The New Self: Ephesians 4:17-32
Theological meditation on Ephesians 4:17-32 - old self and new
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So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
No longer. The phrase marks transformation. Once you lived that way. Now you must not.
The futility of their thinking. Empty thoughts. Purposeless reasoning. The mind spinning in circles, arriving nowhere. Pagan philosophy was impressive, but it led to futility.
They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
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