The moment a man comes to himself, all these things begin together, and go on together. That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory Or according to, and out of that rich, plenteous, and glorious fulness of grace and strength in Christ Jesus. It supposes a communication with us when we are spiritual which is no less than God's own communion with us. We have, then, an ear for the word which says, "I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich." 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. 1. Scripture: Ephesians 3:14–21. Each of these parts we describe in various ways, according to the numerous feelings and motions our inward nature is accustomed to. Asleep; by fits and starts perhaps awaking, and then falling into slumber again. It is the want of love, it is the selfishness and hatred, that is the curse and woe of the world. This, too, as in the other cases, is the sad possibility.II. Sign up to receive regular emails from MLJ Trust, Questions? Let Him come with the master key in His hand into all the dim chambers of your feeble nature; and as life is light in the eye, and colour in the cheek, and deftness in the fingers, and strength in the arm, and pulsation in the heart, so He will come and strengthen your understandings, and make you able for loftier tasks of intellect and of reason, than you can face in your unaided strength; and He will dwell in your affections and make them vigorous to lay hold upon the holier things that are above their natural inclination, and will make it certain that "their reach shall not be beyond their grasp," as alas! bring himself home again to 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 … My reading of the New Testament is that as distinctly above the order of material nature as is any miracle is the gift that flows into a believing heart. Some trees in early spring are yet covered with last year's leaves; all withered now and begrimed. You and I act upon one another from without, He acts upon us within. 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. There is the measure. bring himself home again to God? It is a field of truth, and the end of all our searching is to discover that it is unsearchable. Raleigh, D. D.)LinksEphesians 3:16 NIVEphesians 3:16 NLTEphesians 3:16 ESVEphesians 3:16 NASBEphesians 3:16 KJVEphesians 3:16 Bible AppsEphesians 3:16 ParallelEphesians 3:16 Biblia ParalelaEphesians 3:16 Chinese BibleEphesians 3:16 French BibleEphesians 3:16 German BibleEphesians 3:16 CommentariesBible Hub, (2)It is an opposition principle. God is revealed in nature, and therefore the heavens declare the glory of God. Something more had to be given, something more had to be done, and God gave that — God did that. Here meet man's measure and God's. 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. Now we come into the great ethical region of human nature. Mind. 3. recover himself? Yet "the spirit" has a special place in "the inner man," for it is the crown and glory of our being. Rich as is the power of God, man could not be saved by mere power. First — what may be called a soul consciousness — a consciousness of having, or being, a soul. Everything will go to give "strength."III. 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. If in any of us the spiritual power has ebbed and fallen, let this prayer be ours. We may even come to look down tremblingly into the horrible abyss of despair. It is limitless with the boundlessness of God Himself. Directly towards God.2. 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. This new life of goodness begins just with the other things we have named. The whole universe and the plan of redemption is summed up in love. Introduction. There are great varieties of experience. V. THE MEASURE OF THIS STRENGTH. AND HOW? The might which the Christian needs is conveyed through the agency of the Holy Spirit.3. This might should be sought as from an inexhaustible source. Now we come into the great ethical region of human nature. Ephesians 3:16. These must be pure. Notice, first, THAT IT IS ALL "IN THE INNER MAN." They do not pay any attention to the solemn warnings that the Scriptures utter. 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. E. 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 rich gift lies in the possession of the faculty to invent or make. 16that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, Related Sermons. You and I act upon one another from without, He acts upon us within. II. 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? God, who forgives "according to the riches of His grace," makes known upon the forgiven the "riches of His glory.". The confusion of soul into which we may fall by having received the vivifying and enlightening of the Holy Ghost, and having afterwards overruled the spiritual life within us by the lower life it was beginning to reduce and subject, is indescribable. 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. The riches of the Divine power are seen not only in creation and preservation, but in recreation. 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. E. Gibbert.We are beings of a complex nature. The first thing one human being sees of another, when they are approaching each other, is the dress. Prophet, Priest, and King, Christ Divine and Christ Human. A. This is not to be confounded with "the new man." Not after them, but with and in them. Notice, first, THAT IT IS ALL "IN THE INNER MAN." W. Dale, LL. There are others who are often inspired with a passion for Christian perfection, but in them, too, there appears to be no real vigour. Let us look at them a little more accurately.I. II. 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. You must go deeper, much deeper. The sublime act of creation did not exhaust or weary God. 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. It is the want of love, it is the selfishness and hatred, that is the curse and woe of the world. 16 I pray that out of his glorious riches. 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. KJV NKJV NLT NIV ESV CSB NASB. 2. All the attributes of God culminate in love. Let Him come with the master key in His hand into all the dim chambers of your feeble nature; and as life is light in the eye, and colour in the cheek, and deftness in the fingers, and strength in the arm, and pulsation in the heart, so He will come and strengthen your understandings, and make you able for loftier tasks of intellect and of reason, than you can face in your unaided strength; and He will dwell in your affections and make them vigorous to lay hold upon the holier things that are above their natural inclination, and will make it certain that "their reach shall not be beyond their grasp," as alas! 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. 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. So for this Divine Indweller there is no part of my life that is not patent to His tread. How is it to be attained? A Prayer For Apprehension. God comes to fill up the sorrowful void with His own rich heart. W. Dale, LL. 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. 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. For his own wants he would have an immediate supply. Something more had to be given, something more had to be done, and God gave that — God did that. 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. Dress. 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. What marvellous exhibitions, then, has the future still in store of the riches of the power of God!II. 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. 2. Every man in himself is poor. II. The whole universe and the plan of redemption is summed up in love. You have been trying often to change the outer man, your conduct, your way of speaking, your appearance in people's eyes! This is, for us, "the glory that excelleth." 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. It is thenceforth good for nothing.". Here is the Fountain of spiritual energy. That is what gets him sidetracked. Rich as is the patience of God, man could not be saved by the mere lapse of time. Having our spirit "born from above," endowed by the Spirit of God with its proper life and power, and applying ourselves to its exalted exercises, we live in connection with two worlds — the world of sense, and the world of spirit. John Piper Sep 20, 1992 62 Shares Sermon. "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. Knowledge is power. I. Dr. Lloyd-Jones then expresses the importance of the inner man, the heart, the center of the believer. 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. "Through faith," i.e., the exercise of faith. 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. When the inner man is found, sin is found in it, or cleaving to it very closely.4. ", V. There remains one other great and final consummation which the apostle's prayer would fain have you to reach: "that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.". We use the term goodness as a general expression to embrace the mercy, the compassion, the benignity, and the love of God. Instead Paul shows us how to pray so that we will enjoy the love of our creator, our saviour and our Lord. Or are both these meanings embraced by the term? Clear Advanced Options. THE RICHES OF HIS POWER.1. 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. Painters seek to represent the glory of a saint by drawing a circle of light around the head. 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. The prayer of the text must be our prayer, because it asks for the power which is our perpetual need, which is the perpetual need of our children and brethren.IV. What says the new vegetation to these? Be it our first care that we are born of the Spirit, and living in the Spirit.II. We have, then, an ear for the word which says, "I counsel thee to buy of Me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich." Everything will go to give "strength.". The Christian needs to be strengthened with might in the inner man.2. It must be a supernatural power. Begin at the centre, not at the circumference; not with outsides. Today we’re going to … 1. Height — raising up to heavenly places. This, too, as in the other cases, is the sad possibility.II. But the sad thing is that in some instances that is all that you will see, even when you meet, nothing but the dress. It must be "the inner man." )Strength through the SpiritT. Some trees in early spring are yet covered with last year's leaves; all withered now and begrimed. Raleigh, D. D.)LinksEphesians 3:16 NIVEphesians 3:16 NLTEphesians 3:16 ESVEphesians 3:16 NASBEphesians 3:16 KJVEphesians 3:16 Bible AppsEphesians 3:16 ParallelEphesians 3:16 Biblia ParalelaEphesians 3:16 Chinese BibleEphesians 3:16 French BibleEphesians 3:16 German BibleEphesians 3:16 CommentariesBible Hub, (3)It has a great work to accomplish.II. Nothing more we need, nothing less can do it. Now, God has the power to create. Scripture: Ephesians 1:15–21. Manners. 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. Think of the love of God in creation. 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