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Here's grace to you Bible teacher John MacArthur.

Well, we are making an effort at working through Ephesians. It's been a bit of a challenge,

but we want to go back to Ephesians chapter 4, and I confess that I am the culprit in the

speed with which we are going through Ephesians because I keep

getting stuck on the importance of each verse, and that will be the case again today.

But for the general flow of this text, let me read chapter four starting at verse 17 through

the end of the chapter. Very practical, much of it we have covered already and we'll

advance a little bit this morning as we get to the message.

So this I say, or therefore, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer

just as the Gentiles also walk in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their

understanding excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in

them, because of the hardness of their heart, and they, having become callous, have given

themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

But you did not learn Christ in this way.

If indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him just as truth is in Jesus, that

in reference to your former manner of life you lay aside the old self, which is being

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