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
Scriptural Confirmations #47
47. 19..
In the following chapter (63), the combat of the Lord with the hells and their subjugation is treated of, where we read these words: Who is this that cometh from Edom, with sprinkled garments from Bozra? this that is honorable in His apparel marching in the multitude of His strength. I that speak in justice, great to save. Wherefore art Thou red as to Thy garments and Thy garments like him that treadeth in the winepress? I have trodden the winepress alone, and of the peoples there was no man with Me: therefore I trod them in Mine anger and trampled them in My wrath, whence their victory is sprinkled upon My garments and I have stained all My raiment. For the day of vengeance is in Mine heart and the year of My redeemed is come. I had looked round, but there was none to help, and I was astonished, but there has none to uphold: therefore Mine own arm brought salvation unto Me. And I trod down the peoples in Mine anger and I made their victory to descend upon the earth. He said, surely they are My people, so He became their Savior. In all their straitness, there was straitness for Him, and the angel of His faces freed them. On account of His love and His pity He redeemed them; and He bare them, and carried them all the days of old (Isaiah 63:1-9). The supplication of the faithful to the Lord, that then they might be liberated from the hells (verses 15-19), where we read these words: Look down from heaven and behold from the habitation of Thy holiness and Thy beauty: where are Thy zeal and Thy powers? the yearning of Thy bowels and Thy compassions are restrained towards me. For Thou art our Father; Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: Thou Jehovah art our Father, our Redeemer, from everlasting is Thy name; why wilt Thou make us to err from Thy ways, and harden our heart from Thy fear? Return for Thy servants' sake. They almost possessed the people of Thy holiness: our adversaries have trampled Thy sanctuary. O that Thou wouldst rend the heavens and come down, that the mountains might flow down at Thy presence (Isaiah 63:15-19).
The lamentation of the faithful that the church was laid waste, and supplication that He would bring help (Isaiah 64:1-11, where are several things which can be taken therefrom). The reply of the Lord to their supplication (Isaiah 65), where first the evil who have not worshiped God but have gone away to the worship of other gods, are treated of (verses 1-15), and afterwards the restoration of the New Church, which is meant by Jerusalem, and its happy state (verses 17-25), where are these words: Behold I create new heavens and a new earth, so that the former shall not be remembered. But be glad and exult in that which I create, behold I will create Jerusalem an exultation and her people a gladness. They shall not labor in vain nor bring forth in terror, for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. They shall not do evil, nor destroy in all the mountain of holiness (Isaiah 65:17-25).
Isaiah 62
1
For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until her righteousness go forth as brightness, and her salvation as a lamp that burns.
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The nations shall see your righteousness, and all kings your glory, and you shall be called by a new name, which the mouth of Yahweh shall name.
3
You shall also be a crown of beauty in the hand of Yahweh, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4
You shall no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall your land any more be termed Desolate: but you shall be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for Yahweh delights in you, and your land shall be married.
5
For as a young man marries a virgin, so your sons shall marry you; and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so your God will rejoice over you.
6
I have set watchmen on your walls, Jerusalem; they shall never hold their peace day nor night: you who call on Yahweh, take no rest,
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and give him no rest, until he establishes, and until he makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8
Yahweh has sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, "Surely I will no more give your grain to be food for your enemies; and foreigners shall not drink your new wine, for which you have labored:
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but those who have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Yahweh; and those who have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary."
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Go through, Go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Cast up, cast up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.
11
Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.'"
12
They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
