Renewal, repentance, revival

Results of being made alive in Christ

Spiritual desires

Col 3:1–2

Colossians 3:1–2 (LEB) — 1 Therefore, if you have been raised together with Christ, seek the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 2 Set your mind on the things above, not on the things on earth.

Spiritual assurance

Col 3:3–4

Colossians 3:3–4 (LEB) — 3 For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. 4 When Christ, who is your life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with him in glory.

See also Jn 5:24

John 5:24 (LEB) — 24 Truly, truly I say to you that the one who hears my word and who believes the one who sent me has eternal life, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.

Spiritual appetite

1 Pe 2:1–3

1 Peter 2:1–3 (LEB) — 1 Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander, 2 like newborn infants long for the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up to salvation, 3 if you have tasted that the Lord is kind,

See also Jn 3:3; Jn 3:6

John 3:3 (LEB) — 3 Jesus answered and said to him, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless someone is born from above, he is not able to see the kingdom of God.”

John 3:6 (LEB) — 6 What is born of the flesh is flesh, and what is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Commitment to God

Romans 6:13 (LEB) — 13 and do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who are alive from the dead, and your members to God as instruments of righteousness.

Love for fellow believers

1 John 3:14 (LEB) — 14 We know that we have passed over from death to life because we love the brothers. The one who does not love remains in death.

Spiritual character

Romans 7:4 (LEB) — 4 So then, my brothers, you also were brought to death with respect to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to the one who was raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.

Galatians 5:22–23 (LEB) — 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self control. Against such things there is no law.