Christians are not Chameloens (Miriam Dale) | Your Place in Gods Plan

Life and I'm reading in the in are they such Visions, chapter 4, as we continue our studies, in this book and it's starting at verse 17 rating through to do chapter 5 verse 20 instructions to Christian Living. So I tell you this and insist on it in the Lord that you must no longer to leave this. The Gentiles to in the futility of their thinking, I had darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of that Hearts. Having lost clothes into tivity. I have given themselves over to sensuality. So as to indulge in every kind of impurity and I have full of greed. That whoever is not the way of life you learned. When you heard about Christ and you were told him him. According with the in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires to be made new in the attitude of your mind and you put on the new self-created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness. Play for each of, you must put off full suit and speak truthfully to your neighbor who you are. All members of one body in your anger. Do not sin. Do not let the sun go down, while you are angry and do not give the devil a foothold. Anyone who has been stealing Bastille. No longer must work and do something useful with their own hands, but they may have something to share with those who are in need. Do not live in the unwholesome tour, come out of your mouths. But only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs that? It might benefit those who listen and do not grieve the holy spirit of God with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption, get rid of old business, rage, and anger, brawling, and slander along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another forgiving each other just as Christ just as in Christ, God, forgave you.

Follow God's example. Therefore is dearly loved children and walk in the way of love. Just as Christ, loved us and gave himself up for us, as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. But among you, it must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or any kind of impurity or greed. Because these are reports of God's holy people nor should they be any obscenity foolish talk or coarse joking which are out of place. But rather Thanksgiving for of this, you can be sure no immoral in Pure or greedy person. Such a person is in our daughter. Has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ, and a dog. Let no one deceive you with empty words for because of such things. Got rough comes on those who disobey me and therefore do not be partners with the flu. Once you were once Darkness, but now you are life in the Lord liveth shooting of life for the fruit of the light consisting. Oh goodness, righteousness and truth and find out what pleases the Lord have nothing to do with the fruitless days of darkness, but rather expose them. Is shameful even to mention with the disability do in secret, but everything exposed By the Light becomes visible and everything that is illuminated becomes a lot. That is why the Stig wake up. Sleeping rise from the dead and crossed who shot on you. Be very careful in how you lose unwise what is wise making the most of every opportunity? Because the days are evil day for, do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is. Instead be filled with the spirit speaking to one another, with songs, hymns and songs from the spirit sing and make music from your heart, to the lord, always giving. Thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, and the real afford to Miriam speaking to us about the sun. Let's just pray for her as she brings the message. Father God, we just thank you for your presence with us. We thank you for your word, which we have just shared together and load. We look forward to hearing during speak about it. We ask that your spirit will just speak through her into our hearts. In Jesus name. I'm in.

Is David and Tyrone? My name is Miriam. If you didn't get that, it's a real joy to be here and sharing with you this evening and thanks.

Another is to others, has a massive package, even the even the lights of the reading will tell you that there's a lot of content packing to me when I was trying to show me singer, senior pastor about. That's a big one. Sorry to say it is a really good deal. So suggested that we use the change, I bring a sample of the transition between the old and new life, but I think two point five minutes, but I am going to try and give us a bit of the context in Ephesians and then an overview of the structure of the cells. And then we're going to pick up

Surfaces of the contact the rising as you may remember, from prison pool is sending his greetings to one or several churches in the area of Essex. What the gospel is, but the mystery of this good news is, and how it impacts the most Gentiles that he's Washington. That he begins to emphasize the importance of people who caught an accident that this next passage purchases on sin. And righteousness. This is the distinction between the old and new life is change the stepping away from the church is a Halo. This is not just about be good, Johnny, be bad, or even a call to leave a life of sin. As an individual,, If we want to be reunified Church of the sort that would last week in his salmon. We need to take seriously the state of a heart is individuals with a new life in Christ requires a new way of living and accountability when your community Set up some overall context and now into the structure and shaping this particular passage between the difference. If there is to be between his audience and the erstwhile. If she's not in the same way. It's a cool for US, Today's witness and how we are to be different. Primarily identified, primarily by trash, not by us or a tribe, or a political party or history. He begins with testified this word used to introduce a solemn declaration, Isaiah testify in the Lord. He says and this is a silencing statement, irrelevant mumblings and daydreaming about to say,

Now this I say and testify in the Lord. He says he must no longer work at the Gentiles. Do in the future is he of them on, or is Eugene Peterson puts it in his message? And so, I insist and God, that's me up to Debi, Norton, along with the trash out of the empty-headed Mindless crowd. Before encountering Jesus three pools words in life with no distinguishing features. And now, they're part of the family of God, with the Jews in the world, is not cold to be circumcised. That is a physical distinction from their neighbors. They are cool. If they must, I need to have to be separate from the original Gentile communities in the way that they are being invited into the set apart to, Tennessee.

How to be different there old model says, what is ignorant? And not because they're on education or intellectually deficient, but because they're unable to access the truth without exception. Spirit. I have become callous. I love that word cuz it's a really strong image. The idea of a heart that is start a list. Well, that have calluses on. It is a really interesting. I remember a story once told me about why you shouldn't travel in a particular region without Android camping without your boots on. I was sleeping without your boots on at night. And the reason for this is because a whole bunch of people have gone camping in which is a horrible image and then to look. I didn't have a problem with this because I had walked outside so often they had worked in before they spent most of the year and benefits. I have such strong calluses on their face that they didn't even feel when they chew on their feet. Didn't even notice that these disease-carrying German. We're basically feasting on this flesh. Another pretty awful image, and if you're shaking his head that yes, it is awful as meant to be a hot against rage by the hotness of the Pharisees heart is like, I actually get in the way of his healing because they have such power to play, block his healing work. Search and how cool is Washington used to have hot. So calloused, the vermin's sing beasts and thriving them and they would not nauseous. And in the same way. They were still that house was gone and had given themselves up to sensuality Grady to practice every kind of impurity. Then I'll just admit to stealing the sexual and other in real estate, but they're see how far they contagious how far they can explore this world because sinful desires, I never satisfied. But Paul says, this is not the way you learned in Jesus. Did you really learn in Jesus, this pool? And then you taught me living this way. You can try and see how close to the abyss you can get if you really met Jesus and you knowing that you need to put off your old self which belongs to the form of matter of life, and rupture, and emptiness, and loneliness. So was it mean to put off your old self? Like me to do miss being told as an old man that he must be born. Again, when we really think that it's a really strange statement. How do we take off our old selves and it's hard to understand, it would have been sufficient as well.

Instead. He says you've been raised with Christ, set your hot on things above where Christ is stationed. At the right hand of God, set your mind on things above not on as they think you died. And you'll life is. Now, she has Frost in God when frosting is your life. If he is, then you will also appear with him in glory. Put suggest therefore, Puccini's, whatever belongs to Edison nature, sexual immorality. Impurity lost evil, desires and greed, which is idolatry because of these. The wrath of God, is Tommy used to work in his ways know why she wants. But now you must also reach yourselves of all such things as base and rage malice land and filthy language from your lips to each other. Since you've been taken off your old self circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarians Vivian slave or free. The crust is all

Before Scott's charging people only and dearly love yourselves with compassion. Kindness, humility, and gentleness and patience. If any of you has a grievance against someone to give us a lord forgave you and ever will be said she's put on love which binds them all together in perfect Unity. With the Peace of Christ, rule in your heart, since its members of one body, and be thankful for the message of Christ. While I'm on you as richly as you teach and admonish one another with old country songs, hymns and songs from the spirit in your heart and whatever you do with all in the name of the Lord, Jesus giving, thanks to God the Father.

It was hearing some parallels with the fishing stuff too. We need to communicate new practices, new knowledge. And um, we put the Death Star old practices by intentionally neglecting to feed them without time and I practiced.

And In this passage poet's, playlist contrast is sets of pairs of old ways and new ways. Will Sims in their opposing righteousness, but their opposites, that we would not expect. Justice League vs. 18 to 19 is which borrelia like God and true righteousness and holiness. And that righteousness and Holiness is expressed your putting off. It. And instead, speaking truth. There's the first of several references to anger, but we'll come back to that. But I do want to take pairing. He talks about stealing and he says that I must stop stealing and stop being productive. Independent and generous. The statement is not just about stopping seeing about stepping into a completely opposing life that have god-given work and generosity. A bubble letter of mine back in the day once shared with me. How a stupid head,. He says to deeply personal and breaking skin, but they were struggling to resist returning to consistently. They described how how they had been able to break the pattern.

I'm on lunch or recalled, having a child challenge, the students to spend less time concentrating on the statement on all the things. She was not meant to do but rather should be thinking on things that we're going to fill his mind with Bill talks, the body of Christ in Gaston the beauty of Christ and on the good works that he was told today that you have no time to space in his head to be distracted.

How to remember a book on sexual immorality that describes Houston must act up when we are bored and tired. I'm going to bed angry in there, as well, as simple as do that again. Lonely, hungry tired and gray. At a stop sign is not just to give up something opens up to Temptation. Do not steal instead and be generous. Hooters on Alma Street, in quickly rejecting corrupt, when members of one another, as well as individual. Which All Saints Day. But these ones in particular, do not grieve the Holy Spirit business and Ross and Angela and Tom and slammed and Malice come next. Let's take a moment to think about holes languages. Alien verse 26. He said innuendo do not set or in my translation be angry. But I suggest you didn't get angry and possibly even though he cleaned a temple porch with a whip and you over 10 tables and he drove out markets tenders and stole. How old is this? Was not the first time that he had come into. The temple would have been there dozens of times over the years preceding this.

The wall. Does rain jackets in any justice. There's so many things that we mistake for righteous anger because we don't do it. Well. Hold onto and even or even nice as described and give the devil a foothold, and that's a powerful and confronting image, as humbling for me. I know that I can really carry a grudge. If I feel like my trust has been broken in the name of Justice or righteousness of challenging, the oppressor. First things are important to Sanger any elements of business, Roth unrighteous and a clematis plant. Can I give the devil a foothold? I planted the seeds of Destruction.

How do we do Ender well? Unfortunately, we don't have 3 hours or 3 years to explore it in detail here. But I think there are few clues that we find in the phone.

Safest way to be kind and tender-hearted giving one another as God in Christ, forgave us and fled into the arms of Destroyers to give me so much that I must be. There is pretty much nothing. I can take to God and say we'll even you wouldn't forget it. Well, we are told to acting wisdom and therefore should not be foolish and allow yourself to be repeatedly. Sinned against there is no sin. So great.

Translate time in Sydney practice, but he can take the weight of a hitch and I'm a blessed. If it gets annoyed. How much we have been enabled us to be kind and tender-hearted.

Next invoices 324. We have another person's hair. We have a morality. This is Thanksgiving and pull really strongly pools, out in puracy Consciousness, filthiness foolish. And that's a hot word when a female sexual judge make a big pot of a language of Armenia of a popular hip hop, strangely ridiculous. That is what place within marriage that lasts have it. So I do has a purpose in life are a thing or after seeing. What is a person? Holcombe Dam set. But it's the opposite is also interesting, the opposite.

So why would the opposite of immorality and covetousness?

I wonder if it's because both of Dyson stick to find satisfaction in something other than making them into idols and voices them can be equally challenge by doing science for the way that got a line satisfy complete film and hila. And it's tied back to a question about anger. How can I resist the urge to stay in in Anger by always and only living out of our identity as beloved children? And giving when we living Thanksgiving, we don't need to hold onto an Android. If it's the only thing that will protect us and that's so often the reason why we hold on because when we know who we are in Christ for daily practice, for what he has done, then we can be a great Injustice and fought for just us. His beloved children.

And finally, one more parent that teaches how to live in Christ from dresses 8 to 14. Hironori Leopold. Pulling his audience to take no part in the unfruitful, works of darkness and actively rejecting and confessing anything is exposed by the light post. As it becomes visible for anything that becomes visible is Flash. Therefore, it says awake or asleep and arise from the dead in Christ. Will Sean be after confessing a since 2000 are immediate. And when necessary is an act of bringing lunch and allowing go to transform, even hard and difficult and confronting. I don't remove Styles and Shane and it brings healing. Hey to, I post my sins are implicated in a Corporate Exchange, the healing of confession requires community. This applies to send Defender and sense of every other time, sexual immorality, malice, and falsehood ceiling. You can grieving the Holy Spirit. We are accountable to a church, but I'm sure it's too is accountable to us helping us to heal your corporation. And when necessary public confession and accountability. What is a coolest jet to touch on base? A team, that same desire for healing forgetfulness release from fear or anxiety, that drives us towards drunkenness. And very things that we find in the spirit which electron can guess which leads to The Butchery. Gives us the gifts of wisdom and Grace and self-control.

Michelle Williams with music of all things. Be filled with the spirit Cesspool addressing one another in Psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs singing and making Melody to the load. We do hot giving. Thanks, always and forever going to go to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Why is there? Why is this the art of Being filled with the spirit is if I brightest weapon against business and Bella's last and how much is nest?

Which is the route and my stomach and a recipe then individual and corporate worship song is the mark of a thankful church. We may be weary and whelmed sinful and repenting. But where would you recognize that God's grace is still sufficient. Then we will always have things to me and we can we can live the life of a set of hot.

How to fix time to Christian not being chameleon. How does this impact?

But let me leave you with this question. Now, in the midst of a pandemic and a lockdown, can we be thankful.

And we avoid sitting in a tender resisting, the urge to dehumanize or demon eyes. That is we disagree with leadership, or in a friends or family Circle. Do we allow at cards? Just a very understandable overwhelm or apathy to start swallow us and identify us that we open ourselves up to temptation.

How much is a hard call? The police asking his audience. Jesus? Putting the Spears and only in the spirit, we as individuals and the body of Christ are empowered to do it. We're all inadequate. God helps us all. A church is not too different to that of a suspect imposed. A we are offered a new set of pot life. And if we want to live it we must be different set apart. Holy even and especially In a pandemic.

So in the spirit of Paul's words, let us sing together with sobs, hymns and spiritual songs sounds effects.