Oakwood Church

“Put off your old self… and put on the new self…”
Ephesians 4:22,24

Recognize the Old You, in sin

• Understand and reject your sinful Thinking

“You must no longer walk as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds.”
Ephesians 4:17

Recognize the Old You, in sin

• Understand and reject your sinful Thinking

“You must no longer walk as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds.”
Ephesians 4:17

Recognize the Old You, in sin

• Understand and reject your sinful Thinking

“They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them…”
Ephesians 4:18

Recognize the Old You, in sin

• Understand and reject your sinful Thinking

“The ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous…”
Ephesians 4:18-19

Recognize the Old You, in sin

• Understand and reject your sinful Thinking

o Beliefs > Values > Desires > Thoughts > Actions > Lifestyle

“The ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous…”
Ephesians 4:18-19

Recognize the Old You, in sin

• Repent and Replace your sinful behaviors

“They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.”
Ephesians 4:19

Recognize the Old You, in sin

• Repent and Replace your sinful behaviors

“You were taught in him… to put off your old self which belongs to your former manner of life.”
Ephesians 4:22

Recognize the Old You, in sin

• Repent and Replace your sinful behaviors

“Put off your old self which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires.”
Ephesians 4:22

Recognize the Old You, in sin

• Repent and Replace your sinful behaviors

“Assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus.”
Ephesians 4:21

Grow into the New You, in Christ

• Renew your mind with the Truth together

“Be renewed in the spirit of your minds and to put on the new self.” Ephesians 4:23-24

Grow into the New You, in Christ

• Renew your mind with the Truth together

o You are a new Creation in Christ

“Put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Ephesians 4:24

Grow into the New You, in Christ

• Renew your mind with the Truth together

o You were Sealed by the Spirit

“Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by whom you were sealed for the Day of redemption.”
Ephesians 4:30

Grow into the New You, in Christ

• Renew your mind with the Truth together

o You are part of the Body of Christ

“Let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.”
Ephesians 4:25

Grow into the New You, in Christ

• Renew your mind with the Truth together

• Beliefs > Values > Desires > Thoughts > Actions > Lifestyle

“Be renewed in the spirit of your minds and to put on the new self…”
Ephesians 4:23-24

Grow into the New You, in Christ

• Renew your mind with the Truth together

“Put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.”
Ephesians 4:24

Grow into the New You, in Christ

• Cultivate new Practices together

“Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor.”
Ephesians 4:25

• Cultivate new Practices together

○ Speak the Truth (v. 25)

○ Make Peace (v. 26-27)

○ Work hard (v. 28a)

○ Give Generously (v. 28b)

○ Speak in love (v. 29)

○ Be quick to Forgive (v. 31-32)

“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”
Ephesians 5:32