And that Christ. "And that Christ, who bought you for God by his death and made these promises of God available to you, will make his home in your hearts! Faith is the means by which he does this." Your roots and foundations. "Your very life and growth has its roots in love, and love is the mortar that builds you living stones (1 Peter 2:5) into God's Temple (Ephesians 2:22) on the foundation which is Jesus Christ!" See Ephesians 3:19.
Verse 17. _THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS BY FAITH_] In this as well as in many other passages, and particularly that in Ephesians 2:21, (where see the note,) the apostle compares the _body_ or...
THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS BY FAITH - see the notes, Ephesians 2:22. Expressions like this often occur in the Scriptures, where God is said to dwell in us, and we are said to be the temples...
3. THE MYSTERY MADE KNOWN Chapter S 2:11-3:21 _ 1. The condition of the Gentiles (Ephesians 2:11)_ 2. But now in Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:13) 3. The new and great relationship (Ephesians 2
THE WRITER'S PRAYER FOR HIS READERS. Kneeling, in a very ecstasy of prayer, before the Father who is the source and prototype of all fatherly relationship whether on earth or in heaven, the writer pra...
PRISON AND PRIVILEGES (Ephesians 3:1-13) To understand the connection of thought in this passage it has to be noted that Ephesians 3:2-13 are one long parenthesis. The for this cause of Ephesians 3:1...
It is for this cause that I bow my knees in prayer before the Father, of whose fatherhood all heavenly and earthly fatherhood is a copy, that, according to the wealth of his glory, he may grant to you...
It is for this cause that I bow my knees in prayer before the Father, of whose fatherhood all heavenly and earthly fatherhood is a copy, that, according to the wealth of his glory. he may grant to you...
CHRIST, &C. See Romans 8:9. DWELL. See Acts 2:5. ROOTED. Greek. _rhizoomai._ Only here and Colossians 2:7. GROUNDED. founded. Greek. _themelioo._ See App-146 and...
_that Christ may dwell_ This clause is in close connexion with the preceding. The "strengthening" is the requisite to the "dwelling"; the "dwelling" the sure sequel to the "strengthening." See last no...
The main theme resumed: prayer for the Indwelling of Christ 14. _For this cause_ The same phrase as that of Ephesians 3:1. See note there. Here the broken connexion is resumed. The "permanent habitati...
ΚΑΤΟΙΚΗ͂ΣΑΙ Κ.Τ.Λ. The result of the spiritual strengthening is to enable men to satisfy the conditions for the indwelling of the Christ in personal presence and power in the centre of their being. Se...
Ephesians 2:15. ΚΑΤΑΡΓΉΣΑΣ אAB &c. καταρτίσας D*. Ephesians 2:21. ΠΑ͂ΣΑ ΟἸΚΟΔΟΜῊ א*BDG _al_ Clem Orig Chrys. πᾶσα ἡ οἰκ. א*ACP _al mult_. Ephesians 3:5. Τ. ἉΓΊΟΙΣ�. ΠΡΟΦΉΤΑΙΣ אAC &c.
ΚΑΤΟΙΚΗΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΚΑΤΟΙΚΈΩ (G2730) селиться, жить, оседать. Гл. указывает на постоянное место жительства в противоположность временному пребыванию или краткому визиту (Barth). _Inf._ испо...
DISCOURSE: 2104 PRAYER THE MEANS OF THE RICHEST BLESSINGS Ephesians 3:14. For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named,...
_PREVIEWING IN OUTLINE FORM_ (EPHESIANS 3:1-19) E. Paul's prayer for our strengthening. Ephesians 3:1-19. 1. Beginning of prayer. Ephesians 3:1. 2. Parenthetical Paul's mini
(3:17) Our preparation as a temple is for a purpose. "That" introduces a purpose clause, "that Christ may dwell". The place of His dwelling is in our "hearts" ("inner being"). "Faith" is the means of...
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, THAT - so that. DWELL, [ katoikeesai (G2730)] - abidingly (John 14:16; John 14:18;...
__ Summary of the Present Grace 2 The present secret administration of which there is no hint in any Scriptures before this epistle was penned, consists essentially of three separate items, all of w...
REASONS FOR RENEWING THE PRAYER FOR WISDOM 1-13. A digression, which, however, could not be spared. As in Ephesians 1:15, he begins to speak of himself, and this time he explains his unique interest i...
CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND BEHAVIOUR EPHESIANS _LES PAINTER (BIBLE TEXT BY CYNTHIA GREEN)_ CHAPTER 3 3:1-13 ~ GOD HAS MADE HIS SECRET KNOWN 3:1-6 ~ GOD MADE HIS SECRET KNOWN TO PAUL V1 For this reason...
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. It is (see Colossians 1:27) “Christ in you, the hope...
CHAPTER 14 PRAYER AND PRAISE. THE COMPREHENSION OF CHRIST Ephesians 3:14 IN Ephesians 3:14 the prayer is resumed which the apostle was about to offer at the beginning of the chapter, when the curren...
CHAPTER 15 KNOWING THE UNKNOWABLE Ephesians 3:17 WE were compelled to pause before reaching the end of the apostle's comprehensive prayer. But we must not let slip the thread of its connection. Ephe...
κατοικῆσαι τὸν Χριστὸν διὰ τῆς πίστεως ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ὑμῶν : _that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith_. The presence of Christ, His _stated_ presence (κατοικεῖν as contrasted with παροικε...
A paragraph containing an earnest prayer for the inward strengthening of the readers, the presence of Christ in them, their enlargement in the knowledge of the love of Christ, and the realisation in t...
THE GREATEST OF ALL DESIRES Ephesians 3:14 The kernel of this prayer is in the clause that Christ may make His home in the believer's heart through faith. The previous petitions lead up to this. Note...
God's dwelling in the Church is not finality. It is equipment for the fulfillment of the divine purpose. The apostle claims a stewardship in the mystery of the Church, and declares the astounding fact...
Paul's Request The outward man is the body everyone can see which gradually grows old. The inward man is the soul that will live eternally (2 Corinthians 4:16). All of us are made new through the wash...
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in (h) love, (h) With which God loves us, which is the root of our election....
Christ dwelleth in us by his gifts, and we are just by those his gifts remaining in us; and not by Christ's proper justice only, as some modern innovators will have it. (Bristow) --- And this not by _...
(13) Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory. (14) В¶ For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, (15) Of whom the whole family...
In this epistle we have the unfolding of the grace of God in all its fulness, not merely the application of His righteousness to man's need on His part, but God from out of Himself, and for Himself, a...
_LOVE BASED ON KNOWLEDGE_ ‘Rooted and grounded in love.’ Ephesians 3:17 Sentimental love is seldom the genuine article, since those who feel most say the least. And the idea that religion should be...
Equality in Christ I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week, in Chapter 2 of Ephesians we took a look at the Lord's "Never Ending Grace." 1. And although the Apostle Paul was speaking specifically to Gentiles,...
17._That Christ may dwell. _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,) so he who has Christ dwe...
The whole of Chapter 3 is a parenthesis unfolding the mystery; and presenting at the same time, in the prayer that concludes it, the second character of God set before us at the beginning of the epist...
THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS BY FAITH,.... 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 dw...
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, Ver. 17. _That Christ may dwell_] As the sun dwells in the house by his beams. Faith fetcheth Christ into th...
_That Christ may dwell in your hearts_ May be always present with you, and may reside continually in you, by his purifying and comforting influences, so as to direct your judgment, engross your affect...
DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS; as the object of supreme affection. ROOTED AND GROUNDED; fixed as trees in a deep, fruitful soil, and firm as a building on a rock....
THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS BY FAITH; THAT YE, BEING ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN LOVE,...
The apostle's petition for the Church, which includes an exhortation:...
THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST REVEALED (vs.1-13) "For this cause" -- because of the marvelous greatness of the work God had accomplished for and in His saints -- Paul preached "the unsearchable riches of Chr...
CHAPTER 3 Paul describes himself as: The ____________ of Jesus Christ For the ____________. We are living in the _________________ of the grace of God. A dispensation is a period of _______ given...
“THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS THROUGH FAITH; TO THE END THAT YE, BEING ROOTED AND GROUNDED IN LOVE” “May dwell”: To house permanently, to reside or inhabit. “That Christ may take up residence...
13-19 The apostle seems to be more anxious lest the believers should be discouraged and faint upon his tribulations, than for what he himself had to bear. He asks for spiritual blessings, which are t...
THAT CHRIST; on whom this Spirit (who must strengthen you, as being a _Spirit of might,_ ISAIAH 11:2) resteth, ISAIAH 61:1 MAY DWELL IN YOUR HEARTS; may intimately and continually possess and fill, no...
Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh Thus when, writing to the Ephesians, he spoke of "Christ dwelling in their inner man," he meant, no doubt, that the Lord ought to be admitted into their se...
Ephesians 3:17 Christ G5547 dwell G2730 (G5658) in G1722 your G5216 hearts G2588 through G1223 faith G4102 that
‘For this reason I bow my knees to the Father from whom every Fatherhood in Heaven and on earth is named, that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, that you may be strengthened wit...
PAUL'S PRAYER FOR HIS READERS (3:14-21). ‘For this reason -.' Compare Ephesians 3:1 which begins in the same way. Does this mean that this is the continuation that he would have made had he not made a...
Enjoying the empowering of the Spirit and the indwelling of the risen Christ their very being will be rooted and grounded in love, for love is the basis of their salvation (John 3:16; Romans 5:8; 1 Jo...
Ephesians 3:17. THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL, etc. 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...
_The Apostles Prayer for the Church_, _and the concluding Doxology_. As stated in the last section, the thought begun in Ephesians 3:1 is here resumed, and the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of th...
THAT CHRIST MAY DWELL (κατοικησα τον Χριστον). Another infinitive (first aorist active) after ινα δω. Κατοικεω is an old verb to make one's home, to be at home. Christ (Χριστον accusative of genera...
Ephesians 3:17 I. It is certain that something will dwell in our hearts. They are not intended to remain empty. If they are not filled with good, some evil spirit will enter in, and he, not Christ, wi...
Ephesians 3:16 Spiritual Strength. We may fasten upon five significant terms as keys by which we may unlock this Divine casket, so that its precious contents, the riches of the Father's glory, may b...
Ephesians 3:14 Filled with all the Fulness of God. I. Perhaps it would be well to leave this phrase in its vague sublimity without any attempt to explain it as it stands. It appeals to the imaginatio...
CONTENTS: Church, a mystery hidden in past ages. Prayer for inner fullness and knowledge. CHARACTERS: Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Paul. CONCLUSION: The divine purpose to make of both Jew and Gentile a...
Ephesians 3:1. _Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ._ He was indeed the prisoner of Caesar, but a greater than Cæsar had said to him in the castle at Jerusalem, “Be of good cheer, Paul, for as thou has...
_For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named._ A PATTERN OF PRAYER The worldly proverb is, “Every man for himself and...
_That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love._ THE SUBSTANCE OF CHRISTIANITY Here is the sum and substance of Christianity: “That Christ may dwell in you...
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:17 In v. Ephesians 3:16 Paul speaks of the indwelling “Spirit” and here of the indwelling CHRIST. This suggests that the Spirit
EPHESIANS—NOTE ON EPHESIANS 3:14 Paul’s Prayer for Strength and Insight. Paul prays that his readers would be strong in their faith (vv. Ephesians 3:14). He concl
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Ephesians 3:15. THE WHOLE FAMILY.—R.V. “every family.” The word for “family” is only found in the New Testament in St. Luke 2:4 and Acts 3:25; in one translated “linea...
EXPOSITION EPHESIANS 3:1 DIGRESSION ON THE ADMISSION OF THE GENTILES TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD....
Let's turn to the third chapter of Ephesians. For this cause [Paul said] I, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles (Ephesians 3:1), It is interesting that Paul was actually a prisoner of Rome,...
1 Corinthians 8:1; 1 John 4:16; 1 John 4:4; 2 Corinthians 5:14;...
May dwell [κ α τ ο ι κ η σ α ι]. Settle down and abide. Take up His permanent abode, so that ye may be a habitation [κ α τ ο ι κ η τ η ρ ι ο ν] of God. See on ch. Ephesians 2:22. The connection is wit...
Dwell — That is, constantly and sensibly abide....
Our apostle here proceeds with affectionate ardour to pray for further spiritual blessings on the behalf of his beloved Ephesians: 1. He prays that Christ may dwell in their hearts by his most holy fa...