ephesians 3:18 sermon

The biblical view of God’s love is not simply sentimental, but it shows his love as deep and abiding. Spurgeon. Scripture: Jeremiah 31:3, Psalms 103:17, Ephesians 3:17-18, Romans 5:8. This is the pastor bringing the 11:00 o’clock morning message entitled Love, God’s Love in Four Dimensions; and it is a text in the third chapter of the Book of Ephesians and the eighteenth verse. "All manner of sin. You may measure the breadth and length of a thing at a great distance, but you cannot very well measure its depth without drawing near to it. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." 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." 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." (3) We must also have a vital grip of Christ. )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)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. What great things man can hold!2. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." Ephesians 3:18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (NASB: Lockman). THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. Apr 2, 2020. 3. 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. John Piper John Piper Sep 29, 1985 10 Shares Sermon. Filled with all the fulness of God. H. Scripture: Ephesians 3:20. 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. What great things man can hold!2. Spurgeon. You cannot get a subject closer to you than to have it on the inner side of the eyes; that is to say, in the heart itself. (3) The depth. (c) Where is the measure for all this? He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. 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." 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." Spurgeon. O backslider! (b)As to be revealed in future glory. If we are to think of Him only as a man, however exalted and however perfect, you and I have nothing in the world to do with His love. Keep there! The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." 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. Paul prays that believers will be able to understand the huge dimensions … The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. (2) We must, by experience of His love, be confirmed in our own love to Him, or we cannot measure His love. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. The apostle acts upon the same method. The Apostle Paul does not propose that the new convert should at once be able to measure the breadth and length and depth and height of the love of Christ; he knows that this is not within the range of his infant mind; for the newborn spirit has a time of growth to go through before it can enter into the deep things of God. you cannot have gone too deep for Christ's love to reach you. Keep up, Christian. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. 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. Filled with God. 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 condescension is this which allows the sacred heart to be fathomed like a sea, and to be measured as a field! what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; not of God himself, who is incomprehensible by finite minds, and is not to be found out to perfection; see ( Job 11:7-9 ) but … Pauls Prayer Realised. 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." "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." H. What exaltation!3. (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. In Ephesians 3:16-17, Paul prayed that we would do what we cannot do, in Ephesians 3:18-19 he prays that we will know what we cannot know! But we do not call that love. Keep there! He would say, "Surely it begins here!" Be filled. "I have loved thee with an everlasting love." We have a right to say, "He loves all, therefore He loves me." My sins are swallowed up in thee. A universal philanthropy is a passionless sentiment. (d)Conferring boundless boons for this life and worlds to come. Let us meditate upon —(a)Eternal love in the fountain. Spurgeon. H. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. Keep there, eagles. The love of Jesus knows nothing of suspended animation. Infinite. 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. For surely the love that has stooped to me can never pass by any human soul. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. David Mathis Apr 2, 2020 11.6K Shares God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. (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. Keep there, eagles. A good tutor not only wishes his scholar may have a disciplined mind able to grapple with the subject, but he endeavours to keep the subject always before him; for in order to attain to any proficiency in a science the mind must be abstracted from all other thoughts, and continually exercised with the chosen theme. H. The truths of God are by them spiritually discerned. 1. Keep there! )Among the heights of Divine loveC. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. The order of the measurement is the usual order of our own growth in grace. Redemption, calling, perseverance. Infinite. Spurgeon. So said the Christ, multiplying perfection into itself twice — two sevens and a ten — in order to express the idea of boundlessness. )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. 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. Keep there! Part 1: Who Are You? He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. Be filled. Devotionals about Ephesians 3:18 . The apostle means that the Ephesian saints would grow in the knowledge of that love by growing into the likeness of that 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, (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. 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. H. Denomination: Foursquare What exaltation!3. In Context Parallel Compare Incomprehensible. Keep up, Christian. Oh, how low has God come with that wondrous love of His! Ephesians 3:18 May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height. (4) The height. Keep there! (c) Where is the measure for all this? (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." III. That they might form correct views of the freeness of God's love (2 Timothy 1:9). 2. or sermon number (e.g., #1123), The Congregational Prayers of Dr. Lloyd-Jones. H. 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. Think next of the height of the Master's love. The love of Jesus Christ does not surround our favoured island alone, but, like the ocean, it washes every shore. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. Every gracious soul ought to pray and strive to be filled with such a measure of the fulness of God, anti of His... 2. What exaltation!3. You will never find a man preeminent in astronomy unless astronomy has become the lord of mind, and holds a sway over his mind even in his dreams. The height of this love consists in making sinners heirs of God, and bringing them finally to glory (2 Timothy 4:6-8). And this broad love, broad as humanity, is not shallow because it is broad. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. Spurgeon. It necessitates a view from all sides of the subject. Your Identity: A New Creation from Ephesians 1:1–14. Keep there, eagles. III. Keep up, Christian. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." 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. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. What must this be?4. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." If he means him to map out a country, he sets him first to make a plan of a neighbouring field or a farm. 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, THEN, IS THE BREADTH OF THAT LOVE? Be filled. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. Why, the love of Jesus, even in this present life, is a height unspeakable, for has it not lifted us up to become sons of God? But all believers should experience the depth and breadth of God’s love for them in Christ Jesus. "(c)Compassing all needs, cares, etc. Spurgeon. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." 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. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. 1. The Dead Alive by Grace: A Beautiful Workmanship from Ephesians 2:8–10 "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith." "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." How Can We Be Clothed with Power? (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. 4. 3. What must this be?4. Eternal. "Here," he would say, "here is the fountain, here is the source of it all." Keep there! He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. Shall man refuse to commune with such condescending love? Filled with God. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. What must this be?4. It were well to sail across this river and survey its broad surface. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. But, we still arent to the limit: Now to Him who is able to do far more a… What more can be imagined?(C. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. What great things man can hold!2. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. 1. 5. Spurgeon. H. It is not a thing of today, suddenly conceived, and that may be suddenly laid aside; it is from eternity, and had its birth before the foundations of the earth were laid. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. 3. Keep there, eagles. 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.) Filled with all the fulness of God. In the Bible, the book of Ephesians (Ephesians 3:18) tells us the God’s love for us is so wide (spread arms wide) and long and high (reach arms as high as you can) and deep that it surpasses all of our knowledge. What exaltation!3. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. Spurgeon. The most likely understanding is that the author is talking about Christ’s love (mentioned explicitly in 19a). The next object of study is the length of Christ's love. (3) The depth. Be filled. (3) The depth. He would have them exercised in the art of measurement. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. Filled with the fulness of God. H. (c) Where is the measure for all this? 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. Then there was a love before the giving of His Son. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. 4. We are to be strengthened in the inner man by the Spirit of God; and who can strengthen as He strengthens? What exaltation!3. "I will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." (a)Comprehending all nations. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. The anatomist must be bound to nerves, and bones, and blood vessels, as the galley slave is bound to the oar, or he will never master his subject, The botanist must be enamoured of every flower, and wedded to every plant, or the fields will utterly bake him. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. If, for instance, he means him to understand the surveying of estates, he bids him measure a field containing an acre or two. We found that the way to measure the depth was to begin at the Throne, and go down to the Cross, and to the foul abysses of evil. How deep is the love of Christ? Keep up, Christian. Spurgeon. Like a wise and enlightened teacher, Paul desires for the saints that they should receive THAT PREVIOUS EDUCATION WHICH IS NECESSARY BEFORE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO ENTER UPON SUCH A SCIENCE AS THE MEASUREMENT OF CHRIST'S LOVE. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. But this loving Christ goes down, down, down into the thickest, most pestilential atmosphere, reeking with sin and corruption, and stretches out a rescuing hand to the most abject and undermost of all the victims. 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." Infinite. (5) We must also show fixedness, certainty, and perseverance in our character, belief, and aim; for thus only shall we learn. 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. Ephesians 3:18. 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. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. Corona Cannot Prevail Against Her. To sum up what we have said in four words. This love is not only without beginning, but it is without pause. But we have to believe, rising to the full height of the Christian conception of the nature and person of Christ, that when He was here on earth the Divine that dwelt in Him so informed and inspired the human as that the love of His man's heart was able to grasp the whole, and to separate the individuals that should make up the race till the end of time; so as that you and I, looking back over all the centuries, and asking ourselves what is the length of the love of Christ, can say, "It stretches over all the years, and it reached then as it reaches now to touch me, upon whom the ends of the earth have come." Commentary, Ephesians 3:14-21, Brian Peterson, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2015. 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. "(b)Covering hosts of iniquities. (2) The length. For breadth the love of Jesus is immensity, for length it is eternity, for depth it is immeasurability, and for height it is infinity. FOR WHAT PURPOSE HE EXPRESSES THIS DESIRE. Spurgeon. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. What great things man can hold!2. Far More Than You Think. The LENGTH of God's Superlative Love. "All manner of sin. 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. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. 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? H. It is this love that is a part of his eternal nature as God. "That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend the breadth and length of the love of Christ." 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. Spurgeon. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. He would have their spiritual faculties vigorous. 1. What more can be imagined?(C. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. 2. Scripture: Ephesians 3:14–21. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. Keep up, Christian. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. H. Spurgeon. The Dead Alive by Grace: Total Depravity from Ephesians 2:1–3. As the lark soars and sings, and soars and sings, so shall we; but not as the lark, which soars aloft, but ever comes back to earth. may have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of His love. Filled with God. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. 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. Filled with the fulness of God. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. Redemption, calling, perseverance. As all the stars lie in the firmament, so all creatures rest in the heaven of His love. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. 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. 1. 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. Incomprehensible. )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. When a coal pit gets blocked up by some explosion no brave rescuing party will venture to descend into the lowest depths of the poisonous darkness until some ventilation has come there. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. Spurgeon. Shall the infinite thus bow itself to man? The apostle wishes us to be rooted and grounded in love, a vital union being established between our souls and Jesus, so that we love Him because He first loved us; and also a fiducial union, or a union of trust, by which we rest upon Jesus as the stones of a wall are settled upon the foundation. Keep there! you cannot have sinned too foully for forgiveness. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." 1. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. (c)Endless love in endurance. 2. Ephesians 3:18-19 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. We carry the instruments of our saintly art, and the object of our devout contemplation within ourselves. Incomprehensible. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Spurgeon. Spurgeon. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. What must this be?4. What exaltation!3. 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. We wonder that God should love us at all. 1. Immense. )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. What exaltation!3. Election and the covenant. It were well to sail across this river and survey its broad surface. "(c)Compassing all needs, cares, etc. Spurgeon. Filled with the fulness of God. Spurgeon. we all occupy precisely the same relation to the love, the Divine love, which lies in Jesus Christ. We must be rooted as a tree, which takes many a hold upon the soil. Incomprehensible. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Keep there, eagles. (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 is very fully described in three parts. Sin is an abyss, a mystery, how deep only they know who have fought against it; but —. God’s New Creation. He is paying for his allegiance to our Lord. Eternal. (c) Where is the measure for all this? Oh the breadth, the length, the depth, the height! If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. H. What exaltation!3. What more can be imagined?(C. In addition to the MLJ Trust’s collection of 1,600 of these sermons in audio format, most of these great sermon series are available in book form (including a 14 volume collection of the Romans sermons), as are other series such as "Spiritual Depression", "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount" and "Great Biblical Doctrines". Keep up, Christian. (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. 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. Incomprehensible. 2. Spurgeon. He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. “May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.” —Ephesians 3:18-19. H. That is the depth of the love of Christ. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. ( A) may be able to comprehend with all the saints. What must this be?4. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. We wonder that God should love us at all. (c) Where is the measure for all this? Filled with all the fulness of God. H. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. Keep up, Christian. Keep there! (b)As to be revealed in future glory. Spurgeon. You will learn to do business upon the greater waters of the Redeemer's infinite love to His people, as you sail upon the stream of your love to Him. Filled with the fulness of God. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. The length of the love of Christ is the length of eternity, and out-measures all human sin. Spurgeon. And we have a right to say, "He loves me, therefore He loves all." (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. But, divinely instructed, he would go back yet further, even to the eternal councils where first of all salvation was planned and contrived in the cabinets of wisdom before the world was. And there is another way to measure it. We all suffer, we all sin, we all hunger, we all aspire; and, blessed be God! )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. Filled with God. 3. What great things man can hold!2. Whatever may be the case in regard of the physical life, that is absolutely true in the case of spiritual life. 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