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Today, as we continue our series on getting to know the Holy Spirit. We are listener and viewer sponsored.

Today, as we continue our series on getting to know the Holy Spirit, we're going to talk about how to build up the inner man, the inner being.

Because the Holy Spirit dwells within us as we are built up in faith in our innermost being, then we can know the voice of the Holy Spirit more,

be more clearly led by the Holy Spirit, be more clearly empowered by the Holy Spirit.

So 1 Peter 3, verses 3 and 4, 1 Peter 3 versus 3 and 4, speaking to the wives, your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold, jewelry, or fine clothes.

So it's not saying you can't be attractive, but don't find your beauty in outward things

or just try to lavish riches on you.

So modesty is important, obviously, but this is more about where the

real beauty is, and it's not found in these outward things, especially with extravagant expense.

So, of course, you can seek to look your best, but even beyond that, there is an inner beauty.

He says, your beauty should be that of your inner self. What's the inner self?

What's the inner self? The unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight, so that beauty of the inner person can be visibly seen.

And the distinction between the body, soul, and spirit, it's not

easy to define, but I want to break this down in a way that we can distinguish between flesh,

soul, spirit. Often in the Bible, human beings are described as outward and inward, the flesh

and our inner being. So there is flesh and spirit. There is that description

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