“Walking Our Talk”

Introduction:

1. Have you ever paid attention to how you walk? ●The people in my neighborhood! ●You can tell things about

people by the way they walk. ●(Video: How people walk according to their profession)

2. The word “WALK” is found over 300 times in the Bible. ●Definition: “your path in life” (Old Testament)

●Definition: “how you live and conduct yourself” (New Testament)

3. “Walk worthy” (Eph. 4:1) & “walk no longer like the Gentiles”

●Eph. 4:17 = A changed nature demands changed behavior.

●Vs 1-17 = Walk in unity, using your gift so that we grow to maturity. (Eph. 4:1)

●Vs 17-32 = This is how you don’t walk/live and this is how you do walk worthy of who you are.

●Read Ephesians 4:17-32

I.) How We Used To Walk! (Vs. 17-19)

A. “Futility of thinking”, “hopelessly confused” “corrupted logic”, “closed minds” ●Your mind is a battlefield!

●”given themselves over to sensuality...” – indulge yourself

B. A life centered on self! (whatever makes you happy) ●I decide what’s best for me. (abortion)

C. “You, however, did not come to know Christ that way.” ●Really?

II.) How We Walk In Christ!

“Put off the old self” (throw it off!) “Put on the new self (the righteousness of God in Christ)

●change the attitude of your mind! (Romans 12:2) ●change your clothes everyday!