Paul exhorts us to walk in wisdom. Why does God care about us living wise lives? Because Jesus is king over all of life, and we should seek to glorify him will all that he has given us and every opportunity he has set before us.

Jesus referred to himself as the Light of the world. He also called his followers the light of the world, but how does that work? Paul calls us to live out our new nature in our new relationship with Jesus, extending his light into the darkness around us.

What does it look like to be a child of God? It means to walk in love, like Jesus did, and to no longer walk in other ways. To do so we need to understand our identity as God's children, be satisfied in his love, and know his truth.

What happens when we look at the Resurrection through the eyes of Doctor Luke? We get a better understanding of just how significant the Living Jesus is. God is doing something new in our world, and it changes everything.

Paul has laid out a paradigm for Christian change by putting off the old and putting on the new through the renewing of our mind. But what does that look like in life? Here, Paul gets concrete and shows us what the New life in Christ should look like, and the truths that lead us there.

The Christian walk involves both a crisis and a process. Because we have died and been raised with Christ we have new life, but we must continuously apply that new life in Christ by putting of the old, renewing our minds, and putting on the new.

We have seen that the church is to grow more like Christ, but how does that happen? By more and more becoming a community that speaks the truth in love to one another. It is the two together that grows a Christian, and the two together that grows a church.

There are certain gifts that Jesus has given that take priority in the church. This is not because they are more important, but because they are foundational. Evangelists, pastors and teachers exist to equip the body so that the whole body does the ministry and become a mature body of Christ.

God has made the church one, but we must constantly review what it is that makes us one church. Paul lists what defines the body and therefore what unifies it.

Paul begins his exhortation (based upon all the truths of his letter so far) with a call to social virtues that will sustain the new community God has formed in the church. We need to cultivate humility, gentleness and patience as a proper response to what God has done for us and what he has called us to.