Louisburg and Overland Park
GreetingThe Old Way Has to Go
17And so I insist — and God backs me up on this — that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. 18 They've refused for so long to deal with God that they've lost touch not only with God but with reality itself. 19 They can't think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion. 20 But that's no life for you. You learned Christ! 21 My assumption is that you have paid careful attention to him, been well instructed in the truth precisely as we have it in Jesus. 22 Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything — and I do mean everything — connected with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life — a God-fashioned life, 23 a life renewed from the inside 24 and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you. Eph 4:17-24 Don’t you just love The Message version of the Bible? It lays it out so plainly. Two weeks ago we talked about a “Transformed Mind” from Romans 8:6 and Romans 12:2; last week a “Transformed Heart” using Matthew 5:8 and Luke 6:4-5; and today a “Transformed Lifestyle” from Ephesians 4:17-22 and Colossians 3:5-17. Let us, each one, be open to what it means to let all of this transformation be lived out in our life every single day. We are given some very practical ways to do just that. Livin’ the Life!
Pastor Bob
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