Ephesians 3:16-19
God binds His New Testament Church together with the bond of His love, which is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us. This is known to all who have this indwelling Spirit and have been set together in the Body by God. (1 Corinthians 12:18)
This bond of Divine love is the miracle of God working within us, “We love him, because he first loved us…..and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.” 1 John 4:19 & 5:1
–It is our strength: “….strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. Ephesians 3:16
–It is our roots and our foundation: “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love” Ephesians 3:17. (What isn’t seen and yet you know is there because of what it affords within you and for you.)
–It gives a comprehension common with one another, “May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth and height.” Ephesians 3:18
–It is the capacity of Christ – living and loving within us, that enables us to love and be loved in ways that are above and beyond the bounds of the human capacities of love: “And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.” Ephesians 3:19a
THIS GIVES US A FULLNESS OF GOD: “….that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:19b
This is why God’s church doesn’t have to have an inviting building to attract it’s members — they are attracted to God’s fullness.
This is why God’s people decline all forms of sensationalism and entertainment in the church, as these only violate a sought after sanctity for getting beyond self to be in communion with the incomparable fullness of God.
This is why God’s people do not rate the church with respect of persons. We don’t have to have a people complimentary to what our personal, social, or material likes and dislikes are, because we rather rejoice in the common fullness of God.
Likewise, our joy, our blessing, our satisfaction is neither made nor broken by what others are or are not, because the fullness of God is our meat and our drink.
Thus the tie that binds the church together is not of what we are ourselves, but from the fullness of God within. It is a miracle! It is unshakable; it transcends all other ties; it keeps drawing us together again. But if and when that fellowship with God’s love is broken from within the heart, then nothing one is, in or of themselves, can or will be a substitute for it.
“BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS, OUR HEARTS IN CHRISTIAN LOVE: THE FELLOWSHIP OF KINDRED MINDS, IS LIKE TO THAT ABOVE.”
SHARING
