The Summation of All Things in Christ

Studies in Ephesians with a Local Church Emphasis

Lesson 57 : Empowered to Comprehend the Love of God  (3:17-19)

Paul’s second request of his prayer  –  Does ‘being rooted and grounded in love’ go with the preceding or with what follows?   –  Two distinct metaphors, rooted and grounded   –  ‘Love’ is in an emphatic position   –  Whose love? Love of God or the believer’s love?   –  ‘Grasp, comprehend, perceive, understand’   –  Love within the community of believers   –  The vastness of the love of God   –  Various interpretations of ‘the breadth and length and depth and height’ of God’s love   –  To know ‘by experience’ the love of God   –  Words from a heart overflowing