Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, we just saw that the church is growing corporately into a single new humanity (4:13). But as members of this new humanity, we too must live as renewed people. The call to walk in the unity that we heard through the first half of chapter 4 now gives way to a call to walk in purity, a call that we will hear for the next several weeks. Why must we walk in purity? Not only because we are united to the pure body of Christ, but also because we are not the way we used to be; the old me and the old you are gone, and in their place we live as new people — new men and women who are clothed with the new man, Jesus Christ. Because of this glorious change that the Bible calls being born again or being saved, you and I need to stop living like our old selves and like the culture around us. We are called to learn Christ and be clothed with Him. Our text today does not teach legalism; it does not suggest that we can be pure by ourselves. Rather, it speaks to us as those who have already received every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Because we are new people, we have to stop living like we used to live and start living like we ought to live, in righteousness and true holiness.
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Caleb Nelson grew up in Ft. Collins, CO. Born into a Christian home, where he eventually became the eldest of 11 children, he has been a lifelong Presbyterian. He professed faith at the age of six, and was homeschooled through high school. He then attended Patrick Henry College...
