How & When God Changes People, Sermon 3

I. Grief in Genesis 6:5-8 & Ephesians 4:30-321. Genesis 6:5-6a. God doesn’t change – Exodus 32:14 (threat vs decree); Numbers 23:19; I Samuel 15:10-11, 29; Jeremiah 26:3 (Jonah 3:1-10); Habakkuk 1:13; Malachi 3:62. Genesis 6:7-8II. Ephesians 4:17-311. What we have in Christ (Eph. 1-3) & How we live in Christ – Eph. 4-6 (see Matt. 5-7)2. “No longer walk as the Gentiles do in the futility of their minds” – Vv. 17-19a. They are darkened, alienated: because of ignorance, because of hardness of heartb. This is not how you learned, heard, were taught – vv. 20-21c. The Put Off/Put On Principle – vv. 22-24 (see I Tim. 6:11-12)d. The Principles Unpacked – vv. 25-32v. 30 And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of Godby whom you were sealed for the day of redemptione. Let all bitterness - f. (Let all) wrath – g. (Let all) anger – h. (Let all) clamor – i. (Let all) slander –j. BE PUT AWAY FROM YOU – k. Along with all malice –3. Ephesians 4:32 Be kind to one another, tenderhearted (to one another),forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.