the path to knowing Christ

So I insist - Paul says.

stop living like the Gentiles. (Eph. 4:17-24)

Good idea Paul, Of course we don't do that. We're Christians.

But then, why did Paul insist, and just how do the gentiles live?

Their thinking is futile
because they are darkened in understanding and are separated from God.

they are darkened and separated because they are ignorant.

they are ignorant because they have hardened their hearts.

the result is they are insensitive, but desperately want to sense, to feel.
so they go to the extremes to feel something.

As Christians, we also often harden our hearts because we are not willing to go down the path that Christ lays out for us. We want security and comfort, and don't want it messed up with extreme Christian living.

the result is that we become ignorant, and separated from the only true source of security and comfort. So we pursue it in the wrong way - vigorously.

Let us not live like the gentiles, but put on righteousness and the new self, for only in doing so do we truly attain what we long for.

God Bless, Pastor Wayne