What happens when we comprehend God's love with all the saints?
Comprehending God's love with all the saints causes believers to appropriate it—to make it personal and real in their lives. This comprehension is for every single believer, not just clergy or a select few, as Tyndale illustrated by wanting every plowboy to have the Bible.
Les explains that this prayer in Ephesians 3 is directed to Gentiles, to you and I, asking God to grant according to the riches of His glory that believers be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man, not just intellectually but in the heart. He prays that Christ may dwell in our hearts by faith, so that being rooted and grounded in love, we may be able to comprehend with all saints. Les emphasizes that if we comprehend it, we appropriate it. This isn't just for the clergy or the few; it's for every single believer. He references Tyndale's desire for every plowboy in England to have a copy of the book because this is for everybody, not just for the ecclesia. So when we comprehend God's love with all saints, we make it personal, and it becomes real in our inner being.
May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;