He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. H. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. What great things man can hold!2. 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. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. Multiplied Dimensions of Love. 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." I. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. 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 higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. How Can We Be Clothed with Power? H. I. O backslider! (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. II. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. Spurgeon. It were well to sail across this river and survey its broad surface. It is this love that is a part of his eternal nature as God. Keep there! (c) Where is the measure for all this? (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. But Christ's love is deep though it be wide, and suffers no diminution because it is shared amongst a multitude. (d)Conferring boundless boons for this life and worlds to come. A universal philanthropy is a passionless sentiment. Election and the covenant. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. Filled with the fulness of God. What great things man can hold!2. III. Spurgeon. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. 3. H. Keep there, eagles. 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. We wonder that God should love us at all. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. Oh the breadth, the length, the depth, the height! And the law that He laid down for His servant is the law that binds Himself. Filled with God. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. “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. 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. O sinner! you cannot have sinned too foully for forgiveness. Keep up, Christian. 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. The love of Jesus Christ does not surround our favoured island alone, but, like the ocean, it washes every shore. He would have to go back, back, back, till creation had vanished, till there remained not a shred of existence except the absolute self-existent Deity, and then in the Eternal Mind he would see thoughts of love toward a people to be formed for himself. Be filled. Spurgeon. "That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend the breadth and length of the love of Christ." 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. II. Filled with the fulness of God. Filled with the fulness of God. Be filled. (a)Comprehending all nations. How deep is the love of Christ? He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. H. you cannot have gone too deep for Christ's love to reach you. What great things man can hold!2. 3. The depths of Christ's love go down beneath all human necessity, sorrow, suffering, and sin. Broad as the race, and curtaining it over as some great tent may enclose on a festal day a whole tribe, the breadth of Christ's love is the breadth of humanity. How He stooped to our low estate. 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. In his dignified British manner he replied, Madam, can you think of anything in your life that is big to God? What exaltation!3. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. The Governed Life. Mankind has many common characteristics. He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. Keep there! (2) The length. What must this be?4. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. (Ephesians 6:12) How to Meet the Enemy (Ephesians 6:14-17) What If (Ephesians 6:18-20) Raising PG Kids in an X-Rated World (Ephesians 6:4) Standing in the Evil Day (Ephesians 6:13) Spurgeon. H. H. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. "Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom." 3. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. )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. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. Spurgeon. H. What more can be imagined?(C. He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." 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. Keep there, 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. I know a certain school of Christians who have need to study this point, for they have a very narrow idea of the Lord's loving kindness. 1. What more can be imagined?(C. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." Spurgeon. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. (5) We must also show fixedness, certainty, and perseverance in our character, belief, and aim; for thus only shall we learn. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Paul is a prisoner of the state when he wrote the amazing words for the Ephesians and for you and me. From what depths has He sought to rescue His wayward, erring children. John Piper Mar 22, 1981 66 Shares Sermon. Incomprehensible. Its length is conterminous with the duration of humanity here or yonder. Paul prays that believers will be able to understand the huge dimensions … He is paying for his allegiance to our Lord. 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." Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered. There are some rivers in Australia which lose themselves, and for miles along their bed you find nothing but dry stones at certain seasons of the year. Ephesians 3:14-21 (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. )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. H. What great things man can hold!2. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. Redemption, calling, perseverance. 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. 2. Keep up, Christian. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. Ephesians 3:18. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. 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. Incomprehensible. 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? Anything short of eternal patience would have been long ago exhausted by your sins and mine, and our brethren's. Spurgeon. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. This experience, says Dr. Lloyd-Jones, is not something that only the greatest Christians can experience, nor is it reserved to preachers and pastors. Election and the covenant. Corona Cannot Prevail Against Her. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. 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. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. 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 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. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." 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. Keep up, Christian. Sermon by Rev. Greek: hina exischusete (2PPAAS) katalabesthai sun pasin toi s hagiois ti to platos kai mekos kai hupsos kai bathos,. "May be able to comprehend with all saints.". 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. And this broad love, broad as humanity, is not shallow because it is broad. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." But saints would remind him of yet older words of comfort, and he would fly on till he stopped outside of the garden of Eden and heard the Lord say, "The Seed of the woman shall bruise the serpent's head." (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. "I have loved thee with an everlasting love." THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. But, we still arent to the limit: Now to Him who is able to do far more a… "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." Spurgeon. FOR WHAT PURPOSE HE EXPRESSES THIS DESIRE. 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. What exaltation!3. H. 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. Spurgeon. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. H. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. 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. 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. Pauls Prayer Realised. Oct 23, 1988. What must this be?4. The length of the love of Christ is the length of eternity, and out-measures all human sin. 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. (c) Where is the measure for all this? 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." 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. This knowledge of the length of love does not always come to Christians early in their history. Keep there, eagles. What more can be imagined?(C. The biblical view of God’s love is not simply sentimental, but it shows his love as deep and abiding. View the depth of that love in receiving such sinful creatures into His embrace! The apostle prays further that they may have practical exercise in the art of holy love; "that ye being rooted and grounded in love." Devotionals about Ephesians 3:18 . )Among the heights of Divine loveC. H. (c)Endless love in endurance. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. His principal ministry was at Westminster Chapel, in central London, from 1939-1968, where he delivered multi-year expositions on books of the bible such as Romans, Ephesians and the Gospel of John. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. Be filled. The way to measure the height is to begin at the Cross and the foul abysses of evil, and go up to the Throne. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. Filled with all the fulness of God. 2. That they might comprehend the perpetuity of it (John 13:1; Psalm 89:33). 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. Christians should always look to the love of God in all places of life, for it is the greatest comfort and hope that we have in this life.When we look at His love, we see our Father who cares for us and who has redeemed us through his Son and made us holy by his sacrifice. In Context Parallel Compare He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. 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." 4. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. Filled with all the fulness of God. Love. H. Filled with all the fulness of God. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. "(c)Compassing all needs, cares, etc. That they might exhibit the effects of it in its constraining influence and constant peace (Romans 5:1-5). But we do not call that love. What is the breadth of the love of Christ? What a holy familiarity with Jesus do the words imply when we come to measurements of all kinds! But he does not complain or caution in what he writes. John Piper Sep 29, 1985 10 Shares Sermon. What exaltation!3. The breadth is seen in reaching out Divine mercy to sinners who are far off from God (Isaiah 65:1; Isaiah 45:22). It were well to sail across this river and survey its broad surface. 18. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. Filled with the fulness of God. (3) The depth. 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. (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsh evangelical minister who preached and taught in the Reformed tradition. Filled with the fulness of God. That is the depth of the love of Christ. (2) The length. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. The love of Jesus Christ has been extended to kings upon their thrones, but with equal and more frequent bounty to the slaves in their dungeons. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. 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. Keep up, Christian. 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. What great things man can hold!2. Spurgeon. Be filled. Every gracious soul ought to pray and strive to be filled with such a measure of the fulness of God, anti of His... 2. Paul goes over these requirements in. 1. Spurgeon. )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. Eternal. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. ephesians 3:18-19 | Search Results | Sermon and Worship Resources This Week There are two ways of arguing about the love of Christ, both of them valid, and both of them needing to be employed by us. (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. The top is the Throne; and the downward measure, how is it to be stated? He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. Be filled. 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. Redemption, calling, perseverance. Coeval then with Deity itself is the love of Deity towards its chosen ones. Fellowship. He desired that the object of study may be evermore before them: "that Christ may dwell," etc. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. 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. (3) The depth. 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