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Today's talk comes from Pastor Ben Stewart.

So if you got a Bible, we are in Ephesians chapter 4. I want to read to you a couple

verses starting in Ephesians 417 and then we'll jump into what God has for us

from his word today but Ephesians chapter 4 if you don't have a

Bible don't stress I'm about to read it beginning in verse 17 says this now this I say and testify in the Lord that you must no longer walk as the

Gentiles do in the futility of their minds. They're darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that's in them due to their hardness of heart.

They've become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

But that is not the way you learned Christ, assuming that you've heard about him, and we're taught in him as the truth is in Jesus,

to put off your old self which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful

desires and be renewed in the spirit of your minds and to put on the new self created after the likeness of God and true righteousness and holiness.

Therefore, having put away falsehood, let's each one of you speak the truth with this neighbor

for we're members of one another be angry do not sin

Do not let the sun go down on your anger and do not give opportunity to the devil.

Let the thieves no longer steal, but rather let him labor doing honest work with his own hands so he may have something to share with anyone in need.

Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouth, but only such as is good for building up

as fits the occasion that it may give grace to those who

hear.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and

slander be put away from you along with malice be kind to one another. Tender-hearted

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