http://bible.com/59/ISA44.8.ESV Fear not, nor be afraid; have I not told you from of old and declared it? And you are my witnesses! Is there a God besides me? There is no Rock; I know not any.”
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http://bible.com/59/PRO26.24.ESV Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
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http://bible.com/59/ISA40.21.ESV Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness.
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http://bible.com/59/PRO25.18.ESV A man who bears false witness against his neighbor is like a war club, or a sword, or a sharp arrow.
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http://bible.com/59/ISA35.8.ESV And a highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Way of Holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it. It shall belong to those who walk on the way; even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.
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A hypocrite is …
A person who is pretending to be someone or something he or she is not. She wears a mask as she attempts to elevate other people’s perception of her. In his mind he contrives an image of a person he pretends to be thinking to impress those around him.
But God turns the tables on us.
He paints a picture of his saints (holy ones/hagiois) that is beyond our imagination. In fact almost unbelievable. We continue to see in our study in Ephesians the lofty view that God clearly gives of his people, the Church, in Holy Scripture.
This week …
The Apostle Paul continues to instruct us to pursue this high calling, not by pretending to be someone we are not but by living up to who we are in Christ.
And he tells us how …
To learn who we are and what it takes to be who we are. No pretense or puffing ourselves up. Just faith enough to believe God and the amazing things he has done for us and in us through Christ’s finished work on the cross. And a willingness to change.
Message Title: Living Up to Who We Are in Jesus Christ / Living as the New People God Created Us to Be!
Message Text: Ephesians 4:17-32
HERE ARE THE HANDOUTS FOR THIS WEEK:
http://bible.com/59/ISA8.11.ESV For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying: “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. But the Lord of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
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http://bible.com/59/TIT3.3.ESV For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
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Another handout from Sunday September 8, 2013 that I didn’t get posted.
Text is Ephesians 4:11-16.
http://bible.com/59/PRO14.21.ESV Whoever despises his neighbor is a sinner, but blessed is he who is generous to the poor.
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