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The New Self Ephesians 4 : 17-24

The New Self Ephesians 4 : 17-24. The New Self Ephesians 4 : 17-24 New self = new nature (new man) o ur “inner being”, our mind, our heart created by God, in the image of God.

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The New Self Ephesians 4 : 17-24

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  1. The New Self Ephesians 4: 17-24

  2. The New Self Ephesians 4: 17-24 New self = new nature (new man) our “inner being”, our mind, our heart created by God, in the image of God

  3. …. the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:24) Is this God-given “new self” evident daily in your life? How do we let the “new self” triumph over the old self in our daily lives?

  4. How do we let the “new self” triumph over the old self in our daily lives? 1. Focus on God and what He has done. v. 17 “Therefore” (“So”) “Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord …”

  5. How do we let the “new self” triumph over the old self in our daily lives? 2. Do not live like those around you who are separated from God! v. 17: Therefore, I tell you and insist on in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, …

  6. 4:17 … you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18They 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. 19They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

  7. “They have become callous, and have given themselves up to sensuality,”

  8. (Rom. 1) For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. ..… For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools,…. Therefore God gave them upin the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, .…

  9. For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men … And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.

  10. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

  11. Romans 1:18-32Ephesians 4:17-19 Stage 1: Obstinancy 18. Men by their wickedness 18. Due to their suppress the truth hardness of heart 21. Although they knew God they did not honor Him as God 28. They did not see fit to acknowledge God

  12. Romans 1:18-32Ephesians 4:17-19 Stage 2: Darkness 21. They became futile in 17. the futility of their their thinking; their senseless minds minds were darkened 22. They became fools 18. They are darkened in their understanding 28. A base mind 18. the ignorance that is in them

  13. Romans 1:18-32Ephesians 4:17-19 Stage 3: Spiritual Death / Judgment 24.Therefore God gave 18. They are alienated them up from the life of God. 26. For this reason God gave them up 28. God gave them up

  14. Romans 1:18-32Ephesians 4:17-19 Stage 4: Unbridled, unholy living 24. Impurity 19. They have become 26. Dishonorable passions callous and have given 27. Shameless acts themselves up to 28. Improper conduct sensuality, greedy to 29-31. All manner of practice every kind of wickedness impurity

  15. How do we let the “new self” triumph over the old self in our daily lives? 1. Focus on God and what He has done! 2. Do not live like those around you who are separated from God! 3. Understand, appreciate, and act on what happened to you at conversion!

  16. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22to 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,

  17. Acts 20:20 … I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house, 21 testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

  18. put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

  19. How do we let the “new self” triumph over the old self in our daily lives? 1. Focus on God and what He has done! 2. Do not live like those around you who are separated from God! (Put off the old self!) 3. Understand, appreciate, and act on what happened to you at conversion! 4. Continue daily putting on the new self!

  20. 24 put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

  21. How do we let the “new self” triumph over the old self in our daily lives? 1. Focus on God and what He has done! 2. Do not live like those around you who are separated from God! (Put off the old self!) 3. Understand, appreciate, and act on what happened to you at conversion! 4. Continue daily putting on the new self!

  22. Is the God-given “new self” evident daily in your life? Are you continuing to put off the old and put on the new?

  23. you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, (Ephesians 2: 1-3)

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