This document discusses the concept of God measuring and assigning measures or limits to various things. It contains several Bible verses that describe how God measured the waters, heavens, dust, mountains, and hills, and assigned times and boundaries to nations. The document suggests that Paul understood having a measure or limit for his ministry and boasting. It discusses how each person is given a measure of faith by God and a measure of Christ's gift. Finally, it discusses giving and receiving by our own standard of measure, and God removing our transgressions and filling us with his love beyond measure.

2. Sunday, 8 October 2017
GOD’S
MEASURING TAPE

3. • Isa 40:12 NASB Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His
hand, And marked off the heavens by the span, And calculated the
dust of the earth by the measure, And weighed the mountains in a
balance And the hills in a pair of scales?
• Ecc 3:1 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a
time for every event under heaven—
• Acts 17:26 NIV From one man he made all the nations, that they
should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed
times in history and the boundaries of their lands.
MEASURING MATTERS

4. PAUL UNDERSTOOD THIS

5. 2Co 10:12-16 NASB (continued)
For we are not overextending ourselves, as if we did not reach to you,
for we were the first to come even as far as you in the gospel of Christ;
not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other men's labours, but
with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our sphere,
enlarged even more by you, so as to preach the gospel even to the
regions beyond you, and not to boast in what has been accomplished
in the sphere of another.
PAUL UNDERSTOOD THIS

6. • Rom 12:3 NASB For through the grace given to me I say to everyone
among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think;
but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each
a measure of faith.
• Eph 4:7 But to each one of us grace was given according to the
measure of Christ's gift.
WE EACH HAVE A MEASURE

7. THE MEASURE WE USE
Luke 6:37-38 NASB
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged; and do not condemn, and
you will not be condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned. "Give,
and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good
measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by
your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."

8. EPH 4:14-16 NASB

9. • Psa 103:11-12 NASB For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is
His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the
west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
• Eph 3:16-19 NASB that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory,
to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, so that
Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and
grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the
breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which
surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.
LOVE BEYOND MEASURE