Good morning. Paul, talking about those people we were discussing yesterday: having become callous. How do you get a callous – by something repeatedly rubbing on some part of your body. They repeatedly ignored God's warning, and it developed a callous on their heart and conscience, so that they no longer even notice God's warning. As far as our former manner of life is concerned – we are to lay aside the old self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the lusts of deceit. He is dead and buried. We should not be dragging our old self around. Next we have to be renewed in the spirit of our mind. We have to get rid of our stinking thinking. Then we are to put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth. The new "us" does not want to act like the old self did. Since the new self is in the likeness of God, we should be acting like God. We are to lay aside falsehood and speak truth with our neighbor. Then a verse which is hard to obey when you have teenagers: be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger. I know they are not real life, but how many TV shows or movies have you seen in which either a parent or a child decides to change the way things have been. They make overtures to the other one to set things right, but don't tell them that that is what they are doing. The other person, remembering how things were, reacts negatively, thinking that it is the same old same old. The person trying to make the overtures then says "forget it!". Many times teenagers, five minutes after they "act out", have forgotten that it even happened. They don't realize that parents are reacting to what they just did. To them it is a brand-new slate. They are confused about why their parents are angry at them. And so they react to the parents' anger – and so on and so on. It's hard to do but we are to "bear no grudges". Father thank You that the reader has put on the new self and is walking in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

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