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. H. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. Think next of the height of the Master's love. This implies a sense of the reality of the matter. Spurgeon. (a)Comprehending all nations. He would fly onward till he paused at Isaiah's day and heard of God's love in the prophecy that the Son of man should bear the iniquity of His people. Keep up, Christian. H. How Can We Be Clothed with Power? Paul begins: “I pray so that you would be able to grasp, together with all the holy ones, what is the breadth and length and height and depth”. O sinner! )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. View the depth of that love in receiving such sinful creatures into His embrace! 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? (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. John Piper Mar 22, 1981 66 Shares Sermon. 18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, ( A) to grasp how wide and long and high and deep. 1. He pointed his rifle at them, but his shots did not reach half way, for the royal birds kept above. The "length" may suggest the duration of His love. Filled with all the fulness of God. One Way Christian Center. John Piper WHAT, THEN, IS THE BREADTH OF THAT LOVE? Fellowship. O backslider! Ephesians 6:4 – The Spirit-Filled Family: Parents. 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. 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. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. 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. Keep there, eagles. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. 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. H. Spurgeon. Keep there! How deep is the love of Christ? Be filled. Filled with God. Paul goes over these requirements in. 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. Eternal. This cubical measurement — for it lieth foursquare, like the new Jerusalem — proves the reality of the body to be measured. (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. What exaltation!3. Spurgeon. What more can be imagined?(C. (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? What great things man can hold!2. Filled with God. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (b)As to be revealed in future glory. Ephesians 3:18. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. Keep there! Multiplied Dimensions of Love. Scripture: Ephesians 3:10. He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. 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. Incomprehensible. Keep there, eagles. He is considered by many evangelical leaders today to be an authority on biblical truth and the sufficiency of Scripture. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. 2. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. Every gracious soul ought to pray and strive to be filled with such a measure of the fulness of God, anti of His... 2. But he does not complain or caution in what he writes. References. Keep up, Christian. Filled with all the fulness of God. 4. 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 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 more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. 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." Filled with all the fulness of God. We all suffer, we all sin, we all hunger, we all aspire; and, blessed be God! (4) The height. 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. WHAT THE APOSTLE MEANT, DESIRING THE EPHESIANS MIGHT COMPREHEND IT. What more can be imagined?(C. And the "depth." 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. 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. Spurgeon. Filled with all the fulness of God. Spurgeon. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. 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. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. 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. Long suffering, forgiveness, faithfulness, patience, immutability. Breadth and length before depth and height. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. 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. What great things man can hold! Let us meditate upon —(a)Eternal love in the fountain. Immense. Spurgeon. III. And, lastly, WHAT IS THE HEIGHT OF THE LOVE OF CHRIST? Be filled. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. 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." 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. (3) The depth. 1. If men can get you within range they mean no good to you. To sum up what we have said in four words. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. III. Election and the covenant. (ESV). )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. 1. (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. That they might comprehend the perpetuity of it (John 13:1; Psalm 89:33). Infinite. H. Look back, and back, and back, and you shall not see its commencement! 4. 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. The apostle desires that when the love of Christ becomes to us a solid reality we may have close communion with it. (c)Endless love in endurance. But thats not enough, He is able to do far more abundantly beyond what we ask. Through the whole of your journey, however long continued it may be, you shall find His love with you. This knowledge of the length of love does not always come to Christians early in their history. Part 1: Who Are You? we all occupy precisely the same relation to the love, the Divine love, which lies in Jesus Christ. Filled with all the fulness of God. Let’s pray to God, and thank him for loving us, and taking care of us as his favorite things. His glory, holiness, greatness, Deity, make up the other. 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 driver called out in the French tongue, "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. FOR WHAT PURPOSE HE EXPRESSES THIS DESIRE. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. He therefore begins with the elementary information, and when they have learned simpler matters they are ready for the more difficult studies. The depths of Christ's love go down beneath all human necessity, sorrow, suffering, and sin. (3) The depth. ( 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. Spurgeon. Let me come to the very words of our text, and point out to you their order. Spurgeon. (c) Where is the measure for all this? 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. "I have loved thee with an everlasting love." H. Look forward, and forward, and forward, and you shall never see the termination of it, for it is also "to everlasting." H. We wonder that God should love us at all. 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. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. Scripture: Ephesians 3:8–10, Ephesians 3:20–21. What must this be? Ephesians 3:18, in keeping with Ephesians’ effusive style, talks about knowing the breadth and length and height and depth, though the author doesn’t identify the reality about which the church will know such dimensions. The love of Jesus Christ does not surround our favoured island alone, but, like the ocean, it washes every shore. The next object of study is the length of Christ's love. H. Keep up, Christian. 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." 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. 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. (d)Boundless love, in length exceeding our length of sin, suffering, backsliding, age, or temptation. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." (3) The depth. (4) We must settle down on His love as our foundation, on which we are grounded, as a building. 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. 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 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. That they might exhibit the effects of it in its constraining influence and constant peace (Romans 5:1-5). He stoops, and becomes incarnate; endures our sorrows; bears our sins; and suffers our shame and death. The length of this love reaches from eternity to eternity (Jeremiah 31:3; Jeremiah 32:40). (4) The height. (3) The depth. A universal philanthropy is a passionless sentiment. It is broad as mankind, it is narrow as myself. H. Scripture: Ephesians 3:14–21. 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. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. )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. Keep there! 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. 4. What must this be?4. American. Ephesians Sermon Series Outline. This love is not only without beginning, but it is without pause. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. A Prayer For Apprehension. 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. If you will kindly refer to the text you will see what this previous education is which the apostle desired for the saints. I. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. Keep up, Christian. The LENGTH of God's Superlative Love. Redemption, calling, perseverance. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. Keep there! The Dead Alive by Grace: A Beautiful Workmanship from Ephesians 2:8–10 (b)Ceaseless love in the flow. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. may have power, together with all the saints, to comprehend the length and width and height and depth of His love. 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. (a)As developed in present privilege, as one with Jesus. (4) The height. It were well to sail across this river and survey its broad surface. 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.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. "That ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend the breadth and length of the love of Christ." 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. 3. (3) The depth. Now, the apostle desires that we who are believers, our faculties being strengthened, may have the person of Jesus constantly before us to inflame our love, and so increase our knowledge. Our weakness, meanness, sinfulness, despair, make one factor of the measurement. What great things man can hold!2. 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." Corona Cannot Prevail Against Her. Spurgeon. 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". )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. What must this be?4. Filled with God. 2. Be filled. We must be rooted as a tree, which takes many a hold upon the soil. Sign up to receive regular emails from MLJ Trust, Questions? What great things man can hold!2. Spurgeon. The apostle prays further that they may have practical exercise in the art of holy love; "that ye being rooted and grounded in love." Filled with God. If an angel were to start from today with the design of finding out when God's love began he would doubtless fly on till he lingered at the Cross. 3. 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 … We carry the instruments of our saintly art, and the object of our devout contemplation within ourselves. Spurgeon. 4. The biblical view of God’s love is not simply sentimental, but it shows his love as deep and abiding. Missions Week. (c)As never to be fully comprehended throughout the ages.III. 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. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. 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. The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. Knowing Christ’s love is a never-ending process, because it is unknowable. )Among the heights of Divine loveC. (1) We must love Him ourselves, if we would measure Christ's love. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. He would have the subject always before them. And the "height." What more can be imagined? you cannot have gone too deep for Christ's love to reach you. If he means him to map out a country, he sets him first to make a plan of a neighbouring field or a farm. David Mathis Apr 2, 2020 11.6K Shares God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him The botanist must find his flowers in their seasons, but our plant of renown blooms in our souls all the year round. In his dignified British manner he replied, Madam, can you think of anything in your life that is big to God? (c) Where is the measure for all this? 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. )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. Spurgeon. H. Keep up, Christian. What more can be imagined?(C. The driver called out in the French tongue, "Eagles." Keep up, Christian. How He stooped to our low estate. What must this be?4. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. They climb the steps of the door of science, and then they are introduced to her temple. Redemption, calling, perseverance. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. The more a man knows, he comes at more points into contact with the unknown.(C. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. We are to be strengthened in the inner man by the Spirit of God; and who can strengthen as He strengthens? Infinite. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." H. 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? Filled with God. Let us meditate upon —(a)Eternal love in the fountain. Keep there, eagles. Spurgeon. What must this be?4. 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. 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? “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. He would have them exercised in the art of measurement. Sermon: Love and Submission Colossians 3:18-25 Our relationships inside our home should be filled with love and submission. 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. )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. But he would be reminded that "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." Your Identity: A New Creation from Ephesians 1:1–14. 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. We wonder that God should love us at all. "(c)Compassing all needs, cares, etc. 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. Spurgeon. (3) We must also have a vital grip of Christ. Cross references. Eternal. (c) Where is the measure for all this? 1. Such a poor, pale; Shadowy thing has no right to the warm, throbbing name; has no right to demand from us any answering thrill of affection; and unless you think of Jesus Christ as something more and other than the purest and the loftiest benevolence that ever dwelt in human form, I know of no intelligible sense in which the length of His love can be stretched to touch you. What exaltation!3. 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. (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 must this be?4. Filled with all the fulness of God. They conceive of Divine love as a very narrow stream, they have never seen it to be a mighty, flowing, abounding, and rejoicing river, such as it really is. H. 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. Filled with the fulness of God. 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. 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. Spurgeon. Keep there! Infinite. 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." God is not just able to do beyond what we ask, but abundantly beyond. 2. You see it is put last, as the highest point of learning, There are some who have advanced as far as to understand somewhat of the depths, who do not know the full dignity and glory of an heir of heaven, and have felt but little of the power of His ascension. THE PRACTICAL RESULT OF THIS MENSURATION. A Sermon on Ephesians 3:18-19 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. Keep there, eagles. 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. Be filled. 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. "That ye might be filled with all the fulness of God." ( C) )Among the heights of Divine loveC. )The knowledge of our ignoranceC. Spurgeon. you cannot have sinned too foully for forgiveness. H. Ephesians 3:18. Be filled. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. What exaltation!3. (2) The length. Infinite. 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. Spurgeon. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. What must this be?4. Ephesians … The higher air is the fit dominion for eagles, up above the smoke and clouds. 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. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. 3. Whatever may be the case in regard of the physical life, that is absolutely true in the case of spiritual life. Oct 23, 1988. (b)As to be revealed in future glory. Keep there! (c) Where is the measure for all this? 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. (b) Stoop of love personified in Christ. H. Spurgeon.As I was riding along in the South of France one day I saw a fine pair of birds overhead. Commentary, Ephesians 3:14-21, Brian Peterson, Preaching This Week, WorkingPreacher.org, 2015. 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. Here are words full of mystery, worthy to be pondered.1. "I will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. 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