Put On
- Series: Now I Walk
Paul shows us throughout Ephesians 4 that there is a process in change.
We are to 1) put off sin, 2) renew our mind and 3) put on our new nature.
Our lives must be changed by the Gospel. We are not defined by our sin. Instead, we are defined by our resemblance to Christ.
If we’re going to change long-term, we need to change the way we think by examining what we take in (TV, movies, music, talk radio,et. al.) and who we listen to. Pastor Hayden asked us to examine what influences us the most? Does anything influence us more than my prayer or scripture?
Hayden goes through specific ways we come to Christ. Putting off sin is exhausting, difficult and impossible without God, but as we put on our new nature, we can defeat sin daily.
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Scripture Passage(s): Ephesians 4:17-24
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The New Life
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, [1] 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. (ESV)
Footnotes
[1] 4:22 Greek man; also verse 24
