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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH XII
// Read Eph. 2:11-22 // 11 Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (which is done in the body by human hands)— 12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and
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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH XI
// Read Phil. 4:10-13 // 10 I rejoiced greatly in the Lord that at last you renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you were concerned, but you had no opportunity to show it.11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the
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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH X
// Read I Cor. 15:12-23 // 12 But if it is preached that Christ has been raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 If there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.14 And if Christ
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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH IX
// Read Romans 8:31-39 // 31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us,who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all
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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH VIII
// Read Heb. 7:20-28 // 20 And it was not without an oath! Others became priests without any oath, 21 but he became a priest with an oath when God said to him: “The Lord has sworn and will not change his mind: ‘You are a priest forever.’”[a] 22 Because of this oath,
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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH VII
// Read Col. 2:9-15 // 9 For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, 10 and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority. 11 In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not performed by human hands.
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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH VI
// Read Rom 5:1-2 // Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we[a] have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we[b]boast in the hope of the glory of God. MEDITATION:
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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH V
// Read Gal 3:13-29.// 13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a pole.”[a] 14 He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ
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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH IV
// Read II Corinthians 5:17-21 // 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come:[a] The old has gone, the new is here! 18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19 that God was reconciling the world
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BENEFITS OF THE NEW BIRTH III
// Read I Corinthians 2:12-17 // 12 What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us.13 This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words