A message from Ephesians 4:17 to 5:17

1. Series
‘Our riches and responsibilities
as believers’
‘Walk in purity’
Eph 4:17 – 5:17

2. How we should live in an alien
culture
So I tell you this, and insist
on it in the Lord, that you
must no longer live as the
Gentiles do …
Eph 4:17

3. How we should live in an alien
culture
Be very careful, then, how
you live -not as unwise but as
wise
Eph 5:15

4. How does Paul describe the
unbelievers?
Their thoughts
… the futility of their thinking. They
are darkened in their
understanding and separated from
the life of God because of the
ignorance that is in them due to
the hardening of their hearts

5. How does Paul describe the
unbelievers?
Their attitude to sexual pleasure
Having lost all sensitivity, they
have given themselves over to
sensuality so as to indulge in every
kind of impurity
Eph 4:19a

6. How does Paul describe the
unbelievers?
Their attitude to
wealth/possessions
they are full of greed
Eph 4:19b

7. You were taught, with regard to your
former way of life, to put off your old
self, which is being corrupted by its
deceitful desires; to be made new in
the attitude of your minds;
and to put on the new self, created to
be like God in true righteousness and

8. Walk in Purity
Purity in speech
Therefore each of you must put off
falsehood and speak truthfully to his
neighbour, for we are all members
of one body - Eph 4:25
... speaking the truth in love' - Eph
4:15

9. Walk in Purity
Purity in speech
Do not let any unwholesome talk
come out of your mouths, but only
what is helpful for building others up
according to their needs, that it may
benefit those who listen

10. Walk in Purity
Purity in reaction
In your anger do not sin
Eph 4:26
Do not let the sun go down while
you are still angry
Eph 4:26b

11. Walk in Purity
Purity in reaction
and do not give the devil a foothold
Eph 4:27
A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger

12. Walk in Purity
Purity in the workplace
He who has been stealing must
steal no longer, but must work,
doing something useful with his own
hands
Eph 4:28

13. Walk in Purity
Purity in relationships
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and
anger, brawling and slander, along
with every form of malice. Be kind
and compassionate to one another,
forgiving each other,
just as in Christ God forgave you