Thinking Anew

In Ephesians 4:17 Paul wrote, “This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as ^[a]the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind” . We know who we are as God’s people, now Paul says, to all God’s children you must put off “your former conduct, the old man” (v.22) and (v.24) “put on the new man created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness”. In this lesson we learn from the Apostle just what it means to put off the old and put on the new. In verses 25 through 32 Paul makes five points for us in theses 8 verses that teach us what we must stop doing and what we must start doing. Putting these into practice will in effect—put off the old—and put on the new causing each of us to think anew.  Transformation is what this is all about, renewing our minds by overwriting the worldliness, the old behaviors, the old way of thinking replacing that with “true righteousness and holiness” created according to God (v.24). To accomplish this we need to learn to stop practicing certain worldly behaviors and start participating in righteous and holy behaviors.