Rebirth-A New Start; Day603

But you did not so learn Christ!  Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as [all] Truth is in Jesus [embodied and personified in Him],  Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; Ephesians 4:20 – 22

Quadrant I-Urgent and Important
Rest

Reading List
Sharepoint 2010 Search Pro, p30

24Hour Report
0350, End of Sleep,
0400, Coffee, bagel
0430, Bible Study Ephesians 4:20 – 22  [read more]

Rebirth-A New Start
     Man has to be born again
     Old man gone, new man takes over
     Old man is controlled by passion and desires
     Old man filled with lusts:
          1. Sensual appetites
          2. Ambition
          3. Love of pleasure
          4. Gratification
     New man is controlled by the Holy Spirit
     New man-model is Christ
     New man-live like Christ
     New man-think like Christ
     New man-do like Christ
     New man-character is transformed
     New man-new conversation
     New man-new voice
     New man-new manners
     New man-new heart

Barnes on Eph 4:20 –
But ye have not so learned Christ – You have been taught a different thing by Christ; you have been taught that his religion requires you to abandon such a course of life.

Eph 4:21 –
If so be that ye have heard him – If you have listened attentively to his instructions, and learned the true nature of his religion. There may be a slight and delicate doubt implied here whether they had attentively listened to his instructions. Doddridge, however, renders it, “Seeing ye have heard him;” compare notes on Eph_3:2.
And have been taught by him – By his Spirit, or by the ministers whom he had appointed.
As the truth is in Jesus – If you have learned the true nature of his religion as he himself taught it. What the truth was which the Lord Jesus taught, or what his principles implied, the apostle proceeds to state in the following verses.

Eph 4:22 –
That ye put off – That you lay aside, or renounce. The manner in which the apostle states those duties, renders it not improbable that there had been some instruction among them of a contrary character, and that it is possible there had been some teachers there who had not enforced, as they should bare done, the duties of practical religion.
Concerning the former conversation – The word “conversation” here means conduct – as it commonly does in the Bible; see the notes, 2Co_1:12. The meaning here is, “with respect to your former conduct or habits of life, lay aside all that pertained to a corrupt and fallen nature.” You are not to lay “everything” aside that formerly pertained to you. Your dress, and manners, and modes of speech and conversation, might have been in many respects correct. But everything that proceeded from sin; every habit, and custom, and mode of speech and of conduct that was the result of depravity, is to be laid aside. The special characteristics of an unconverted man you are to put off, and are to assume those which are the proper fruits of a renewed heart.
The old man – see the notes on Rom_6:6.
Which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts – The meaning is:
(1) That the unrenewed man is not under the direction of reason and sound sense, but is controlled by his “passions and desires.” The word “lusts,” has a more limited signification with us than the original word. That word we now confine to one class of sensual appetites; but the original word denotes any passion or propensity of the heart. It may include avarice, ambition, the love of pleasure, or of gratification in any way; and the meaning here is, that the heart is by nature under the control of such desires.
(2) those passions are deceitful. They lead us astray, They plunge us into ruin. All the passions and pleasures of the world are illusive. They promise more than they perform; and they leave their deluded votaries to disappointment and to tears. Nothing is more “deceitful” than the promised pleasures of this world; and all who yield to them find at last that they “flatter but to betray.”