Pay close attention now: I'm creating new heavens and a new earth. All the earlier troubles, chaos, and pain are things of the past (old), to be forgotten. Look ahead with joy. Anticipate what I'm creating.
The Spirit of God, the Master, is on me because God anointed me. He sent me to preach good news…Messages of joy instead of news of doom, a praising heart instead of a languid spirit. Rename them "Oaks of Righteousness" planted by God to display his glory. They'll rebuild the old ruins, raise a new city out of the wreckage.
Tell the people, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will put an end to this proverb, and you will soon stop quoting it.’ Now give them this new proverb to replace the old one: ‘The time has come for every prophecy to be fulfilled!’
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
Now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.
So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!
Isaiah 65:17 Isaiah 61:1 Ezekiel 12:23 2 Corinthians 5:17 Romans 7:6 Romans 8:12
I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life—a God-fashioned life Ephesians 4:20
LIFEgroups – together experiencing God
The Spirit of God, the Master, is on me because God anointed me. He sent me to preach good news…Messages of joy instead of news of doom, a praising heart instead of a languid spirit. Rename them "Oaks of Righteousness" planted by God to display his glory. They'll rebuild the old ruins, raise a new city out of the wreckage.
Tell the people, ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will put an end to this proverb, and you will soon stop quoting it.’ Now give them this new proverb to replace the old one: ‘The time has come for every prophecy to be fulfilled!’
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!
Now we have been released from the law, for we died to it and are no longer captive to its power. Now we can serve God, not in the old way of obeying the letter of the law, but in the new way of living in the Spirit.
So don't you see that we don't owe this old do-it-yourself life one red cent. There's nothing in it for us, nothing at all. The best thing to do is give it a decent burial and get on with your new life. God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go!
Isaiah 65:17 Isaiah 61:1 Ezekiel 12:23 2 Corinthians 5:17 Romans 7:6 Romans 8:12
I do mean everything—connected with that old way of life has to go. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life—a God-fashioned life Ephesians 4:20
LIFEgroups – together experiencing God
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