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Living

Beyond Yourself

Living

Beyond Yourself Some Assembly

Required

1:5 Adopted as God’s children1:5 Adopted as God’s children

1:6 Freely given God’s grace1:6 Freely given God’s grace

1:7 Redemption through Christ’s blood1:7 Redemption through Christ’s blood

1:7 Forgiveness for our sins1:7 Forgiveness for our sins

Spiritual Blessings in ChristSpiritual Blessings in Christ

1:9 We’re let in on the mystery that we gentiles have access to the

same salvation as the Jews

1:9 We’re let in on the mystery that we gentiles have access to the

same salvation as the Jews

1:13-14 We have the Holy Spirit1:13-14 We have the Holy Spirit

2:5 We’ve been made spiritually alive2:5 We’ve been made spiritually alive

2:6 We are seated with Christ2:6 We are seated with Christ

Spiritual Blessings In ChristSpiritual Blessings In Christ

2:19 Citizenship with God’s people2:19 Citizenship with God’s people

2:19 Members within God’s household2:19 Members within God’s household

3:6 Made heirs together with the Jews3:6 Made heirs together with the Jews

3:12 We can now approach God with freedom and confidence3:12 We can now approach God with freedom and confidence


3:18-19 We are informed that Christ loves us more than our natural

minds can grasp

3:18-19 We are informed that Christ loves us more than our natural

minds can grasp

4:7-16 We have been given specific gifts to help each other

mature

4:7-16 We have been given specific gifts to help each other

mature


Two responses:Two responses:

Positive:

(What to do)

• Live a life worthy of the calling you

have received

Negative:

(What not to do)

• Stop living like unbelievers;

• Stop thinking like unbelievers

17So I tell you this, and insist on

it in the Lord, that you must no

longer live as the Gentiles do, in

the futility of their thinking.





Ephesians 4:17-19Ephesians 4:17-19

18They are darkened in their

understanding and separated from

the life of God because of the

ignorance that is in them due to the

hardening of their hearts.







19Having lost all sensitivity, they

have given themselves over to

sensuality so as to indulge in every

kind of impurity, with a continual

lust for more.





lust for more.


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Ephesians 4:18Ephesians 4:18





lust for more.





lust for more.

Ephesians 4:19Ephesians 4:19

“All men seek happiness. This is without exception”

Blaise Pascal

Romans 1...19what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.

...God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse

Romans 1

...... they neither glorified him as God nor they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, butgave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

. . .. . .2323and exchanged the glory of the and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles. reptiles.

Romans 1

24Therefore Therefore God gave them overGod gave them over in in the sinful desires of their hearts to the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. their bodies with one another.

Romans 1

2828Furthermore, since they did not think it Furthermore, since they did not think it

worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God,

he gave them over to a depraved mindhe gave them over to a depraved mind, to , to

do what ought not to be done. do what ought not to be done.

Romans 1

... ... 2929 They have become filled They have become filled

with every kind of wickedness, with every kind of wickedness,

evil, greed and depravity.evil, greed and depravity.

1) Truth about God rejected1) Truth about God rejected

2) Self Caused Ignorance2) Self Caused Ignorance3) Darkened understanding / futile thinking, no experience of God3) Darkened understanding / futile thinking, no experience of God

4) No sensitivity to what is good4) No sensitivity to what is good

5) Runaway insatiable impurity5) Runaway insatiable impurity

Chain ReactionChain Reaction

Romans 12:2

Do not conform any longer to Do not conform any longer to

the pattern of this world, but be the pattern of this world, but be

transformed by the renewing of transformed by the renewing of

your your mindmind. .

Matthew 6:25-33

...do not worry about:...do not worry about:

–your lifeyour life

–what you will eat or drinkwhat you will eat or drink

–your clothesyour clothes3232For the pagans run after all these For the pagans run after all these thingsthings

Matthew 6:25-33

3333But seek first his kingdom and his But seek first his kingdom and his

righteousness, and all these things righteousness, and all these things

will be given to you as well.will be given to you as well.

Romans 6:11

...count (calculate, reckon, reason) ...count (calculate, reckon, reason)

yourselves dead to sin but alive to yourselves dead to sin but alive to

God in Christ Jesus.God in Christ Jesus.

1 Peter 1:13-16

Therefore, prepare your minds for

action...

... “Be holy, because I am holy.”

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