Ephesians 3:14-21 (ESV)

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

BIG IDEA: The love of Christ doesn’t just comfort you—it reconstructs you. In other words, it’s not sentimental, it’s surgical.

MOVEMENT 1: STRENGTHENED

Ephesians 3:16 (ESV)

“...that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being…”

Judges 6:15 (ESV)

“Please, Lord, how can I save Israel? Behold, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father's house.”

Judges 6:34 (ESV)

“But the Spirit of the Lord clothed Gideon, and he sounded the trumpet.”

MOVEMENT 2: INDWELT

Ephesians 3:17a (ESV)

“...so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.”

MOVEMENT 3: ROOTED

Ephesians 3:17b-18 (ESV)

“...that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth…”

MOVEMENT 4: REORDERED

Ephesians 3:19a (ESV)

“...and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge…”

MOVEMENT 5: FILLED

Ephesians 3:19b (ESV)

“that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.”

Ephesians 3:20-21 (ESV)

“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.”

Experiential knowledge of the love of Christ…

• Destroys the illusion of self-sufficiency.
• Roots you in a true identity that cannot be shaken.
• Confronts and heals dysfunction and immaturity.
• Reorders every affection and allegiance.
• Fills you with the fullness of God.

Ephesians 4:1 (ESV)

“I…urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called…”