The Strength We Need - Part 2

Welcome to this edition of PowerPoint with Jack Graham a little later in the program will tell you how you can get a copy of Dr. Graham's meditations on Romans first hears his message. The strength we need your Bibles and turn with me to chapter 3, I want to speak to you on the strength we need.

Verse 14 for this reason I bow my knees before the father from whom every family in heaven and on earth is made that according to the riches of his glory. He may grant to you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breath and length and height and and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled. Watch this with all the fullness of God and then a doxology of praise now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever and we all said amen we do if I could put this sermon in one sentence it would be this all of God in all of us, all of God in all of you.

All of God in all of me. The secret of our strength is the power of Jesus Christ by his spirit working in you. As I noted, this is Paul prayed. He's in prison. He is a wounded warrior broken facing the end of his life and yet his spirit is free. He is alive in Christ, he is strengthened in the midst of these terrible circumstances, and he begins to pray, he hits at me and he begins to pray. He says I bow my knee. Interestingly enough, bowing the knee bowing and prayer is not mentioned that often in Scripture. The Scripture speaks of standing in prayer, walking in prayer and lifting up holy hands in prayer, but rarely kneeling in prayer and yet it is this posture that speaks of our humility and surrender before God in prayer. It is our disposition before God and is good to pray always, you can price thinking you can pray silently pray walking you can you can pray city you can play lying on your bed. You can pray playing on your face and you can kneel before God. There's no 1 Certain Way to pray. So if not the posture of our praying, but the power we are strengthened in this prayer because of our wealth in Christ. Remember Ephesians 1 through three is all about our wealth and our words in Christ, your identity in Christ who you are and what you have because you are a believer in Christ and chapters 1, two and three from eternity past to return the future. All of these blessings of God that are ours and he speaks here are being strengthened in the inner man with the riches, the riches of his glory, you are wealthy beyond your imagination. Did you know that your net worth is much more than you thought. We are in rich in Jesus Christ.

Think about the billions and billions of blessings that are ours and the billions and billions of years that we will have to celebrate him throughout all eternity is hard to imagine just how great are our resources and our riches in Christ. If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus than the spirit of God lives in you. You are made alive in Christ you have the Holy Spirit, and there such tremendous strength in the Holy Spirit house so well. It is the work of the Holy Spirit that saves us is the work of the Holy Spirit, not only to save us. But give us power to witness the power the Holy Spirit gives us joyful hope the Holy Spirit gives us the power to overcome our fears and anxieties. The Holy Spirit gives us power, and provision for everything we need to live the Christian life is all present because the Holy Spirit lives in each one of us. This is the work of the Holy Spirit. This is the power of God, and this power is abundant is the power of God. The very power of God through Christ by his spirit.

The Trinity is at work here. You say Trinity. Yes, God the father, God the son God the Holy Spirit all the power of God. This is our wealth. This is our work and is an inner flow comes from deep within.

If you understand this, it is your position that will change your condition in life don't live beneath your blessings don't live beneath the privileges and the possessions that you have in Christ. Begin declaring who you are and what you have in him, you have a strength to overcome to defeat the enemy to defeat or destroy that addiction in your life to overcome temptation to live in victory to rise out of the ashes of defeat in your life. You are not just a lowly worm you are saved by the grace of God, the power of Jesus is in you, you are strengthened in him every single day and then we are strengthened in the inner be us what he says here in verse 16. This is a great 360 there many 360s in the Bible that you should know you know John 316 but Ephesians 316 says that according to the riches of his glory that he might grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being about your inner being, of course, is the soul. The spirit your body your soul. You are spirit speaking of the innermost being the part of you that is made for God. The core the center of your life. Everything else is circumference when Christ is at the center at the core of your life controlling your attitude your dispositions your directions your decisions in life. More and more, you will become like him and glorify him.

And that's the goal is to be more and more like Christ. You are not just a bunch of chemicals you at the core are made for God to know God and if you are a Christian, he is in you and that means though the outer man. Paul says in second Corinthians, 460, though the outer man is wasting away decay the other person can be strengthened.

Every single day. We are strengthened from deep within. This is the secret of ours. This is how you can go Christ is Christ in you the hope of glory here listening to PowerPoint tank ran in today's message.

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That's PowerPoint to 313131. And don't forget to visit Jack Graham.org where you can shop our E store. Give a gift online or sign up for Dr. Graham's free daily email devotion our website again is Jack Graham.Margie. Now let's get back today's message the strengths we need partition says in verse seven something very important that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith. I like the way the living Bible gives this. He says I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your heart. Living within you as you trust him that Christ made dwell in your hearts through faith. Now of course we invite people to receive Christ to invite Christ into your heart and certainly this expresses that idea that when you receive Christ, you are inviting Christ that Christ would well in your heart is true. Jesus said in Revelation 320, I stand at the door and knock.

If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in so is proper to pray and invite Christ into your heart and while that is gloriously true. What this verse is actually speaking about when he says let Christ be at home in your heart.

Let client Christ dwell in your heart is really it's really describing something of letting Christ be comfortable in your life. Let welcome Christ let him be at home in your life. In other words, your life is not a hotel where Christ moves in and out, but his permanent resident your heart is Christ home he lives within if someone comes to your house. You may say to them, make yourself at home.

Now that doesn't mean necessarily that you want them rummaging through your closet or your garage or your personal items and things you'll make yourself at home means to a certain degree, but you're saying the comfortable Hill here. My house is your house well in a much greater degree. When Christ dwells abides in our lives. He is to make himself at home is Christ at home in your heart, waterboarding, Robert Boyd Munger wrote a little booklet called my heart Christ home and in it he was describing the heart is a home where Christ would be comfortable where Christ would be Lord of life and Lord of all. He described the heart is a home that had a dining room where we fulfilled our appetites and a kitchen and a living room, bedroom and all the rooms that you might have in the house all the compartments and all the all of the closets and all of the crevices and Munger described this this Christian life is allowing Jesus to take his rightful place of Lordship preeminence not just a place in our lives, but preeminence in all of our lot. Does Christ have all your heart, does he have every room in your life, including those secret places that nobody else knows about all he knows about but you must be willing to say Lord come in and clean out this closet becomes into our hearts to hold of our lives, and he cleaned things up any renovations. Everything my heart is Christ home is Jesus the Lord of your life. He strengthens us in the heart by the Holy Spirit because he dwells within us. The next he strengthens us in his love, he strengthens us in his love, verse six, verse 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints, the breath the link the height and the depth and to know the love of Christ. The word no. There means to grasp it to experience it to apprehended understand more and more the breath the link the data, the height when you read the commentators on this passage describing the love of Jesus Christ.

Your may, at the wonder of his love and it is this love that strengthens us every single day. You might describe the height the breath the lake the death of his love right out of John 316. How wide is God's love for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.

How long is the love of God long enough that he sent his son Jesus into the world left heaven came to this world so that we would never perish.

How deep is the love of God, that whoever believes whoever believes you and me will have eternal life, and how high is the love of God, you would have ever lasting life is been described as a cross this-depth and breadth and length of the love of God. If you really want to know it is like measuring the immeasurable is like knowing the unknowable in so many ways and yet by the spirit we can learn more and more and more and experience more of God's love every single day, but the, the Christians of the first century, often spoke of the cross. In this way, the | the horizontal bar the depth of the cross, the length of the cross, the width of the cross. If you want to know the love of God, then look at Jesus on the cross for God demonstrated his love towards us in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us and it is the love of God, knowing that we are so love strengthens us every single day of our lives from eternity present eternity past eternity future.

Never stop learning more and more of the love of God dammit I got married in 1970. It was a nine-month romance and then a marriage like the birth of a baby nine months. There was no baby, but there was a marriage there were babies.

Later, but you know that first love college sweetheart siding wonderful, but I can tell you that as our love has grown through the years all these years and years that I love her more than I could've possibly loved her then because in the maturing of love in the developing of love. There is a greater love and more and more in my prayer is that we have shared so much in life insurance so much in ministry and shared so much with children and our grandchildren. This just increases the love that you have for one another and as you walk with the Lord is your experience his grace, his mercy, his goodness, his provision all through the years. You just learn to love him more and more and I can tell you this, no one loves you more than Jesus.

No one ever cared for me or you like Jesus, there's only a few people in the world that really love you family and a few friends in the love that I'm talking about but I'm telling you above all others. Christ loves now how does it make you feel when you hear that you dismiss it because you've heard it again and again and again God loves you.

You deny it.

Do you deny it because perhaps you're living in San and you wandered away from God and is and is loving your light you just dismiss it. Do you deny it or do you embrace this love of God in Jesus Christ. When you embrace his love. You receive his power because the greatest power in the world is the power of love.

God's great love is inexhaustible. It is indescribable. It is incomprehensible, but we have a lifetime and then an eternity to experience this love to be filled with his love is to be controlled by his Lordship and then one last thing, Boyd says in verse 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. All of God in all of you all of Christ in all of your heart. The goal of your life should be all of Christ. None of me now – not just pious religious spirituality is the reality of someone who is in Christ. When we pray that we ask God to fill us not just part of us. But all of us, all of Christ is in us, but when we pray, like Paul, pray when we pray a prayer like this and empty our lives of self and sin than God has all of us. He controls us. He dominates us. He lives large in our lives and he is glorified and that's the goal.

The goal of your life should be to glorify God. The ambition of every Christian should be. I want to be like Christ and that happened when we are emptied more and more of self and build more and more with him. I can tell you that through the years there've been times when I just had to get along with God and say God, I've taken back some things I've done some things that do not please you. The Lord I ask you now as I confess my need to fill me and use me and glorify yourself. I give you my life I give you my life I give you my family I give you our friends. I give you our church. I give you our ministry. I give you my reputation just to say Lord I take hands-off, and give you the control of my life – the powerful prayer that we ought to pray and then you know what happens. That doxology God is able to do exceeding abundantly above and beyond all that we can meet hope. Imagine, pray, dream desire God will do so much more with your life much more. When you are emptied of self and full of your listening to PowerPoint with Jack ran in today's message the strength we need her to. When you feel like you're being tossed by waves and down their confusion. The only way to stay afloat is by focusing on your true source of hope Jesus Christ.

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I hope in the future as part thanks for your gift today to help boldly proclaim the truth of the gospel and hope it brings to more people around the world and as thanks for your gift of $50 or more will also send you Pastor Dan's book help hope and healing from life's challenges to come down to requester resources and thinking for your generosity: 800-795-4627 that's 1-800-795-4627 can also text the word PowerPoint to 313-1316 PowerPoint to 313131. And don't forget to visit Jack Graham.org where you can shop our E store. Give a gift online or sign up for Dr. Graham's free daily email devotional website again is Jack Graham.Margie Hester what is your PowerPoint for today. The blessings of God are available in their abundant because we have confess Jesus as our Lord and Savior and therefore he is given to us, amazing, wonderful, incredible promises, print, do you know Jesus. Do you have a personal relationship with him. Maybe today you just stumbled across this radio station or God is speaking to you in some way through this message.

Perhaps you been listening for a long time now and yet you know that you've never really crossed the line. You can never truly determine decided to follow Jesus as your Lord and your Savior.

I believe that you are here by divine appointment that your listening not by chance or accidents, but by his providence. This is a divine appointment with Almighty God. He is speaking to you.

He wants to get your attention and right now I want to invite you to open your heart and your life to him. I could be that your life never seems to be in focus. Maybe you have habits in your life that you can't seem to give up or their problems that are so overwhelming that you know you need something or someone beyond yourself to change your circumstances what you need is the power of Jesus to change your life, what you need is the power of Jesus to get you focused and to get you going in the right direction filled with purpose and what you need is for Jesus to take away the weight and the guilt and the problem of your sin. What you need his eternal life through Jesus Christ, God sent his son Jesus, who lived a perfect life. He died on the cross for your sins.

And he rose again from the grave victorious over sin, death and hell, if you will put your trust and faith in him, he will forgive your sin he will come to live in your life and give you a hope and a promise forever and ever that you will be with him. So right now, right where you are. Pray a prayer like this Lord I know that I've sent thank you for dying on the cross for me.

I believe you rose again on the third day and right now I turn from my sin and trust in you. Forgive me, cleanse me and make me your child. Thank you for giving me eternal life. Thank you for coming to live in me and I pray Lord that I will live for you in the power of your spirit until you come for me. If you prayed that prayer and in your heart receive Christ, then you are now, according to God's word, his child. The Bible says in first John 513. These things are written that you may know that you have eternal life. You've been given eternal life in Christ. Now I want to encourage you to tell someone else. I want to encourage you to get involved in a Bible believing Christ exalting sure I want to encourage you to spend time developing your faith is growing in your faith Bible study and prayer. Let me remind you join the blessing of God or you will live your life the glory of God, and you can glorify God by living for Jesus telling someone else just what he means to and that is today's on the next PowerPoint.

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