less and assuming more. Let’s dig deeper and go to Hebrews 2:10 “For it became Him (which is Yahshua that word “Him” there is the pronoun for the Son of God) for who are all things; every- thing was created for Yahshua.” The question immediately becomes, Why did Yahweh create all things for Yahshua? Quite simply because the Bible says that Yahshua is an heir of all things. A simple exercise in logic will tell us that you cannot be an heir and a giver; it just doesn’t work that way. If you’re someone’s heir, that means someone else has something that they are granting to you by inheritance. Yahweh’s greatest joy was creating, He is a Creator by nature, this is His official occupation, He is a creator, inventor, world-changer! Yahweh created everything with one purpose and with one plan in mind. It is the exact same purpose that all good fathers share. It is the same reason that we leave the comforts of our home and go to work every day of our lives. We, as fathers are not working for work’s sake. Instead, we go to work to create for our progeny, for our sons and children a place in this world! We rise early to create a legacy, a future to leave them, an inheritance. Yahweh is the ultimate Father, the primordial example for all Fathers. He is the creator of heirship and legacy. Paul continues to explain to us by divine Revelation in Hebrews Chapter 2:11 “For it was pleasing to Yahshua, for whom are all things cre- atedand because of Him are all things made; in bringing many sons unto glory.” I want you to underline that line in your Bible; the primary purpose of the creation of Yahshua, the man from the womb of Mary, the purpose of the creation of the Son of Man was to bring many sons into perfection or into maturity or into res- urrection glory. That is the purpose of the birth of Christ, the uniquely begotten firstborn son of Yahweh, to be the first of many sons. It was never Yahweh’s plan to have merely One Son, it was nev- er His plan for the gospel message to be about Jesus Only! In my most humble opinion, the biggest mistake we have made in the Christian Church is failing to understand that the “full- ness of God” or the completion of God is not in Christ alone. Why? How can that be? Because the purposes of Yahweh to bring forth the fullness of God was not in one son but rather in “bringing many sons unto glory.” At this point, I would like to explain to you from another per- spective, why Jesus Christ/Yahshua HaMashiach had to die. It’s straightforwardly simple. Yahweh is the first tither he is the original tither, and He abides by the principles of tithing. The firstborn son of the dead is Yahshua. For there to be many sons, there had to be a seed son! There had to be the first son; the first begotten son had to be freely and joyfully given by Yahweh and sown into the earth. That’s why he was buried for three days, and three nights, the seed had to die! Yahweh paid the tithe of his many future, foreseen sons by giv- ing up His first son. He put works with His faith! He envisioned a tremendous, worldwide, multitude of sons in His future. He saw human sons of every generation coming forth from the harvest field of graveyards across the world. However, to unlock that harvest, He had to do more than believe. He had to do more than see, He had to act. He had to prove His own faith in His own self by sowing the seed! Therefore, He put that beloved and begotten Son in the ground, and from that son came forth the ultimate fullness of God, which is many sons. This is the purpose of God for the earth today! The Bible tells us plainly; it says that if Satan had known the mystery of God, If Satan had known that there was going to be many sons that were coming forth just like Yahshua. Had he understood, there was going to be a family of sons, a universe ruling family of sons, then “the princes of this age, the fallen angels, they would never have even crucified the Lord.” 2 Instead, they would have let Him lived a good long life and died of natural causes and never al- lowed him to become the blood of the New Covenant as a will- ing offering of love for His yet unborn brethren. Without this Seed Son, there could not have been a harvest! Satan will always try to stop your seed because it’s only when he stops your seed, does he stop your harvest. I can promise you by biblical authority. Had Satan indeed known the 2 I Corinthians 2:8 “Mystery of God” 3 had he known that Yahshua was a setup from the throne, had he known this, then Ya h s h u a would never have been crucified! This is precisely why God kept this a secret from the foundation of the world! But you must correctly understand what I am trying to teach you here - Yahshua was not the secret that Yahweh was hiding from Satan !!!! YOU WERE !!! How can we say that Yahshua/Jesus was not the real secret? Because Mary’s baby boy was publicly revealed in Genesis 3:15. It is there in the seedbed book of the entire Bible that the world as a whole was made aware of a coming Son! But Yahweh conve- niently left out the secret of a bunch of coming SON(S)!!! When Yahweh talks about a seed coming forth and bruising Satan’s head, the mystery of Yahshua was no longer a secret but rather a revealed part of the PLAN OF YAHWEH from the foundations of the earth. This plan was simply waiting for fruition in the fullness of time. However, in the book of Revelation, we read about “The Mys- tery of God” being complete. 4 This is not referring to the first- born Son of God, but instead the future born sons of God. You are the Mystery of God that Satan knew nothing about! The secret or mystery of God was you !!! Satan was never made aware, neither privately or publicly, that Ya h w e h was planning to replicate Himself, to complete His own self in the earth. He was never aware that there was going to be a NEW FAMILY OF SONS soon rising from the dust of their graves on that great getting-up morning at the last trump of God! 3 I Cor 15:51 4 Revelations 10:7 Know this well and let it be inscribed on the sills of your spir- itual consciousness; indeed Ya h s h u a was the beginning of the first harvest, He was the firstborn from the dead! But, but, but ------- only for the purpose of bringing forth many sons into the resurrection!!! This is the PURPOSE of the PLAN for which Yahshua was created to begin the fulfillment of ! Oh the wonder of it !! Returning to our text now; According to Hebrews 2:10 - 11 “Because of Him are all things, bringing many sons to glory to make the captain of their salvation perfect through suffering. For both he that sanctifieth (that’s Yahshua) and they who are sancti- fied (that’s you and me) are all of one body.” Notice that last line, “Are all ONE BODY.” Who is one body? The elder brother and all the other brothers. Christ and His Church. Yahshua and the Sons of Yahweh. ************************************************************** Now, we are getting a line of thinking that can lead us into a correct understanding of “The Fullness Of the Godhead.” The Bible tells us that this fullness was “BODILY” in Christ !!! Did we not just read that THE BODY is made up of ALL THE SONS OF YAHWEH? ************************************************************** For centuries we have turned this verse about the “Fullness of the Godhead bodily” into a Godhead debate, and I say to you that it has nothing to do with the so-called Godhead! It has nothing to do with Modalism. It has nothing to do with Trinitarianism, Unitarianism, or Binatarianism. This verse has nothing to do with any of that. When Paul speaks of the fullness of the Godhead, it is not talking about the fullness of Yahweh. Instead, it’s speaking about something totally different! Remember from the verse above, “BOTH... He that sancti- fies (Yahshua) and those that he sanctifies (You and Me) are all ONE BODY, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brethren. He says “I will declare thy name unto my brethren in the midst of the congregation will I sing praise unto you and again I will put my trust in you O God and again behold I and the children which God has given me.” Please take the time to read the above verse over and over until the Holy Spirit reveals it to you!!! When He does, you will not even need to read my continued explanation as it will open before your eyes beloved. (I don’t know how Yahweh can give Yahshua children if they’re one in the same!) In the verse above, Ya h s h u a says that Ya h w e h has given chil- dren or brethren “to me”. As we now read further in Heb 2:14, it will beautifully unfold even further. “For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same that through death, he might destroy him that had the power of death.” Now we can turn to the verses that prompted this teaching. However, we couldn’t go to those verses until I proved to you from Hebrews the purposes of Yahweh was for many sons. Colossians 1:19 “For it pleased the Father that in Him (talking about Christ) should all fullness dwell.” Without the understanding of the FULL BODY OF BRETH- REN, then the above verse could very well lead us to a Godhead debate. If you fail to read the verse just above it, then you have completely missed the entire meaning of this verse. Sadly, this is how most study the scriptures with soundbite the- ology. Scriptures out of context lead to doctrines out of bounds. Colossians 1:19, seems to tell us, if taken as a stand-alone scripture, that the Father was entirely in Christ alone. I declare to you that if you want to TRULY understand verse 19, you must ascend up to verses 17 & 18, respectively. Col 1:17 - And he is before all things, and by Him, all things consist. Col 1:18 - And he is THE HEAD OF THE BODY, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence. Notice your subject in these verses before you get to verse 19. The theme is “THE BODY.” And exactly, from our earlier verses of study, who is the Body? The Body of Christ is both- “they who are sanctified” being united with the Head of the Body “He that Sanctifieth.” Yahshua is the head of the body, but HE IS NOT THE BODY! The body is the Living Stones of the Assembly of Yah- weh that makes up the corporate sonship of God. In this BODY, He has Preeminence because He is the Elder Brother and, as such, is entitled to a double portion of esteem, glory, and honor. You and I in no way compare to His Maj- esty or His glory. But, we do compare to His purposes! Because our Purpose and His purpose is the same - to govern our Fathers Kingdom upon the earth during the Great Sabbath reign, the Millennium Reign. Although Yahshua is Preeminent among us and always shall be. He is King of kings, and we are simply kings of His juris- diction. We must never forget the rest of this truth; we shall be just as much sons of Yahweh as He is. Why? Because we too shall be BORN OF SPIRIT in the resurrection. We shall not be “firstborn of the dead,” but we shall be “the other born of the dead.” and we shall be JUST LIKE HIM! We shall never equal Him authoritatively, but we shall be equal to him qualitatively. Now, that we have a correct mindset and collection of scrip- tures to help us understand who the Body is. We can now make our way to a proper understanding of the verse in question, verse 19. Col 1:19 - For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell; So many sermons and songs have been written, and mindsets developed form this one verse. Many movements have used this verse as their mantra and their standard verse. But, it is time to take another look and see what we might have missed. “Fullness” is the word we need to examine- what fullness is verse 19 talking about? Your answer is in verse 18, look again. Reread it! What is the subject of verse 18? THE BODY! The BODY IS THE FULLNESS of YAHWEH! “He is the HEAD OF THE BODY, THE CHURCH” *********************************************************** Verse 19 is not about YAHWEH. It is about THE CHURCH !!!! *********************************************************** THE CHURCH (House of Israel, the Congregation) DWELLS IN CHRIST because “He That Sanctifieth” and “They who are Sanctified” are ONE BODY” therefore WE DWELL IN HIM, and We are the FULLNESS, the COMPLETION OF THE PLANS OF GOD IN THE EARTH.” You must remember, we started this lesson by explaining to you that Ya h w e h is not full or complete until “many sons” have come forth from THE SEED SON. You and I, we are in Christ now. We are buried with Him in Baptism 5 and risen with Him in Baptism. Therefore THE FULLNESS is IN CHRIST because we (the fullness) are IN CHRIST. I want to break this down for you! The sons of God; we are the family! - The Fullness, the Completeness of God. We are sons that bear his name! The name of Israel, the family name of Elohim! We are the fullness of God! 5 Colossians 2:12 Keep this in mind, the fullness of God!!! What did I write in the beginning? What did I explain, was the dream of God? The vision of God, which is His pre-existent plan - His Logos Plan was to have many sons! It was to have a family that would rule the earth during the Millenni- um reign and then the universe after the Millennium reign. We explained to you that these Sons, these family members would be reproductions of Himself ! Until He has those sons in place and until they are fully matured and ready to rule, then He has, in fact, not fulfilled his own purpose. Whenever you fully understand and spiritually grasp this, then your life will change, your understanding will change, how you see everything will change. Here is something that I wish to write into your mind with a pen of the diamond. Yahshua is not the completion of the full- ness of Yahweh, He is the BEGINNING OF THE NEW CRE- ATION OF YAHWEH’S FAMILY! He is not the completion of the new creation of sons, the New Israel, the One New Man. But instead, according to Rev 3:14, He is the beginning of this new creation of Yahweh’s ELOHIM FAMILY - the Family of God or the God Family. What happens when a young man and young virgin woman they have their first child? They’ve begun a new creation of a new family that never previously existed in that specific form. Yahshua is the beginning, the firstborn of this new family of spiritually born again sons, heirs with Christ of their new bodies and their Fathers Kingdom. Together, to rule and reign for all eternity as the new First Family of Eternity! Trustworthy sons, trained in obedience through the things they have suffered. “The fullness of God” is the other sons of Yahweh that are now currently in the womb of the church, Mother Jerusalem 6 from above who is the mother of us all in this new family. In the water womb of baptism, we have been plant- ed. We are maturing under the fivefold ministry 7 and coming into a life of obedience to His commands. We are proving our nature, our character, by the obedience in our lives. These many sons of Ya h w e h that are not yet born in the resur- rection, we are now recognized in Christ! Notice .....IN CHRIST! Where does Colossians 1:19 tell us THE FULLNESS DWELLS? In Christ, and where are WE? IN CHRIST!!! Can you see it yet? If not, keep reading and if you can then read further so you can defend this “faith once delivered to the saints.” Now, let’s tie all these loose ends together if any remains for you in the book of Ephesians. Eph 1:22 - And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, Before we go to the next verse - What is the SUBJECT of Eph 1:22? Your English teacher would force you to find it! I will give you a hint, it’s the LAST WORD in the sentence that leads us into the next one! THE CHURCH!!! The Body of Messiah The next verse will open your eyes thoroughly to the true revela- tion of THE FULLNESS OF GOD IN CHRIST. 6 Galatians 4:26 7 Ephesians 4:12-13 Eph 1:23 - Which is his body, the fullness of him that filleth all in all. Now, connect verses 22 & 23 together, and What is the church called in vs. 23? THE BODY !!! What else does verse 23 tell us? That THE BODY IS THE FULLNESS OF YAHWEH !!!! The Church of the Many Sons is HIS FULLNESS, and that church of MANY SONS dwells IN CHRIST as our HEAD !!!! The word “Fullness” needs to be examined! It is derived from the Greek word - “Pleroma,” and here is the meaning. ~ a ship inasmuch as it is filled (i.e., manned) with sailors, rowers, and soldiers Now take that meaning and let’s tie your loose ends. The Body, the Church, is just like a ship that is filled when it has sailors and rowers! Its fullness is just like soldiers that fill an army or complete an army. So Yahweh is fulfilled, com- plete, finished when He has a church or body to dwell in. When He has a group of people that make up His family. When He has a group of sons that He can call His own and dwell in each and every one of them, that is the fullness of God! For example; If you were to take the ocean and pour the sea into one small glass container, you wouldn’t have the fullness of the sea. But if you had and endless supply of containers, one after the other, then you could fill that ocean into these con- tainers, and you would see the fullness of the ocean. Yahweh is only complete and fully presented when He has a family, when He has thousands and millions and billions of Sons that He has recreated Himself in. According to Ephesians 1:23, the fullness of God is His church, His body, His many sons and beloved it is that church, it is those sons that find their fulfillment and their legal family recogni- tion in Christ. Where are you, and I recognized? We are known in Christ. So, therefore, we are collective as HIS FAMILY, we are the fullness of Yahweh if he fills every one of us by His Holy Spirit. God only recognizes you in one of two men! If you exist today, you’re either identified in the first Adam or the last Adam. Only one of the two, that’s the only two places that God recognizes you. You’re either carnal or spiritual lost or saved. There’s no in-between. So when you become a son of Yahweh in the womb of the church, you’re legally recognized in Christ. So it is there, in that glorified position of recognition that the full- ness of God, which is his church, dwells. When you read in the Bible, that the fullness of the of God dwells in Christ, that doesn’t mean that the fullness of Yahweh lived in that one man Yahshua alone. What it means is that you and I together we dwell in Yahshua and there is the fullness of God (IN CHRIST) because Gods true fullness - His Many Sons are (In Christ) Let us continue to prove this even with further scriptural evidence. Colossians 2:9 “For in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” Now, if you read that verse by itself, wholly isolated, without any of the other truths you have learned, layer by layer, in this teaching, then brothers and sisters, you would immediately say, “See that’s a Modalist proving Scripture.” but as always, to under- stand verse 9, you must go up to verse 6 and read it thoroughly. Col 2:6 - “As ye, therefore, have received Christ the Lord walking in him rooted and built up in him and established in the faith as you have been taught” and then it continues “beware lest any man spoil you” “for in him dwelleth all the fullness of the God- head bodily.” and now for the full revelation of the matter... go to verse 10, “AND YOU ARE COMPLETE IN HIM.” The entire scope of these verses is all about YOU! You that have received Christ should WALK IN HIM - for IN HIM (and who is IN HIM? YOU ARE) for IN HIM dwells THE FULL- NESS OF GOD. That fullness of God is YOU, and YOU ARE COMPLETE as long as you remain IN CHRIST !!!! To understand even more clearly, we need to return to the point that I mentioned earlier in this writing, and that point is about the word “Godhead” and how it should not be in your Bible. Let us further elaborate on this point. Rather than “Godhead,” I’ll show you precisely what should be there, and you can look at it for yourself. In the original Greek Manuscripts, we will not find the word “Godhead” at all. So, what word should be there? What word is in the original inspired manuscripts? Very simple... the word should simply be “GOD” rather than Godhead. That word Godhead is a false creation from a false church. In closing brothers and sisters, what is the body of Christ? It’s you and me. The fullness of God dwells in the church, and the church lives in Christ. That’s why we have to pray to the Father in Christ’s name be- cause we have no access to the throne of the Father without our high priest Yahshua, we are recognized IN HIM. So you and I are the fullness of God, the complete expression of God in the earth. It is in you that He chooses to dwell when you were baptized into His name, and He filled you with the Holy Spirit. You then became part of the fullness of God. You are the body, and you, the body, are recognized in your federal head, which is Yahshua. That’s why the scripture says that in him, talking about Jesus ....all the fullness/the family dwell! Written for First Harvest Ministries by Shane Vaughn 12/23/2019 Date of Writing brothervaughn@gmail.com www.firstharvestchurch.org