I pray that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power in the inner man through His Spirit, and that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love, and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.Ephesians 3:16‭-‬19 HCSB

6. I pray that you may be able to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge.

This is My command: Love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, that someone would lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:12‭-‬13 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/jhn.15.12-13.HCSB

The love of Jesus is that He laid down His life for all the people of the world, everyone past, present, and future. Jesus laid down His life for everyone from Adam and Eve to the last person born during His 1,000-year reign. 

This was his mission here on earth. 

When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished! ” Then bowing His head, He gave up His spirit.
John 19:30 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/jhn.19.30.HCSB

The love of Jesus is uncomprehendable to those who have not yet been drawn to Him. Why would a just and holy God come to earth and walk with a perverse and sinful people? Why would a God subject Himself to the cruel torture of dying on the cross? Why would He allow sinful men to treat Him in that manner? Because He loves them all. Because He had to restore the relationship between then and His Father God. So that they could have a restored fellowship like God had with Adam and Eve. 

Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid themselves from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:8 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/gen.3.8.HCSB

God was available to Adam and Eve. He spent time with them. They recognized His footsteps in the garden. But after they ate from the tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil they hid from the presence of God when He came walking into the garden. 

Jesus came to restore this kind of fellowship with God. 

But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have made Him hide His face from you so that He does not listen.
Isaiah 59:2 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/isa.59.2.HCSB

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
Romans 3:23 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/rom.3.23.HCSB

For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 6:23 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/rom.6.23.HCSB

But God proves His own love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us!
Romans 5:8 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/rom.5.8.HCSB

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift — not from works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8‭-‬9 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/eph.2.8-9.HCSB

But to all who did receive Him, He gave them the right to be children of God, to those who believe in His name,
John 1:12 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/jhn.1.12.HCSB

I have written these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:13 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/1jn.5.13.HCSB

If you have eternal life then find someone to love the way Jesus loves you. If you have not accepted the plan of eternal life that Jesus wants you to have then please consider the love of Jesus. He laid down his life for you! Please accept His love for you and live for Him!

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but it is God’s power to us who are being saved.
1 Corinthians 1:18 HCSB
https://bible.com/bible/72/1co.1.18.HCSB

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