Putting Off the Old Self: How to Live Out Your Calling in Christ
In our journey through the scriptures, Paul frequently reminds us to live a life worthy of the calling we have received. As believers, we have been granted incredible privileges through the boundless love and mercy of God the Father. In response to such grace, our natural reaction should be a deep, grateful penitence—a life visibly transformed. In the letter to the Ephesians, Paul lays out exactly what this heart change should look like in the day-to-day life of a believer. A Direct Command: Stop Living Like the World Paul doesn't merely offer a gentle suggestion; he insists upon this in the Lord: "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." — Ephesians 4:17 Paul isn't asking non-Jewish believers to abandon their ethnic heritage or cultural roots. Instead, he is addressing a way of living . Before coming to Christ, we were spiritually dead in our transgressions, following the ...