In the Old Testament:
1. A New Song – Ps. 33:3; 40:3; 96:1; 98:1;
144:9; 149:1; Isa. 42:10
2. A New Covenant – Jer. 31:31
3. A New Spirit – Eze.
11:19
4. A New Heart – Eze.
36:26
5. A New Thing – Isa. 43:19; Jer. 31:22;
Isa. 42:9; 48:6
6. God’s Compassions – Lam. 3:22, 23
7. A New Name – Isa. 62:2
8. New Heavens and Earth – Isa. 65:17; 66:12
In the New Testament:
1. New Song – Rev. 5:9; 14:3
2. New Covenant – Mt. 26:28; Mk. 14:24; Lk. 22:20;
I Cor. 11:25; II Cor. 3:6; Heb 8:8; 8:13;
9:15
3. New Spirit New
Man – Eph. 2:15; 4:24
4. New Heart New
Creation – II Cor. 5:17
5. New
Thing – II Cor. 5:17; Rev. 21:5
6.
7. New
Name – Rev. 2:17; Rev. 3:12
8. New
Heaven and Earth – II Pt. 3:13; Rev. 21:1ff
9. New
Jerusalem – Rev. 3:12; 21:2
10. New
Teaching – Mk. 1:27; Ac. 17:19
11. New
Commandment – Jn. 13:34; I Jn. 2:7; II Jn. 5
12. New
Wine of Jesus – Mt. 9:17; Mk. 2:21f;
Lk. 5:36 – 38
In His Commission to us - Mt.16:17-20 - Here we begin to see
a new vision. We begin to see the new perspective of the Kingdom
of New. We are soldiers of the living God. We are filled with the living
God in us, the Holy Spirit. We are involved in an offensive warfare, and not in
the fortress. Our King said, "I will build my church and the gates of
Hades (of the Kingdom of evil and darkness) will not be able to stand against
it." We are to be storming the very gates of Hades and the living God
through us will be setting captives free. We are not to be cringing in
the fortress afraid of the onslaught of the enemy forces. One person with God
is all it takes to win the battle - Elijah or Carmel. We need to pray and ask
for a new vision - of God and of ourselves, a new perspective, outlook,
and attitude. Need to be New Creations II Cor.5:17...
Jesus' table fellowship
with sinners. Jesus
celebrates the kingdom with all the wrong people. He incurs anger and hostility
from those who knew in their bones that God's kingdom was about holiness and
detachment from evil, and who never suspected that evil people could be, and
were being, redeemed and rescued. His mother and brothers come to take him
away, thinking him to be out of his mind, and he responds by declaring that the
crowd around him, hanging on his every word, were his
mother and brothers. He tells stories (a lost sheep, a lost coin, two lost sons) to indicate for those with ears to hear that
this policy was not an accident but a heaven-sent priority. He invites himself
to lunch with Zacchaeus the Jericho tax collector while the crowds wait,
shocked to the core, outside the door: "He's gone in to eat with a
sinner!" Finally, he goes out to die with the rebels, sharing their shame
though himself innocent, as Luke in particular makes
clear. The taint of evil lies heavy on him throughout, and somehow he bears it,
takes it all the way, exhausts its power.
N.T. Wright, Evil and The
Justice of God, p. 84f (2006)