Awesome Power (16)
Series: Ephesians
Stephen Whitney
Ephesians 3:20-21
A man who lived far out in the country bought his clothing from a mail-order catalog. At the bottom of the order form, was the statement: "If we do not have the article you ordered in stock, may we substitute? The first time that he wrote "yes," they sent him something that was worth double the price of the article he had requested. The company explained, "We are sorry we do not have the article in stock which you ordered. We are sending you something better at our expense."
After that the man said he always printed out much more boldly the word "yes" at the bottom of the order form. He knew he would not be disappointed by the substitution which they sent.
When we pray to God, we have the assurance that he will give us something even better than we asked for because he knows what we really need to cause our faith in him to grow stronger.
Paul closes his prayer for the believers that they would grow in their faith and understand the love of God in their lives with a beautiful doxology about how with God's power working in our lives he can do more for us than we can even imagine.
Charles Hodge - "Paul's prayer had apparently reached a height beyond which neither faith, nor hope, nor even imagination could go and yet he was not satisfied. God was able to do not only what he had asked, but infinitely more than he knew how to either ask or think."
MAGNIFICENT POWER OF GOD :20
Beyond our understanding
Now - this is the beginning of Paul's doxology for the love
of Christ which resulted in receiving all of God' blessings.
Is able - Gk. capable because they have means, power
or strength to do what they intend to do (6:11,13,16).
Paul uses a compound superlative, only here, to describe
God's great power which is beyond our ability to comprehend.
Far more abundantly (KJB - exceedingly abundantly,
AMP - infinitely beyond) - Gk. abundance or largeness.
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Series: Ephesians
Stephen Whitney
Ephesians 3:20-21
A man who lived far out in the country bought his clothing from a mail-order catalog. At the bottom of the order form, was the statement: "If we do not have the article you ordered in stock, may we substitute? The first time that he wrote "yes," they sent him something that was worth double the price of the article he had requested. The company explained, "We are sorry we do not have the article in stock which you ordered. We are sending you something better at our expense."
After that the man said he always printed out much more boldly the word "yes" at the bottom of the order form. He knew he would not be disappointed by the substitution which they sent.
When we pray to God, we have the assurance that he will give us something even better than we asked for because he knows what we really need to cause our faith in him to grow stronger.
Paul closes his prayer for the believers that they would grow in their faith and understand the love of God in their lives with a beautiful doxology about how with God's power working in our lives he can do more for us than we can even imagine.
Charles Hodge - "Paul's prayer had apparently reached a height beyond which neither faith, nor hope, nor even imagination could go and yet he was not satisfied. God was able to do not only what he had asked, but infinitely more than he knew how to either ask or think."
MAGNIFICENT POWER OF GOD :20
Beyond our understanding
Now - this is the beginning of Paul's doxology for the love
of Christ which resulted in receiving all of God' blessings.
Is able - Gk. capable because they have means, power
or strength to do what they intend to do (6:11,13,16).
Paul uses a compound superlative, only here, to describe
God's great power which is beyond our ability to comprehend.
Far more abundantly (KJB - exceedingly abundantly,
AMP - infinitely beyond) - Gk. abundance or largeness.
...
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