What marvellous exhibitions, then, has the future still in store of the riches of the power of God!II. We use the term goodness as a general expression to embrace the mercy, the compassion, the benignity, and the love of God. 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. They do not pay any attention to the solemn warnings that the Scriptures utter. We are also taught that the bodies of men will be raised from the dust of the ground in a new and higher form. How little do we know of the greatness of that gift, and of the depth of that sacrifice! There is no limit except the uncounted wealth of His own self-manifestation, the flashing light of a revealed Divinity. Think reasonably, accurately, scripturally, thoughtfully. It is also the soft and tender lime or mortar, the close-drawing and close-fixing cement, in which, through successive layers, the stones are deposited or imbedded. And, above all, the inner working of the Holy Spirit, which goes on low down in the innermost chambers. 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. He created them, too, although He foresaw their fall, rebellion, and ingratitude. Sep 29, 1985. You must go deeper, much deeper. Then what becomes of all the outer men, such as those we named? "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. Known only by those taught by the Spirit. "You are to be rooted and grounded in love. 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. It is the same in the spiritual life. So goodness throws off sin, and dresses and adorns the soul in the beauties of God's holiness. Notice, first, THAT IT IS ALL "IN THE INNER MAN." There we behold God not only working and waiting, but making a great sacrifice for the salvation of 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. H. They are never away from the glass. Be it our first care that we are born of the Spirit, and living in the Spirit.II. Prophet, Priest, and King, Christ Divine and Christ Human. 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. Morals. 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. Gibbert. You must take care that your conscience is a true conscience, an active conscience, and a conscience rooted. It is a sea of glory, and we have no line to fathom it. His great and inconceivable act of creation, then, was a demonstration of His perfect freedom and His boundless power. Knowledge is power. He created other beings that He might lavish upon them the grandeurs of His mind and the felicities of His heart. Each of these parts we describe in various ways, according to the numerous feelings and motions our inward nature is accustomed to. It must be "the inner man." 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. He delivered up His only begotten Son, the Son of His love, that eternal One in comparison with whom the universe itself is worthless. All the attributes of God culminate in love. 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. He alone has enough and to spare.2. They promote the freedom and efficiency of life. 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. 1. "Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? 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. For, if the center, the thinking, and the heart of a man is set right, then everything else will fall into place. As my text puts it, "Strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man." 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! But God has not only created us; He has also preserved us, even in the midst of our deep depravity and alienation. 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. But perhaps these things, or something like them, will be found in all.1. The strength of the Almighty One enters into the believer. 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. 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? 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. 1. Not so. Not merely an animated something, to be covered with dress and beautified with manners. "Through faith," i.e., the exercise of faith.1. 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. There are no rooms of the house of my spirit into which He is not to go. They cease to have a separate and independent existence. 4. He does not pray that his own circumstances would be changed, nor that the circumstances of the Ephesians would be changed. You and I act upon one another from without, He acts upon us within. KJV NKJV NLT NIV ESV CSB NASB. 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 might which the Christian needs is conveyed through the agency of the Holy Spirit.3. Yet "the spirit" has a special place in "the inner man," for it is the crown and glory of our being. Now, God has the power to create. The riches of His glory. He alone has that mysterious energy which called everything we see out of nothing. 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. Ferguson, D. D.In the very title of such a subject it is already proclaimed to be inexhaustible. He might have waited and pleaded with man for ages, explaining to man his sin and ingratitude; and yet man might not have relented. He alone can create. Morals. This might is obtained in answer to prayer.4. 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. If in any of us the spiritual power has ebbed and fallen, let this prayer be ours. Now, the Christian teaching nowhere leads us to despise manners. He alone can hold forever that which He now possesses. He alone has enough and to spare.2. Rich as is the power of God, man could not be saved by mere power. III. And, above all, the inner working of the Holy Spirit, which goes on low down in the innermost chambers. Nothing of an exterior nature can be more charming than graceful, polished, easy manners. During the Civil War, a Union soldier from Ohio was shot in the arm during the battle of Shiloh. ", 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.". 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. So for this Divine Indweller there is no part of my life that is not patent to His tread. Measure, then, God's love to man by His regard for His own Son! )Christian strengthG. II. 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. We describe our mind as possessing emotional parts, intellectual parts, volitional parts. 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 a blessed thing to know that we are poor (Matthew 5:3). 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. The first thing one human being sees of another, when they are approaching each other, is the dress. Begin at the centre, not at the circumference; not with outsides. Oh! God alone is rich. Missions Week. In addition to the MLJ Trust’s collection of 1,600 of these sermons in audio format, most of these great sermon series are available in book form (including a 14 volume collection of the Romans sermons), as are other series such as "Spiritual Depression", "Studies in the Sermon on the Mount" and "Great Biblical Doctrines". 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. It is in the ability to produce that the source of wealth is found. They judge the Lord by "feeble saints." THE INNER MAN. We wish one another blessings; He gives the blessings.II. It wants a strength which will not lie idle, but will be diffused through our whole man, and be available for our whole life. To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; A general is wise who can conduct a great campaign to a successful issue; but he is rich in wisdom who has always in his mind a plan beyond the last stratagem of the enemy, and can therefore turn the tide of battle when all seems to be lost, and pluck from the heart of widespread disaster a glorious victory. The discovery of our own poverty implies some apprehension of the wealth of God, and hence its blessedness. He might have waited and pleaded with man for ages, explaining to man his sin and ingratitude; and yet man might not have relented. Those of us who are conscious that this is our condition should pray to God that we "may be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inward man."(R. But there are so many outer men put on by some — one, another, and another yet — that the real inner man might seem to be hopelessly buried.I. Wheels of different sizes revolve in different directions. Free Reading Plans and Devotionals related to Ephesians 3:16. It is the want of love, it is the selfishness and hatred, that is the curse and woe of the world. Then, thoughts — those little springs that swell into oceans, those germs of everything. 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. This, too, as in the other cases, is the sad possibility. 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. He alone can create. It was the overflowing of the riches of His power.2. First repentance, then cleansing and forgiveness, then gratitude, then filial love, then active goodness. He alone is the true possessor of everything. How is it to be attained? THE INNER MAN. Not at all. Not only did it hang there, but it upheld four thousand pounds' weight attached to it! 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 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. We wish one another blessings; He gives the blessings.II. Oh that we might all know the strength that gives that might. Happy are they who receive a few crumbs from this rich table, or a few glimpses of this glory! Instead he focuses on spiritual need and specific needs. God, who forgives "according to the riches of His grace," makes known upon the forgiven the "riches of His glory.". It is an intercessory prayer we should pray for one another in the gloomy hours of our brother's fall. Not after them, but with and in them. 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. The glory of an object is that bright medium in which it stands revealed. 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. W. Dale, LL. 2. "I must wait until God sends winds strong enough to sweep them away; rains heavy enough to wash the tree clean in every branch"? THE SOURCE WHENCE THIS STRENGTH IS DERIVED. There is laid down in the being of each man, or deposited there in germ, an ideal, a Divine ideal, which ought to become, under the nourishing powers of redemption and providence, the real. Beware of despising the riches of God (Romans 2:5).(F. LET IT BE CERTAIN TO US THAT THIS GIFT OF STRENGTH TO OUR SPIRITS BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS OUR PERPETUAL NEED. The Holy Ghost must enter, and He will do it. It wants a strength which is not ethereal but real. It gives no definition of what the term includes. If in any of us the spiritual power has ebbed and fallen, let this prayer be ours. )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. It wants a strength which will not lie idle, but will be diffused through our whole man, and be available for our whole life. But God has not only created us; He has also preserved us, even in the midst of our deep depravity and alienation. By the Spirit; by the Holy Spirit. 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! The next thing is, the conscious relation to God. 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. Faith and love lead on to COMPREHENSION, or taking in; a comprehensive survey of something very vast; and vast in all directions. The riches of His glory. It is a blessed thing to know that we are poor (Matthew 5:3). And the point to mark is that the whole inward region which makes up the true man is the field upon which this Divine Spirit is to work. It is the want of love, it is the selfishness and hatred, that is the curse and woe of the world. 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). There is a spiritual Divine touch, which is such as Christ's touch that healed leprosy and raised the dead. 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. 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 must wait until God sends winds strong enough to sweep them away; rains heavy enough to wash the tree clean in every branch"? "According to the riches of his glory." Let us look at them a little more accurately.I. But the riches of God are seen in the preservation of all things in existence as well as in their creation. Then each yields, is altered, combines, and makes the one grand product that is sought. It embraces, it unites, it consolidates, it makes real, it makes a man a man, it makes a Christian a Christian. THE NATURE OF THE SUPPLY, CULMINATING IN THE INDWELLING OF CHRIST. II. Notwithstanding all that He has revealed of Himself in the past, there still remain in Him for evermore depths of splendour unrevealed. He created them, because He saw beyond the dark sin of man, and knew that His love could snatch from sorrow and the grave a new creation still. What must I do? AND WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT? I look first to conscience. Man measures by his own ideas of his own need. The riches of His glory. THE TEXT SPEAKS OF "THE INNER MAN." Notice, first, THAT IT IS ALL "IN THE INNER MAN." bring himself home again to God? There is no limit except the uncounted wealth of His own self-manifestation, the flashing light of a revealed Divinity. It is an intercessory prayer we should pray for one another in the gloomy hours of our brother's fall. 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." Brooks. THE TEXT SPEAKS OF "THE INNER MAN." All wilful sin injures our spiritual life, enfeebles its conceptions of God, dulls its sense of His presence. In every one of these cases, to use language which suggests rather than expresses the truth, the vigour is not derived from the central fountains of life, but from springs that are more or less distant from the centre. 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." But we are regarding manners just now not as an expression of the Christian principle of feeling, but as a substitute for it. The leaven is hid deep in three measures of meal until the whole be leavened. They are controlled, in a measure absorbed, by that central grand something which now becomes the ruling power. You must take care that your conscience is a true conscience, an active conscience, and a conscience rooted. You have been trying often to change the outer man, your conduct, your way of speaking, your appearance in people's eyes! Sign up to receive regular emails from MLJ Trust, Questions? Not only did it hang there, but it upheld four thousand pounds' weight attached to it! The riches of the Divine power are seen not only in creation and preservation, but in recreation. Does it mean by "the inner man" all the parts of our being which are not bodily? 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." To this end he wants stronger convictions and motives, clearer principles of action, and confirmed habits of well-doing. Something more had to be given, something more had to be done, and God gave that — God did that. Some trees in early spring are yet covered with last year's leaves; all withered now and begrimed. (2)It is an opposition principle. Scripture: Ephesians 1:15–21. He alone is absolutely self-sufficient. Paul said that his outward man was perishing, but the inward man was being renewed day by day. Nothing more we need, nothing less can do it. Dec 26, 2004. 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. He created other beings that He might lavish upon them the grandeurs of His mind and the felicities of His heart. "I must wait until God sends winds strong enough to sweep them away; rains heavy enough to wash the tree clean in every branch"? Our inner man, our innermost man, wants a life and a strength which is not human but Divine. 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. If in any of us the spiritual power has ebbed and fallen, let this prayer be ours. It is the want of love, it is the selfishness and hatred, that is the curse and woe of the world. 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. Yet "the spirit" has a special place in "the inner man," for it is the crown and glory of our being. Cross references. Let our attention dwell next on this — the apostle's prayer for his fellow Christians at Ephesus is a prayer for a gift of power from the Spirit of God to the spirit of man. Not at all. So for this Divine Indweller there is no part of my life that is not patent to His tread. Do your work, whatever your work may be, patiently, thoroughly, trustfully, effectually. What marvellous exhibitions, then, has the future still in store of the riches of the power of God! Does it mean by "the inner man" all the parts of our being which are not bodily? )The wealth of God -- rich in gloryF. God is revealed in nature, and therefore the heavens declare the glory of God. Language labours to utter all that is implied here. Do not begin by trying to change the life outside; change the motive spring.(J. 3. Asleep; by fits and starts perhaps awaking, and then falling into slumber again. 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. Life is a mystery in its lowest as well as in its loftiest forms; but I suppose that we all attach a more or less definite conception to words which describe life as vigorous or feeble. It must be a supernatural power. Rather, when a man becomes a Christian, he is being renewed daily in his inner man though his outer man is wasting away (2 Corinthians 4:16). But perhaps these things, or something like them, will be found in all.1. The whole universe and the plan of redemption is summed up in love. Wheels of different sizes revolve in different directions. The machinist would be wise who could invent and construct a machine which, by the simplest movements, could produce mighty results; but he would be rich in wisdom, who, out of that same machine, when marred and broken, could produce still mightier results. We speak of body, soul, and spirit belonging to us. There is the measure. 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. How is this to be discovered? 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. And, above all, the inner working of the Holy Spirit, which goes on low down in the innermost chambers. Something more had to be given, something more had to be done, and God gave that — God did that. The rich gift lies in the possession of the faculty to invent or make. It is rather "the hidden man of the heart" (1 Peter 3:4); the man "created after God" (Ephesians 4:24) in righteousness and holiness; the interior principle of spiritual life; the personification of out' intellectual and spiritual life, with its impulses, its feelings, its struggles. The whole surrounding world is to them a mirror in which they see only themselves.2. Think of God's love in providence. Beware of despising the riches of God (Romans 2:5).(F. 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. When he was hungry he would create bread. He alone is the true possessor of everything. His Body: The Fullness of Him Who Fills All in All. First, then, I remark that God means, and wishes, THAT ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE STRONG BY THE POSSESSION OF THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT. How rich the expression! Ephesians 3:16In no part of Paul’s letters does he rise to a higher level than in his prayers, and none of his prayers are fuller of fervour than this wonderful series of petitions. As my text puts it, "Strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man." Think of the love of God in creation. It must be a supernatural power. 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. 2. His perfection, His excellence. Gibbert. God would have been rich in love had He done nothing more than created man, and after that, when man had sinned, displayed the glory of His justice in crushing him forever. (3)It has a great work to accomplish.II. The manners are beneath the dress, come through the dress, make the dress more or less expressive, impressive, and beautiful. 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. Rich as is the patience of God, man could not be saved by the mere lapse of time. A Prayer For Apprehension. I pray that out of the riches of His glory He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being. Everything will go to give "strength.". In every one of these cases, to use language which suggests rather than expresses the truth, the vigour is not derived from the central fountains of life, but from springs that are more or less distant from the centre. It is an intercessory prayer we should pray for one another in the gloomy hours of our brother's fall. You must take care that your conscience is a true conscience, an active conscience, and a conscience rooted. 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. Speak of body, soul, and we have no ear for His own self-manifestation, flashing... 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