The New Life

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THE NEW LIFE.
" For God so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten
Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but
lia.ve eternal life.''— John iii. i6.
" For ye died, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Christ
is our h/e.''— Col. iii. 3, 4.
" We declare unto you the life, the eternal life, which was with
the Father, and was manifested unto us. God gave uuto us
eternal life ; and this life is in His Son. He that hath the
Son hath the life."— i John i. 2, v. ii, 12.
HOW
glorious, then, is
the blessing which everyone
receives that believes in the Lord Jesus.
Not only does there come a change in his disposition
and manner of life ; he also receives from God out of
heaven an entirely new life. He is born anew, bom
he has passed from death into life.^
of God :
This new life is nothing less than Eternal Life.'
This does not mean, as many suppose, that our life
shall now no more die, but shall endure into eternity.
No : eternal life is nothing else than the very life of
God, the life that He has had in Himself from eternity
and that has been visibly revealed in Christ.
This life is now the portion of every child of God.^
1 John i. 12, 13, iii. 5, 7, v. 24 ; i John iii. 14, v i.
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John iii. 15, 16, 36, vi. 40, 51, xi. 25, 26 ; Rom. vi. 11, 23, wii. 2;
I John V. 12, 13.
3i John i. 3, iii. i, v. 11.
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