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Putting Off / Putting OnEphesians 4:17-24
The Scope of Revolution
The American Dream
Technology
Money Willpower
The American Reality
Try harder! Do Your Best!
Believe in YOURSELF!Have a
good day!
Me - Centered World
Ephesians 4:17 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.
Me - Centered World
Ephesians 4:17 (NIV) 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.
…they are hopelessly confused. (NLT)
“Emptiness”
“Emptiness” Futility
Dark Mind
Excluded..life
Ignorance
Hard Heart
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Ephesians 4:18
“Emptiness” Futility
Dark Mind
Excluded..life
Ignorance
Hard Heart
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Ephesians 4:18
“Emptiness” Futility
Dark Mind
Excluded..life
Ignorance
Hard Heart
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Ephesians 4:18
“Emptiness” Futility
Dark Mind
Excluded..life
Ignorance
Hard Heart
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Ephesians 4:18
Emotional Prisons
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 4:19
Emotional Prisons
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 4:19
Emotional Prisons
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 4:19 LO
VE
Emotional Prisons
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 4:19 LO
VE
Emotional Prisons
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 4:19 LO
VE
Emotional Prisons
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 4:19 LO
VE
Emotional Prisons
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 4:19 LO
VE
Emotional Prisons
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
emptiness
The New Paradigm:Ephesians 4:20-21
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
The New Paradigm:Ephesians 4:20-21 But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
The New Paradigm:Ephesians 4:20-21 But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
Christ
Ephesians 2:17 (NASB) And He came and preached peace to you who were far away , and peace to those who were near;
The New Paradigm:Ephesians 4:20-21 But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,
Hard Heart
Calloused
Given Over
Sensual-ism
Greed
Revelation 3:20 Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in…
The New Paradigm:Ephesians 4:20-21 But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,
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Ephesians 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects …
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The New Paradigm:
The New Paradigm:Ephesians 4:22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
The New Paradigm:Ephesians 4:22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
The New Paradigm:Ephesians 4:22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,
Old ‘Me’
‘New Mind’
New ‘ME!’
and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. Ephesians 4:24
The New Paradigm:
Old ‘Me’
‘New Mind’
New ‘ME!’
and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created…Ephesians 4:24
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 2 Corinthians 5:17
The New Paradigm:
Old ‘Me’
‘New Mind’
New ‘ME!’
and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created…Ephesians 4:24
“God is love…”
Ephesians 4:16 “the work of ministry…so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.”
“Christianity is a revolution: a change of government with a radical change of behavior!”
R. Stedman, 1966
The Scope of Revolution:
Old ‘Me’
‘New Mind’
New ‘ME!’
“Transformation”
