# “The unsearchable riches of our inheritance in Him” by Alexander MacLaren

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- Published: 2022-08-18T12:00:52-05:00
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“You cannot have Christ’s blessing unless you take Christ. And so, dear brethren,‘
abide in Me and I in you.’ (**John 15:4**)

There is nothing else that will make us blessed; there is nothing else that will
meet all the circumference of our necessities; there is nothing else that will quiet
our hearts, will sanctify our understandings.

Christ is yours if ‘ye are Christ’s.’ (**1 Cor. 3:23**) ‘Of His fulness have all
we received,’ (**John 1:16**) for it all became ours when we became His, and Christian
growth on earth and heaven is but the unfolding of the folded graces that are contained
in Him.

We possess the whole Christ, but eternity is needed to disclose all the unsearchable
riches of our inheritance in Him.”

–Alexander MacLaren, [_Expositions of Holy Scripture: Ephesians, Volume 14_](https://amzn.to/3QTgA2f)(
Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, 1984), 14: 17. MacLaren is commenting on **Ephesians
1:3**.

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