Communion with Rev. Randy Barrington

Why do we do it?
 
Eph 3: 14-21
 
Why do we do what we do? What is our drive, purpose and motivation?
 
What does this purpose cause us to do?
 
Ephes. 3:14 (ESV) 
    For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, 
 

• V14 starts it off with “for this reason” 
• kneeling shows the intense necessity or the desire in the presentation. 
• It also shows that Paul knows he can do nothing better for them.  

 
15 from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
 

• From all fatherhood derives its name (he sets the example for fatherhood) and every family should be held together with this one head.

 
 
16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being
 

• Gods glorious riches will strengthen you. 
• Not an outward strength that the world can see and the world seems to desire so much, but your inner being.

 

• 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,

 

• dwell not visit at your center

 

•  rooted is hard to move.

 
18 may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,

• together with all the other saints. 
• How big is the Love of God?

 
Could we with ink the ocean fill.
And were the skies of parchment made.
Were every stalk on earth a quill,
And every man a scribe by trade.
To write the love of God above,
Would drain the oceans dry,
Nor could the scroll contain the whole
Though stretched from sky to sky
 
19 and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
 
 
20 Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

• I can imagine pretty big things how about you? 
• His power.

 
21 to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.

• The glory is his not ours.  In the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations.

 

• Forever is a long, long time forever to be rooted in his love.

 

• And to know ( not just think to know it forever and to know him forever)

 

• For this reason we do what we do.