The Sunday School Lesson Transformed by Christ by David McGee
Nov 14, 2021
Transformed by Christ (47:33)
Referenced Scriptures: Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:1-21
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The scriptures below are from the WEB Bible.
Ephesians 4:17-32
17) This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18) being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;
19) who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20) But you did not learn Christ that way;
21) if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:
22) that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
23) and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24) and put on the new man, that like God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.
25) Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members one of another.
26) "Be angry, and don‘t sin." Don‘t let the sun go down on your wrath,
27) neither give place to the devil.
28) Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.
29) Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for building up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
30) Don‘t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed to the day of redemption.
31) Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.
32) Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.
Ephesians 5:1-21
1) Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.
2) Walk in love, even as Christ also loved you, and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.
3) But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;
4) nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.
5) Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
6) Let no man deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.
7) Don‘t be therefore partakers with them.
8) For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,
9) for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
10) proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord.
11) Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them.
12) For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.
13) But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that is revealed is light.
14) Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
15) Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;
16) redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17) Therefore don‘t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
18) Don‘t be drunken with wine, in which is an abandoned life, but be filled with the Spirit,
19) speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing, and singing praises in your heart to the Lord;
20) giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, to God, even the Father;
21) subjecting yourselves one to another in the fear of Christ.
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