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Question 90

Quickened to live for God

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Day 33 • Question 90
90 What is the coming to life of the new nature?
It is a heartfelt joy in God through Christ, 1 and a love and delight to live according to the will of God in all good works. 2

Footnote 1
Psalms 51:8
Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Psalms 51:12
Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Isaiah 57:15
For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Romans 5:1
Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Romans 14:17
For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Footnote 2
Romans 6:10-11
For the death he died he died to sin, once for all, but the life he lives he lives to God. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
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Quickened to live for God
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