So that being fully able to lay hold of, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth and to know the Love of Christ surpassing knowledge, in order that you be filled to all the fullness of God.*
Love is everlasting. Think of this, we can wrap our mind around a three dimensional object, but four? God's love has no bounds, His grace super abounded when sin abounded, thus love surpassed His judgement, seen in that He showed mercy, "but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love with which he loved us,"* In this we see the concept of a loving Father perfecting His children in Love and truly, obedience is a fruit of Love not of the fear of punishment. God's love is everlasting.
to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.*
In Christ we experience the love of God and it is how we grow up or are perfected in Him, "yea, truth in love, growing up the whole into Him"* This is how we are founded, "that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, rooted and grounded in love."* In Love is how the Church grows, "according to the working of each individual part, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love."* Truth in love is genuine in deed.
love not in word or speech only but in action and in truth.*
To abide in truth is to abide in love, as Christ exists Truth and Love. Love is the greatest gift Paul writes, as God gave us that which He loved the most, His Son. When we become fully known as God knows us, when we experience this fullness in love, faith and hope are set aside, no longer needed, God's love is greater, everlasting, never ending.
And now remain faith, hope, and love these three. And the greatest of these is love.*
Elohim
to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.*
In Christ we experience the love of God and it is how we grow up or are perfected in Him, "yea, truth in love, growing up the whole into Him"* This is how we are founded, "that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, rooted and grounded in love."* In Love is how the Church grows, "according to the working of each individual part, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love."* Truth in love is genuine in deed.
love not in word or speech only but in action and in truth.*
To abide in truth is to abide in love, as Christ exists Truth and Love. Love is the greatest gift Paul writes, as God gave us that which He loved the most, His Son. When we become fully known as God knows us, when we experience this fullness in love, faith and hope are set aside, no longer needed, God's love is greater, everlasting, never ending.
And now remain faith, hope, and love these three. And the greatest of these is love.*
Even for those who do not know him He is always reaching out in love to them. For us who know Him we know Him through experience, a relationship, we know of His great love for us. Those who know Him walk as Jesus walked; in Love.* True disciples are known by their love for one another. We will forever be knowing and experiencing His love, it is without bounds. God's love is not dependent upon what we do, and it is never ending, everlasting.