There are others who seem spiritually weak, though their vision of spiritual truth is very keen and penetrating. The might which the Christian needs is conveyed through the agency of the Holy Spirit.3. It was the overflowing of the riches of His power.2. Just as life is to some all dress, so it is to some all manners.3. It is not a bit of your inward life that is to be hallowed. Maclaren, D. D.)The strengthening of the inner manJ. Happy are they who receive a few crumbs from this rich table, or a few glimpses of this glory! The thinking and feeling faculties, the marvellous soul which perceives, searches, imagines, desires, loves, hates, resolves, and so forth — is not to be omitted from "the inner man," which the Spirit of God visits and renews, inhabits and ennobles. We testify this fact in our common talk. Having dwelt thus far on the supreme importance of spiritual life, and of the extreme need of its Divine strengthening which is occasioned and evinced by falls, let us in the next place seize a truth which we have barely touched yet. D.)Strength of characterJ. These must be pure. secret communion with God, intercourse with the Invisible. The Holy Ghost must enter, and He will do it. The riches of the Divine power are seen not only in creation and preservation, but in recreation. Ephesians 3:14–21 [14] For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, [15] from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, [16] that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, [17] so that Christ may dwell ...read more. Scripture: Ephesians 1:15–21. I pray that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being. They will not go to the Bible and give heed to what God Himself says. We are too apt to conceive the religious life as consisting in a series of consecutive exercises, the beginning of the one waiting for the completion of the other. And the means or instrument of your receiving it is your simple heart's faith. They are never away from the glass. Ferguson, D. D.)Strengthened with mightA. "Might," true might, ever increasing might; might in prayer; commanding prayers; might in the spiritual battle, might in the battle with that wicked heart; might with the devil; might over daily self, might, might in work. some sin you endeavour to overcome, some outward inconsistency, some habit that you contracted. We say, "What shall we do?" THE RICHES OF HIS GOODNESS. Painters seek to represent the glory of a saint by drawing a circle of light around the head. Ephesians 3:14–21 [14] For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, [15] from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, [16] that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, [17] so that Christ may dwell ...read more. It must be "the inner man." It wants a strength which will not lie idle, but will be diffused through our whole man, and be available for our whole life. A man is known — a woman is known — by the dress. What marvellous exhibitions, then, has the future still in store of the riches of the power of God! He alone is the true possessor of everything. The might which the Christian needs is conveyed through the agency of the Holy Spirit. It is a sea of glory, and we have no line to fathom it. Missions Week. That new vegetation, that fresh leafage, comes out and pushes them off, and clothes the tree with virgin green, drawing food and beauty from the mould of the earth, from the wandering wind, from the passing cloud. This is the question that Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones seeks to answer in his exposition of Ephesians 3:16. )Christian strengthG. Our inner man, our innermost man, wants a life and a strength which is not human but Divine. The glory of the sun is the effulgence of light which it pours forth from its golden urn, revealing itself and all the worlds around. How does a man reach the centre and fountain of his own being? I. For, if the center, the thinking, and the heart of a man is set right, then everything else will fall into place. If his connection with Christ is cut off, in an instant he becomes as weak as any other man.(T. He alone is absolutely self-sufficient. When we say that a man's physical life is energetic we do not mean to say that any particular organ is strong, that he has great muscular force, can lift heavy weights and walk long distances; we mean to describe something which appears to us to lie within and beneath the physical organization, and which inspires the whole. The thinking and feeling faculties, the marvellous soul which perceives, searches, imagines, desires, loves, hates, resolves, and so forth — is not to be omitted from "the inner man," which the Spirit of God visits and renews, inhabits and ennobles. He might have waited and pleaded with man for ages, explaining to man his sin and ingratitude; and yet man might not have relented. Now, the Christian teaching nowhere leads us to despise manners. Now we look at a moral man — a man who distinctly recognizes the great moral law of God, that stretches over the world and runs through and through it. He will be like some subtle elixir which, taken into the lips, steals through a pallid and wasted frame, and brings back a glow to the cheek and a lustre to the eye and a swiftness to the brain, and power to the whole nature. There is a spiritual Divine touch, which is such as Christ's touch that healed leprosy and raised the dead. He delivered up His only begotten Son, the Son of His love, that eternal One in comparison with whom the universe itself is worthless. Nothing of an exterior nature can be more charming than graceful, polished, easy manners. Begin at the centre, not at the circumference; not with outsides. But, we still arent to the limit: Now to Him who is able to do far more a… 1. It must be a supernatural power. It is a mountain of gold, and we have no arithmetic to compute its value. If we say that a man is remarkable for his intellectual energy, we think of him as having in the very centre of his intellectual life a free and inexhaustible fountain of force and activity. But with God he has all, and abounds; for the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof. John 3:16, Jesus faith love) KJV. All the active powers of the man, the woman, are concerned chiefly about that — the dress of life — what to wear on the person, in the house as furniture, in the garden as adornment, on the road as equipage. (1)It is new born, and requires to grow. A. Asleep; by fits and starts perhaps awaking, and then falling into slumber again. It gives no definition of what the term includes. It is a blessed thing to know that we are poor (Matthew 5:3). The Christian needs to be strengthened with might in the inner man.2. Rich as is the patience of God, man could not be saved by the mere lapse of time. The whole inner man in all its corners is to be filled, and to come under the influence of this power, "until there be no part dark, as when the bright shining of a candle giveth thee light." As my text puts it, "Strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man." God is revealed in providence, and therefore He is said to lead His people with His glorious arm. Not as a beautiful clothing by which the inner man speaks and makes itself known, but as one complete outer man, which muffles, hides, and sometimes buries out of sight, the glorious inner man of God. What else could it be to be sufficient? Probably, I should say, both. II. So does all the lifting power of a Christian come from the currents of spiritual influence which flow into his heart from the Living Jesus. How is it to be attained? How comforting, how apposite, how true, how deep, how full the words to those who feel their weakness — "strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man." It is from this point of view that the riches of the Divine wisdom are seen — not merely in producing good, but in bringing good out of evil; not merely in producing beauty, but in bringing beauty out of deformity; not merely in producing harmony, but in bringing harmony out of discord; not merely in producing life, but in bringing life out of death. A. I look first to conscience. W. Dale, LL. How is this to be discovered? But the riches of God are seen in the preservation of all things in existence as well as in their creation. Known only by those in whom it dwells. Language labours to utter all that is implied here. The Inner Man. That, I suppose, does not mean the new creation through faith in Jesus Christ; what the apostle calls "the new man," but it means simply what another apostle calls the "hidden man of the heart," and only refers to the distinction which we all draw between the outward, visible, material frame, and the unseen self that animates and informs it. Sin reduces the soul to utter destitution, and all have sinned. Prophet, Priest, and King, Christ Divine and Christ Human. It is not a bit of your inward life that is to be hallowed. or sermon number (e.g., #1123), The Congregational Prayers of Dr. Lloyd-Jones. 1. But it is not in the deepest sense life.4. The riches of the Divine power are seen not only in creation and preservation, but in recreation. They open out one into the other like some majestic suite of apartments in a great palace-temple, each leading into a loftier and more spacious hall, each drawing nearer the presence-chamber, until at last we stand there. )Spiritual weakness prejudicialAmerican.It was an amusing distortion of a good hymn, but there was not a little sound philosophy in it, when the old preacher said —Judge not the Lord by feeble saints.And yet this is precisely what the great majority of unconverted men are doing all the time. Think of God's love in providence. This verse in Ephesians in which Paul prays that God would grant us, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man.. is only the first part of an amazing and powerful prayer.. for his prayer continues: 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 … Not only did it hang there, but it upheld four thousand pounds' weight attached to it! These must be pure. Fighting for Hope. In a machine, a great variety of movements and powers contribute to one result. In that "inner man" the "strength," then, must be found — conscience, motives, thoughts, affections, silent teachings, spiritual converse, and the trafficking of the soul with God. And let us humbly believe that it is the prayer Christ prays with us, moved by a consistency in love, and hope, and saving energy which we so sorely lack. (back to main index page) (SCRIPTURE LISTING) NOTE: Only the titles in boldface are working links. Not as a beautiful clothing by which the inner man speaks and makes itself known, but as one complete outer man, which muffles, hides, and sometimes buries out of sight, the glorious inner man of God. Does it mean by "the inner man" all the parts of our being which are not bodily? D.By the "inward man" Paul means our central and highest life; and he prays that the life itself — not any particular portion of it — may be strengthened. Stop the flow of the current for one instant, and the huge horseshoe dropped. This new life of goodness begins just with the other things we have named. How is this to be discovered? Might in power, that great power, holiness; that silent witness, that most eloquent of all things, holiness. Indirectly through the believer obeying the impulses and directions of the Holy Spirit.(A. All the attributes of God culminate in love. His great and inconceivable act of creation, then, was a demonstration of His perfect freedom and His boundless power. How manifest the traces of His wisdom in the way in which the earth has been fitted to develop and support man, and in the manifold provision made for man's education and comfort. That is not the kind of experience for anyone to enjoy. All wilful sin injures our spiritual life, enfeebles its conceptions of God, dulls its sense of His presence. And all this misery and confusion of soul is often aggravated by a misinterpretation of those dark words of Scripture which are written concerning backsliders who have utterly fallen away, and have eschewed the blessing of the life they once entered. They all fall in, and, so to speak, become parts of the found and ransomed inner man, which now needs them, which now uses them, for its own development, outcome, manifestation. Some trees in early spring are yet covered with last year's leaves; all withered now and begrimed. THE LIFE OF OUR SPIRIT, HOWEVER, BEING BEGUN, MAY BE IN THE FEEBLENESS OF INFANCY. Notwithstanding all that He has revealed of Himself in the past, there still remain in Him for evermore depths of splendour unrevealed. It is all well that we should enter into the vestibule; there is no other path unto the Throne but through the vestibule; but do not let us forget that the good news of forgiveness, though we need it day by day, and perpetually repeated, is but the introduction to, and porch of the Temple, and that beyond it there towers, if I cannot say a loftier, yet I may say a further gift, even the gift of a Divine life like His, from whom it comes, and of which it is in reality an effluence and a spark. 4. The whole universe and the plan of redemption is summed up in love. THE RICHES OF HIS GOODNESS. It wants power of spiritual thought, spiritual perception, spiritual emotion, spiritual control, spiritual activity, spiritual endurance, spiritual influence, such as we see pervading and flowing from the whole character and conduct of Christ. We use the term goodness as a general expression to embrace the mercy, the compassion, the benignity, and the love of God. They attempt to feed their starving souls on the imperfections of Christians — poor feed enough they find it! God is revealed in providence, and therefore He is said to lead His people with His glorious arm. He is considered by many evangelical leaders today to be an authority on biblical truth and the sufficiency of Scripture. He recognizes it distinctly, but of course very imperfectly, if yet the inner man, under all this moral action going on above it, lies in the main asleep. It is easy to see, indeed, that the Fountain of strength is in the Spirit; for all the nine graces of the Spirit - love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance (Galatians 5:22) - are so many factors of this inward power. Spurgeon. Peter exhorted the women that their adornment should not be in the hairstyle, or the jewelry, or the fancy clothes but the inward adornment of the heart. H. Spurgeon.Now this lamb they were to eat, and the whole of it. The riches of His glory. "I must wait until God sends winds strong enough to sweep them away; rains heavy enough to wash the tree clean in every branch"? He delivered up His only begotten Son, the Son of His love, that eternal One in comparison with whom the universe itself is worthless. He will be like some subtle elixir which, taken into the lips, steals through a pallid and wasted frame, and brings back a glow to the cheek and a lustre to the eye and a swiftness to the brain, and power to the whole nature. There are perpendicular movements and horizontal movements; zig-zag movements and elliptical movements; — a swift and bewildering involution and evolution of forces, and a warring multitude of sounds — hissing and hammering, grinding and thumping; and yet there is the utmost harmony, and the most delicate and precise balance of action throughout the whole.III. Oh! There are perpendicular movements and horizontal movements; zig-zag movements and elliptical movements; — a swift and bewildering involution and evolution of forces, and a warring multitude of sounds — hissing and hammering, grinding and thumping; and yet there is the utmost harmony, and the most delicate and precise balance of action throughout the whole.III. Now notice, next, THAT THIS DIVINE STRENGTH HAS ITS SEAT IN, AND IS INTENDED TO INFLUENCE THE WHOLE OF THE INNER LIFE. E. Gibbert.We are beings of a complex nature. It is to the riches of the love of God, therefore, that we owe our very existence. It is to the riches of the love of God, therefore, that we owe our very existence. W. Dale, LL. Of course there is a working limit at each moment, and that is our capacity to receive, but that capacity varies, may vary indefinitely, may become greater and greater beyond our count or measurement. First, then, I remark that God means, and wishes, THAT ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE STRONG BY THE POSSESSION OF THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT. Do your work, whatever your work may be, patiently, thoroughly, trustfully, effectually. It is the want of love, it is the selfishness and hatred, that is the curse and woe of the world. Then each yields, is altered, combines, and makes the one grand product that is sought. He alone is absolutely self-sufficient. Painters seek to represent the glory of a saint by drawing a circle of light around the head. What must I do? We testify this fact in our common talk. God might have given away everything He had made; He might have emptied the exchequer of heaven; but the price would not have purchased the redemption of a single soul. Not at all. In light of that way of thinking, it is possible to develop a sermon that explores three areas of life together in the congregation. Now, God has the power to create. So for this Divine Indweller there is no part of my life that is not patent to His tread. There must be a sense of want along with a spirit of entire dependence on the Lord, so that the believer may realize the sweetness of the promise, "My God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus" (Philippians 4:19). He alone is absolutely self-sufficient. It wants power of spiritual thought, spiritual perception, spiritual emotion, spiritual control, spiritual activity, spiritual endurance, spiritual influence, such as we see pervading and flowing from the whole character and conduct of Christ. THE RICHES OF HIS WISDOM. This is our prime concern. That new vegetation, that fresh leafage, comes out and pushes them off, and clothes the tree with virgin green, drawing food and beauty from the mould of the earth, from the wandering wind, from the passing cloud. There is a supernatural influence, and energy of the Divine Spirit in our spirits, which may become so real and manifest within us that the physical miracles of Christ rank beneath it. Oh! The seat of the strength imparted is the inner man; it is the strength, not of outward propping, but of inward peace and power. Height — raising up to heavenly places. It lies open to His touch; all the paths of its deep things can be trodden by Him. You have been trying often to change the outer man, your conduct, your way of speaking, your appearance in people's eyes! Go deeper still, and you will find another outer man, which may go by this denomination — mind; indicating strong intellectual life, love of truth, i.e., natural truth; which presents itself to us in the form of fact and law — the scientific spirit. Sep 29, 1985. This might is obtained in answer to prayer. Morals. Everything will go to give "strength."III. We speak of body, soul, and spirit belonging to us. Not as a beautiful clothing by which the inner man speaks and makes itself known, but as one complete outer man, which muffles, hides, and sometimes buries out of sight, the glorious inner man of God. From what we already know in this direction we may conclude that the whole of nature is one vast and intricate design manifesting the wisdom and goodness of God; and we are expressly told that all things are working together for good. We are also taught that the bodies of men will be raised from the dust of the ground in a new and higher form. some sin you endeavour to overcome, some outward inconsistency, some habit that you contracted. Language labours to utter all that is implied here. How little do we know of that mystery of sorrow that seems to enter into the very Godhead, and all to save such a creature as man! They are controlled, in a measure absorbed, by that central grand something which now becomes the ruling power. The riches of His glory. The true characteristic gift of the gospel is the gift of a new power to a sinful weak world; a power which makes the feeble strong, and the strongest as an angel of God. For his own wants he would have an immediate supply. The thinking and feeling faculties, the marvellous soul which perceives, searches, imagines, desires, loves, hates, resolves, and so forth — is not to be omitted from "the inner man," which the Spirit of God visits and renews, inhabits and ennobles. Our physical strength is renewed from day to day by food and rest. It wants power of spiritual thought, spiritual perception, spiritual emotion, spiritual control, spiritual activity, spiritual endurance, spiritual influence, such as we see pervading and flowing from the whole character and conduct of Christ. In a machine, a great variety of movements and powers contribute to one result. They judge the Lord by "feeble saints." This is, for us, "the glory that excelleth." Do your work, whatever your work may be, patiently, thoroughly, trustfully, effectually. Exterior show is with them life, and they are always dressing. They all fall in, and, so to speak, become parts of the found and ransomed inner man, which now needs them, which now uses them, for its own development, outcome, manifestation. Not merely a thinking something, to be informed by knowledge and guided by morals. The Holy Ghost must enter, and He will do it. 4. Indirectly through the believer obeying the impulses and directions of the Holy Spirit.(A. Does it mean by "the inner man" all the parts of our being which are not bodily? From what we already know in this direction we may conclude that the whole of nature is one vast and intricate design manifesting the wisdom and goodness of God; and we are expressly told that all things are working together for good. Raleigh, D. D.Everyone has an inner man, a better self, a potential perfection within him, which will awake and begin to flower when he feels in his soul the touch of God. These make "the inner man," the real essence of a man's being; and all the rest — all we do and all we say, all we suffer and all we enjoy — these are only the outsides, only the reflections of that "inner man." So goodness throws off sin, and dresses and adorns the soul in the beauties of God's holiness. But God has not only created us; He has also preserved us, even in the midst of our deep depravity and alienation. Scripture: Ephesians 3:14–21. Be it our first care that we are born of the Spirit, and living in the Spirit.II. You and I act upon one another from without, He acts upon us within. The glory of a king is seen when he sits upon his throne, crowned and sceptred, surrounded by his nobles, and canopied with banners, that speak of his victories. It is an intercessory prayer we should pray for one another in the gloomy hours of our brother's fall. Each of these parts we describe in various ways, according to the numerous feelings and motions our inward nature is accustomed to. They have no ear for His voice of mercy that offers them salvation for the taking. And I ask anyone who has ever fallen into such misery and confusion of inward strife after he had tasted the peace of Christ's salvation, whether he did not learn in it his powerlessness to recover himself, and did not perceive that the best resolve and effort he could make would be no more than the galvanising of a dead limb unless another strength should be given him, and given him by the same Divine Spirit who before quickened him into a spiritual birth, unless God would hear the prayer which is no more than a broken wail of wretchedness and a struggling desire for healing? A man is known — a woman is known — by the dress. You are to be strengthened with might. And I ask anyone who has ever fallen into such misery and confusion of inward strife after he had tasted the peace of Christ's salvation, whether he did not learn in it his powerlessness to recover himself, and did not perceive that the best resolve and effort he could make would be no more than the galvanising of a dead limb unless another strength should be given him, and given him by the same Divine Spirit who before quickened him into a spiritual birth, unless God would hear the prayer which is no more than a broken wail of wretchedness and a struggling desire for healing? II. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches. If we say that a man is remarkable for his intellectual energy, we think of him as having in the very centre of his intellectual life a free and inexhaustible fountain of force and activity. Object suggested: A raw carrot with green top intact, if available. Notice, first, THAT IT IS ALL "IN THE INNER MAN." Next, motives. In that beautiful parable of the prodigal, touching as it does at so many points the actual experience of sinful men, we find that the wandering son no sooner comes to himself than he begins to think of his Father, and to talk of Him there, in those barren fields among the swine; and of His house, the beautiful home of his youth, and of His hired servants, and of the bread loading His tables — until his soul and his eyes are so full of the beauty and the peacefulness of other days, that the wilderness becomes more dark and dreary and horrible, and he says, "I will arise, and leave all this, and go home again to my Father."3. Paul writes (3:18-19), that we may be able to comprehend “what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge….” It is a deliberate paradox. For his own wants he would have an immediate supply. LET IT BE CERTAIN TO US THAT THIS GIFT OF STRENGTH TO OUR SPIRITS BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS OUR PERPETUAL NEED. From what we already know in this direction we may conclude that the whole of nature is one vast and intricate design manifesting the wisdom and goodness of God; and we are expressly told that all things are working together for good. It wants a strength which will not lie idle, but will be diffused through our whole man, and be available for our whole life. The whole inner man in all its corners is to be filled, and to come under the influence of this power, "until there be no part dark, as when the bright shining of a candle giveth thee light." This, too, as in the other cases, is the sad possibility. Might in power, that great power, holiness; that silent witness, that most eloquent of all things, holiness. They cease to have a separate and independent existence. Having dwelt thus far on the supreme importance of spiritual life, and of the extreme need of its Divine strengthening which is occasioned and evinced by falls, let us in the next place seize a truth which we have barely touched yet. It supposes a communication with us when we are spiritual which is no less than God's own communion with us. All this may be with a slumbering inner man. If the power of God is seen in the creation and preservation of all things, His wisdom is seen in making all things work together for good; and what a wealth of wisdom is implied in bringing out of the most contradictory and deleterious elements a vast, harmonious, and unspeakably valuable result! Indeed, we cannot be "strong in spirit" if we divide the supremacy between higher, and lower interests. There is a direct passage between God and my spirit. "That He would grant you," is the daring petition of the apostle, "according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened." Not at all. That horseshoe magnet was not welded or glued to the metal above it; but through the iron wire coiled round it there ran a subtle current of electricity from a galvanic battery. There is no limit except the uncounted wealth of His own self-manifestation, the flashing light of a revealed Divinity. This ought to be our prime passion. Maclaren, D. D.Let us consider that great thought of the Divine strength-giving power which may be bestowed upon every Christian soul.I. It wants a strength which is not ethereal but real. Ephesians 3:16 New International Version (NIV) 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, Cross references: Indeed, we cannot be "strong in spirit" if we divide the supremacy between higher, and lower interests. If the apostle wrote for any hearts thus fallen he might well write that he prayed for them. 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