Comprehending the Dimensions of Christ's Love (Ephesians 3:17-19) by Rev. Martyn McGeown
I. The Immensity of Christ's Love
II. Our Comprehension of Christ's Love
III. The Results of Understanding Christ's Love
Albert Barnes on Ephesians 3: “To know [the love of Christ]; to feel this; to have a lively sense of it, is one of the highest privileges of the Christian. Nothing will so much excite gratitude in our hearts; nothing will prompt us so much to a life of self-denial; nothing will make us so benevolent and so dead to the world … No one can attain to a full view of it. It had no limit. It was unlike anything which had ever been evinced before. It was love which led the Son of God to become incarnate; to leave the heavens: to be a man of sorrows; to be reviled and persecuted; to be put to death in the most shameful manner on a cross. Who could understand that? Where else had there been anything like that? What was there with which to compare it? What was there by which it could be illustrated? And how could it be fully understood? Yet ‘something’ of it might be seen, known, felt; and the apostle desired that as far as possible they should understand that great love which the Lord Jesus had manifested for a dying world.”