“…that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt… and be renewed in the spirit of your mind… in true righteousness and holiness” Ephesians 4:17-24

1/ Remember baby food is the foundation of repentance and turning to a life of obedience
“… Let us not again be laying the foundation of repentance and abandonment of dead works (dead formalism) and of the faith [by which you turned] to God…” Hebrews 6:1 (AMP)

2/ The will of God for a new Christian is to learn to walk in the Spirit
“As you have therefore received Christ, [even] Jesus the Lord, [so] walk (regulate your lives and conduct yourselves) in union with and conformity to Him.” Colossians 2:6 (AMP)

“By means of these He has bestowed on us His precious and exceedingly great promises, so that through them you may escape [by flight] from the moral decay (rottenness and corruption) that is in the world because of covetousness (lust and greed), and become sharers (partakers) of the divine nature. 5 For this very reason, adding your diligence [to the divine promises], employ every effort in exercising your faith to develop virtue (excellence, resolution, Christian energy), and in [exercising] virtue [develop] knowledge (intelligence)” 2 Peter 1:4-5 (AMP)

/ Stop living the perverse empty life like everybody else lives

“So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds.” Ephesians 4:17 (AMP)

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