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
Revelation 21:1-5
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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
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And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
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And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God.
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And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.
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And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
An Invitation to the New Church #34
34. The Coming of the Lord is according to the order that the spring does not come until after the winter, nor the morning until after the night; nor comfort and joy to the travailing woman until after the pain; that consolations are after temptations; one lives truly after death, even as the Lord says,
Except the grain... die, etc. (John 12:24).
The Lord exhibited the type of this order in that He suffered Himself to be crucified and to die, and afterwards rose again. This type signifies the state of the Church.... This, also, is involved in the image which appeared to Nebuchadnezzar, in that the Stone became a great Rock at the last; it is further involved in the four beasts out of the sea, and in what is related there concerning that horrible nation (all of which is to be explained). It is likewise involved in the four Ages known to the ancients, the golden, the silver, the copper and the iron ages; further, in the ages of every man, from infancy to old age-then is the end of the life of the body, and then comes the life of the spirit, which is the life of all those who have lived well. The same also is implied in the heaven which has first to pass away (Revelation 21:1-2). The case with the Church is similar.
