I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26 NKJV) . Ezekiel 36:26 A new heart also will I give you - I will change the whole of your infected nature; and give you new appetites, new passions; or, at least, the old ones purified and refined. The heart is generally understood to mean all the affections and passions. . And a new spirit will I put within you - I will renew your minds, also enlighten your understanding, correct your judgment, and refine your will, so that you shall have a new spirit to actuate your new heart. . I will take away the stony heart - That heart that is hard, impenetrable, and cold; the affections and passions that are unyielding, frozen to good, unaffected by heavenly things; that are slow to credit the words of God. I will entirely remove this heart: it is the opposite to that which I have promised you; and you cannot have the new heart and the old heart at the same time. . And I will give you a heart of flesh - One that can feel, and that can enjoy; that can feel love to God and to all men, and be a proper habitation for the living God. . For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MIND, and WRITE THEM IN THEIR HEARTS: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: (Hebrews 8:10 KJV) . Hebrews 8:10 This is the covenant – This is the nature of that glorious system of religion which I shall publish among them after those days, i.e., in the times of the Gospel. . I will put my laws into their mind – I will influence them with the principles of law, truth, holiness, etc.; and their understandings shall he fully enlightened to comprehend them. . And write them in their hearts – All their affections, passions, and appetites, shall be purified and filled with holiness and love to God and man; so that they shall willingly obey, and feel that love is the fulfilling of the law: instead of being written on tables of stone, they shall be written on the fleshly tables of their hearts. . I will be to them a God – These are the two grand conditions by which the parties in this covenant or agreement are bound: . 1. I will be your God. 2. Ye shall be my people. . As the object of religious adoration to any man is that Being from whom he expects light, direction, defense, support, and happiness: so God, promising to be their God, promises in effect to give them all these great and good things. . TO BE GOD’S PEOPLE IMPLIES THAT THEY SHOULD GIVE GOD THEIR WHOLE HEARTS, serve him with all their light and strength, and have no other object of worship or dependence but himself. Any of these conditions broken, the covenant is rendered null and void, and the other party absolved from his engagement.
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 09:32:33 +0000
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