Victory In Christ

The Apostle Paul shares how we are to live in Ephesians 4. Here he  warns against the “trickery of men” — false teachings and the deceitfulness of sin:

“So with the wisdom given to me from the Lord I say: You should not live like the unbelievers around you who walk in their empty delusions. Their corrupted logic has been clouded because their hearts are so far from God — their blinded understanding and deep-seated moral darkness keeps them from the true knowledge of God. Because of spiritual apathy, they surrender their lives to lewdness, impurity, and sexual obsession. But this is not the way of life that Christ has unfolded within you” 

~~ Ephesians 4:17-20 (TPT). 

What is in our hearts comes out of our mouths. So if there is pride, jealousy, unforgiveness, hatred, criticism, rebellion, rejection, corrupted logic, deceit, lying, revenge, negativity, sarcasm, perverted evil speaking, lewdness, sexual obsession (and the like), it becomes obvious that they need the Holy Spirit to make them (us) holy and pleasing to God. 

“But that’s no life for you. You have been well-instructed in Jesus’ truth! Everything—and I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. It’s rotten through and through. Get rid of it! Then take on an entirely new … God-fashioned life, being renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces His character in you.”

Ephesians 4:20-24 (edited).