What does it mean that believers are living in four dimensions?
Believers live in four dimensions because, while physically we inhabit three dimensions, spiritually we are already in a fourth dimension beyond physical perception. This dimension is tied to Paul's prayer in Ephesians that believers might know the height, depth, width, and length of God's wisdom.
Les explains that in Ephesians Paul prays for believers to be filled with the wisdom of God and to know the height, depth, width, and length. When asked how many dimensions that describes, the answer is four, yet we live in three. That points to another dimension beyond physical knowledge, where spiritually believers already are. It reflects the glory of being in Christ, an unfathomable well of wisdom and knowledge, and that all things—whether Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, things present, or things to come—are theirs.
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;
Why does Paul mention height, depth, width, and length if we only live in three dimensions?
Paul names four dimensions—height, depth, width, and length—to show that reality is not limited to our three physical dimensions. The fourth points to a dimension beyond physical perception, one that believers already occupy spiritually. In Christ, they are living in four dimensions, not merely the three we experience now.
Who is the four-dimensional comprehension of Ephesians 3:18 for?
The four-dimensional comprehension of Ephesians 3:18 is for every plowboy in America and around the world, and any boys from there on up. It is for the believer, for God wants the believer to enter into that fourth dimension, comprehending with all saints.