Let us look at them a little more accurately.I. The first thing one human being sees of another, when they are approaching each other, is the dress. (2) Faith working by love. Sin reduces the soul to utter destitution, and all have sinned. 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 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 glory of an object is that bright medium in which it stands revealed. AND WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT? A. It is a mountain of gold, and we have no arithmetic to compute its value. We say, "What shall we do?" The riches of the Divine power are seen not only in creation and preservation, but in recreation. First, there is the matter of being strengthened (Ephesians 3:16). 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. So goodness throws off sin, and dresses and adorns the soul in the beauties of God's holiness. They do not pay any attention to the solemn warnings that the Scriptures utter. It is the same in the spiritual life. We speak of body, soul, and spirit belonging to us. Then each yields, is altered, combines, and makes the one grand product that is sought. 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. )Christian strengthG. There are others who are often inspired with a passion for Christian perfection, but in them, too, there appears to be no real vigour. 2. 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. The next thing, or the thing which goes along with this very often, is the consciousness of sin. W. Dale, LL. And now, lastly, let me point you still further TO THE MEASURE OF THIS POWER. THE NATURE OF THE SUPPLY, CULMINATING IN THE INDWELLING OF CHRIST. They cease to have a separate and independent existence. 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. 4. Not only did it hang there, but it upheld four thousand pounds' weight attached to it! Now, God has the power to create. The world is fallen and sinful, consequently full of disease and tribulation of many kinds, so that cannot be. Now we come into the great ethical region of human nature. She loved her with a love that was too strong for Pandy's own good. 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. His captain saw he was wounded and barked out an order, "Gimme your gun, Private, and get to the rear!" Yet "the spirit" has a special place in "the inner man," for it is the crown and glory of our being. But we are regarding manners just now not as an expression of the Christian principle of feeling, but as a substitute for it. So goodness throws off sin, and dresses and adorns the soul in the beauties of God's holiness. RVR60 VUL WLC LXX mGNT TR . 2. Notwithstanding all that He has revealed of Himself in the past, there still remain in Him for evermore depths of splendour unrevealed. 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. 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? But perhaps these things, or something like them, will be found in all.1. Every man in himself is poor. This new life of goodness begins just with the other things we have named. Introduction. This is the sphere, the direction, the destination, of the strength prayed for. 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.III. I. 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. THE SOURCE OF THIS STRENGTH IS THE SPIRIT OF GOD. In secret, there the "strength" must be found. Or are both these meanings embraced by the term? 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. The region where strength is required: "the inner man." bring himself home again to God? It is the want of love, it is the selfishness and hatred, that is the curse and woe of the world. )The inner manA. That won't do. Brooks. The Christian needs to be strengthened with might in the inner man.2. It is an intercessory prayer we should pray for one another in the gloomy hours of our brother's fall. The Inner Man. 1. We say, "What shall we do?" He alone is the true possessor of everything. It wants a strength which will not lie idle, but will be diffused through our whole man, and be available for our whole life. 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. How is it to be attained? It embraces, it unites, it consolidates, it makes real, it makes a man a man, it makes a Christian a Christian. They are never away from the glass. THE RICHES OF HIS WISDOM. Indirectly through the believer obeying the impulses and directions of the Holy Spirit.(A. Indeed, we cannot be "strong in spirit" if we divide the supremacy between higher, and lower interests. 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. Yet "the spirit" has a special place in "the inner man," for it is the crown and glory of our being. All the attributes of God culminate in love. Scripture: Ephesians 1:15–23. 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. Beware of despising the riches of God (Romans 2:5).(F. "You are to be rooted and grounded in love. Be it our first care that we are born of the Spirit, and living in the Spirit.II. All wilful sin injures our spiritual life, enfeebles its conceptions of God, dulls its sense of His presence. Scripture: Ephesians 1:15–21. 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. 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. You and I act upon one another from without, He acts upon us within. Everything will go to give "strength."III. Does it mean by "the inner man" all the parts of our being which are not bodily? 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 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. Faith and love lead on to COMPREHENSION, or taking in; a comprehensive survey of something very vast; and vast in all directions. LET IT BE CERTAIN TO US THAT THIS GIFT OF STRENGTH TO OUR SPIRITS BY THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS OUR PERPETUAL NEED. But God has not only created us; He has also preserved us, even in the midst of our deep depravity and alienation. It is a sea of glory, and we have no line to fathom it. This is not to be confounded with "the new man." 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. How is this to be discovered? It is in the ability to produce that the source of wealth is found. 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. 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. Here meet man's measure and God's. Not at all. 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.III. 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 our prime concern. 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 glory. 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. A. 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. Maclaren, D. D.Let us consider that great thought of the Divine strength-giving power which may be bestowed upon every Christian soul.I. 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! All this may be with a slumbering inner man. It is not enough to have grace enough to carry us to heaven; we must abound in the fruits of righteousness to the praise and glory of God, Let us, then, pray earnestly that we may become "strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might," and that our inward man may be renewed day by day, even though our outward man show signs of weakness and decay. Paul writes (3:18-19), that we may be able to comprehend “what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge….” It is a deliberate paradox. The whole surrounding world is to them a mirror in which they see only themselves.2. 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. 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. I. He might have waited and pleaded with man for ages, explaining to man his sin and ingratitude; and yet man might not have relented. 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. 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. God is not only glorious, He is rich in glory. THE RICHES OF HIS GOODNESS. In the end, all of this amounts to the same thing. Ephesians 3:16. But it is not in the deepest sense life. This might should be sought as from an inexhaustible source. 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. Think of the love of God in creation. Notice, first, THAT IT IS ALL "IN THE INNER MAN." It is this inner self, then, in which the Spirit of God is to dwell, and into which He is to breathe strength. Our inner man, our innermost man, wants a life and a strength which is not human but Divine. 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. There is the measure. He alone can hold forever that which He now possesses. We are too apt to conceive the religious life as consisting in a series of consecutive exercises, the beginning of the one waiting for the completion of the other. AND HOW? It is a blessed thing to know that we are poor (Matthew 5:3). How is this to be discovered? Our usefulness depends on large supplies of spiritual strength. It wants power of spiritual thought, spiritual perception, spiritual emotion, spiritual control, spiritual activity, spiritual endurance, spiritual influence, such as we see pervading and flowing from the whole character and conduct of Christ. 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. 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. 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. Painters seek to represent the glory of a saint by drawing a circle of light around the head. This might should be sought as from an inexhaustible source.(G. "That He would grant you," is the daring petition of the apostle, "according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened." 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. secret communion with God, intercourse with the Invisible. 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. E. Gibbert.We are beings of a complex nature. 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! All wilful sin injures our spiritual life, enfeebles its conceptions of God, dulls its sense of His presence. THE RICHES OF HIS GOODNESS. First repentance, then cleansing and forgiveness, then gratitude, then filial love, then active goodness. The rich gift lies in the possession of the faculty to invent or make. But the riches of God are seen in the preservation of all things in existence as well as in their creation. Notwithstanding all that He has revealed of Himself in the past, there still remain in Him for evermore depths of splendour unrevealed. Oh that we might all know the strength that gives that might. It is a domain of beauty, and we have no adequate language in which to speak of it. It is a field of truth, and the end of all our searching is to discover that it is unsearchable. Might in power, that great power, holiness; that silent witness, that most eloquent of all things, holiness. What must I do? First repentance, then cleansing and forgiveness, then gratitude, then filial love, then active goodness. Nothing of an exterior nature can be more charming than graceful, polished, easy manners. Missions Week. This is seen in the power to create. It gives no definition of what the term includes. Not after them, but with and in them. Known only by those taught by the Spirit. 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. 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. It lies open to His touch; all the paths of its deep things can be trodden by Him. It supposes a communication with us when we are spiritual which is no less than God's own communion with us. "That He would grant you," is the daring petition of the apostle, "according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened." They are never away from the glass. Ephesians 3:16 July 8, 2004. It is a sea of glory, and we have no line to fathom it. We wish one another blessings; He gives the blessings.II. 2. We must not reject a single particle of what is revealed concerning Him, but must feed upon it all as we are able.(C. And affections — the likes and dislikes; those excellent servants, but horridly bad masters. The next thing is, the conscious relation to God. It is to the riches of the love of God, therefore, that we owe our very existence. A. 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. Everything will go to give "strength."III. There is a direct passage between God and my spirit. 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. 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. The glory of the sun is the effulgence of light which it pours forth from its golden urn, revealing itself and all the worlds around. 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. We are tempted to doubt God's power to restore us with the imagination that He has cast us off. 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. God is revealed in redemption, and therefore Jesus Christ is the brightness of His Father's glory, and the express image of His person. It is the want of love, it is the selfishness and hatred, that is the curse and woe of the world. They will not go to the Bible and give heed to what God Himself says. To be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; He created them, too, although He foresaw their fall, rebellion, and ingratitude. 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. 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