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“Ephesians 3:14-19”
Categories: Ephesians“For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.”
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Paul “bowed his knees before the Father” (verse 14) in heaven in a solemn, heart-felt prayer on the behalf of his beloved brethren in Ephesus. Once again, we see the humility of the apostle who considered himself to be “the least of all saints” (verse 8). Bowing before the Father was an act of humble submission to His absolute authority. But Paul is expressing a heart condition and not a bodily position with this statement. We can approach God’s glorious throne in boldness and confidence knowing what Christ has accomplished for us (verse 12), but we should do so with reverence and humility in understanding that God is the Creator of the universe and we are His lowly servants (James 4:10; 1 Peter 5:6). God is our loving Father but He is also our sovereign monarch.
Colly Coldwell wrote the following about verse 15 in his Truth Commentary by the Guardian of Truth Foundation: “The expression ‘whole family’ (pasa patria) should properly and contextually be translated ‘all the fatherhood.’ The idea is that all beings who worship and serve God are identified spiritually with the Father in the family. These verses speak of the Fatherhood of God in terms of spiritual life rather than physical life…Certainly God is the Source of all human life, but Paul discusses the higher spiritual creation and the one family in Christ in the book of Ephesians (cf. Eph. 2:18-19). It is God as the spiritual Father and Creator that serves as a theme in this epistle. The whole spiritual family of God includes beings in the heavens (the spirits of just men made perfect, the angels, etc., Heb. 12:22-24; Col. 1:20) and beings on earth (those who receive his grace by faith and become a part of his spiritual temple; Eph. 2:19-22).”
Please stay with Ephesians 3:14-19 again for tomorrow.
Have a blessed day!
- Louie Taylor
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