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Old Self and New Self

Old Self and New Self. After becoming Christians, we are to continually put off the old self and put on the new self. Introduction. Challenge For both new and older Christians – overcome sinful culture in which they have been immersed

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Old Self and New Self

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  1. Old Self and New Self After becoming Christians, we are to continually put off the old self and put on the new self

  2. Introduction • Challenge For both new and older Christians – overcome sinful culture in which they have been immersed • Paul’s letters explain differences between the Christian character and the worldly character they had previously developed • Ephesus – chief city in Asia-Minor and center of trade and idol worship

  3. Introduction • Witness great temple to Artemis or Diana, fertility goddess, twin sister of Apollo, god of music • Temple one of seven wonders of the world • Great trade of silver idols to Artemis • A church was established in this idolatrous society

  4. Introduction • Eph. 4:17-5:17 written to teach Ephesian Christians to put off their old character and put on the Christian character • Today just as applicable to Christians who must set aside old sinful character learned from society and put on new Christian character patterned according to His will • We now examine some practices of the old self and new self with a view of putting off the old and putting on the new

  5. Old Self and New Self • Gentiles’ condition and its consequences

  6. Gentiles’ Condition And Its Consequences • Eph 4:17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, • Eph 4:18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

  7. Gentiles’ Condition And Its Consequences • Eph 4:19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  8. Gentiles’ Condition And Its Consequences • Their previous condition – futility of their mind • Condition produced by ignorance of God’s will and compounded by hardened heart, not wanting to know His will but wanting to practice sin and feel good about it • Consequences – excluded from the life of God

  9. Old Self and New Self • Gentiles’ condition and its consequences • Put off old self and put on new self

  10. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • When we become Christians, we not only receive forgiveness of sins but we also begin a new life • New life to be learned and practiced and it is different from old life • To please Him, our thinking, attitudes and practices must be changed to conform to this new self, according to the image of His Son

  11. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • Rom 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? • Rom 6:2 May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

  12. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • Rom 6:3 Or do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus have been baptized into His death? • Rom 6:4 Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too might walk in newness of life.

  13. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • Eph 4:20 But you did not learn Christ in this way, • Eph 4:21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, • Eph 4:22 that, in reference to your former manner of life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

  14. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • Eph 4:23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, • Eph 4:24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

  15. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • 2Co 5:17 Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.

  16. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • Change within the Christian not instant but requires continuous effort of putting off the old thinking, attitudes and habits and replacing with new ones according to the new self • Change is hard because old habits deeply embedded in our character • With God’s help and our submission to His Word, change happens to His glory

  17. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • Eph 2:1 And you were dead in your trespasses and sins, • Eph 2:2 in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

  18. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • Eph 2:3 Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

  19. Put Off Old Self And Put On New Self • Rom 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service of worship. • Rom 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

  20. Put Off Falsehood And Put On Truth • Eph 4:25 Therefore, laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR, for we are members of one another.

  21. Put Off All Lying No Matter What The Reason • No matter how socially acceptable, we are to stop lying • Society says lie when you think it will gain you something • Christians should never justify lying because no matter what form it takes, a lie is still a lie • God does not lie and He hates lying • Lying originated with Satan

  22. Put Off All Lying No Matter What The Reason • Heb 6:18 so that by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have taken refuge would have strong encouragement to take hold of the hope set before us. • Pro 6:16 There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: • Pro 6:17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,

  23. Put Off All Lying No Matter What The Reason • Pro 6:18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, • Pro 6:19 A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.

  24. Put Off All Lying No Matter What The Reason • Joh 8:44 "You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

  25. Put Off All Lying No Matter What The Reason • Lying can be speaking what is not true • Lying can also be not speaking what is true • Christians should avoid lying at all cost – nothing is worth lying for because it may well cost our soul

  26. Put Off All Lying No Matter What The Reason • No matter what type of lies we tell, unless we repent and stop lying, we will be eternally punished for • Business lies • Political lies • Social lies • Civil lies • Religious lies • All lies

  27. Put Off All Lying No Matter What The Reason • Rev 21:6 Then He said to me, "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost. • Rev 21:7 "He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be his God and he will be My son.

  28. Put Off All Lying No Matter What The Reason • Rev 21:8 "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

  29. Put On Speaking Truth To One Another • Eph 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him who is the head, even Christ,

  30. Old Self and New Self • Gentiles’ condition and its consequences • Put off old self and put on new self

  31. Put Off Sinful Anger And Put On Righteous Anger • Eph 4:26 BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger, • Eph 4:27 and do not give the devil an opportunity.

  32. Put On Righteous Anger • Possible and necessary for us to learn to be angry and not sin • God is wrathful or angry against all sin • Jesus too expressed anger against sin while on earth

  33. Put On Righteous Anger • Rom 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,

  34. Put On Righteous Anger • Eph 5:5 For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. • Eph 5:6 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

  35. Put On Righteous Anger • Mar 3:1 He entered again into a synagogue; and a man was there whose hand was withered. • Mar 3:2 They were watching Him to see if He would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they might accuse Him. • Mar 3:3 He *said to the man with the withered hand, "Get up and come forward!"

  36. Put On Righteous Anger • Mar 3:4 And He *said to them, "Is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the Sabbath, to save a life or to kill?" But they kept silent. • Mar 3:5 After looking around at them with anger, grieved at their hardness of heart, He *said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and his hand was restored.

  37. Put On Righteous Anger • Joh 2:14 And He found in the temple those who were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated at their tables. • Joh 2:15 And He made a scourge of cords, and drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen; and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables;

  38. Put On Righteous Anger • Joh 2:16 and to those who were selling the doves He said, "Take these things away; stop making My Father's house a place of business."

  39. Put On Righteous Anger • We must overcome the old habit of being indifferent toward sin, not reacting with anger toward what God hates • As Christians, we are to learn and practice anger and indignation toward sin

  40. Put On Righteous Anger • Jer 6:15 "Were they ashamed because of the abomination they have done? They were not even ashamed at all; They did not even know how to blush. Therefore they shall fall among those who fall; At the time that I punish them, They shall be cast down," says the LORD.

  41. Put On Righteous Anger • Eph 4:18 being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; • Eph 4:19 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  42. Put On Righteous Anger • Psa 97:10 Hate evil, you who love the LORD, Who preserves the souls of His godly ones; He delivers them from the hand of the wicked. • Rom 12:9 Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil; cling to what is good.

  43. Put On Righteous Anger • 2Co 7:9 I now rejoice, not that you were made sorrowful, but that you were made sorrowful to the point of repentance; for you were made sorrowful according to the will of God, so that you might not suffer loss in anything through us. • 2Co 7:10 For the sorrow that is according to the willof God produces a repentance without regret, leading to salvation, but the sorrow of the world produces death.

  44. Put On Righteous Anger • 2Co 7:11 For behold what earnestness this very thing, this godly sorrow, has produced in you: what vindication of yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what longing, what zeal, what avenging of wrong! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be innocent in the matter.

  45. Put Off Sinful Anger • Eph 4:26 BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger, • Eph 4:27 and do not give the devil an opportunity.

  46. Put Off Sinful Anger • Rejecting God’s way produces sinful anger which then controls us • This anger that is easily provoked by almost anything • This is the opposite of how God would have us be

  47. Put Off Sinful Anger • Gen 4:3 So it came about in the course of time that Cain brought an offering to the LORD of the fruit of the ground. • Gen 4:4 Abel, on his part also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of their fat portions. And the LORD had regard for Abel and for his offering; • Gen 4:5 but for Cain and for his offering He had no regard. So Cain became very angry and his countenance fell.

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