Eph 3:19
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.
What an awesome promise, to be filled with the fullness of God and to know the love of Christ and to be filled to the breadth length depth and height of that love.
This is the place that the Holy Ghost desires to take every child of God to, the place of being filled with His fullness
Eph 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;
Here is truth,
If your foundation is secure it is not a hard thing to build the rest of the building, if the foundation is secure then the entire structure will be secure, if the foundation is secure then you can build upwards without fear of being top heavy and being unstable.
The trade buildings in New York City towered 1100 feet into the air, those buildings we’re not top heavy, they we’re not in danger of falling and the major reason that there was no danger was because the foundation was secure.
The foundation went down 10 stories into the ground which was a hundred feet, the foundation was secure.
If your foundation is not secure it is going to be very difficult for you to rise to great heights spiritually.
Unless you have real spiritual power working within you, unless you have resurrection and delivering power working within you it is going to be very difficult to rise to the place of being filled with his fullness.
Eph 3:20
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
In order for Him to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think it is according to the power that works within us and the power inside of us is not going to work effectively if the foundation is not secure and anchored in solid ground
Luke 6:47-49
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
Now I need to stop right there and show you what this scripture is really saying.
James 1:23-24
For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
So what the word of God is referring to are men and women who are not only hearers but doerers of the word.
And when we are speaking of those who are doerers of the word we are speaking about people who are solid and their foundations are secure and built upon the rock and because there foundation is built upon the rock they themselves are unmovable concerning the things of God
Now turn to Luke 6:47 again,
Whosoever cometh to me, and heareth my sayings, and doeth them, I will shew you to whom he is like:
This is what he is like,
He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.
But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.
I need to say it again
If you and I are to rise spiritually to great heights in the presence of the Lord then the foundation that we are to build upon must be secure and founded on the rock.
Let me ask you a question and answer it honestly and with truthfulness.
Do you really understand the depths from which you have been saved, do you really understand and have clarity concerning the sacrifice that was made so that you might be free from the bondages of Satan, do you really have understanding concerning the pit from which you we’re dug.
Except we understand the spiritual principles, except we understand the will of God concerning us, except we understand the mind of Christ concerning us we will never be able to stand when the winds begin to blow in our lives, we will never be able to stand when the trials and the tribulations come in our lives, we will never be able to stand when Satan comes in as an angel of light, we will never be able to stand unless we are fixed, secure and our foundation is solid in the word of God.
If we are going to go through with God into the fullness of Pentecost there are four things that must be present in our lives
#1 FIRST WE MUST BE GROUNDED AND SETTLED IN HIS LOVE.
Eph 3:17-19
That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of
#2 WE MUST HAVE A CLEAR AND REAL REVELATION OF WHAT LOVE REALLY IS.
John 15:13
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
#3 WE MUST HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD.
John 1:1
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The second thing that we need to understand concerning the word is that love must express and manifest itself through the word,
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son is an example of love expressing itself through the word,
Love must manifest itself through the word and it must express itself through the word within us.
#4 THE FOURTH THING THAT WE MUST REALIZE IS THAT WE MUST CLEARLY UNDERSTAND OUR OWN GROUND.
Why? Because it is our own ground that needs to be looked after the most.
Matt 13:8
But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold.
Mark 4:20
And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.
Luke 8:15
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.
The Lord is speaking about good ground that yields forth a harvest from the seed that is sown and some bore fruit thirtyfold, some bore fruit sixtyfold and some bore fruit a hundredfold.
Here is a tremendous principal
Even in the good ground there are portions of thirty, sixty and one hundredfold but there are no limitations to the abundance of the harvest when the ground becomes good ground in the hands of the Lord.
So what is it that we are to understand concerning our own ground?
We must understand that the word of God can not come forth in all its power and all its purpose until the ground is right.
The ground has to be good ground, it has to be fertile ground and it has to be ready to receive the seed.
Jer 4:3
For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Hear the word of the Lord,
Break up your fallow ground, get the ground ready to be plowed, break up the clods, break up the soil and get it ready to receive the seed
What is the ground?
It is the heart!
But this is what happens a great part of the time
The seed is sown but the ground is not ready to receive the seed, the ground is not broken up and it has not been cleared of the thorns.
The scripture is very clear when it tells us not to plant or sow amongst thorns
Why?
Luke 8:14
And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.
Mark 4:18-19
And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
Here me because I want you to see what the primary purpose of the mind of the spirit is,
When the love of God is in its perfect progress and is doing its divine work within the scriptures of God then all other things work in harmony with each other.
Rom 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Prophetic utterances mean absolutely nothing unless they are covered in divine love.
The gifts of the spirit are brassy and clash unless they are covered in divine love.
1 Cor 13:1-8
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
How was the Lord Jesus Christ able to accomplish all that He accomplished in just the short amount of time that He was on this earth?
How?
He was full of the love of the Father, He came into the perfect will and purpose of the father, He was the good ground of the Father and love working in that good ground brought forth much fruit
Why?
Because love never fails
FILLED WITH HIS FULLNESS