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Intro
Something that speaks to learning, maturation, stubbornness in learning
Brief description of this epistle and the occasion of it’s writing.
eph 4
The Empty Mind
Eph
Verse 17 is understood in light of what Paul talked about in chapters 2-4.
Jesus the Christ brought redemption and forgiveness.
What Paul is saying comes from God, it is STRONGER than him just saying it.
“You should no longer live as the Gentiles live...”
Don’t live like the rest of the ethnicities live anymore.
You are now a citizen of the heavenly family!
Do NOT go back to being who you used to be!
Why?
eph 2 19-
eph 4 17
Because their minds are futile...
Futile- serving no useful purpose: completely ineffective.
Merriam-Webster, I. (2003).
Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary.
(Eleventh ed.).
Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc.
3 slides of useless things.
As useless as these things are, before we had Christ our minds were just as futile.
We had no real purpose.
Our focus was on things that are finite.
We want the biggest house and most money even though we cannot enjoy either because we have to work so much to keep it.
We are unhappy because we are single so we become someone we are not to get and keep someone.
And in the long run we still end up being unhappy because we cannot be ourselves.
We change our eating habits to live healthier lifestyles and then have cheat days!
FUTILE THINGS!
What is it that you are focused on obtaining?
What is your ultimate goal in life?
Is the thing that you desire worth much in God’s eyes?
If you are a Christian, saved through baptism.
Why go back to what was not working before?
Paul goes on to describe what happens to the mind of those who have not God.
When you have a futile mind your ability to understand God is gone.
God has made himself clear to all mankind but because of futile minds
People cannot understand that African people are not the chosen tribe of Israel.
People cannot overcome their strong feeling that they were created to be something other than what they are born as.
People will hold on to fancy sayings that agree with their ideologies instead of God and His word!
FUTILE MINDS ARE RUINING MANKIND!
How do our minds become futile?
How do we lose the ability to understand/see/know God?
“…because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.”
If you wonder why you cannot underst
Ignorant- destitute of knowledge or education also: lacking knowledge or comprehension of the thing specified
Being ignorant is something that all of us will at one time experience.
Remaining ignorant is a choice!
We will LEARN how to get more money on our tax returns
We will LEARN who has the cheapest gas!
We will LEARN about who is at a get-together before we walk in the door…
BUT when it comes to learning about GOD! we remain ignorant!
Ignorance and hardness of heart
This hardness of heart as is an interesting piece here because it means that you willingly choose not to learn!
You make a choice to block out what is available to you.
If someone offers you clean drinking when you’re stranded in a desert you would be a fool to turn it down...
If you had kidney failure and someone found a match and you turned it down folks would say you are crazy!
Why is it that when the Word of God is offered, the one thing that can help you in this life and eternity is presented… we willingly refuse it!
Why is it that when the Word of God is offered, the one thing that can help you in this life and eternity is presented… we willingly refuse it!
You coming to worship?…NOPE
You coming to devo?…NOPE
You coming to Bible class?…NOPE
HARD HEARTS!
And it’s not just the fact that your understanding of God is darkened because of this ignorance and hard hearts!
More things are coming to those who choose not to LEARN of God!!
“They became callous...”
Frankenstein old movie picture VS Evil Dead girl coming out of the ground
Why is one scary and the other not?
To look upon the face of Frankenstein when the movie came out would have been terrifying!
I have been told by people who saw the movie in its time!
But something increasingly scary, a stronger effect has come and now it is the new normal for what scary is.
The idea of someone being pieced together by a mad scientist is no longer scary because we have become desensitized to it by something GREATER!
Having a futile mind will cause you to become calloused or desensitized to sin!
It used to scare you when you got high, until you became calloused to it.
Merriam-Webster, I. (2003).
Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary.
(Eleventh ed.).
Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster, Inc.
End result, you don’t just get high you pass out!
It used to terrify you to be caught looking at pornography, until you became calloused to it
You don’t just watch it, you make it and upload it for others to see
It used to make you feel bad when you lied to your parents, until you became calloused to it.
You graduate to teaching other folks how to lie to their parents!
They started off with just lacking sexual moral restraint and then moved on to being involved with several different kinds of sexually immoral actions.
BUT THAT WAS NOT ALL
“…with a desire for more and more.”
Because they could not understand God due to their willingness to not LEARN about God they began to have a desire for things that were not only futile but immoral!
Every sex addict that has hit rock bottom will ask themselves “How did I get here?”!
Every person in their right mind sitting in a prison cell will ask themselves “Where did I go wrong?”
A person cheating on or getting cheating in their marriage will ask themselves “What happened?”
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