2 Cor 5:14 says “For the love of Christ constraineth us”. In v.15, it constrains us to not henceforth live unto ourselves, but unto him who died for them (in v.14) and rose again. To constrain is to hold back by or as if by force. The force of his...
In 2 Sam 1:26, David said of Jonathan, “thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women”. In Jonathan’s wonderful love for David we find an example of what our love should be for Jesus. Jonathan was a soldier and David was over the men of war. Likewise,...
In Eph 3:7-8 Paul was made a minister to preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ. Then in v.14 he prayed for the Ephesians that God would receive glory in the church. God should receive glory in the church. But how? By his saints being filled with all...
The answer to Paul’s prayer in Eph 3:14-19 hinges on us being rooted and grounded in love. There is a companion passage to Paul’s prayer request in the Gospel of John. In Jn 14:15, Jesus said, “If ye love me, keep my commandments.” Like Paul, he stresses the necessity to...
Our lesson today covers Eph 3:14-21, in which Paul makes five prayer requests for “the whole family in heaven and earth,” [Eph 3:15]. This whole family is made up of all those “in Christ,” [Eph 1:10], whether they are already in heaven or whether they are still on earth. In...
