Last week: put off the old self. Be renewed. Put on the new.
This week Paul gets specific. The new self has to show up somewhere - in your words, your anger, your hands, your forgiveness. It has to have a face.
In Ephesians 4:25–5:2, Paul gives a list. But this is not random moral advice. Every command is anchored to one controlling truth: we are members of one another. What you do in the body either builds it up or tears it down. And Paul drops two spiritual reality statements as bookends around the whole thing - give no foothold to the devil, and do not grieve the Holy Spirit.
There is no neutral act in community. Everything carries spiritual weight.
In this message, Pastor David walks through seven movements - from truth and lies, to anger and the foothold, to corrupt speech, to forgiveness - and shows what happens when the life of Jesus actually gets formed in a community of people.
In this message:
- Why lying destroys the one thing a body runs on - trust
- How unresolved anger becomes a beachhead for the enemy
- Why Cain is the case study for Ephesians 4:27
- The three tests for every word you speak
- What forgiveness actually costs - and why the cross is the only place to find it
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