Many (including Meyer, Winer, Buttm., AV, RV, etc.) (2) The blessings of the church, make a list, 1:3-14. Ephesians 3:17. : that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith . Psychol. We may help ourselves by reasoning, and we may gain analogies by science; if we turn to the natural world we may find there evidence of the existence of God, so far as Divine quality is represented by power and matter; but when we rise to the moral and personal elements of the Divine character, nature has nothing in it which can explain them to us--unless we be nature; and we are. Christ dwells in us by faith, because it is by faith we perceive His presence, His excellence and His glory, and because it is by faith we appropriate and reciprocate the manifestations of His love’ (Hodge). We must look for His sympathy in anything that we have to do. If we suppose a colon placed after ἄνθρωπον and after χριστοῦ, the matter will be clear. We cannot escape the connection in this passage. Greek. 1. As the Christian system is not held by those who leave out the central figure, so every Christian system is imperfectly held by those who only hold it in a philosophical form. And if the world is to be made better, it is to be made better through individual souls. Only by the roots being struck deep into God’s love. 1 John 1:1-4). Then it had bent to one side and crept along the surface of the stone, intending, so to speak, to turn its flank and plunge into the deep earth beyond its outmost edge. That cannot be loved which is not known, and that person cannot be loved, the qualities of whose character, fitted to attract affection, are not believed. That we shall not have again on earth. “In your hearts”: “The center of feeling, thinking, and willing” (Gr. The , etc., may be taken as dependent on the and as forming a second boon contemplated in the gift prayed for, as if = “and that He may grant you also that Christ may dwell in your hearts” (Mey., Abb., etc.). Then why don't you let Him run it? Standing first in the sentence and emphatic, as the fundamental principle of christian life and knowledge. Следует придерживаться обоих положений: мы настолько становимся причастниками Святого Духа, насколько соединяемся со Христом. Aaron’s rod that budded was not only a fair type of our Lord, but a cheering prophecy of ourselves. The apostles would agree (1 John 4:8; 1 John 4:20-21). And as the design of a temple is that its god may inhabit it, so Christ dwells in the heart. And I'm positive, absolutely positive, that everything that comes into our life is because God loves us and because He wants to perfect us in His Son. Justly, therefore, does Paul affirm that the persons who are endowed by God with spiritual vigor are those in whom Christ dwells. dwell — abidingly make His abode (John 14:23). It came and Unbarred partitions that divided man from man. 2. 27-41. That there is a fulness in God, which we can neither be filled with, nor may we strive to be filled with; God is essentially full, originally full, independently full, inexhaustibly full, of all holiness and grace. That there is a fulness of God which we may, and therefore ought, to pray and endeavour to be filled with; namely, to be filled with the knowledge of God, to be filled with the grace and Spirit of God, to be filled with the wisdom of God, that we may know God more, serve him better, glorify him on earth, and be glorified with him in heaven. The believer may grasp Christ"s love because God has rooted the Christian as a plant and grounded him or her as a building in love. Hence it is better on the whole to connect it with the preceding (as is done in one way or other by Chrys., Luth., Harl., Bleek, De Wette, Alf., Ell., Abb., etc. You may read your Bible from cover to cover and not discover any theories about God’s essence, transcendence, infinitude. The Author and Finisher of our faith is not like the founders of other systems--merely an objective teacher or lawgiver, or a leader in external and material conquests, carrying the kingdom of God with the sharp edge of the sword. 7. In Galatians 3:27, Paul says we "put on" Christ at our baptism.If we sink into water, it surrounds us. Thus Christianity is adapted to all conditions. We may believe the story or not as we please; but it may serve as an emblem of the way in which those grow who are by grace planted in Christ. Ephesians 1 New King James Version (NKJV) Greeting. Any system which leaves out the central figure is not Christian, and has no right to wear that name. Ell. My brethren, do believe this, that like every other faculty or feeling or quality belonging to man, his affections have become straitened. the Gospel.— κατὰ τὴν ἐνέργειαν, according to the working) Ephesians 3:20; ch. 2. The man is not in his outward or physical form. (47)— θλίψεσί μου ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν, in my afflictions for you) Ephesians 3:1.— δόξα) [your] glory spiritual; inasmuch as your faith is assisted thereby [1 Corinthians 4:10]. And men have looked forward to a New Jerusalem, and that Christ would come with a shout and gather together His elect. Win.-Moult., p. 715; Krüger, Sprachl., § 56, 9, 4; Buttm., Gr. (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. 2. The inner men is mostly taken in a good sense; because with the wicked all things are in full harmony with wickedness, and there is no need of limitation or distinction. believers, who are the Church. II. Верою вселиться Христу. This inhabitation is not to be explained away as a mere reception of Christian doctrine, nor is it to be regarded as a mystical exaggeration. See on Colossians 1:11. It might appear at first sight to be simply parallel with it, expressing substantially the same ideas under a somewhat different aspect. The love in which the roots of faith strike down for nourishment is not human but Divine. That faith is good for nothing which you take and adopt from another. The necessary inference is, if we are failing to properly "love" God, others, and especially our own brethren, then we are refusing to let Christ control our lives. It is only by faith that Christ can enter the heart; it is only as the object of faith that He can be the object of love, and faith will be in proportion to spiritual intelligence, and spiritual intelligence in proportion to faith. 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, The Lord is speaking of the intimate relationship or communion between the Divine Being and obedient, loving Christians. Out of this will grow many doctrines, and many inferences; but it is the seminal form, the germinent element, in Christianity. When the saved are drawn at length from the ground in which the new life secretly grew, and all the history of their redemption revealed in the better land, themselves and others will read with interest the record of the struggle, and the final victory. This is part and parcel of man’s miserable and sinful condition. is on the whole to be preferred, as it deals better both with the grammatical connection and with the emphatic position of the . Supposing anyone were to profess devotion to some art—say, music—and we found that he had never taken the trouble to gain any knowledge about it, to learn either to play or sing, to ascertain what were its laws, or how good music could be distinguished from bad. The third relates to the second, the fourth to the first. If you didn"t know these things, imagine the joy and excitement this would have generated in those people"s lives. Comp. ", In other words, Christ hasn't the run of the house. We are partakers of the Holy Spirit, in proportion to the intercourse which we maintain with Christ; for the Spirit will be found nowhere but in Christ, on whom he is said, on that account, to have rested; for he himself says, by the prophet Isaiah, “The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me.” (Isaiah 61:1; Luke 4:18.) That Christ may dwell] As the sun dwells in the house by his beams. This phrase, placed first for emphasis in the original, points to the Christian grace of love, since the love of God or of Christ would have been more closely defined. We are brought to consider the sphere and result of the Advent. But can we trust the Saviour enough and, just for today, let Him run our life? The man who uses his wealth in a humble, lowly spirit--with the spirit of the loving Jesus; who makes it not merely the instrument of selfish aggrandizement and outward development--he feels that wealth is the gift of God. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. Ephesians 3:17-18. The reason why we have so much trouble as believers is because we don't let Him run the house. A widowed mother lives in a cottage by the sea; her only boy is a sailor; she has not seen him for years; for years he has been far away, sailing from land to land; but her heart is full of him; she thinks of him by day, she dreams of him by night; how tenderly she handles every relic that he left behind him when he went away; how the glass in her spectacles grows dim as she reads his letters; his name is never missed out from her prayers; and many and many a time, when she is busy about her daily work, the thought of her boy will flash into her heart like a beam of golden sunlight; the stars speak about him, and so does every white-sailed ship away out on the sea. But neither can Christ be separated from his Spirit; for then he would be said to be dead, and to have lost all his power. We detect all qualities by the sensibility in us of corresponding qualities which reveal them to us. You will never enter into this until you enter into the depths of God’s love. xxvi., p. 94; Spurgeon, Evening by Evening, p. 238; Preacher's Monthly, vol. Not what I want, dear Lord, but what You want.". If the terms , , were used in their proper etymological connotation, they might suggest much. If that is denied, Christianity is denied. This takes the clause as a consequence of the indwelling of Christ, in the form of an independent proposition. III. To the stability of the former a root is necessary, proportioned to the expansion of the branches; to the stability of the latter a foundation is necessary, corresponding to the magnitude of the superstructure. Brooks.). ", "Then why does he pray that Christ may dwell in their hearts by faith? (J. But not only do we recognize the Advent of Christ in the material world--in the world of nature. Take up His permanent abode, so that ye may be a habitation” (Vincent p. 383). So social changes have been made--not by quick shocks, but by silent action. They would have been larger and happier Christians, doubtless, if they had added to the heart element the intellectual element also; but it is possible for one to take hold of Christ with the heart. It is there, observe--in the manifestation of that love--that union is again effected between God and man. (G. Dwell in your hearts; as the object of supreme affection. What is meant when we say that Christ dwells in the hearts of men? Но наше причастие Христу – это следствие веры. It was so nicely poised on its long, slender stem that it knew when the air moved. The love of God includes delight in His communion. And so I attach them to the first part of this verse, and take them to express at once the consequence of Christ’s dwelling in the heart by faith, and the preparation or occasion for our being able to comprehend and know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge. The former is necessarily presupposed in all communion with God. —In order that. Any of you who can consult the original for yourselves will see that the apostle here uses a compound word which conveys the idea of intensity and of continuity. 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. Where Christ dwells in the heart love will be the foundation upon which our lives are builded steadfast and sure. XII. Многие считают, что одно и то же: верить во Христа и быть Его причастником. For Christianity consists in such an enthusiastic love of the individual human heart for Christ, that they are unified, that there is a substantial, indissoluble oneness between them as there is between the child and the parent; and that it is the cause of all the after life and action of the individual person. The justice of God does not afford a soil on which the hope of sinners can thrive. God is Justice, Righteousness, Love. Here, in the centre of the circular mass, the main stem was pointing perpendicularly downward when the tree was young, perhaps a century ago; but ere it had gone far in that direction, it had struck against a stone. It is (see Colossians 1:27) "Christ in you, the hope of glory. I would just notice, that the heart in which Christ dwells must be an undivided heart. Ex. 5. Would you believe he had any real love of music? 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,). How then can we reasonably expect to make progress in Christian knowledge, if we make not first progress in Christian love? There are two essential conditions of this indwelling of Christ; a rational nature, and, so far as adults are concerned, faith. It is the foundation of the building, that on which all the rest depends, that without which all the rest must fall. Итак, Павел определяет: божественной духовной силой обладают те, в ком обитает Христос. p. 314). It is love that is rooted and grounded in knowledge--that has not been the product of a hasty examination or of a superficial observation. Into all generations, which ὁ αἰὼν, the age, comprehends, and which terminates in the everlasting ages, τοὺς αἰῶνας.— τὰς γενεὰς, generations) A generation is properly a period of human life, whilst we proceed from parents to children; αἰῶνες are periods of the Divine economy, passing on as it were from one scene to another. 4. (48) The Scripture has regard chiefly to things internal. 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. But still, while many a similar tree has been torn up by the roots, this old oak has shaken its fists at the storm!

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