Ephesians 3:19

Love of Christ. Here, are apparently, not our love for Christ, but His love for us.

Which passeth knowledge. Christ’s love is beyond the knowledge of human kind because it is infinite and free, never exhausted, and ever presenting new fields of understanding. It is the fountain of our own growing experience of love (1 John 4:19). Men have but touched with their finger tips the power for living to be found in experiencing fully the love of Christ.

Fulness of God. See on ch. 1:23. This is the glorious consummation to the work of the indwelling Christ in the life. The church, like a vessel, is to be filled to the brim with heavenly grace, so that the individual members composing the body of Christ exhibit or reflect something of the “fulness of God.” Paul is presenting a most exalted view of the nature of man and of his possibilities for growth in grace. Man was made in the image of God. He was given images of God. He was given capabilities of development and the high privilege of becoming a partaker of the “divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4). The blessings of God are not parceled out parsimoniously. They lead to an ever-increasing comprehension of the mind of God, to a filling up of the void and empty places in men’s lives with spiritual power. Since it is Christ in whom God’s fullness is actually found (Col. 2:9), the divine “fulness” comes to man by the indwelling of Christ in the heart (see Eph. 3:17).