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• how WORTHY is our dream?
• experiencing PLEASURE vs. developing personal
strengths
• HARDENED hearts attracted by deceitful desires
• futile thinking: MEANINGLESSNESS of life apart from
God (Ecclesiastes)
• “eat and drink - tomorrow we DIE”
• given over to sensuality – continuously want MORE
• TAUGHT in Jesus: propositional truth to shape us
• put/throw off the old self: Jesus calls us to DENY
ourself
• Holy Spirit teaches us, RENEWS our mental attitude
• PUT ON the new self: conform to Jesus’ likeness
• key thing about Christianity: not rituals but being
BORN AGAIN
• motor for behavioural change: indwelling HOLY
SPIRIT
• TRUTH: put off falsehood (4:25)
• TEMPER: be angry but don’t sin / give devil
toe-hold (4:26f)
• THIEVING: work so have something to share (4:28)
• TALK: not what’s rotten but helpful (4:29)
• don’t grieve Holy Spirit with whom we were MARKED
• not bitterness or brawling, but MIMIC God (5:1)
• live a life of LOVE - Christ loved us, gave
Himself as a sacrifice for us