Ephesians 4:17-32 Changing your clothes

Ephesians Sermon Series #11: Changing your clothes. I find it ironic that on the first Sunday of the year that I am talking about something, anything that resembles New Year's Resolutions. Changing something isn't difficult, maintaining the change until it is the new normal, that is difficult. The way we were is not how we have learned Christ. Now its time to change everything.

So roll up your sleeves, put your mind in gear, be totally ready to receive the gift that’s coming when Jesus arrives. Don’t lazily slip back into those old grooves of evil, doing just what you feel like doing. You didn’t know any better then; you do now. As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God’s life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness. God said, “I am holy; you be holy. [1 Peter 1:13-16]