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.
Use the reference links below to follow along in the Bible as you watch.
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
249 - Newness of Life
By Jonathan S. Rose
Spirit and Life Bible Study broadcast from 12/30/2015. The complete series is available at: www.spiritandlifebiblestudy.com
Isaiah 62
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For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
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And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.
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Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
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Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the LORD delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
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For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
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I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,
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And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
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The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
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But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the LORD; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
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Go through, Go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
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Behold, the LORD hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
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And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
Scriptural Confirmations #48
48. 20. For the nation and kingdom that will not serve Thee shall perish, and the nations shall be utterly wasted (Isaiah 60:12). Of the Lord.
Then shall they build the wastes of eternity, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall renew the waste cities, the desolations of a generation (Isaiah 61:4). There throughout the whole chapter the coming of the Lord is treated of.
The whole of Isaiah, chapter 62, treats of the New Church, which is called Jerusalem.
Thou shalt no more be termed forsaken; and thy lands shall not be termed a waste (Isaiah 62:4). The New Jerusalem is treated of throughout the chapter.
(The cities of thy holiness are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, and Jerusalem a waste, and all our desirable things are become a waste (Isaiah 64:9-10).)
Behold I create new heavens and a new earth so that the former things shall not be remembered nor come upon the heart. But be ye glad and exult forever in that which I create: behold I will create Jerusalem an exultation and her people a gladness, so that I will exult over Jerusalem and be glad over My people. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, but dust shall be the serpent's bread. They shall not do evil, nor destroy in all the mountain of My holiness (Isaiah 65:17-25). Concerning the New Church.
Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and exult in her all ye that love her; be glad with gladness for her, that ye may suck and be satisfied from the breast of her consolations, that ye may press out and be delighted from the splendor of her glory. For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make, shall stand before Me, so shall stand your name and your seed (Isaiah 66:10-11 seq., 22).
