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Ephesians 4:10
He who descended is Himself also He who ascended far above all the heavens, so that He
might fill all things.

You and I are part of the "all things" that Christ must fill. The Son of God will not be
content for any man or woman to surrender to Him only part of their life. There can be
nothing left of the fallen Adamic nature.

Matthew 16:25-26
"For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for My sake will
find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or
what will a man give in exchange for his soul?"

Without question, the majority in the church today do not wish to lose their natural
lives. They are taught to pursue Your Best Life Now. The church is endeavoring to enjoy
their good things in this life while eschewing the afflicted path that alone leads to life. The
desires and passions of the soul are what guide and direct most Christians. The natural life
is protected, and the disciple's cross is spurned. Consequently, Christ does not fill all things
in His church. The saints remain immature, not attaining "to a mature man, to the measure
of the stature which belongs to the FULLNESS of Christ."
Paul said that in the last days men would not endure sound doctrine. Those in the
church would turn aside to myths and fables and heap up to themselves teachers to tell
them the things they want to hear. There is a reason that the church has embraced false
doctrines relating to the reconciliation of all things to Christ. There is an appeal in these
false doctrines to the carnal desires of the natural man. It is very costly to the natural man
to attain to a mature conformity to Christ. We learn obedience through the things we suffer,
even as did the Son of God.

Hebrews 5:8-9
Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. And
having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of aeonian
salvation...

Yahweh has determined that ALL must come to a conformity to Christ. Christ must
fill all things. We must decrease that Christ might increase in us. Yet, the natural man is
adamantly opposed to decreasing. The natural man seeks to protect his life.What man or
woman wants to lay aside their desires, their dreams, their goals, their comfort and
pleasures, in order that the will of the Father might be achieved? Christ was the first man
to ever walk perfectly in choosing the will of the Father over His own soul's desire.

John 6:38
"For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent
Me."

John 4:34
Yahshua said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish
His work."