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Ephesians 4:17-24 The Message 

The Old Way Has to Go

17-19 And so I insist—and God backs me up on this—that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd. They’ve refused for so long to deal with God that they’ve lost touch not only with God but with reality itself. They can’t think straight anymore. Feeling no pain, they let themselves go in sexual obsession, addicted to every sort of perversion.
20-24 But that’s no life for you. You learned Christ! My assumption is that you have paid careful attention to him, been well instructed in the truth precisely as we have it in Jesus. Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything—and I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life—a God-fashioned life, a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you.

For Reflection

We have learned from Christ. We have read and listened to the word of the gospels. We have been offered a new life in the manner of Jesus Christ. We are made in the image of God, complete in the capacity to become be transformed, to become equivalent in form to Christ. The Holy Spirit dwells within our souls to guide us on a path to fulfill God's will for humans to grow; perfected in love, forgiveness, and grace.

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Pray so that you will become more like Christ.

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