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The Hidden Hunger of the Inner Man 0:03 Men, if you call every man your home for getting in, getting healthy, getting strong, and getting going, then we have a special ask for you. We need men like you to stand in the gap with us as we take back territory for0:15 God's kingdom with our new giving campaign. We're calling it the 12 for 12 giving campaign, and all it takes is 12 dollars a month for 12 months. Now your commitment and donation0:27 will help us reach our 20 city goal with our dangerous good conference in 20 21, and we can't do this without your support. Conference in 20 21. And we can't do this without your support. Now, if you haven't noticed,0:36 every man is on the move, and we've been able to build an army of strong men that are choosing Jesus over the world. You know why? That's because of people like you that help our ministry thrive, especially in0:48 these difficult times. So, will you join us and commit to donating 12 dollars for 12 months? Every dollar equals change, not only in the men, but also change for the women, children, and1:00 communities connected to these men. Thank you in advance for your support and God bless.1:11 Hey, guys. Welcome to the men's global livestream. If you have a Bible, you want to hold a spot in Ephesians chapter 3. We're in a new series called the inner man. And what I wanna do is I wanna tell you where1:23 we're headed in this new series by by painting a picture. Okay? So I want you to imagine a fighter jet with air to air missiles on the wing. And that fighter jet is in the1:35 sixth position. It's locked on. You're the pilot. You've got the enemy locked on target, and you press the button, the air to air missile detaches from1:47 your plane, and the heat seeking missile starts guy being guided by the heat signature in the engine of the enemy plane until it finds it and then1:59 you eliminate, the enemy plane. Now why do I share that? For this series called the inner man. Well the human soul, your inner man is2:11 designed by God like that air to air missile guided by heat signatures. It's designed by God to seek out and to locate and to secure2:24 worth. In other words, you and I are hardwired by by God to be seen, to be known, to be loved, to be appreciated, all those aspects of what feeling personal2:36 significance is. We're hardwired to know, that we matter. But if someone or some force does not do that in a meaningful way in our lives2:48 because that's the way we are designed by God. Our inner man, our human soul will lack peace, and that that gap of soul that3:00 is created becomes, let's just say, a conscious and subconscious force in men. We're restless men. We compete for3:12 visibility. We'll start fearing rejection and craving approval. Image will become very important to us. We will publicly3:24 do things to gain acceptance and worth while we privately struggle. We'll enter into unhealthy relationships to secure worth. We'll enter into unhealthy behaviors to3:35 secure worth. We'll detach. We'll become addicted to social media and the teasing of the soul,3:48 but not securing authentic permanent worth, which brings authentic permanent lasting peace. That's what every human being is created to3:59 experience and that's what every man is created to experience. You see, when you lack lasting permanent worth, you lack lasting permanent peace. And here's what starts4:11 happening guys. We start living out of what we perceive we lack. All you have to do is kind of look around and see people chasing worth and acceptance,4:23 people chasing approval, people wanting to be visible. Why? Because they feel like they lack personal significance and worth, and they have to go find it. Why?4:35 Because they're hardwired by God. But but here's what I want you to know when it comes to your soul, your inner man, and your need to sense authentic worth,4:47 experience authentic worth. Literally, physically feel true worth. Listen. Things outside of a man cannot solve that4:59 dilemma within a man. I'm gonna say that 1 more time. Things outside of us can't solve the dilemma of worth within us. You see, there is5:11 a hidden you. Just just like there's a hidden you, there's a hidden me. There's a public me and then there's a private me. And the hidden you and the hidden me, that that guy doesn't want to let others5:23 down. That guy is fighting sin alone. That guy struggles to tell the truth sometimes. That guy fears privately what other people think. That guy is maybe winning the battle of images. People think a5:35 certain way about him, but he's actually in reality losing the private battles of life. That guy is anxious over the future. That guy is his own worst5:47 critic. Do you know that guy? It's the guy nobody sees except for God. And that hidden you, that inner man, that's5:59 the guy that God wants to touch. That's the guy that God wants to transform. That's the guy where God wants to bring his love to6:10 the hidden man, the inner man, and empower him. So here's where we're headed in part 1. We're going to get God's mind on your inner man. And then we're going to6:22 kind of come up with a theme based on what we see in scripture, like an inner man fact. And then we're going to talk about what the Bible says about the importance of6:34 locking down that inner man. So let's go to scripture. Let's start with Proverbs 23 7. Alright. It says this, for as he thinks within himself,6:47 so he is. What's the Bible saying? The Bible is saying that your inner life, your inner thought life, your inner psychological life, that is your6:59 real life. Let's look at first Samuel 16 7. Alright? Says this, god sees not as man sees for man looks at the outward appearance but the lord7:11 looks at the heart and the heart is symbolic of your inner man. It's your inner workings. It's your inner thoughts. It's your inner affections. It's your inner intentions. So if my inner life is my7:23 real life, what's God looking at? The Bible says that God is looking at your inner life, your inner man, because that's the real you. Now7:35 let's jump into the New Testament and see Jesus comment on your insides. Matthew 12 35 says this, a good man brings good things out of the good stored up where7:46 in him. And an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. You see, what's going on your insides will come outside7:58 eventually. Alright? Your hidden man will not remain hidden. You will act out of what is inside of you. So let's just unpack 3 truths from the 3 scriptures. From8:10 Proverbs 23 7, we read that write this down. My self perception creates a powerful direction. Alright? The Bible says, for as he thinks within8:22 himself, so he is. How you think about yourself, how you think about God, that creates a powerful direction.8:34 It forms, your person. Secondly, out of first Samuel 16 7, which talks about God not seeing as man sees because man looks at the outward appearance but God8:45 looks at the heart. We learn this. Write this down. My public perception is not God's perception of me. You know, there's ways that people see you and think about you and there's an image that you might be8:57 projecting, but God doesn't buy that. He looks past your image to the substance of your inner man. So my public perception is not9:10 God's perception of you. How man sees you is not how God sees you. He sees the real you. He sees the inner man. Third, based on Jesus's words in Matthew 12,9:22 my inner character determines my outer conduct. Good men bring good things out of the good stored up in him. Evil men bring evil things out of the evil stored9:34 up in them. So that's why we're doing this series, right? Is that your inner man is the real you. Your inner man is the 1 God sees, and your inner character9:47 will determine your outer conduct. So let's write down an inner man fact. God says, write this down, my life story reflects an inner9:58 journey. We work out our insides on the outsides and it's a driving force for our lives and because those things are true.10:11 Alright? My life story reflects an inner journey, alright? We have to to kind of ask god to help us nail down what's10:23 going on on our insides. And so, the next scripture, if you downloaded the notes, is actually a prayer that I want to, declare over every guy10:34 that's watching this men's global livestream. Because it's a it's a prayer for the journey. It's a prayer for your inner man. It's a prayer, over the next, several weeks as we kinda dive10:46 into and and get after that guy that that only God sees, but that nobody else sees. So, take and receive. If you're if you're taking notes, just kinda put down your pencil, and I'd love10:58 for you to take, a posture of reception. And, God is with us right now in this moment. His Holy Spirit is wanting to transform you from the inside11:10 out. So just receive this, in in Jesus' name. May God, who puts all things together, makes all things whole,11:22 who made a lasting mark through the sacrifice of Jesus, the sacrifice of blood that sealed the eternal covenant, who led Jesus, our great shepherd, up11:34 and alive from the dead. Now put you together. Provide you with everything you need to please him. Make us into what gives11:46 him the most pleasure by means of the sacrifice of Jesus the Messiah, a glory to Jesus forever and always. Oh, yes. Yes,11:57 yes, and amen. Can you say amen with me? That's my prayer, that God would put you together, that God would provide for you everything that you need, that he would make you from the12:09 inside out what gives him the most pleasure in your inner man. So let's look now at Ephesians chapter 3Strengthened by Christ Dwelling Within 12:21 where it talks specifically about locking down your inner man, how that is accomplished, and then we'll unpack it. So as I read Ephesians12:33 chapter 3 verses 14 through 20, I want you to listen in for what the power is. And before I read it, I want you to know that the context of these words12:45 is testing and discouragement. These words are given to discouraged believers. They're discouraged because of their12:57 circumstances, and they're getting tested, and their inner person you know how discouragement has the power to just bring us down, on the inside.13:09 And the Apostle Paul is coaching up these Ephesian believers and he realizes that that they're discouraged. And because they're discouraged, he's praying a prayer.13:22 Alright? So right before this prayer, he says, hey, I know you're discouraged and then let's enter the text right now in verse 14. He says this, for this reason, because you're discouraged, I13:34 bow my knees before the father from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory. Listen, to13:45 be strengthened with power through his spirit in the inner man. So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith and that you being13:57 rooted and grounded in love may be able to grasp with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth. And to know the love of14:08 Christ which surpasses knowledge that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly14:20 beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works within us. Man, that is a powerful prayer14:32 for people who are discouraged. The Apostle Paul knows that their inner person is discouraged and discouragement is a powerful14:44 force, especially for men. You know, when we get discouraged either from rejection or lack of approval or failure or you name it, man, it can really send us into14:56 a spiral. And when we're discouraged, we're vulnerable to voices inside of us and in the culture. We're vulnerable to entering into,15:10 unhealthy perspectives, which lead to unhealthy actions, right? Which leads to broken relationships between God and people. And where did it all start from?15:22 Just our inner person, our inner man not being strengthened, not being rooted, right? And being discouraged. Alright. So let's unpack how we handle in our inner15:34 man discouragement and where the power comes from. So locking down our inner man requires and or involves, write this down, Christ dwelling within me.15:48 And you read there in verses 16 and 17, the prayer is this, that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with power through his spirit16:00 in the inner man. Why? So that Christ may dwell in your hearts. I don't know if you guys have, ever seen that16:11 show, Fixer Upper. If you walk into Target, you'll see the branding, you know, the, the Magnolia Farms brand. It's Chip and Joanna Gaines. But, you16:23 know, they basically, you know, flip houses, but the transformation is insane. Alright? They buy the house, they or they help the couple out, the house is16:35 a mess, and then it's just like, you know, they bring in their crews and then it's just like, you know, from from ugly to unbelievably phenomenally beautiful.16:47 Right? Why do I share that? Because in this passage, it talks about how your inner man needs to be strengthened with power.16:59 What's the power? Well, it's the power of the Holy Spirit inside of you and then this last phrase, so that Christ may dwell in your17:10 heart. Now that word choice is specific. Dwell versus what? Just you know in and out, right? The Bible says17:22 that Jesus Christ comes into a man's life not to rent a room, but to dwell and to renovate your whole life. That's that's the teaching17:34 of scripture, right? So there's Christ dwelling in you. That's that's how you you strengthen your inner man. He's dwelling. When someone's living in your house, then you're seeing them, you're interacting with them,17:46 you're passing them in the hall, you're you're doing life together. It's not like a roommate. No. This is someone dwelling with you. They're eating with you. They're working with you.17:58 They're engaging in activities with you. That's the picture of the Bible when it comes to strengthening your inner man. There's a truth and the truth is this, that we're empowered18:10 when our faith acknowledges and partners with Christ's presence. Notice that the scripture says, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. Right? So there is this18:23 faith element. His presence is there but that presence isn't animated and activated until our faith starts acknowledging and partnering18:35 with Christ presence. Can I ask you a question? Is your faith actively moment by moment, day by day, situation by situation? Is your faith acknowledging and18:47 partnering actively with Christ's presence. So that's the truth of how the inner man starts to get strengthened. And then there's a consequence of that partnering, and18:59 it talks about that in Romans 8 9 through 11. It says this, but if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking,19:12 more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who is not welcomed this invisible but clearly present god, the spirit of Christ19:23 won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him in whom he dwells, even though you still experience all the19:35 limitations of sin, you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive and present God,19:47 Jesus bringing you alive to himself, when God lives and breathes in you, and he does as surely as he did in Jesus, you are delivered from that dead life with his spirit living19:59 in you. Your body will be as alive as Christ. So you see the picture. The truth is is that that our faith is acknowledging and actively partnering with Christ's20:11 presence. He's dwelling with us. We're dwelling with him, right? And he begins to renovate our lives. Renovation happens and when renovation happens, replacement happens. Isn't that what20:22 happens when you renovate? Anything, a house or how about a person. Right? The Bible says, death is out and life is in. Thoughts about20:34 you are out. Thoughts about God are in. The old you is out, the new you is in. Worth through God's love comes in, lack of worth20:47 goes out. Spirit of God is in, the flesh is out and muted. Right? Love enters your inner life. Loneliness is20:58 kicked out. Forgiveness comes into your life. Guilt and shame goes out of your life. Through Christ, the spirit of Christ, his peace, the fruit of the spirit comes in. And when peace21:10 comes21:11 in,21:11 goodbye anxiety. You see the picture? Jesus does not come into a person's life to rent a room. He comes to renovate21:24 your entire inner life. I want you to hear that. That's what the Bible teaches. So the truth is is that our faith partners actively with Christ21:36 presence. He's dwelling with us and we are working with him. The consequence of that is that renovation happens, and the principle of replacement takes over as he21:48 tears down the old us, and then he puts in the new us that is created in his image. God starts to renovate our insights so our thinking starts to21:59 change. Our our emotion start to change. Our self perception starts to change. Our view of God starts to change. Our view of people start to change. How? Through Christ22:11 dwelling in you. Well, in this passage in Ephesians, locking down your inner man involves Christ dwelling in me. It also involves, write this down, love deepening and securing me. In the secondRooted and Grounded in God's Infinite Love 22:23 half of verse 17, it says this, and that you being rooted and grounded in love. Alright. I want you to see that picture. Alright? Everybody understands22:35 rooting, you plant a tree, the roots go down, there's lateral roots, there's a tap root, there's angular rooting, and that rooting has to go down. Sometimes a tap root will go as deep as22:47 400 feet. Why? To secure and ground that tree below the surface. Get the picture? Right? So on top of the soil is your outer man. Below the soil is22:58 your inner man. The context of this passage is your inner man and that when Christ dwells in you, right, in your heart through faith and you're strengthened and empowered in your inner man, what23:10 happens is is that love, god's love, right, it deepens in your life and it secures your life. You become rooted emotionally and grounded emotionally in love. You become23:22 rooted psychologically and grounded psychologically in love. You become rooted spiritually and grounded spiritually in the love uniquely of God. Right? Because23:34 your inner man, your human soul seeks worth. And the only way to get permanent authentic worth is for your23:46 human soul to make contact initially and continually with God's love and your soul is searching for that worth in love But23:58 if your soul doesn't make contact with that, there are cheap substitutes out there, and they're not going to24:10 permanently satisfy you. And you'll just start moving to the next thing and the next thing and the next thing and the next fearful behavior. Right? But the Bible says that when Christ lives in24:22 you and his spirit is inside and your faith is actively partnering with him, you're making contact with his love and it's rooting you and it's grounding you. In Jeremiah chapter 17,24:34 it kind of expands on this picture of rooting. Listen to the prophet Jeremiah describes the person whose soul is connecting with the Lord. But24:46 blessed is the 1 who's trust the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by water that sends out roots by the24:58 stream. It does not fear when heat comes. Its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never25:10 fails to bear fruit. So you get the picture? And I love this language. Whenever you see the word tree in the Bible, it's a picture or25:22 symbolic of a life, a man's life, or whenever you see house. In this instance, it's tree. This is where in a agricultural or, planting analogy, right, where the rooted ones or the25:33 grounded ones, right, who trust in the Lord. And guess what? That's a confident That's a confident man, right, whose confidence is in him. He's like a tree planted by water. Okay? So that25:45 tree planted by the water, it's sending out its roots and it's tapping in to the source. So below the ground, there's that tapping into the source. What's happening25:57 above the ground, right? The heat, the drought, it doesn't affect it. Now let's talk about your life. Are you rooted26:09 and grounded so deeply in the love of God that when things happen to your life, maybe someone gets cancer, maybe there's26:21 a super bad fracture in your marriage, maybe 1 of your kids is having a very difficult time, maybe you lost your job. I don't know what it is, but26:33 it's the above ground activity. What's going on down here? Alright? And are you tapped in? Are you rooted? Are you grounded in the26:44 water source, the aquifer of God's love? Because when you know that God loves you and that God is present and that he is26:56 working all things together up here for your good, that gives you an inner confidence. And in this passage, it says that that man does not fear27:08 when the heat comes. Can I just speak to you who are watching me, who are in the heat? The solution is not a rearrangement of your circumstances. And I know that's hard to say because27:20 you need relief. But your circumstances may change, but your soul needs to be rooted and grounded in the love of God and in the presence of God27:32 and in the assurance of God and in his promises and in his word. And you need to activate your faith today and connect and send out your roots27:44 so that no matter what happens because guess what? Your circumstances may change, they're gonna change again. Something unplanned is gonna happen. Some interruption is gonna happen. And when27:56 that moment comes, we gotta be rooted and grounded in love. Alright. So we're unpacking this passage in Ephesians 3. Locking down your inner man28:08 involves Christ dwelling within me. It involves love deepening and securing me. Third, locking down your inner man involves dots connecting28:20 for me. And what I mean by that is mentally. You can put in that parenthetically mentally. The dots are connecting for me in my mind about, God's love.28:32 And it's that's where the passage goes on. So we've gone 14 to 16 and then we've gone 17. Now let's go to 18 and the first part of verse 19, it says that you and I put in brackets, that you being rooted and28:44 grounded in love, and here we go, we continue, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth. And to know the28:56 love of Christ which surpasses, knowledge. I want you to circle if you're taking notes. Maybe able to comprehend. Right?29:08 And you know there's knowledge intellectually in our heads and then there's knowledge inside, right? There's29:20 head knowledge and there's heart knowledge. And you know, in all languages, they usually have different words. Like, I I speak Spanish. And so in Spanish, you know, to know something intellectually, you use the verb29:30 saber. Alright? If you want to, to say that you're intimate with or you're you're familiar, with something on a on a internal level, you29:42 use the verb conocer. Right? So there's a difference in knowledge. And that's what, is being talked about in scripture today that in your inner man, not your upper head,29:53 but in your inner man, you're rooted in ground and love that you may able to connect the dots, right, with with the rest of your brothers and fellow Christians. Just the30:05 breadth and the length and the height and the depth. Just the the the magnitude and capacity of God's love.30:17 God's love is long enough to extend into every circumstance. God's God's love is wide enough to cover every sin. God's love is is30:28 is deep enough to reach into the deepest, darkest place that you could possibly go because it's infinite. God is infinite and God is love, Which means30:40 that not only does he have an infinite supply of love, but it can go into infinite spaces and that is what God wants you to know. And you need to connect the dots. You need to go, oh my gosh.30:52 That that God's love thing. Right? Because the the scripture goes on and it says, you know, that you would be able to comprehend and to know the love of Christ, listen, which surpasses knowledge.31:04 Right? That word to know the love of Christ, it's a special word. It's the Greek word. It's the it means that you have an internal, intimate, personal awareness31:16 through through Christ and through what god did for you and and what Jesus did for you on the cross. And and you know through his revelation of his31:28 words toward you in scripture that not only did he love you that much to die on a cross for you, but he dwells with you and he's loving you from the31:40 inside out. You see, why is knowing with your heart God's love and connecting those dots, more important than just kind of knowing31:52 intellectually? Well it talks about that in first John chapter 4 verse 16 says this, and so we know, same word, and rely on the love of God, the32:04 on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love, there's a goal, lives in God and God in them. There's a great headline. The reason why32:16 knowing with your heart on the in the inner man, the love of God. Because when you know the love of God, you rely on the word love of God. The man of God knows the32:28 love of God and then relies on the love of God. So it's not something that we just kind of sing about on Sundays and talk about abstractly. No. We rely on it especially32:39 when, our above ground life is under heat and under pressure and the winds are blowing and it's a huge storm up top. We know and rely on the love of god. Our rooting is32:51 going down into it, and we're relying on his promises. We're relying on that rooting and that grounding in his love and the promises that he gives us based in love, and we don't have to fear.33:04 What's going on up top? Does it concern us? Hundred percent. But on a on a on a on a global level, we're not gonna let it inspire fear because God's with us in it.33:16 We're rooted and grounded in his love. Alright? Because I know a lot. I know myself. A lot of times, I know things with my head, but I don't really feel it in my heart. Alright? That's33:28 not God's plan when it comes to his love. It's not something that we we quote. You know, it's not a cliche. Oh, God loves you. No. God's love33:40 secures us. God's love gives me worth. God's love gives me confidence. God's love makes me not fear. And man, in our culture today, we33:52 need a boatload of God's love transforming us in here because there's a lot of stuff happening above the ground that could inspire fear. And if you're living34:04 at a high level of fear and anxiety, you got to get more rooted and grounded in the love of God. So got to lock down that inner man, right? Because discouragement is going to come, but if you're34:16 rooted and grounded, if Christ is dwelling in you, if his love is deepening in you and securing you, if you're connecting the dots, right? And seeing how it all works. Oh, that's34:28 what the love of God is for. It's for right now. It's for this circumstance. Right? Fourth, locking down your inner man involves the soulShow more In this video 0:00 The Hidden Hunger of the Inner Man12:17 Strengthened by Christ Dwelling Within22:15 Rooted and Grounded in God's Infinite Love34:36 Filled to Fullness: Radical Life Transformation
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