Ephesians 4:22 You were taught to change the way you were living. The person you used to be will ruin you through desires that deceive you. Now, that person we used to be is still the person whom we need to contend with on a daily basis. We will never Read more…
Ephesians 4:23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes. You and I need to be willingly participating with God as we live each day. While we must say NO to sin, we need to, equally, be proactive by way of allowing Holy Spirit to renew our minds Now, Read more…
Ephesians 4:21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, I am experiencing a joy filled-sadness as I write this. I am saddened that one too many of my brothers and sisters in Christ, including myself, have allowed ourselves to Read more…
Ephesians 4:20 That was not what you learned about Christ! Friend, the original readers of this letter were falling into the same problems we fall into, namely taking on the ways of the world to such an extent that their lifestyles are little different than the non Christians around Read more…
Ephesians 4:19 They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more. When I was younger, I had an aversion in even considering my non Christian friends as callous and promiscuous. For, they were, after all, Read more…
Ephesians 4:18 They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts. The word picture painted here exposes the horror that the non Christian faces each day of his life. And yet, Read more…
Ephesians 4:17 Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts. There is a connection between how we live and how we think: futile thinking yields purposeless living. And, Paul is giving us a sober Read more…
Ephesians 4:16 He makes the whole body fit together and unites it through the support of every joint. As each and every part does its job, he makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. Love is the glue that should be holding our churches together. Read more…
Ephesians 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ, What would happen today in our government: if we spoke the truth to one another…in love. If we, instead, of tearing others down, we did our Read more…
Ephesians 4:14 As a result, we are no longer to be children, tossed here and there by waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, by craftiness in deceitful scheming; All this harkens back to v. 11, where we read that God gave us Read more…