STRENGTHENED
2010 March 29
STRENGTHENED
That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; Eph 3:16
To have our inner man strengthened by the Holy Spirit is to have our Feelings, thoughts, and purposes placed under His influence and direction. We must do this so that the Holy Spirit can manifest His power through us in greater measure. The purpose of this strengthening is fourfold:
(1) CHRIST ESTABLISHED
One purpose is so that Christ may establish His presence in our lives and in our hearts, and the inner man. But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. Romans 8:9-10
(2) GROUNDED IN LOVE
Another purpose is so that we may be grounded in sincere love for God, Jesus Christ, and others. That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, Eph 3:17
(3) CHRIST’S LOVE
Still yet another purpose is that we may comprehend with our minds, and experience in our lives the love of Christ for us. May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Eph 3:18-19
(4) FILLED WITH FULLNESS
The fourth purpose is so that we may be filled with the fullness of God i.e. That God’s presence may so fill us that we reflect and manifest from our inner most being the character and stature which belong to the Lord Jesus Christ. Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: Eph 4:13
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