1. MIRROR man in the

2. I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change (Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na, Na Nah)

3. Ephesians 4:17 17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of * the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, Futility = Purposelessness, uselessness, pointlessness, ineffectiveness, vainness: That’s not the mind with which we should live.

4. Ephesians 4:18 18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart; Purposelessness leads to blindness of heart (lack of vision), which leads to ignorance, which leads to perishing.

5. Hosea 4:6 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Proverbs 4:7 7 Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.

6. Ephesians 4:19 19 who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. The danger of repetitive sin is reaching a point where you no longer hear the Holy Spirit and your own conscience; you go ‘past feeling’!

7. Titus 1:15-16 15 To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled. 16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.

8. Ephesians 4:20-22 20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts Grace is never an excuse to sin, but rather the power to defeat it.

9. Romans 6:12-14 13 And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God. 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.

10. Ephesians 4:23-24 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness. There is a new man in each of us, who is truly righteous and holy. That man is yearning to come out, to be put on.

11. 2 Corinthians 5:17-18 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. 18 Now all things are of God… 2 Corinthians 5:21 21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

12. 1 Corinthians 6:17 17 But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him. 1 John 4:17 17 Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world.

13. 1 Corinthians 2:16 16 For "who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him?" * But we have the mind of Christ. Galatians 5:22-23 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.

14. Galatians 5:16 16 I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Philemon 6 6 that the sharing of your faith may become effective by the acknowledgment of every good thing which is in you * in Christ Jesus.

15. SUMMARY It is possible to have the life of God in you and yet never experience it because you have not been deliberate in drawing on it. This is as a result of living purposelessly