is one of the unique blessings of the dispensation of the Mystery. Let us see for ourselves. The words `made

accepted' translate the Greek charitoo which occurs in but one other place in the New Testament. It is the salutation

of the angel to Mary.

`Hail, thou that art HIGHLY FAVOURED' (Luke 1:28).

So unique is this term that the Greek word is unknown to classical Greek, and surely no one will deny that Mary

the mother of our Lord held a unique place in the history of womankind. To have focussed upon her the prophecy of

Genesis 3:15 and of Isaiah 7:14 and 9:6, and to be associated as she was so intimately with the mystery of Godliness

(1 Tim. 3:16) gives this lowly woman a place that is indeed one of high favour. It is this word that the apostle

singled out from all the words that were available, because NO OTHER CALLING is so related to Christ in His

super-heavenly position as this church of the Mystery. The title of Christ `The Beloved' too is as rare as it is lovely.

The title is found in Matthew 3:17, 12:18 and 17:5 in which we read the added words `well pleased'. In Colossians,

which belongs to the same dispensation as Ephesians, Christ is called `The Son of His love' (Col. 1:13), but

Ephesians 1:6 is the only occurrence of the title `Beloved' outside the Gospels. Both the `acceptance' therefore, and

the One in Whom this acceptance is found, are unique.

We have now exhibited some of the blessings that belong exclusively to this dispensation of the Mystery. We do

most earnestly plead with the reader to ponder them as before God, to re-read the exhortation given by Caleb and

Joshua (Num. 14:6-9) and the awful alternative of Numbers 14:10. There are, however, more unique blessings to

exhibit, and the next is a title given to the church of the one body that seems too wonderful to be true. It is called:

THE FULNESS OF HIM THAT FILLETH ALL IN ALL

(Eph. 1:23)

The Saviour descended into the lower parts of the earth, and ascended far above all heavens, that He might fill

all things (Eph. 4:10,11), and the church which is His Body is the fulness of Him that filleth all in all! This church

has a standard, it is nothing less than `The measure of the stature of the FULNESS of Christ' (Eph. 4:13). Where in

the whole range of the Scriptures can such a position or such a title be found? To this most high and wondrous

calling the apostle refers in Colossians 2:9,10.

`For in Him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily. And ye are complete (FILLED TO THE FULL) in Him,

which is the Head of all principality and power'.

The following comment, by J. Armitage Robinson, D.D., is suggestive:

`We now come to what is perhaps the most remarkable expression in the whole epistle. It is the phrase in which

St. Paul further describes the church, which He has just declared to be Christ's Body, as "the fulness of Him

Who all in all is being filled". When the apostle thus speaks of the church as the Pleroma or Fulness of Christ,

and in the same breath speaks of the Christ as "being fulfilled", he would appear to mean that, in some

mysterious sense, the church is that without which "the Christ" is not complete, but with which He is or will be

complete ... `.

Just as in Philippians we read that for the purpose of salvation, the Lord `emptied Himself' (heauton ekenose

Philippians 2:7), so, still in relation to the redemptive purpose, and in no way intruding into the realm of essential

Deity, that `self-emptying' of His most wonderful DESCENT into humanity, is more than compensated, by this

equally wonderful counterbalancing `filling' associated with His ASCENSION as Head of this company. He shall

indeed in every sphere be `satisfied' (Isa. 53:11).

Following close upon this most wonderful revelation of the Divine purpose in this unique church, is the equally

overwhelming statement, that this company is potentially