Let's get to it. Ephesians chapter 3, starting in verse 14.

Ephesians 3.14, it says, for this cause, I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you

according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his spirit in the inner man,

that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith,

that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all saints

what is the breadth and the length and the depth and height,

and to know the love of Christ,

which passeth knowledge,

that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

Wow, the language of Paul here,

just the last phrase,

that you might be filled with all the fullness

of God. Does that sound like something that you want? Man, I want that. I want to be filled with the

fullness of God. Because, man, God is good. God is love. He's light. Perfection. We need the Lord

to fill our lives with more of him. And I love it. Paul says,

I'm going to go to my knees, he says, and I'm going to pray for the church at Ephesus,

that they might have strength in the inner man by the Holy Spirit that you may know, as it says

here, that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that you may be rooted

and grounded in love and to comprehend all the love that God has shown to us. See, this is such a

huge thing. Christ, in you, in your heart. I remember when Tad and I went up to the hospital

to visit a buddy who just had big heart bypass surgery. It was a big deal. We almost lost him. Gordie Erickson, if you remember, he was one of our governing elder board members, Athe, helped start the church years and years ago, really. But Gordy went through this bad thing. So Tad and I, Pastor Tad and I went up there, and Tad's never serious. If you know Tad, he's always goofing around and saying funny stuff. But we went up to the room and we were talking and praying with Gordy, and then Tad got very, very serious. And he was standing next to one of those, you know, light walls where they had the x-rays up on the light, and Tad was looking at, and he said, boy, Gordy, I'm really concerned. And I was like, man, I've never seen Tad so serious. And Gordy was probably a little nervous, too, because Tad's like, man, I'm deeply concerned. And Gordy, I said, what are you looking at? And Tad's looking at the X-ray. And, And he said, what are you talking about? And Ted's looking at the x-ray. Man.

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