Put Off, Put On

Ephesians 4:17-24

1. The old garment (vv. 17-19)

Put Off, Put On
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1. The old garment (vv. 17-19)

• No longer walk as the Gentiles
How we think and how we believe directly
affects how we live.
Put Off, Put On
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1. The old garment (vv. 17-19)

• No longer walk as the Gentiles
• Darkened understanding
“For although they knew God, they did not
honor him as God or give thanks to him, but
they became futile in their thinking, and
their foolish hearts were darkened.”
– Romans 1:21
Put Off, Put On
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1. The old garment (vv. 17-19)

• No longer walk as the Gentiles
• Darkened understanding
• Hardened hearts
Put Off, Put On
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1. The old garment (vv. 17-19)

• No longer walk as the Gentiles
• Darkened understanding
• Hardened hearts
• Calloused in sensuality
“Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of
their hearts to impurity.” – Romans 1:24
“Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of
their hearts to impurity.” – Romans 1:24
“…God gave them up to dishonorable
passions.” – Romans 1:26
“Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of
their hearts to impurity.” – Romans 1:24
“…God gave them up to dishonorable
passions.” – Romans 1:26
“God gave them up to a debased mind to do
what ought not be done. They were filled
with all manner of unrighteousness…”
– Romans 1:28-29
“What shall we say then? Are we to continue
in sin that grace may abound? By no means!
How can we who died to sin still live in it?
Do you not know that all of us who have
been baptized into Christ Jesus were
baptized into his death?
“We were buried therefore with him by
baptism into death, in order that, just as
Christ was raised from the dead by the glory
of the Father, we too might walk in newness
of life.” – Romans 6:1-4
Put Off, Put On
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2. The new garment (vv. 20-24)

Put Off, Put On
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2. The new garment (vv. 20-24)

• You have learned Christ
Put Off, Put On
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2. The new garment (vv. 20-24)

• You have learned Christ
• You are to obey Christ
“Turn your eyes from worldly desires. You
were made for higher things. The regenerate
heart will never find satisfaction in a fallen
world.” – Paul Washer
“Do not be deceived: neither the sexually
immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor
men who practice homosexuality, nor
thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor
revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the
kingdom of God. And such were some of
you.
“But you were washed, you were sanctified,
you were justified in the name of the Lord
Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.”
– 1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Spiritual growth is a journey of bringing our
thinking and speaking and living and loving
in line with what God has already made us
in Christ.
Put Off, Put On
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3. A word about grace and obedience

“His divine power has granted to us all things
that pertain to life and godliness, through the
knowledge of him who called us to his own
glory and excellence, by which he has granted
to us his precious and very great promises, so
that through them you may become partakers
of the divine nature, having escaped from the
corruption that is in the world because of
sinful desire.” – 2 Peter 1:3-4
Through faith in Christ, God transforms you
and enables you, through His Word and by His
Spirit that lives in you, to live in loving
obedience to Him from the heart.