Sermon Notes: The New Life

**Ephesians 4:17-32**

*Contrast:*
“the state of being strikingly different from something else in juxtaposition or close association;
the juxtaposition of differences in order to intensify the properties of each” 

**The Mind**
• Ephesians 4:17-19
• Ephesians 2:1-2
• Ephesians 4:20-21

*One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it falsely, and it will give forth the ugliness.*
—Anonymous

• Luke 2:52
• John 14:6

*“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”*
—A.W. Tozer

**The Life**
• Ephesians 4:25-29
• Ephesians 4:30
• Ephesians 4:31

**Promised Persecution**
• Matthew 10:16-25
• Matthew 5:10-12
• John 15:18
• Luke 6:22
• 2 Timothy 3:10-13
• Ephesians 4:32