Welcome to episode 181 of Grasp the Bible.  In this episode, we continue our study in the Book of Ephesians, covering chapter 4:17-24.  Today, we will cover: 

• Exhortation to Live Differently Than Non-Christians (v. 17) 
• Description of the Condition and Lifestyle of Non-Christian Gentiles (vv. 18–19) 
• The New Identity in Christ and Exhortation to the New Lifestyle (vv. 20–24) 

Key takeaways: 

• Life is vain, futile, and without purpose, unless it is ordered around God and His purposes. 
• The characteristics of lives of unbelievers are: 
• They are darkened in their understanding. 
• They are separated from the life of God. 
• they are ignorant of God in the sense that they have rejected Him and do not know Him personally. 
• They have hard hearts. 
• They have lost all sensitivity.  
• They have given themselves over to sensuality. 
• They indulge in every kind of impurity. 
• They are full of greed. 

Quotable: 

• Christian belief includes Christian ethics. 

Application: 

• Christians are called to live their daily lives in a way that is sharply differentiated from the world around them and from the lifestyle that characterized their pre-Christian past. 
• The worldviews and lifestyles of the unbelieving Gentiles are utterly opposed to the new life that these believers have in Christ. 
• Once we recognize the emptiness and hopelessness of the old ways, we should be filled with horror at our terrible choices and throw them far away. 
• As believers, we must... 
• put off the old,  
• be made new,  
• and put on the new.  

Until we have followed through on all of these, we cannot pretend to be living God’s way. 

• Those who live holy lives do so by repeated putting offs. 
• We must allow the Holy Spirit to reshape our way of thinking and thereby resist the deceitful desires of sin. 

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