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)
Psalms 50
1
The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.
2
Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines forth.
3
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
4
He calls to the heavens above, to the earth, that he may judge his people:
5
"Gather my saints together to me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."
6
The heavens shall declare his righteousness, for God himself is judge. Selah.
7
"Hear, my people, and I will speak; Israel, and I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
8
I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9
I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
10
For every animal of the forest is mine, and the livestock on a thousand hills.
11
I know all the birds of the mountains. The wild animals of the field are mine.
12
If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is mine, and all that is in it.
13
Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?
14
Offer to God the sacrifice of thanksgiving. Pay your vows to the Most High.
15
Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me."
16
But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,
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since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?
18
When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.
19
"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.
20
You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother's son.
21
You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
22
"Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be none to deliver.
23
Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God's salvation to him." For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David, when Nathan the prophet came to him, after he had gone in to Bathsheba.
