Ephesians 4:17-24

I. Don't walk in the way of the world.
a. Their way of thinking is empty.
-futility = mataiotes = vanity, empty
-Eccl. 1:2
-mind = noos = thinking faculty, reasoning capacity, the mindset
-Col. 3:2
b. They accept no knowledge of God.
c. They harden their heart.
-hardness = porosis = stubborn, hardness, lack of feeling; idea of being rock hard
-callous = apalgeo = to cease to feel pain or grief, become callous, insensitive to pain
-Rom. 1:32
d. Their living is unrestrained.
-sensuality = aselgeia = indecency, vice, idea of unrestrained living
-greediness = pleonexia = covetousness, greed; idea of insatiable craving

II. Walk in the way of Christ.
a. Being shaped by Jesus.
-learn = manthano = to learn
-Deut. 5:1
b. Becoming what we are.
-MacArthur "We are new, but not yet all new. We are righteous and holy but not yet perfectly righteous and holy."
-Col. 1:3, 9, Rom. 6:6, 7
-II Cor. 5:17