Particular Redemption
Ephesians 1 : 21 -23

"…the church, Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all" Ephesians 1: 22-23
Sometimes the way the Word of God expresses a truth sets a believer at odds with his own way of thinking. So intrinsic to the believers thought process is the jealousy for God's glory, that when he reads words such as these, which state that the fulness of Christ is dependent upon the fulness of His church, there is an internal struggle.
We know that our Lord is fully man and fully God. We know that all fulness dwells in Him…that in Him dwells the fulness of the Godhead bodily. How then can such a statement be so? It is so, first of all, because it is God's Word. Secondly it is so because of the inseparability of Christ and His finished work. Christ would cease to be Christ…all fulness would not dwell in Him…if all for whom He did His work were not brought into a saving union with Him. If one for whom our Lord died ended up lost, then His body, His church would be incomplete. He would not possess the fulness of Him that filleth all in all. Someone would be missing…the body would be deformed, the finished work would be a misnomer, the glorious Savior would not be worthy of that title, and the travail of Christ would prove a miscarriage.
But such is not he case. All the church has been redeemed. All that the Father gave to Him shall come to Him, and He will raise them up in the last day. This is "the church, Which is His body, the fulness of Him that filleth all in all".