"sensual" and "greed"

 "¹⁷ So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. ¹⁸ They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts. ¹⁹ Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed." Eph 4:17-19.
I see it, Lord; the futility of thinking.  We do it all the time.  We read your Word and then we try to "figure" it out.  We call our friends and talk to our Pastor and bring it up in Bible study.  Then we all try to "figure" it out or share what we "think" it means.  And it's all futile.  How you've been showing me that Your Word cannot be understood except by insight and revelation through the Holy Spirit.  Without this, we completely mess it all up and interpret wrongly.
This "futility" of thinking causes us to live in "darkened understanding and separated from the life of God.  WOW!  That one is a huge kicker, Lord - "separated from the life of God.  That is your Holy Spirit within us.
And that ignorance is due to hardening of the heart.  You taught me about that recently that anyone can have it - even the best Christian.  It is basically when we think we can do anything at all without You.  Most of the time, it's things we don't even think about - it's our routines, our habits, our everyday life.  We go about doing everything and don't even consider You.  All of these things would change so drastically if you were really first and primary in our thoughts.  It's the sensitivity - sensitivity to You that this is talking about.
This "insensitivity" leads to sensuality.  I had to look up that word, because we all think it means something sexual and it doesn't. 
SENSUAL: relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite

: devoted to or preoccupied with the senses or appetites

So it's just basically anything having to do with our 5 senses and indulgence - which of course leads to that last statement about greed.  And we all think "greed" has to do with money.  It doesn't.  Indulgence IS greed.

Thank you, Lord for that Word.  I will "chew" on that today.

I notice the phrase the Apostle Paul used in the beginning, "I insist on it".  This isn't impossible for us - it's absolutely necessary.