The Gift of New Life

The gift of New Life involves a mixture of defining attributes.

Is the gift of New Life a real benefit?

Last week I saw in the news where a man is suing his parents for bringing him into this world without his consent.

The law suit included the statement, since I was born without consent my parents should provide for me.

Although joking, his lawsuit highlights the hardship of life.

Life Noun: synonyms human, being, body, creature, individual, man, mortal, person, personage, soul.

synonyms human, being, body, creature, individual, man, mortal, person, personage, soul

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Merriam-Webster, I. (1996). Merriam-Webster’s collegiate thesaurus. Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.

Life also includes a myriad of emotions.

Leaving one home for another

Pain - What a way to be introduced into this world

Shock - often identified with crying

Galatians 1:15 NIV

But when God, who set me apart from my mother’s womb and called me by his grace, was pleased

The Gift of New Life Requires an Ending

A baby leaves the womb

A believer leaves the natural world only and enters into the supernatural or spiritual.

Romans 6:4 NIV

We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Genesis 5:24 NIV

Enoch walked faithfully with God; then he was no more, because God took him away.

Hebrews 11:5 NIV

By faith Enoch was taken from this life, so that he did not experience death: “He could not be found, because God had taken him away.” For before he was taken, he was commended as one who pleased God.

Hebrews 11:15 NIV

If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.

2 Corinthians 3:6 NIV

He has made us competent as ministers of a new covenant—not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

Geb 5:2

The Gift of New Life Requires Change

Hebrews 1:15

Philippians 1:21 NIV

For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.

Phil

2 Corinthians 5:1 NIV

For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

2 Cor

James 4:14 NIV

Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

The Gift of New Life in Christ

Philippians 3:10 NIV

I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,

Revelation 20:6 NIV

Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.

1 Corinthians 15:21 NIV

For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man.

Romans 6:5 NIV

For if we have been united with him in a death like his, we will certainly also be united with him in a resurrection like his.