I. Grief in Genesis 6:5-8 & Ephesians 4:30-32
1. Genesis 6:5-6
a. God doesn’t change – Exodus 32:14 (threat vs decree); Numbers 23:19; I Samuel 15:10-11, 29; Jeremiah 26:3 (Jonah 3:1-10); Habakkuk 1:13; Malachi 3:6
2. Genesis 6:7-8
II. Ephesians 4:17-31
1. What we have in Christ (Eph. 1-3) & How we live in Christ – Eph. 4-6 (see Matt. 5-7)
2. “No longer walk as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds” – Vv. 17-19
a. They are darkened, alienated: because of ignorance, because of hardness of heart
b. This is not how you learned, heard, were taught – vv. 20-21
c. The Put Off/Put On Principle – vv. 22-24 (see I Tim. 6:11-12)
d. The Principles Unpacked – vv. 25-32
v. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God
by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption
e. Let all bitterness -
f. (Let all) wrath –
g. (Let all) anger –
h. (Let all) clamor –
i. (Let all) slander –
j. BE PUT AWAY FROM YOU –
k. Along with all malice –
3. Ephesians 4:32
Be kind to one another, tenderhearted (to one another),
forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
