New Life in Christ
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The New Life
17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4:17-24 ESV
Ephesians 4:1 ESV - 1 I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV - 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
Galatians 2:20 ESV - 20 I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Romans 7:19-20 ESV - 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. 20 Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.
1. Leave Your Old Way of Living
Ephesians 4:17 ESV - 17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
A. Intellectually Empty
Ephesians 4:17 ESV - 17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
B. Spiritually Ignorant
Ephesians 4:18 ESV - 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
C. Morally Insensitive
Ephesians 4:19 ESV - 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
Romans 6:10-11 ESV - 10 For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. 11 So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
2. Learn God’s New Way of Living
A. Learn Christ
Ephesians 4:20-21 ESV - 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
B. Put Off the Old Self
Ephesians 4:22 ESV - 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
C. Be Renewed
Ephesians 4:23 ESV - 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
D. Put on the New Self
Ephesians 4:24 ESV - 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
Psalm 51:9-10 ESV - 9 Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities. 10 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.