Avenue Vineyard May 31, 2015

Ephesians 4: So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord. You must no longer behave like the Gentiles, foolish-minded as they are. 18 Their understanding is darkened; they are cut off from God’s life because of their deep-seated ignorance, which springs from the fact that their hearts are hard. 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.

Ephesians 4:17-24cont’d 20 But that’s not how you learned the king!— 21 if indeed you did hear about him, and were taught in him, in accordance with the truth about Jesus himself. 22 That teaching stressed that you should take off your former lifestyle, the old humanity. That way of life is decaying, as a result of deceitful lusts. 23 Instead, you must be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and you must put on the new humanity, which is being created the way God intended it, displaying justice and genuine holiness.

Three things that can change a person’s life (secular studies). Trauma Psychotherapy Religious Experience

Ephesians 4:22,24 “…you should take off your former lifestyle, the old humanity. That way of life is decaying, as a result of deceitful lusts…you must put on the new humanity, which is being created the way God intended it, displaying justice and genuine holiness.”

Ephesians 4:17 “ 17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord. You must no longer behave like the Gentiles…”

Henry Cloud “We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.”

Ephesians 4:18,19 18 Their understanding is darkened; they are cut off from God’s life because of their deep-seated ignorance, which springs from the fact that their hearts are hard. 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.

Ephesians 4:24 “put on the new humanity, which is being created the way God intended it, displaying justice and genuine holiness.”

“I will put my instructions deep within them, and I will write them on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Jeremiah 31:33

12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. John 1:12

Ephesians 4:22-24 “ …you should take off your former lifestyle, the old humanity. That way of life is decaying, as a result of deceitful lusts. 23 Instead, you must be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and you must put on the new humanity, which is being created the way God intended it, displaying justice and genuine holiness.”

"What other way would you want to waste your life, if not for Jesus?" Eleanor Mumford