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16-6: The chief theme of the prayer is for comprehension of the four dimensions of love: breadth, length, height, and depth. (We talked about that earlier in the Essence of Ephesians.)This comprehension as the Holy Spirit looks ahead to the time of Revelation would certainly prevent a leaving of the "first loves" but the four-dimension baffle, even those that do not sympathize with Adam's statement about communicating in the language of mathematical physics are forced to turn to the math of physics for the most plausible explanation of four dimensions. Three dimensions are easy, the fourth is more difficult. Mathematicians automatically think of the x, y' am z axis of the Cartesian co-ordinate system or those in technical work think of the azimuth, range, and elevation dimensions of radar.You can picture the love of Christ as being like the cross where it. reaches down to the fallen, then out to our neighbors, and then up to God. Yet in this case and the one from mathematical physics above, where do you get the fourth dimension? The answer is easy! The fourth dimension or parameter, just like in physics, is time! In fact, movement in any of the three dimensions of x, y, or z with respect to time is called velocity. Velocity is a vector that has both direction and speed. Carroll says that the book of Ephesians is also a book of great loves and so the four dimensions of love should be called the love vector, with direction and constant speed.NOTE: Where the falling away really started in the SBC was with the warfare of Scofield fundamentalists with what they called moderations and led by Criswell who told Moyer on TV that "we will keep fighting until one side or the other wins", announced for other feuding fundamentalist a war of a lack of constant or continuous love. The string was broken. (Of course, this fight to save and restore to control the Scofield mites was then hidden with the coverup of a fight for literal truth, now it continues to be covered up with a falsely called conservative resurgence. It is doubtful is this can publicly or in reality every be reversed with public confession and repentance from the remaining Scofield mites of the revolution in the SBC.
