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*you’re liable to get /hot/ if you try to wear more than one suit of clothes*
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*INTRODUCTION*:
1. Read text: Eph.
4:17-32.
2. Paul’s plea in his letter to the Ephesians:
(1) Eph.
3:21.
(2) /Walk worthy of the calling with which you were called/ (4:1).
A. Live with attitudes that promote unity (4:2-3).
B. Echo the unity existing in the godhead (4:4-6).
3. Unity is Christ’s desire for the body He purchased with His blood.
(1) We, if not careful, can view this as being a matter of */doctrine only/*!
(2) Fact of the matter = doctrine is critical, BUT so too is */application of the doctrine/*.
A. If I find myself engaging in legalism and perfectionism… I’m trapped (cf.
Pharisees, Jews).
B. If I find myself forgetting the vital function I have as a member of the body of Christ…
(3) So, what is the “doctrine” to apply?
A. That we are the */fullness of Christ/* (1:3; 1:7; 1:20-23).
B. That, in the church, we are */reconciled to God/* (2:5-6; 2:13).
C. Such an arrangement is the */eternal purpose of God/* (3:10-11)
D. Paul describes you a */holy temple in the Lord/* and /a *dwelling place of God in the Spirit*/*.*
(2:21-22)
4. When a person becomes a Christian, there is to be a great abyss ~/ chasm between our past manner of living, and that of the present.
(1) People enjoying /life/ instead of /death/.
(2) People maintaining /reconciliation/ instead of /division/.
(3) People hungering and thirsting for /righteousness/ instead of /rebellion/.
5. We were all /corrupt/ at one time!!! BUT, Jesus Christ picked you up out of that impurity ~/ filth and made you to sit in the heavenly places (church)!
(1) Your life should reflect a /painful awareness/ of this fact!
(2) Does it?
6. How do you measure the fidelity of another?
Attendance to services?
Participate in leadership?
Attends and even conducts Bible class?
Participates in brother’s keepers groups?
Active with youth and young families?....
*DISCUSSION*: PAUL PICTURES IT THIS WAY --
I. FAITHFUL CHRISTIANS HAVE EXPERIENCED A GREAT CHANGE (VV.
17-24).
1. Paul has been building up to this point, and now reminds what they were and what they now are!
(1) Paul wants them to /think/ about this matter.
(2) Paul wants them to keep their mind engaged (cf.
v. 18).
A. Their understanding was */darkened/* (Cf.
rules of grammar, algebra, etc.)
B. Refers to being ignorant and morally insensitive to their way of life.
C. Illustrate: Light above vanity has several bulbs.
Go out one at time…
(3) Indifference, ignorance, and error slowly darken ~/ corrupt.
A. Sin leads to insensitivity, unless YOU put on the brakes.
B. Sin gradually darkens your view, unless YOU change the bulbs.
2. The /old man in sin/ –
(1) Possesses a */futile/* mind (v.
17)
A. KJV = /vain/
B. Greek = “emptiness as to result.”
(Illustrate: empty spray can; tv products).
C.
You were living prior to becoming a Christian, but end result = empty!
a. Life is vain, futile, and frustrating without God.
b.
What would it be like if this life is our only hope? (cf.
Hokie pokie?)
(2) Possesses a */blind/* heart (v.
18) - KJV = /hard/.
A. No matter how much you “enjoyed” life, without God you on downward spiral.
(3) Possesses */evil/* conduct (v.
19).
“Given themselves over…”
· Here’s where a blind heart will lead you! Into improper conduct!
A. Given over to /lewdness/, an over estimation to pleasure of /sensuality/.
B. Anxious to work uncleanness!
Give little thought to rightness of acts.
3. In general, gentiles (ignorance & insensitivity) lived in gross corruption.
4. Paul’s point = Christians have been educated out of that state!
(Supposed to be!).
(1) We */put off/* the old man (i.e.
like a dirty rotten garment).
(2) We */put on/* the new man (i.e.
like a fresh, pure, white garment).
A. Cf.
Jn. 3; Rom.
6; 2 Cor.
5:17.
(3) *PLUS* – /we are *renewed*/ (v.
23)! Daily, constantly – by an “inward” renewal of our “outlook!”
5. A hardened sinner is ignorant ~/ oblivious to these things, and unfortunately some Christians allow themselves to drift into the sad state (cf.
Rom.
12:1,2)
6. “/Gone is all my debt of sin.
A great change is brought within…/
(1) Speaking NOT so much of something God does TO us!
(2) Speaking of something we do FOR God (cf. 1 Jn.
4:19).
II.
Faithful christians have an obligation to maintain the change (vv.
25-32).
1.
We do not */merit/* heaven by our works ~/ behavior (Eph.
2:8,9), but the Bible is clear in teaching that there is an */expected type of behavior/*~/*attitude*.
(1) Paul has already made the point – “You gotta change!
Need to change!”
(2) Paul gives practical aspects of such change.
2. *THEREFORE –*
(1) V.
25 – Along with /putting away lying/, Christians must /speak truth/.
A. Christians are to be trustworthy.
B. Lies ~/ misrepresentations undermine our example and our fellowship.
C. Slippery slope.
Endless opportunity.
(2) VV.
26-27 - Get rid of your /anger/ before the day is /done/.
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