The Unsearchable Riches of Christ (Ephesians 3:8) by Rev. Martyn McGeown
I. What They Are
II. Our Partaking of Them
III. The Preaching of Them
John Calvin: “And let us note also that St. Paul’s so doing was not a feigned modesty, after the manner of most men who will commonly say and, as it were, make a proverb of it, ‘Ho, I am the meanest and least able of men,’ and yet in so saying with their mouth, they do not cease to have their hearts puffed up with pride, insomuch that in very truth, if a man should answer them, ‘I believe it absolutely,’ they would grow hot with anger and would rather be found liars than give up their pride with which they are full. St. Paul did not use such subterfuges full of untruth, but protested truly what he really thought, accordingly as in another place to the Corinthians, he says he is not worthy to be named an apostle, because he had persecuted God’s church and withstood his truth” (Sermons on Ephesians, p. 245).
Charles Hodge: “The 'unsearchable riches of Christ' are the fulness of the Godhead, the plenitude of all divine glories and perfections which dwell in him; the fulness of grace to pardon, to sanctify and save; everything in short which renders him the satisfying portion of the soul” (Ephesians, p. 116).