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Discover specific ways to walk differently in your life by resisting anger, bitterness, slander, and immorality. Learn the importance of purity and how to manage your emotions for a healthier mindset. Seek guidance from God and others to overcome these challenges.
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You should walk different (4:17-19) • This is how you walk different (4:20-24) • Specific ways we should walk different (4:25 – 5:20)
Walking Different • with our mouth • with our money • by resisting/fighting anger, bitterness, slander, malice, etc. • by being sexually pure (last week)
Fighting/resisting…. • anger/rage • bitterness • brawling • slander • malice • Get rid of all bitterness, rage and • anger, brawling and slander, along • with every form of malice. • Ephesians 4:31
Anger and Rage “In your anger do not sin:” do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. Ephesians 4:26-27 Get rid of all… rage and anger…. Ephesians 4:31
Anger and Rage “In your anger do not sin:” do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. Ephesians 4:26-27 Get rid of all… rage and anger…. Ephesians 4:31 rage: thumos (boiling up)…. thuo (to kill)
Fighting/resisting…. • anger/rage • bitterness • brawling • slander • malice • Get rid of all bitterness, rage and • anger, brawling and slander, along • with every form of malice. • Ephesians 4:31
If someone is caught in a sin, you who are spiritual should restore him gently…. Carry each other’s burdens…. Galatians 6:1-2 Each one should carry his own load. Galatians 6:5
Walking Different 1) with our mouth, 2) with our money, 3) by resisting/fighting, anger, bitterness, slander, malice, etc., 4) by being sexually pure. But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Ephesians 5:3
Ask God and ask someone else to help you get ride all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Ask God and ask someone else to help you get rid of every hint of sexual immorality and impurity…because these are improper for God’s holy people.