The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. They climb the steps of the door of science, and then they are introduced to her temple. Incomprehensible. (4) The height. The height of this love consists in making sinners heirs of God, and bringing them finally to glory (2 Timothy 4:6-8). Immense. Incomprehensible. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. "Preach the gospel to every creature. He' has come to lift us to Himself. Infinite. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. What must this be?4. Spurgeon. Paul prays that believers will be able to understand the huge dimensions … (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. "As with the 1st century church for whom this letter was written, we need strengthening, and a vision of what it means to be filled for the fullness of God (which is Christ himself), so that we can recognize where the glory of God is present." Through the whole of your journey, however long continued it may be, you shall find His love with you. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Jon Bloom Mar 24, 2017 1.5K Shares Article. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. The intensity of human affection varies inversely as its extension. Keep there, eagles. Filled with all the fulness of God. This sermon deals with God's Love for us, and what that exactly looks like as we explore seven ideas and concepts about God's love, and how God's love is everlasting, unchangeable, without limits, sacrificial, and filled with grace. (4) The height. Part 1: Who Are You? "I have loved thee with an everlasting love." (2) The length. Eternal. That is the measure of the depth of the love of Christ. It were well to sail across this river and survey its broad surface. 4. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. (c) Where is the measure for all this? Keep there! Keep there! (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. Love. Eternal. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. Keep there! The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." (c) Where is the measure for all this? No one knows the love of Christ at all if he does not know it to be real, and no one has felt it in his soul at all unless it becomes so real as to constrain him and move him into actual activity. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. 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. We wonder that God should love us at all. That they might exhibit the effects of it in its constraining influence and constant peace (Romans 5:1-5). What a holy familiarity with Jesus do the words imply when we come to measurements of all kinds! His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. And this is the height of His love, that it bears us up, if we will, up and up to sit upon that throne where He Himself is enthroned. H. Spurgeon. Look forward, and forward, and forward, and you shall never see the termination of it, for it is also "to everlasting." Howsoever far may be the distance from that loftiness of co-equal Divinity in the bosom of the Father, and radiant with glory, to the lowliness of the form of a servant, and the sorrows, limitations, rejections, pains and final death — that is the measure of the depth of Christ's love. )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)Endless love in endurance. But he does not complain or caution in what he writes. Be filled. But we do not call that love. (Ephesians 5:18) Saints and Sinners (Ephesians 5:1-7) Knocking Holes in the Darkness (Ephesians 5:8-14) Jesus On the Job (Ephesians 6:5-9) Who is the Real Enemy? )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. Fellowship. Filled with all the fulness of God. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. Redemption, calling, perseverance. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. We must be rooted as a tree, which takes many a hold upon the soil. The length of this love reaches from eternity to eternity (Jeremiah 31:3; Jeremiah 32:40). What more can be imagined?(C. He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. ( B) is the love of Christ, Read full chapter. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Devotionals containing Ephesians 3:18 . (4) The height. Filled with all the fulness of God. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. It is this love that is a part of his eternal nature as God. Filled with all the fulness of God. It is broad as mankind, it is narrow as myself. (5) We must also show fixedness, certainty, and perseverance in our character, belief, and aim; for thus only shall we learn. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. Filled with God. He is considered by many evangelical leaders today to be an authority on biblical truth and the sufficiency of Scripture. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. Pauls Prayer Realised. One Way Christian Center. Redemption, calling, perseverance. (c) Where is the measure for all this? The LENGTH of God's Superlative Love. What exaltation!3. Spurgeon. Keep up, Christian. And if we content ourselves with that altogether inadequate and lame conception of Him and of His nature, of course there is no present bond between any man upon earth and Him, and it is absurd to talk about His present love as extending in any way to me. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. Spurgeon. 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. Spurgeon. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. Easton. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. Missions Week. Eternal. The apostle desires that when the love of Christ becomes to us a solid reality we may have close communion with it. Your Identity: A New Creation from Ephesians 1:1–14. Infinite. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. Election and the covenant. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. Be filled. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." He is high upon the throne of universal empire; and He says, "Father, I will that they also whom Thou hast given Me, be with Me where I am." We wonder that God should love us at all. It includes a coming near to the object of our study. 1. Filled with the fulness of God. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." This experience, says Dr. Lloyd-Jones, is not something that only the greatest Christians can experience, nor is it reserved to preachers and pastors. Be filled. Keep there! Filled with God. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. But, we still arent to the limit: Now to Him who is able to do far more a… THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. We wonder that God should love us at all. Let us meditate upon —(a)Eternal love in the fountain. Two expressions are used: — "rooted," like a living tree which lays hold upon the soil, twists itself round the rocks, and cannot be upturned — "grounded," like a building which has been settled, as a whole, and will never show any cracks or flaws in the future through failures in the foundation. H. H. As a scholar carries in his pocket a small edition of his favourite classic, so do we carry Christ in our hearts; what if I say we bear about with us a heart edition of the Liber Crucis, the Book of the Cross. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. 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. If we knew more fully by experience the meaning of "Christ in you the hope of glory," our heaven-taught affections, which are the best part of our inner man, might be continually exercised upon the person, the work, and the love of our dear Redeemer. This knowledge of Christ's love is far more than intellectual apprehension, because it is an experience of his abiding love for us as believers. My sins are deep, my helpless miseries are deep, but they are shallow as compared with the love that goes down beneath all sin, that is deeper than all sorrow, that is deeper than all necessity, that shrinks from no degradation, that turns away from no squalor, that abhors no wickedness so as to avert its face from it. It is never so with the love of Christ: it is tong, and without a break from beginning to end; it is a chain without a single broken or feeble link. 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, ( A) to grasp how wide and long and high and deep. 4. What must this be? (b)As to be revealed in future glory. But Christ's love is deep though it be wide, and suffers no diminution because it is shared amongst a multitude. Keep there! 2. But he would be reminded that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." H. The purest passion of human benevolence cannot but sometimes be aware of disgust mingling with its pity and its efforts, but Christ's love comes down, howsoever far in the abyss of degradation any human soul has descended, beneath it are the everlasting arms, and beneath it is Christ's love. Incomprehensible. Alas, to a great many religious people the love of Jesus is not a solid substantial thing at all — it is a beautiful fiction, a sentimental belief, a formal theory; but to Paul it was a real, substantial, measurable fact. Incomprehensible. This implies a sense of the reality of the matter. What more can be imagined?(C. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. (d)Conferring boundless boons for this life and worlds to come. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." Its length is conterminous with the duration of humanity here or yonder. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. Spurgeon. The biblical view of God’s love is not simply sentimental, but it shows his love as deep and abiding. What must this be?4. From Ephesians 3:18-19, Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones passionately explains how this love was proven when God sent his son to die on the cross for sinners. The deep mines of sin and of alienation are all undermined and countermined by His love. He therefore begins with the elementary information, and when they have learned simpler matters they are ready for the more difficult studies. [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! 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. Filled with the fulness of God. (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. Oh, how low has God come with that wondrous love of His! The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. Ephesians … The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. Eternal. "(c)Compassing all needs, cares, etc. H. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. And we have a right to say, "He loves me, therefore He loves all." To sum up what we have said in four words. 1. Coeval then with Deity itself is the love of Deity towards its chosen ones. (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. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. There are no step-children in His great family, and none of them receive a more grudging or a less ample share of His love and goodness than every other. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. 3. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. (2) The length. may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. What exaltation!3. In the same height of glory to which He Himself has gone; to the same height as that throne on which He reigns; to that height of glory He purposes to bring us — a height to which no weapon can reach — a height at which there can be no sin — a height from which every step may be a stepping stone to higher glories. 1. (c) Where is the measure for all this? 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." And there is another way to measure it. 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. IV. What great things man can hold!2. II. Every gracious soul ought to pray for such a measure of grace as may fit his capacity, None are so full, but they may... 3. 1. Multiplied Dimensions of Love. Keep up, Christian. What condescension is this which allows the sacred heart to be fathomed like a sea, and to be measured as a field! If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. Sin is an abyss, a mystery, how deep only they know who have fought against it; but —. (c) Where is the measure for all this? If you will kindly refer to the text you will see what this previous education is which the apostle desired for the saints. Deborah Hannay Sunoo I was about 16 years old, and had just completed the Counselor-in-Training program at the camp I attended every summer as a child, when Ephesians 3:14-21 was given to me as a gift by one of my counselors. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. It is very fully described in three parts. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. H. Spurgeon. I say not unto thee until seven times, but until seventy times seven." Spurgeon. What more can be imagined?(C. Sign up to receive regular emails from MLJ Trust, Questions? We carry the instruments of our saintly art, and the object of our devout contemplation within ourselves. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. Ephesians 3:18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (NASB: Lockman). How deep is the love of Christ? He would have them exercised in the art of measurement. Be filled. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Scripture: Ephesians 3:10. How far is it from the Throne of the Universe to the manger at Bethlehem, and the Cross at Calvary, and the sepulchre in the garden? )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)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. The top is the Throne; and the downward measure, how is it to be stated? It is as broad as humanity. Oh the breadth, the length, the depth, the height! A well known modern scientist has hazarded the speculation that the origin of life on this planet has been the falling upon it of the fragment of a meteor or an aerolite, from some other system, with a speck of organic life upon it, from which all has developed. 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." What must this be?4. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. According to the text, we have a solid body to deal with, for we are to measure its breadth and length, and depth, and height. David Mathis Apr 2, 2020 11.6K Shares God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him 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. O backslider! 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