Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. (1) We must love Him ourselves, if we would measure Christ's love. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.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. Spurgeon. Be filled. H. 1. H. H. References. Keep there! The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. Solomon knew what he wrote when he said, "Separated himself," for without separation or abstraction there can be no progress. Knowing Christ’s love is a never-ending process, because it is unknowable. 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. The truths of God are by them spiritually discerned. 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. 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. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsh evangelical minister who preached and taught in the Reformed tradition. 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. Ephesians 3:18. 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. 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. The next object of study is the length of Christ's love. Every experienced tutor knows that it is greatly helpful to the student to exercise him in his chosen pursuit upon some lower and inferior branch of it, so as to lead him gradually to the higher points of it. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. Filled with all the fulness of God. (4) The height. If, for instance, he means him to understand the surveying of estates, he bids him measure a field containing an acre or two. "He who ascended is the same also who descended; therefore, God hath highly exalted Him." 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. (c) Where is the measure for all this? "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." This cubical measurement — for it lieth foursquare, like the new Jerusalem — proves the reality of the body to be measured. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." And the "depth." Keep there! )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. Keep there! It is this love that is a part of his eternal nature as God. Keep there, eagles. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. Keep there, eagles. It were well to sail across this river and survey its broad surface. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith." 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. 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. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. (3) The depth. (3) The depth. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. (2) The length. H. 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. What more can be imagined?(C. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. Filled with the fulness of God. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. (c)Endless love in endurance. Spurgeon. 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. What great things man can hold!2. Look back, and back, and back, and you shall not see its commencement! Keep there! What must this be?4. Keep up, Christian. Filled with God. There is another measure of the length of the love of Christ. 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. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. What must this be?4. Cross references. The length of this love reaches from eternity to eternity (Jeremiah 31:3; Jeremiah 32:40). Breadth and length before depth and height. Our human affections are too often like the estuary of some great stream which runs deep and mighty as long as it is held within narrow banks, but as soon as it widens becomes slow, and powerless, and shallow. But the pitying Christ, the eternal Lover of all wandering souls, looks down from heaven upon every one of us; goes with us in all our wanderings, bears with us in all our sins, in all our transgressions still is gracious. Be filled. Think next of the height of the Master's love. 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. Filled with the fulness of God. "All manner of sin. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. John Piper Sep 29, 1985 10 Shares Sermon. Filled with the fulness of God. What exaltation!3. (3) The depth. II. It necessitates a view from all sides of the subject. 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. 3. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. The way to measure the height is to begin at the Cross and the foul abysses of evil, and go up to the Throne. (4) The height. American. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. Election and the covenant. If men can get you within range they mean no good to 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." 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. The most likely understanding is that the author is talking about Christ’s love (mentioned explicitly in 19a). How deep is the love of Christ? (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. 3. What great things man can hold!2. 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. 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, (a)Eternal love in the fountain. The depth of the love of Jesus! He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. How often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Devotionals about Ephesians 3:18 . Love, the Root and Foundation of Spiritual Knowledge, A Prayer on Behalf of the Ephesian Christians, Paul's Prayer for the Ephesian Christians, The Christian Brotherhood - Paul's Second Prayer, The Christian Temple: its Material and Magnitude, Love, The Root And Foundation Of Spiritual Knowledge. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. Necessary Revelation from Ephesians 1:15–23. Paul writes (3:18-19), that we may be able to comprehend “what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge….” It is a deliberate paradox. I. Be filled. Incomprehensible. And the "height." ephesians 3:18-19 | Search Results | Sermon and Worship Resources This Week (3) The depth. Filled with God. Its length is conterminous with the duration of humanity here or yonder. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. 1. That’s a lot of love! ( B) what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled. (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. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. What more can be imagined?(C. 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. "(b)Covering hosts of iniquities. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. II. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." And the law that He laid down for His servant is the law that binds Himself. The apostle acts upon the same method. (4) The height. Paul goes over these requirements in. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. (a)Comprehending all nations. The "length" may suggest the duration of His love. The biblical view of God’s love is not simply sentimental, but it shows his love as deep and abiding. 5. 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. (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. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. 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. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. (c) Where is the measure for all this? The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." 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. 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. The apostle desires that when the love of Christ becomes to us a solid reality we may have close communion with it. 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. The astronomer cannot always see the stars because they are far away, and outside of him; but our star shines in the heaven of our hearts evermore. What more can be imagined?(C. That is the measure of the depth of the love of Christ. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. What must this be?4. Whatever may be the case in regard of the physical life, that is absolutely true in the case of spiritual life. 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. (c)Endless love in endurance. John Piper ( A) may be able to comprehend with all the saints. What a holy familiarity with Jesus do the words imply when we come to measurements of all kinds! H. (c) Where is the measure for all this? His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. 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. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." 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." 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. "Surely," saith he, "it began here." This sermon is part of a series called Series on Ephesians and has been entitled 'The Dimensions of God's Love' - Ephesians 3:18 The height of this love consists in making sinners heirs of God, and bringing them finally to glory (2 Timothy 4:6-8). What great things man can hold!2. Ephesians Sermon Series Outline. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Election and the covenant. Spurgeon. And we have a right to say, "He loves me, therefore He loves all." (4) The height. H. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. What more can be imagined? Filled with God. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. What must this be?4. Part 1: Who Are You? We wonder that God should love us at all. 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? Spurgeon. H. 3. Election and the covenant. You shall be borne up to dwell with Christ in the clouds when the world is in a blaze, and when the judgment is passed you shall be carried by angels' wings up to the seventh heaven where God dwelleth. 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. 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. Incomprehensible. "All manner of sin. He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. (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. What exaltation!3. 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." Redemption, calling, perseverance. What more can be imagined?(C. What more can be imagined?(C. Keep there! His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. 1-3 – The Spirit-Filled Family: Children. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. Spurgeon. "Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom." (c) Where is the measure for all this? It were well to sail across this river and survey its broad surface. 4. Let us meditate upon —(a)Eternal love in the fountain. Spurgeon. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. 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." Filled with all the fulness of God. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. Spurgeon. What is the breadth of the love of Christ? He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. 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. Scripture: Jeremiah 31:3, Psalms 103:17, Ephesians 3:17-18, Romans 5:8. we all occupy precisely the same relation to the love, the Divine love, which lies in Jesus Christ. 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. H. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. Be filled. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. 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." 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. To sum up what we have said in four words. That they might honour it (Galatians 6:14). That they might be able rightly to value it (Philippians 3:8, 9). H. The depths of Christ's love go down beneath all human necessity, sorrow, suffering, and sin. Incomprehensible. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. H. When He was here on earth it may have been sent down the generations in some vague, pale way, as the shadowy ghost of love may rise in the heart of a great statesman or philanthropist for generations yet unborn, which he dimly sees will be affected by his sacrifice and service. Incomprehensible. 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." (d)Conferring boundless boons for this life and worlds to come. Incomprehensible. He would have the subject always before them. But we do not call that love. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. It all comes because this heaven-descended Christ has come down the long staircase of Incarnation, and has brought with Him into the clouds and oppressions of our terrestrial atmosphere a germ of life which He has planted in the heart of the race, there to spread forever. That they might form correct views of the freeness of God's love (2 Timothy 1:9). 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." In his dignified British manner he replied, Madam, can you think of anything in your life that is big to God? Filled with God. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. What more can be imagined?(C. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. God is not just able to do beyond what we ask, but abundantly beyond. 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. What exaltation!3. 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)As to be revealed in future glory. you cannot have sinned too foully for forgiveness. But Christ's love is deep though it be wide, and suffers no diminution because it is shared amongst a multitude. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. Ephesians 6:4 – The Spirit-Filled Family: Parents. Scripture: Ephesians 3:8–10, Ephesians 3:20–21. God loves all His creatures — not one is excluded. Ephesians 3:18–19 The size of God’s plan. That is the depth of the love of Christ. Oct 23, 1988. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." There is never a moment when Jesus ceases to love His people. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. H. What more can be imagined?(C. 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. Consider it as stooping to look upon such an insignificant creature as man! "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Incomprehensible. 1. Filled with God. This is the end of their being rooted and grounded in love, that they, together with the rest of the saints interested in it, might have a larger and more comprehensive view of. What more can be imagined?(C. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. What must this be?4. 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. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. 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. Filled with all the fulness of God. Spurgeon. Sermons.com provides sermon illustrations, sermons, powerpoint and worship resources, and children's sermons & bulletins. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, ( A) to grasp how wide and long and high and deep. Keep up, Christian. What great things man can hold!2. The other conceptions of that Divine nature spring high above us and tower beyond our thoughts, but the summit of them all, the very topmost as it is the very bottommost, outside of everything, and therefore high above everything, is the love of God which has been revealed to us all, and bought for us sinful men in the passion and manhood of our dear Christ. The deep mines of sin and of alienation are all undermined and countermined by His love. Infinite. He therefore begins with the elementary information, and when they have learned simpler matters they are ready for the more difficult studies. He is paying for his allegiance to our Lord. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. View the depth of that love in receiving such sinful creatures into His embrace! The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." Filled with the fulness of God. What exaltation!3. The love of Jesus Christ does not surround our favoured island alone, but, like the ocean, it washes every shore. )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. (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. (c)Endless love in endurance. Filled with the fulness of God. What must this be?4. Filled with all the fulness of God. Every gracious soul ought to pray and strive to be filled with such a measure of the fulness of God, anti of His... 2. 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