Today’s Word
Paradigm Shift
and that you are to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. Ephesians 4:23-24 NASB In the spirit of your minds – What comes first—the chicken or the egg? What comes first—a change in thinking or a change…
Good Riddance
that, in reference to your former way of life, you are to rid yourselves of the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit, Ephesians 4:22 NASB Old self – You could hardly be serious about your Christian faith without having heard at least one sermon on the transition from the old self. Conversion…
Some Jewish Corrections
But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, Ephesians 4:20-21 NASB Christ/ Jesus – It’s easy to correct the translations of “Christ” and “Jesus.” Just replace these with “Messiah” and “Yeshua.” Is that all that’s necessary? Well, not quite. …
Thick-skinned
and they, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecent behavior for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. Ephesians 4:19 NASB Callous – What is the result of the darkening of moral conscience and disobedience? What happens to people who experience skotóō, agnóēma, and pṓrōsis? They stop caring. That’s the meaning behind the Greek…
The Fool’s Errand
being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Ephesians 4:17-18 NASB Ignorance – Biblical fools are not stupid. They aren’t uninformed either. If you thought Paul claimed that these people whose spiritual and moral sense has been dimmed, were excluded from…
Who Turned Off the Lights?
So I say this, and affirm in the Lord, that you are to no longer walk just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their minds, being darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart; Ephesians 4:17-18 NASB Being darkened – Who made…
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