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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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Isaiah 66:22

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22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the LORD, so shall your seed and your name remain.

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The Inner Meaning of the Prophets and Psalms #66

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66. Internal Meaning of Isaiah, Chapter 66

1-2 Heaven and the church are with those who live in humility and in accordance with the commandments. (11, 12, 13)

3 It is otherwise with those who have perverted all worship into evil. (3)

4 Those things will be requited them because they have not obeyed. (3)

5 Those who are outside of the church will obey and will be received in their stead. (11)

6 Destruction of the evil. (3)

7-8 Before they perish, the church is established among others, (11, 3)

9 and will be established. (11, 3)

10-11 They will drink in Divine truth with joy. (11)

12-14 They will have all goods and truths. (11)

14-15 Those who are against them will come to an end; (3)

16 and those will perish (3)

17 who have perverted the holy things of the church. (3)

18 Men will draw near to the Lord from all parts, (11)

19 and from every religion. (11, 15)

20 They will be in all truth of doctrine of the church, (11)

21 and in its good. (11)

22 Those things which are of heaven and the church will abide with them (11, 17)

23 They will continually worship the Lord. (11)

24 Those who have rejected Him will remain forever in their falsities and evils. (4, 3)

  
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