Ephesians 4:20-24
20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
20 But you have not so learned Christ, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22 that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24 and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.
Since we have been reborn by God’s call and work in us, we learn from the scriptures not to live for ourselves by continuing in the sin we turned from and were saved out of. Instead we have learned Christ who is our righteousness and holiness to imitate, and His teachings of truth compel us to live to please God now. We then must daily die to self and put off the corrupt ways of our sin-driven old man with unholy desires and motives, clothing ourselves as a new regenerated man by a mind renewed by His working through us. This new man we don our souls with now was created by God in His image to be righteous and holy so we can be in His presence forever. This is how we have learned Christ and how we follow as disciples, in sincere and genuine character which we walk obediently in, enabled by Him to desire and be able to do these things by Him for His good pleasure.
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