INTRO: We are in Ephesians once more. Lord willing, I will seek to finish this chapter and then change subjects for a while. This second section in the practical part of the book of Ephesians is a very important section to understand. Paul says they are no longer to walk as they walked before they were saved. And then he describes that life in most graphic language. They walked in the futility of their minds. Their understanding was darkened. They were alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that was in them which was because the blindness of their heart. They had come to the point where their conscience was seared and they were past feeling and then they had given themselves over to shameless conduct to work all manner of uncleanness with greediness.
Contrasting that with how life should now be for them because they had been converted Paul says, "But you have not so learned Christ." And as a new creation in Christ, they were not to put off what the old man was like in his former conduct, and they are to be renewed by the Spirit with regard to their mind, and now in our passage, verse 24, Paul says:
24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
I have titled chapters 4-6, the practical section, "The Worthy Walk of the Saved." The first section dealt with walking in unity, this section deals with walking in holiness. This section has the heart of the doctrine of sanctification in it. The idea is that of the Christian's ever growing holiness.
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