
5. God's Love: Dimensional
June 15, 2025
Ephesians 3:14-19 For this reason, I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. I pray that out of His glorious riches, He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And 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 Jesus Christ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Realize the wealth you have here and how vast it is, and start to use it. Let these truths become realities in your life.
The inner being comes alive when Jesus is invited in (Ephesians 2:1). What does it mean to have the Holy Spirit empower the inner being? God controls our spiritual faculties, and we exercise them as we grow in the Word (Hebrews 5:12-14).
The Inner being can:
- See - Psalm 119:18 Open my eyes so that I will observe amazing things from Your instruction.
- Hear - Matthew 13:9 Let the person who has ears listen!
- Taste - Psalm 34:8 Taste and see that the Lord is good! How blessed is the person who trusts in Him!
- Feel - Acts 17:27 so that they might look for God, somehow reach for Him and find Him. He is never far from any one of us.
- And he must be exercised - 1 Timothy 4:7-8 Train yourself to be godly. Physical exercise is of limited value, but Godliness is very dear, a pledge of life, both there and here.
- Be cleansed - Psalm 51:7
- Be washed by the Word - Ephesians 5:26 Purge me with hyssop, and I will be clean. Wash me, and I will be whiter than snow.
- Fed of manna daily - Matthew 4:4 It is written, One must not live on bread alone, but on every word coming out of the mouth of God.
- Renewed daily - 2 Corinthians 4:16 That's why we are not discouraged. No, even if outwardly we are wearing out, inwardly we are being renewed each and every day.
Grasp how wide and long and high and deep the love of Jesus Christ is.
Live in all four of these dimensions. Be filled with the fullness of God
Colossians 2:9-10 because all the essence of deity inhabits Him in bodily form. And you have been filled by Him, who is the head of every ruler and authority.
The means is the Holy Spirit - Ephesians 5:18 be filled with the Holy Spirit
and the measure is God Himself - Ephesians 4:11-16