Clean ClothesClean MindEphesians 4:17-25

What Happens Next?

4:17-2017 Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer live as the Gentiles live, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance and hardness of heart. 19 They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a continual lust to practice every kind of impurity. 20 That is not the way you learned Christ!

Some Background Context

1:13 In him you also (when you had heard the word of truth,

the gospel of your salvation, and had believed in him) were marked with the seal of the promised Holy Spirit… 2:1-3 You were dead through the trespasses and sins in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work among

those who are disobedient. All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, following the desires of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else.

The Futile Mind• Darkened, ignorant and hardened• = alienated from God

• Lost all sensitivity• = self-abandonment• = immorality• = continual pursuit of sensuality

Drink Sizes Over Time• 1950 – 200ml• 2007 – 1200ml

Sex Scenes Over Time

4:21-2421 For surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught to take off your former way of life, your old humanity, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, 23 and to be renewed in the attitude of your minds, 24 and to put on the new humanity, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

Old Clothes Off

Mind Made New

New Clothes On

A Worked Example25 So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another.