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1:5 Adopted as God’s children 1:6 Freely given God’s grace 1:7 Redemption through Christ’s blood 1:7 Forgiveness for our sins Spiritual Blessings in Christ

1:9 We’re let in on the mystery that we gentiles have access to the same salvation as the Jews 1:13-14 We have the Holy Spirit 2:5 We’ve been made spiritually alive 2:6 We are seated with Christ Spiritual Blessings In Christ

2:19 Citizenship with God’s people 2:19 Members within God’s household 3:6 Made heirs together with the Jews 3:12 We can now approach God with freedom and confidence Spiritual Blessings In Christ

3:18-19 We are informed that Christ loves us more than our natural minds can grasp 4:7-16 We have been given specific gifts to help each other mature Spiritual Blessings In Christ

Two responses: Positive: (What to do) Live a life worthy of the calling you have received Negative: (What not to do) Stop living like unbelievers; Stop thinking like unbelievers

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. Ephesians 4:17-19

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. Ephesians 4:17-19

19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. Ephesians 4:17-19

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. Ephesians 4:17-19

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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. Ephesians 4:18

19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. Ephesians 4:19

“All men seek happiness. This is without exception” Blaise Pascal

Romans what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them....God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature— have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse

Romans 1... they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but... they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Romans 1 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.

Romans 1 28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

Romans They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.

1) Truth about God rejected 2) Self Caused Ignorance 3) Darkened understanding / futile thinking, no experience of God 4) No sensitivity to what is good 5) Runaway insatiable impurity Chain Reaction

Romans 12:2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

Matthew 6: do not worry about: –your life –what you will eat or drink –your clothes 32 For the pagans run after all these things

Matthew 6: But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Romans 6:11...count (calculate, reckon, reason) yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 1:13-16 Therefore, prepare your minds for action “Be holy, because I am holy.”