Ephesians
Lesson 8
Ephesians 4:17-24
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“Walk no longer just as the Gentiles”
They had a changed life
They COULD no longer live like they had before
Former life:
Futility of mind 4:17
Understanding darkened 4:18
Ignorance which excluded/alienates them from life
Hard heart
Callousness leading to sensuality 4:19
Practicing impurity and greed 4:19
Ephesians 4:20-24
• But you DID NOT LEARN CHRIST IN THIS
WAY
• If one is STILL in ignorance, not understanding,
having a futile mind, then that one is NOT saved
• Warning in 4:14 Be careful about the teaching you
listen to. Some of it is trickery/cunning of men
leading to deception
• Learn Christ: Truth is in Him 4:21
• Truth is in His Word
Old Self
New Self
• Old Self: being corrupted in accordance with the
lusts of deceit 4:22
• Eph. 2:1-3 The sons of disobedience. They live
according to the lusts of their flesh
• LAY THAT OLD SELF ASIDE 4:22
• Put ON the New Self 4:24
• Created in righteousness and holiness of truth
• Col. 3:9-10 We don’t lie to one another
• We lay aside the old self WITH its evil practices
• New Self: according to the image of the Creator
Old Self
New Self
• Romans 6:1-11 Christians are raised with Christ to
walk in newness of life: not continue in the former
lifestyle
• We are no longer slaves to sin
• Consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God
• Eph. 4:25-32 Therefore: because you lay aside the
old and put on the new…..
• Eph. 4:15 and 25 Speak Truth in love. Why? It
grows up the body
• Eph. 4:26 Be angry, and yet do not sin
• Doesn’t say, “Don’t be angry”
• Do not give the devil an opportunity
Old Self
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New Self
Don’t Steal 4:28
Work, so you have something to share
Eph. 4:29 talks about words
Nothing unwholesome/corrupting
Unwholesome: rotten, worthless
ONLY words of edification (building up)
Words of grace to those that hear
Eph. 4:30 How believers are to live and speak
Disobedience to these instructions grieves the Holy
Spirit
Contrasts
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Vs. 30 Put away:
Bitterness
Wrath
Anger
Clamor – an outcry….of tumult or controversy
Slander
Malice – wickedness as an evil habit of the mind
Vs. 31
Be: Kind
Tender-hearted
Forgiving..just as God in Christ has forgiven you
Forgive
• Charizomenoi – to show favor, give freely. Used of
God giving His grace to pardon. This is freely done
and therefore not based on any merit of the one
receiving forgiveness.
• Luke 23:33-35 “Father forgive them for they know
not what they do”
• Aphes: to send away, leave alone, permit to depart,
release. To let go from obligation toward oneself, to
remit a debt or offense
• Matt. 6:12-15; 18:21-35 If we forgive others for
their transgressions, our heavenly Father will
forgive us.
Ephesians 5:1-14
• Therefore: be imitators of God, as beloved children
• Walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave
Himself up for us
• Contrast:
• BUT: Immorality, impurity and greed
• Must not be named among true believers
• These do not belong to a believer and his
inheritance (1:11-18)
• Eph. 2:1-3 This is what we WERE
I Cor. 6:9-11
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Fornicators, adulterers
Idolaters
Effeminate, homosexuals
Thieves
Covetous
Drunkards
Revilers
Swindlers
They are not saved and therefore have no
inheritance
• Therefore: don’t partake/associate with them
Ephesians 5:7-14
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Worthy Walk Described:
Walk in the Light – you ARE Light in the Lord
Goodness
Righteousness
Truth
Pleasing to the Lord
Exposing deeds of darkness
Former Walk:
Darkness
Unfruitful
Disgraceful/shameful
Cross References
• John 1:1-8 Jesus brought light into the world of
darkness
• John 3:19-21 Unbelievers hate the Light, believers
come to the Light
• Col. 1:12-14 God the Father rescued believers from
the domain of darkness and gave them an
inheritance
• I John 1:5-7 God is light and in Him is no
darkness at all
• 2 Cor. 6:14 Believers and unbelievers have no
fellowship
• I Thess. 5:4-11 Be alert and sober as those who
walk in light when darkness is all around