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Breadth, Length, Depth, Height By Charles Spurgeon, Reformed Christian Sermon By Charles Spurgeon

BREADTH, LENGTH, DEPTH, & HEIGHT Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) 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.—Ephesians 3:17-19 HE apostle desires that when the love of Christ becomes to us a solid reality, we may have close communion with it…We should know the inmost secrets of the Redeemer’s love—its doings and sacrifices that are the apparent part of it—its breadth, its counsels and its plans—its length, its endurance and patience—its height, its tri- umphs and glories—its depth, the secret part of it. We would know all that is knowable, for when we know all that has been learned by mor- tals, there is still something that is beyond our view. Hence, the apostle adds, “to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.” Let me come to the very words of our text and point out their order to you. The first object of the Christian’s knowledge should be the breadth of the Savior’s love. I know a certain school of Christians who have need to study this point, for they have a very narrow idea of the Lord’s lov- ingkindness. They cannot be brought by any means to conceive of it as being broad; to them it is no wider than a razor’s edge. They conceive of divine love as a very narrow stream; they have never seen it to be a mighty, flowing, abounding, and rejoicing river such as it really is. The breadth of Christ’s love, dear friends, we are told in Scripture, is such that it extends to all ranks and races of mankind—not to the Jew only, but also to the Gentile. The love of Jesus Christ does not surround our favored island alone, but like the ocean it washes every shore. The love of Jesus Christ has been extended to kings upon their thrones, but with equal and more frequent bounty to the slaves in their dungeons. In some respects, the love of Jesus comes to every man, for there is not a man or woman born who does not owe something to the benevolence of God through the love of Jesus. The respite1 that keeps the sinner out of hell is no doubt the result of the love that said, “Lord, let it alone this year also, till I shall dig about it, and dung it: And if it bear fruit, well” (Luk 13:8-9).