Welcome to episode 181 of Grasp the Bible. In this episode, we continue our study in the Book of Ephesians, covering chapter 4:17-24. Today, we will cover:
- Exhortation to Live Differently Than Non-Christians (v. 17)
- Description of the Condition and Lifestyle of Non-Christian Gentiles (vv. 18–19)
- The New Identity in Christ and Exhortation to the New Lifestyle (vv. 20–24)
Key takeaways:
- Life is vain, futile, and without purpose, unless it is ordered around God and His purposes.
- The characteristics of lives of unbelievers are:
- They are darkened in their understanding.
- They are separated from the life of God.
- they are ignorant of God in the sense that they have rejected Him and do not know Him personally.
- They have hard hearts.
- They have lost all sensitivity.
- They have given themselves over to sensuality.
- They indulge in every kind of impurity.
- They are full of greed.
Quotable:
- Christian belief includes Christian ethics.
Application:
- Christians are called to live their daily lives in a way that is sharply differentiated from the world around them and from the lifestyle that characterized their pre-Christian past.
- The worldviews and lifestyles of the unbelieving Gentiles are utterly opposed to the new life that these believers have in Christ.
- Once we recognize the emptiness and hopelessness of the old ways, we should be filled with horror at our terrible choices and throw them far away.
- As believers, we must...
- put off the old,
- be made new,
- and put on the new.
Until we have followed through on all of these, we cannot pretend to be living God’s way.
- Those who live holy lives do so by repeated putting offs.
- We must allow the Holy Spirit to reshape our way of thinking and thereby resist the deceitful desires of sin.
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