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Book: Ephesians
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Ephesians 3:17
I. "That you being rooted and grounded in love"
A. That our roots go down deep in the love of Jesus Christ.
1. It is through the roots that the tree draws its source
for life.
2. The tree is nourished through the root system.
3. We draw from the love of Jesus our life sustaining
powers.
B. It is interesting that when Jesus wrote to the church of
Ephesus some thirty years later, writing through John in the
book of Revelation Jesus said, "I have this against thee in
that thou hast left thy first love."
1. The very thing that Paul was praying for them within a
generation was gone.
2. When God is zeroing in on an area in your life, it is
because he knows where Satan is going to launch his
attack upon your life.
3. They say to be forwarned is to be forarmed, but this is
only true if we heed the warning.
C. Paul is praying that they may also be grounded in love. Love
is truly the foundation of Christianity.
1. Jesus said, "By this shall men know that you are My
disciples, that you love one another."
2. Without this love all my spiritual manifestations are
meaningless.
3. John tells us that it is not just verbalizing. There
are many people who know the right things to say. They
have the spiritual jargon down pat. The problem it is
all words.
a. To hear some people talk, you would think that
they are spiritual giants.
b. All talk, no walk.
c. John said, "Let us not love in word or tongue,
but in deed and in truth. And herby we know
that we are of the truth, and shall assure our
hearts before Him."
4. The reality of your Christian faith is proved by your
love.
a. "We know that we have passed from death unto
life because we love the brethern."
1JO 3:11 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that
we should love one another.
1JO 3:16 Hereby perceive we the love [of God], because he laid down his
life for us: and we ought to lay down [our] lives for the
brethren.
1JO 3:23 And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the
name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us
commandment.
1JO 4:7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every
one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
1JO 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1JO 4:9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that
God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live
through him.
1JO 4:10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and
sent his Son [to be] the propitiation for our sins.
1JO 4:11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1JO 4:12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God
dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
1JO 4:16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us.
God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and
God in him.
1JO 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us.
1JO 4:20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar:
for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he
love God whom he hath not seen?
1JO 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth
God love his brother also.
1JO 5:2 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love
God, and keep his commandments.
1JO 5:3 For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments: and
his commandments are not grievous.
1JO 4:21 And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth
God love his brother also.
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