“But You Did Not Learn Christ In This Way…”
“But You Did Not Learn Christ In This Way…”
Blessings folk!
Remember how the Gentiles/the world walks…
In futility of mind
Darkened in understanding
Excluded from the Life of God because of ignorance in them
Excluded because of hardness of heart
Callous
Given to sensuality
Practicing every kind of impurity with greediness.
Thus is the world.
The Spirit continues through Paul…one long verse.
Read it as a complete thought…
Eph 4:20-24
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,
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,
and put on the new self,
which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Ah, that powerful word, “but”.
In contrast to the previous.
They had not learned Christ in this way.
They knew to walk not in the path of the Gentiles.
They knew what to do.
Do we?
Lay aside the old self!
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