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Walking Different: Speaking and Giving with Purpose

Discover specific ways to walk differently with your words and money according to Ephesians 4 and 5. Learn to speak truthfully, build others up, avoid negative language, and be generous in your giving. Take steps towards living a life that reflects your identity in Christ.

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Walking Different: Speaking and Giving with Purpose

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  1. You should walk different (4:17-19) • This is how you walk different (4:20-24) • put off your old self • remember who you are in Christ • put on your new self • Specific ways we should walk different • (4:25 – 5:20)

  2. Walking Different with our mouth • don’t talk bad: • no bad language/dirty jokes (5:4) • no unwholesome talk (4:29) • talk good: • tell the truth (4:25) • build others up; be thankful (4:29, 5:4, 5:19-20)

  3. Walking Different with our mouth don’t talk bad: no bad language/dirty jokes Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. Ephesians 5:4

  4. Walking Different with our mouth don’t talk bad: no bad language/dirty jokes no unwholesome talk Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Ephesians 4:29

  5. Walking Different with our mouth • don’t talk bad: • no bad language/dirty jokes (5:4) • no unwholesome talk (4:29) • talk good: • tell the truth (4:25) • build others up; be thankful (4:29, 5:4, 5:19-20)

  6. Walking Different with our mouth talk good: tell the truth Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one body. Ephesians 4:25

  7. Walking Different with our mouth • Reasons people lie: • To save face, protect themselves • To avoid confrontation • To be nice

  8. Walking Different with our mouth talk good: tell the truth build others up; be thankful …but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Ephesians 4:29 …but rather thanksgiving. Ephesians 5:4

  9. Walking Different with money He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need. Ephesians 4:28

  10. Walking Different with money …but must work, doing something useful with his own hands…. Ephesians 4:28 Work: kopiao – to grow weary, tired, exhausted; to labor with wearisome effort; to toil.” kopos – a beating.

  11. Walking Different with money He who has been stealing must steal no longer, but must work, doing something useful with his own hands, that he may have something to share with those in need. Ephesians 4:28

  12. Walking Different with money • If you don’t give: start somewhere; give something…give anything! • If you give – but not generously: set a goal to incrementally increase the percentage of your income • If you are a generous giver: keep giving…and looking for ways to increase your giving

  13. Walking Different with our mouth and money Listen to your mouth… and look at your giving… and ask God and someone elseto help you walk different.

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