OUR RISEN EXECUTOR

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78 - OUR RISEN EXECUTOR 

August 23, 1964

Pastor Henry F. Kulp

Romans 5: 9 - 11 “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through hm. For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” 

As we start our message this morning, I want you to see something about the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, for you will notice in the 10th vs it says we shall be saved by His life, and I want you to understand that statement this morning, and I don’t want you to be confused. To begin with, have you noticed about the blood of Christ in the Book of Romans? I want you to see how important the blood of Christ really is. 

Romans 5: 9 “Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.” Justification is everything. Justification is God looking at you and not seeing any of your sins, not seeing your lost condition, but pronouncing you righteous when you are not righteous. And pronouncing you saved just because you believe.

1/ Everything we have in Christianity has been purchased, and I do not hesitate to use the word, purchased. Acts 20: 28 “Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.” And here you have the actual word, purchased—the Church of God which He purchased with His own blood. So justification is everything, and it has been purchased by the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then, notice, Romans 3: 25. “Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;” There you see it is faith through His blood. People ask me what do they have to believe to be saved? They have to believe in the blood of Jesus Christ, and that includes everything. 

2/ But let us take it another step on the way. Romans 8: 30. “Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. And notice, whom He justified, He also glorified—there is nothing between. If you have been justified than you are sure to be glorified. It is an accomplished fact. It is sure. So you see how important the blood of Jesus Christ really is? Without it you have nothing. It isn’t the life of Christ that saves, it is the death of Christ, yet Romans 5: 10 says “we are saved by His life.” What does it mean? Notice, “we shall be saved by His life,” and, of course, this is His life after death. What is this all about? By the death of Christ everything has been bought and paid for, for us, and the moment we believe in the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, everything is ours. But do you realize there is no advantage in being a beneficiary unless the testator has wealth to meet the provision, and dies while the will is in force. 

Hebrews 9: 16, 17 “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.” For where a testament is—a testament is a will. I know you know that phrase, we still use it—last will and testament, and then it says there must of also of necessity be the death of the testator. A testament is a will that can only be fulfilled by the death of the one who makes it. He had to die to make the will good. A will is of no value whatsoever until the one has died and then we get the blessings from it. The will is enforced after men are dead. Notice, Vs 17 where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 

3/ Now go back to the 15th vs. For this cause He is the mediator of the New Covenant of the new will, and that by means of death. The 16th vs the death of the testator, 17th vs. after men are dead. I want to show you this fact in the Book of John, John 14: 27 “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.” This is when Jesus Christ was telling his disciples that He had to leave them. In the beginning of the chapter, He said let not your heart be troubled, then He went on to tell them He is going back to the Father. Then in Vs 27 He says, “Peace I leave with you.” 

Now look at John 20: 19 “Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.” This was the day of the resurrection— the same day and evening being the first day of the week when the doors were shut, when the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst and saith unto them, Peace be unto you. Notice, before He died, He said, Peace I leave with you—that was His will to the twelve—Now, after the resurrection He comes to be Executor of His will and He says, Peace be unto you. Now, you can have it. He is the Executor of His own will. He had to die or no one could have peace if He didn’t die. He left His peace, then notice, Vs 20 “and when He had so said, He showed unto them His hands and His side”—as much as to say to them--this is the price of your peace. Peace be unto you, and He showed unto them His hands and His side. In other words, I died that you might have peace now. You are going to face many oppositions, you are going to be in an angry world, a world that hates Me, hates My gospel, and you need peace, and I died to give it to you. 

4/ But in Hebrews 9: 16, 17 “For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.” For where a covenant is, a will is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. Vs 18 “Whereupon neither the first testament was dedicated without blood.” Blood is the sign of death. 

The other night, I pulled into a gas station to get gas, and there was a car all smashed and there was blood all over it. Blood speaks of death, doesn’t it? Someone was killed in that car. Now notice this 18th Vs “Where upon neither the first will or testament was dedicated without blood. Vs. 19 For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to law, he took the blood of claves and of goats with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book and all the people.” 

I want you to turn to that in the Old Testament. Exodus 24: 6 - 8 “And Moses took half of the blood, and put it in basins; and half of the blood he sprinkled on the altar. And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.” 

They said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient and Moses knew right well they couldn’t possibly do it. He knew they would be under the curse if they did try to do it, so he sprinkled the blood on them—it is the blood that saves. You can’t get to God by doing. Moses, you notice, didn’t care how nicely they were dressed either. I don’t know how many were nicely dressed, all dressed up in their best bib and tuckers, but they went away from that meeting sprinkled with blood, and that didn’t mean a thing to Moses. He was reading the law to them, and said, the law is not grace. I hope this morning you know the difference. The Lord Jesus Christ is not demanding anything in the Gospel of Grace, He wants you to come to Him and let Him save you. 

5/ THE GOSPEL DOESN’T DEMAND,—UNDERSTAND THAT, THE GOSPEL DOESN’T DEMAND. THE GOSPEL GIVES, GRACE GIVES AND NEVER STOPS GIVING. THE LAW DEMANDS, THE LAW WANTS SOMETHING FROM YOU, BUT GRACE IS THE VERY OPPOSITE. THESE PEOPLE CONDEMNED THEMSELVES BY PROMISING TO OBEY GOD, SO GOD SPRINKLED THEM WITH BLOOD TO SAVE THEM FROM THE CURSE OF WHAT THEY WERE SAYING. 

6/ Leviticus 17: 11 “For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that taketh an atonement for the soul.” I have given you this verse again and again and if I continue to be pastor here, I’ll give it to you over and over again. Because it is so important, it should be marked in your Bible, and every Christian ought to know it. it is the foundation of the teaching the blood. “For the life of the flesh is in the blood.” 

It is only in the last 100 years that the medical fraternity has found that out—the life is in the blood. Doctors used to be called “leaches” and that was because they used to take blood out of a man to heal him. They don’t do that any more. They put blood into man now, to make him better. Moses said that 3,500 years ago, and medical men have just found it out. 

Some people seem to think the Bible is behind the times.The Bible has been waiting 3,500 years for men to catch up with it. It is still ahead of every profession. The basis of everything is the blood of Jesus Christ. So Christ had to die, and then He becomes the Executor of His will. God made a multitude of promises, but these promises were of no value until the death of the Lord Jesus Christ put them into effect, and now He is there to see that we are sure to get all benefits. He left us a vast estate, but how would it be managed? Would it be possible that our assets, this vast estate with all these promises to be dissipated away? Not with our Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, He arose again from the dead, ascended to Heaven, sat down on the right hand of God, was made higher than the Heavens, and He became Executor of His own Estates. He lives in order to take care of us for whom He died. The argument of our text is, that since He died to make available to us all the riches of God, much more can we be sure of those possessions because He rose from the dead in order to manage our affairs. That is what He means in Romans 8: 34 “Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.” Who also liveth to make intercession for us.

7/ Notice, Leviticus 17: 11 “The life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given to you, (where) upon the altar.” Not in the veins, but on the altar. 

8/ Now look at Hebrews 9: 20 “Saying, this is the blood of the testament which God hath enjoined unto you.” The word, enjoined, means demanded. God demands it. There is no use arguing with God. There is no use thinking you can bring God a good life, and your baptismal certificate, and your church certificate and He will receive you. No, He says, I want blood, I demand blood, I enjoin blood. Why try to argue with God? Why try to do it any other way? 

9/ Romans 5: 11 “And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.” This verse, of course, belongs with the 10 Vs. Notice the word, JOY, It should be translated by the word “BOAST”. I like that— we boast in God. We have something to boast about. Not in ourselves, but in God. I can never understand why we are ashamed of the Lord Jesus Christ. Why we are ashamed of salvation. We are to boast in it. 

10/ How do you make your boast in God? Let’s look at some Scriptures and see some men who have boasted in God. 

11/ Psalms 71: 17 - 19 “O God, thou hast taught me from my youth: and hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and grey headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed they strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. They righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!”

Let us look at David. “Oh, God, Thou hast taught me from my youth, and hitherto from that time forth I have declared Thy wondrous works.” He said, From my youth I have declared unto all men Thy works. I have boasted in Thy works. Now also, when I am old and grey-headed. O God, forsake me not, until I have showed Thy strength to this generation. And Thy power to everyone that is to come. He said, boosting is not only for the youth and middle-ages, but it is for the old folks as well--those in old age. Then in the 19th Vs “Thy righteousness”—I boast in Thy righteousness. Yes, David knew how to boast in God when He was young, and when he was old. 

12/ Psalms 86: 6 - 8 “Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications. In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou wilt answer me. Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works like unto thy works.”

Not only did David boast in God in his old age, but also in the day of trouble, for David found there is none like unto our God, and he sings, “Give ear, O God, unto my prayer, and attend unto my supplications. In the day of trouble will I call upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me.” 

13/ Did you ever listen to Moses boast in God? The great lawgiver? Exodus 15: 11 “Who is like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who is like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?”

Here is Moses singing after the Children of Israel had been brought through the Red Sea—“Who is like unto Thee, O God, among the gods. Who is like unto Thee? Glorious in Holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders.” Yes, Moses boasted in God, and so should we. 

14/ I wonder if you have ever noticed, just starting with the first Chapter of Romans, and going now to this fifth chapter, the great astounding distance we have traveled in this Book. In the first chapter, and the second chapter, and the third chapter he has shown that all men are sinners. He sums it all up in Romans 3: 23 by saying, “All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” But there is a verse in that 3rd chapter that I want you to see. Romans 3: 19 “For we know that what things so ever the law saith, it saith to those that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God.” 

Notice this, all must stand silent in sin. Sin has closed the mouth of every member of the human race. All are condemned, ALL. 

Ref: 08/23/1964/ 78 - OUR RISEN EXECUTOR / 03/28/2020 

WAS THE HUMAN BODY OF JESUS CHRIST DIFFERENT?

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285 - WAS THE HUMAN BODY OF JESUS CHRIST DIFFERENT?

January 17, 1965, 
Pastor Henry F. Kulp

Romans 8: 1 - 4 There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin an death. 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh: 4 That the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

We said that the judgement day for the believer was at the Cross of Calvary 2,000 years ago. The judgement for sin was upon Jesus Christ, and therefore the believer cannot be judged for sin, because his sins have already been judged.
1/ Than we told you there are two laws, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, and the law of sin and death. The law of sin and death is in every individual born into this world. It started with Adam and has continued from that day. But when one is saved, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, which is the Holy Spirit begins to work in the life of a believer, and the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of life gives life to us, He quickens us from the dead. So, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed us from the law of sin and death.

2/ What is the basis for no condemnation, for having the Spirit of life to free us from the law of sin and death? It is all wrapped up in the 3^rd vs. God has intervened, sending His Own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh. The weakness of the flesh demands the intervention of God. The weakness of the flesh is an impossible barrier to all the efforts of mankind. But it is not a barrier to God’s grace.  Therefore, Romans 8: 3 is the most important text in the Bible.
 

3/ Years ago, when I first came to Altoona, the church that I then pastored was having part in a week of prayer with some of the other churches of the neighborhood. In one of the of the larger churches co-operating with that week of prayer, was a pastor, and we met in his study to discuss the week of prayer. There was to be a meeting in a different church each night. And while we were there, the matter Fundamentalism and Modernism came up. The pastor of this church, who was a rank liberal said, The Apostle Paul mentioned the Virgin Birth of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. He said you give me one Scripture where Paul ever said that the Virgin Birth was necessary. This very Scripture we have today would be incomprehensible without one that he could assume that Christ was God the Son, come into the world without a human father. The truth of the matter is that Paul simple took it for granted. He may not have used the words, Virgin Birth--but definitely, his doctrine would be foolishness without the assumption that Christ was a virgin-born individual.

4/ First of all, it says that God sent His Own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh.  It should be noticed that it does not say that He sent His Own Son in the flesh or the likeness of flesh, but in the likeness of sinful flesh. His body, indeed was a was a body of flesh before and after the His resurrection. This, of course, corresponds with John 1: 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 

The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The flesh which the Lord Jesus Christ had was a physical body, and though it resembled our bodies in outward appearance, it was not made in the likeness of our sinful fleshly bodies. There was a difference so great between His body and ours that it is necessary for us to study the difference.

5/ So, let us look into the Bible and prove that the physical body of Jesus Christ differed from ours.  Acts 2: 23, 24 On the day of Pentecost, Peter introduced the doctrine of the resurrection of Christ by saying, Him, being delivered by the determined council and foreknowledge and knowledge of God, ye have been taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: 24 Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was not possible that He should be holden of it.

Notice, it is not possible that He should be beholden of death. Can this be said of our physical bodies? Of course, not. Then He quotes a prophecy in which in which Christ speaks of the nature of His Body, for He said, vs 27 Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt Thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. What was this flesh that could not see corruption? Therefore, the Bible teaches that these forces of death which exist in all our bodies did not exist in the body of the Lord Jesus Christ.        

6/ If you would have gone to the cross of Calvary and you would have been a medical examiner, you would have taken down the bodies of the two thieves and the body of the Lord Jesus Christ and seemingly, outwardly, they were both dying in the same fashion, and you were required to sign a certificate stating the cause of death, you would have to certify differently for the thieves and for Jesus Christ. These men who were dying beside the Lord Jesus, died from wounds and loss of blood. The Lord Jesus Christ, died because, when He was completely ready, His hour had come, He dismissed the Spirit.  John 10: 18 He declared flatly, No man taken my life from Me, I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. While the thieves were slowly dying, The Lord was in complete command of His life. Notice, He did not have His head rolling upon His breast in weakness--- He held it erect until the final moment when He bowed His head and gave up the Holy Spirit. He did not fade in weakness so that He could scarcely do more than whisper, for He cried out with a loud voice after six hours of that experience on the cross. His body did not die in the usual fashion. Notice, Luke 23: 46.  And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, He said, Father, into Thy hands I commend My Spirit, and having said thus, He gave up the Ghost. Then notice, John 19: 30 And when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, He said, It is finished, and He bowed His head. His head had not been bowed, it had not been rolling upon chest as one in great weakness. No, He was in command of all His faculties until the moment He dismissed His Spirit.   

7/ This should be at the beginning of the message. As we have been talking about being free from one law by another law, we have a beautiful illustration of this. 

There on the ground is a little caterpillar crawling. It is something that hated and despised by most people.  But this caterpillar has freedom to crawl about. It has power to crawl, perhaps, up a tree, along the ground, but it doesn’t have power to rise above the ground, or above something to crawl upon.  It cannot lift itself above the ground, it cannot fly. And it has to stay on the ground because of the Law of Gravitation. But after a while it encases itself in what we call a cocoon, and after a certain period of time, that little caterpillar comes out and it is a beautiful butterfly.  It now has wings and it is able to defy the Law of Gravitation. No longer is it earth-bound, but now it can fly above the earth through the air. The Law of Gravitation is still there, but another law came in. This is the law of flying with wings. And the wing gives this insect the ability to rise and to fly.  This is exactly what has happened to us. The law of sin and death has been overcome by the Law of Life in Christ Jesus. We have been set free from the law of sin and death and therefore there is now no condemnation to us who are in Christ Jesus.   

8/ But now back to the thought of the body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the flesh of Jesus Christ.  It says that He was apart from sin. Luke 1: 35 And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall over-shadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

Where it says wherefore also that the holy Thing--that was the little body that was born, and it was a holy thing--it was infinitely holy. His flesh had no taint of sin. There has been an argument down through the years by some theologians as to whether Jesus Christ could have sinned. Of course, not. He would have to have the law of sin and death in Him to sin. But the possibility was not there, because He did not have sin in Him.   

9/ Why are we so careful to show the body of Jesus Christ, the flesh of Jesus Christ did not have the law of sin and death in Him? Why do we say it was not sinful flesh?  Because I want you to notice, Romans 8: 3 For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin, condemned sin in the flesh:

For sin, condemned sin in the flesh. What does that mean? The word (for), or “in the place of”, means that He was made an offering for our sin. And He judged sin, He condemned sin--He condemned sin--where? In His flesh. He had flesh without sin--we have flesh with sin, and when God judges sin it is in the flesh. But if God judges sin in our flesh, we would be lost forever.  But what does God do to save us? God takes the sin that is in our flesh, and puts it in His flesh--His holy flesh--and He died to pay the wage of sin. 

10/ I Peter 2: 24 Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.  Notice, it isn’t the preposition “on” it is the preposition “in”. Who, His own self bare our sins in His own body. He took our sin that was in our flesh, God gave Him flesh--He had to have a body of flesh, but it had to be Holy flesh, and God put the flesh that was in our flesh in His flesh, to suffer for us.  

11/ Galatians 3: 13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: 

This is what Jesus Christ did for you and me, and this was His flesh.  To understand this portion of scripture in Galatians, we must go back to Deuteronomy 21: 22 And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him on a tree: His body shall not remain all night upon a tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Jesus Christ was hanged upon a tree, accursed of God. And it says here, if a man hath committed a sin worthy of death, that means there is nothing else this man can suffer but death, his sin has to be paid for by death, he is to be hanged on a tree and buried the same day, less there be a curse from the Lord. This is exactly what Jesus Christ bore. All of us deserve to die in our flesh we are sinful, but Jesus Christ took our sin in His flesh and has set us free form the law of sin and death.  

12/ We cannot remove ourselves from the law of sin and death, only Jesus Christ is able to do that.  He, alone, is able to be made sin for us.

13/ Colossians 1: 21, 22.  Vs. 21 And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled 22 In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreprovable in his sight: These verses tell us what we were, and it is a good thing, often, in our Christian lives to remember what the Lord saved us from. Sometimes we get the big idea in our daily work in Christian life that we are pretty good, we forget that God saved us from the pit, from the miry clay, from sin. He saved us and took our sins away. It is a good thing to remember that. 

14/ Notice vs. 22 In the body of His flesh through death. I want you to notice, there is no punctuation mark after reconciled of the 21^st vs. the last word of that verse, and it should read, (Yet, now hath He reconciled in the body of His flesh). That at the cross we were reconciled in the body of His flesh through death. The only way that God and man could be brought together was for the Lord Jesus Christ into this world and take a human body, again stressing that Christ had to be human. He had to have a body of flesh. Scripture is clear, and Paul is clear.  It was in His flesh that He paid the price of our sin.

15/ Then notice, in the body of His flesh through death, to present you, how? Holy.  That’s what the Lord Jesus Christ is going to do for each believer, for each one who has believed in the death of His Son. By His death, He took sin away, and He is going to present you holy. The notice, the last words of this verse--in His sight. The Son is going to present us to the Father, and in the Father’s sight, we are holy, unblameable, unreprovable. My, what creatures we will be when the Lord Jesus Christ presents us to the Father. Not a stain of sin left, nothing to be reproached for. Every sin is gone. No judgement day for us.  Here again there is no judgement. Our judgement day is gone. When we are presented to the Father, and this is important, we will be HOLY, UNBLAMEABLE, UNREPROVABLE, and how can there be a judgement day for believers who are in this condition?    

16/ There isn’t another thing on God’s calendar until the Rapture. There is not another event scheduled. The work will go on, gathering sinners and making them saints, and of course, this is God’s work--all who believe on the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, will be made saints, but a day is coming--it is the day of presentation, when we will be presented to the Father. What a glorious day that will be.      

17/ Then notice, Colossians 2: 9 For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.  In the Lord Jesus is the fullness of all the Trinity. Notice, the word, bodily. I read a rendition, a translation, the other day I liked very much. ALL THE FULNESS OF THE GODHEAD DWELLETH IN HIM IN A BODY. That is true, for Christ at the right hand of the Father in the Heavens, now has a human body, a body which God prepared for Him.  A body which was given to him when He was born in Bethlehem.  All the fullness of the Godhead lives in a human body, and that is wonderful.  He still has that body at the present time, that flesh. The Second Person of the Trinity, Jesus Christ, is a man just as much as He is God.  He is a true man. Then notice, in vs. 10 And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power: Ye are complete in Him.  To be complete means there is nothing left out, there is nothing lacking. 

What a wonderful thought. In this Christ, Who now lives in the Heavens, Who died in His flesh, and in His flesh took our sins. We are complete. What a marvelous, wonderful truth. 

Ref: 01/17/1965 / 285 - WAS THE HUMAN BODY OF JESUS DIFFERENT?/ 3/23/2020