90. What is the making alive of the new man?

Heartfelt joy in God through Christ,1) causing us to take delight in living according to the will of God in all good works. 2)

1) Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Rom. 5:1.

For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. Rom. 14:17.

For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy I dwell in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. Isa. 57:15.

2) And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin but the Spirit is life because of righteousness. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. Rom. 8:10,11.

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live yet not I but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who saved me, and gave himself for me. Gal. 2:20.

* For I delight in the law of God after the inward man. Rom. 7:22.

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