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*Walking in Newness of Life*
*Ephesians 4:17-24*
The great church father Augustine lived a very promiscuous life prior to his conversion.
Not long after he was converted, he was walking down the street and one of his old mistresses recognized him.
She called out to him, “Augustine!
Augustine!”
He ignored her and continued down the street.
Again she called out, “Augustine, it is Claudia!”
He replied, “But it is no longer Augustine,” as he continued walking.
Augustine was walking in newness of life and refused to answer the call of his old life.
In Ephesians 4:1, we are exhorted to walk in a manner worthy of our calling in Christ.
In other words, we are to live in a fashion that is fitting for those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ.
We have noticed that this involves walking in unity in vv.
1-6.
We also noticed that it involves walking toward maturity in vv.
7-16.
In vv.
17-24, we discover that a worthy walk is to walk in newness of life.
Paul develops this theme by a contrast between the old, unredeemed life and the new life in Christ.
Paul utilizes terms that deal with wardrobe.
The old life is to be put off like a dirty garment.
The new life is to be put on like a desirable garment.
The controlling idea is that those who have been saved by grace and are the new creation of God must demonstrate that change in their lifestyle.
I.
New people must not live the old lifestyle (vv.
17-19).
A.
Stop walking like the Gentiles.
1. Gentile is not being used here in terms of race or
Ethnicity.
2. Rather, it points to those who are unconverted.
We
might use the term “pagan” or “unsaved.”
3. Note the urgency and authority in the exhortation.
B.
The old lifestyle is spiritually bankrupt.
1. /It is a mindset of emptiness/.
Futility of thinking does
not mean the unsaved have no intellectual power.
It means that their whole mindset is one of emptiness
and folly since they deny God.
It is the idea that the
intelligence of the unsaved is employed to no end.
To
take a mind-set that denies and ignores God is to find
yourself pursuing intellectual emptiness – a dead end.
2. /It is a mindset of darkness/.
Though a different Greek term is employed for understanding, the focus is still
on the reasoning, thinking, deciding of the lost.
Their
thought processes, though active and capable, are
conducted in spiritual darkness.
Like a person who
has working eyes but cannot see in the dark.
3. /It is an alienation caused by ignorance/.
They are
excluded from the life of God because of willful
ignorance.
They choose to ignore God and His
truth and so they are cut off from the life of God.
4. /It is an ignorance caused by hardness of heart/.
The
ignorance of God flows from a hard which is hard
toward God.
This is not a person who doesn’t know.
It is a person who knows and rejects the truth.
It is a
person who stubbornly rejects the truth of God.
5. /It is spiritual insensitivity/.
The word callous refers to
skin which has become hard and no longer feels pain.
By continual rejection of truth, the conscience no
longer functions normally.
As one author said, they
“lose the capacity to feel shame or embarrassment.”
6. /It is unrestrained immorality/.
The term sensuality
refers to vice which throws off all restraint and
flaunts itself without regard for decency.
This moral
chaos is expressed in “every kind of impurity.”
This
impurity is pursued with greediness.
This doesn’t
refer to greed as another category.
It refers to the
insatiable desire for more and more impurity.
ILL~/APP: This description sounds familiar doesn’t it.
Look at Romans 1:18-25.
Do you see the pattern?
A world view which suppresses the truth of God leads to empty speculation and darkened, foolish hearts.
This gives rise to unrestrained desires for impurity which is practiced without restraint.
This is the spiritual equivalent of a person dying of thirst gorging himself with salt water.
Many people marooned at sea have died from dehydration because they kept drinking the salt water.
Thinking they would relieve their thirst, they got thirstier and thirstier and eventually died of dehydration.
That is what happens to humanity when people ignore and suppress the truth of God.
They are self-deceived in their sin.
Sin sounds satisfying.
They indulge their sinful attitudes and practices more and more.
Yet, they are spiritually dying of thirst.
This is the old life.
It is the unregenerate life.
It really cannot be properly called life at all.
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