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)
Amos 4
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Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, "Bring us drinks!"
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The Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that behold, "The days shall come on you that they will take you away with hooks, and the last of you with fish hooks.
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You will go out at the breaks in the wall, everyone straight before her; and you will cast yourselves into Harmon," says Yahweh.
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"Go to Bethel, and sin; to Gilgal, and sin more. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days,
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offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving of that which is leavened, and proclaim free will offerings and brag about them: for this pleases you, you children of Israel," says the Lord Yahweh.
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"I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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"I also have withheld the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest; and I caused it to rain on one city, and caused it not to rain on another city. one place was rained on, and the piece where it didn't rain withered.
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So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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"I struck you with blight and mildew many times in your gardens and your vineyards; and your fig trees and your olive trees have the swarming locust devoured: yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
10
"I sent plagues among you like I did Egypt. I have slain your young men with the sword, and have carried away your horses; and I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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"I have overthrown some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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"Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
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For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the Earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name."
