"Be Renewed..."

February 22, 2016

“Be Renewed…”

Blessings folk!

Eph 4:20
But you did not learn Christ in this way,


In what way?

The way of the Gentile…what we saw yesterday…

Eph 4:17-19
So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.


Read the next sentence in Ephesians 4.
Give close attention to the action…

Eph 4:20-24
But you did not learn Christ in this way,
if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,
that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.


True believers have learned Christ.
They have heard Him.
They have been taught by Him.
All Truth is in Jesus.

We are to lay aside the old self.
We are to be renewed in the spirit of our minds.
We are to put on the new self.

We saw this Truth in Colossians 3.

The old self:
former manner of life
corrupted with lusts of deceit

The new self:
in the likeness of God
created in righteousness and holiness of truth

Be renewed in the spirit of your mind.
Walk in the Spirit.