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Ephesians

Ephesians

Part 10: How to Overcome Sin

Ephesians 4:17-25

Pastor Mark Driscoll 01hr:02mn Viewed 16,945 times in over 3 years

Paul instructs us to examine our lives so that we can uncover our areas of thinking and conduct that are conformed to the sinful patterns of our culture and need to be transformed by renewed minds and redeemed lives. Paul refers to the godless and sinful culture of his day as Gentile and in so doing does not reject them as a people (he in fact labored to bring the gospel to the Gentiles as the apostle to the Gentiles), but rather rejects the sinful conduct of their culture.

Ephesians 4:17-25

17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

The Holy Bible, English Standard Version copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Quotation information.

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