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Changing Our Hearts, Our Habits, and Our Holiness

Chapter 4:17-32

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A Worthy Call to: Humility Mercy Gentleness Patience Burden Bearing

We are one – in seven ways: One Body – worldwide One Spirit – His Holy Spirit One Hope – Eternal Life through Jesus One Lord – Sovereign Ruler One Faith – Complete Trust One Baptism – Death and Resurrection One God – No Alternatives or Substitutes

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God gave Gifts for the equipping of His people to:

Build them up

Enable them for Service

Bring them to Unity in Faith

Make them Mature in Faith

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Futile Thinking - useless, fruitless, ineffectual and unsuccessful, and unproductive

Darkened Understanding - do not have access to His wisdom to be wise, His love to be able to love, His mercy to be merciful, and His light to bring truth

Separated from God - actions are dead, their hopes are dead, and their accomplishments are dead.

Hard Hearts - cruel, insensitive, callous, unkind, insensitive, and merciless

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Indulgent to Sensuality – giving in to our senses Taste - take more than they can eat and throw out more than others

can afford to buy.

Sight - “see it want it” mentality

Touch - comfortable at the expense of someone else. Guided by our feelings

Hearing – Gossip is no different than rape, murder, adultery, and hatred. “Did you hear about so and so…?”. “Want to know what I heard?”. “Well this is what so and so told me about him or her…”.

Smell - pushes those in need away and keeps them away

Full of Greed - Covetousness

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Put off the Old and Put on the New Old is corrupt and deceitful New is create to be like God in true righteousness and holiness

New Attitude of the Mind Develop the Mind of Christ

Speak Truthfully Speak truthfully to and about others Speak truthfully about yourself – no hiding behind the mask

Deal with Anger Don’t let it turn into bitterness which defiles many

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No Footholds – H.A.L.T. and shut them down. Hunger Anger Loneliness Tiredness

Be useful for others – look to share your earnings with those in need

Talk to build up – construct not destroy

Don’t Grieve the Holy Spirit – learn to hear and obey His voice

Compassionate, Kind, and Forgiving – emulate the actions of Jesus.

H.A.L.T – From a pamphlet by Charles Stanley

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Abandon the Gentile Way:

Futile thinking – useless, pointless, fruitless, and unsuccessful;

Darkened Understanding – there is no Light of Truth nor Wisdom of God;

Separated from God – dead in actions, hopes, and accomplishments;

Hard Hearts – callous, uncaring, merciless, and unsympathetic;

Indulgent to the senses – driven by fulfilling their senses at all costs;

Full of Greed – wanting more and more – money, power, and control;

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Take up the Way of Christ

A new attitude of the mind – having the mind of Christ;

Speak truthfully – about and to others and about ourselves;

Deal with Anger – don’t let it simmer;

No Footholds – H.A.L.T – recognize the potential footholds and shut them down;

Be Useful for Others – work is important, but your goal should be to share with those in need, not to stuff your own pockets;

Talk to Build up – no unwholesome, destructive, of corrupt talk;

Compassionate, Kind, and Forgiving – get rid of the bitterness, rage, slander and malice