Church Year: Pentecost 11:
Date: August 4, 2024
Theme: You Have Learned Christ: Walk The Walk
– Ephesians 4:17-28
– Pastor: John Hein
Bulletin: Bulletin
Liturgy: Liturgy: WS p. 1
Hymns:
TLH 540 : With the Lord Begin Thy Task
TLH 416 : Oh, That the Lord Would Guide My Ways
TLH 400 : Take My Life and Let It Be
TLH 412 : May We Thy Precepts, Lord, Fulfill
Scripture Readings:
Exodus 24:3-11 John 6:1-15Theme: You Have Learned Christ: Walk The Walk
Ephesians 4:17–28 (Listen)
The New Life
17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!—21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
25 Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 26 Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. 28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
(ESV)