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249 - Newness of Life

By Jonathan S. Rose

Title: Newness of Life

Topic: Salvation

Summary: What the Bible calls newness of life is not just a matter of changing our behaviors but of gaining a new heart and a new spirit.

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References:
Romans 6:1, 4
Isaiah 65:17; 66:22
Jeremiah 31:31
Leviticus 3:1, 14, 17, Leviticus 3:23, Leviticus 3:26, Leviticus 3:33, Leviticus 3:40-41
Ezekiel 11:16; 18:30; 36:25
John 3:3
Romans 12:1-2
2 Corinthians 4:16; 5:17, 10
Galatians 6:12
Ephesians 4:17, 24
Colossians 3:5, 9-11
Titus 3:1-5
Revelation 21:1-5
Isaiah 62:1-2

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Galatians 6:12

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12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

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Scriptural Confirmations #85

  
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85. 3. That we are the sons of God through Christ, and thus heirs (Galatians 4:4-7).

Exult, O barren, thou that didst not bear (Isaiah 54:1; Galatians 4:19-27).

The flesh lusteth against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh (Galatians 5:16-17).

The works of the flesh and the works of the spirit are enumerated (Galatians 5:17-23).

They that are Christ's have crucified the flesh with the passions and lusts. If we live in the spirit, let us also walk in the spirit (Galatians 5:24-25).

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ (Galatians 6:2). In Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature (Galatians 6:15).

As any man soweth, so shall he reap (Galatians 6:7-10).

Ye are saved through faith, not by works, lest any one should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Jesus Christ unto good works, which God hath prepared that we should walk in them (Ephesians 2:8-10).

Through Christ [all the building] groweth into a holy temple in the Lord: and is builded for a habitation of God in the Spirit (Ephesians 2:20-22).

Ye ought to put off the old man and put on the new (Ephesians 4:22, 24).

Ye were once darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord, walk as sons of light (Ephesians 5:8).

Be ye strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Put on the armor of God for this, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For us the contest is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, etc. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God (Ephesians 6:10-13, 17).

They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him (Titus 1:16).

God saves us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit; which He poured out on us through Jesus Christ; that being justified by His grace, we might be heirs according to the hope of eternal life (Titus 3:5-7).

That they who are fully regenerated, if they shall fall away, cannot again be regenerated (Hebrews 6:4-8).

That He will inscribe the law in their heart, etc. (Hebrews 8:10-11; 10:16).

The heavenly Jerusalem, the city of the living God (Hebrews 12:22-23).

  
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