Power of Love
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For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 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.
Ephesians 3:14-
1. As Christians, desire to be rooted and Grounded in love
As Christians, desire to be rooted and Grounded in love
Faith is the beginning
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
-Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary
faith 1 - complete trust or confidence.
faith
■ noun
Faith- 1. Allegience to duty or a person
1 complete trust or confidence.
2. Belief and trust in and loyalty to God
3. Belief in the traditional doctrines of a religion
4. Firm belief in something for which there is no proof
5. Complete Trust
6. Something that is believed especially with strong conviction especially a system of religious beliefs; on faith: without question.
He said to them, “Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day, for it was about the tenth hour. One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ).
John 1:
b. Faith is the door for Christ to dwell in our hearts
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
1 Corinthians 6:
c. Faith results in love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
2. Being rooted and grounded in love drives our pursuit to know him more
a. pray for strength to comprehend the love of God
-Can be difficult task
-called to know something we really can’t know
“to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge”
2 - strong belief in a religion, based on spiritual conviction rather than proof.
1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
b. God’s love is endless
▶ a particular religion.
i. Our knowledge of love is limited
ii. God’s love is multi-dimensional
a. Length or width
as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.
b. Breath
c. Height
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
d. Depth’
-Cross Illustration movie
iii. Shown through the Cross
3. The fulness of God is accessed through love
a. Be defined by Christ and His love
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
b. Lifetime Pursuit
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
“To have found God and still to pursue Him is the soul’s paradox of love.”
A. W. Tozer- “Pursuit of God”