Deeply Rooted in Christ

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🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Beloved pastor Andrew Murray (1828-1917) shared how in his native South Africa, various diseases affect the orange trees there. To the unpracticed eye all may seem fine, but an expert arborist can spot the rot that heralds the tree’s slow death. The only way to save the diseased tree is to remove the stem and branches from the root and graft them onto a new one. Then the tree can thrive, producing fruit.

Murray connected this illustration to the apostle Paul’s epistle to the Ephesians. From prison in Rome, Paul wrote a letter that wonderfully summarizes the gospel of Jesus Christ. His pastoral heart shines through when he prayed that the believers would be strengthened with power through Christ’s Spirit in their inner being so that He would dwell in their hearts by faith (Ephesians 3:16-17). Paul longed that they’d be “rooted and established in love” and would grasp the full measure of God’s abundant love (vv. 17-18).

As believers in Jesus, our roots sink deeply into the rich soil of God’s love, where the nutrients fortify us and help us grow. And as we’re grafted onto Jesus, His Spirit helps us to produce fruit. We may have to weather storms that bend us one way or another, but we can withstand them when we’re rooted in the Source of life and love.

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0:00.0	I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power.
0:06.6	Ephesians chapter 3, verses 17 through 18.
0:11.9	Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.
0:16.0	Our reading titled Deeply Rooted in Christ was written and read by Amy Boucher Pie.
0:23.9	Ephesians chapter 3 verses 14 through 21.
0:28.5	For this reason I kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
0:36.9	I pray that out of his glorious riches, he may strengthen
0:40.7	you with power through his spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your
0:46.6	hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power together with all the Lord's holy people
0:56.7	to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love
1:05.0	that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
1:12.1	Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine,
1:17.6	according to His power that is at work within us,
1:21.5	to Him be glory in the Church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever. Amen.
1:34.3	Deeply rooted in Christ.
1:37.3	Beloved Pastor Andrew Murray shared how in his native South Africa various diseases affect the orange trees there.
1:46.0	To the unpracticed eye, all may seem fine, but an expert arborist can spot the rot that heralds the tree's slow death.
1:56.0	The only way to save the disease tree is to remove the stem and branches from the root and graft them
2:03.1	onto a new one. Then the tree can thrive, producing fruit. Murray connected this illustration to the
2:10.9	Apostle Paul's epistle to the Ephesians. From prison in Rome, Paul wrote a letter that
2:16.5	wonderfully summarizes the gospel of Jesus Christ.
2:20.7	His pastoral heart shines through when he prayed that the believers would be strengthened with power through Christ's spirit in their inner being
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