Eph 3:16 That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit into the inner man, John 3:6 ...that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. (7) ...You must be born anew. 1 Cor 6:17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. 2 Tim 4:22 The Lord be with your spirit.
Verse 16 also says that we are strengthened into the inner man. The inner man is our regenerated spirit with God's life as its life. It is our spirit regenerated by the Spirit of God (John 3:6), indwelt by the Spirit of God, and mingled with the Spirit of God (1 Cor. 6:17). In order to experience Christ unto all the fullness of God, we need to be strengthened into the inner man. This implies that we need to get into our spirit, where we can be strengthened through the Holy Spirit. Because human beings are souls, not spirits, our personality or our person is in our soul. This is the reason the Bible refers to men as souls. Both the body and the spirit are vessels used by the soul. Therefore, as souls, we have an outward vessel, the body, and an inward vessel, the spirit. When we repented and believed in the Lord Jesus, the Lord came into us and regenerated us with Himself as our life. Before we were regenerated, there was no life in our spirit; we simply had our human life in our soul. But through regeneration we now have the divine life in our spirit. Therefore, our spirit is no longer merely a vessel; it has become our person with the life of God... Our spirit regenerated with the divine life is now our inner man.
Bible verses are taken from the Recovery Version of the Bible and Words of Ministry from Witness Lee, Life-study of Ephesians, pp. 279. Both are published by Living Stream Ministry, Anaheim, CA. Please visit us at www.emanna.com. Send comments to: [email protected].
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