A CALL TO TURN OUR LIVES OUTSIDE IN
Ephesians: Cosmic Truth For Common People – Part 8
Ephesians 4.17-24
v. 17 “… you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do …” (esv)
LIFE OUTSIDE OF JESUS IS: Inadequate Knowing …
vv. 17-18 “… in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding …” (esv)
v. 18 “… because of the ignorance that is in them …” (esv)
THAT COMES FROM Absent Feeling …
v. 18 “… due to their hardness of heart.” (esv)
THAT LEADS TO Idolatrous Living
v. 19 “Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more.” (niv)
LIFE INSIDE JESUS IS REALIZING THAT JESUS IS …
v. 18 “… alienated from the life of God …” (esv)
THE Truth THAT Completes Inadequate Knowledge
v. 20 “… you learned Christ!” (esv)
THE Beauty THAT Awakens Absent Feeling
v. 21 “… you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus …” (esv)
John 5.25 “Truly, truly, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.” (esv)
v. 24 “… the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” (esv)
THE Joy THAT Motivates Righteous Living
vv. 22 & 24 “… put off your old self … [and] put on the new self …” (esv)