The glory of an object is that bright medium in which it stands revealed. 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." First repentance, then cleansing and forgiveness, then gratitude, then filial love, then active goodness. He was rich in love; and His goodness overflowed. THE RICHES OF HIS WISDOM. How is it to be attained? We testify this fact in our common talk. We use the term goodness as a general expression to embrace the mercy, the compassion, the benignity, and the love of God. That won't do. But preeminently in the work of redemption do we see the riches of His goodness. I look first to conscience. some sin you endeavour to overcome, some outward inconsistency, some habit that you contracted. How rich the expression! God is revealed in nature, and therefore the heavens declare the glory of God. They promote the freedom and efficiency of life. The seat of the strength imparted is the inner man; it is the strength, not of outward propping, but of inward peace and power. 4. 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. Begin at the centre, not at the circumference; not with outsides. THE SOURCE WHENCE THIS STRENGTH IS DERIVED. Paul said that his outward man was perishing, but the inward man was being renewed day by day. He delivered up His only begotten Son, the Son of His love, that eternal One in comparison with whom the universe itself is worthless. There is the measure. 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. (1)It is new born, and requires to grow. 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. E. 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. The text is a prayer. 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. We speak of body, soul, and spirit belonging to us. Not after them, but with and in them. We wish one another blessings; He gives the blessings.II. 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. 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. 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. II. 2. 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. He alone can create. Stop the flow of the current for one instant, and the huge horseshoe dropped. Asleep; by fits and starts perhaps awaking, and then falling into slumber again. 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." I. Our inner man, our innermost man, wants a life and a strength which is not human but Divine. He created them, too, although He foresaw their fall, rebellion, and ingratitude. I comprehend its breadth and length and depth and height. The might which the Christian needs is conveyed through the agency of the Holy Spirit.3. Gibbert. We describe our body by its various limbs and organs. 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. 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. It lies open to His touch; all the paths of its deep things can be trodden by Him. Rich as is the patience of God, man could not be saved by the mere lapse of time. He alone is the true possessor of everything. Rich as is the patience of God, man could not be saved by the mere lapse of time. Measure, then, God's love to man by His regard for His own Son! There are no rooms of the house of my spirit into which He is not to go. The Holy Ghost must enter, and He will do it. 2. AND WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT? It is not for their conversion, but that they might have life still more abundantly. How does a man reach the centre and fountain of his own being? And what is "the inner man"? It gives no definition of what the term includes. 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. Nothing more we need, nothing less can do 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. 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! Brooks. The whole universe and the plan of redemption is summed up in love. We are also taught that the bodies of men will be raised from the dust of the ground in a new and higher form. The Hope. 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. 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. 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. 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. Not merely an animated something, to be covered with dress and beautified with manners. There is a direct passage between God and my spirit. The whole surrounding world is to them a mirror in which they see only themselves.2. 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. 2. that you and I would never cut and divide Christ so as to choose one part of Him and leave another. 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. Notice, first, THAT IT IS ALL "IN THE INNER MAN." Might in power, that great power, holiness; that silent witness, that most eloquent of all things, holiness. 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. 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. The riches of His glory. Does it mean by "the inner man" all the parts of our being which are not bodily? But what we have to notice more particularly here is, not merely the wisdom of God, but the riches of His wisdom; and these are seen, not only in the original adaptation of means to ends, but in the way by which God can bring good out of evil. As my text puts it, "Strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man." 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). It lies open to His touch; all the paths of its deep things can be trodden by Him. )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. Next, motives. It is not a bit of your inward life that is to be hallowed. It must be a supernatural power. Begin at the centre, not at the circumference; not with outsides. God alone is rich. If a man could create in the highest sense of the word, how rich he would soon become! THE TEXT SPEAKS OF "THE INNER MAN." 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. bring himself home again to God? 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. I find myself mow, first strengthened as a believer, so as to be fit for standing alone; but at the same time, secondly, having all over me, and all through me, love; love being my soil and cement. 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. We wish one another blessings; He gives the blessings.II. III. Do not begin by trying to change the life outside; change the motive spring.(J. First, then, I remark that God means, and wishes, THAT ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE STRONG BY THE POSSESSION OF THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT. 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. II. 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. The might which the Christian needs is conveyed through the agency of the Holy Spirit.3. Nothing more we need, nothing less can do it. THE LIFE OF OUR SPIRIT, HOWEVER, BEING BEGUN, MAY BE IN THE FEEBLENESS OF INFANCY. 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. Indeed, we cannot be "strong in spirit" if we divide the supremacy between higher, and lower interests. )The wealth of God -- rich in gloryF. And affections — the likes and dislikes; those excellent servants, but horridly bad masters. He alone has that mysterious energy which called everything we see out of nothing. So a regenerate inner man will not throw aside these outer men altogether, but transform them, mould them to its own uses, make them speak its meanings and flash out all its lights.(A. If his connection with Christ is cut off, in an instant he becomes as weak as any other man.(T. In Ephesians 3:1, Paul calls himself a prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles. They do not pay any attention to the solemn warnings that the Scriptures utter. 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. W. Dale, LL. THE LIFE OF OUR SPIRIT, HOWEVER, BEING BEGUN, MAY BE IN THE FEEBLENESS OF INFANCY. III. 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. But a something spiritual, vast, deep, related to eternity, related to God.2. Then, thoughts — those little springs that swell into oceans, those germs of everything. A. How does a man reach the centre and fountain of his own being? 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 is our prime concern. You are to be rooted as the trees that constitute a grove, and grounded as the stones and pillars of a building. When he was hungry he would create bread. It was the overflowing of the riches of His power.2. Ephesians 3:16 The measure of God's power J. H. Rogers, M. A. Wisdom is commonly said to lie in the use of the best means in order to the best ends; and many things might be said as to the adaptation of means to ends in nature. 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. Indirectly through the believer obeying the impulses and directions of the Holy Spirit.(A. It is the same in the spiritual life. Then, thoughts — those little springs that swell into oceans, those germs of everything. 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." Or are both these meanings embraced by the term? 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. 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. 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! He created other beings that He might lavish upon them the grandeurs of His mind and the felicities of His heart. 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 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. God is not only glorious, He is rich in glory. Vaughan, M. ” 2.) What must I do? John Piper Sep 26, 2015 1.3K Shares Sermon. The Holy Ghost must enter, and He will do it. Through dress, through manners, through morals, through religious ceremony, we have to go to find the inner man, the very soul. 1-3 – The Spirit-Filled Family: Children. This, then, is the first care for us — not only that our body be living in health, however congenial and helpful this may be; not only that our mind be alive to all our earthly concerns, and strong to attend to them, however lofty and important they may be: but that our spirit be alive, active, and enthroned in the world within us, having some conception of, and some participation in, the share which God would give us with Himself, in His own thoughts and purposes, His own joys and griefs, His own ways and works. The next thing, or the thing which goes along with this very often, is the consciousness of sin. But preeminently in the work of redemption do we see the riches of His goodness. )Strength by feeding upon ChristC. 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. Ephesians 3:14-21 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. Rich as is the power of God, man could not be saved by mere power. 2. God alone is rich. 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. Now notice, next, THAT THIS DIVINE STRENGTH HAS ITS SEAT IN, AND IS INTENDED TO INFLUENCE THE WHOLE OF THE INNER LIFE. 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. This might is obtained in answer to prayer.4. 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. 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. Think reasonably, accurately, scripturally, thoughtfully. H. Spurgeon.Now this lamb they were to eat, and the whole of it. Our inner man, our innermost man, wants a life and a strength which is not human but Divine. Ephesians 6:4 – The Spirit-Filled Family: Parents. Notice, first, THAT IT IS ALL "IN THE INNER MAN." The whole universe and the plan of redemption is summed up in love. But it is not in the deepest sense life. We describe our mind as possessing emotional parts, intellectual parts, volitional parts. Yet "the spirit" has a special place in "the inner man," for it is the crown and glory of our being. 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? In a machine, a great variety of movements and powers contribute to one result. This, too, as in the other cases, is the sad possibility.II. A man is known — a woman is known — by the dress. He who was rich became poor for us (2 Corinthians 8:9).4. Probably, I should say, both. Probably, I should say, both. 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. Or as some plant, drooping and flagging beneath the hot rays of the sun, when it has the scent of water given to it, will, in all its parts, stiffen and erect itself, so this Divine Spirit will go searching every corner of the inner man illuminating and invigorating all. 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. When he wanted money he could turn everything he touched into gold. THE TEXT SPEAKS OF "THE INNER MAN." Yet "the spirit" has a special place in "the inner man," for it is the crown and glory of our being. This new life of goodness begins just with the other things we have named. Then each yields, is altered, combines, and makes the one grand product that is sought. The man himself is wanting in force, though there are spiritual forces at work in him. D.)Strength of characterJ. Does it mean by "the inner man" all the parts of our being which are not bodily? Ferguson, D. D.)Strengthened with mightA. THE NATURE OF THE SUPPLY, CULMINATING IN THE INDWELLING OF CHRIST. If the apostle wrote for any hearts thus fallen he might well write that he prayed for them. Think of God's love in providence. 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. Don't Settle For Safe. He is considered by many evangelical leaders today to be an authority on biblical truth and the sufficiency of Scripture. 1. If the apostle wrote for any hearts thus fallen he might well write that he prayed for them. But perhaps these things, or something like them, will be found in all.1. The might which the Christian needs is conveyed through the agency of the Holy Spirit. Rich as is the power of God, man could not be saved by mere power. We are tempted to doubt God's power to restore us with the imagination that He has cast us off. Other sermons are not yet available online. He created other beings that He might lavish upon them the grandeurs of His mind and the felicities of His heart. AND HOW? There are no rooms of the house of my spirit into which He is not to go. 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. A Sermon on Ephesians 3:16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, (ESV) Why is it so important that Christians grow spiritually? 3. Prophet, Priest, and King, Christ Divine and Christ Human. Dr. Lloyd-Jones then expresses the importance of the inner man, the heart, the center of the believer. It is limitless with the boundlessness of God Himself. 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. We are taught in Scripture that a wondrous transformation must pass over the present world — that forms of being now around us will be dissolved in a deluge of fire, and that from this second deluge will emerge a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. 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. You and I act upon one another from without, He acts upon us within. These must be pure. Wheels of different sizes revolve in different directions. Ferguson, D. D.In the very title of such a subject it is already proclaimed to be inexhaustible. He needed not to create anything in order to consummate His own happiness; but, if we may so speak, the joy and love of God's being were so great that He could not keep them to Himself. Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981) was a Welsh evangelical minister who preached and taught in the Reformed tradition. recover himself? They are never away from the glass. 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. Sep 29, 1985. The discovery of our own poverty implies some apprehension of the wealth of God, and hence its blessedness. Nothing of an exterior nature can be more charming than graceful, polished, easy manners. So for this Divine Indweller there is no part of my life that is not patent to His tread. Language labours to utter all that is implied here. There are great varieties of experience. The riches of the Divine power are seen not only in creation and preservation, but in recreation. 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. Instead Paul shows us how to pray so that we will enjoy the love of our creator, our saviour and our Lord. That is what gets him sidetracked. NET RSV ASV YLT DBY WEB HNV. 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. Rich as is the power of God, man could not be saved by mere power. Faith and love lead on to COMPREHENSION, or taking in; a comprehensive survey of something very vast; and vast in all directions. 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. It must be a supernatural power. 2. But a something spiritual, vast, deep, related to eternity, related to God.2. IV. And now, lastly, let me point you still further TO THE MEASURE OF THIS POWER. Every man in himself is poor. You must take care that your conscience is a true conscience, an active conscience, and a conscience rooted. E. Exterior show is with them life, and they are always dressing. We are still going inwards in search of that great something of which our text is the name. "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 riches of the Divine power are seen not only in creation and preservation, but in recreation. 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. How Can We Be Clothed with Power? 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. 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