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The Man In Love
God that is the same love in Christ is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit whom we have identified as the custodian of the love of nature in God.
Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.
Romans 5:5
Without the Holy Spirit in us therefore, we cannot access the love of God and share in that nature. Ephesians 3:14-19 especially emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit if we must come into a very sound knowledge of the Christ’s love. Let us examine what the scripture says:
For this reason I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, from 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 through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:19
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