find himself? 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. It embraces, it unites, it consolidates, it makes real, it makes a man a man, it makes a Christian a Christian. Asleep; by fits and starts perhaps awaking, and then falling into slumber again. He alone is absolutely self-sufficient. be in health like our bodies, that we may be able to grapple with all our spiritual enemies, to resist temptation, to endure afflictions, to perform the duties of our Christian calling. So goodness throws off sin, and dresses and adorns the soul in the beauties of God's holiness. Directly towards God.2. Known only by those in whom it dwells. 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." CONSIDER THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BLESSING ASKED FOR. THE NATURE OF THE SUPPLY, CULMINATING IN THE INDWELLING OF CHRIST. And, in union the hidden mystic union of God, which is the secret of it all; in which He is, who makes life, the essence of all which is worth the living; a real life, the life of your being. This is seen in the power to create. God is revealed in redemption, and therefore Jesus Christ is the brightness of His Father's glory, and the express image of His person. From day to day, from year to year, and from century to century, the whole universe is upheld in its primeval freshness and power.3. Nothing more we need, nothing less can do it. Think of the love of God in creation. We speak of body, soul, and spirit belonging to us. From all eternity God was sufficient for Himself, full of life and joy, and under no obligation, either from without or from within, to create a single world. But the riches of God are seen in the preservation of all things in existence as well as in their creation. Then, thoughts — those little springs that swell into oceans, those germs of everything. 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. 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.III. THE RICHES OF HIS WISDOM. THE LAW OF ITS BESTOWMENT. His great and inconceivable act of creation, then, was a demonstration of His perfect freedom and His boundless power. AND HOW? For, if the center, the thinking, and the heart of a man is set right, then everything else will fall into place. IV. 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? Think reasonably, accurately, scripturally, thoughtfully. Or does it mean especially the part which we call the spirit, by which, when it is made active within us, we discern hidden and eternal realities? Then what becomes of all the outer men, such as those we named? I do not know what Christianity means, unless it means that you and I are forgiven for a purpose; that the purpose, if I may so say, is something in advance of the means towards the purpose, the purpose being that we should be filled with all the strength and righteousness and supernatural life granted to us by the Spirit of God. Ephesians 3:16, CSB: "I pray that he may grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power in your inner being through his Spirit," Context Summary. A man is known — a woman is known — by the dress. 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. LET IT BE CERTAIN TO US THAT THIS GIFT OF STRENGTH TO OUR SPIRITS BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS OUR PERPETUAL NEED. secret communion with God, intercourse with the Invisible. Not so. 4. It is not any one aspect of it that is to be strengthened, but it is the whole intellect, affections, desires, tastes, powers of attention, combination, memory, will. We use the term goodness as a general expression to embrace the mercy, the compassion, the benignity, and the love of God. II. This is our way to the priesthood and princeliness which the redeeming God bids us come up to and exercise. It is limitless with the boundlessness of God Himself. First, then, I remark that God means, and wishes, THAT ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE STRONG BY THE POSSESSION OF THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT. John 3:16 tells us, “ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him shall not perish but have eternal life. This ought to be our prime passion. Next, motives. F. Muir, M. Language labours to utter all that is implied here. H. Spurgeon.Now this lamb they were to eat, and the whole of it. All the attributes of God culminate in love. We may even come to look down tremblingly into the horrible abyss of despair. There are others who seem capable of very lofty devotion of awe, of vehement religious emotion, of rapture in the Divine love, and in the hope, of glory, honour, and immortality — and who yet give us the impression that they are wanting in those elements of life which constitute spiritual energy. First repentance, then cleansing and forgiveness, then gratitude, then filial love, then active goodness. We are also taught that the bodies of men will be raised from the dust of the ground in a new and higher form. It gives no definition of what the term includes. The Spirit strengthens the believer by leading him to the fullness of grace that is in Christ, by shedding abroad the love of God in his heart, by applying the promises of the gospel, by making the Scriptures sources of that "joy of the Lord which is our strength," and thus causing us to go from strength to strength till at last we stand before God in Zion. Notice, first, THAT IT IS ALL "IN THE INNER MAN." II. He alone has enough and to spare.2. Stop the flow of the current for one instant, and the huge horseshoe dropped. From all eternity God was sufficient for Himself, full of life and joy, and under no obligation, either from without or from within, to create a single world. This is, for us, "the glory that excelleth." Depth — going down to the lowest. 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. They do not pay any attention to the solemn warnings that the Scriptures utter. 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. It wants a strength which is not ethereal but real. I do not know what Christianity means, unless it means that you and I are forgiven for a purpose; that the purpose, if I may so say, is something in advance of the means towards the purpose, the purpose being that we should be filled with all the strength and righteousness and supernatural life granted to us by the Spirit of God. But the riches of God are seen in the preservation of all things in existence as well as in their creation. Think of God's love in providence. THE SOURCE WHENCE THIS STRENGTH IS DERIVED. He decides to elaborate on why he is a prisoner of Jesus Christ for the Gentiles. The man himself is wanting in force, though there are spiritual forces at work in him. When we speak of a man's intellectual life as strong or weak, we do not mean that some particular faculty is admirable or the reverse of admirable; a particular faculty may be singularly vigorous, and yet the man may give us the impression of intellectual feebleness; a particular faculty may be very deficient in vigour, and yet he may give us the impression of intellectual strength. He alone can create. Probably, I should say, both. Vaughan, M. A.To those who have the misery of weakness — who never keep their better resolves, whose hearts are so divided, who are not really happy, because they have no concentration — to such it may be of immense comfort to know that real religion always gives strength — strength of character. Now, God has the power to create. It is thenceforth good for nothing.". By all that is beautiful and holy, by all that is deep and rapturous in the relation of Father and Son, measure the sacrifice involved in the death of Christi1. Our hearts may be made more and more capable of God; and in the measure in which they are capable of Him they shall be filled by Him.(A. They are controlled, in a measure absorbed, by that central grand something which now becomes the ruling power. Might in power, that great power, holiness; that silent witness, that most eloquent of all things, holiness. The first thing one human being sees of another, when they are approaching each other, is the dress. 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! This might should be sought as from an inexhaustible source. But God has not only created us; He has also preserved us, even in the midst of our deep depravity and alienation. The rich gift lies in the possession of the faculty to invent or make. THE SOURCE OF THIS STRENGTH IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD. First — what may be called a soul consciousness — a consciousness of having, or being, a soul. Whatsoever there is of splendour in that, whatsoever there is of power there, in these and in nothing this side of them, lies the limit of the possibilities of a Christian life. Sin reduces the soul to utter destitution, and all have sinned. He who was rich became poor for us (2 Corinthians 8:9). H. Spurgeon.Now this lamb they were to eat, and the whole of it. From day to day, from year to year, and from century to century, the whole universe is upheld in its primeval freshness and power. Exterior show is with them life, and they are always dressing. Ephesians 3:14-16. It is a domain of beauty, and we have no adequate language in which to speak of it. It is our need not only in that extremity of which we have spoken, but it is a need inherent in our nature, which was in us at birth, which will abide with us through death. I would maintain, in opposition to many modern conceptions, the actual supernatural character of the gift that is bestowed upon every Christian soul. 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. If the apostle wrote for any hearts thus fallen he might well write that he prayed for them. It matters not that many say, "We are rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing"; not knowing that they are wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. But we are regarding manners just now not as an expression of the Christian principle of feeling, but as a substitute for it. )The inner manA. 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. All that we know of God, as compares with that which lies hid, is but as the first yellow streak of dawn which breaks the darkness of night to the full brightness of noonday. 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." It wants a strength which is not ethereal but real. His perfection, His excellence. Indirectly through the believer obeying the impulses and directions of the Holy Spirit.(A. They are never away from the glass. 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. He alone can hold forever that which He now possesses. H. THE RICHES OF HIS POWER.1. It is limitless with the boundlessness of God Himself. L. Cuyler, D. D.When I was a student at Princeton, Professor Henry had so constructed a huge bar of iron, bent into the form of a horseshoe, that it used to hang suspended from another iron bar above it. We may speak of the riches of God under three aspects — first, the riches of His power; second, the riches of His wisdom: and, third, the riches of His goodness; and, as it is the blended and harmonious attributes of God that make up His highest glory, the view of His riches under these three aspects may enable us to see something of the riches of His glory.I. Ephesians 3: 16- 19 Have you ever felt unloved, unwanted and rejected? From day to day, from year to year, and from century to century, the whole universe is upheld in its primeval freshness and power.3. The riches of His glory. John 3:16, Jesus faith love) KJV. The might which the Christian needs is conveyed through the agency of the Holy Spirit.3. God alone is rich. E. Gibbert.We are beings of a complex nature. Maclaren, D. D.Let us consider that great thought of the Divine strength-giving power which may be bestowed upon every Christian soul.I. We say, "What shall we do?" Think of the love of God in creation. 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." "Through faith," i.e., the exercise of faith.1. Just as life is to some all dress, so it is to some all manners.3. THE BLESSING SOUGHT IS REGARDED AS A FREE GIFT, "That he would grant you... to be strengthened." Maclaren, D. D.Let us consider that great thought of the Divine strength-giving power which may be bestowed upon every Christian soul.I. God comes to fill up the sorrowful void with His own rich heart. Whatsoever there is of splendour in that, whatsoever there is of power there, in these and in nothing this side of them, lies the limit of the possibilities of a Christian life. Paul said that his outward man was perishing, but the inward man was being renewed day by day. 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. Indirectly through the believer obeying the impulses and directions of the Holy Spirit.(A. Greek: hina d o humin kata to plouto s tes doxes autou dunamei krataiothenai dia tou pneumatos autou eis ton eso anthropon,. Sin reduces the soul to utter destitution, and all have sinned. Measure, then, God's love to man by His regard for His own Son! This ought to be our prime passion. Now we come into the great ethical region of human nature. There is a certain imperfection in many of us which I do not know how to describe except by saying that, though at times particular spiritual faculties may appear to be vigorous, the central life is weak. I look first to conscience. He alone has enough and to spare.2. 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. This new life of goodness begins just with the other things we have named. (3)It has a great work to accomplish.II. Each of these parts we describe in various ways, according to the numerous feelings and motions our inward nature is accustomed to. If a man could create in the highest sense of the word, how rich he would soon become! So complex is our nature that it is hardly possible to give an account of it sufficiently simplified to be plain to an unobservant man.I. What must I do? II. F. Muir, M. God alone is rich. And He will come into that feeble, vacillating, wayward will of yours, that is only obstinate in its adherence to the low and the evil, as some foul creature, that one may try to wrench away, digs its claws into corruption and holds on by that, He will lift your will and make it fix upon the good and abominate the evil, and through the whole being He will pour a great tide of strength which shall cover all the weakness. It was the overflowing of the riches of His power.2. The Hope. Measured by the extent of Himself. It wants a strength which will not lie idle, but will be diffused through our whole man, and be available for our whole life. 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. KJV NKJV NLT NIV ESV CSB NASB. So for this Divine Indweller there is no part of my life that is not patent to His tread. Ephesians 3:16 that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man, (NASB: Lockman). Height — raising up to heavenly places. LET US LOOK, NOW, AT SOME OF THESE OUTER MEN PUT ON, WORN FROM YEAR TO YEAR, SO AS EFFECTUALLY TO ENCLOSE, IMPRISON, BURY OUT OF SIGHT, THE INNER MAN WHICH GOD AND ANGELS WAIT FOR, AND WOULD BRING TO THE LIGHT WITH REJOICING.1. It is the gift of God: not by growth and development within itself, or adaptation to its circumstances merely, but through the direct influence of the Holy Spirit.III. 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. He delivered up His only begotten Son, the Son of His love, that eternal One in comparison with whom the universe itself is worthless. This is our way to the priesthood and princeliness which the redeeming God bids us come up to and exercise. There are men whose zeal for the evangelization of the world is often very real and very fervent, but who give us no impression of spiritual strength. These must be pure. He does not pray that his own circumstances would be changed, nor that the circumstances of the Ephesians would be changed. So great is the capacity of the soul, that if a man had the whole universe he would still be poor, being destitute of God. 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 … Rich as is the power of God, man could not be saved by mere power. The text is a prayer. The sublime act of creation did not exhaust or weary God. He is considered by many evangelical leaders today to be an authority on biblical truth and the sufficiency of Scripture. 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. THE RICHES OF HIS GOODNESS. This, too, as in the other cases, is the sad possibility.II. W. Dale, LL. "That He would grant you," is the daring petition of the apostle, "according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened." some sin you endeavour to overcome, some outward inconsistency, some habit that you contracted. Yet "the spirit" has a special place in "the inner man," for it is the crown and glory of our being. 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. Now we come into the great ethical region of human nature. The apostle asks it in no limited measures; he asks it in the measure of the riches of that glory which is seen in his blended and harmonious attributes. But the riches of God are seen in the preservation of all things in existence as well as in their creation. Not merely a thinking something, to be informed by knowledge and guided by morals. How little do we know of the greatness of that gift, and of the depth of that sacrifice! 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. "When Pandy was young and a looker, Barbie loved her. Cross references. Don't Settle For Safe. It is a prayer to "the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named," who is the only Father who has riches enough in His glory to be able to strengthen us with might in our inner man when we have sapped its power by infidelity to His gift of the Spirit. THE TEXT SPEAKS OF "THE INNER MAN." Let us look at them a little more accurately.I. That won't do. It was the overflowing of the riches of His power.2. 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. You and I act upon one another from without, He acts upon us within. 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." Not the old formal goodness; but goodness that is fresh and new and living: with love in the heart of it, gratitude lending it a glow and a lustre, faith building it up. Happy are they who receive a few crumbs from this rich table, or a few glimpses of this glory! "That He would grant you," is the daring petition of the apostle, "according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened." 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. 2. 3. We may speak of the riches of God under three aspects — first, the riches of His power; second, the riches of His wisdom: and, third, the riches of His goodness; and, as it is the blended and harmonious attributes of God that make up His highest glory, the view of His riches under these three aspects may enable us to see something of the riches of His glory.I. Let a man labour ever so hard, let him pile his earthly treasures ever so high, he can never with his own puny hand fill the dark and sad abyss within himself.3. Language labours to utter all that is implied here. Now notice, next, THAT THIS DIVINE STRENGTH HAS ITS SEAT IN, AND IS INTENDED TO INFLUENCE THE WHOLE OF THE INNER LIFE. We describe our mind as possessing emotional parts, intellectual parts, volitional parts. Our inner man, our innermost man, wants a life and a strength which is not human but Divine. )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. So great is the capacity of the soul, that if a man had the whole universe he would still be poor, being destitute of God. 1. In secret, there the "strength" must be found. Notwithstanding all that He has revealed of Himself in the past, there still remain in Him for evermore depths of splendour unrevealed. Dress. "Strengthened with might... in the inner man." 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