STOP!
Ephesians 4: 17 - 32
Last week: Paul taught –Jesus
gives everyone - who accepts
Him into their lives –gifts, skills,
abilities to help each other
grown mature Christians
Measuring stick = Jesus
Your gifts are to help each
other to grow more like Jesus
Speak the truth in love (v15)
Jesus
•V17 “I insist in the Lord –you
must (STOP) no longer live as
the non-believers live!
•V18 Their understanding is
“clouded” – dark because
they have hardened their
heart –they ignore the
prompting (taps) of the Holy
Spirit and choose to become
ignorant to the Truth
•Don’t be a CHINO!
Christian In Name Only!
CINO!
•V19 - 21 Following the non-believers
cause your heart to become hard.
Non-believers hearts are insensitive
to the Holy Spirit
•They give themselves to indulge in
every kind of sensuality; willingly get
involved in every kind of impurity and
they are full of self-centered greed.
•This is not the way of life you have
learned when you accepted Jesus
and His truth into your life
What do?
Ephesians 4: 22 –32
•Put off your old self that was corrupted by deceitful desires
•Be made new in your mind’s attitude
•Put on the new self…the new self is created to be like God in true
righteousness and holiness
•Put off falsehood and speak truthfully to each other because you
are all members of Christ’s Body
•In your anger, do not sin! Don’t let the sun
go down (could be ‘24-hour day’ or the
end of your life) while you are angry
and do not give the devil a foothold
Devil
V29 –31
•Speak no ‘unwholesome’ talk = hurtful, dirty, insulting, and put-
down talk. Our words should build up each other and benefit
those who see what you say
•Do not grieve the Holy Spirit = our words and actions can grieve
Him
•Get rid of all bitterness = rage & anger; brawling and slander; and
every kind of malice (hurtful behavior and talk)
V28 Stealing? Work! Gen 3 identifies our self
dignity/value is earned when we are
productive in community and work!
•My attitude same
Jesus’?
•My talk same as
Jesus’?
•My actions same as
Jesus’?
