(Nuggets from Ephesians 4:18)
The amplified version gives a better INSIGHT on today's scripture:
Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is beclouded. [They are] alienated (estranged, self-banished) from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the ignorance (the want of knowledge and perception, the willful blindness) that is deep-seated in them, due to their hardness of heart [to the insensitiveness of their moral nature].
Apostle Paul warned the church in Ephesus about the DANGERS OF WILLFUL IGNORANCE. He warned the church to avoid the ways of the HEATHEN who were given to every form of PERVERSION, and he also gave a breakdown of their characteristics as follows:
- Their MORAL UNDERSTANDING IS DARKENED; which means that they are morally irresponsible because they have no fear of God and the light of the Glorious Gospel of Christ does not shine in them.
- Their REASONING IS BECLOUDED; because sin now has dominion and upper hand in their lives. Such people do not reason normally, and things of the God do not make sense to them.
- They are ALIENATED/SELF-BANISHED/ESTRANGED from the ZOE LIFE OF GOD; they cannot experience the SUPERNATURAL LIFE that every true child of God is entitled to, and as a result, they are BEREFT OF KNOWLEDGE, they grope in darkness because they chose to be WILFULLY BLIND, knowing the source of light but choosing darkness instead.
Their greatest undoing is the HARDNESS OF THEIR HEART which has made them to remain ADAMANT IN SIN and have no remorse for their evil deeds.
DON'T BE SUCH A PERSON, AND IF YOU KNOW SUCH, YOU CAN HELP BY PRAYING FOR THEM, NOT TRYING TO WIN THEM OVER OR CONVINCE THEM BECAUSE YOU MIGHT END UP BEING WON OVER.
LIVE CAUTIOUSLY, OPEN UP YOUR HEART TO GOD FOR CONSTANT RENEWAL AND ALLOW THE LIGHT OF GOD'S WORD TO ILLUMINE YOUR LIFE.
This is HOLINESS CHALLENGE
DAY 44 OF 365 (2026)
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