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When I was a kid a loved to go shopping for new clothes.
Not because I liked trying on clothes, but because I liked hiding in those circle clothes racks.
I don’t shop for clothes anymore.
That’s one benefit of being married to someone who lists shopping for clothes as a life goal.
For the Christian, new clothes are essential.
But it’s not the clothes that your thinking of.
I don’t think God cares much about the fashion of the fabric we put on our bodies.
But according to this passage, God cares about the behaviors we wear as believers of God.
The new clothes or behaviors that we wear identify us like a uniform.
And like a fireman, policeman, or doctor, the clothes that we are called to wear say something about who we now are.
As Christians, we have become someone new.
We have been reborn with a new identity.
Therefore, like clothes we are to take off the old and put on the new.
that being a Christian means that we have been given a new nature.
In particularly we have been given new minds.
Not like the futility of the minds of lost people, minds that leads them down aimless paths.
Paths that lead them down no lasting purpose or meaning in life.
Why is changing behavior from old to new so important?
Because our natures and new way of thinking is meant to lead us to live new lives.
Paul says that our old minds that were without Christ thought futile thoughts and led us down aimless paths.
(v.17).
In particularly we have been given new minds.
Not like the futility of the minds of lost people, minds that leads them down aimless paths.
Paths that lead them down no lasting purpose or meaning in life.
Paths that lead us to no lasting purpose of meaning.
Our new nature certainly gives us new minds that leads to new ways of thinking and new values.
We are told that these new natures and new minds are “created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
(v.24)
But let me ask you this, “Are righteousness and holiness simply a matter of the mind?”
Is our new nature only to affect our thoughts.
Are holiness and righteousness merely to affect our insides, our thoughts and our intentions?
No.
He tells us not to walk as the Gentiles do.
So, he gives us new minds.
That tells me that new minds are to lead us to a new walk.
These new righteous behaviors are the new clothes.
They identify us as who we are and whose we are.
They reflect our the righteousness .
So what do those uniforms look like?
Just like policemen are recognized by blue clothes, handcuffs, badges, guns, and tasers.
And doctors are recognized by their white coats and stethascopes.
What does God want his children to be recognized by?
There are behaviors we should take off and others we should put on.
In -54, Paul identifies six specific behaviors that should mark believers.
Today we will look at 3 of them and next week we will look at 3 more.
There are behaviors we should take off and others we should put on.
I. Tell the truth, not lies.
(v.
25)
Eph.
4:25
Christians are to value truth.
We are to love the truth.
As a matter of fact, Christ himself once described himself as the truth.
Christ is truth.
So, as Christians we are people of the truth.
*Stephen Hawking and John Lennox (professor of Math at Oxford) were preparing for a debate at Cambridge.
A reporter from the Times asked Hawking for a comment on religion and he responded with, "Religion is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
Being fair, the reporter turned to Lennox and asked him for a comment on atheism and he commented, "Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the light."
So, we are people that carry the truth because we carry the gospel.
And because we carry the ultimate truth.
Telling the truth in all things honors the truth of the gospel.
Telling the truth makes us trustworthy.
It’s our trustworthiness that makes us look different and earns us a hearing for the gospel.
But, Paul highlights something else that telling the truth does.
Notice that we are to tell the truth because, “for we are members of one body.”
(v.25).
What does being members of one body have to do with not telling lies to each other but telling the truth?
One body is a reference to unity among believers.
We are made one body by the truth of the gospel.
Therefore telling the truth about all things builds trust among believers in society.
It shows love for each other.
And, that makes us a stronger church.
That makes us a unified church.
And only a unified church who trusts each other can glorify God and work together to accomplish the purpose for which we are here.
II.
Get angry, but in a godly way.
(v.26)
Now this command is difficult.
Paul commands us to be angry.
In the sermon on the Mount Jesus tells equates anger to murder in our hearts.
Not murdering is on the top 10 list.
And we also have to consider that God displayed anger at times.
In , we see Paul referencing God’s anger.
Jesus was clearly angry when he entered the temple and saw the people making it what he called a den of robbers.
He turned over the table and ran everyone out with a whip.
So there is such a thing as righteous anger and unrighteous anger.
Here Paul is actually commanding us to have righteous anger.
Righteous anger is the anger that God has over unrighteousness.
There are some things that we should get angry about.
If it is a sin, not to do what we should do, then it is a sin not to be angry about unrighteousness and injustice.
*We can find ourselves too idle or complacent over things we should be angry about the fact that well over 600,000 abortions are performed in the United States almost every year.
*We should be angry that half of all marriages in the U.S. end in divorce.
*We should be angry over fathers that don’t stay faithful to their spouses and leave their homes.
We should be angry about what that does to these children.
63% of all youth suicides come from Fatherless homes.
90% of all homeless and runaway youths come from Fatherless homes.
71% of all high school drop outs come from Fatherless homes.
70% of juveniles in state operated institutions come from state operated institutions.
75% of adolescent patients in substance abuse centers come from Fatherless homes.
(Statistics of Fatherless in America by Wayne Parker)
According to statistics done by Feeding America 40 million people in the United States struggle with hunger of which 12 million are said to be children.
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