Ephesians 4:19 - Forerunner Commentary

Ephesians 4:19

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17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should ^ano longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the ^ablindness of their heart;

19 ^awho, being past feeling, ^bhave given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20 But you have not so learned Christ,

21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:

22 that you ^aput off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

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Here again is education. Conversion is an educational process, but it is an educational process in the right things. If we are not being educated in the right things, the conscience will adjust to the wrong things. Conscience is not something God can put into a person by fiat.

We have to make choices. We are going to grow one way or the other. Our liberty in Christ is that we have been put in a position where we can make the choice. That is our liberty. Those in the world are not free to make that choice.

Through this process of conversion, it is our responsibility to make effort to put off the old man by changing conduct because the conscience will follow. It will go in the direction of the conduct. If we make the effort to do those things, then we will be renewed in our mind, and the conscience will follow right along. Here are some of the specific things we have to do:

Excerpted from Conscience (Part 2)

Ephesians 4:17-21

The truth is in the Person. We can say the truth is in the example. He is the one that we have to be fixated on. And what He tells us, what we need to do,

Excerpted from Jesus in the Feasts (Part Two): Firstfruits

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