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In this second half of Ephesians 4, Paul is confronting sinning Christians. Life in sin’s way promises amazing things but delivers harsh ones. Paul learned that some members of the church left Christ’s styles entering daily practices that are best left alone. Paul knows this is much like a dog returning to their vomit. Vomit is for dogs. Godliness is for people.
This change in his counsel began with the 17th verse. He said, “The way of the Gentiles is futile. That style of life holds no good thing; it is darkened by self-inflicted ignorance. Living that way is a shambles.” Consider what happens to the man or woman who becomes enmeshed in the drug culture. They dwindle, badly. They become callus, mired down in a marsh filled with dead things. Fog blurs their view; they are lost. Some of the Christians in Ephesus returned to these things, and that alarmed Paul.
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