Ephesians 3:14-21
14 For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 from whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, 16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, 17 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height— 19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
20 Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, 21 to Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Because the once hidden work of God’s sovereign plan from eternity to eternity has been unveiled at last in Christ, we worship Him as the apostle wrote here. It has been shown through the gospel how we who are brought near to God the Father through Christ the Son are one household of the Lord of all, no longer a single chosen nation but a family of chosen ones from every nation and people as promised through Abraham (Genesis 17:4, Romans 4:17-18). This revelation includes giving us all heavenly riches (not earthly as some erroneously claim) by the working of His Spirit in us to comprehend the infinite dimensions (Ephesians 1:17-18) of the love of God given us in the person and work of His Son and our Lord, Jesus Christ! We now who are in Christ find strength in the inner man in Him as we now know these things and are planted firmly in Christ and experience all His fullness of acceptance and love. We understand that His working for and in each of us is far greater than we can imagine in ourselves and that this divine revelation of the truth hidden from the beginning in His word sets us free at last to grasp the power of His working and give Him the glory in our awe to those around us and to follow after until His return to bring us all before His face with all sorrow and suffering eliminated forever. We who have been called out of the darkness of sin and been shown the glory of God behind the veil now can worship in spirit and truth as we appreciate the hidden mystery of Christ in us, the hope of glory (Colossians 1:27-28) whom we proclaim through the gospel!
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