Ephesians 4:17-24

So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more. You, however, did not come to know Christ that way. Surely you heard of him and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

Graduation Sunday 2011

Graduates & Teen Face an UnChristian World

A Generation Of Young Americans,

Who Hold Overwhelmingly Negative Views Regarding Christianity

The Challenge:

A Connection With God In The Midst Of A World That Doesn’t Share That Connection

Our World…

…futility of their thinking…

Futility: Uselessness, Pointlessness

>Putting Value on the Wrong Things

Usefulness: Value the Right Things

>Value Your Relationship With The God Who Created You

>Value Your Decisions…Do it God’s Way

Our World…

Alienated from God

“for they exchanged the truth of God for a lie”

Lost All Sensitivity

“every kind of impurity, with a continual lust for more”

A Generation with Less Convictions

You, However…

You Know Christ

You Learned Christ

Exposed to the Truth

>The Gospel of Jesus

The Question:

Will You See It As Truth?

So Many In Our World Do Not

You, However…

Put Off Your Old Self

Deceitful Desires

You Don’t Have to Follow the Crowd

Spiritual Power to Do the Right Thing is Given By God

You, However…

Put On The New Self

Like God in Righteousness & Holiness

Change in Relationship to Christ

>Forgiven

The Ability to do the Will of God

>Holiness

Paul says

Put On Righteousness & Holiness

Are these the clothes you want to wear?

1st – The Decision to Choose Christ

2nd – The Moment by Moment Repetition of this Decision

Instead of Dirty Clothes, Put on Clean Clothes