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The two-fold metaphor of a tree and a building emphasize that love is the necessary base to support the superstructure” (Boles p. 257). Explain it as we may, it cannot be denied that since the coming of Jesus there has been a vast and progressive change in society. He says that a stranger coming to pay a visit to his Mentonese friends stuck his walking stick into the ground and forgot it. When I know that God is my own God, that He is with me always, that His promise will be fulfilled to me, what follows? Stones of stumbling lie in the way of the living root, and hinder its growth. Because you will notice that all those perfections, invaluable as they are in their application to ourselves and the whole scheme of redemption, still do not touch the heart: they never would draw the “roots” of man to God. Ephesians 4:10; Ephesians 4:13, concerning Christ. One man may today show the spirit of Christ in the disposition of his wealth; another man may do likewise in his poverty. 1 Corinthians 4:9.— πολυποίκιλος) Syr(45) Vers. The Advent of Christ may be considered as a three-fold fact--or, perhaps, we may more properly speak of three Advents. Hence love is the first consequence of the indwelling of Christ in the soul; and by it the soul becomes rooted and grounded in the unity, given by that indwelling, with man and God. “When another dwells in you, you readily respond when he asks you to do something”. (G. Conviction is a personal exercise of trust. This may be regarded as parallel with Ephesians 3:16 : ‘to be strengthened,’ etc., since the form is the same (in the infinitive); or, as an added clause of result: ‘so that Christ may dwell,’ etc. 2. But do not forget that the faith which brings Christ into the spirit must be a faith which works by love if it is to keep Christ in the spirit. Our apostle here proceeds with affectionate ardour to pray for further spiritual blessings on the behalf of his beloved Ephesians: 1. This I understand to be the distinctive peculiarity of Christianity, not only, but that without which there cannot be any Christianity. 652, 734; and the passages in Theile, ad Jac. "Rooted" is an image from a tree; "grounded" (Greek, 'founded'), from a building (cf. Ephesians 1:17; Ephesians 2:18; Ephesians 2:22). From this it is plain that Christ's being in us, means that we have his Spirit; and to have his Spirit means that the Spirit of God dwells in us. The most beautiful object might be in the apartment of a blind man, and he not be sensible of its presence; or if by any means made aware of its nearness, he could have no delight in its beauty. Is there not something in you that discovers to you your darkness, and not only discovers, but reproves it, and makes it manifest as a thing to be condemned? Be you then, my brethren, rooted and grounded in love. That ye. And that Christ. And therefore I need not say to you, that the very essence of the gospel economy is the manifestation of that love. For the breadth of the fulness and of the love of Christ is signified, and that too in respect of all men and all peoples; and its length, extending through all ages, Ephesians 3:21 : as also its depth, which no creature can fathom; and its height, Ephesians 4:8, such as no enemy can reach. And as there could be no indwelling of God but by Christ, and no indwelling of Christ but by faith, he prays that they may have such faith in Christ, as shall keep them in constant possession of his love and presence. Knowledge of the future, all the promises and blessings of new covenant. Everywhere in the New Testament this one element stands forth--the personal identification of the human heart with the Lord Jesus Christ. And it takes God longer, sometimes, for some of us than it does for others. It is as the root to the tree, that which holds it in the earth, conveys to it the nourishment of the soil, enables it to live, to grow, to thrive, to blossom, and bear fruit, and also to stand upright against the wind and storms. He indwells every Christian (, κατοικῆσαι τὸν χριστὸν διὰ τῆς πίστεως ἐν ταῖς καρδίἀς ὑμῶν, "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. Christ dwells, or tries to dwell, in the hearts of all of us. When God is truly influencing you, when His words are being allowed to "settle down" in our hearts the following happens: You think about God and His will all the time (Colossians 3:17). Ephesians 3:14. κάμπτω τὰ γόνατά μου, I bend my knees) If Paul had been present, he would have bent his knees with a breast kindling into a glow of devotion. That love to Christ, as one of the great principles of all active obedience, is founded in knowledge and rooted in faith. Just as we see children or very young persons, if they are asked for an opinion, turn to their father or their mother to know first what they think, so no Christian is too old or too young to turn in thought to Christ to know how far He sanctions and what way of doing or thinking He dictates. More particularly, as a tree depends for life and growth upon its roots being embedded in a genial soil, and a tower depends for strength and stability upon its foundation, the apostle desires, by aid of these conceptions, to express and illustrate the corresponding features of the Christian life. All goodness and all beauty will be its fruit. He must dwell in our thought, affection, reason, understanding, judgment, conversation, action, whole life; He must dwell in motive, desire, purpose, will; must have more than the tongue, or to flit through the brain: the heart, the whole of man, He wants. He has no time for the gospel, no time for You. The word ‘dwell ‘points to a permanent indwelling of one who takes entire possession. Here is Christ’s home; comp. That ye may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height. There is no substitute for this personal experience, and there can be no system of Christianity which does not provide for this personal experience, towards the Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 3:19. γνῶναί τε τὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν τῆς γιώσεως, κ. τ. λ., and to know what passes knowledge, etc.) I do not think that that is the case; but on the contrary, being carried forward into the next clause, which describes the result of Christ’s dwelling in our hearts by faith, they break the logical flow of the sentence by mixing together result and occasion. And the idea that religion should be grounded on sentiment, and reserved for those who ‘have a genius for it,’ is utterly false. Fruitfulness. Think of it! The infinitive is connected with the more distant δῴη, and more closely with the preceding infinitive; Winer, § 44, 1. As well might he argue that Paul could not pray for spiritual invigoration, since they already possessed it. (54)— ὑπερεκπερισσοῦ, exceedingly abundant) Construe with to do.— ὧν) The Genitive is governed by the comparative, which is contained in περισσοῦ.— ἢ νοοῦμεν, or think) Thought takes a wider range than prayers. We are in the water or in the coat. Other religions demand reverence, and worship, and obedience, and uprightness--that is all. Christ must dwell in every room or division. A.). II. So that the apparent confusion, arising from what in other places are regarded as identical, being here conceived as cause and effect, is no confusion at all, but is explained and vindicated by the deep truth that nothing but the indwelling of the Christ can fit for the indwelling of the Christ. No. But that makes no difference. 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