1. Internal ReMission: Healing the Brokenness
Overcoming Deceptive Desires Ephesians 4:17-5:21

3. Ephesians 4:17-5:21
…20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to 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 …

4. The Old Man & The New Man?

5. Overcoming Deceptive Desires:
the Tragedy,
the Glory
and the
Fitting Response

6. the Tragedy of Unbelief (17-19)
They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity (4:19)

7. the Tragedy of Unbelief (17-19)
FUTILITY
the Tragedy of Unbelief (17-19)
DARKENED UNDERSTANDING
They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity (4:19)
ALIENATED FROM GOD’S LIFE
IGNORANCE
HARDNESS OF HEART

8. the Glory of Salvation
But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus (4:20-21)

9. the Glory of Salvation
But that is not the way you learned Christ!-- assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus (4:20-21)
v22 to put off the old self
v23 and to be renewed…
v24 and to put on the new self

10. …no longer trapped! NEW MAN CREATED HOLINESS GOD Identity: OLD MAN
Status:
CREATED
CORRUPTED
Description:
HOLINESS
FORMER WAYS
Agent:
DECEITFUL DESIRES
GOD

11. the Fitting Response “Stay Away!” (4:17, 5:7, 5:11)
Deceitful Desires are: unfitting, grievous, counter, destructive
“Be Imitators of God!” (5:1)