“Life Anew” | March 27, 2022

I.     “Turn around, Believer!
Ephesians 4:15-16;
Ephesians 4:17; 4:22; 2:1-3; Col 3:7-9; 1Thess 2:12
1Peter 4:1-8; 2Pe 2:18-22
Ephesians 4:1; 2-16
Romans 3:12; Ecclesiastes; Ro 5:12-14; 3:18
Galatians 2:20; 5:24; 6:14; Ro 6:6; Jn 17:23; Ro 8:37
Ephesians 2:4-6, 19

II.    “Leave This Path, Believer!”
Ephesians 4:18-19; 2:11-19
James 1:14-15; Job 15:35; Ps 7:14; Is 59:4;
Romans 5:12-14; Jn 5:42; Ro 7:18-23; 8:7; 2Ti 3:2-4;
Titus 1:15-16; Heb 3:12; Gen 3:17
Matthew 19:3-8; Mk 3:1-6
Mark 16:12-14; Ro 3:12-18
Romans 1:18-25; Gen 6:5; 8:21; 2 Ki 17:15-20; Jer 2:5; Jeremiah 10:14; Ac 17:29-30; Ro 1:28; 3:9-20; 1Co 1:20
Romans 3:18; 1:24; Eph 4:19;
Romans 3:19-25; 5:17-19; 10:8-13; 2Pe 3:9; 1Jn 1:7-10
Matthew 11:28-30; Ac 4:12

III.    “Jesus Is The Way, Walk In Him!”
Ephesians 4:20-21; Eph 1, 2, 3; Luke 9:23-25
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Greek Word Study
Testify: ‘maturomai’: from ‘martus’ (a witness); to be adduced as a witness i.e. (fig.) to obtest in exhortation; to invoke as witness, In NT, to testify, to solemnly affirm, to make an earnest and solemn appeal, to exhort solemnly. (Eph 4:17)
Walk: ‘peripateo’: from ‘peri’ (all over) and ‘pateo’ (to tread with feet); to tread or walk all around, walk at-large; (fig) to live, deport oneself, follow (as a companion or devoted follower)
Gentiles: ‘ethnos’: Pagan Nation. In the Jewish sense, ‘ta ethne’ the nations, meaning the Gentile nations as spoken of all who are not Israelite and amplifying idolatry and ignorance of the True God. [Unbelievers, Non-Christians]
Futility: ‘mataiotes’: from ‘mataios’ (empty), (literal) profitless. (Figurative) transientness; (moral) depravity: - folly, futility. N. meaning vain or worthless, vanity, emptiness. From the Hebrew for folly, perverseness, wickedness (Eph 4:17)
Darkened: ‘skotoo’: to obscure or blind (literal or figurative); - darken, plunge into darkness. [Eph 4:18]
​Alienated: ‘apallotrioo’: to estrange away; i.e. (passive and figurative) to be non-participant: - alienate. From ‘apo’ (from) and allotrioo (to alienate). To estrange, to be alienated from, to be a stranger (Eph 2:12; 4:18; Col 5:21)
Ignorance: ‘agnoia’: from ‘agnoeo’ (not to know), ignorance (properly the quality): - ignorance. N. from ‘agnoeo’ want of knowledge, ignorance. Spoken of ignorance of God and divine things. (Ac 17:30, Eph 4:18, 1Pe 1:14)
Hardness: ‘porosis’: from ‘poroo’ apparently from ‘poros’ (a kind of stone): stupidity or callousness; - hardening, hardness. N. from ‘poroo’, to harden, petrify, render insensitive. A hardening. In NT, used only figuratively, hardness of heart or mind, insensitivity. (Mk 3:5; Ro 11:25; Eph 4:18) syn: ‘sklerotes’, (hardness); ‘sklerokardia’, (hardness of heart) (Mt 19:8; Mk 16:14)
Callous: ‘apalgeo’: to become apathetic [insensitive to sin]
Sensuality: ‘aselgeia’: licentiousness (sometimes including other vices); - sensuality. N. from ‘aselges’ (n.f.) licentious, brutal. Excess, immoderation, intemperance in anything e.g.: in language, speech: arrogance, insolence; in general conduct: licentiousness, madness; particularly: wantonness, lasciviousness; in a wider sense debauchery, perversion in general (Eph 4:19; 1Pe 4:3; Jude 4) 
Greedy: ‘pleonexia’: avarice i.e. (by implication) fraudulency, extortion; - covetousness, exaction, greed. In NT, the will to have more, i.e. covetousness, greediness for gain, which leads a person to defraud others. (…Eph 4:19…) syn: desire, lust [insatiable]
Impurity; ‘akatharsia’; impurity (the quality of); physical or moral: - impurity. Moral uncleanness, lewdness, pollution, as opposed to chastity (Ro 1:24; 6:19; 2Co 12:21; Eph 4:19; 5:3)
Learned: ‘manthano’: to learn, particularly: intellectually, from study and observation, to learn someone, i.e. his doctrines, precepts. (Eph 4:20)
Truth: ‘aletheia’: N. from ‘alethes’ (true), what is not concealed, but open and known; hence Truth. Conduct conformed to Truth, virtue, a life conformed to precepts of the Gospel (Eph 4:21)