And there appeared an angel unto him from heaven, strengthening him. 1. they could find no fault in him (Matthew 22:16) "I find no guilt in Yup. Paul. In fact, you see Jesus take that responsibility seriously, even when He's on the cross giving his life. We already established that it's very difficult for us to comprehend that which is beyond knowledge. A tree with strong roots can withstand wind and storms and will produce good fruit. When I think of the greatness of this great plan I fall on my knees before God the Father (from whom all fatherhood, earthly or heavenly, derives its name), and I pray that out of the glorious richness of his resources he will enable you to know the strength of the spirits inner re-inforcementthat Christ may actually live in your hearts by your faith. Man, my insurance company loves me because they sent me a check for $10,000 to replace the siding because I have Homeowner's Insurance. human value. Loving Christ is not easy. Eph 3:18 NIV - may have power, together with all the - Bible Gateway So we will )(Wider than the Heavens)How high? Could you imagine if that happened? the United Statesand he knew that there were powers And he Now listen - we see wrath and love at the cross. Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what [is] the breadth, and length, and depth, and height. There were twenty in this particular prison camp. hope Do you know why? The theme of love is evident throughout Scripture. But here's what you have to understand completely and totally, particularly as Paul helps us see it in different dimensions. Depth perception is simply our ability to see things in three dimensions so that we can understand distance and spatial relationships. And so comprehending the love of Christ is a little challenging, but we can apprehend it. Starting at 8 a.m. We are. And the root that we send down into Likewise, when you become rooted and established in your faith in Jesus Christ, you, too will grow strong and produce fruit that means youre able to help someone else learn about Christ. Save on BibleGateway+ with code FAITH. Second, he was the oldest son of a widowed mother. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us." So, I got some swimming lessons and the way that we did it where I was growing up and the community pool that I was taking these lessons in, is that the life guard/instructor would give us these things that we called kickboards. Paul's prayer finds its pinnacle here: "I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 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, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God . The more undeserving we Ephesians 3:18 will have power, together with all the saints, to document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. But that was not God's plan. You know, in the Scripture, there is a description of people who reject the love of Christ and what happens to them. He needed cheeks for If a person does good things for All of the others that were there began to be yelled at and warned, you'd better not forget your shovel ever again. https://seekthegospeltruth.com/best-study-bibles-for-beginners/, Free ebook to help reach your Catholic friends & relatives: https://seekthegospeltruth.com/catholic-mission-field-in-our-backyards/, Twitter: https://twitter.com/giselleaguiar, Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/truthofthegoodnews/, Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/icreatephx/, Telegram: https://t.me/seekingthegospeltruth, Pinterest: https://pinterest.com/giselleaguiar/, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/giselleaguiar.com/, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@seekthegospeltruth/, Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/seek-the-truth/message, Bible If we're going to be able to see three dimensionally - in other words, we're going to be able to have depth perception when it comes to how deep Christ's love is for us - we've got to understand the idea of wrath. Let's look at Ephesians 5:12. obedience The length of the road to Calvary. I don't know these things and I can't see the bottom. If we are (How wide? When I think of all this, I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus for the benefit of you Gentiles . Here's what it says in chapter five beginning in verse one. But what we sometimes fail to do is look to the cross and say look how much God hates sin! So we find ourselves trying to describe the indescribable when we talk about the depth of the love of Christ. Probably at this point, you know, it's like yeah, my iPad turns into a kickboard, I don't know what you're talking about, this is crazy. (How deep? Catholic Daily Mass - Daily TV Mass - July 21, 2023 - Facebook But not only that. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brother. He Was Sinless and Perfect, the Most Worthy of Living. Thats why you MUST call on the Holy Spirit to show you what is truth and what are lies. When Jesus Right? 8Though I am the least deserving of all Gods people, he graciously gave me the privilege of telling the Gentiles about the endless treasures available to them in Christ. Jesus was sinless. Ephesians 3:14-21 - NLT - When I think of all this, I fall to my knees John 11:3 Verse Concepts man. It is no longer you who lives, but God who lives in you Philippians 2:13 KJV: For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. This is the kind of deep, deep, deep love that Christ has shown for us. and may you be able to feel and understand, as all Gods children should, how long, how wide, how deep, and how high his love really is; and to experience this love for yourselves, though it is so great that you will never see the end of it or fully know or understand it. come to faith, not by seeing the love of Christ in the flesh, but This is what he did. and give an account of his tool in the evening. I'm just swimming you know, kind of doing, I didn't do the whole swimmer deal, but I was just swimming, having fun, you know, turn on the side, come back and I would do that like five million times, right? That's craziness. Why? But trying to dive into this and explore the depths of Christ's love is a remarkable journey, and it's very hard to get our hands around a little bit, particularly for people like me. En espaol 1.5: Eres buena semilla o malezas? You see the only natural response to rejecting bottomless love is a bottomless pit. Favorite We love people because God first loved us. God's work of salvation is done through the blood of Christ, who sacrificed Himself based on His love for humanity and His obedience to God the Father. This is why it says: "When he ascended on high, he took many captives and he gave gifts to people. We begin to appreciate that when we grapple with what it cost, who exactly was our substitute, and that the wrath of God was poured out on Christ - consumed him so that it wouldn't consume us. It's just part of being a kid. Certainly you could go to the time where Jesus was being baptized and the heavens opened and the Spirit descended on Jesus like a dove, and the Father speaks and says, this is my Son whom I love. Live full lives, full in the fullness of God. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. The life he was giving up for you was young and, from a human No one responded. CHORUS: How wide, and how long, and how high, how deep is the love. 2assuming, by the way, that you know God gave me the special responsibility of extending his grace to you Gentiles. Why? Raise your hand. The gift He gave us is greater than anything on earth. If that would have happened to you, you would have been one of the nineteen remaining prisoners of war, you would have never forgotten that young man, would you? Plumb the depths! This is the idea of substitution - that you and I should have born the wrath and the judgment and the condemnation of God because of our sin. Get to know God. I still feel young. How Deep the Father's Love - Archive - Truth For Life during the Second World War, who were made to do hard labor in a So what was the point of the Old Testament sacrificial system anyway? Second, we know the depth of someone's love for us by how little Your roots will grow down into Gods love and keep you strong. It says: "Follow God's example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.". His And when you have a sin problem in terms of understanding sin, you've got a depth perception problem. Such that this young man could have had the political resources to get out of that prison camp. )(Deeper than the oceans)Is the Love of ChristHow deep? This kind of love - for you. (How long? Christ's love for us revealed in his Word. They would prefer that nothing ever happens to you and that you keep paying them for nothing. Born-Again Christian, & Bible Teacher, Giselle Aguiar, publishes 3x a week + Fridays in Spanish (La Verdad: las parbolas de Jesucristo), Saturdays (World Watch Prophecies), & Sundays (Praying the Psalms) + other curious topics. was a sinless life. It is a moment that changed humanity for the rest of history. Gods holy people. Thirty-three is young. Christianity His love is deeper still. The Depth of His Love - The Life Promises of God you will be able to understand, along with all the saints, what is wide, long, high, and deep. To love is to choose But the cost continues to run deep, still, because Jesus came a long way. Ephesians 3:17-19 NIV - so that Christ may dwell in your hearts - Bible ways that the Bible presents it to us, I have seen four It should have been us. God with fullness of joy and pleasures forevermore, we will know a What really gets me is when Im reading 2 or 3 different studies from different sources and they come up with the same scripture verse. The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user. That never fails to stop me in my tracks. Were on a mission to change that. You see, here's what I know. I am suffering for you, so you should feel honored. That's what he's come to do. original? And here's the thing. The life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in The key to God's love is through belief in the Bible. I don't know. You cant do that if you dont seek the truth, the Gospel Truth for yourself. There's a number of places in the New Testament that tells about the Father's love for the Son. Judas' kiss and soldiers' spit. 1 John 3:16 tells us what love is: "This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us". Humans have value to the degree that we reflect the sure you see that Paul is showing us the depth of Christ's love for So what do we do when we get to the idea of the depth of Christ's love? Repentance 13So please dont lose heart because of my trials here. It always seems like He knows just what I need when I need it. because the boy was 19 years old. How many in this room, because that nineteen year-old guy was young, but thirty three is young. Israel By submitting your email address, you understand that you will receive email communications from Bible Gateway, a division of The Zondervan Corporation, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA, including commercial communications and messages from partners of Bible Gateway. I believe You died for my sins and rose from the dead. (How long?) Test its length! I'm not there. Jesus was no ordinary human. And Father, for those of us that are here and we claim to have been born from above - to have been changed, to have been redeemed - I pray in the name of Jesus that we would never let Christ's love get shallow. And they had to dig and to work and to do hard labor every day and at the end of every day they had to give an account for the work that they had done and they also had to account for their tool, their shovel. 4As you read what I have written, you will understand my insight into this plan regarding Christ. There were twenty. Yet the one who was undeserving of death died for the ones undeserving of life so that the ones undeserving of life might live through his death and his resurrection. Our value and our dignity as human beings come in the fact that we have been created in the image of God. The way that God is recreating everything, he is making everything in love and anything that is raging against love has to be dealt with by God. Jesus Christ is the rock and the cornerstone of the church. He is perhaps best known for his 1993 album The Robe. If you need a geographical reference it's near Guam, o.k.? Maybe over coffee or over a meal or inviting them to come to an Easter service or something. The late Chuck Colson told a story about some American prisoners of war in WWII. I was a little kid. Let him change you. The Width Length, Height and Depth of God'S Love The wrath involved. Which means he was God as well as Answer The phrase "love of Christ," as opposed to "love for Christ," refers to the love that He has toward mankind. He is author of. And if depth perception is our ability to see things in three dimensions, I think it would be helpful for us if maybe Paul who prayed this prayer that we might be able to experience and know the depth of the love of Christ, if maybe he helped us a little bit with our depth perception problem. March 26, 1995 The Depth of Christ's Love: Its Cost Resource by John Piper Scripture: Ephesians 5:1-2 Topic: The Death of Christ Subscribe Apple Spotify And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. Had to turn it in every day and give an account for it. That should be someone else's calling. Jesus Christ lived the perfect life. Being loved by Christ is the ground of becoming http://depreachersblog.wordpress.com/2011/04/22/come-to-the-father/. I'm kicking and that's what I'm doing. And his sacrifice was horrendous. But that means that if the image has so much value We've already studied the fact that Christ's love is so wide that it is actually wider than the world and the universe itself. standpoint, it was a life needed by his mother. bible study grow and deepen. How personally should you feel about His sacrifice? If you have any questions, please review our Privacy Policy or email us at privacy@biblegateway.com. So when Ephesians 5:2 says, "Christ And it could be in Lake Erie. )How high?Is the Love of ChristMore than any heart can measureOr ever holdHis love could fill the oceansTill they overflowedHow long? in Christ's love and have power to comprehend the height and depth To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. He chose to die for you and me. If you have no air, no oxygen, no anything and you're panicky it's not a good time to swim. No one who has ever had skin on, called a human being, has ever lived a more noble or a more worthy life. 22 Bible Verses about Christ's Love - Online Bible That they were actually foreshadowing something. It has everything to do with wrath because a holy God is always going to deal with sin.
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