sermon on ephesians 3:16

Next, motives. So for this Divine Indweller there is no part of my life that is not patent to His tread. Think of God's love in providence. Think of the love of God in creation. There is a direct passage between God and my spirit. "You are to be rooted and grounded in love. D.)Strength of characterJ. There is an inexhaustible source of mercy upon which we may draw at pleasure in the supreme exigencies of our life. They are never away from the glass. This is, for us, "the glory that excelleth." There is a direct passage between God and my spirit. Measured by Himself. The Unfathomable Riches of Christ for All Peoples, Above All Powers, Through the Church Missions Week. It is to the riches of the love of God, therefore, that we owe our very existence. They are never away from the glass. I. When he wanted money he could turn everything he touched into gold. 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. Ephesians 3:16-21 New Living Translation (NLT) 16 I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources he will empower you with inner strength through his Spirit. 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. 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. How does God change our thinking? There is a spiritual Divine touch, which is such as Christ's touch that healed leprosy and raised the dead. If we have strength, we shall be able to run in the way of God's commandments (Isaiah 40:31). Sermons on Ephesians 1. Beware of despising the riches of God (Romans 2:5).(F. 13. 3:16– 21 BONUS SERMONS #5 - A SERMON ON EPHESIANS. 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. If the apostle wrote for any hearts thus fallen he might well write that he prayed for them. 4. The Christian needs to be strengthened with might in the inner man.2. 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. Length — reaching to the end. 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. That is not the kind of experience for anyone to enjoy. The sublime act of creation did not exhaust or weary God. We say, "What shall we do?" He created other beings that He might lavish upon them the grandeurs of His mind and the felicities of His heart. Ephesians 3:17. It is as when a number of substances lie together in a chemist's vessel, each separate from the others, each refusing to enter into combination with the rest, until some final element — with affinities for them all, with a power to blend them all into something else — is added. 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. For his own wants he would have an immediate supply. These images or figures suggest the ideas of a grove and a building. He is considered by many evangelical leaders today to be an authority on biblical truth and the sufficiency of Scripture. ", 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.". God comes to fill up the sorrowful void with His own rich heart. RVR60 VUL WLC LXX mGNT TR . Ferguson, D. D.In the very title of such a subject it is already proclaimed to be inexhaustible. Not merely an animated something, to be covered with dress and beautified with manners. Mind. Exterior show is with them life, and they are always dressing. III. THE RICHES OF HIS WISDOM. Each of these parts we describe in various ways, according to the numerous feelings and motions our inward nature is accustomed to. Knowledge is power. "Through faith," i.e., the exercise of faith.1. 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 gives no definition of what the term includes. IV. There is no limit except the uncounted wealth of His own self-manifestation, the flashing light of a revealed Divinity. Notwithstanding all that He has revealed of Himself in the past, there still remain in Him for evermore depths of splendour unrevealed. Do your work, whatever your work may be, patiently, thoroughly, trustfully, effectually. So goodness throws off sin, and dresses and adorns the soul in the beauties of God's holiness. THE LAW OF ITS BESTOWMENT. Now, the Christian teaching nowhere leads us to despise manners. Do not begin by trying to change the life outside; change the motive spring.(J. They attempt to feed their starving souls on the imperfections of Christians — poor feed enough they find it! God is revealed in providence, and therefore He is said to lead His people with His glorious arm. 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? Be it our first care that we are born of the Spirit, and living in the Spirit.II. In light of that way of thinking, it is possible to develop a sermon that explores three areas of life together in the congregation. To properly understand Ephesians 3:7-13, I highly recommend you go back and read the sermon manuscript on Ephesians 3:1-6, especially my opening comments about how my thinking has changed over the years about this important passage. 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. There are others who seem spiritually weak, though their vision of spiritual truth is very keen and penetrating. But the riches of God are seen in the preservation of all things in existence as well as in their creation. find himself? Let not a bone of Him be broken, but let us take in a whole Christ, up to the full measure of our capacity. It is a blessed thing to know that we are poor (Matthew 5:3). We are still going inwards in search of that great something of which our text is the name. Directly towards God.2. 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! When he was hungry he would create bread. It is a prayer to "the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named," who is the only Father who has riches enough in His glory to be able to strengthen us with might in our inner man when we have sapped its power by infidelity to His gift of the Spirit. This, too, as in the other cases, is the sad possibility. The riches of His glory. RVR60 VUL WLC LXX mGNT TR . He might have waited and pleaded with man for ages, explaining to man his sin and ingratitude; and yet man might not have relented. The riches of His glory. 2. How comforting, how apposite, how true, how deep, how full the words to those who feel their weakness — "strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man." "That He would grant you," is the daring petition of the apostle, "according to the riches of His glory to be strengthened." In a machine, a great variety of movements and powers contribute to one result. Dr. Lloyd-Jones then expresses the importance of the inner man, the heart, the center of the believer. THE RICHES OF HIS WISDOM. Sermons From Ephesians 5. a. Husbands and wives (5:18-33) b. All the attributes of God culminate in love. THE TEXT SPEAKS OF "THE INNER MAN." It is not a bit of your inward life that is to be hallowed. 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. 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. Something more had to be given, something more had to be done, and God gave that — God did that. The manners are beneath the dress, come through the dress, make the dress more or less expressive, impressive, and beautiful. All this may be with a slumbering inner man. W. Dale, LL. But preeminently in the work of redemption do we see the riches of His goodness. The riches of the Divine power are seen not only in creation and preservation, but in recreation. 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! There are no rooms of the house of my spirit into which He is not to go. Beware of despising the riches of God (Romans 2:5).(F. EPHESIANS 4:1-16, PART 3 – GROW. There is the measure. John Piper Sep 29, 1985 10 Shares Sermon. It is to the riches of the love of God, therefore, that we owe our very existence. It must be "the inner man." This ought to be our prime passion. 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 inner man is the real you. Prayer for Power (Ephesians 3:16-17) During the presidency of Lyndon Johnson, the … some sin you endeavour to overcome, some outward inconsistency, some habit that you contracted. / Sermons on Ephesians / Praying for the Impossible (Ephesians 3:18-21) Praying for the Impossible (Ephesians 3:18-21) By Jeremy Myers. Begin at the centre, not at the circumference; not with outsides. Quite the contrary. 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. Vaughan, M. 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. L. Cuyler, D. D.)Vigorous spiritual lifeR. It wants a strength which will not lie idle, but will be diffused through our whole man, and be available for our whole life. It is to the riches of the love of God, therefore, that we owe our very existence. God comes to fill up the sorrowful void with His own rich heart. The next thing is, the conscious relation to God. 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. Spiritual strength is what takes place inside our hearts. It must be "the inner man." 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. H. Spurgeon.Now this lamb they were to eat, and the whole of it. E. Height — raising up to heavenly places. But a something spiritual, vast, deep, related to eternity, related to God. III. First, then, I remark that God means, and wishes, THAT ALL CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE STRONG BY THE POSSESSION OF THE SPIRIT OF MIGHT. 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. Just as life is to some all dress, so it is to some all manners.3. 1. The first thing one human being sees of another, when they are approaching each other, is the dress. Or are both these meanings embraced by the term? All this may be with a slumbering inner man. )Strength by feeding upon ChristC. The inner man is your soul, your thought, your actions. The Offering Of The Natural . They attempt to feed their starving souls on the imperfections of Christians — poor feed enough they find it! Manners. IV. 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. Scripture: Ephesians 3:14–21. The rich gift lies in the possession of the faculty to invent or make. You must go deeper, much deeper. Please use these sermons as the Lord leads, but nothing on this site may be used for profit without my expressed, written permission! In company with them, and in full sympathy with them, I look behind, before, below, above; and see nought but one well-nigh boundless room and home for all the elect, all the saved. III. This might should be sought as from an inexhaustible source.(G. Missions Week. some sin you endeavour to overcome, some outward inconsistency, some habit that you contracted. But we are regarding manners just now not as an expression of the Christian principle of feeling, but as a substitute for it. or sermon number (e.g., #1123), The Congregational Prayers of Dr. Lloyd-Jones. "Through faith," i.e., the exercise of faith. The rich gift lies in the possession of the faculty to invent or make. Today we’re going to … Mind. It is not a bit of your inward life that is to be hallowed. Something more had to be given, something more had to be done, and God gave that — God did that. But with God he has all, and abounds; for the earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof.5. 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 first and last a God of love. Ephesians 3:16. AND WHAT WILL BE THE RESULT? 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. Sign up to receive regular emails from MLJ Trust, Questions? God is revealed in providence, and therefore He is said to lead His people with His glorious arm. It is a blessed thing to know that we are poor (Matthew 5:3). We are to experience the breadth, length, height and depth of the love of God. He alone is absolutely self-sufficient. 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 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. And He will come into that feeble, vacillating, wayward will of yours, that is only obstinate in its adherence to the low and the evil, as some foul creature, that one may try to wrench away, digs its claws into corruption and holds on by that, He will lift your will and make it fix upon the good and abominate the evil, and through the whole being He will pour a great tide of strength which shall cover all the weakness. 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. A love which is long enough to last forever (1 Corinthians 13:8). 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. Mind. The riches of the Divine power are seen not only in creation and preservation, but in recreation. 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. It is not the unity of the body, the Church. 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. That won't do. )The wealth of God -- rich in gloryF. 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? The sublime act of creation did not exhaust or weary God. The strength of the Almighty One enters into the believer. 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. He alone has enough and to spare.2. It is in the ability to produce that the source of wealth is found. Oh that we might all know the strength that gives that might. 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. This might should be sought as from an inexhaustible source. That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. It may be enfeebled when it ought to be maturing through disorders preying upon it from our inferior desires. Beware of despising the riches of God (Romans 2:5).(F. 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. "Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it, saith the Lord;" "Ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full." For his own wants he would have an immediate supply. Search a pre-defined list ... 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