«　WEEK 6　DAY 5　»

　　Eph. 3: 8 To me, less than the least of all saints, was this grace given to announce to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ as the gospel.

　　17 That Christ may make His home in your hearts through faith….

　　1 Cor. 3:16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

　　In Eph. 3:8, Paul says that he will preach to us the unsearchable riches of Christ. Literally, this word seems to be very simple. But it is not that easy to understand what is the unsearchable riches of Christ. This phrase means that the riches of Christ are immeasurable. Because it is too mysterious and too inexhaustible to be described in human words, Paul could only use the four dimensions – breadth, length, height, and depth – to describe what Christ is. Christ is the breadth; He is the length, the height, and the depth. The breadth, length, height, and depth of the universe are all unlimited. These are the dimensions of Christ.

　　In verse 17 Paul said, “That Christ…makes His home in your hearts.” When Christ makes His home in our hearts and fills and saturates our whole being, we will be strong to apprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth of Christ. The word “make home” here is a compound word in Greek. It is the verbal form of the noun oikos, which means house, with the prefix kata added to it. Kata has the sense of establishing in a firm way.

　　For this Paul prayed to the Father. He said that he bowed his knees unto the Father, that He would, according to the riches of His glory and through His Spirit, have Christ make home in our hearts. The meaning of this prayer is very deep. First, it mentions the Father. Second, it mentions the Spirit. Third, it mentions Christ. Lastly, it mentions our heart.

　　Our heart is composed of four parts: the mind, the emotion, the will, and the conscience. For Christ to make home in our heart is for Him to make home in these four parts…we have received Christ into our heart. But is He in our mind, emotion, will and conscience? …The brothers like to exercise their minds. They often remain in their minds. Also they are usually strong in their will. If they say yes, they mean yes. Whether they are right or wrong, they would insist to the end. The sisters are more apt to exercise their emotions. They are often swayed by their joy, their anger, their sorrow, and their elation. All these means that Christ has no place and is not making home in our mind, emotion, and will. We really should have given to Him every room of our heart. All the other tenants in the rooms of our heart have to be chased away. First Corinthians 3:16 says that we are the temple of God. But this temple is occupied by many illegal tenants. We need the Lord Jesus to chase them away with a whip that this temple may be cleansed; just as He cleansed the temple twice while He was on earth (John 2:14-15; Matt.21:12), chasing away all the oxen, sheep, doves, buyers and sellers, and money changers. Only then can Christ make His home in our hearts.

　　(Christ Revealed in the New Testament)