ephesians 3:18 sermon

Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. Nay, rather, that heaven of love which is "higher than our thoughts," bends down, as by a kind of optical delusion the physical heaven seems to do, towards each of us, only with this blessed difference, that in the natural world the place where heaven touches earth is always the furthest point of distance from us; and in the spiritual world, the place where heaven stoops to me is always right over my head, and the nearest possible point to me. What is the length of the love of Christ? Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. Filled with the fulness of God. In his dignified British manner he replied, Madam, can you think of anything in your life that is big to God? Coeval then with Deity itself is the love of Deity towards its chosen ones. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. A woman once approached the famous preacher, G. Campbell Morgan, after he spoke and asked, Do you think we should pray for even the little things in our lives, or just for the big things? Be filled. we all occupy precisely the same relation to the love, the Divine love, which lies in Jesus Christ. (4) The height. Corona Cannot Prevail Against Her. And the "depth." What exaltation!3. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. It were well to sail across this river and survey its broad surface. And that love which thus towers above us, and gleams the summit and the apex of the universe, like the shining cross on the top of same lofty cathedral spire, does not gleam there above us inaccessible, nor lie before us like some pathless precipice, up which nothing that has not wings can ever hope to rise, but the height of the love of Christ is an hospitable height, which can be scaled by us. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. Eternal. Keep there! )Among the heights of Divine loveC. (a) Stoop of Divine love, condescending to consider us, to commune with us, to receive us in love, to bear with our faults, and to take us up from our low estate. It indicates an intimate study, and a careful survey. (4) The height. "I will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. Incomprehensible. "Here," he would say, "here is the fountain, here is the source of it all." The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. We are to be strengthened in the inner man by the Spirit of God; and who can strengthen as He strengthens? Here is one measure of it, howsoever long drawn out my sin may be, it stretches beyond this; and the while line of His love runs out into infinity, far beyond the point where the black line of my sin stops. As if some planet were to burst from its track and plunge downwards in amongst the mists and the narrowness of our earthly atmosphere, so we can estimate the depth of the love of Christ by saying "He came from above, He tabernacled with us." 3. What must this be?4. God is not just able to do beyond what we ask, but abundantly beyond. Infinite. He would have their spiritual faculties vigorous. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." For surely the love that has stooped to me can never pass by any human soul. But he would be reminded that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." Filled with all the fulness of God. Keep up, Christian. The breadth is seen in reaching out Divine mercy to sinners who are far off from God (Isaiah 65:1; Isaiah 45:22). (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. Incomprehensible. What great things man can hold!2. What great things man can hold! Filled with the fulness of God. you cannot have sinned too foully for forgiveness. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. The depth of the love of Jesus! H. We must be rooted as a tree, which takes many a hold upon the soil. He would fly onward till he paused at Isaiah's day and heard of God's love in the prophecy that the Son of man should bear the iniquity of His people. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. 1. Filled with God. )LinksEphesians 3:18 NIVEphesians 3:18 NLTEphesians 3:18 ESVEphesians 3:18 NASBEphesians 3:18 KJVEphesians 3:18 Bible AppsEphesians 3:18 ParallelEphesians 3:18 Biblia ParalelaEphesians 3:18 Chinese BibleEphesians 3:18 French BibleEphesians 3:18 German BibleEphesians 3:18 CommentariesBible Hub, (d)Conferring boundless boons for this life and worlds to come. Ephesians 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height. Keep there, eagles. 4. Keep up in the higher element, resting in Jesus Christ, and do not come down to find a perch for yourself among the trees of philosophy.(C. In Context Parallel Compare Far More Than You Think. Keep up in the higher element, resting in Jesus Christ, and do not come down to find a perch for yourself among the trees of philosophy.(C. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. This knowledge of the length of love does not always come to Christians early in their history. O backslider! What condescension is this which allows the sacred heart to be fathomed like a sea, and to be measured as a field! What must this be? Keep there! Spurgeon. (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. That they might form correct views of the freeness of God's love (2 Timothy 1:9). Keep up, Christian. The deep mines of sin and of alienation are all undermined and countermined by His love. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. 1. That is to say, the topmost thing in the universe, the shining apex and summit, glittering away up there in the radiant unsetting light, is the love of God in Jesus Christ. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. H. [that you] may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height – to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; This prayer of Paul is not a “ho-hum” prayer! May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height. He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. H. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. (4) The height. Our FAQ * Send a MessageEmail: info@mljtrust.org, Site designed and developed by Five Q© 2012 MLJ Trust, Enter the Bible passage (e.g., John 3), keyword (e.g., Jesus, prophet, etc.) The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. Look back, and back, and back, and you shall not see its commencement! 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, ( A) to grasp how wide and long and high and deep. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. Filled with all the fulness of God. What great things man can hold!2. When lads go to school they are not at first put to study algebra, nor are they sent out to make a trigonometrical survey of a county. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Keep up in the higher element, resting in Jesus Christ, and do not come down to find a perch for yourself among the trees of philosophy.(C. 2. What more can be imagined?(C. Filled with all the fulness of God. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. Spurgeon. Keep up, Christian. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. He is paying for his allegiance to our Lord. Ephesians 3:18(NASB) Verse Thoughts Paul desires that the spiritual awareness of the saints of God is all-embracing, such that we are able to comprehend the multi-dimensional breadth, length, depth and height of God's love - through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son. Keep up in the higher element, resting in Jesus Christ, and do not come down to find a perch for yourself among the trees of philosophy.(C. And the law that He laid down for His servant is the law that binds Himself. (4) The height. What great things man can hold!2. It is this love that is a part of his eternal nature as God. (c) Where is the measure for all this? )LinksEphesians 3:18 NIVEphesians 3:18 NLTEphesians 3:18 ESVEphesians 3:18 NASBEphesians 3:18 KJVEphesians 3:18 Bible AppsEphesians 3:18 ParallelEphesians 3:18 Biblia ParalelaEphesians 3:18 Chinese BibleEphesians 3:18 French BibleEphesians 3:18 German BibleEphesians 3:18 CommentariesBible Hub, (c)Compassing all needs, cares, etc. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." This experience, says Dr. Lloyd-Jones, is not something that only the greatest Christians can experience, nor is it reserved to preachers and pastors. 2. Filled with God. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. Spurgeon. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. 3. He' has come to lift us to Himself. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." Filled with all the fulness of God. "That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend the breadth and length of the love of Christ." He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. H. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. (3) The depth. Now, the apostle desires that we who are believers, our faculties being strengthened, may have the person of Jesus constantly before us to inflame our love, and so increase our knowledge. How He stooped to our low estate. Fellowship. Devotionals containing Ephesians 3:18 . )LinksEphesians 3:18 NIVEphesians 3:18 NLTEphesians 3:18 ESVEphesians 3:18 NASBEphesians 3:18 KJVEphesians 3:18 Bible AppsEphesians 3:18 ParallelEphesians 3:18 Biblia ParalelaEphesians 3:18 Chinese BibleEphesians 3:18 French BibleEphesians 3:18 German BibleEphesians 3:18 CommentariesBible Hub, (b)As to be revealed in future glory. Cross references. Through the whole of your journey, however long continued it may be, you shall find His love with you. H. Spurgeon.The more we know the more are we conscious of our ignorance of that which is unknown, or, as Dr. Chalmers used to put it in his class — borrowing an illustration from his favourite mathematics — "The wider the diameter of light, the greater is the circumference of darkness." )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. Consider it as stooping to look upon such an insignificant creature as man! III. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. The schoolmaster knows that the boy's mind must be strengthened, that his understanding must be exercised, his discernment must be developed, and his memory must be rendered capacious before he may enter upon superior studies; and the apostle knows that our spiritual faculties must undergo the same kind of development; that our faith, for instance, must be unwavering, that our love must become fervent, that our hope must be bright, that our joy must be increased, and then, but not till then, we shall be able to comprehend the length and breadth of love Divine. And we have a right to say, "He loves me, therefore He loves all." If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. The "breadth" suggests to us the extent of that love, the vastness of the field for which it is designed and for which it provides. What great things man can hold!2. H. (1) We must love Him ourselves, if we would measure Christ's love. What more can be imagined?(C. H. )LinksEphesians 3:18 NIVEphesians 3:18 NLTEphesians 3:18 ESVEphesians 3:18 NASBEphesians 3:18 KJVEphesians 3:18 Bible AppsEphesians 3:18 ParallelEphesians 3:18 Biblia ParalelaEphesians 3:18 Chinese BibleEphesians 3:18 French BibleEphesians 3:18 German BibleEphesians 3:18 CommentariesBible Hub, (b)Covering hosts of iniquities. Jon Bloom Mar 24, 2017 1.5K Shares Article. Infinite. Depth and height, as I said at the beginning of these remarks, are but two ways of expressing the same dimension; the one we begin at the top and measure down, the other we begin at the bottom and measure up. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. Commentary, Ephesians 3:14-21, Brian Peterson, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2015. What more can be imagined?(C. He is considered by many evangelical leaders today to be an authority on biblical truth and the sufficiency of Scripture. That they might depend upon it (James 1:17). Yes, and there was a man below with a gun, wishful to get a nearer acquaintance with the eagles, but they did not come down to oblige him. (2) The length. What must this be?4. We now come to the actual petition which … This great truth is an anchor for all who are in times of suffering and depression, and it is this truth that all Christians can put their hope and trust in. Filled with the fulness of God. Such a poor, pale; Shadowy thing has no right to the warm, throbbing name; has no right to demand from us any answering thrill of affection; and unless you think of Jesus Christ as something more and other than the purest and the loftiest benevolence that ever dwelt in human form, I know of no intelligible sense in which the length of His love can be stretched to touch you. Spurgeon. Incomprehensible. The order of the measurement is the usual order of our own growth in grace. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. 3. The schoolmaster knows that they must have a rudimentary knowledge of arithmetic, or else to teach them algebra would be waste of time, and that they must have some acquaintance with common geometry, or it would be absurd to instruct them in surveying. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. But thats not enough, He is able to do far more abundantly beyond what we ask. The depth of this love is seen in raising sinners from condemnation and hell (Psalm 40:2, 3; 1 Corinthians 6:9-11). Keep up in the higher element, resting in Jesus Christ, and do not come down to find a perch for yourself among the trees of philosophy.(C. "(b)Covering hosts of iniquities. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. Infinite. A Prayer For Apprehension. Incomprehensible. H. I. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Keep up, Christian. 2. And there is another way to measure it. 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