To a New Life of Heartfelt Joy

Q. What is the coming to life of the new nature? 

It is a heartfelt joy in God through Christ,

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Psalm 51:8 Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice. 

Psalm 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and uphold me by Your generous Spirit. 

Isaiah 57:15 For thus says the High and Lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him who has a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones. 

Romans 5:1 Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 

Romans 14:17 for the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

and a love and delight to live according to the will of God in all good works.

For the Bible Tells Me So...

Romans 6:10-11 

• For the death that He died, He died to sin once for all; but the life that He lives, He lives to God. 
• Likewise you also, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 

Galatians 2:20 I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.