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Carried About by Every WindEphesians 4:22-24
Excerpted from: Love and WorksPut off is like taking off a piece of clothing, that you strip yourself of something. Now granted, taking off a piece of clothing is not really hard work. But you get the point. The clothing would never come off unless you worked to get it off. And that is the way that Paul is illustrating this. Only in this case, he is talking about conduct. We have to work at putting off the old man.
God is holy; we are to become holy. This word holy is a different word from the other word that is most frequently translated holy. This word means to be without contamination. Think about this: if you become dirty, because you have been working, you have got dirt on your face, hands, arms, maybe some of it is grease spots, it is very difficult to get it off. Is that dirt, that which contaminates you, going to come off just because you wish it so?
No, we become uncontaminated, we become clean because we work at it. You see the analogy is being followed through here. Everywhere Paul puts an illustration, he is showing that effort must be made in order to become holy, in order to be transformed into the image of God. There is action required on our part.
Ephesians 4:22-24
Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Two): FirstfruitsThis summarizes the matter so well. God has given gifts to the church to, among other things, help the saints grow spiritually to the image of Christ, into the new man, the perfect man. And this entails forsaking the human way and embracing the godly way. I really need to emphasize: Paul says, "the truth is in Jesus." You do not have to look any farther. You do not have to get any other person's opinion about things. The truth is in Him. We must put on Christ. We must talk His talk and walk His walk. That is, we must live as God created us through salvation to live the way of true holiness and righteousness. And if we do that, if we follow the way, we will be firstfruits after the manner of the Firstfruit, Jesus Christ.
Ephesians 4:24
Excerpted from: Jesus in the Feasts (Part Six): The Eighth DaySo in this way it shows that we do not have the fullness of Christ. We start pretty much at empty and we need to be filled with the fullness of Christ until we get to the point where we are of His measure and stature.
So we start out where we need to get rid of a lot of our humanity and begin backfilling with the new man. And those things that we are putting on reflect true righteousness and holiness.
Ephesians 4:20-24
Excerpted from: What Is the Church?Now Paul described the futility of the Gentiles' way in previous verses and tells the Ephesians that this is not what they have been taught. They have been taught the truth that is in Jesus. Knowing the truth should produce a change that puts off the former conduct of sin, corruption, and the old way of life, and puts on the new person that God creates in us with His Holy Spirit after baptism.
Ephesians 4:24
Excerpted from: Don't Take God for GrantedIt is not easy to put on the new man. Ephesians 4:24 tells us that this is what we are to do. Now the old man is on us and sometimes we have a hard time putting on the new. But God says to put on the new man, which is Jesus Christ.
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