The Lord # 49
49. 3. “Spirit” means the life of those who have been regenerated, which is called spiritual life.
Jesus said, “Unless you have been born of water and the spirit you cannot enter the kingdom of God.” (John 3:5)
I will give you a new heart and a new spirit. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes. (Ezekiel 36:26-27)
God will give a new heart and a new spirit. (Ezekiel 11:19)
Create a clean heart in me, O God, and renew a strong spirit within me. Bring back to me the joy of your salvation, and let a willing spirit uphold me. (Psalms 51:10-12)
Make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? (Ezekiel 18:31)
You send out your spirit, and they are created; you renew the face of the earth. (Psalms 104:30)
The hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. (John 4:23)
Jehovah God gives soul to the people and spirit to those who are walking on [the earth]. (Isaiah 42:5)
Jehovah forms the human spirit within us. (Zechariah 12:1)
With my soul I have awaited you in the night; with my spirit within me I have awaited you in the morning. (Isaiah 26:9)
On that day Jehovah will become a spirit of judgment to the one who sits in judgment. (Isaiah 28:6)
My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior. (Luke 1:47)
They have given rest to my spirit in the land of the north. (Zechariah 6:8)
Into your hand I commit my spirit; you have redeemed me. (Psalms 31:5)
There was not one, even among the remnant who had spirit. (Malachi 2:15)
After three and a half days the spirit of life from God entered the two witnesses who had been killed by the beast. (Revelation 11:11)
I, Jehovah, form the mountains and create the spirit. (Amos 4:13)
O God, the God of the spirits for all flesh... (Numbers 16:22; 27:18)
I will pour a spirit from on high upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem. (Zechariah 12:10)
... even until he has poured out upon us a spirit from on high. (Isaiah 32:15)
I will pour out waters upon those who are thirsty and streams upon the dry land; I will pour out my spirit upon your seed. (Isaiah 44:3)
I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; also upon my male and female servants I will pour out spirit in those days. (Joel 2:28-29)
To pour out the spirit means to regenerate, as does to give a new heart and a new spirit.
[2] “Spirit” refers to the spiritual life of people who have been genuinely humbled.
I dwell in a crushed and humble spirit, to bring to life the spirit of the humble and to bring to life the heart of the crushed. (Isaiah 57:15)
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; God will not scorn a crushed and broken heart. (Psalms 51:17)
He will give the oil of joy in place of mourning, and a garment of praise in place of a confined spirit. (Isaiah 61:3)
... a woman abandoned and afflicted in spirit. (Isaiah 54:6)
Blessed are the poor in spirit, because theirs is the kingdom of the heavens. (Matthew 5:3)
Mark 9:17-29
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One of the multitude answered, "Teacher, I brought to you my son, who has a mute spirit;
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and wherever it seizes him, it throws him down, and he foams at the mouth, and grinds his teeth, and wastes away. I asked your disciples to cast it out, and they weren't able."
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He answered him, "Unbelieving generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him to me."
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They brought him to him, and when he saw him, immediately the spirit convulsed him, and he fell on the ground, wallowing and foaming at the mouth.
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He asked his father, "How long has it been since this has come to him?" He said, "From childhood.
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Often it has cast him both into the fire and into the water, to destroy him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us, and help us."
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Jesus said to him, "If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes."
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Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, "I believe. Help my unbelief!"
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When Jesus saw that a multitude came running together, he rebuked the unclean spirit, saying to him, "You mute and deaf spirit, I command you, come out of him, and never enter him again!"
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Having cried out, and convulsed greatly, it came out of him. The boy became like one dead; so much that most of them said, "He is dead."
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But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.
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When he had come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, "Why couldn't we cast it out?"
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He said to them, "This kind can come out by nothing, except by prayer and fasting."
