And if I may so say, similarly quick to feel the first breath of the pestilence is the presence of the Christ which cannot dwell with evil. In Ephesians 3:19 the love is at length expressly mentioned; but in Ephesians 3:18 the fulness of God in itself; but this very fulness is also tinctured with love. The love of Christ to us always exceeds our knowledge; and so in Ephesians 3:20 the power of God exceeds our knowledge.— ἵνα, that) without a conjunction; comp. “In your hearts”: “The center of feeling, thinking, and willing” (Gr. as a building, and therefore firmly established—in love.” The bishop’s words are abridged and improved from Adam Clarke. That these two things which are here considered as cause and effect may, in another aspect, be considered as but varying phases of the same truth is only part of the depth and felicity of the teaching that is here. 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. Amen. in loc. On this point consider 1 John 4:13 “By this we know that we abide in Him and He in us” (4:15,16; 1 John 3:24; John 15:4 “Abide in Me and I in you” (5-6); John 17:21. Where Christ dwells in the heart love will be the foundation upon which our lives are builded steadfast and sure. Ephesians 3:13. αἰτοῦμαι) I desire,(46) ask God: comp. Простой и подлинный смысл таков: мы должны так прочно укорениться в любви, и так глубоко проникнуться ее ощущением, чтобы ничто не было в силах нас от нее увести. The heart in which Christ dwells must be a purified heart. They who refuse it tempt us to distrust Him and to deny Him. XII. ), and it does not appear that in the present passage there is any such emphasis on the as can explain its peculiar position. Though I did not know it, though the dust did not know it, and though the clouds did not know it, that leaf knew it; and it quivered and danced, as much as to say: “O wind! (James Culross, D. D.). So may we be rooted and grounded in level (Newman Hall, LL. And that is the Advent of Christ in the individual soul. III. The κατοικῆσαι of this verse has, as we have said, its origin in the κατοικητήριον of Ephesians 2:22. The heart may embrace Christ with an enthusiasm of love, though the intellectual perception is imperfect and vague. Standing first in the sentence and emphatic, as the fundamental principle of christian life and knowledge. Where He comes in smaller measure He opens the door and fits the heart for His own more entire indwelling. On the other hand, the relevancy of most, if not all, of these examples is not above suspicion (cf. De Wette takes κατοικῆσαι as an infinitive of purpose or design, and regards the clause as describing the completion of “the strengthening.” Bernhardy, p. 365. How grey it is! It is the progress of a conviction. Let us begin at the right beginning. The presence of Christ, His stated presence ( as contrasted with = sojourn, cf.Genesis 37:1), the taking up of His abode in them (cf. The explanatory element, however, lies in the emphatically prefixed κατοικῆσαι: that Christ may take up His abode by means of faith in your hearts. You know, you say to me, "Why Mr. Mitchell, weren't these Christians? Home > Study Desk. Ex. We do not come to know Christ by gathering together arguments from physical science, nor by grouping texts out of the written Word of God: we come to a knowledge of Christ by a personal experience of those qualities which inhere in Him, and which, in power, constitute His divinity. The former is necessarily presupposed in all communion with God. “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend, with all saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know”--what? In this course thus far, it is quite evident that the casual on again and off again Christian living is not the norm, nor the desired by God. Now this fullness of his is undiminishable, and consequently incommunicable. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, κατοικῆσαι τὸν χριστὸν διὰ τῆς πίστεως ἐν ταῖς καρδίἀς ὑμῶν. The real man is the soul, the spirit, and character. by faith — Greek, “through faith,” which opens the door of the heart to Jesus (John 3:20). The first view is held by Theophylact, Zanchius, Grotius, Estius, Bengel, Flatt, Koppe, Rückert, Holzhausen, Stier, and Baumgarten-Crusius. What he desires, then, is not merely that these Ephesian Christians may have occasional visits of the indwelling Lord, or that at some lofty moments of spiritual enthusiasm they may be conscious that He is with them, but that always, in an unbroken line of deep, calm receptiveness, they may possess, and know that they possess, an indwelling Saviour. And since Jesus died for sinners, therefore God chose me, drew me, pardoned me, spoke peace to me. How strange are the revolutions taking place in society; and how different from what they were a few years ago. This is another petition put up by the apostle for the Ephesians, which is for the inhabitation of Christ in them: the inhabitant Christ is he who dwells in the highest heavens, who dwells in the Father, and the Father in him, in whom all fulness dwells, the fulness of the Godhead, and the fulness of grace; so that those in whose hearts he dwells cannot want any good thing, must be in the greatest safety, and enjoy the greatest comfort and pleasure; and this inhabitation of Christ prayed for is not to be understood in such sense, as he dwells everywhere, being the omnipresent God; or as he dwells in the human nature; nor of his dwelling merely by his Spirit, but of a personal indwelling of his; and which is an instance of his special grace: he dwells in his people, as a king in his palace, to rule and protect them, and as a master in his family to provide for them, and as their life to quicken them; it is in consequence of their union to him, and is expressive of their communion with him, and is perpetual; where he once takes up his residence, he never totally and finally departs: the place where he dwells is not their heads, nor their tongues, but their hearts; and this is where no good thing dwells but himself and his grace; and where sin dwells, and where he is often slighted, opposed, and rebelled against: the means by which he dwells is faith; which is not the bond of union to Christ, nor the cause of his being and dwelling in the hearts of his people; but is the instrument or means by which they receive him, and retain him, and by which they have communion with him: that ye being rooted and grounded in love; either in love to God, and one another; for faith and love go together; and love is sometimes weak, and needs establishing; and what serves to root and ground persons in it, are the discoveries of God's love, views of Christ's loveliness, the consideration of blessings received, and the communion they have with God, and Christ, and one another, and a larger insight into the doctrines of the Gospel: or rather in the love of God to them; which is the root and foundation of salvation; this is in itself immovable and immutable; but saints have not always the manifestations of it, and sometimes call it in question, and have need to be rooted and grounded in it; which is to have a lively sense of it, and to be persuaded of interest in it, and that nothing shall be able to separate from it. The fibre, then young and pliable, had sensitively turned as soon as it felt the obstacle, and grew for a little upward, as if retracing its steps. ‘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. 1. Before doing any new thing we must ask whether He would have it done, and in what spirit He would have it done. That is, no intellection can ever follow the outgush of experience, and reproduce it in the form of ideas. Be that as it may, at all events faith is here represented as the means or condition through which this dwelling takes effect. It implies congeniality. A.). God is Justice, Righteousness, Love. That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; to the end that ye, being rooted and grounded in love. We are brought to consider the sphere and result of the Advent. Spurgeon. Sphere and result of the advent. That not only makes a man a Christian, but brings him into the central point of the Christian system. A. is on the whole to be preferred, as it deals better both with the grammatical connection and with the emphatic position of the . The expression “rooted and grounded” (i.e., founded) contains the same mixture of metaphor as in 1 Corinthians 3:9, of the tree and the building—a mixture so natural as to pass into common usage. The love of God includes admiration of His character. 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Ephesians 1:8 • Ephesians 1:8 NIV • Ephesians 1:8 NLT • Ephesians 1:8 ESV • Ephesians 1:8 NASB • Ephesians 1:8 KJV • Ephesians 1:8 Commentaries • Ephesians 1:8 Bible Apps • Ephesians 1:8 Biblia Paralela • Ephesians 1:8 Chinese Bible • Ephesians 1:8 French Bible • Ephesians 1:8 German Bible Interlinear Bible Bible Hub But it is not with every rational nature that God enters into fellowship. The first of these was the coming of Christ upon the earth, the entrance into the sphere of visible and material things of a Divine and spiritual revelation. A.). Crit. And no transient stay, but constant residence. Enjoy our FREE online Bible study tools to enhance your study. And His abode is in no outer vestibule, but-, ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν—“in your hearts.” The heart, as centre of the spiritual life, is His temple-the inner shrine of emotion and power-Centrum des sittlichen Lebens. The omission of the connecting is no insuperable objection to the former; for cases of asyndeton are sufficiently common. A.). Abide with us!” And the answer will come: “This is My rest forever; here”--mystery of love!--“will I dwell, for I have desired it.” (A. Maclaren, D. D.). The love of God is the source of happiness. It is not Christ as analyzed, as stated in technical terms, that ever will affect a man. Christ dwells, or tries to dwell, in the hearts of all of us. Таким-то вот образом мы и исполняемся Святого Духа. The moral standard of Christianity is not a verbal rule, but a character. He saved you for a purpose. According to Rückert, something different from what forms the object of the first petition is here prayed for, and there is a climax. φωτίζει, 2 Kings 12:3, and in other places.— τίς ἡ οἰκονομία, what is the dispensation) Colossians 1:25-26. It is so much of us as is godlike that gives us the evidence of God. It is not even that grace which is sovereign and Divine in its origin, but residing and acting in a renewed human heart: it is the attribute, and even the nature, of Deity, for “God is love.” The soil which bears and nourishes the new life of man is the love of God in the gift of His Son. It is the personal relationship of the individual heart to the Lord Jesus Christ as its supreme Head and Lover. It is heaven upon earth that love should be the soil in which our obedience is rooted, and from which we draw all the nutriment that turns to flowers and fruit. Many (including Meyer, Winer, Buttm., AV, RV, etc.) He that is rooted and grounded in love has the roots of his being, and the foundation of his life fixed and fastened in that Lord. (48) The Scripture has regard chiefly to things internal. How often have the rains descended upon it, and the storms beaten upon its walls! How can we help being ourselves dark in our understandings, as long as we continue cold in our hearts? Our bodies are actually the sanctuaries of God. What we see are pew sitters that resemble the world rather than Christ. ), The “root” is taken from the field of nature--the “grounding,” or founding, from the world of art. 652, 734; and the passages in Theile, ad Jac. He didn't save you just to get you to heaven; He's got a real purpose for your life and my life. Having determined the first point--that the soil in which faith’s roots can freely grow is found in God, not in man--we must now weigh well what attribute or manifestation of God it is that permits and invites the confidence of the fallen. Neither is this indwelling against our will. Are your faith and my faith big enough to be able to say to the Lord Jesus, "You come and take over full possession." 1. Jesus Christ"s lordship over the life produces the love in view here. xxvi., p. 94; Spurgeon, Evening by Evening, p. 238; Preacher's Monthly, vol. 1. All are agents of God’s instruction. God, at the beginning, formed man to be his temple, and while in a state of purity he inhabited this temple; when the temple became defiled, God left it. Ephesians 4:9 and Ephesians 4:10 are parenthetical, showing what the ascension of Christ presupposes. The whole science of human government? Why don't I yield myself so much to Him that His will and His purpose are the paramount things in my life? The language is of common usage, and has its basis in the Old Testament, and in the employment of שָׁכַן, H8905, and kindred words to describe Jehovah's relation to His house. The whole moral theory of the world?--“and to know the love of Christ,” which passeth knowledge. He explains what is meant by “the strength of the inner man.” As, “it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness dwell,” (Colossians 1:19,). I trust we are all acting in a manner consistent with that description. This is what he wants; this is what he's praying for, that Christ may dwell in your heart by faith. The rule of Christian life is not an outward law; it is a character. You are constantly talking to God in prayer (1 Thessalonians 5:17). But now let us look at two or three particulars connected with my more immediate text, which I want to be fixed upon your minds. He prays that Christ may dwell in their hearts by his most holy faith. As the is also without any or other defining gen., it appears to have its most general sense here, not “the love of God” or “the love of Christ” in particular, but love, the Christian principle or grace which is “the bond of perfectness” (Colossians 3:14). Listen, my friend, may I suggest to you that, when Paul is praying that Christ may dwell down in your heart by faith, he wants Him to have complete, intimate, blessed fellowship with you. Now, when we get a right view of God’s love, and that love comes into our hearts, what follows? This is the second in a series of four desires of Paul for the believers. I am satisfied that the “love” here spoken of, as you will see in a moment, is God’s love to us in the first instance; and the apostle does not say. An unrenewed and unholy heart would be no fit residence for Him. There remains, however, the question of the construction. “Settle down and abide. No. Fullerton.). And what is the love that promises that stability? That ye may be rooted and grounded in love. 3. By it Christ may dwell in your hearts and mine through faith; to the end that, being rooted and grounded in love, we may be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. (W. Arnot, D. D.). That love will be the motive of all service, it will underlie as the productive cause, all fruitfulness. This is a fact of Scripture, however I know some are saying, but what about so and so, she is the most unloving person I have ever met? Ephesians 3:17. The relationship is so strong and close that each is said to dwell in the other! If we put on a coat, it surrounds us. Suffice it to say, He has a particular place for you in the glory. The conception is not a difficult one to lay hold of. 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. “You being rooted and grounded in love” (compare Ephesians 3:19), is in the Greek connected with this clause, not with the clause, “that ye may be able to comprehend.” “Rooted” is an image from a tree; “grounded” (Greek, “founder,” “having your foundations resting on”), from a building (compare Notes, see on Ephesians 2:20, Ephesians 2:21; Colossians 1:23; Colossians 2:7). When Christ abides in a human heart, He is in it as an immortal hope. Or it may be your business associate comes to see you, and you say to the Lord, "Lord, will You please go back to Your room because this man has no time for Christianity. Greek. You have the very same attitudes, views, and opinions that God has expressed in His word, and you do not argue, criticize, or complain about anything that the apostles wrote. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of His." (1) The Christian's standing before God, Chs. So, dear brethren, go to Christ like those two on the road to Emmaus; and as Fra Angelico has painted them on his convent wall, put out your hands and lay them on His, and say, “Abide with us. It is Christ dwelling by love in his heart--dwelling in his heart by faith. Why, of course, He can run my life better than I can.". (17) That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.—What that indwelling power is he now indicates, so passing to another Person of the Holy Trinity. Faith in Christ brings Him down in spiritual presence to perform His saving offices. So silent and hidden forces are pouring into the world, and all at once we discover the world is made better; but not by a sharp shock or outward convulsion. Now, we ARE rooted and grounded, thus we will always know all about love, and this is the self sacrificing love of the brethren. Maclaren, Christ in the Heart, p. 15; J. Culross, Contemporary Pulpit, vol. All dry and withered like a rod we are thrust into the sacred soil, and life comes to us at once, with bud and branch and speedy fruit. God and His will is always placed first (Matthew 6:33). Knowledge of the future, all the promises and blessings of new covenant. “Grounded”: At this point Paul uses two figurative expressions, one from agriculture and the other from architecture. 17. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith - see the notes, Ephesians 2:22. And if we realise this, however hard it may be to conceive of the nature of God, we are yet face to face, not with mere abstractions, but with some very concrete realities. Hence the Psalmist--“When Thou hast set my heart at liberty.” I repeat, that if you can enter into the depth and length and height and breadth of God’s love in Christ to you, one result will be an expansion of heart and affection back towards God. Павел же хочет, чтобы она полностью утвердилась в наших душах, была бы прочно водруженной постройкой и глубоким насаждением. Thus far he has prayed for the conditions that shall produce what follow. By faith, διὰ τῆς πίστεως, by means of faith. The word ‘dwell ‘points to a permanent indwelling of one who takes entire possession. And this is no more than we find often to be the case in worldly briefness, and in human learning. Our love to God and our neighbour; and then he prays that their love might not be slight and superficial, but strong and firm. Conviction is a personal exercise of trust. Be truly Christ-like in your home and business relations, fulfilling the duties that rest upon you, as did those who went about Palestine of old preaching the gospel to the poor. De Wette) and of the knowledge (further result of the faith, ch. How can we wonder that so many are wandering in error, when so few are united in the bond of peace? (R. Wardlaw, D. D.), I seem to see that grand old oak that I have known, and you may have known such an one from your childhood. They who have had the hardest conflict in throwing obstacles aside that they might freely draw from redeeming love in Christ, draw most freely from that love when they reach it: as that woman who had pined many years in disease, and spent all her means on other physicians, drew proportionally a larger draught from the fountain when she touched its lip at last. The result of this request is that Christ may be "at home" in the personality of the believer. You remember it when you were a child, and now you are a man it does not seem to be any older! This indwelling takes place through the in working of the Holy Spirit. It is possible for one who has but slender endowments of reason to take hold of Christ. I would not underrate the value of an intellectual conception of Christ; but I would hold it as an auxiliary, and as a guide. Ephesians 3:7. οὗ, of which) viz. Итак, Павел определяет: божественной духовной силой обладают те, в ком обитает Христос. You may read your Bible from cover to cover and not discover any theories about God’s essence, transcendence, infinitude. Christ has said, “Blessed are the pure in heart.” If any heart remains impure and shows itself so by what proceeds from it, it is quite evident that Christ has no hold there. I ask myself the question: Why don't I let Christ run my life? Then to realize that these things are very real possibilities for the believer. From the wrestling of Jacob at Penuel to the vision of St. John at Patmos one thing is plain—that the mind of man cannot conceive Him in His entirety any more than the eye can see Him. the indwelling of Christ, it does not differ from what is expressed in the preceding verse, further than as indicating the source or nature of that spiritual strength of which that verse speaks. ix., p. 314. on the Trinity, ch. Apply these words to your case. Ex. It refers to a permanent, as opposed to a temporary, abode. Now the “root.” I cast my affections down into the character and the being of God; I wind them about His attributes; I strike them into His promises; I drive them deep into His faithfulness. Faith induces and also realizes His presence. Do you remember in John 14:20, our Lord said to His disciples, "At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you." Ephesians 3:2. εἴγε ἠκούσατε, since(39) indeed ye have heard) The things which they had heard concerning Paul (comp. We refuse to let anger, bitterness, resentment, and envy rule or fester in our hearts (Ephesians 4:31-32). and the violent tempest has shaken its branches and wrestled with it! It is useless to attempt to stop the thought by a word. It succeeded in pushing that pioneer through. May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love, This is true love, the type of love that obeys God at all costs (John 14:15). He that buildeth on that foundation shall never be confounded. The answer lies in these words that precede my text. A. The righteous, sovereign, eternal God who framed the ages by the word of His mouth, who upholds all things by the word of His power, the One who has all authority in heaven and on earth, is all for you and all for me. May dwell in your hearts; may intimately and continually possess and fill, not your heads only with his doctrine, but your affections with his Spirit: see John 14:23. Note here, 1. (17) That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith.--What that indwelling power is he now indicates, so passing to another Person of the Holy Trinity. 1 Corinthians 11:3 - But I want you to understand that Christ is the head of every man, and the man is the head of a woman, and God is the head of Christ. What generations have rested under its shadows, and what generations have been carried past it to yonder churchyard! Bibliographical InformationBarnes, Albert. See, then, the propriety of this expression--“rooted and grounded in love.” You know perfectly well, in regard of any of your fellow creatures, that you may admire their qualities and attainments, and everything else of that character; still, these do not touch your heart; but when there is a strong expression of love towards yourself on the part of that fellow creature, if anything conceivable could draw forth your affections, and induce what is here implied by “being rooted and grounded” in the affection of that person, it is the very fact of his love drawing you to him. Stones of stumbling lie in the way of the living root, and hinder its growth. 4. on StudyLight.org This is the apostle Paul praying these things for me - it is his desire for me to be and know all of these things. That Christ may dwell, etc. "Love" (Colossians 3:14; 1 John 4:7-8), the first-fruit of the Spirit, flowing from Christ's love realized in the soul, is the basis on which should rest the further comprehension of all the vastness of Christ's love. “When another dwells in you, you readily respond when he asks you to do something”. Ephesians 3:17. κατοικῆσει) that Christ may dwell for ever. that opinion becomes the adopted law of the land; it is the ruling force; it is the recognized idea. It is not enough that He be on the tongue, or flit through the brain: the heart is His proper seat [Calvin]. And grounded - θεθεμελιωμένοι tethemeliōmenoi- “founded” - as a building is on a foundation. И Христа нельзя отделять от Духа, делая Его как бы мертвым и лишенным силы. Поскольку Отец разместил во Христе полноту всяческих дарований, тот, кто имеет пребывающего в себе Христа, ни в чем не потерпит недостатка. 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