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GRACE to YOU

KIF Spring 2012 Sermon Series - Ephesians. GRACE to YOU. KIF Spring 2012 Sermon Series - Ephesians. A Worthy Walk (A new creation). Ephesians 4:17-24.

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GRACE to YOU

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  1. KIF Spring 2012 Sermon Series - Ephesians GRACE to YOU

  2. KIF Spring 2012 Sermon Series - Ephesians A Worthy Walk(A new creation)

  3. Ephesians 4:17-24 17 So 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. 18 They 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. 19 Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. 20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 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; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

  4. So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you (Christian) must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God lost all sensitivity they have given themselves to indulge in every kind of impurity, and are full of greed. put off your old self put on the new self, created to be like God Ephesians 4:17-24 ME

  5. A NEW CREATION: A Third Race 2 Corinthians 5:17 (NASB) Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come. Galatians 2:20 (NIV) I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. Ephesians 2:10 (NASB) For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works,  Romans 7:20 (NASB) But if I am doing the very thing I do not want, I am no longer the one doing it, but sin which dwells in me.

  6. JONAH: Our Mirror Background Jonah 3:10 When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened. 1 But to Jonah this seemed very wrong, and he became angry. 2 He prayed to the LORD, “Isn’t this what I said, LORD, when I was still at home? That is what I tried to forestall by fleeing to Tarshish. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 

  7. Jonah 4 3 Now, LORD, take away my life, for it is better for me to die than to live.” 4 But the LORD replied, “Is it right for you to be angry?” 5 Jonah had gone out and sat down at a place east of the city. There he made himself a shelter, sat in its shade and waited to see what would happen to the city.  6 Then the LORD God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant. 

  8. Jonah 4 7 But at dawn the next day God provided a worm, which chewed the plant so that it withered. 8 When the sun rose, God provided a scorching east wind, and the sun blazed on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint. He wanted to die, and said, “It would be better for me to die than to live.” 9 But God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?”    “It is,” he said. “And I’m so angry I wish I were dead.”

  9. Jonah 4 10 But the LORD said, “You have been concerned about this plant, though you did not tend it or make it grow. It sprang up overnight and died overnight.  11 And should I not have concern for the great city of Nineveh, in which there are more than a hundred and twenty thousand people who cannot tell their right hand from their left—and also many animals?”

  10. “What did it (this plant) really mean to you? Your attachment to it could not be very deep, for it was here one day and gone the next. Your concern was dictated by self-interest, not by a genuine love. You never had for it the devotion of the gardener. If you feel as badly as you do, what would you expect a gardener to feel like, who tended a plant and watched it grow only to see it wither and die. . . ? And this is how I feel about Nineveh, only much more so. All those people, all those animals—I made them, I have cherished them all these years. Ninevah has cost me no end of effort, and they mean the world to me. Your pain is nothing to mine when I contemplate their destruction” Allen, Joel, Obadiah, and Micah, p. 234.

  11. “Put off your old self” >>Lessons from Jonah • That we might see God.  • God's special favor toward His people does not lessen His love for other people. • We must be willing to care for people more than our own selfish agendas. • How does this apply to those • we don't like, or who are our enemies? • A different political view, different Christian view • A different sexual orientation, addictions • A different view of the law, violence, family, etc.

  12. I knew that you are a gracious and compassionate God, slow to anger and abounding in love, a God who relents from sending calamity. 

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