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September 29, 2024 PM
Paul Gotthardt
(#30 in series)

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In Christ: Walk This Way (Part 2)

Ephesians 4:17-24

Section 1: There are four characteristics that show we’re walking according to our old nature.

“So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk…

1. In the futility of their mind,
2. 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;
3. And they having become callous,
4. Have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

Section 2: There are four characteristics that show we’re walking according to our new nature.

1. 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,
2. 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,
3. And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
4. And put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

Big Truth:

The freedom you want is found in the new nature you have.

We’re going to see our big truth from three angles. I want you to be able to…

• Recognize the old from the new
• Reject the old by believing the new
• Renew the mind so that you can live the new

When we walk according to our old nature, it is characterized as…

• Intellectually futile (v. 17)
• Spiritually deceived (v. 18)
• Personally calloused (v. 19a)
• Completely depraved (v. 19b)

When we walk according to our new nature, it is characterized as…

• Christ-__ (v. 20)
• __ informed (v. 21)
• Delivered from the __ (v. 22)
• Made __ in Christ (vv. 23-24)