The passage discusses how Gentiles walk in futility and darkness, excluded from God due to ignorance and hardness of heart, having given themselves over to impurity. However, the reader is told they did not learn Christ in this way, and are instead called to lay aside their old self and be renewed, putting on the new self created in God's likeness through righteousness and holiness.

2. 17 So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer
just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind, 18 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; 19 and they,
having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the
practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20 But you did not learn
Christ in this way, 21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in
Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22 that, in reference to your former manner of
life, you lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with
the lusts of deceit, 23 and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24
and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in
righteousness and holiness of the truth.
- Ephesians 4:17-24 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY
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3. Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner
worthy of the calling with which you have been called.
- Ephesians 4:1 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: Walk Worth of the Calling
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4. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble
in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
- Matt 11:29 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: Learn From Me
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5. 12 Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect,
but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid
hold of by Christ Jesus. 13 Brethren, I do not regard myself as having
laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and
reaching forward to what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal for
the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 15 Let us therefore,
as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have
a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you; 16 however, let us
keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.
- Philippians 3:12-16 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: Moving Forward Without
Looking Behind
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6. I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but
Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith
in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.
- Galatians 2:20 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: A New Person in Christ
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7. Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature; the old things
passed away; behold, new things have come.
- 2 Corinthians 5:17 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: A New Creature in Christ
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8. For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL
INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.
- 1 Corinthians 2:16 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: The Mind of Christ
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9. 14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by
his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and
when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death.
- James 1:14-15 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: Progressiveness of Sin
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10. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the
knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again
entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse
for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have
known the way of righteousness, than having known it, to turn away
from the holy commandment handed on to them. 22 It has happened
to them according to the true proverb, “A DOG RETURNS TO ITS
OWN VOMIT,” and, “A sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the
mire.”
- 2 Peter 2:20-22 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: Entangled Again in the
Defilements of the World
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11. Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed that he does not fall.
- 1 Corinthians 10:12 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: Take Heed That You Do Not
Fall
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12. We are destroying speculations and every lofty thing raised up against
the knowledge of God, and we are taking every thought captive to the
obedience of Christ
- 2 Corinthians 10:5 NASB
YOU DID NOT LEARN CHRIST THIS WAY: Taking Every Thought Captive
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