Why do some people behave in such bad ways?

Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart. They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learned Christ!— assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:17-24)

If people do not believe in the true God, what are their minds like? Who can teach us the truth? Should you live as the person you were before, or the new person that God has made you? If a person knows the truth, what will he do? Who is a new person like?

There was a time when we lived bad lives because we did not know the truth about God. Now we know the truth through Jesus Christ, and we have become new people. So we must stop living the old life, and live in the way that pleases God.

Spend some time thinking quietly about any wrong things that have stayed in your life after becoming a Christian. Pray that God will help other people to live the new life which pleases God. We all need God’s help to do this.

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