Transcript Ephesians 1 - Grace Point Church Palmyra

BEFORE
AFTER
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10 I
will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall
exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the
garments of salvation; he has covered me with
the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom
decks himself like a priest with a beautiful
headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with
her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10 (ESV)
Ephesians 4: 17-24
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17 So
I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord,
that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do,
in the futility of their thinking.
18 They are darkened in their understanding and
separated from the life of God because of the
ignorance that is in them due to the hardening
of their hearts.
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19 Having
lost all sensitivity, they have given
themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge
in every kind of impurity, and they are full of
greed.
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The lifestyle of unbelieving Gentiles …
• Futile in their thinking
• Darkened in their understanding (blind)
• Separated from the life of God
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20 That,
however, is not the way of life you
learned 21 when you heard about Christ and
were taught in him in accordance with the
truth that is in Jesus.
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22 You
were taught, with regard to your former
way of life, to put off your old self, which is
being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be
made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and
to put on the new self, created to be like God in
true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4: 17-24
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1
And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, 2 in
which you formerly walked according to the course of
this world, according to the prince of the power of the
air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of
disobedience. 3 Among them we too all formerly lived
in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the
flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of
wrath, even as the rest.
Ephesians 2: 1-3
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Put off your old self…put on the new self
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If we would desire to have our minds
renewed, then we must find God’s
thoughts and immerse ourselves in them.
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“Self-control is primarily mind-control.”
John Stott
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“Every kidnapping was once a thought.
Every extramarital affair was
first a fantasy.”
Leslie Flynn
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2 Do
not conform to the pattern of this world,
but be transformed by the renewing of your
mind. Then you will be able to test and approve
what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and
perfect will.
Romans 12:2
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"I worked harder than any of them,
nevertheless, it was not I, but the grace of God
which is with me"
1 Corinthians 15:10
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"Set your minds on things that are above, not
on things that are on earth. For you have died,
and your life is hid with Christ in God.”
Colossians 3: 2,3
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And I pray that you…18 may have power,
together with all the Lord’s holy people, to
grasp how wide and long and high and deep is
the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that
surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled
to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3: 17-19