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INTRO
Series: The New Self
A Christian is a new creation in Christ.
Principle: A change of belief == a change of life.
…I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer live as the Gentiles live… (17a)
Gentiles: Not Christians (in this context/usage)
How the Gentiles (non-Christians) live:
futility (empty, meaningless) of their thoughts (mind)
…in the futility of their thoughts.
(17b)
relativism — beliefs are only purposeful for this life
Futile thinking in the church: Christian anti-intellectualism
Reformation focus on educating the masses | APP: Know the story (bibliology), think about the implications (theology).
Neh 8:3 — BIBLE READING PLAN FOR 2020 in AUDIO
darkened in their understanding (moral understanding?) — What about the knowledge of good and evil?
They are darkened in their understanding… (18a)
dark/light motif of scripture
Genesis 1:3-4 cf.
Revelation 21:22–27 (27, light=no impurity) — and everywhere throughout
Those who walk in darkness do not practice truth (1 John 1:5–6).
Truth belongs to the light.
ignorant (resulting in godless living)
…excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.
(18b)
ignorant means ‘not knowing’
Option 1: They simply don’t know how to live a godly life in Christ Jesus.
Option 2: [correct] ILL: ignorant vs. ignore — They have hardened their heart to the truth and thus have become ignorant.
In this sense ignorance means, ‘refusing to believe.’
causes alienation from God (exclusion from a life with God)
APP: Believing the whole counsel of God (Acts 20:27-28—to the Ephesian Elders)
What about difference in beliefs?
Conversation on liberal vs. conservative—we want to conserve the truth of the scriptures even if there are differences in how they should be understood because it keeps us closer to the truth.
desire (worldview) for more and more (ILL: Promiscuity/licentiousness/self-abandon)
They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.
(19)
Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die
Conflation/Christianization of several Bible verses?
Not a biblical principle, but a principle of the broader ANE culture—and very much a principle of the Western World today.
Parable of the rich fool (Luke 12:16–21, v. 21)
APP: Focus on eternal things.
Comfort
Entertainment
Sensual pleasure: Food, drink, sex
Politics
Literally anything without eternal value
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