Free Bible Commentary
“Ephesians 4:20-24”
Categories: Ephesians“But you did not learn Christ in this way, if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 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, and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.”
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In order for a person to come out of the “futility” (verse 17), “darkened…understanding,” “ignorance” and “hardness” (verse 18) of sin, they simply must “learn Christ” (verse 20). It requires studying the Bible, and learning the commandments of Jesus, and “observing” His own personal “walk,” that is revealed in the pages of the New Testament, to lift the darkness of ignorance and shine the light of awareness and comprehension.
“Truth is in Jesus” (verse 21). Divine, perfect, absolute truth can only be learned by delving deeply into Jesus. We learn truth by learning who Jesus is, and what He did and still does, and what His will and plans and commands for us are. Jesus said, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me” (John 14:6). In Jesus is the truth that illuminates the only way to the Father in heaven where eternal life can be found.
The magnificent transformation that Paul writes about in these verses requires “that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind” (verse 22). In order to be pleasing to God we all need a mental and spiritual renewal that can only be generated through learning Jesus and His perfect revelation. Paul wrote in Romans 12:2, “Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”
The only way that we can “prove what the will of God is,” is to go to the revelation of His mind. Within the Bible lies the force to elicit this transformation that conforms us into the likeness of Christ. The Bible is the only place where we can find the power to “put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth” (verse 24).
Get to know the Savior. Spend time with Him in study and in prayer. Learn His ways and adopt them as your own. You will never regret the positive changes that He can make in your life.
Please read Ephesians 4:25-27 for tomorrow.
Have a blessed day!
- Louie Taylor
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