John 1:15-18
The passage before us contains three great declarations about our Lord Jesus Christ. Each of the three is among the foundation-principles of Christianity.
We are taught, firstly, that it is Christ alone who supplies all the spiritual wants of all believers. It is written that “of His fulness have we all received, and grace for grace.”
There is an infinite fulness in Jesus Christ. As Paul says, “It pleased the Father that in Him should all fulness dwell.”–“In Him are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” (Coloss. 1:19; 2:3) There is laid up in Him, as in a treasury, a boundless supply of all that any sinner can need, either in time or eternity. The Spirit of Life is His special gift to the Church, and conveys from Him, as from a great root, sap and vigour to all the believing branches. He is rich in mercy, grace, wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Out of Christ’s fulness, all believers in every age of the world, have been supplied. They did not clearly understand the fountain from which their supplies flowed, in Old Testament times. The Old Testament saints only saw Christ afar off, and not face to face. But from Abel downwards, all saved souls have received all they have had from Jesus Christ alone. Every saint in glory will at last acknowledge that he is Christ’s debtor for all he is. Jesus will prove to have been all in all.