7. BEFORE AFTER

8. New Clothes 10 I will greatly rejoice in the L ORD ; 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)

9. Ephesians 4: 17-24 New Clothes, pt. 1

10. New Clothes 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.

11. New Clothes 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.

12. New Clothes The lifestyle of unbelieving Gentiles … Futile in their thinking Darkened in their understanding (blind) Separated from the life of God

13. New Clothes 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.

14. New Clothes 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

15. New Clothes 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

16. New Clothes Put off your old self…put on the new self

17. New Clothes If we would desire to have our minds renewed, then we must find God’s thoughts and immerse ourselves in them.

18. New Clothes “Self-control is primarily mind-control.” John Stott

19. New Clothes “Every kidnapping was once a thought. Every extramarital affair was first a fantasy.” Leslie Flynn

20. New Clothes 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

23. New Clothes "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

24. New Clothes "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

25. New Clothes 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