Picking up with, Deuteronomy 30:6 and
Ezekiel 11:19-20, 36:26-27, then with these we should also look at
Jeremiah 31:31-34 and Ezekiel 37:26-28 and they read as follows:
Deuteronomy
30:6
“the LORD
thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to
love the LORD
thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou may
live.”
and then;
Ezekiel
11:19-20
“'I will
give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I
will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an
heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine
ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and
I will be their God.'”
and next:
Ezekiel
36:26-27
“'A new
heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you:
and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will
give you an heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and
cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments,
and do them.'”
now
we'll turn to Jeremiah and then Ezekiel as these tell us that the old
was to have an appointed
ending:
Jeremiah
31:31-34
“'Behold,
the days come', saith the LORD, that 'I will make a new covenant with
the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to
the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took
them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my
covenant they broke, although I was an husband unto them', saith the
LORD: But 'this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house
of Israel; After those days', saith the LORD, 'I will put my law in
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their
God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every
man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD:
for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest
of them', saith the LORD: for 'I will forgive their iniquity, and I
will remember their sin no more.'”
and now
Ezekiel:
Ezekiel
37:26-28
“Moreover
'I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting
covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and
will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My
tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and
they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the LORD
do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them
for evermore.'”
Granted these were spoken through His prophets to Israel and granted they do apply to Israel but in principle and according to the revealing of figurative scripture usage they spread across to those who would come to trusting God as Abram trusted God. So from here now we'll turn back to Ephesians:
Ephesians 1:5-6
“Having predestinated
(in Genesis 3:15 as the seed of woman and the enmity to Satan) us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself,
according to the good pleasure of his will, To the praise of the
glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in
the beloved (the seed of woman being the pearl of great price hidden within all mans souls and known a our conscience which speaks of the two pillars of Truth, one being conviction of sin and the other the need of redemption that are hidden in the heart of every man).” and
then verses 11-13 starting with verse 10.
Ephesians 1:10-14
“That in the
dispensation of the fulness of times (Revelation
5:9; Hebrews 12:22-24) he might gather together
in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are
on earth; even in him: In whom also we have obtained an inheritance,
being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all
things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the
praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also
trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the (this) gospel of your
salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with
that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance
until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of
his glory.”
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