Working on my Form
Sermon Delivered on November 06, 2011PDF Link Outline November 06, 2011
Working on My Form
Today's Speaker: Pastor Jay Beard
17Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20But that is not the way you learned Christ!— 21assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22to put off your old self,[a] which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
25Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and give no opportunity to the devil. 28Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. 29 Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear. 30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
1 Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. 2And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Ephesians 4:17-5:2 (ESV)
I. How’s my Form? (4:25-32)
A. Am I __________________? (v. 25)
9 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self[a] with its practices 10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
Colossians 3:9-10
B. Am I _______-_________________? (vv. 26-27)
8 Refrain from anger, and forsake wrath!
Fret not yourself; it tends only to evil.
Psalm 37:8
C. Am I ______________? (v. 28)
26All day long he craves and craves,
but the righteous gives and does not hold back.
Proverbs 21:26
D. Am I _______________? (vv. 29-30)
11 A word fitly spoken
is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.
Proverbs 25:11
E. Am I _________________? (vv. 31-32)
12 Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, 13 bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.
Colossians 3:12-13
II. Who do I pattern my game after? (5:1-2)
A. ___________________ __________ (v. 1)
B. ________________ _____ ____________ (v. 2)
34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. 35 By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another."
John 13:34-35
