"Spiritual Growth"

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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 4:15-16 ESV - 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.

Christian growth requires that we…

1. Put Off The Old Self

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.

The old self is described as…

1. 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.

2. Biblically 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

3. Morally Calloused

Ephesians 4:19 ESV - 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

Christian growth requires that we…

2. Put On The New Self

Ephesians 4:20 ESV - 20 But that is not the way you learned 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,

1. We have learned or come to know Christ

John 17:3 ESV - 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.

2. We have heard Christ

John 10:27 ESV - 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

3. We have been taught in Him

Ephesians 1:13 ESV - 13 In him you also, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and believed in him, were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

Ephesians 4:22-24 ESV - 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.

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.

Romans 13:14 ESV - 14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.

Matthew 11:28-29 ESV - 28 Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.